Chapter 258: Dekan is Powerless to Resist |
Cornelia was treating herself like she was huffing a cat?!
Although Dekan, as a familiar, currently gained a 10% boost from Cornelia's power.
No matter how hard he struggled.
He only felt that the bones under Cornelia's soft skin were like steel, impossible to push even a millimeter.
That was absolute strength, controlling his body firmly like holding a toy.
"Cornelia! Wake up quickly!"
Dekan shouted anxiously while trying to push Cornelia away.
He had never panicked before.
In Dekan's previous experiences, no matter how panicked he looked, his heart was actually as steady as an old dog.
But now.
He was really a bit panicked.
The situation was very serious!
Because Cornelia burying her head in Dekan's neck wasn't obediently sensing Dekan's scent.
She was doing something Dekan hadn't expected.
Dekan only felt a strange coolness on his neck, which had become ticklish.
That electric shock-like sensation spread along his spine to inside his skull, making his cheeks numb.
"Stop it quickly, Cornelia!!!"
Dekan completely realized the severity of the matter.
In Dekan's field of vision, apart from Cornelia's red hair strands, he couldn't see what Cornelia was doing with her head buried in his neck.
But through his perception, Dekan was incomparably convinced that Cornelia was doing some dangerous actions.
Cornelia showed no sign of stopping immediately.
She hugged Dekan tighter and tighter, gradually showing a tendency to hold him completely.
Due to Dekan's current constitution, plus the influence of [Three Corpses Berserk].
The current Cornelia, to some extent, was already somewhat similar to a charmed state.
But it wasn't a charm state, so it couldn't be easily lifted through purification.
Dekan recalled what happened in the room to those two ladies affected by [Three Corpses Berserk] in the Shadow World [Shadow World: Mysterious Figure in the Barren Mountain’s Blizzard] back then...
He was really scared.
Sometimes, once a train starts moving, it's impossible to stop just because one says stop.
If Cornelia completely lost control, the consequences would be unimaginable!
He was still broadcasting!
At this time, if he cut off the broadcast, whatever happened later would be inexplicable!
So taking advantage of the fact that the audience's perspective couldn't clearly see what Cornelia was doing to him, and the broadcast was still salvageable, Dekan's first reaction was to try to wake Cornelia up.
At the same time, Dekan felt burning anger in his heart.
Damned Morion!
He has done every bad thing possible!!!
This time he was really pitted into a problem by Morion.
[Sleep Gas] appeared in Dekan's hand and he activated it, holding his breath at the same time, trying to knock Cornelia out.
However, Cornelia held her breath as if by conditioned reflex.
Dekan: "?"
No way, Cornelia?
In the second following Dekan's shock, he completely understood the reason.
Dekan had taught Cornelia long ago that once [Sleep Gas] is released, hold your breath!
Cornelia seemed to feel uncomfortable holding her breath.
So she hugged Dekan and jumped away from the place filled with poison gas.
Although Dekan was panicked, he wasn't completely panicked.
Because he still had a card that could break free from Cornelia's hands.
Determining that [Sleep Gas] couldn't deal with Cornelia, Dekan immediately used the crooked-mouth [Captain De’erkan].
This card could successfully taunt friendly forces!
Dekan couldn't help thanking Tata in his heart for making this snake-skin card; it could always save him in unexpected places.
Unfortunately, an accident happened again.
Although Cornelia had fallen into a state similar to being charmed.
The tacit understanding between her and Dekan, as well as her combat instinct, seemed to operate automatically without going through the brain.
She consistently refused to lift her head to look at [Captain De’erkan]!
Dekan: "??"
Dekan suddenly realized.
Cornelia understood him too well.
If there was one person in the world who could solo kill him.
Then it must be Cornelia.
Or rather, Cornelia was the person in the world who knew how to counter Dekan best.
Dekan's old foundation had been seen through by Cornelia!
If a fight really broke out.
As long as Cornelia didn't hurt Dekan but locked him firmly in her arms, Dekan had no way to break free; he had almost no chance to use pain feedback to knock Cornelia out.
Mana Burn was even more out of the question; Cornelia basically didn't use summons much, and even if she did, it was the low-consumption [Captain De’erkan].
"Cornelia... sorry... I have to knock you out!"
Dekan was extremely unwilling to hurt Cornelia.
But if he didn't knock Cornelia out now, in another ten minutes or so, the one being knocked out might be him.
Because Dekan felt the mint-cool yet slightly liquor-hot stinging sensation on his neck seemed to start shifting!
Cornelia would probably be unsatisfied with the status quo soon and start new movements.
According to Dekan's previous experiments.
To lift the influence of [Three Corpses Berserk], either wait for the target's desire to be satisfied, or let time pass naturally.
But how long this would take was hard to say; it depended on the target's mental state.
Besides that, either knocking the target out or causing severe pain to the target could also make them sober up.
Now the only card Dekan could use against Cornelia was [Mental Impact].
Cornelia seemed to act out of combat instinct again.
Just when Dekan was about to trigger [Mental Impact], she reached out and choked Dekan's wrist, knocking the card in his hand to the ground.
Dekan: "???"
Isn't this the end?!
No.
Dekan realized he seemed too optimistic before.
He was finally convinced now.
From the moment he was locked by Cornelia at zero distance, he was actually already in a defeated state.
If she really had malicious intentions towards him.
Except for letting her slaughter him.
Any struggle was ineffective!
Dekan's biggest mistake was trusting lightly that Morion wouldn't pit him at this juncture.
Although Dekan guarded against Morion.
But Dekan always thought about when Morion might pit him.
He didn't need to fight wits and courage with the air in places where Morion was unlikely to pit him.
Doing so would only increase internal friction and infinitely increase the difficulty of achieving goals.
But Dekan really couldn't figure out why Morion wanted to pit him now!
It didn't fit Morion's profiteer mindset at all!
Purely harming others without benefiting oneself!!
Except for harvesting Dekan's anger and revenge, he wouldn't get anything.
"Cornelia, please wake up quickly!! I will never use [Three Corpses Berserk] again!!!"
Dekan was finally anxious, even his eyes were somewhat despairing, looking up and shouting with a broken voice.
For the first time in his long life, he felt true fear.