Shall I add a horror tag?

Quest 1, Part 8: [Research]

I muster all the strength I have in me and bite deep into my tongue. As the sweet flavour of the blood enters my mouth the sudden pain direct in my head snaps my receptors back to work. I feel as the adrenaline is injected into me, trying to help my survival.

Concentrating on my mana I force a healing spell with everything I have, but realise that I have no knowledge how to restore my body. I can’t use heal if I don’t know the biology and state of the target.

Too bad fate. I won.

From the responses of mana I can sense the shapes and stiffness  of objects. Converting the magic through the spell my skin starts to repair itself, the veins reconnect and my whole body part stabilizes.

Without any strength and mana, I finally become unconscious.

I open my eyes staring at the golden ceiling in my room. Sitting up quickly, I see a healer elf looking at me surprised.

“Princess! Are you alright?” She asks from then turns towards the door. “Call Baingolneth! The Princess has awoken!” As she shouts that running can be heard behind the door, as a maid goes for the treasurer.

“I’m feel like mind attacked, stabbed in the throat and fucked eleven times.” I say.

“Why eleven?” Asks Neth as she enters the room almost instantly. That was too quick. And wrong part to question. She prepared for that?

“The number of the assassins I felt. But there won’t be anymore. How long was I out?”

“Around twenty minutes. Who were they? What happened? And whats with that wound?”

I suddenly grab my neck and feel as the flesh touches my skin. I stand up and walk in front of a mirror to confirm my suspicion.

The wound was closed forcefully by my garbage healing skills. It’s like dried meat charred with coal. This ruined my prettiness. Sorry dear me, this is my fault. Don’t cry. It’s just a body.

I punch the mirror in in response.

The healer fearing my anger speaks.

“I’m sorry Princess, we couldn’t do anything to the wound. It was forcefully repaired and is healthy. I beg for forgiveness.” She says while prostrating.

“Raise your worthless head. Just because you are useless it doesn’t mean I can’t fix it. Who do you think I am? I just have to find a way.

Ah, Neth. It seems I angered the [World]. Probably it dislikes my existence. They can’t reach me without changing their own laws though, that’s why the assassins. But they are weak, they were only used to finish me when the [Mind Magic] weakened me.

Since I learned about it I can defend against it now. I’m interested in learning to use it.

Same reason for why it won’t attack anymore. I can kill them without even noticing them with my aura.”

My mood is in pieces as I speak. I sigh loudly at my laughable state.

“Too much work too little time. Are the pigs in the cage?”  I inquire.

“Yes Princess. What should we do?”

“Continue what you were doing. There is a lot to do. I give you free hand to complete my commands. I know you can do it.” She is a better ruler than I. Single-handedly leading the treasury, her brother, the new projects and other followers. The best is that she will never betray me. Her personality is one of my favorite.

She is a sadistic secretary who’s biggest joy is to help her princess to achieve great things together. She feels no superiority as if she is a second me who doesn’t like the spotlight and acting instead she likes to lead from the background. We two complete each other well.

Just like back then.

After dismissing everyone I head to the [Research Room]. My three [Test subjects] are chained to the wall, having a small rag covering their mainly parts.

Just by looking at them I hear Neth speaking in the back of my head. ‘We can’t let our pure Princess sully her eyes with such filth, ahahaha’ Just that forced laugh makes you want to punch her.

So, let’s begin the experiment. Experiment 1: Mind Magic

I stem in front of [Subject 1]. Putting my hand on his face I force my mana and will into his brain, trying to recreate the process that invaded me. This is the easy part, I almost instantly succeed.

From the weakened and unresponsive human’s brain data flows inside me. Data. Millions of numbers etch inside my precious memory bank. Such a waste. What can I do with this information? Nothing, yet.

I conceal myself invisible and wake the subject up forcefully. Repeating the previous process I compare the information. There are matching things.

Ah, so these are the responsive and background values. What if I change this to… This!

What I believe to be the motor functions part I change the memory of the hand usage. Using my aura on the weakened man, I order him to raise his left hand. He raises his right. Good.

This is something the brain can repair by itself. I repeat the whole thing a few time to be safe to confirm my success.

Next is a little harder. I can’t read this shit but messing with it seems easy.

I order him to obey the person in front of him. Recording the changes I try ordering him without my aura, successfully. But it only works for a small time. The brain realises the error and fixes it.

Next, record pain. I need multiple levels of it, just in case. Too much pain might kill the subject even if nothing is wrong. Sending lightning into the muscles I try creating a paralyzing effect. Saved. I test it out since I’m really curious about it, and see that it works.

After recording multiple different levels of pain, a sudden idea erupts from my mind. I’m done with the first phrase, but this might take it to a new level. I walk to the stables where a few slaves are working. Unlike maids they don’t get salary but has the best life for a slave, they get good food, clothes and reasonable work. My place was a paradise for them. Heaven.

