“Damn it! Close the door quickly!” The Alien Parasite immediately realized it had been tricked and shouted, using a Mental Shock to slow down Jayad. It was their fastest move, and they would rather die trapped in this world than let Jayad escape.
However, it was all in vain. Jayad was still in his Angel Form, his mental strength unaffected by a mere group of Alien Parasites. He directly charged towards the portal.
At this moment, the controllers outside also reacted. They frantically tried to close the door, and the portal began to shrink. The pressure from the spatial rift caused one Alien Parasite, halfway through, to be torn to shreds on the spot.
But as Jayad passed through, his tentacles and wings spread, creating a peculiar fluctuation that forcefully pushed back the closing portal, even widening it slightly.
Just like that, Older Brother Jayad forcibly pulled us three out. The moment he left, the door behind him slammed shut, trapping the remaining Alien Parasites in the sealed space, unable to escape.
As soon as I got out, I looked around. We were in a large office. The Alien Parasites that had come out earlier, along with those still in the office, Suited and booted and maintaining their human host appearance, stared at us blankly, seemingly unsure of what to do for a moment.
An overwhelming sense of shame washed over me because I was currently in a very embarrassing pose, like a dog bowing, albeit in mid-air. Sherris and Via weren’t in much better situations.
Older Brother Jayad had led us out in this very posture, and I felt like I was on a rollercoaster ride, full of exhilaration.
“You!” The Alien Parasites outside immediately reached for their weapons. Some pulled out silver bells from their waists, others grabbed a gun from an office drawer, and some drew a cleaver.
But their movements were too slow. Older Brother Jayad had already regained partial consciousness and could distinguish friend from foe. He attacked simultaneously while the Alien Parasites were still fumbling for their weapons.
A dozen tentacles shot out instantly, piercing the bodies of all the Alien Parasites in the office. Most of them were casters, with weaker close-combat and reaction capabilities. Some who tried to dodge were also impaled by the tentacles that unexpectedly curved and followed them.
“Hoo~” A dark yellow, ethereal wind accompanying the tentacles blew past, and their bodies rapidly shriveled, turning into mummified corpses in a short time.
Some Alien Parasites even tried to escape by crawling out of their host bodies, but it was useless. As the yellow wind blew, they too turned into dried squid.
Perhaps as revenge for their earlier focused attack using the Decay Spell, Older Brother Jayad also used Hastur’s Wind, giving them a similar fate.
In just an instant, Older Brother Jayad annihilated all the Alien Parasites present, leaving only the continuous cries of three girls in the office.
Just as I was about to ask Older Brother Jayad to stop, the Mental Link, which had been interrupted by being separated into the sealed space, reconnected. It was Sebastian contacting me.
“Parul? Finally, I’m connected! You’ve been gone for so long. If those New Energy Company executives hadn’t descended into chaos, I would have thought you were missing. Where did you go?” Sebastian asked anxiously as soon as the call connected.
“Sebastian? I, um, yeah! I’m not very convenient right now, uh! Brother, slow down. Is everything alright on your end?” I stammered.
“We’re fine. Those executives suddenly flew into a rage, saying something happened at the factory and suspected us. But we firmly denied it and pretended we didn’t know anything. They seemed very anxious too… Hmm? Why are there strange noises from your side? Are you in combat?” Sebastian asked with doubt.
“No, it’s nothing. You guys hide first, have the factory employees retreat, and ensure their safety,” I instructed, suppressing the strange feeling.
“Okay! Also, while I was prying, I learned from them that Pierce might be here. They have a technical consultant in the experimental zone, but it’s said that a special key card is needed to enter…”
Sebastian was only halfway through his sentence when I forcibly ended the call. It wasn’t that I was being impolite, but if we had continued the call for a few more seconds, I feared I wouldn’t be able to resist screaming out loud.
The intelligence Sebastian gathered would have been very useful before, but unfortunately, I already knew everything now, even obtaining the so-called key, the five eyes.
After hanging up, I could no longer bear it and turned to scold, “Are you done? Stop it quickly! Brother, you’ve regained consciousness, right?”
However, the situation was different from what I had imagined. Older Brother Jayad had not fully regained his sanity. He was still in his incomplete Angel Form. Although the resonance with a higher-dimensional plane was gone, he didn’t seem to have regained his sanity either.
His eyes still held a fervent possessiveness as he looked at me, growling incomprehensible words, or rather, words that couldn’t form a language, though I could vaguely hear him calling my name.
“Sister Parul, n-not yet. Indulgence is about letting all desires run wild until satisfied. Giving up halfway is absolutely not an option,” Sherris said intermittently.
I had indeed heard Lorna mention that the way to recover sanity through indulgence was complete self-abandonment, releasing all the pressure in one’s heart, such as getting drunk at a bar or singing and dancing to one’s heart’s content at a nightclub.
“No way?! Then how long will this last?” I asked helplessly. Older Brother Jayad seemed to show no signs of fatigue.
“Wuu! This, Big Brother? Sister Parul, Sherris, why are you also…? What exactly is going on now?” Soon, Via woke up. It would have been difficult for her not to wake up given such intense combat.
Her memory should only go as far as fighting side by side with Older Brother Jayad, then being affected by the eyeballs and going mad. When she woke up, she had already become this way.
Sherris and I could only explain briefly to Via what had happened after she went mad. She had memories of herself going mad, up until she sustained severe burns, jumped in, and lost consciousness.
The three of us could only maintain our very awkward positions while explaining to Via what had happened to her. The faces of the three girls were flushed red with embarrassment.
However, at this moment, I noticed that the temperature in the office was rapidly increasing, and faint flames were emanating from the magic circle on the ground where the portal had been. Heavenly Fire was about to burn through the sealed space and emerge.
“Brother! How much longer are you going to keep this up?!” I couldn’t take it anymore and slapped his leopard-like head.
