The anchor was not a physical thing. It was a knot of the unique Soul Flayer's power and will, twisted from the demon's soul like a parasite's root. I thought of it as a knot because I was borrowing this word from Elric's experience. Elric thinks in threads and looms, and I was wearing his mind, since I was a part of his soul. It was closer to a root
I could feel the darkness that bound the Soul Flayer to the Sovereign's body through the threads, and its arrangement was incredibly complex; using Elric's soul capacity, it would take me decades to even think of unravelling it, even if I was given the manuals to its operation.
I poured the last of the lightning into the anchor, creating dozens of threads, coating every thread with Soul Forge to see if I was able to unravel the anchor.
