Supremacy Games by MidGard

https://www.panda-novel.com/details/supremacy-games(BN)-378

"Void pet? That monstrosity is yours?" Commander Edward forgot about his fear as he exclaimed with an astounded expression.

"Indeed." Felix turned his finger around, forcing commander Edward to face him against his will.

Now that they were face to face, Commander Edward didn't know how to react after seeing Felix sitting on his chair while caressing Nimo's back.

Nimo was sitting on his lap while staring at commander Edward with his soul-capturing deep black eyes.

'This raccoon looks similar to the one that attacked us.' Commander Edward gulped fearfully and switched his vision to back to Felix.

He didn't know why, but he felt like Nimo was the evilest thing he had ever seen in his life.

"I am just here to give you a reason to surrender." Felix smiled, "I don't think you want my pet to make another visit again right?"

"It's not like I have any other choice here?" Commander Edward chuckled in derision as he glanced at his frozen crew.

"Sign this contract and head to the nearest planet belonging to the federation." Felix forwarded a contract to commander Edward and added, "You will be imprisoned there with the rest of the soldiers until further notice."

"I understand." Commander Edward signed the contract in a blink of an eye.

"I guess we are done here." Felix nodded and then disappeared into a void rift behind him.

Thud Thud Thud!...

Everyone in the operation room were released from the spiritual pressure constrains simultaneously.

"F*cking hell! I almost had a heart attack!"

"Did he leave? I am scared to look behind me."

"Thank god he spared us."

The crew finally were given the right to express themselves from this traumatizing experience. Being in the same room as Felix was truly much scarier than anything they experienced in their lives.

"I guess our direction is still Fedora." Commander Edward chuckled at the irony of it.

A few minutes ago they were going to Fedora for an invasion. Now, they were heading there to be prisoners on their own will.

The contract signed was for everyone in the fleet.

This meant that commander Edward had just enslaved thousands of soldiers without their permission.

This was the reason a valid excuse must be given before a commander could surrender.

He wasn't responsible for himself but for everyone in his fleet.

Felix's void raccoon that was capable of slaughtering them was all the reason he needed for his surrender to be accepted by Queen Ai.

If Felix simply attacked the cockpit and tried to force a surrender, the Queen would not have approved of it.

Just because a commander was being held at a gunpoint, it didn't mean that thousands of soldiers needed to suffer due to his cowardliness.

Hence, the only ways to force a surrender was either by a large threat to the entire fleet, or a unified decision to surrender approved by the soldiers as well as the commander.

...

Felix spent the next hour hunting a fleet after the other. In every time, he attacked them with a single void raccoon and then forced them to give up.

In a mere hour, he managed to take down more than three thousand warships that were spread out in the federation's territory!

With the emperor memories, it wasn't that hard to find their approximate location.

Because the war was streamed live, his actions hadn't gone unnoticed.

The majority of the viewers were left absolutely speechless by his uncanny speed of taking down fleet after the other.

Yet, nothing shocked them more than seeing a live void creature that was as big as a asteroid listening to Felix's commands!

[It's confirmed! Landlord is an intelligent void creature!]

[It's simply impossible to travel through the void realm as a human. Don't even mention controlling an actual void creature.]

[You guys are dumb, Felix is clearly a human! Ask Queen Ai, and she will confirm it immediately.]

[It's more believable that he must have found a way to harness void energy and control void creatures!]

With Felix's ongoing fleet hunt, everyone forgot about the video!

The shocking discovery of Felix being capable of traveling through the void realm and controlling void creatures was more than enough to steal the spotlight from any news in the universe!

That's right, most of the races in far away galaxies tuned in to watch the ongoing hunt.

Even the top upper echelon of ten races in the SGAlliance had their interest piqued.

Traveling through the void realm was already a remarkable achievement that had never been accomplished before.

But to control void creatures? That was a whole different story!

"You better be prepared for the shit storm coming in your way." Thor chuckled, "You just displayed two things that the ten SGAlliance leaders would pay anything to get their hands on."

"I am more worried about the primogenitors though." Felix said as he traveled towards the Mariana empire capital city.

"You don't need to worry about them." Lady Sphinx mentioned, "Neither traveling the void realm nor controlling void creatures is of significance to them."

It did make sense. Primogenitors had no use for void creatures or traveling the void realm unlike the mortals.

"If it's like that, then there is no problem." Felix smiled, "I can carry on my plan."

...

While Felix was traveling towards the Mariana capital planet, the five void guild leaders were eying each other with horror-stricken expressions.

They had already realized that Lance was Felix, and they had absolutely no problem with him being the president of the guild.

In fact, they were delighted since it meant having a close contact with the mythical phantom organization.

So, they were keeping up with the war news, so they could offer their support to Felix if he needed it.

