Pale Emblem

Chapter 145 Desire Abyss

Victor and his crew borrowed the mine dormitory of the barbarian slave leader and settled down temporarily.

This large mine is relatively closed. Even if a half-elf caravan comes to trade minerals, they cannot go deep into the mine.

For Victor, this is a perfect place to hide.

Of course, they were able to rest in the big mine thanks to Christine.

Victor has deeply realized that the half-elf's charm ability is extraordinary and is definitely the strongest power known.

none of them!

If you want to maximize the effect of the charm power, you must study it in depth.

Christine is not an alchemical creature, and her elemental attributes and supernatural properties are not reflected in Victor's mental arena.

Victor intends to gain a deeper understanding of the conditions for releasing the charm power, its actual effects, and the limitations it is subject to, such as the favor of the power of destiny, and other information, but he can only do so through Christine's oral narration.

He first sent the old scout Maddie out to contact the Alchemist Demons and investigate the battle between the Alchemist Demons and the pursuers. He chose to be alone with Christine for most of the following time.

Before being reshaped by the master personality, Christine had already suffered the backlash of the charm power and was controlled by Victor for quite a long time; after she was reshaped, the master personality further solidified this slave relationship, making Christine have no reservations towards Victor from then on.

This is entirely the characteristic of the Lust Demon bloodline itself. Either you enslave others, or you are enslaved by others.

It can be said that the communication between Victor and Christine was very smooth and efficient.

Christine is no longer the vase that only has a strong body but no practical combat ability.

Her current physical condition is excellent. Beneath her delicate and beautiful appearance, she actually has a physique as strong as that of a ferocious beast. Her basic strength alone can compete with Victor's fierce talent.

After testing, Victor preliminarily determined that Christine's elemental attributes were 23 points for physique, 18 points for spirit, 18 points for perception, and 26 points for life. He ignited the fire of the soul and implanted an alchemical snake tentacle.

Like other reshaped half-elves, Christine is proficient in two breathing techniques, including the Qi-raising Slash used in combat and the Hidden Breathing Technique which can quickly restore physical strength and energy.

Christine does not have demon skin. Her defects are compensated by the alchemical snake tentacles. Her life form is stable enough that she no longer needs to maintain the blood balance of demons and half-elfs by conceiving a fetus. At the same time, it also cuts off the possibility of being promoted to the ancestor of vampires and cultivating derivative demons.

However, Christine can complete limited partial evil transformation and gain the ability to adapt to the environment, such as growing sharp teeth and claws, black eyes and red pupils, thus possessing dark vision and soul vision; or growing gills on the body surface, temporarily possessing the ability to breathe underwater.

Of course, adapting to the environment also includes resistance to fire, ice, toxins, etc. Unfortunately, she is still not immune to the restraint of mithril.

All of Chris's spell-like abilities are related to charm, starting with the natural charm and emotional perception that comes with the abyss aura.

Natural Charm: Christine can concentrate her mind and expend relatively limited energy to cast a charm on one or more sentient beings, which can dissolve hostility, win goodwill, gain trust, and finally distort cognition, thereby achieving the result of manipulating the target's behavior.

If natural charm is ineffective on the target, no matter how many times Christine casts it, it will be ineffective.

After the natural charm wears off, it will not cause hatred in the target.

Emotional Perception: Christine can sense the emotional changes of all sentient beings within forty feet.

  This forty-foot range is the casting distance of Christine's charmed creature!

In addition, when spiritual beings are in extreme emotions, the success rate of Christine's charm will be greatly reduced.

The second is powerful charm: if natural charm is ineffective on the target, Christine will use her concentration and energy to cast a powerful charm on the target.

Unlike natural charm, powerful charm works by arousing the target's inner desires, distorting their cognition, and then gaining the target's trust, winning goodwill, and dissolving hostility.

This is like destroying the enemy's castle from the inside and then taking everything from the enemy as your own.

If a powerful charm fails or becomes ineffective midway, it will inevitably attract great hatred from the target of the charm.

Christine can cast a powerful charm once every two days. When she casts a powerful charm on the same target for a long time and multiple times, and succeeds, there is a greater chance of enslaving the target.

The enslaved spiritual beings are completely defenseless against the half-elf demons. Not only do they obey Christine's will, but they also transfer the damage on the soul level for her. Christine can even absorb their soul fire and temporarily enhance her abilities.

Christine can enslave up to three sentient beings.

After the powerful charm comes the violent charm: Christine goes all out and uses all her energy to charm the target with the maximum intensity, causing irreversible damage.

If the violent enchantment is successful, Christine will get a servant who is enslaved by her, but this servant will continue to offer his soul fire to the mistress for more than ten days, causing his body and mind to weaken continuously until death.

Violent seduction is Christine's last resort, and there is still a possibility of failure.