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I turn speak to them loudly.

“I need one woman. I perform her a reasonable wish but she might won’t return here anymore. At least not as she was before. Any volunteer?” My sentence sad it all. Save a loved one in exchange for your life. Only a few second passed when I got the person I asked for.

A young mother asking for her daughter to be freed. I simply smile at her when answering.

“Your daughter from today is a free person. I employ her as a formal maid from now on, or if she wishes she can leave. Now follow me.” The children of the slaves are born as slaves. Well, I’ll have Neth to take care of her.

With a young and beautiful slave woman behind me I walk to one of the storages. I retrieve two kinds of items, and return to the research room. I cut the chains of the subjects and watch as they get up from the ground. Maybe I should have done it in reverse. It’s too late now.

I forcefully heal them, but their mind is kind of broken now. It’s not like they will need it. The slave woman is hugging my legs from behind, as hers’ collapsed seeing the living dead when entering the room.

I pull out the item I got from the storage, 4 syringe. Or at least they are something like that. Three of them are blue, one is silver colored. You already know how this will go.

I inject the aphrodisiac into their bloodstream and close the doors from the inside. I make a small distance them just in case, and let the nature do it’s work. I turn my backs to them and start working on Experiment 2: [Magic programming].

First I create a formation, meaning copy from the book and reshape the way I want it, that contains certain conditions. I make it that it’s constantly reading the mind of the slave that wears it, and if detecting [Put Code Here] then do [Blue Inferno Explosion]. It’s a level 60 explosion spell with small range but devastating power. This would instakill a max level tank let alone me. No armor can protect you when it’s around your neck. I should add something against mana armor too.

Ah yes, let’s not forget the remote switch, the spellgem empowering the whole thing, and some safety functions. This became too overcomplicated. Scratch the whole thing, failure.

New one. Main core, wait. I don’t need explosion spell. I can just set the core to overshoot and explode. This makes it simpler. Let’s make it user friendly. At least owner friendly.

When I finish I check the horror I made. Beautiful! It’s even pre-programmable, meaning the user can kill and in addition give pain or paralyze or… and what was the last thing… I forgot.

I turn back and realise what I forgot. The pleasure setting! I see the four of them as they are still at it. The woman already lost her mind to pleasure, she seems… like a... Piece of flesh of happiness and pleasure? A wet piece of flesh of happiness and pleasure.

Just by looking at her I’m envious. Too bad she lost her mind, I don’t want to end up like her. And it’s not like I can. I’m a fairy, I don’t have the same reproducing organs like her. I mean mine is different. Is this why I’m not aroused?

The floor has a big puddle of.. I won’t say what. How long was I doing my thing anyways? It should be about five hours. The stuff I gave them sure was strong.

I waltz to the woman while avoiding the pond of mixed body fluids. I don’t need to put my hands on her anymore, which is quite convenient in this situation.

I enter her brain easily and copy the data. Comparing the others I can easily see what I’ll need. Men and women has different brains, but they are almost the same. The reason I needed to use her is because it will be used mainly on women. Man don’t need this kind of “help”.

I return to create a few prototypes, and in an hour I’m ready with one of every kind of collar.

Using magic I separate the group in front of me and chain them back, leaving the powerless mother on the floor still drooling.

I put the first, black collar on Subject 2. I order him to bite his arm off, and he even tries to. The state he is in does not allow it sadly, making him feel pain. Max setting. He instantly dies. Maybe the sudden pain was too much…

After some testing with number 3 I settled at 75% pain. He survived 90, but not everyone is that strong. With this the black collar for warriors and men ready.

The next one is the blue one. It has mana draining properties, to restain mages. This is tested with paralyze, since they can be reprogrammed if needed. This is a success too.

The pink collar works the same way. I made less evil version of it, that is a bracelet. It’s a cute pink bracelet like a common ornament around folks. It’s not wood but steel, making it look like a real bracelet a noble would wear in a ball. It’s also kinda sexy. This won’t kill the user, it only has pleasure, paralyze and self-destruct function. The last one won’t kill the slave.

The formations were made so tiny that it’s not easy to detect. It’s harder to tamper with small wires.

With this, I’m ready.

I put a follow spell and a beacon spell inside the other two Testers brain, then kill them. If the system saves them this will remain for a while and notices me.

I put the [Pink Slave Bracelet] on the woman and tell Neth what I’ve done. With an excited face she already proposes a place where I can put the bracelet in test. I let her take the slave to one of the biggest brothel and return to my room. I need some rest and think about what to with this ugly scar on me. I can’t appear in public this way. Tomorrow the Priestess will come, I have to solve it beforehand.

Oh world, beautiful world. You always has something for me.

Thinking that, I fall asleep. I sleep restless, my dreams are filled with nightmares. But this is just the aftermath of the mental attack. I can see it inside my head. I could remove it, but that would be too dangerous. Let’s just remember this and wait for my mind to repair itself.