However, the instant they saw the giant void raccoon assaulting the fleets under Felix's command, they all realized something that was overlooked by most people.

"It can't be right?" Winfried gulped a mouthful, "We are talking about fifty infected planet."

"Nothing explains it better than this." The Fang said, "Lance managed to reclaim fifty planets in four months. We sent many troops over there and found not a single void creature or any sign of battle."

"He must have opened a void rift just like he is doing and controlled the void creatures to enter it." Toby supported.

The instant those five saw those two abilities of Felix, they managed to connect the dots almost immediately.

After all, they were the only ones who were truly invested in finding Felix's method to reclaim those planets.

"Dear lord, doesn't that mean he is actually controlling 90 million void creatures?" Spooked, Hamaru couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"Who knows? So far, he just showed a single giant void creature." The Fang murmured, "Maybe that's his limit?"

"I don't think so." Toby sighed in sympathy for the Royal Army, "He just never needed to add extra when a single giant void creature is more than enough."

"90 million void creatures...If this is confirmed, then I believe that our president is probably one of the most fearsome individuals in the universe." Wilson commentated.

The five leaders had the most contact with void creatures throughout their lives.

They understood full well that 90 million void creature was more than enough to terrorize any empire or background in this universe.

Even the top ten races would struggle to deal with such amount at the same time.

"I have no idea how everyone will react if the president suddenly decided to show his true army." Winfried said.

"I think he won't." The Fang reasoned, "It's better to hide them as a trump card."

Unfortunately, Felix thought differently than The Fang.

Why hide something that could bring trouble when it could be used as the ultimate deterrence?

"Are you sure about this Sir Felix?" Mistress Candace asked while standing with Felix above the bustling capital city of the Mariana Empire.

"Never been more positive." Felix grinned coldly.

The instant she heard so, Mistress Candace opened thousands of small void rifts in the sky. Felix helped as well by opening at least hundreds smaller void rifts.

"Huh? Are those birds?"

"Honey, can you see as well those black dots in the sky?"

"They look like black holes to me..."

The sky was blue and clear of clouds, making those void rifts easily noticeable by the walking citizens.

When one stood still and began pointing his finger at the sky, humans' basic curiosity enforced the others to look above.

In a mere few seconds, loud chatter resounded in the streets as everyone was talking about those 'black holes.'

Just as their curiosity was about to die down, their eyes widened at the horrific sight of thousands of nightmarish void raccoons, filling up their sky every second!

In a mere thirty seconds, the sun above the city was already hidden behind a pitch-black curtain.

A curtain made out of tens of thousands void creature!

With each passing second, the curtain grew wider and wider until only darkness was upon the petrified citizens beneath...

While Zosia's assistant was trying to wake her up, the video continued making waves throughout the universe.

Landlord's fans went absolutely berserk in the network after seeing Felix's new appearance and set of abilities.

[Only our lord is capable of kidnapping an emperor from his throne!]

[No wonder he was missing for over two years! He was disguising himself as Lance!]

[Glad someone saw through it as well.]

[It's pretty obvious with the hair and that weird eye.]

[Is it just me who thinks that he is using void-based abilities? He kicked the emperor through a void rift and closed it.]

[Maybe it's that hottie with him in maid outfit? I will die just to spend a night with her.]

[Is it even possible to use void abilities? Not a single race in the universe can use that element besides the void creatures.]

[Did Landlord become an intelligent void creature...Wow, this is huge if it's true!]

Most viewers easily managed to connect the dots between Felix and Lance.

They shared great resemblance, their strength and unique abilities were just too mysterious, and lastly, both of them were connected to void realm matters.

Although Felix edited the video to hide as much as possible, he couldn't hide the void rift behind emperor Rawal.

If he edited it out, the video would be tampered, and it would lose some of its credibility.

Still, Felix didn't care that his ability to open void rifts was exposed.

He was bound to be seen using void abilities eventually either in the war or the games.

...

While the majority of the viewers were actually attracted to the void rift, and it's relation to Felix, the generals, soldiers, and citizens of the royal family focused on the real purpose of the video!

The interrogation of their emperor and his unexpected death!

They didn't give a crap about Felix's abilities or Mistress Candace's beauty.

The only thought in their mind was that their emperor was actually dead.

"I can't believe it...He ruled for over forty thousand years...Is this how he died?"

"Thank you lord!! He is finally put down!!"

"What's the point of fighting anymore? That sadistic bastard refused to surrender even when he was given a way out. He really wants us to fight a losing war?"

"Nothing is lost yet! That video is fabricated, and our emperor will appear soon to address it!"

Everyone had a different reaction to video in the royal family's territory.

