Psychokinetic Eyeball Pulling

Chapter 186: Mind Assault

Although Astrid wasn’t entirely content with the answers she was given, she managed to piece most of it together. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on shrouded plots, or reasons as to why the high noble in front of her had committed a crime against humanity.

She had to fight.

The mana within Earl Kamron’s body surged outward. Astrid's could be described as chaotic, aggressive, and primal. Earl Kamron’s was… disgusting, but immensely powerful.

Just like the other corrupted, his body started to change. Astrid twitched her brows, and sent a constant stream of [Crashes] against his body. Within her Mind Domain–they powered to the extreme. Each one blasted the man’s body into the distance, only for the next detonation to shift his momentum, and take him in another direction entirely.

The Earl attempted to move, but it was pointless. This was Astrid’s Domain. She kept him in the air as she commanded the world to change around her. Buildings with spikes covering them were erected in seconds. His spinning body slammed into the created obstacles, as her [Crashes] followed his wrecked frame throughout.

There was nowhere to run. Nowhere to escape to.

Astrid threw his body like a ragdoll, and in an instant, erected a Psychokinetically enhanced spike from mid-air. It was connected to nothing, and it was only the result of her Domain. It pierced Kamron’s shoulder, but there was no blood.

He dangled for a moment, before Astrid sent another [Crash] against his body. The impact tore him free from the spike, but at great devastation to his entire shoulder. The slender spike sliced him from the chest, and through the bones of his shoulder.

The whites of his frame were displayed, but still no blood. It was as if his anatomy was already dead. The flesh underneath was almost grey, if not for a few mottled spots still showing a small glistening pink.

Wasting no more time, she created her clone, and began generating a void bullet. She had to form it with both hands over and under each-other, but the power was more than worth it.

With her main body still exploding Earl Kamron as if he was a puppet under her control, her clone let the fully formed bullet fly free. It shot through the air as a glistening purple trailed behind its blazing fast trajectory. The air surrounding it was caught in a blazing, primal inferno as it struck Earl Kamron faster than she could blink her eyes.

However, no System Notification arrived.

Astrid witnessed the man holding the bullet with one hand in surprise, and shock. From before Astrid had begun her attack, he was unrecognisable. His flesh was torn into a mangled mess, but underneath, was a new, second skin. Or more accurately–scales.

Not only that, but he had four arms, a tail, large swooping horns, and his previous slicked back hair now reached past his knees. He was a demon. Despite all the wounds, there wasn’t a single sight of blood. No, it seemed to have all been diverted into his brain somehow as his eyes dripped red in a constant, slow stream.

Just from his build alone, Astrid could tell he was immensely powerful. It seemed his previous words of turning a mage into a fighting hybrid wasn’t just bravado. He had done it. He had perfected himself, at the loss of any semblance of humanity.

Astrid didn’t care for his strength. She would fight him regardless.

“Thanks for stripping me of my useless flesh.” Earl Kamron, or whatever he was now, craned his neck as a few pops followed.

“You talk too much.” Astrid snarled. “Just die.”

As her words finished, she sent high powered [Crashes] against his body, and at the same time–pulled his eyes with a mighty yank of psychic energy. She could tell her blasts of energy didn’t do much to the evolved human, but the eyes were a surprisingly different story.

She felt movement within them. As if she was capable of pulling them out from his skull all at once, but a brutal impact pounded her into the distance.

Astrid was about to crash into a spiked building, but with a flick of her mind, the structure of brick, and metal, transformed into an oversized pillow made of the finest materials. Her body sank into the pillow, then with a puff of air, it vanished.

Despite it breaking her hectic careening through the air. Astrid spat out a mouthful of blood.

Taking a quick glance, she saw that his newly formed tail had grown thicker, and longer. It whipped through the air by his side, causing it to tear under its might. It was clear his strength was at an unfathomable height.

But with all the buffs to her Mind Domain–so was hers.

If it was just his strength to deal with, it would be manageable, but he hadn’t even used his magic yet. And if he still had it, then that meant–

A projectile shot toward her and slammed into her Mind Barrier. Two layers instantly shattered. The last one remained for a millisecond before it tore through it all the same. Astrid raised her Voidbent metal arms as it smashed against her body. This time–she was ready.

[Crashing] the back of her body in little bursts, she stopped her backward momentum. Ice covered her arms, but with a tense, she broke free of its restraints. More were coming.

