Things are getting stirred up! Hope you have fun reading this chapter, and also as always, remember to leave down your thoughts and suggestions for the story! :D But... I have even more exams so I can't double chapter weekly for now '-.-
~ Artemis University Dormitory, Room 666
I could see her face pale under her hood as she looked at the torn apart ‘stone’ I was holding. She quickly turned around and tried to open the door. I gave an evil grin as she helplessly tried to open the door, even to go as far as to try blasting large fireballs at it, which instead backfired, blowing her back to my feet.
I pinned her down on her arms to prevent her from doing anything stupid. She has quite a strong aura, so it would be hard to use telekinesis on her. Physical contact would be the best to penetrate that annoying shield.
She tried to struggle as hard as she could and use magic but I have already invaded through her body with micro-tentacles and blocked the mana streams around her body and weakened her muscles. Those micro-tentacles, as their name suggests are very thin and therefore can easily penetrate the skin and body without as much as leaving a scar behind. While very weak on its own, but when it’s inside a body, it’s another story.
I took down her black hood, revealing her dark-purple eyes and a face as red as tomato. She has short and shiny black hair, though a little bit roughed up and imperfect in certain parts unlike mine.
Black hair, suspicious actions… I think I see a part of the picture now.
“I thought we were allies! I am here on Master’s orders, are you defying him? To be betraying Master, I will never forgive you! I will never tell you anything!”
I bent down my head beside her, and whispered softly in her ears, ”Don’t fret about small stuff about that… I’m going inside you. Please do not resist.”
Her body tensed for a bit, and finally gave up resisting my grasp as she closed her eyes tight. I extended some micro-tentacles into her brain and made her relax, as I put my forehead against hers.
However, to be able to override every single part of her bodily functions is very different from directly connecting to her mind to see her memories.
To access the second level, that is the consciousness, I would have to connect my mind with hers completely for the best effect. This is also another reason why I have made so many barriers protecting this room, to prevent any distractions and eliminate any other possible points of failure, which could result in *disastrous* effects.
There was strong resistance, but it wasn’t much in the face of my overwhelming presence and control over her entire body, which I sent to a state of relaxation, indirectly affecting her mind. Well, there’s that thing called willpower, but what does it matter when you don’t even have any control over your body?
10%...
40%...
70%...
100% connected!
I could hear her every thought, and so can she hear my every thought. Along with everything we both are feeling, the recent memories that we remember and the occasional recollection of random things. I could hear her savagely cursing me in her own language and trying to force me out while being confused about the situation, since this does feel like an out-of-body experience but it’s not at the same time.
Now that I’ve gotten through the first and only defensive wall, I can access the third level of her mind, where all the subconsciousness is. This is where the memories are really stored at, and everything from her basic logic formulas and everything that makes her a proper thinking machine, and who she is now. It’s like accessing the root folder of a computer, and this is where the operating system is at, where even a slight change in the single file could lead to many side-effects or failure of the whole system. I have to be extra careful and delicate in here, even if she may be an enemy.
Now, I need to create a virtual space in my mind for better efficiency and accuracy of looking through her memories, then route and convert her memories into data and store them into a virtual computer in the virtual space.
Without much problems, I completed creating the virtual space and the imaginary computer also appeared in the white space. Completely under my control, I also allowed the suspicious black-haired girl into the virtual space, but tied up and gagged to prevent any annoyance. In this virtual space, we also no longer hear each other’s thoughts and feel what each other is feeling, though we are still connected.
With a thought, a large screen appeared in front of the computer, lights dimmed and I prepared myself a comfortable massage chair and mixed-flavour popcorns that stays warm and crunchy forever.
I fiddled around with the computer, and made it so that it only plays back the memories that have high emotional fluctuations to them, so that only the most important memories are played back. It plays back not only visual, but also audio, together with her thoughts in the memory. Memories that were unrecognizable were not parsed, since they are useless.
“Play”, I said.
The large screen started playing back the memories, starting from when I caught her red-handed… then there was her planting the ‘rocks’ around the stadium, and around the principal’s building… the main lobby building… and many other places around the school campus.