While the citizens were somewhat happy about his death, the soldiers and generals were left completely confused.

Emperor Rawal was the head of the snake. With his death, the troops were thrown into disarray, having no clue what to do next.

A few minutes ago, they were over the moon at their recent victories.

Nothing seemed impossible when emperor Rawal was behind them.

His strategies were more than affective and boosted their morale to its highest.

Yet, everything crumbled down with a single video.

In their minds, if even emperor Rawal ended up with such fate, they would experience something much worse than him.

"Shit, shit, shit! It happened too soon!" Queen Norfolk was livid when she saw the video and its grave effects on their army.

She was just preparing to take over emperor Rawal command, hoping that when the news get leaked, she would have a tight grasp over the army.

But now? It was a farfetched dream.

Most of the royal family members were liquifying their assets cheap in the market, hoping to get as many coins as possible.

Generals had their hands full trying to pacify their soldiers while wishing that a new leader would be elected soon.

The citizens in most of the royal family territories were celebrating in the streets over the death of emperor's tyranny.

The federation army were mobilizing their forces like they were ejected with high dosage of adrenaline.

They didn't hesitate to take advantage of the situation to engage in battles with any Royal Army forces on the way.

Everyone could see that the tides of the war had been switched in favor of the federation army.

All of this was caused by a single person and a single death.

"This is not over yet!"

Queen Norfolk refused to accept this ending no matter what.

She saw the video and understood that Felix had absolutely no intentions of negotiating with the royal family.

As a proud queen and origin bloodliner, there was no way in hell she would accept being imprisoned in a deserted planet with her family.

Queen Norfolk reached out to every general in the army responsible over the invasion and ordered them to attack the nearest planet to them without care about strategy or such!

When the emperor was alive, the invasion was going at a slow and calculated pace.

But now, Queen Norfolk threw caution to the wind and just wanted to create as much havoc as possible.

In her eyes, this would ruin the rising momentum of the federation army.

...

"Tsk, can't she just accept our defeat and be done with it." Commander Edward clicked his tongue in criticism after receiving the latest orders.

As a commander, he would be receiving a light punishment compared to the royal family since he was a valuable asset.

He would simply be forced to sign a temporary slavery contract to ensure his loyalty to the federation after the war.

The rest of the soldiers and generals would be receiving the same fate more or less.

"You heard her, change our direction to Fedora." Commander Edward ordered.

Although he wanted to surrender and get captured, he couldn't do so without a real threat to his fleet. Otherwise, Queen Ai would consider it as a mutiny.

Unbeknownst to him, he was just about to be given a reason.

Out of nowhere, Felix and Mistress Candace emerged in the middle of the five-star nova fleet formation!

Felix eyed the hundreds of warships surrounding him and said indifferently, "Let's begin."

Mistress Candace nodded at him and then widened her void rift to its limit!

Meanwhile, Nimo commanded a single void raccoon to cross over to the matter universe through the void rift.

"What the hell is that???"

A warship's pilot, that was facing the void rift, couldn't help but exclaim in shock at the sight of a humongous void raccoon emerging from the rift!

It was so massive, tens of warships ended up inside its expanding body before it could even attack!

"COMMANDER! We ARE UNDER ATTACK!!"

Such a large ruckus wasn't gone unnoticed by the rest of the warships.

"Dear lord, is that a void creature?"

Commander Edward was absolutely stupefied by the sight of the colossal void raccoon amidst their formation.

"How is this possible?? How can void creatures be in the battleground?"

Void creatures were the last thing anyone expected to appear on a virtual battleground.

"Commander! What do we do?!!"

"It's attacking us!"

"Should we fire?!"

The radio was buzzing noisily with the warships captains seeking orders desperately.

They thought that the void raccoon was attacking them, but it was simply Felix playing with Nimo's arms.

The void raccoon was copying the same movement.

With his towering size, every time it moved its arms, five to ten warships get engulfed within them helplessly.

Some captains were already terrified out of their wits to wait for orders. They started to fire orange beams at void raccoon, hoping to cause some damage.

Alas, to kill a void creature, the only known method was to overwhelm them with massive burst of energy.

Those orange lasers weren't even enough to tickle the void raccoon.

"Stop! F*cking stop wasting your energy and wait for my command to strike at once!" As veteran Commander, Edward swiftly restored his composure and began bossing the captains.

"We need to retreat for now!" Commander Edward ordered everyone to pull back.

There was no way they could win against a void creature with such a behemoth size in close range and without a proper firepower.

The captains didn't disagree with him at all. They swiftly turned on their main engine and traveled as far as possible from the void raccoon.

When commander Edward saw that they had created enough distance from the void raccoon, he stopped his warship and ordered the fleet to regroup again.

