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Chapter 017: Hohoho

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CRCKLE!!

Lightning crackled with a flash of light and there is the sound of a thunderclap before the sword in her left hand cut his right leg.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!

Siva cried in agony. Black blood spurts out and it splashed over her white dress, staining it, making her regal beauty look horrifying to the eyes.

"That's just the beginning." She said acidly as she raised her right hand, the lightning spear brightly stroked down... empty space where Siva's left arm used to be. "WHAT!!?"

She couldn't believe what she just saw. Siva had just disappeared in front of her eyes in a blink of an eye.

She stopped descending, looked around her, and roared in fury. Lightning crackled and they creaked and cracked along the walls of the tunnel cave.

The former smooth upwards slanting surface of the tunnel cave became jagged as the full blown force of a genuine Elemental Dragon was released on their innocent walls.

"I told you to stop attacking!"

Siva's voice was heard behind her and this caused her to jump in fear, backing away in midair before striking an empty space to where the voice should have come from.

"Where are you!?" she roared. "Come out here if you want to fight me!"

"I don't want to fight." Siva said, pain was evident on his voice as he spoke desperately in between gasps of pain. "I told you, it wasn't intentional..."

"Intentional or not, I still felt your presence! You wanted to me to bow down to you! I will never bow down to anyone! I would rather die than bow down in front of a murderer like you!"

"..."

Siva felt that there was something wrong with that statement of hers.

—what is she talking about?

Siva's silence was received by a an AOE lightning domain but instead of dodging it from the area he was hidden by the isolated space inside the mini realm, he used another mini realm and set a rule in it to be a 'container' where time won't flow inside it.

After spending 10,000slots for the creation and another 50,000slots for the allocated space inside, Siva absorbed all the 'energy' that came at his side of the cave wall and although it wasn't absorbed by the BMA that instant, he was sure that this energy is enough to amount to at least 0.3 to 0.7%. it was still a harvest. And the best thing of it all, he set up the second rule of this mini realm to only absorb lightning-type energy from the surroundings.

So as time went by, the mini realm will only absorb her energy and continue to fill the mini realm with it until it reached its allocated space's limits.

Of course, as they were within her [domain], at the moment that she felt her lightning streaks vanished on a certain side of the cave wall she immediately streaked into a lightning strike and hit that side of the wall, creating a cave within the tunnel cave.

—but there was no one there.

She looked around again as she can't even feel his presence anymore. Although she knew that Siva is still around this 200m or so large cave tunnel, she was still unable to find him —even when relying to the weird connection she has with him.

"Where are you!?"

For some reason, she reminded of himself.

She uses his fist before her head, striking first just before she asked a question. This was really Siva's style... before... or maybe until now, at times. And this made him smile —despite the aching injury on his right leg, the missing right leg, which he pinned down the pain of using Red Potion.

In fact, Siva was still in front of her... but the space isolation innate attribute of the mini realm he made is making her perception of his presence isolated.

Siva was in the same space as her, but he was on a different dimension where her senses scanned.

Without Gabriel's ability —or at least someone with the same mastery as Gabriel in [space]— it was an impossible task to locate Siva within the mini realm.

Siva only has 2 Time-Space Cabinets left to create.

The first four was used, the latter three was made when he was falling down earlier, and the last one was made just now to absorb the lightning energy.

Siva was using one of the latter three to hide from her perception. He can still see her, but she can't feel his presence at all.

Electra wasn't as tall as Siva. In fact, she's as tall as Scion but prettier and beautiful–er... but right now, she was in front of Siva, his head on the level of her heavily panting healthy breasts... 12in away.

If he wanted to, he could have fondled her to play a little trick but that would only ruin their already melted relationship even further which defeats the purpose of his cooperation to this attempt to ease the guilt he was feeling inside.

But that doesn't mean he wasn't recording this on his memories right now. These pair of her healthy female chest muscles wasn't as huge as Gaia's late E-cup, but they are at the very least peak D-cup or early E... which was a handful... if Siva decided to try the thought.

Siva swallowed and although he was still isolated, his thoughts travelled like a command towards the weird connection he had with her.

And since they are still on the same space but only on different dimension, they are still technically on the same plane —which means, since they are this close to each other, the unconscious 'command' he ordered still travelled to her soul.

"...!!"

Electra stopped, her breathing stopped, and her face began to blush red... while her hands that still held her weapons covered her body.

"Y-Y-Y-YOU WANTED WHAT?!! I knew it! I knew you never wanted to cooperate peacefully! H-How despicable! I'm already aware that you are the very lowest of the lowest trash, but I still didn't expect that you're THIS low! It is a huge mistake to bring you in... I should have just killed you earlier when I had the chance!"

Lightning crackled and it doubled the amount of not only energy but the denseness of the lightning bolts generated around her 'territory'.

Many random steaks of lightning travelled in every direction, obliterating the walls creating chasms on the sides of this already existing chasm.

The lightning streaks were like drills that rent every single obstacle in its path.

As the cave walls were drilled new holes, the walls themselves expanded and now, a city 5km in size could be built around this cave tunnel due to her temper's doing.

