Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 54

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Skill Devouring to the 666th Floor Episode 054

54. Torture

I don’t believe in the rehabilitation of criminals.

A murderer is eternally just a murderer.

Hands that have been stained with blood once will seek blood two, three more times.

Statistics showing that the recidivism rate of criminals released from prison reaches 70% prove this.

‘So Weihao will also be difficult to rehabilitate. He’s not your ordinary psychopath.’

Kill when someone annoys him.

When he needs the thrill of murder, grab anyone and kill them again.

That bastard who committed murders while evading Public Security’s pursuit finally caused a major incident.

‘To blatantly massacre people at an event venue.’

I rescued Han So Ra with good timing, but countless casualties had already occurred.

‘He deserves to die. But…’

I have to spare his life as payment for the Terra I received from Orcus.

That’s also the reason I brought him to this cabin.

Of course, I plan to take measures so he can’t harm people anymore.

‘How should I mentally reform this demon-like bastard?’

There are several methods worth trying.

First, let me test whether he keeps his promises with me well.

“From now on, you have two choices. One, live in this cabin and continue conquering the Labyrinth. There’s a sinkhole nearby, so it’ll be convenient to conquer. But don’t go out to the city center, and don’t harm people. Two, die by my hand right here and now. If you don’t want to follow my words, you’ll have to die.”

Die or live.

Which one he’d choose was obvious.

“Well… living in nature wouldn’t be too bad either.”

Weihao nodded obediently.

But did he really submit to such a simple threat?

That psychopath?

For the test, I left him in the cabin and stepped away.

When I was out of his sight, I flew through the sky and moved in the opposite direction.

‘If he escapes from the cabin, he’ll flee in the opposite direction from where I went.’

Sure enough.

As I waited after changing my coat and transforming my face, he approached.

Since I had cast Parasite on him, I could predict where he was coming from.

“Hey. Mister.”

“?”

“Are you the owner of that cabin?”

“Ah… yes, I am.”

“Thanks for confirming… now die.”

When I acted like a civilian, he immediately tried to kill me.

But the Invincibility Skill I had already cast easily blocked his attack.

“You piece of trash, I knew you’d do this.”

I broke the startled bastard’s arms and legs.

Since he failed the test, it was time to use the next method.

I brought the half-dead Weihao back to the cabin.

Using telekinesis, I grabbed his broken limbs and suspended him spread-eagle in the air.

Crack!

“Aaagh!”

“Does it hurt? I guess even someone like you feels pain?”

“…What the hell are you doing? If you’re going to kill me, do it quickly!”

“No, I’m not going to kill you. Rather, I’m thinking of fixing you.”

I continued speaking while healing his wounds with Breath of Regression.

“I’m going to properly fix that screwed-up head of yours today.”

The Transformation Branch I took out from my inventory instantly changed into a torture awl.

Stab!

“Uwaaagh!”

“I pierced your Achilles tendon. It’ll hurt a bit.”

“You son of a…!”

He tried to attack with Grip of the Dead.

But it caused no damage whatsoever.

“…What, what?”

“Telekinesis can just be blocked with telekinesis.”

“That’s possible…? You’re already binding me with telekinesis.”

“Just control two things simultaneously, what’s so difficult about that?”

The Grip of the Dead skill requires advanced mana control.

In that regard, Weihao is certainly a talented bastard.

Compared to me, it’s just a drop in the bucket though.

‘For me, whose mana control has reached its peak, multitasking isn’t difficult.’

Ignoring Weihao’s gaze that looked at me like I was a monster.

Stab!

“Gugh!”

I resumed the torture.

Blood flowed from all over his body, riddled with holes like a honeycomb.

Just when he was about to lose consciousness.

Shaaaa—

I reversed him back to before the wounds appeared.

“It would be disappointing if you fainted already. You can’t pass out on your own until I give you permission.”

“Why… why are you doing this to me?”

“Hm? Didn’t I tell you?”

This time I grabbed his finger.