"First the emperor and great commander getting killed. Now, a cosmic void creature assaulting us from nowhere?"

Flustered and perplexed, commander Edward exhaled a long breath, trying to regain control over his emotions.

"I know right? Nothing is making sense anymore."

"Amen to tha..Huh?"

Commander Edward wasn't able to complete his sentence before his blood went cold all of a sudden.

He was quick to realize that no one on his crew had such a voice. Yet, it was too familiar like he just heard it a few minutes ago...

'Landlord!!!'

Commander Edward was shaken to the core from terror. He wanted to turn around and check, but his head refused to listen to him.

When he eyed the rest of his crew, he realized that no one was speaking or moving...They were sitting in their positions akin to being frozen in time.

'Spiritual Pressure...' Commander Edward instantly recognized what's happening to him and his crew.

He was an knowledgeable old man, but he was still at mere 6th stage of replacement.

This made him understand that if Felix desired it...Everyone's heads in the operation room would pop off immediately.

"How did you find my void pet?" Felix smiled with an easy-going expression while sitting on the captain's seat right behind Commander Edward.

"You want me to live like a dog away from civilization?" Emperor Rawal yelled furiously, "I would rather die than live such a humiliating life!"

"Is that your final decision?" Felix eyed him coldly.

"You are making a grave mistake." Emperor Rawal advised Felix when he saw him unwilling to negotiate the conditions.

"I doubt it."

"Doubt it?" Emperor Rawal snickered, "I am the only one capable of ending the war with one word. If I died, neither my wives nor the rest of my family were capable of doing so."

In ruleless wars, the option to surrender didn't get passed down to another after the supreme leader dies like in other wars.

In fact, the leader chose if he wanted to use that system or simply take away the option with him.

Concerning federation alliance, Zosia was the leader.

When she dies, the right to surrender get passed over to the five elders. If they died as well, the right to surrender move on to Maganda Chief and the other three.

At last, it would be passed over to the rest of the alliance leaders to vote on it.

However, emperor Rawal wasn't that democratic as them.

From the get go, he decided that unless he surrendered personally, no one had the right to do it.

As an egoistic bastard, he would rather have the war continue raging on after his death just to cause more chaos and bloodshed!

This was one of the many reasons Felix didn't want to be lenient with him.

He would never allow such a scumbag to continue living comfortably after losing the war.

"Based on your personality, I knew that you make such a decision." Felix shared causally.

"Wait...Then, you do realize that the only option left to end the war is dealing with my forces?" Emperor Rawal was weirded out by Felix's casualness.

"You might be strong and capable enough to take me down." Emperor Rawal sneered, "But, you can't do the same against my forces! You need an army to deal with them and the federation army is a joke."

Emperor Rawal's confidence to reopen negotiation stemmed from this fact.

He knew that Felix would be able to end the war eventually, but it would take years of constant fighting to take down 90% of his forces.

No one would like to waste years of his time for something that could be done in a second.

"You are right, the federation alliance's army is a joke." Felix smiled coldly, "That's why I brought my own army."

"Own army?" Emperor Rawal laughed, "Now, you are just straight out bullshiting me."

"I don't care whether you believe it or not." Felix asked one last time, "Will you accept my conditions or not?"

"Your answer better be yes or no."

This time, Felix aimed a void seeker right in front of emperor Rawal's face.

'Since it came to this, might as well take those two f*ckers with me.' Emperor Rawal's expression remained static, but his thoughts were extremely dark.

He never believed in the spirit realm or any of that crap. If he believed in it, he wouldn't have done as many sins in his journey.

Emperor Rawal wasn't joking one bit when he mentioned that he would rather die than live as a dog away from civilization.

"Fine, Fine, I will accept it." Emperor Rawal sighed, "Anything is better than death."

'He is lying.' Lady Sphinx said causally without bothering to lift her eyes from her book.

BAM!

The instant Felix heard so, he didn't hesitate to kick him into the void realm!

'Huh?'

Emperor Rawal wasn't given even a split second to react before he was engulfed by the void energy.

Mistress Candace closed the void rift immediately.

"Wait a few seconds before staring into the void." Felix advised.

He knew that soul explosion took a few seconds to occur. The only way to see it coming was to be inside the consciousness space.

So, if it wasn't for Lady Sphinx's warning, they would have been in a pinch.

Emperor Rawal tried to buy time for the explosion to occur, not realizing that he just gave himself up.

"The void realm really is a beast." Mistress Candace commented.

Felix lowered his headband and couldn't help but feel goosebumps course on his skin at the sight of nothingness.

The explosion occurred just a few seconds ago, yet there wasn't any indication of it happening.

The void energy was so potent, it absorbed even the light particles produced from the explosion in the blink of an eye.

Such sights made Felix always grateful for having his void immunity.

