He had sothing to take care of the situation right now.
While he thought about what he was going to do next, Amanda kept blabbering like a mindless robot who only knew one thing... answer her owner.
"I wanted your family to destroy themselves by their own hands. That's why I readily agreed when you said you wanted to go and hunt down the church on your own and it saved a lot of trouble, else I'd have to bring in the fake priestess by myself. But I couldn't leave everything to chance, so I tried to take over your mind as well but for so reason, it didn't work... that's when I decided I needed to play along with you for a bit more...
Once you captured Alice and the interrogation started, I used my powers once again to take control over one of the guards inside the room and instructed him to shoot Alice in the head, before you used any skill to make her talk. I didn't know whether you have an ability to do that or not, but I didn't want to take any chances."
Amanda stopped for a brief mont, the throat was dried up, she gulped her saliva before starting once again, but Arnold wasn't listening to her, instead, he was grabbing sothing from his inventory.
"What I didn't know was that you could resurrect soone upon your will and at that mont I panicked, thinking that if you resurrect her, she might regain her mories... and would out my secret. That's when I decided to put everyone present in the room under my control and tried to stop you, but you didn't listen and went ahead with it despite the protest from the others..."
"Five... minutes... more," Natasha mumbled, her expression changed. She was doing the best she could to maintain her control over Amanda, but there was a limit to what one could do and Natasha was already at her limit.
"It's alright." Arnold replied, "Just remind when you have about a minute left... it'll then let's see what this b*tch has to say for herself..."
"You can imagine how surprised and relieved I was, when she couldn't rember anything about ... maybe that bullet inside her head did sothing or maybe it was sothing else. I was safe and it was all that mattered. After that, all I needed to do was to make Allen act like he had been caught red-handed and all you imdiately decided he was the real culprit." Amanda chuckled excitedly, "But I can't believe no one ever asked why that man suddenly decided to kill Alice, not even you, Mr self-proclaid Hols, and all of you automatically assud Allen made the man do sothing like that through blackmailing or sothing."
Then she stopped again. Her mouth was completely dry, she couldn't even drink her saliva anymore, but Natasha forced her to speak regardless of her dry mouth.
"Everything was going according to plan to now. The next day the delegates arrived to interrogate him. I had already inford Elena about the situation and told her to prepare accordingly. I was sure the Black Family was going to end soon but then everything fell apart..."
Arnold knew exactly why Amanda said that. It was because she hadn't expected Nathan to know about the beast crystals they had been hoarding away to experint on their 'test subjects'.
"Not only did he knew about the crystals, but he also had his suspicions on what we were doing with it... that damned bitch Elena couldn't even hide a simple thing from him." She wanted to spit her disgust out but she couldn't, "It would've been alright if he only knew that much but he knew more... he knew about our relationship with Devon and how both of us were getting benefited by the monster outbreaks and evolution. As much as I hate to admit it... I underestimated the Black Family. I needed to take control over him too but I had already reached the limit for my mind-controlling ability when I decided to control everyone during Alice's interrogation so I couldn't do it and what was supposed to be an easy victory turned into a gut-wrenching defeat.
Not only Nathan managed to save his family from getting disgraced and being outcasted, but he also managed to turn the tables on us."
"One... minute... left..."
"Keep going," Arnold replied and fetched a flask from his inventory, he knew exactly what he was going to do with Amanda once she was done spewing crap about everything.
"...I ended up destroying my own family..."
Amanda mumbled as the blue glow within her eyes started to fade. The sa thing happened with Natasha, but it was much worse for her. She was completely drained of mana, she fell backwards as Amanda slowly regained her consciousness.
She half-heartedly opened her eyes, as if she didn't want that illusion to stop, but once her eyes were open, she saw the smiling face of the man whom she had already killed nurous tis and in nurous ways... but there he was... standing tall and proud, not even a single scratch on his body.
She leapt in the air as if a firecracker had gone off, gave out a hideous shriek. Wild-eyed, bewildered, her nostrils were flaring but blood had drained from her face, mouth opening and shutting like a goldfish with no sound coming out because her mouth was too dry to do anything, she stood still as a statue, her face stuck in an incredulous expression, unblinkingly staring at Arnold in disbelief... how was he alive!?
Then she turned around to see the feminine winged creature was lying unconscious on the table. She imdiately knew it was a succubus, after that it took her a mont to figure out what had happened... she, the master of mind control, had been tricked by a re monster. There was no worse way than that to get humiliated by soone... She felt like she was cheated on by her spouse, only it was much worse.
What she was feeling was hate. Due to a lack of better words, hate was often compared to anger and betrayal. 'Hate' is a word that people use lightly. "Oh, I hate it when..." "I hate that..." but hate; hate is truly indescribable. But at that mont hate had been personified in Amanda.
Her eyes started glowing once again, she was going to kill him this ti for sure, but even in the face of the danger, Arnold was as calm as a monk, his smile never left his face. For a mont she felt sothing other than hate and anger within herself... it was fear.
She was afraid because she knew unlike her, he already had a plan in his head, because if he didn't then he would already kill her while she was trapped in the illusion... or maybe this was an illusion as well? Although he had regained her senses, she was still having a hard ti comprehending what was real and what was an illusion.
At that mont she recalled sothing that her brother, the sa brother whom she sacrificed for her ambitions, had told her regarding how he felt while confronting the monsters.
"I'm scared, ready to run away at any mont. But I can't show it to everyone else around , because if their leader was afraid of the monsters, then who would lead them to victory?" He said, "But being afraid or scared has its pros as well, for it is fear that brings rage, that hot burning anger that seeks to harm. So say it is a biological switch inside the human brain that's better left alone, but I digress. When we see sothing that frightens us, a primitive part of the brain is activated to produce aggression and it is that aggression which if used can lead you to victory!"
'Even in death, you're just a nuisance.' Amanda thought and got ready to erase Arnold's very existence, but before she could do anything, he disappeared from her sight.
"Am I still trapped in that monster's illusion?" she mumbled while trying to trace Arnold.
"No, you're not," Arnold's voice echoed through the room, "You're just slow."
While Amanda was under Natasha's illusion, Arnold had already asked about her weakness, one of them was agility. She had inford him that, in order to harm or control soone, she had to maintain eye contact with them for about five to ten seconds. And it was enough for Arnold to gain an upper-hand on his opponent.
While Amanda was clueless staring at him, he had already prepared a plan to get rid of which he put into action the mont Amanda's eyes started glowing.
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Please select a summon whose attribute you would like to obtain temporarily :
• [Duke] : Accuracy (ACC) 85
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• [Asterios] : Strength (STR) 100
• [Dread] : Strength (STR) 135
• [Natasha] : Mystic (MYS) 20
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