158 We dominate the laws (1/2)

In a room at the top level of the magic tower on the mountain range, there were Totto, Zatiel, and Martin, whose body was no longer covered by the killing aura.

The Angelic Paragon was in the center of the room above a rune formation that was releasing a green glow all over his body, and this was not the only rune working on him since he also had one on his forehead.

Unlike with Nimir, where Zatiel could take advantage of the Magus still being a purely biological being and use the physiology of his brain to obtain the information he wanted, Martin's soul was too strong and could resist that type of interrogation.

There was the option of doing an aggressive interrogation and make Totto extract his memories, but those at Rank 4 and above had all types of spells that protect them against soul invasion.

Of course in his current condition, Martin could not really resist, but there was a chance that the trauma could allow him to awake, at least partially.

With how proud they are, if the Angelic Paragon found himself with no chance other than being a prisoner of his enemies, he may choose to self destruct, and there was little they could do in that scenario.

Zatiel plan was to use his Animus abilities, more specifically the Telepathic discipline to create a Mind Link and search through his memories in a manner that will not enter in direct contact with his soul.

He was just a Rank 1 Animus and even though he had made significant improvement by absorbing the energy and vitality in the brains of those demons, he was nowhere near able to do this type of information gathering in a Rank 4 life form on his own.

That is the reason why he made the two runes affect Martin and asked for the help of Totto.

The rune that was on the ground was named Healing Stasis and the one on his head was Mind Gate.

Mind Gate's use was to help the creation of the Mind Link as for Healing Stasis, it works by putting the target in a state of deep unconsciousness and sent a signal to his body so it will focus completely on healing itself.

In this state, any sort of magical defense is weakened, and since his body is improving the chance of him awakening due to him feeling danger or threatened, is less likely.

But even with the help of this runes, a Soul Forging existence natural defenses are too great. There is were Totto enters.

”Are you ready?” Zatiel face was serious as he spoke to the Magus.

This is the only part that he will not be performing himself and if Totto were to make a mistake the consequences will be dire.

Totto did not spoke and just limited himself to nod before making a mantle of negative energy cover his hand.

When it first appeared, this negative energy was displaying his inherent deadly power, but slowly it started to change and adopted a more neutral property. If before it would have destroyed the life on someone's body, now it will put it in an inactive state.

When Zatiel saw the level of control that Totto managed to obtain over the negative energy running through his body, he was impressed. The amount of experimentation and research needed to reach this level is very extensive and take a great amount of time.

For life forms that could be considered gods in the eyes of mortals, reclusing themselves inside a laboratory for hundreds of years making one test after another takes great determination.

Totto put his hand over Martin's chest and once he saw that there was no adverse reaction he proceeds to fill this one's body with his energy.

The negative energy started to act, weakening even further the Angelic Paragon defenses, but he will need a couple of hours before weakening Martin enough for Zatiel to be able to enter his mind.

”Why did you go through the process to achieve lichdom?”

When Totto hears this, he turns to Zatiel. There was no clear emotion or goal in his voice but the man feels he was curious.