To Minuha's question, Seth gave no answer, instead raising his left hand and pointing an index finger at her, and then without warning a red beam left his finger and smashed into her head, causing no visible damage.
At first, both women were a little bit confused by his actions but then Minuha suddenly let out a scream.
"Ahhh, I'm dying" Minuha cried as her body suddenly began trembling without control, shaking about in the hole its form had been embedded in, till eventually she slipped out, fell to the ground, and began rolling about.
"Please, please" Minuha begged, but Seth's only actions were to smile.
"What do you think of this torture method, isn't her pain genuine?" Seth asked turning his head to Iren for the first time since he carried her.
Hearing Seth's question, Irene looked at him with a bit of trepidation. If his earlier method had been brutal and savage, then the current one was just cruel.
Irene could hear the desperate cries coming from the woman, her genuine pain being expressed, and her deep and sincere wish for mercy.
"It's effective" was all Irene was able to let out.
"Hmm, well I'm bored, so your job right now till I tell you to stop is to torture her and replicate this pain," Seth said and without asking for Irene's opinion he released his hold on her and then turned to Minuha.
Unlike before when he could only poison his enemy with his qi and let it rampage through, Seth now had soulsense, and with this, using his soulsense to control his qi which he had placed in her was but a thought away.
For seconds Minuha was screaming out her lungs and then the next she lay prone on the ground, silent but letting out heavy breaths her eyes blood red and filled with tears.
"How are you feeling," Seth asked moving forward.
Minuha's head turned to look at Seth, and while her eyes held resentment, the resentment was completely overshadowed by fear.
"Obedience really isn't your fort, perhaps I should take you for another spin," Seth said lifting his hand.
"No" Minuha cried, raising her upper body from the ground," Please don't"
"So will you answer my question?"
"Yes," Minuha quickly replied, nodding her head.
"And…"
"It was painful, the pain originated from the very core of my flesh as you qi wantonly moved within me and there was nothing I could do."
"Well that's detailed" Seth commented.
"So what will happen is that while we wait for the rest of your body to quickly arrive and boost you up to your immortal rank, Irene will go about with tortures, is that okay."
To Seth's words, Minuha sat frozen, shocked by his words, as she had thought he didn't believe in her being at immortal rank and had been waiting to surprise him, but now he was actually waiting for her to power up.
"Hey I'm talking to you, or will you rather I continue with torture."
"No, let Irene do it."
Though Irene truly had no love for her and would very like wish to inflict as much pain as possible on her, Minuha was more than sure she could not replicate the hell Seth had put her through.
Seth was just that special.
...
Leaning on a tree a few steps away, Seth ignored the screams, cold, and ice that had filled the environment, going over his preparations for dealing with Minuha, and now went about talking with Alexia.
"So what difficulties do you think I'll face with an immortal?
"Though am not too versed and knowledgeable with all these weaker levels of cultivation, I'm sure proficiency l is the base of it.
From your past expertise, you should have realized that most praised powerhouses who are about to reach the immortal rank all begin manifest a bit of law of their elements, yet none can exhibit them fully."
"Will my darkness comprehension be enough?"
"Well, with your soul healed, you were able to safely remember those murmurings, and with it, you've clearly surpassed Minuha's understanding of darkness seeing as you easily suppressed her.
I believe what you should watch out for is the boost her immortal rank will give to her law.
Though you might have a deeper understanding than her, the quantity and quality of her qi might rival or surpass yours, meaning she will no longer be a toy for you, and with that, her experience will come into play."
"Okay," Seth said, his eyebrow raising a little while his soulsense suddenly intensified and smashed into Minuha, neutralizing the soul attack she had painfully conjured and was about to use against Irene.
Other than Minuha who looked to Seth in despair after realizing he had stopped her attack, Irene had no idea of the danger she had just been in and went about making the woman scream.
"The immortal rank might also allow her passively absorb qi, so a prolonged battle is not something you want. And most importantly stay safe, okay" Alexia's cheerful voice sounded.
Seth nodded to it, and then pushed himself off the tree and moved forward.
With his finger beam, Seth could bring about a kind of torture that saw Minuha screaming and begging like a child, but Irene didn't have such means at her disposal.
With her relatively nonviolent tendencies, and her attitude to avoid conflict when possible, it only made sense that such a woman wasn't some pro in the way of dishing out torture, but that didn't mean she had no idea how to cause pain.
Knowing her own limits, Irene comfortably chose to torture Minuha in the simplest and most common of ways.
She had the woman down on her knees, her hands raised and nailed to an ice wall that rose behind her, and then with two blunt and spike-covered spears in each hand, the woman went about forcing the spears into Minuha's body.
With Minuha unable to turn into her shadow due to Seth's presence, she was forced to watch her body be bored through several times, and each time Irene's spear went into her.
Though Minuha's screams could be likened to groans, Seth couldn't find it him to fault Irene.
Seth silently stood a few steps behind, watching Irene be covered in blood, shivering a little, but still going on to create a bloody mess of Minuha's body.
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