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Just that tells me more than enough with just her thoughts. Over the duration of the playback of her memories in just the past week, I have already lost count of how many times she thought about “Master”. And also apparently her name is Kazumi, which I admit is a pretty cute name.
And wait… isn’t this our room? Oh lord… she… she is doing ‘it’ while thinking of “Master”... that… that is actually quite hot… and a perfect punishment.
I could see her getting even more angry and face red as a beetroot, with tears already forming on the edge of her eyes. Muffled sounds of curses and things like “I’ll KILL YOU!” and “PERVERT!” could be heard from the squirming insect.
Fast forward back a few more days before she traveled to Marth, she was in a large castle in the highest point of the city, which would be the capital Zenith, of the Zekiel Empire. I can largely guess who this “Master” would be by now.
At one particular point in her memory, she was being called for a task by “Master”. One could tell that she was flustered and even more thoughts about “Master” filled her mind, until I had to lower the volume for the thoughts in the memory because it was just too annoying. This “Master” guy is apparently a blonde-haired, strong-looking young man, a little younger than what you would expect to be a King of an Empire. He would actually look like a decent man, if not for the large harem of black-haired girls and women by his throne, doing all sorts of… things. Well, Kazumi’s mind is too clouded by the sight of the King to think about all of that anyway.
“Kazumi, I have called you here for a very important task that only you can do. You are selected for a very important role for a major event for Zekiel Kingdom. The details would be in the carriage. You will leave today. Do you understand?”
“Y-y-y-yes Master! Long live the Zekiel Kingdom!”, She said as she left the hall, even more flustered than before.
Fast forwarded to when she enters the carriage, there was a note in the carriage which she picked up to read. It wasn’t really much of any details, mostly reminders of how important this mission is and how she is very important and failure isn’t an option. However, there are some important details there too. In summary, she have to put all these ‘new generation magic combustion unit” which are obviously explosives, around Artemis University, and to return before the day of the main event, which unsurprisingly is the day the Annual Marth Tournament is on.
With so many clues already given, one would have to stupid to not know where this is going. Well, Kazumi obviously didn’t think much about that, and probably didn’t know why she is planting those ‘rocks’ anyway, since all she thinks about is that “Master”.
However, knowing and doing something about it is something completely different. I doubt that Kazumi is the only one doing these ‘tasks’, and the tournament takes place in just a week. But, Marth Kingdom is the first city I have ever gone into since my new life, I can’t just let it get destroyed so quickly. If the pervert King uses such a crude and stupid plan, then I’ll just beat him with an even more crude and stupid plan.
To finish things off, I altered Kazumi’s memories and made her think that she had already completed her job without meeting me at all. She will be going back to Zenith the first thing in the morning, there will be nothing suspicious at all.
I made her sleep as I disconnected our minds. With a wave of my hand, I folded all her clothes and packed everything she has into her luggage which was just lying in the cupboard. I disabled the barriers which were taking a toll on me already.
“Earth, are you alright? You were using so many different types of strange magic at once, and even went so deep with the mind magic…”
“Aaah~ my lovely queen Salty is caring about me? Thank you very much my queen, all my fatigue and tire is have now already been washed away by your cute voice already!”
“Who w-would c-c-care about you? C-c-cute voice…“
“Rather than that, I know that you have saw everything just now, what do you think?”
“O-oh about that… the attack that the King of this Zekiel Kingdom is basically going to be a declaration of war… and from the mana I can see from those rocks, it’s not a small amount, and if they are those ‘explosives’ that you say, then they would be able to deal a great amount of damage.”
“The rocks have a great amount of mana inside? I can’t feel anything even from this dissected one though…”
“Who do you think I am? As a dragon queen, it is of course that I would be able to see those mana crystals embedded in these rocks. In fact, I can feel all of them everywhere around the whole city! It is so obvious, but I guess you puny humans are too weak to feel them.”
“Ooh, Salty, you’re not that useless afterall!”
“Of course, I’m th- HEY! What do you mean by that!?”
“But a declaration of war… Marth attack…... A-HAH! This… is going to be *fun*~ Come on Salty, it’s time to sleep. We have *school* tomorrow! And a *lot* of things to do~”
“Hmph...”
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