Teo finds that the slime doesn't seem to wish to burn him, but his positivity doesn't seem to do much against that much pain and sorrow...but the orb doesn't burn away at the slime, only makes it a bit lighter grey.
".....Hope." The hooded man says. "...Hope....doesn't destroy pain...it gives one the power to withstand it......Hope....doesn't destroy evil....it gives one the power to face it...hope....a weapon....only to the brave..." The hooded man says. The ooze forms a staircase up the orb, and the man walks up to it, in apperent aw.

"Hope.....the thing that I despise and fear, for it was hope, that damned me." He says, and with a single palm strike, turns the golden orb, a pitch dark abyssal black. Tainting it, destroying it. "I lost all hope, many years ago....when I was cast below, for the crime of being me." The man says.