"Now that loser is dead, are you going to start your hunt?" Asna wondered.

"Before that, we need to rattle their armies, so it will be easier for them to give up." Felix brought out a recording of what happened here and then edited it.

The final version made emperor Rawal appear like a dick leader, who cared only about his survival and pride instead of his citizens and army.

He didn't even beseech Felix to spare the generals or governors. Just himself and the royal family.

"You see, we don't really need to kill 90% of the royal family troops. We just to make them lose faith in their cause. So, when I appear before them, they will not attempt to fight my army to death."

Felix said while publishing the video from one of his social media accounts that were managed by his agent Emma.

The fact that both the great commander and emperor were killed had already done 50% of the job for Felix.

When this video goes viral, another 30% would be added.

The moment Felix shows up with his void army, no sane general or soldier would dare to continue fighting in this war.

"As long as we promise them that they will not get executed after they surrender themselves, they will lower their weapons." Felix said.

Just like that, the war would be concluded with the minimum number of casualties.

Felix made a smart decision to release the edited video through his social media account.

Unbeknownst to him, he had over 1.9 active trillion followers throughout the universe!

His agent Emma kept those accounts alive by memes, pictures, highlights, motivation sentences, and more.

No one knew for sure if he was responsible over the account or just an agent.

But after this video was released? No one bothered to think about it anymore.

The entire galaxy was flipped upside down the moment the content of the video had been watched!

"COMMANDER! COMMANDER!!"

Zosia's assistant, who was known for his composed personality, rushed through Zosia's office like his ass was on fire.

"How impud..."

Before Zosia could scold him for breaking her focus, he yelled with an agitated expression, "Felix has killed both commander Hade and the emperor!!!"

"Huh?" Zosia was left stunned by his bold statement.

"Watch this! It was released on Landlord's official social media account!" The assistant created a hologram with the video on it.

Then, he played it and watched it again with Zosia.

The first thing that appeared on the video was enough for Zosia's heart to skip a beat.

'How...H..ow?'

In complete stupefaction, she watched Felix kill commander Hade and kidnap the emperor before the video skipped to the interrogation.

Everything that had been discussed between Felix and emperor Rawal was recorded until the negotiation fell, making Felix kick emperor Rawal inside the void realm.

After the void rift was closed shut, the video ended with a single statement written on a black screen.

-The War is Over.-

"This video is currently trending throughout the entire universe! Many professionals had confirmed its authenticity even though its content is on border of insanity!" The assistant's agitation didn't ease up one bit even after showing the video to Zosia.

Zosia wasn't reacting any better than him. In fact, she took the shock much worse than him.

She was just researching new strategies to turn the war around to their favor even though she knew that it was a slim chance.

Yet now, she just heard that her archenemy, the one responsible for the death of her parents, was kidnapped and killed akin to a hopeless weakling?

She couldn't handle the news one bit.

Adding her extreme shock to the mental exhaustion she was experiencing throughout the war had resulted in one outcome...

"Commander? Commander? Co...."

Thud!

Zosia Everglow, the great commander of the federation army and an origin bloodliner, had ended up fainting in her office.

No one would believe it if they didn't see it on their own!

"Commander..." Even her assistant was left dumbfounded on the spot, not knowing what to do.

Felix still wasn't too pleased with himself.

It was such a small mishap, but it ruined his plan.

He knew that commander Hade wasn't the tenth assigned leader since he killed him and received no notification from the Queen.

'We can only convince him to surrender now.' Felix said coldly.

Since finding the tenth leader was going to be impossible in such a massive territory, Felix wasn't planning on wasting his time on a wild goose chase.

"Can't we force him to say the words with your poison?" Mistress Candace wondered.

"No, Queen Ai can see that he is under influence." Felix said, "For the surrender to go through, the emperor needed to say the words with clear mind."

"It will be hard to achieve so." Mistress Candace said, "The moment you detoxify him, he will start making trouble."

Naturally, the instant emperor Rawal regained his mental capabilities, he wouldn't hesitate to use his abilities.

Felix knew that he was a Gem elementalist with many horrid defensive abilities. Felix didn't want to fight in his spaceship lest it gets ruined.

"I came prepared for such." Felix beamed a crystal potion that was full of a glittering liquid.

"Oh, Elemental Sponge Potion. Hehe, I like your style." Mistress Candace giggled after recognizing the potion immediately.

It was a three-star rank 4 potion that was able to absorb elemental energy out of any life form or object!

Felix had concocted it personally months ago when he was gathering the void army.

He didn't waste those four months reclaiming a planet after the other without working on himself and plan.

"Drink up." Felix forcefully chugged the potion through emperor Rawal's mouth.

'NOOOOOO!! NOOOO!! STOOOOP!!'

