Chapter 27: Michael’s Third Form

In those fleeting fractions of a second in which the two demon servants turned their heads to see the source of the sudden movement in the corridor, Elliot acted with a suicidal intuition stemming from absolute panic!

She activated her skill with all the mental power she possessed, and in the blink of an eye, her frame shrank to return with lightning speed to its full female form, while her trembling hand succeeded in pulling the ceramic cup and hiding it with a smooth movement between the folds of her loose clothing before the servants’ eyes completely settled upon her.

However, the major crisis was represented in that the transformation was not instantaneous enough to block vision entirely; for the two servants caught sight of Elliot for a fraction of a second while she was in a strange, fluctuating form combining roughness and softness, before her features completely settled on the female body!

On the other side, Michael froze in his position in front of the door, and his pupils dilated in astonishment while staring at Elliot, who was now standing in front of them. He opened his mouth in silent denial, nearly collapsing mentally under the weight of the shock! Literally.. Elliot had proceeded to swap her gender and her androgynous form in front of two servants in cold blood and without the slightest shame! Was this not equivalent to an explicit and direct invitation to commit suicide and cut necks?!

The two servants blinked their eyes at the same time, and their movement stopped for heavy seconds, as if they were trying to process the suspicious data captured by their sight and interpret whether what they saw was a living reality or merely a miserable mirage and fog!

The scene was resistant to immediate comprehension and needed time to be deconstructed, but the panicked Elliot left them no room for analysis; rather, she initiated by inventing a sudden excuse to justify her presence outside the suite without the management’s knowledge:

"Ah.. Michael!.. Hehe.. you are here, my love? I was extremely worried about you since you started feeling sick, so I could not control myself and came out to search for you by myself.. As a newly married woman, how could I continue sitting on the bed alone expecting my husband while he suffers from colic and sickness?!"

At that fatal moment, the eyes of the two demon servants contracted, and their cold facial expressions turned into a harsh seriousness wrapped in suspicion:

"Waiting on the bed?! Master Michael declared to us a short while ago that you were in the bathroom and using it, and for this exact reason he could not use the suite’s toilet and was forced to ask permission from us!"

The atmosphere electrified in the corridor, and Elliot realized she was walking on the edge of a dagger; so she had to display extraordinary quick wit and respond with fiery flexibility to this fatal contradiction:

"Well.. of course! I finished using the bathroom and exited it immediately, but I could not bear the thought of sitting alone and waiting for him in the midst of his pains.. As a loving and passionate wife, are these not the highest manifestations of fear and marital love?!"

The features of the two servants convoluted further, and they sensed a suspicious strangeness in the style of dialogue and the tone of speech; however, they did not possess tangible material evidence proving the couple’s involvement in an infiltration plan.

Nevertheless, a complete conviction planted itself in their minds that there was something malicious and planned being orchestrated in secret between these two, and they decided in their inner minds to inform the higher management of the details of these suspicious behaviors at the earliest opportunity!

One of the servants spoke in a firm, warning tone: "Fine.. beware of leaving this suite from now on without explicit permission or prior knowledge from us, otherwise we will raise an urgent notice to the tower management recording explicit violations, and then strict penalties will be imposed upon you two for breaking the regulations!"

Elliot and Michael nodded their heads in fake obedience. As soon as the servants moved away and withdrew into the main corridor, Michael opened the suite door quickly and pulled Elliot inside, then closed the armored door and tightened the iron lock!

Immediately upon the door closing, the two collapsed together onto the floor and onto the soft carpet, panting heavily from the extreme psychological exhaustion and mental depletion!

They had just survived.. no, rather they survived by a crazy, unrepeatable miracle! The matter was exactly like performing a dangerous gymnastics dance on a thin rope stretched over a bottomless abyss!

Michael exhaled in a shaky voice while rolling on the carpet:

"This was.. truly horrifying and hideous! I feel I was on the verge of losing a large part of my mind and mental balance.."

As for Elliot, she paid no attention to Michael’s words at that moment; rather, she produced the remaining ceramic cup that she had hidden miraculously between the folds of her dress, and placed it carefully on the nearby wooden table.

Her affair was almost completely exposed! Elliot had consumed one hundred percent of her mental energy and intellectual capacity merely to weave this movement and the shocking transformation in fractions of a second! The primary credit for this achievement went to the androgynous body she was impersonating moments ago, which granted her a magical sensitivity and a analytical intelligence levels higher than her normal form.

Elliot turned her female eyes, filled with regret, toward Michael lying on the carpet with his full weight:

"Get up immediately!.. This cursed day has not ended yet, you fool! We still have to prepare to consume these cursed pills and face what will happen later!"

Michael nodded his head with severe fatigue, looking at Elliot, who was trying to hold herself together with difficulty and hide the trembling of her hands.

With the passage of hours and the succession of heavy seconds, Elliot dedicated the remaining time to explaining the mechanics of transformation and the mechanism of summoning the "Androgynous Form" to Michael, who exerted a painstaking effort in focusing and directing his internal energy.

After painstaking attempts and exhausting fumbling, the instructions finally bore fruit!

...His own "Androgynous Form" materialized for the first time!

The transformation was truly mind-blowing! His broad waist shrank and his posture harmonized in a manner that seemed to belong to an entirely different world. His arms extended with a smooth and harmonious length, and his rough palms turned into soft palms filled with femininity, while retaining a glint of muscle strength hidden under the smooth skin. His broad shoulders contracted and their angle shortened, and his harsh jaw shrank so that the features of his hybrid face leaned toward extreme softness and beauty, while his demonic horns were refined and became harmonious and attractive instead of their ugly, crooked state when he was purely male!

Trrr!...

A precise light screen emerged in the air, declaring in a faint magical text:

[Congratulations!.. Host Michael has managed to unlock his new third form: The Androgynous Form.]

However, he was not a complete female yet; for anyone looking at this new body would find it completely impossible to determine whether Michael was a man or a woman!

Michael advanced with staggering steps toward the large mirror hanging in the suite to test his new form. When he saw the reflection of his new shape, completely different from his rough male origins, he stood incapable of speech, and his tongue froze in his mouth from pure astonishment!

Michael felt his genital area with caution and confusion, finding that the area had become flat and completely void, like smooth tile!

However, despite the strangeness of this shocking physical transformation, the important and greatest concern for them in these decisive moments was to gather all their mental powers, fully prepare to swallow those suspicious waxy spheres, and prepare for the harsh events that this dark night hides for them!