When it fails, Christine and the target of seduction are both drawn into the abyss of desire, unable to move or think, and in a state of complete rigidity.

The Desire Abyss lasts for a maximum of 5 seconds, and the loser will sacrifice his or her soul, while Christine can use the soul of her slave to bear the consequences of her failure. If either party is attacked from outside, the Desire Abyss will be forcibly interrupted, and Christine, as the leader, will suffer mental damage, with her mental attributes reduced by 8 points, but this mental damage can still be passed on to her slave.

To be honest, Victor was shocked by Christine's ultimate ability.

  What does it mean to be frozen for five seconds?

It doesn't even take five seconds. Even if Christine controls the target for only one second, it is enough for the opponent to die several times.

This is the ability to turn the tide in desperate situations!

The most amazing thing is that Christine is like Victor's slave. Not only can she provide him with a mental barrier, but she can also bear 30% of his mental or spiritual damage.

This spiritual connection ignores spatial distance.

With the mental barrier provided by the Alchemical Serpent Tentacles and Christine's damage sharing, Victor doesn't have to be afraid of the noise ability of the big demon in the underground cave if he encounters it again.

A big stone in his heart was removed, and Victor was greatly encouraged. He looked at Christine more favorably, at least he no longer resisted her evil background as a vampire.

After all, the crimes Christine had committed in the past had nothing to do with Victor, and the other followers did not feel any pain and accepted her as a new member of the gang.

However, there was one person who was not happy to see Christine join the team.

The next morning, Christine followed the barbarian slave leader Ansai to inspect the big mine. She had to make sure that the other party was always in a state of charm.

Stephanie took advantage of Christine's absence and quietly found Victor. She looked at him eagerly, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

"What do you want?" Victor put down the mineral transaction ledger recorded by Chief Ansai and asked with a smile.

The little girl blushed and lowered her head hastily, not daring to look at Victor's handsome face. She mumbled, "Teacher Maddie hasn't come back yet. I'm worried about him..."

Maddie is an experienced secret hunter and a top-notch wilderness scout. When the town of Braun was besieged by a large army of orcs, he dared to sneak behind enemy lines to conduct reconnaissance alone. He disappeared for several days and finally returned safely with crucial intelligence.

In comparison, the reconnaissance mission he was currently carrying out was just a small scene.

Victor is not worried about McGrady's safety, at least not yet.

In the Psychic Arena, the projections of Hermann and seven other alchemists were all fine, so how could anything happen to Maddie?

"Don't worry, your teacher will be back before dark today." Victor comforted the little girl, and felt that in order to train her to become an excellent scout, she must realize the cruelty of reality, so he said lightly: "If Maddie can't come back, there is no point in us worrying."

Stephanie clearly felt the pressure from Victor, and she said obediently, "I... understand. I will practice my scout skills and try to help Teacher Maddie as soon as possible."

Victor nodded slightly, and when he saw that the little girl continued to stay where she was, he looked up and asked, "Anything else?"

Stephanie put her hands behind her back, twisting her fingers, gritted her teeth, and whispered, "Sir, that... the mayor's wife is a vampire. I saw her sucking Bobby's blood with my own eyes..."

The little girl simply thought that Victor had forgotten about this matter and came over to remind him.

Looking at Stephanie's panic and fear, this kid must have prepared herself mentally and thought she was taking a huge risk to expose Christine's identity as a vampire.

Victor suddenly had a headache. Stephanie was talented and knew the wolf shepherd girl Bertina, but she was not as important as Christine.

But, it’s not easy to disappoint the child’s sincere heart.

"Uh... the former mayor's wife is dead. She died in the underground cave. The Christine I saved is not the former vampire..."

At this point, Victor paused. He recalled the encounter with the big demon in the underground cave. Almost everyone, including himself, was knocked unconscious by the noise made by the big demon.

According to the demon hunter Rhine, the noise attack of the great demon is only a superficial phenomenon. It is actually a vicious power that can harm the soul.

Faced with the terrifying power of the great devil, the demon hunters are not in danger because they not only have the power of Mother Earth, but also Ms. Silver Blade trained by the Demon Hunters Guild.

Everyone else was basically on their knees, either dead or injured, and they only recovered thanks to Victor implanting the alchemical snake tentacles in them. So why is Stephanie fine too?

At this time, Harvey ran into the mine excitedly and reported to Victor: "Sir, Maddie and Herman are back!"

"Go and call them over." Victor stood up, gave Harvey instructions, patted Stephanie on the shoulder, and said in a friendly manner: "We'll talk about what you just said later... I promise I will remember it and pay special attention to her."

"Go take care of Ruth and Jessica first. Be careful not to let anyone see any flaws."

After saying this, Victor blinked his emerald green eyes at Stephanie.

As if there was a secret between her and Victor, the little girl nodded vigorously and walked away excitedly.