Chapter 43: Torture [II]
Luna watched the hooded men with her fierce gaze, her black hair camouflaging her well in the darkness of the cave, but her extremely pale skin was a beautiful contrast.
However, the hooded men did not see her beauty, no, they saw an enemy they had to kill at all costs… “She came with that monster; maybe if we take her hostage, we can save ourselves,” said one of the hooded men, and everyone nodded in agreement.
Because of the fear Theos had caused them, they regained some of their intelligence, but they were still not geniuses enough not to say their plans out loud…
“Don’t worry, I’ll go,” she said with a gentle smile, moving across the ground with great skill to approach the hooded men.
‘Afraid of them, was she really afraid of them? I am currently talking, joking, flirting, following, and being well-known to the person I currently fear the most. A monster among monsters,’ she concluded with a smile.
With her elegant movements, she managed to get close enough to one of the hooded men, who defended himself with a sword against Luna’s dagger, which bounced off the defense.
But she didn’t care, she continued to attack and slash, even though the cuts were too shallow for the enemies.
The other hooded men?
“Arrkkkkkkhhh”
“Arrkkkkkkhheee”
“Eerrhhhh!”
The piercing screams shook even the body of the hooded man fighting Luna, who refused to turn around to see how…. Each of his companions was slaughtered and tortured by Theos.
His fear increased even more as he sensed the inevitable torture he was about to experience… Fighting Luna and buying time to prolong his life was the only thing he could do.
Until what… “Now it’s your turn,” a chilling voice made the hooded man’s scalp bristle; he couldn’t even turn around to see who was whispering in his ear as he felt all his bones broken… Even his teeth, his tongue cut out… All this happened in a measly second.
“Aahhh,” his vocal cords failed to produce a voice; he lost his balance completely and collapsed to the ground.
“How did you do that?” asked Luna curiously, turning to Theos who was completely drenched in blood.
“Simple, simple, I stuck his hand in his stomach and did it all in one second,” Theos explained, raising his hand to show his whole arm full of blood.
And with his other hand, he pointed to the hole in the hooded man’s stomach.
“That’s disgusting,” she laughed, to which Theos responded with a smile.
“Thanks for the wolves; you’ve improved a lot; they were a big help.”
Flashing a grateful smile, Luna momentarily lost himself in this smile. “Mmm? Hello?” tried to wake her up. Theos pinched her shoulder, causing her to react.
“O-Oh yes, hello,” Luna stammered, now she just wanted to get in a hole to hide, her little face blushing in embarrassment. ‘Again, again she shamelessly stared at him,’ she inwardly scolded herself.
Unbeknownst to her, Theos smiled even wider, amused at her reaction. “You’re cute like that,” he said briefly, turning to walk away.
“What?” she was taken aback. Her face not only turned bright red, but her ears, neck, and even her breath steamed out.
‘He told me I’m pretty…. ‘He said so,’ she repeated in bewilderment, as she had always stayed away from family gatherings or noble banquets. So their conversations had always been few.
For this reason, she had always been suspicious of everything around her, causing her to develop a kind of mild paranoia that affected her little by little.
‘No one had ever called me that,’ She recalled without remembering a single time she had been called cute, or even charming.
She had always been called weird, strange, scary…. But never cute.
…
After leaving Luna stunned by his words, Theos proceeded to torture each of the hooded men.
For Luna not to get out of her world of happiness and dreams of a happy family, Theos empathically decided to protect her ears with a barrier of negative Mana.
With everything ready, Theos decided to torture all the hooded men… Breaking bones, gouging out eyes, sticking stones in their ears, making them eat each other…
He did everything imaginable for him, receiving rewards all the time.
[The host has caused too much psychological damage to an extra character in the novel, you receive 1000 negative mana].
[The host has caused too much psychological damage to an extra character from the novel, you receive 1000 negative mana]
[The host has caused too much psychological damage to an extra character from the novel, you receive 1000 negative mana]
Every notification was a song to Theos’ ears, but what was even more beautiful to him was the sounds of desperation from the hooded men who, despite telling everything they knew, did not stop, nor did he show mercy.
He quietly killed hundreds of hoods before, but it was on his first day of transmigration, a week had already passed, a week where he was not idle at all.
He changed his mentality, knowing that scaring a character in the novel is not everything; he should go further, and he must squeeze the full potential of the Negative Energy to the maximum.
He concluded… “Destroy every emotion of my enemies, destroy even their will to live, that I remain only an empty shell, a total waste that I won’t be able to draw any more power from,” Theos silently declared, still torturing the hooded men.
“Please, the boss, the only boss who runs this side of the cult is in this very cave at the end, please let me go!”
“Agh”
The minutes passed in extreme torture where Theos only stopped when he saw them as totally dead.
Regrets? No, not in the least. Not that he was a heartless monster, he knows he is an evil person, but at least he would have morals and principles like not torturing the undeserving.
‘In their case, they deserved it,’ he thought as he remembered how, in the original novel, they had slaughtered countless people, eaten humans alive, and countless other horrors.
“But it’s not time to think about that, there’s one last hurdle left to get us out of here.”
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