In a constant stream, ice spikes were launched at her as if they were spears. Astrid dodged most of them, and with concentrating on her Mind Barrier, the others left dents within the different layers.

She had heard rumours of his famed ice magic, but right now it seemed to lack… flair. There was no creativity. He just simply relied on his level advantage, and high intelligence stat. To Astrid–it was just childsplay.

Let’s begin operation screw mana. Astrid thought, and tore out her own eye. She flung it in the distance, along with her clone’s, then blinked.

She instantly changed positions, and immediately counter-attacked. Blast of energy after blast, she rocked his body, and each time, attempted to pull out his eyes. She was getting close.

The blood from his eyes had turned from a slow stream, to a cascading waterfall. Every attack, she loosened them ever so slightly. And with her erratic movement, he was unable to turn the tide of battle.

It was evident to her that he was attempting to read what eyeball she would blink to, but Astrid hand blanketed them in countless illusions. Which one was real? Which one was fake? He had no way of knowing.

Astrid blinked once more and this time, it was a stronger attack than all before it. Her clone formed a lance of void energy.

Kamron attempted to halt her, but Astrid wouldn’t allow it. She warped the surroundings to her benefit. To the point he had no knowledge as to where her clone even was. He was just like all the corrupted before him. Sure, he was the creator, but he was blinded by hatred, and disease. He couldn’t think straight and she took advantage of it to its limits.

Against a psychic whose mind was clear as the centre of a storm, it spelled death.

Astrid released the attack just like the bullet before it, but this time it was multiple times bigger. Like a phantom, it tore through his body with minimal effort. She tried to [Crash] it like she had managed a few times before, but she missed.

She wasn’t too bothered, as the attack she had just fired was enough to defeat any enemy she had met during her travels so far.

But clearly the altered body of Earl Kamron was tougher than she expected. Her void lance had bored a hole through his chest. The strings of his heart were visible, yet he just wiped the blood from his face as if it didn’t bother him. Not only that–his eyes had cleared.

No longer were they filled with madness, but they had reverted back to the first time they had entered Astrid’s Mind Domain.

“I got carried away–”

Astrid interrupted him with another pull of his eyes. And finally, one popped out of its socket. She tried to haul it further, but before she could break the optical nerve–he moved.

Almost in a blink of an eye, he reached her. However this time, he didn’t just simply rely on his overwhelming physical might, but also his magic. A layer of frost covered his frame, and as he was readying his attack in front of her, she could feel her movements become slowed. But so was he.

Void Graviton took effect as it pulled him down, but his was just as strong–if not even more powerful.

Frost latched onto the front of her body as if he was radiating the frigid cold from his very figure.

Frowning, Astrid exhaled a deep breath, then fired it forward. It blasted Astrid back, but Earl Kamron's breath was hot on her neck.

His tail slammed at her, but she blinked once again, and returned with a few attacks of her own. This time, they were more varied. Bullets, lances, whips. They all slammed into the corrupted man, and gradually, they were dealing damage.

Astrid tried to blink to change her position once more, but his tail screamed through the air. As if it teleported, it impacted against her shield. Her body became weightless. Something snapped within her, even despite her voidbent armoured shell, but she was too concentrated to feel anything. Her mind was thinking two steps ahead–or trying to–anyway.

Instead of cushioning her fall like last time, she instead braced for impact, and smashed through the enormous building at her back.

Earl Kamron followed. He obliterated a piece of falling debris with his horned head, and just as he was about to approach Astrid–she grinned.

The mask on her face smiled from ear-to-ear. Fool. Astrid chuckled as the entire broken building became a weapon of her creation. Spikes, arrows, high speed debris. They all turned into her personal artillery as her mana surged outward.

Her right eye stung, but she willed even more mana through it than she had ever managed before. She wondered if it was just her hearing things, but she swore she could hear the static of electricity as her mana groaned in protest. Ignoring it, the building's defences became even more savage.

Rotating blades sliced into his corrupted flesh, debris acted like bullets as they tore holes into his body, and the falling glass were like phantom images as they sliced across the weaknesses in his natural armour.

His speed fell, and so did his struggle.

Astrid used the opportunity to constrict his body with Psychokinetically enhanced vines from the jungle of Eyamos, then fired void attack after void attack against his body.

After a few more gruelling minutes, he was dead.