RE: Perverted Sugar Daddy System

Since getting the Fallen Knight, I felt more in tune with my mind, more sensitive and alert to the changes and reactions happening there. And as I deployed one of my created techniques, I found that fact proven.

In my head, the calm sea of Psion churned, rapidly spinning and transforming into a gigantic whirlpool.

All this happened in the span of a second, a shocking thought, and then from my mind, this churning sea of Psion burst forth, exploding out of my head at my beckon, then coiling and expanding in the air, manifesting the Malevolent Shrine.

While this happened, the shrine expanded, seeking to envelop the entire room, I watched in real-time as my Psion was drained, a massive gulp leaving as the sea level visibly fell.

"I don't have time."

After giving me the hint to deploy my domain, the system had gone silent, refusing to answer any more of my questions. So I knew things were now fully on me.

Focusing on what was happening around me, as my mind energy spread and enveloped everyone in my apparent domain, bombarding them with feelings of fear, bloodlust, and more importantly, death, the last thing I expected to hear was a scream of pain.

One second, Hailey had raised a wall of liquid fire on both sides, ready to defend against anything I threw at her. And then the next, her wall of fire suddenly collapsed, falling on her and burning her flesh.

Ahhhhh!!

Not just me, the heart-wrenching scream caught Vicky's attention too. The sight of her colleague struggling on the floor, clawing at her own skin in a desperate attempt to remove the liquid fire perched on it, was mind-numbing.

Hailey had lost all of her hair and most of her back, and Vicky could not hold back.

"Hailey!" the big lady called out, the care in her tone quite surprising considering the amount of rage she harboured.

Seeing her throw away all thoughts of her current engagement or even her surroundings, I narrowed my eyes, planning to take her by surprise. I pondered what technique to use.

In the end, I discovered I need not engage in any mental work.

As Vicky moved, her size began reducing. At first slowly, but then rapidly. When she reached Hailey, she was still well above six feet, but after trying to pick her friend up off the ground and getting burnt by the fire surrounding her, her body experienced a massive shrinkage. And it was then she noticed the state of her body.

Biting her lips to avoid screaming from the pain that came from the horrible blisters all over her right fingers, Vicky looked at her arms in confusion. Then she tightened her face in concentration.

The now-average-sized lady held that expression for several seconds, and then her face relaxed.

Forgetting about her friend, who at this point had passed out from the pain and was having her body slowly burnt off by the very fire she had created, Vicky looked at me in fear, trembling all over.

In the woman's eyes, I saw a conflict of pride and fear. Concerned about my dropping Psion levels, I decided to speed up the process.

"I'm going to give you the chance to surrender."

Unfortunately, I had read the situation a bit wrong and underestimated how deeply Leon had engraved himself into the hearts of his guards.

"You kill my friend and lord and expect me to surrender? I am no coward.

I don't know what you did to my blessings from God, but with or without it, I will kill you."

As Vicky spoke, veins popped on her forehead and a certain energy began circulating through her. Her anger at me sparked a defiance within her a defiance that extended to the very workings of my domain.

Boom!!

Like she had broken out of some invisible shackles, energy burst out of Vicky and she began swelling.

Feeling the power rushing through her, the woman immediately pushed forward, her rage increasing as she approached, the energy coming off her becoming stronger. But...

"So that's how it is."

How or why the Malevolent Shrine suppressed and even eliminated Vicky and Hailey's abilities, I did not know. And that ignorance would have remained a while longer if Vicky hadn't become so defiant.

When I had cast the technique, even as it worked on the two females, all had seemed normal to me. But then, as Vicky made her stand, not only did I sense a disturbance in the vicinity, I sensed a shift in the connection I had with the coiling energy around me.

When I created Malevolent Shrine, the point of it had been to serve as a way to deliver emotional packages to multiple people at once.

Though the technique's drain on my Psion made using it undesirable, one thing that made it stand out was that despite Psion leaving me, I still had a connection to it.

To an extent, I could influence the level of emotion in the energy that had been spread, deepening or lessening it.

Now, as Vicky approached, I found I could do more. Whether this was because of the mutation or because I had simply grown stronger, I did not know. But in addition to manipulating the feelings within my domain, I could also evict energy from it, the energy within Vicky and Hailey being particularly susceptible.

"Suppress."

Each of Vicky's steps left cracks in the ground, but when she appeared before me, she deflated almost instantly, all the energy in her disappearing and my shotgun was pointed at her face.

I don't know how the girl managed to break through and come to a stop before me, but I didn't let her get out a single word before releasing a shell into her face.

This time, the female's head blew into pieces, her brain matter splattering across the room.

Vicky's body dropped to its knees before falling to the side, blood gushing from her neck, but I remained on alert.

Despite my prolonged use of the shrine taking my Psion to levels that made me feel half-empty, rather than end the technique, I took deep breaths, deepening my connection with the energy I had released and trying to track the disturbance in my domain.

At first, I thought it was Carmel, who I had knocked out. But the little fluctuation the woman gave off was easily traceable and proved she was not the one.

Foreign energy was being diffused in random places within my domain. And when I cast Echo and found no one in the room, I knew, I needed to find whoever was still in here.