—girl, your mind is so fucking polluted with ideas!

Siva didn't know what to feel; either to laugh at her simpleminded idiocy, or grieve at the fact that his inner thoughts were somehow delivered to her.

—but those're my inner thoughts...

—wait, perhaps...

Siva didn't dare to move —no— he couldn't move, as the mini realm he was using wasn't set up to be a mobile escape pod. It was locked into place, right in front of her healthy moundness... worsening his already worsening thoughts.

As a result, the Vajra blushed even further and her anger erupted in the form of a lightning domain...

...again.

BOOM! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

One thundering clap after another exploded, each of them ear deafening and loud Siva had to muffle them out using the BMA's smaller 'parts'.

She seemed to have stopped thinking and only vent her humiliation and fury to her surroundings.

And although Siva was glad that he was harvesting a lot of energy reserves for the BMA in the future, his ego was suffering because of this huge and so very f**kingly unfair misunderstanding.

He can't move and it would seem that she wouldn't move either until she vented every scrap of her rage to the cave walls.

30 minutes later —after a long and arduous fight against the cave wall— Siva had had his visual fill of her body while she herself seemed to have gone tired of screaming and venting everything to her surroundings.

"I hate you... I hate you......" she kept murmuring.

"Are you calm now?" Siva's voice came right next to her ears and this startled her greatly.

She slashed the sword on her hand to the space behind her but there was no one there. Then she looked around and saw no one... nothing... there's still the empty darkness in the deep chasm tunnel, and the melted new cave walls she created on the once straight depth.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU, YOU COWARD!!?"

"I'm behind you." Siva's voice said but when she'd just turned around, something wet hit her forehead as a hand grasped her neck along with the Killing Zone reducing her strength by 70%. "Calm down and stop struggling."

—Ah!!?

"W-What is this...?" she tried to struggle but there was something on his grip that made her weak and feeble, unknowingly, she was actually becoming a bit calm... as if this grip held her life over it.

But this only made her more fearful of Siva. "What have... you done...... to me..."

Siva was behind her, for some odd reason. Even though all members of the Lightning Tribe were all speed experts more capable in every way than the Wind-attributed Wind Dragons... she was still very surprised to find out that she was unable to catch Siva despite not emitting any trace of Mana, at all.

"I only gave you a simple command. I want you to calm down and listen to me."

Their eyes met, Electra shivered. The hand that had her life on it wasn't even grasping her with the intent to choke her. It was nothing more than mere touch and her weight wasn't even being lifted in it.

And yet, he could feel fear in every part of her self seeping out from the deepest parts of her soul, all because of this mere touch... and the eyes of the man in front of her.

Siva, now, was sure...

When he gave the 'command' for her to calm down a second time, there was reaction... the same kind of sensation of domination that he had when he's ordering Little Blacky around like a little pet.

This realization made him laugh an evil "hohohoho" so Electra shivered more in fear but couldn't help wondering just why she isn't struggling much when she should be fighting for her life right now.

"What kind of sorcery did you to me?!!"

—and she thought it was even [Magic]?

—well, time to test it out...

"I want you to trust me when I say... that I did not mean to hurt you earlier, nor did I mean to do any harm to you at all at the slightest... I can't control it, the other side of me, and it was this other side of my being that killed your father, which I am deeply regretful for... and that is also why I chose to come with you to your family to ask for forgiveness. Now do you understand my point?"

Eye to eye, hand to her neck, Siva spoke in a very slow and calm manner. His tone low but within the silence of the tunnel cave it echoed in every far and near distance, bouncing within the walls which made sounds akin to ghosts, wailing and humming.

But Electra... meeting his eyes, hearing her words, and feeling his grip, felt the intent coming from him and she nodded —and trusted— his words as if it was the law that she must follow.

—WHAT!!?

—WHAT DID I JUST DO!!?

Her mind screamed and found strength come back to her body so she struggled free of his grip and lashed the sword —or tried to— at Siva's neck in a deadly strike.

But Siva didn't move at all, nor did he try to dodge or block it. He just stared at her eyes and not even soon, the strength she put into her attack vanished as the lightning sword dematerialized... her body in a constant shaking, fear evident in her face.

This time, she realized where the fault was coming from —it wasn't him who did something, or maybe it was even right to say that it was her following his every word and command.

"Stand straight. Tell me your name." Siva said. This time, his voice sounded like a General ordering a foot soldier on the lowest rank.

Immediately, no instantly, Electra stood straight like a real soldier not daring to slack in the slightest, and spoke her name in a subservient voice.

"Electra, huh... and I would assume that you know of your ancestor, Vasuki... correct?"

"Yes."

—NO!! This can't be... since when did he put his [seal] in me?!!

While her body followed his commands, her mind was working nonstop. She was afraid, angry, and more importantly, she was in an utter disbelief.

In the Universe, there is only one type of "Magic" that every [God] —or existences on their level— is capable of doing that can deprive a person of his or her own freedom.

Such [Magic] was a "birthright" of every [God] and even she herself was entitled to that [Magic]. That is also the reason why she could command 'beasts' lower in status than an Elemental Dragon.

