Chapter 524: Chapter 524 Avery’s Brutal Questioning (2)
"W-what did you do to me?!"
Kadfal screamed in horror as one of his limbs no longer felt like it was attached to his body.
He could not even get his left arm to so much as twitch. There was no sensation any longer. As if the arm was no longer recognized as part of his body.
"Whew. That was harder than I was expecting. I don’t think I’ll be able to use this during combat. The signals are too faint for me to notice them unless I’m in direct contact and can concentrate without interruption." Avery said, disregarding the captive spy’s distress and analyzing the method in which he had just utilized his psionic abilities.
With his powers he could perceive the flow of energy and severe it.
However, the stronger the source, the easier it was for him to sense and interact with.
Signals and pulses of energy that were weak would slip past his notice unless he was actively searching for them and in close proximity.
"Would you be quiet already. I’m try to think right now."
Avery fixed Kadfal with a cold glare that shut the man up.
While Avery did not consider the new application of his power to have too many use cases, he still wanted to make sure that he remembered the sensation. There was no telling what might help him better understand his psionic abilities later.
"Okay, I think I’m ready to try it again." Avery said, snapping his fingers.
He then grabbed his captive’s face with his right hand to keep the guy still, and positioned his left right over the man’s right eye.
"I’m going to make it so that you’ll never see out of this eye again. You can tell me everything that I want to know, and that will be the end of this. Or I’ll keep going until there’s nothing left of you. So, make this easier for both of us and talk."
"I’ll never tell you anything!" Kadfal snarled. "My home is on the line. Lord Daxton is the only one that can keep us safe from the tyranny of monstrous powers that want to impose their rule over the entire galaxy."
Avery’s eyes went wide as he heard this.
He had not really thought about the perspective of the people coming after Kasandra and Kaiden.
Daxton had taken over their home planet by feeding on the fears of the inhabitants. As the Dramid Alliance grew closer to finding them, panic started to set in among those that wished to avoid losing their home as their ancestors had.
Honestly, Avery could not completely fault them for this. The unknown could be terrifying.
He knew that the powers that ran the Dramid Alliance were no saints. Some of them were rotten to the core as he had already personally found out.
It was not too farfetched to think that some official might come up with some scheme to drive out the residents of the planet.
While it did not sound like the most hospitable place from what Kasandra had told him, it was a habitable planet. Something that was very valuable.
’Still, I’ve got my own home and family to protect.’ Avery thought as he pushed his index finger into the restrained spy’s eye.
His aim was not to damage the visual organ though.
It would be easy enough to rip it out and crush it, but that kind of damage was repairable.
A new eye could be regenerated and surgically implanted, or it could be replaced with a cybernetic unit.
What Avery planned on doing would be far more permanent.
Once he had found the flow of energy he was looking for, he only slightly moved his finger and imagined cutting through it.
After he did, he pulled his hand back and wiped it with a towel he had prepared nearby.
"I-I can’t see." Kadfal said in stunned disbelief.
"No, you can’t. And you’ll never be able to see out of that eye again. Even if you got the best team of doctors in the galaxy together to try and fix it, they wouldn’t be able to do anything."
Avery finally explained his psionic ability to the man to drive him further into despair.
What he was doing was severing the electrical signals sent throughout the man’s body.
He made sure to target both the pertinent nerves and the source of the signals in the brain. Making it impossible to repair even if Kadfal had the relevant body parts replaced.
As advanced as medical science had come, it was not yet at the point where people could have an entirely new brain crafted and transfer their consciousness over.
"T-this d-doesn’t matter!" Kadfal shouted, choking on the words.
As tough as the spy was, Avery had clearly managed to terrify him.
"But it does. You said that you’re prepared for death, and I believe you. Except, there are some things far worse than dying. I’m going to keep going until you give me the information that I want, or the only parts of your body left functioning are your ears, mouth, and the organs you need to live.
"After that, I’ll leave you locked up with your mind trapped in a completely useless body. There will never be any hope of repairing the damage that is already done. Mechanical parts won’t work as replacements because the necessary signals from your brain still won’t be able to reach the prosthetics. Maybe you can find some workaround I’m not thinking of, but I doubt it."
"Now what will it be? Your right arm, left eye, or one of your legs. I’ll let you choose this time."
Avery could feel his own heart growing colder as he continued with this interrogation.
Truthfully, he hated every moment of what he was doing.
Fighting and killing pirates or people he considered enemies was one thing.
But torturing someone certainly ate away at him.
The manner he was doing it was taking its toll as well.
Every second he felt less and less human. As if something important was slipping away from him.
Nevertheless, he would not stop. There were no lengths he was not willing to go to in order to keep his loved ones safe.