Meanwhile, emperor Rawal was crying out loud in terror.

Who could blame him?

The moment the content of the potion entered his stomach, the glittering liquid began to absorb any elemental energy in his body.

The worst part, the more it absorbed, the gooier and bigger the substance gets!

Since he was an origin bloodliner, his elemental pool was at least ten times bigger than Felix without counting Asna's emergency tank.

With so much energy absorbed, emperor Rawal stomach kept getting larger and larger, making him resemble a pregnant woman on her 8th month.

After a few short moments of such an humiliating image to the emperor, the sponge stopped absorbing the elemental energy and began forcing itself through emperor Rawal's throat.

AAAAAAAA!!

Thud!!

At last, emperor Rawal managed to vomit it out forcefully even though he was paralyzed.

The pain was truly unimaginable...Emperor Rawal could only vent some of it through screaming in his mind.

Felix kicked the giant gooey substance inside the void rift and watched it disintegrate within a split second.

Then, he turned to emperor Rawal, who appeared to have lost his consciousness, and fed him just a tiny bit of elemental energy.

Enough to keep him conscious during their conversation.

...

In a short while, emperor Rawal regained his consciousness. This time, he wasn't mentally impaired by anything and his vision was crystal clear.

"Landlord?!" Stunned, he exclaimed after seeing Felix sitting in front of him while Mistress Candace was standing behind him.

So many questions coursed on his mind, but at the same time he felt that Felix being the progenitor was the most logical conclusion.

He always knew that he would be joining the war after finding out that Earth was protected heavily by the federation alliance.

Emperor Rawal never underestimated Felix or his organization. In fact, he rushed to kick-start this war just because he was fearful of his future.

Felix was about to start battling diamond ranked players, and no one knew whether he even reached origin realm or not.

Such a variable was too big to be left alone.

Yet, no matter how much he overestimated Felix, he never thought for a second that he was capable of kidnapping him in a blink of an eye.

"Just how?" Emperor Rawal forgot his pain, his anger, his fear, and everything else.

He just wanted to know how did Felix pull this of.

"I am the one asking questions." Felix ignored his inquiry and ordered him coldly, "End this war and I might give you a peaceful and proud death."

Emperor glanced at his AP bracelet and realized that it was taken from him.

Felix's wasn't dumb to leave the emperor's bracelet...It was traceable in emergencies, and he wanted to avoid dealing with the Royal Army now.

Emperor Rawal couldn't help but chuckle in derision.

His limbs were paralyzed by Felix's poison, his elemental energy had been sucked dry, and his AP bracelet was taken from him.

He was as hopeless as a sparrow without wings.

"I can only speak and move my eyes." Emperor Rawal snickered, "You can do whatever you want to me. Yet, you prefer not to answer a single question of mine?"

"You're afraid that by giving me time to think, I might just grow enough courage to blew my soul?"

Blowing one's soul truly took great guts.

After all, most people believed in the spirit realm in the universe even though they have never seen it.

The only way to enter it was by keeping your soul intact after dying.

Who would say no to the 'afterlife'?

Felix sighed and said, "You are still asking questions."

Before emperor Rawal could talk back, Felix's fingers started to sizzle with thin lines of electricity.

In a few moments, there were millions of those thin lines coursing through his arms.

Then, they slithered towards emperor Rawal's arms akin to little snakes. They covered his entire body and even went inside through his orifices.

"Are you going to surrender?" Felix asked again indifferently.

"You can't scare me with a bit of pain." Emperor Rawal sneered, feeling just ticklish by those electricity lines.

"Boy, the pain I have experienced in my journey can never be compared to anything you do t...AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Alas, his statement was cut in half by his agonizing high-pitched screech!

It was such a harrowing screech, anyone who heard it, would think that it came from a young woman.

A young woman with zero tolerance to pain instead of an origin bloodliner with one of the toughest pain tolerances in the galaxy!

"What did you to him?" Mistress Candace wondered in intrigue after seeing that emperor Rawal had passed out from the agony after a few seconds.

"Nothing much." Felix said nonchalantly while withdrawing the electricity snakes, "I just teased every single pain receptor in his body directly with electricity."

Mistress Candace shivered after imagining the same happening to her. Human bodies have 200 pain receptors for every square centimeter in their skin.

To target all of them at the same time required uncanny precision and knowledge of the human body.

"Wake him up." Felix said.

Mistress Candace stepped forth and slapped emperor Rawal a few times until he regained consciousness.

This time, emperor Rawal's expression was as ugly as it could get. He was sweating all over and his heartbeats was that of a sprinting hound.

The pain had finally set him straight.

"Will you surrender now?" Felix asked calmly.

