"Your incredulous progress comes at a cost, you know. House Remus will retaliate hard after this."
Eren nodded at Alephee when he heard her. Then he just shrugged his shoulders before responding from his seated position.
"It wasn't like they weren't gunning for me and my city before. Nothing really changed for me."
Eren said and got up from his position. He reverted to his normal self and ripped off his shirt which had been ruined because of his breakthrough. His slim but muscular torso was soon covered with different clothing.
Alephee watched him change while speaking up.
"Yes. The retaliation was bound to happen. But you killed the two members of House Remus knowing they were associated with that guy Demonmir. If things we have gathered about him are true, then he'd see that as an insult to his name.
You should expect an entire Edinburgh army to stand against you when your exit mission is assigned to you. His influence in the army is not something you can take lightly of."
Eren started walking out of the cave he had created when he heard Alephee who was walking beside him. He smirked before commenting.
"Hahaha. An entire army, you say? You are just exaggerating to keep me grounded.
But it doesn't matter anyway if that had been true."
Eren said and looked at Alephee knowingly.
"Why do you say that?" Alephee asked with raised eyebrows.
"Because if they have an army, I have you.
Because if they have an army, I have one of my own.
And lastly, if they have an army, I can always count on myself."
Eren laughed and walked ahead, leaving Alephee frozen in her steps.
"Besides…"
Alephee listened to Eren's voice as he continued walking.
"Who gives a hairy rat's ass to Demonmir? When the time comes, I'll rip him a new one too."
Eren said and lightning struck. He disappeared from his position. Alephee shook her head and smiled before following him right afterward.
***
Next day. White Raven guild's underground facility.
"Who are you?"
Eren asked the female ranker that had been caught by Kirin. She was made to sit inside an imprisoning array, which had restricted all her movements. Her mana circuits were constantly agitated by external influence, making her unable to cast her spells.
"Sir, this is a misunderstanding. My name is Ayena…"
She was interrupted before she could finish her lies.
"Let me warn you before you lie to me. I don't like to brag, but I am very proficient at torture methods.
Trust me. You don't want to find out what I'll do to you if you give me a reason to."
Eren sat down on a chair and adjusted himself. He spread his legs and leaned forward with one of his arms resting on his knees. He inhaled a large dose of his Sativa Stick before slowly releasing it to create smoke rings to entertain himself.
The female ranker had a terrified expression on her face. But Eren could tell she wasn't really afraid of him or about the idea of what might happen to her. It could only mean that she was driven by a cause greater than her own well-being. And the butcher wanted to find out what it was.
"Okay. You got me. You are Eren Idril, right? My name is Chayim…"
As the female ranker started to lie again, Eren spread his soul sense. He overwhelmed her consciousness easily and subjected her to a sense of extreme dread.
The female ranker felt like she was in a quagmire that was actively trying to bury her inside it. She felt like she had been turned into a creature of wrath and running aimlessly on land made of half-solid lava.
Her skin started to develop blisters due to extreme heat and her lungs were filled with sulfur gas. Her eyes started burning as if lava was pouring out of the tear ducts.
Her consciousness was then pulled into a world of indescribable bliss and pleasure. She was so overwhelmed by the feelings of lust that she started getting scared of it. As if she subconsciously knew that these heightened feelings might break her as a sane person.
Her consciousness lasted in the world of lust for what felt like an eternity to her. And somehow it also felt like her time was cut short inside. She has been pulled into a world full of creatures of wrath once again.
Eren's soul sense carried the mark of Seven Sins on it. As a result, his soul senses would often subject people to such hallucinations whenever he attacked them with them.
Eren walked up to the female ranker and placed his free hand on her head while she was subjected to his soul sense. He used his rare bloodline Ability that Reen had used on Jules once.
Memory Extraction!
Eren's hand turned into a slime-like mass that covered the female ranker's head entirely, leaving only two openings for her nostrils so that she could breathe. He then closed his eyes and tried to read her most recent memories.
Zinn!
Eren's slimy hand was pushed away as some form of magic barrier appeared covering the female ranker's brain. The slime mass that had covered her head was repelled with overwhelming force. The butcher's hand took a while to regenerate from the dispersed slime mass.
"Hm? What just happened?"
Eren asked, looking at the female ranker with curious expressions. She had indeed extracted some surface-level fresh memories. But when he tried to dig deep, some form of mechanism acted against his Ability.
'This lass resisted my Ability when she was affected by my soul sense? This doesn't add up.'
Eren thought to himself. Alephee appeared beside him when he was about to try his Ability on the female ranker once again.
"Don't. A Grandmaster-ranked entity has placed countermeasures against anyone who tries to read her memories.
This time she would die by getting brain dead if you tried your luck one more time."
Alephee spoke and put her hand on the female ranker's head. Eren was instructed to retract his soul sense after she closed her eyes.
The female ranker took her time to stabilize her condition and open her eyes once again.
"You…"
The female ranker looked at Eren with mixed emotions as she tried to recall what had happened since she was imprisoned. Eren felt the female ranker's heart was still beating relatively faster.
He also smelled some vaginal discharge from the female ranker, indicating that the Sin of Lust had affected her.
"What... what the fuck have you done to me?"
AN: Memory Extraction Ability was first mentioned in chapter 109.
