Novel Full Chapter 406 A Chimera
Gabriel tilted his head. Her pretence couldn’t hold anymore. He could see pure, unadulterated fear in her eyes.
He turned his head away. “Ahh, now I think about it. The way Godfrey and Percival barged in was strange. They did act like they were trying to protect someone….” His eyes fell on her as he rose to his feet.
“… To protect you. And your expression shows they wanted to protect you from me. But why? Have I done anything wrong?” He blinked, squinting hard to recall if he’d done anything. At least, that’s how it looked from Lucy’s perspective.
Gabriel turned back, walked over to a chair before a small table where a chessboard was, and sat down. He crossed one leg over the other and glanced at Lucy.
“What do you know?” This time around, his voice dropped a few notes. It wasn’t just deep this time, it was cold. His face had this plain expression, plain yet scary.
Secrets… were something he depended on but hated when others kept them, especially when they concerned him.
Lucy shook her head. “Nothing.”
Gabriel tilted his head. “Lucy. If you knew nothing, you wouldn’t act like this. You’re clearly not insane, your fear is specifically toward me. And it’s not just you. Percival, Godfrey, maybe even Isaac. Your small club thinks they know something about me and I want to know what that is.”
He entwined his fingers and leaned forward. “You see… I don’t like to be defamed.” His eyes gleamed. He activated a Sovereign Tier skill, Will Compulsion.
It allowed Sovereigns to compel others to do something against their own will.
“Answer me. What do you know?”
“I don’t know anything,” Lucy replied, forcing him to squint. There was no way for a normal human to resist Will Compulsion, especially from someone like him.
Gabriel became silent. So she was afraid of him but had no idea why? He just couldn’t understand what that meant, so he remained still.
Several reasons for this kind of situation passed through his head until one finally clicked fourteen minutes later.
“Your mind is locked but your body remembers.” He chuckled. This was the advantage of increasing his knowledge each and every day. “This means you know something about me. Something so grave your mind had to be locked or…”
Gabriel leaned back. “Is this more than me? Are you hiding something else from me?”
He gasped in the end. He rose to his feet and approached Lucy.
“What should I do with you?”
She looked at him. Lucy lowered her head, her eyes brimming with tears. Deep within her, she knew this man was definitely a vile human being.
She was going to die anyway. What was the use of fear?
So… while she was still gripped by it, Lucy lifted her head, staring at him square in the eyes. “Just kill me and be done with it. I know you’re not who you pretend you are.”
Gabriel smiled, then burst into laughter. His crackling laughter echoed in the tower.
Lucy sneered. “You’re so lonely. You’re way worse than me.”
Gabriel laughed further. “You’re going to have to do better than that to provoke me to kill you.”
“So you admit you’re not a good person. You came to my house, you ate my mother’s food, and you ended up kidnapping her daughter. Even after all those warm smiles. Is anything about you real?”
Deep within herself, Lucy wondered where she got this courage. Or was it because she had already made peace with the fact that death was near?
Her only wish was for it to be a swift one.
“Now this… this is the real Lucy. The one buried under endless bullying and mediocrity. I like this Lucy more,” Gabriel suddenly said.
“I mean…” He turned to face her. “We are indeed fascinated.” Two other voices added to Gabriel’s own rang out, forcing Lucy’s shoulders to tremble despite her fierce gaze.
She was obviously fighting with fear.
Gabriel cracked his neck. “I just want to leave my mark like several great men of the past. There were people in the past world who were so brilliant, so talented that you could only stare up at them in wonder. People that, no matter what you think, you can’t grasp how they did it.”
He went to the telescope and looked through it. “I also want to become the first at something, the one that when everyone looks at, they’d see no equal. They would struggle to comprehend how my achievements came about. Don’t you also want that? Or are you satisfied with your life? You’re like those side characters I’ve read in books. Worthless.”
He turned to her. “How this plays out is I kill you and then your friends barge in for vengeance.” He laughed. “The power of friendship. It’s epic in books, not reality.”
Gabriel walked toward her and squatted again. “Have you seen what the Afterlife World is like? Well, you’re lucky you won’t because I see no use in your death… you’re almost no different from a trash bag. But there’s something, just one thing, that is valuable in that trash bag, which is the only reason you’re alive.”
Gabriel grinned as he stared right into her eyes. “What I said,” his voice was soft, “did it hurt?”
He smiled when he saw her stare at him with bloodshot eyes. It was obvious his words pierced deep.
“You have no mark in this world, Lucy! I might not be a good person according to your logic, but I can’t even use you to achieve my goals. That… that right there is how utterly worthless you are. You can’t even eat your own mother’s food and thank her for it.”
He tilted his head. “Won’t you cry yet?” With a chuckle, he rose to his feet and went back to his seat.
Space cracked right next to him and something stepped out. A girl.
Lucy’s eyes widened as she noticed this girl looked like her but with long elven ears, a single braid that went through the middle of her head down below her knees, almost to her ankles.
Her skin was gray and there were pink lightning-like marks on the parts of her skin that were exposed and on one side of her eye, which looked like a cat’s eye.
She dragged a single-edged sword. The blade glowed with pink light, matching the lightning tattoos.
“Like I said, I can’t use something like you so I have to modify you to suit my taste. This is one of my latest creations. An Obsidian with elven traits. A being made of two different worlds, a chimera. Fed and prepared… just for you.”
Lucy rose to her feet. “I would rather die than become a Fanatic.”
“You won’t,” Gabriel replied. “You see, a Fanatic is one that abides by our laws and worships us but you, one who feeds on beast summoners but does not honour your creator, we call a Lunatic. That is what you shall be until you bend your knees to us.”
Seeing the stubborn conviction in her eyes, Gabriel’s eyes gleamed. “This will be fun to watch.”
At that moment, Lucy sensed a presence. She turned and saw Sebastian behind her. The raw bloodlust from him made her stagger backwards.
A cold hand touched her back and a bright pink light flashed, forcing out a loud scream from Lucy. A cry that turned into a screech. The agony in her voice could break the heart of a cold man, but it was contained as Gabriel created a banished space around her.
When the process ended, Lucy lay on the ground. Her hair became black halfway through, then pink. A pale shade of pink.
Still struggling to recover from the pain, Lucy grabbed her hair with horror in her eyes.
“Get this thing out of me! Get it out!” She screamed, pulling at her hair. As she unleashed the chimera.
Sebastian scoffed and froze her in place with Will Freeze. “We made you a demigod. You should be glad.” He reached out for her neck.
“If you kill her, she wins,” Gabriel said.
Sebastian let go of Lucy’s neck and lifted up his right hand.
The last thing Lucy heard was a snap. One snap, and she woke up on the bed, sunlight flooding her room, piercing through her light curtain.
She sat up and looked at the pink part of her hair strangely.
Just what in the world was going on?