It was the [Soul Bind Spell].

—or in other words, it was the [Slave Spell].

Unless one has a stronger enough soul to be able to free oneself from its grasps, the bounded 'soul' cannot disobey the owner of the [Soul Seal].

Or in this case, Siva's every command was her life essence... his every word her air.

—I see now... so this is the reason why back then, I have the subconscious notion to choose Apollo Race as my avatar origins...

—it is so that I could use 'this' connection when the two of us meet again.

The Apollo Race's [Blood Contract] have two sides in it —the first being a Blood Contract where two parties are entering an equal treatment, sharing an equal relationship under a partnership seal.

The second was a slave contract —a forceful will is included into the contract and whoever has a soul that can dominate the other, shall be the "Master" while the other, the "Slave".

At this moment, Siva started the contract forcefully and because there was already a brand in her soul with his seal in it, he only needed to activate the [seal] by leaving his blood imprint into her body.

—which was that something wet that hit her head.

The supposedly long struggle over domination was finished in an instant and she didn't even feel any kind of something forceful invade her soul as she was instantly 'enslaved' by Siva.

She wasn't stupid. As soon as she had realized he had enslaved her against her will, she was already doomed to follow his bidding until he sets her free.

And the answer as to "when" did Siva put his [seal] in her? She also answered that within a second.

"The reason I was alive—"

"—the reason you are still alive is probably not of any absurd reason of someone saving you, but it might actually be me who saw myself in you on that day when I killed your father."

All hostilities vanished in her—or forcedly made so by Siva's words and thought commands— but the fact still remains that she was enslaved by Siva in a way that she didn't even realize.

Siva couldn't remember anything about that day, so he made that excuse about that feeling he'd only realized earlier.

Although it was hard to believe, there was no need to brood over it.

"And my stance remains the same. I will come with you to atone for my sin against your family and ask for forgiveness to what I've done."

Siva's words surprised her and she felt lost. But in all the emotions inside her that's been running on a rampage right now, she was actually sulking over the fact that the 'ability to sense his existence' that she treated as gift, was actually her own kryptonite that he used to bind her to his bidding.

In what part of the universe will there be a situation like this... where a mighty and proud Dragon Race is enslaved by a mere Terran?

Of course, who would ever wonder that this 'mere' Terran was actually a former [God]?

Although Siva was inclined to free her immediately, he also knew that he can't... at least until he was sure that she wouldn't hurt him if he lost his leash to her neck.

"Free me!" She demanded. She was still unwilling to let go of this matter. "Kill me instead! I'd rather I die than to be your slave!"

"You are not allowed to kill yourself."

*stab*

The order was given.

She must follow this command.

"You are not allowed to NOT defend yourself if you are in trouble... but more importantly... you're not allowed to die. You are to pursue strength as you've been doing now. Become a lot stronger so you could better protect your clan. As my follower and subject, your job is to protect everyone you hold dear and love in your heart... and become the strongest Lightning Dragon in all the tribes."

Tears flowed in her eyes as she forced herself to accept her fate of being his slave. She teared up silently, still being that proud Dragon who wouldn't cry herself aloud.

"And it's not as if there aren't any perks of being my follower..." As Siva spoke, he made one of his mini realms 'engulf her' and said, "From this day forth, you are able to contact me anywhere and anytime you wanted to. This 'sphere of protection' I granted you will serve as concealing armor. It may not be that useful against attacks, but if you give it the command to hide your presence, it will listen to you at the next heartbeat... just like how I did it. Its keyword is [hide me]. It's bound to you and unless you give it to others willingly, only you can use it."

This 'mini realm' has three special rules in it; (1) its owner is solely "Electra" that unless she wishes to renounce her ownership of this 'mini realm', no one else can use it; (2) it can send and receive the following specifics through its connection to the 'Central Station' —voice transmission, items, and anything that is within the capacity of the current level of the IPU can give (all current IPU capability are applied to the mini realm); (3) aside from the usable 50,000slots of allocated inventory space, it will also grant the owner of this 'mini realm' to hide and conceal his presence in the world around him.

With the 'armor' fully engulfing her body, a hand-seized oblong ball of Mana fell into her hand.

She sent a strand of Mana into it, studying it, and when she realized that it can only hide her presence NOT actually in the same way Siva hid his presence from her, she felt extremely wronged by this gift of him.

"I don't need it."

"I command you to cherish it and use it wisely."

—a command was given. She must follow it.

"Damn you! What's the point of giving something to me that doesn't even match up to the standards of the ones the giver has?"

—un-fucking-believable! I gave you an inch, and you want to take a mile...!!?

Siva was surprised by the sheer thickness of this girl's face! It's not that the 'hiding' ability can't be on the same level as Siva's because at the current level of the IPU, it can only create something like this mini realm that still has no ability to support life inside it... that's why even if she wanted to, there is still the limits, so the mini realm can't allow her to hide inside its isolated space.

"It can still hide your presence aside from the aura if you don't learn how to hide it properly. So your first task is to master how to completely hide your Mana's presence and keep it under wraps inside your body... or else, this is nothing more than just camouflage in your care."