Chapter: 691
The strange intangible creature was helpless against his power. Jay wondered where all its strength was. It couldn’t even move its body.
This was insulting to Jay – to think that such a weak creature had tormented him for hours, sneaking into his mind, mimicking his thoughts, trying to convince him to do evil things and then screaming at him.
Such a weak creature dared to bark orders at him?
He was now as offended as he was annoyed.
Since he was sensing it with his ability, he couldn’t actually see it, but it basically felt like a snake, with some strange nodes along its body which he could tell were thicker, filled with some sort of energy – the same nodes which seemed to plug into Jay’s back somewhere, though it wasn’t a perfect fit and seemed wrong. Unnatural.
“Well… I can’t hold onto it forever…” Jay shrugged.
“Now, what was it saying before? Destroy, burn, slay, harm? Good advice.” he smiled with the eyes of a predator.
Using his mana, he mercilessly twisted the strange creatures body into all sorts of shapes. It was powerless against him.
It was a bad day to be whatever this creature was, as Jay was not just trying to kill it, but releasing some of his stress and even practicing his mana manipulation on it.
It shriveled up and was crushed. It was twisted mercilessly. Finally, its body was torn apart.
Jay released a little stress as he made it suffer.
Strangely, something felt right about killing it. It was more than simply justice being carried out, but more like judgement, or even like he was a harbinger of destiny.
Strangely, as it died, something like a soul but smaller than one was left behind as its body disintegrated. Then another. Then soon about fifteen of these small half-souls came out of its dying body.
Jay didn’t let a single one escape.
This time though, there was no force from above fighting him to lift the souls upwards.
The non-souls were just simply there. Uncared for. Alone.
“Weird…”
It seemed that whatever force above wanted nothing to do with these fake souls.
Jay released his grasp on them and slowly, they descended like falling pieces of pollen.
As Jay’s concentration was on the parasite he ripped out, the other two began to cry out again.
“MERCY! Please, spare us! Send us into another creature that we may live!”
Jay ignored their pleas for help. They did not show mercy, so he wouldn’t either.
He repeated the process with the next snake-like being, torturing it for a while before ripping it to shreds. Each time, Jay smiled with glee. Something about killing these evil things brought him great joy.
However, Jay was also annoyed at himself for not realizing it sooner: the evil voices in his head were not even his own.
He though they were more like demons, though not an accurate term, it was close enough. They were at least like some sort of soul parasites, feeding off evil or simply just there to torment him.