Seeing that emperor Rawal wasn't talking, Felix snapped his finger and the same electrical thin lines appeared over his skin.

The moment emperor Rawal saw them, he shivered and spoke hastily, "I can surrender if my conditions were accepted."

"Speak." Felix decided to hear him out.

"I want to retain 20% of my territory and resources. My royal family will be spared. We will sign a contract that forbid you or the federation alliance from making a move on us for eternity." Emperor Rawal proposed.

He was a smart individual, who already realized that his empire was done for the moment he got caught.

Instead of getting tortured needlessly, better be done with it and make a deal to ensure his survival.

Unfortunately for him, his conditions were laughable in Felix's eyes.

"Here is my counter offer that isn't negotiable. You will get a single deserted planet at the outskirts of the empire, and you can't leave it. You will retain not a single item or coin. You can decide whether you want your family to live with you or not." Felix offered indifferently.

"You serious?" Emperor Rawal eyed Felix in disbelief.

"Dead serious."

20% territory? Retain resources? Remain untouched for eternity?

In Felix's eyes, he must have shocked him brainless with electricity to believe that his surrender valued that much.

Felix sought a surrender from him to end this war with less bloodshed than necessary. But, it didn't mean that he couldn't stomach massacring the Royal Army.

It was simply the last option.

Back in Dark Deviant, Mistress Candace was still reading the emperor's memories while Felix continued making sure that he remained unconscious.

'It's been more than twenty minutes.' Felix knitted his eyebrows, 'She said it will take at best ten minutes.'

'Give it time.' Asna said, 'It's difficult to read memories of someone who lived for tens of thousands of years without a clear filter.'

When Asna used to read Felix's memories, she always needed him to be exact on the date or the place where the memory happened.

Otherwise, she would be there for a long time.

Felix did give Mistress Candace a timeframe, where he believed that the emperor must have picked the ten leaders.

But, he might be wrong since he simply made an educated guess.

This might have been causing the delay.

...

After two hours, Mistress Candace finally opened her eyes.

"Are you alright?" Felix asked after seeing that she was dripping sweat like a fountain.

"I am just a little tired." Mistress Candace wiped her forehead, "It wasn't easy process and took way longer than I anticipated."

"Did you find anything?"

"Sorry, I found only nine names and locations." She apologized, "The last name was the cause of my delay. No matter where I looked, I didn't see the emperor mention it at all."

"It can't be!" Felix was devastated by the news. Without the tenth name, it would be useless to have the other nine as well.

You either kill them all or don't bother yourself.

"It seems like this old sack of bones is still caution enough to distance himself from one of the ten leaders." Asna said, "His subordinate or family must have been responsible for picking the tenth leader without informing him."

"No, no, no, it makes no sense." Felix refused to believe it, "This greedy bastard's ego knows no bounds. There is no way he will believe that someone will capture him alive and extract memories out of him."

Emperor Rawal was one of the strongest bloodliners in the empire.

Killing him should have been impossible by another origin bloodliner in the empire, don't even mention kidnapping him alive.

That's why he wasn't able to react when Felix and Mistress Candace popped out of nowhere. It was just unthinkable in the battleground.

In real world? Maybe, because there were many mysterious figures from uncanny races. But, this was the battleground, where every origin bloodliner was known and had his abilities studied.

"Well, I don't mind looking again after a quick break." Mistress Candace offered.

"No need." Felix shook his head, "If you didn't find it in the timeframe, then it must be either outside of it or not there at all as you mentioned. In both cases, it's impossible for you to find it."

Just like Asna mentioned, without a clear filter, it would take ages to find what he desired from reading memories.

"I will be using my truth inducement." Felix proposed with a serious tone.

With truth inducement, emperor would cough up anything that he knows as long as the dosage was potent enough to affect him.

After all, he was still a human and without mental or poison immunity.

The only issue with this method was the fact that the emperor would be self-conscious.

If he managed to break through Felix's inducement somehow and blew up his soul, it wouldn't be pretty for Felix.

"I have a plan to counter his soul explosion." Felix was always resourceful in stressful situations.

"How so?"

"We will make a void rift behind him." Felix disclosed, "If we noticed any hint that he planned to blow up, we will kick him inside and close the rift."

"Hmm, that's a good idea. But, his explosion might harm the void raccoons." Mistress Candace said.

"You are right." Felix nodded.

The explosion would be enough to wipe out a quarter of his army and that's while inside the void realm.

Not planning to risk it, Felix made Nimo order the void creatures to travel away from the blast zone.

In a short while, Felix saw that the coast was clear in the void realm.

"Let's begin."

Felix pumped out a small white liquid sphere from his palm.

He made another one and merged them together. Instead of growing bigger, the sphere actually shrunk but got darker.