“I’m trying to tame you. Like livestock.”

“Fuck… urgh!”

Crack!

Without giving him a chance to speak, I crushed his finger.

One by one, crack!

One by one, crack!

Making sure he felt maximum pain.

“How is it? Feeling the pain you inflicted on others?”

“Damn… I never tortured people this much. I gave them a quick death by blowing their heads off.”

“Ah, is that so? Then I should make it quick too.”

I transformed the awl into a curved sword.

I aimed at his head, but he showed no sign of fear.

“Kill me, hurry up and kill me!”

Rather, he was welcoming death.

As if he had no attachment to life.

“This guy’s not in his right mind. Well, that’s probably why he massacred people indiscriminately.”

I sighed and instantly swung my blade.

Slice!

His arm dropped to the floor with a thud.

Without caring, I cut off his other arm too.

“Gaaaah…”

“For the sake of those who died unjustly, I can’t let you die easily.”

“Uuugh…”

“Let’s see you feel the exact same pain as those who died by your hand.”

I started working again.

I inflicted maximum pain by crushing fingers or carving out flesh.

When he seemed about to die, I kept him alive with Breath of Regression.

The torture to break his mental strength continued.

However.

‘This isn’t easy. His eyes don’t show any sign of submission at all.’

Despite inflicting such extreme pain, his spirit remained steadfast.

He was still looking at me with venomous eyes.

With a gaze that seemed to say ‘go ahead and kill me if you can.’

‘Well… I expected this, didn’t I?’

The torture ends here.

It’s time to use a different method.

I put away my weapon and completely healed his wounds.

I pulled over a chair and sat down, meeting the gaze of the man hanging in midair.

“Hey. Why do you kill people anyway?”

“Keke, what’s with stopping the torture and…”

“Just answer me. What’s so good about killing that you do it?”

“Because it’s my instinct.”

“Instinct? Fine. If that’s your instinct and you can’t help it, how about using it for something good instead?”

“Something good?”

“There are too many trash humans in this world. Criminals who would be better off dead.”

“You want me to hunt criminals?”

“Yeah. You’ve been killing the weak and feeling superiority and pleasure, but did that bring you true satisfaction? What was left after that?”

“…”

“If you’re the strongest in China as you claim, you should pick stronger targets. For example, trash who bully the weak. If you’re going to kill anyway, eliminate those who use violence against the weak. That’s the only way to justify your murderous urges.”

I tried giving sincere advice, but.

“Keke, what a virtuous dreamer we have here.”

He immediately mocked me.

“Why the hell should I do that? Why should I bother picking out such people to kill? I can just kill anyone.”

“…”

“More than that, you’re starting to get interesting…”

“Me?”

“What you’re doing is really funny, you know? Why is a strong bastard like you trying to tame me? You could just kill me with one strike. Right? You keep healing me and trying to persuade me. Why are you doing that? Hm?”

“Hah…”

The persuasion strategy has also failed.

‘In the end, do I have no choice but to use the last resort?’

It seems like this is the only way to control him.

“Come forth. Specter.”

I took out the Dimensional Orb and spoke the activation word.

Then.

Kwaaaaah!

A Death God holding a scythe appeared with a black whirlwind.

[Did you call me? Human?]

“…”

Weihao froze at the unexpected situation.

Looking at his expression, he seems quite shocked.

‘He wouldn’t be unfamiliar with Death Gods either. He must have seen them during the Labyrinth incident.’

Of course, the Specter he saw wasn’t Luster who’s here, but a different one, but that doesn’t matter.

All Specters look the same anyway.

‘A Specter suddenly appearing. From his perspective, he must be wondering what’s going on.’

Why did I summon Luster?

To instill supernatural fear in him.

‘Humans naturally feel fear toward beings they can’t explain.’

Seeing how the guy who showed no expression changes has frozen up, it seems to be effective.

“Specter. Enter that guy’s body.”

[What?]

“Hurry.”

Luster received my signal.

