Chapter 37: Wielding Magic

The terror multiplied in the deep recesses of her heart until it reached its absolute peak upon hearing those brutal words, and the sole wish wringing her mind became for this accursed creature to leave her alone; for the desire to succeed in the test or return to life no longer occupied her thoughts.

Everything in this damned world was rushing against her, despite all the effort and desperation she exerted to reach the required result.

At those precise moments, the bitter truth surfaced in the consciousness of the soul residing in Elliot’s body: even if she struggled and somehow succeeded in the end to transform into a woman, the probability of obtaining a chance to return to life had become a pure illusion after the explicit, harsh declarations her mind heard from the Guide.

Rather, she became fully certain that if she surrendered and performed the physical shift to a woman, this monster would pursue her to lay her with extreme severity until she wept blood from the intensity of the pain, and in the end he would escape with his skin while she would be cast into the abyss of extinction as a "useless entity." What then was the use of resisting and submitting?!

She could simply refrain from transforming and insist on refusal, at which point she would drag this villain and this Guide to the chasm with her, swallowing death for him, but only after quenching her thirst for revenge and creating something of value before her eternal departure.

For this reason, she turned with eyes settled in a sudden, dignified calm to stare directly into the face of the soul residing in Michael’s body, which was dripping with evil and menace as he screamed in her face:

"Come on, hurry up!.. You are being lax and wasting time!"

Yet it appeared that the girl fixing her gaze upon him did not display any movement and did not attempt to issue any mental order to transform, satisfying herself merely with staring at him with eyes brimming with absolute mockery and indifference.

Those directed gazes drove the soul in Michael’s body to madness; for he could not stomach the idea of her trivializing his threats and paying no mind to his menace.

And suddenly..

WHAM!..

He delivered a filthy kick with all the strength he could muster right into the middle of her stomach!

It was a brutal strike that caused her entrails to twist violently and produced a pain that tore her soul apart. Due to the restriction of the sacrifice mark bound tightly upon her neck, behavioral defense manifestations were completely paralyzed, and the soul residing in Elliot’s body possessed nothing but to writhe under the weight of the burning taste of pain, while watching the disgusting expressions of his face.

He bellowed above her head like a ferocious beast: "I said come on, quickly!.. Have you gone deaf?!"

Then he followed it with another blow..

A second kick to the abdomen came harder and fiercer than a mind could imagine! The two strikes crushed what remained in her gut, making her swallow bitterness and empty her stomach’s burning bile onto the floor, coughing severely while her body trembled without the ability to display the slightest defensive movement.

As that filthy juice fell near him, the look of contempt and disgust doubled in his eyes; so he dragged her fiercely again by her hair upward, and began raining down upon her face with consecutive, echoing slaps:

"I said transform!.. I tell you transform immediately!"

Meanwhile, in the deepest layers of the dark consciousness where Elliot was present observing what was transpiring outside, he was starving with rage and a desire to act in any possible manner; yet he recognized the closed horizon, for he was not the primary controller of the body and was incapable of stepping out to prevent this brutal violence. However, with the second vomiting that befell the body, Elliot noticed something astonishing taking place!

He felt as though his spiritual weight had become light in this internal world, and the magical pathways that had dimmed moments ago—the surrounding feeling of numbness began to vanish entirely from his mind, allowing him to regain his ability to exist and perceive anew!

This was not the only variable.. a strange and spellbinding feeling ran through him; for the magical pathways scattered throughout that darkness began drawing closer to him little by little, those delicate lines wrapping around his entity from every side, connecting to him and merging into his essence!

He felt it clearly; he had reclaimed control over his body’s magical network once more! It became possible for him to control magic again, even if in a limited manner. He did not grasp the direct reason immediately, but when he thought about all these matters, he realized that the will of the possessing soul that was blocking control from him had collapsed and approached zero.. she simply no longer desired to remain here!

Elliot had never undergone the experiment before, but he tried launching his voice inside this dark world; for if he could reach that soul and inform her that he could assist her, perhaps she could defend herself instead of this scoundrel continuing to destroy his body outside.

He began calling out with firmness: {Push him!.. Push him forward!}

Elliot was now capable of opening magical portals!

He could not open the dimensional portal with his magic directly beneath him to drop this scoundrel; for if he did, the portal would swallow Elliot’s body along with him. He had to distance him from her first, if only for a single moment.

So that his body would not fall with him into the same portal..

Elliot had not restored his full magical energy and his abilities were still limited, but he managed to formulate a decisive plan to distance this lowlife.

He repeated his call throughout the corridors of consciousness: {Can you hear me?! Push him!}

In those moments in the real world, the soul possessing Michael’s body was dragging Elliot’s body fiercely along the floor, before raising her harshly and throwing her onto the bed, staring with sick gazes at that helpless form covered in blood and bile.

Absolute despair loomed over the soul residing in Elliot’s body, and she understood the malicious plan this monster was preparing to execute. She no longer desired anything, and all she hoped for was to put an end to this hideous suffering and have her nightmare conclude by any means!

And as she closed her eyes in overwhelming terror from the hell of imminent violation, after he raised her feet and exposed that opening which was never intended for what he aimed to do.. and while she wished with her tears for someone to save her..

A voice rang out in the depths of her mind! It seemed faint and intangible in the beginning, but it began rising and magnifying.. until it resonated with hardness and power throughout her skull:

{Push him!.. Push him with your feet forward!.. Push him with all the power you possess!.. Push him!}

Panic struck the soul in that moment; this was not the voice of the assaulting lowlife nor the dry voice of the System, but a voice as though emitting from the deepest point of her consciousness.. commanding her firmly to push him far away with her full energy!

That voice was enough to shake her entity and reignite the last flame of resistance within her. At the height of moments of despair, while this scoundrel was preparing his disgusting pillar to thrust it into the wrong opening, shouting with insolence: "This is what you deserve, you vile bitch!"..

In a moment of carelessness from him, and without expecting any reaction from her..

A PUSH!..

The two feet he was holding in his hand surged, breaking out of the scope of his control! Before he could comprehend the dimensions of what was happening..

He was pushed with the maximum possible force!

As if that push were the last drop of life she possessed, the soul emptied everything she had to send this man with demonic horns flying far away from her!

The lowlife was flustered and could not pull himself together, leaning backward due to the sudden force. While he was on the verge of balancing and recovering..

A FALL!..

At that exact instant, a magical portal with glowing blue edges opened directly beneath him! In the blink of an eye, the portal transported him to the highest point in the ceiling, dangling directly above the wooden table cluttered with fruit plates, the sharp knife, and the ceramic cups—

And crashing down upon it with his full body!

COLLISION!..

CRASHHH!..