The Dark World denizen who named himself as Delares from answering one of my questions started spitting out pieces of information he's keeping from the depths of his mind. From outside, Nysia was hearing everything he revealed.
This Delares instantly gave up when he felt his Dark Energy dispersing and his lifeforce burning from one of his toes. With the use of my increased control on energy, I let the Psyche Energy be locked in place inside one of his toes.
It's different from how I tried to calm Nysia down by injecting Psyche energy to her. Energies can be used on different purposes after all. There's Psyche Boost and Dispelling Arrow which were both made from the same energy but have different effects.
Due to the locked aggressive Psyche Energy, the dark color of its skin slowly turned into white which brought about his screams that filled the containment cell he was in.
From there, the Psyche Energy started corrupting that toe. I watched how he tried to pour in energy to it to try and expel the Psyche Energy. However, before he could do that I blocked him which isolated that toe.
All Corrupted individuals could possibly do what he had done, pushing out the Dark Energy that was corrupting them. But none of them would do so. Why? They became Corrupted since they wanted the empowerment given by the Dark Energy in the first place.
And what was injected to them was probably not just a small amount, otherwise, they wouldn't feel that power up brought by the Dark Energy. However, that's just a false sense of power up. It's probably brought by their burning life force and the mixing of two energies inside their bodies. Unlike me who could accommodate different types or the Heroes who could adapt to the world that summoned them, others could only accommodate one type of energy.
Though i didn't dealt Delares any physical damage, he described the corruption as if his soul was being ripped to shreds, even though it's just one toe. I didn't know what he meant about the soul but it's probably just about his lifeforce in that toe being burned.
From experiencing that, he gave in easily which rendered the physical torture he experienced from their hands as useless.
However, to squeeze out more information, I didn't stop at one toe.
By sending small amounts of Psyche Energy on another toe, the corruption slowed down and became a more vivid experience for him.
And that allowed me to ask more questions. Those questions that he couldn't or he didn't want to answer, I would further slow down the corruption but only slow enough that he wouldn't be able to ignore the burning of its lifeforce.
"Daisuke, what kind of experiment are you doing?"
Suddenly, Nysia's voice rang out when I paused for a bit to put back the restraint on him because he tried to kill himself.
"The Corruption Experiment. You heard about those who went over to the enemies, right? I'm letting him experience the same thing but in this experiment, I'm controlling the energy that's corrupting him. Letting him taste their own medicine but this one's more potent."
"I see. So that's what will happen to them?"
"More or less. Those ignorant denizens of this world will soon be burned out of their lifeforce, the Mythic-rank who's colluding with them probably knew that, that's why there's no Corrupted in that organization."
"I see. I'm quite ignorant about that part. I thought those Corrupted were given a new type of power."
"No. That's just them burning their lifeforce. Ah. Nysia. I'm still not done so…"
"…Alright, Take your time."
Is she worrying about me?
Ah. She's probably just curious at what I'm doing that it immediately gave us results, unlike their simulation and torture. In any case, this is not dark enough, right? At least there's no spilled blood yet.
After making sure that he wouldn't be able to try to kill himself again, I continued to slowly corrupt his toes along with the questions that he needed to answer.
Whenever he was about to pass out, I would use Physique and Spirit Boost to him to rouse him from drifting off to wonderland. Soon enough I might also need to use Psyche Boost when his mind overloaded.
In that kind of rinse and repeat process, it didn't take long for all his toes on his feet to turn white and be burned out of their lifeforce.
Now that he ran out of toes to be corrupted, an idea came up in my mind.
Amidst his pleas to stop, I tugged on one of his whitened toes.
Crack!
After producing that cracking sound, the toe was effortlessly pulled off of him.
Also, after a few seconds that it got separated from his body, the toe immediately disintegrated into dust.
Right. Just like how the Corrupted would disintegrate whenever the corruption of the Dark Energy completely covered their bodies after burning off their lifeforce.
Through this, I confirmed that the Psyche Energy was really something of a higher level than Dark Energy. Even though it was already pointed out before, confirming it like this is better.
I could use it to corrupt someone weaker like this guy who's only at Gold-rank in strength despite his Rank SSS+ Brain Capacity. However, if I wanted it to work on someone at the same level or stronger than me, I would be needing a higher amount of Psyche Energy which is something I didn't have a luxury yet.
When he saw how that toe disintegrated, his screams stopped as he looked down to his whitened toe, his feet started to tremble and due to that, all the attached toes on his feet fell down and disintegrated into dust.
"Oi. Don't pass out on me."
I threw him the three boosts to prevent him from passing out. The horror of seeing his toes fall off his body couldn't be mended by simple Physique and Spirit Boost anymore.
Now that he's wide awake again, I continued in my interrogation and this time, I focused on one of his legs.
When I asked Delares who was behind the Black Market, the name of the secret organization turned up again which confirmed the triplets' claim. From that, the mystery about his identity and the goal of the secret organization came to light. However, he's not part of the secret organization.
Just like how the triplets call him, he's the Emissary of the Dark. He was deployed by his superior from the Moon where the Dark World denizens were currently holed up.
By the time I finished squeezing him for information, that leg had already disintegrated into dust.
Though I felt that it was not dark enough, I guess that's enough for now. If I also touch his other limbs, he might give up living entirely. Despite the pain he would be experiencing, he would be too broken and would just shut down his mind.
With only one of his feet, he could still have hope that I would stop and leave him to die without feeling the burning of his lifeforce again.
In that short time I was interrogating him, I learned a lot, not about this world or the secret organization they were working with but of the Dark World.
When I left his containment cell, Nysia appeared before me and immediately put me in her embrace.
"Thank you, Daisuke."
She didn't mention what I did and just thanked me for the information I managed to squeeze out.
Surely, she's worried that I would think that she would see me differently, that's why she refrained from commenting on the method I did.
To ease her worry, I didn't answer and just responded to her embrace. I wonder how I looked in her eyes from the outside of that containment cell?
Haa… there's no need to think of that now.
I glanced back to Delares that was once again alone inside that containment cell. He's now in some kind of dreamland after coughing almost everything he has on him and of course, he's in no way near death. I made sure of that. Just short of a leg and his toes.
Ah. Maybe his Intelligence stat was burned as well. Who knows, after being put to that kind of pain, if I continued, he would surely turn crazy.
After we satisfied ourselves from the comfort of each other, we separated and went back to business.
Nysia pulled out her tablet pc and read the new reports there and when she's done she looked up at me.
The delegations from the three factions are about to arrive. They're finally here, eh?
Then this should be the last time to get information from the three if there's really something else they withheld.
I stared at the triplets in their cages. All of them were staring back at me in horror but that's fine, let them feel fear. If they're still holding off something, let them think about that.
If they didn't reveal it then they could only wait for their death along with that Dark World denizen.
I turned my gaze away from them after seeing that reaction.
After making only one copy of the information I managed to dig from Delares' mouth, Nysia proceeded to delete it from the computer's hard drive to prevent the leak.
And when we were already about to leave the room, one of the triplets shouted.
"Wait! Please… Hear me out!"
Upon hearing that, Nysia and I exchanged glances and smiled.
Now let's hear the thing they kept hidden.
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