Now, it resembled a gray golf ball. Soon, he mixed it with paralyze inducement, so the emperor wouldn't be making trouble.

"I am always fascinated by your poison manipulation." Mistress Candace praised sincerely.

She knew that for a human, any type of elemental manipulation was extremely difficult to master.

After all, they weren't like the half-serpent with high affinity to poison, or red dragons with high affinity to fire...etc

So, to see Felix able to liquify poison and condense it into a ball in less than a few seconds was a feat that should be celebrated.

"Thank you." Felix smiled in appreciation while making another dosage for emergencies.

The tenants in his mind had a terrible high standard to be met, making it hard for Felix to earn a few praises over his hard work.

So, it felt quite nice to have someone finally recognizing his immense efforts.

"Can you make the void rift?" Felix requested.

Mistress Candace opened one behind the emperor without questions asked.

Felix made a small cut on the emperor's arm and injected the full dosage of truth inducement.

Then, he made him sit on a chair and retrieved his hypotension inducement from his bloodstream.

With his external manipulation and close range to an open wound, it wasn't that hard.

After he detoxified his bloodstream, he noticed that his blood pressure was on the rise.

This entailed that he would be gaining consciousness soon.

"Be prepared to close the rift." Felix warned one last time before focusing on the emperor's twitching eyelids.

A few moments later, the emperor opened his muddled eyes and stared at Felix and Mistress Candace.

Alas, his vision was too blurry and shaky to see their faces.

'Where am I? Who are those two? What's happening to me...' Emperor Rawal felt like his head was about to split apart.

The only thing he was able to do was ask questions in his mind like he wasn't in control of his body anymore.

"What's your full name?" Felix started the interrogation after seeing emperor Rawal's state.

'Name? Who are those clowns! Why am I paralyzed?!'

"My..my..Name is Rawal Norfolk the Third." Emperor Rawal stuttered an answer.

'What!? Why did I say that! Am I poisoned?' Emperor Rawal's thought process was thrown into chaos after hearing himself.

It seemed like Felix's dose was enough to get answers but not enough to cause a mental blackout.

Felix didn't care as much and continued asking basic questions. Emperor Rawal kept answering truthfully against his own will.

Because he was experiencing an agonizing headache due to the truth inducement, he was finding it harder to recall anything from his memories.

If he couldn't even think properly, there was no way he could activate an ability.

"Tell me the ten names of the assigned leaders and their locations."

However, the moment Felix asked this question, the kidnapping memory was triggered forcefully.

'It's them!' Emperor Rawal seethed in his mind after recalling what happened.

However, that anger was soon turned into fear. Two individuals manged to kill his right-hand man and kidnap him in a second.

No origin bloodliner in the galaxy was capable of doing that.

'Who are those monsters and why are they even allowed to join the battleground!'

While he was questioning Queen's decision to let them inside the battleground, his mouth was giving out information about the ten leaders akin to a professional snitch.

"Thomas Sinai, he lives in slums of district nine in the entertainment hub. He is short, has a brown hair, green eyes, and crooked teeth."

"And?" Felix knitted his eyebrows after emperor Rawal stopped speaking after reaching the 9th assigned leader.

"Samar Mollan, she live..."

"F*ck!"

Felix cursed in irritation after realizing that he was about recycle through the names again.

This signified that he truly had no idea about the tenth leader!

"Why don't you know about it?!" Felix asked him with a pissed tone.

"Commander Hade advised that I let him pick the tenth leader." Emperor Rawal spoke truthfully with a dazed look, "I didn't care too much about the ten leaders and just allowed him to do as he pleased."

"F***CK!" Felix wanted to punch the emperor Rawal hard on his face for his retarded over-confidence.

Emperor Rawal clearly never doubted for a second that he would lose the war.

Since the ten leaders was the worst possible method to win a war, he honestly didn't give too much of hoot about them.

He picked nine trusted people and hid them thoroughly on location that only he knew about it.

Unless the alliance federation managed to destroy those nine planets or slaughter everyone on them, there was no way to find them.

So, when his commander asked him to give him the right to pick a tenth leader, he didn't give a shit.

Hell, he didn't even bother to ask him about the person he picked.

Felix was right, Emperor Rawal wasn't caution enough to believe that someone could extract the Intel out of him.

But he did ruin Felix's original plan by simply being himself.

"God damn it!"

Remembering the blown up head of commander Hade made Felix even more pissed.

This time, he was pissed at himself for not kidnapping them both and being done with it.

Though, it would be harder to achieve so without some struggle.

Felix didn't want to give emperor Rawal even a second to activate any ability.

"Don't beat yourself up too much." Asna comforted him, "Who would believe that the commander knows a leader's name that wasn't known to this egoistic emperor?"

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