Chapter 227 – Raising Talent 6 (2/2)
“Keuk…!”
At Woohyuk’s provocation, the red-haired woman pulled out a dagger with a defeated face.
She was planning on summoning the monsters of the abyss by offering her life as a sacrifice.
However, Woohyuk noticed this and quickly snatched her wrist.
Crack!
His ruthless grab broke the joints in her arm.
The red-haired woman screamed and made a painful expression,
“Ahhhhhh!”
“I can’t let you die so easily. You have to answer my questions first.”
“Do you think I’ll divulge anything? I will never betray Lilith no matter what!”
“But what if it was Lilith’s will for you to be caught here? What happens if your betrayal was already predestined?”
“… What the hell are you talking about?!”
The red-haired woman who rebelled violently showed a face filled with condescending jeer for an instant. It seemed that what Woohyuk said sounded too absurd to her.
To be intentionally thrown towards one’s enemy… she had never considered that thought before.
This was because it was considered a sign of disrespect for Lilith and the seven witches under her to question any orders or motives.
As the woman emphasized her faith again, Woohyuk gave a cold smile and continued,
“It seems you’re too slow to understand the situation, so I’ll kindly explain. You’re just Lilith’s tool. You’re a tool that can give me the right motivation to seek growth and direction.”
Lilith’s ultimate purpose was to flip the existing order by advancing Woohyuk as a demon.
It was understandable in this context that many witches would be sacrificed for Woohyuk’s development.
Therefore, it was highly likely that this incident was also Lilith’s design.
Obviously, he couldn’t prove his point and make it an objective fact, but it was also an invaluable argument to shake the heart and trust of this red-haired woman.
The conversation flowed exactly as Woohyuk expected.
“I-I’m not being used for only that kind of role! Even so, I’m an executive favored by Melena, the Witch of Lust! I’m not just a consumable!”
“That’s funny. If so, tell me the purpose of you coming here. Is it really that important for you to be here right now?”
“Keu…!”
The woman with red hair clenched her teeth with a resentful expression.
Certainly, her current role was simple spying and expansion.
Of course, there was an additional task of capturing Joanna, the real ruler of the Rhine Kingdom, by biding her time and looking for an opening, but the timing was never right.
This was because Drake, the Black Dragon King, was always standing by Joanna’s side after the return of the dragons.
So even though she hated to admit it, much of Woohyuk’s words made sense and were convincing.
‘What kind of information is Lilith trying to convey to that man through me?’
At this point, there weren’t many secret plans that she knew of.
The woman with red hair, who had been deep in thought for a while, nodded as if she had come up with something.
‘Yes. Considering everything, that’s the only thing.’
The location of the Seven Color Rainbow Ring material that still remained in the East.
The Witch Cult was collecting all the materials and moving them to a secret place.
This was done to lure Woohyuk to a suitable place in the future.
However, telling him in advance of their preparations was actually an act of gifting him the material for the Seven Color Rainbow Ring.
It seemed that Lilith wanted to advance the advent period as much as possible by sacrificing everything and everyone.
When the red-haired woman made a bitter expression, Woohyuk pressured her,
“Do you still have no intention of opening your mouth? I tortured Amon, the seventh-ranked Demon King, and made even him confess.”
“… Do you think I will yield to such threats? Furthermore, it hasn’t even been proven for sure if your words are true! I will never give you any information, so if you want to torture me, give it a try!”
Basically, the red-haired woman was an executive of the Witch Cult.
Thus, faith was the last strand of pride for her in her current situation.
Even if she was really abandoned, she had no intention of becoming a blabbering, unfaithful witch.
Woohyuk immediately summoned Demon King Ami, as he expected such a reaction.
“She is a prisoner of war. Whip her until she becomes compliant.”
“Yes, Asura.”
Being trained by Woohyuk, Demon King Ami knew how to torture others into submission.
Before long, the sound of whipping filled the area…
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
The woman with red hair, who had become half-naked, screamed terrifyingly.
Choi Kayoon, who was watching the tortured figure, shouted into Woohyuk’s ear over the screaming noise,
“But will she become obedient? The witch officers I met in the Izuna Kingdom refused to be prisoners and committed suicide themselves.”
It was a story about Amy, the shadow killer who had now become an undead.
Woohyuk nodded towards Choi Kayoon.
“Sure, she’ll succumb. Even if she’s a With Cult officer, her mental power is limited. So, if one targets that weakness well, one can train and dominate over another without much effort.”
Everyone had at least one mental trauma that could appear in a nightmare.
Woohyuk told Ami to stop for a brief moment and grabbed the woman by her hair. Her body had been scourged by Ami’s whip.
He decided to identify her weaknesses through his Memory Pendant.
Using the pendant, Woohyuk looked into her past for a while and then frowned.
“Hmm… she had that sort of trauma.”
“What? I’m curious, so please tell me,” Helena asked.
“This woman, when she was a child, almost fell into a lake. After that, it seems that she’s never gone close to a large body of water again,” Woohyuk answered.
“Then, to continue the torture, we should take her to a body of water. Are there any lakes nearby?” Helena continued.
“If my memory is correct, there’s a good place around here.”
Woohyuk knew the geography of the Serendia Province well because he once directly ruled the Rhines Kingdom.
As he finished preparing the vicious torture plan with Choi Kayoon and Helena, the woman with red hair started crying.
“N-No! Please don’t drown me in the lake!”
“It’s already too late. If you’re afraid of water torture, you should have listened to us earlier.”
Woohyuk was a leader who didn’t show mercy to the enemy.