Chapter 88 - Jaro Lagoon! Enter The Scene! (1/2)
”50 seconds left, my dear. You can do it! Only 121 layers left!”
”Yo! That one has its whole core connected to the gate circuit on the 44th layers, so try doing the 89th first. Quick! You only have 42 seconds now.”
Both of the devils whispered to Carla side by side in her ears. The Angel was grinning ear to ear, excited to see how it would turn out, while Foel decided to help out the ferrakhian out of pity, giving tips and advice at every turn with a poker face.
The pressure was immense, tears overflowing but her hands couldn't rest for a second. Otherwise her head would touch the ground in a gruesome way if she was late in deactivating it, even a second was not affordable .
'Scary! Scary! Scary! Who are these people!? They are way scarier than the head chief in the village, hueeeee!'
Her heart was pounding terribly as if it was trying to escape from her body, it would be a lie if it didn't affect her concentration.
”My dear, you're sweating too hard, stay focused!” MF created a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears away from her mortified face, dramatically swaying the piece of cloth away after every droplet was absorbed.
Foel frowned a little bit. ”Those are tears, you're distracting her.”
”Ah, is that so? My bad.”
25 seconds left, there were 57 layers left.
Carla has experienced death, Carla has experienced times where she would've died again had she been careless. But this, this tops it. Being wedged in between two unrelenting and excited 'boulders' that were slowly crushing her bones little by little while trying to defuse some sort of bomb. Two 'boulders' who were also bombs themselves.
Because in Carla's eyes, they were fully engulfed with something akin 'killing intent'. While in reality, it was more likely how prey would glance at the terrifying power an apex predator had. They didn't emit any bloodlust, but the small creature would still see them full of malicious intent.
”Dissecting the alchemical converter by the stored formula socket within the 11th layer could give you a grasp on the 9th one, there is an emitter there that prevents concealed leakages so try piercing the socket connector on the 8th layer first.” said the tanomobi in fast pace without a single stutter in her words, slick and clean.
”This is more entertaining than torturing. Might force others in this situation in the future too,” stated the pseudo-angel while mentally torturing someone.
'Hueeee! Someone, save meeeeee…!!'
10 seconds left, 20 layers left!
”Carla! Carla! Carla! Carla!”
”Yo! Three more!”
At the last second, she was able to deactivate the massive barrier.
”Auuuhw, Ay dwid it!”
A moment later, she fell unconscious as her face kissed the ground.
”So, may we give her a present?”
”Indeed, it would be awful if she didn't get any reward for all of the trouble.”
And so Foel implanted a slaving mark on her, because she was being generous, she placed more layers to wrap the slave formation right into her soul for Carla to deactivate if she ever attempt to free herself.
Foel sneered awfully. ”She's got the strongest slave mark I've ever created! I'm so kind!”
”Hmm, it wasn't enough, we need to take her life away~” MF conjured a destructive blood shaped into the end of a spear. ”A good girl needs to be rewarded heavily after all~”
”... Won't that just make my gift nulled?”
”Oh yeah, that won't do then.” MF morphed the blade of the spear into an ominous material. ”Cast a mana vein disruptor into the blade, let's play doctor and medically puncture her into a crippled cultivator instead.”
”Kekeke, good idea.”
The moment Foel casted the formation, Carla instantly got up and sprinted from the scene like a wind.
Turned out, the ferrakhian faked being unconscious, hoping that she could fool them with some thread of belief. Like a prey holding their breath and lying down on the ground, Carla used her ultimate technique to no avail.