Normally he would have talked back asking what I was doing, but today was different.

I was openly radiating killing intent.

―If you don’t listen, you know you’ll get beaten like last time. You know, right? That as long as I have the Dimensional Orb, you can never escape.

That’s what my gaze was saying.

Fortunately, he seemed to read the room.

[Ah, alright.]

Luster flew toward Weihao without complaint.

“Huk! Damn it!”

Weihao panicked and tried to dodge, but bound by my telekinesis, he couldn’t move an inch, and eventually.

Swoosh―

Luster entering his body.

At that timing, I put the Dimensional Orb into my Inventory to make it disappear.

‘This way I can make it look like he entered the body.’

Unaware of this, Weihao panicked and just stared at his own body.

“What, what! Where did that Death God go? Did it really come in? Into my body?”

“Yeah. It went in.”

I lied with a calm face.

“I put a Death God inside your body. A Death God that follows my commands very well.”

“What?”

He must be dumbfounded.

At the idea of commanding Death Gods.

But he can’t not believe it.

He just saw it appear at my command and enter his body.

“From now on, the Death God will monitor you from inside your body. Whether you take the lives of innocent citizens or not.”

“…”

“If you kill innocent citizens, the Death God will take your soul. To the Bottomless Pit where endless darkness and suffering await.”

“…”

“If you don’t believe me, feel free to test it. But you should be careful. I’ve ordered the Death God to take your soul immediately if you commit even one meaningless murder.”

No matter how gutsy a human is, the opponent is a Death God.

A spiritual being that transcends humanity.

Against such an existence, would there really be a human willing to test their life?

‘Every human has survival instincts. Even Weihao who boasts that murder is his instinct.’

What human wouldn’t feel fear in front of a supernatural being?

I know that Specters are insignificant beings, but he doesn’t know that, does he?

“Take it out… Take that damn Death God out of my body!”

“I can’t do that. If I take it out, you won’t listen to me again.”

“I’ll listen! I can listen from now on! So hurry up and take it out!”

“Now? What reason do I have to trust you?”

“….”

“I clearly gave you several chances. But you kicked those opportunities away yourself.”

“What do I need to do? Tell me! How should I handle this!”

“Do it according to the conditions I mentioned at first. Stay buried in these mountains and conquer the Labyrinth. Don’t even think about going to the city center.”

“If I do that? You’ll take out the Death God?”

“Depends on how you perform.”

“Fuck… You want me to stay buried in these mountains and suppress my murderous urges?”

“If you really can’t stand it, you can kill. But I designate the targets. If you go against my will and kill innocent people… then the Death God will intervene.”

“….”

I said the Death God would intervene, but actually I plan to intervene myself.

‘If I leak a bit of Terra into the parasite I planted in him, I can use it like a bomb.’

It might seem safe right now.

The Magic Parasite is wrapping the unstable Terra energy in layers.

But the moment I remove this parasite?

The suppressed unstable energy of Terra will explode outward in an instant.

Even the system can’t detect this.

‘It’s already embedded in his head, so it’ll explode before detection.’

In other words, combining Terra and parasites allows me to use them as remote time bombs.

‘I’ll monitor with Parasite, and if he ever breaks his promise…’

I’ll blow his head right off.

For now, he probably won’t try anything because he fears the Death God.

‘I should tell Orcus too. To send a message.’

If he sends a message saying not to kill recklessly because the Death God is inside?

He’ll have no choice but to believe it.

I should be able to control that rampaging wild horse.

“So what’s your answer?”

“…I’ll do it.”

“Do what?”

“Live in the mountains!”

“Good. You made the right choice.”

I took out his mobile phone from his pocket and touched it.

“I saved my number. I’ll contact you when there’s something you need to do, so keep it charged. You can see everything’s equipped here, right?”

“What about the Cabin Owner? Did you kill him?”

“As if.”

I said with a smile.

“This cabin is mine.”

Though it was actually an Underworld hideout.

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