"Oh, what do you mean?"
Austin's voice softened. He lowered his guard a little, but he kept vigilant in case his victim did
something unusual.
'If he can get me into the Land of Outlaw, I can spare his life, ' he thought.
He raised his eyebrows, checking if the genuine divine god from the beast race before him was telling
the truth.
As if reading what was running on Austin's mind, he spoke out.
"Y-You have to trust me, young man. I was telling the truth when I told you I can help you get to the
Land of Outlaw," his prisoner stammered.
Then, after a short pause, he added, "But you have to let me live."
He was desperate to escape this dilemma. Hence, he had to bait his captor with enticing promises to
survive.
Austin thought about this proposition for a while. Eventually, he resigned and agreed to the creature's
offer.
"All right, then. You have my word. As long as you can get me into the Land of Outlaw, I won't kill you.
Don't worry, I am a man of my word,"
Austin calmly stated.
"That's a deal!"
the member of the beast race exclaimed.
'As long as he doesn't kill me, I've got a lot of chance to escape from this young man.
Many masters of my kind will go to the Land of Outlaw too.
By the time we reach our destination, I don't have to be afraid of this brat!
If I get lucky, maybe I can have the pleasure of killing him. Right now, my goal is to stay alive, ' the
beast race member figured.
The thought of this gruesome act made him smirk.
"Don't think about playing games with me.
Open your Soul Sea and let your spiritual soul accept whatever happens," Austin ordered.
He had been closely observing his prisoner. When he saw that the smirk form on his lips, he instantly
knew that he had an ulterior motive behind this plan.
"What... what do you want? We had a deal! You told me you'd never lay a hand on me," the beast
stuttered, aghast with Austin's request.
'Had he discovered my plan already' he thought. He paled in fright.
However, he would not easily let anyone enter his Soul Sea.
"Cut the crap and do as I say!
I will kill you if you don't follow my orders!" Austin shouted sternly.
He stepped on his prisoner hard.
The added pressure on the beast race member's body caused his bones to crack. The pain was
unbearable that he screamed loudly.
"Are you breaking our deal that quick? Didn't you tell me you're a man of your word? Why the fuck are
you hurting me now?" the member of the beast race angrily accused.
His voice was trembling, and sweat was breaking out on his forehead out of tremendous pain.
"Do as I say, and I won't kill you.
So stop resisting and follow my orders!" Austin snapped.
He enunciated his words intensely, so his prisoner could understand the gravity of his intentions.
Left with no other choice, the member of the beast race opened his Soul Sea. He had to—or else, he
would die.
"Puppet Strings!"
Austin released thousands of red strings. Using his mind, he directed them into the Soul Sea of the
member of the beast race.
"What the hell are these?" the member of the beast race shouted, freaking out.
He had a bad feeling.
But as soon as he was about to be tethered to it, he immediately recognized these crimson strings.
"Oh
no!
It's the Puppet Strings, a unique skill owned by the spiritual race.
Boy, you are a human. This shouldn't be possible!
How could you use the secret skill of the spiritual race?"
the member of the beast race asked, dumbfounded.
He continued, "Unfortunately, brat, it's pointless trying.
Although the Puppet Strings is amazing, it doesn't work on me.
I am a genuine medium-grade divine god.
You might be able to tame ordinary divine gods if you fully master the Puppet Strings.
But it's useless against genuine divine gods.
I'm a member of the beast race, so I am familiar with the spiritual race's secret skill.
After all, the spiritual race lives in an isolated alien space that is a subsidiary force of our race,"
the member of the beast race explained.
To Austin's dismay, he knew that his prisoner was right about the Puppet Strings.
Back then, he would avoid using the Puppet Strings against the divine gods, especially the genuine
divine gods because it might not work on them.
Their spiritual souls were too powerful to control, and Austin was fully aware of that.
The Puppet Strings was not enough to control the divine gods.
Still, Austin wanted to give it a shot.
The reason was simple:
he had cultivated the Overlapping Law Skill.
This technique could be applied to all the martial arts skills, Including the ones related to the spiritual
soul attacks.
The Puppet Strings was a skill related to the spiritual soul. Hence, Austin wanted to test what could
happen if he combined an original chaotic law with the technique.
Thus, when Austin performed the Puppet Strings skill, he added the original chaotic law of snow which
he had cultivated into the Major Achievement Stage utilizing the Overlapping Law Skill.
Each red string he produced was covered with a thin layer of ice and emitted the cold aura.
The member of the beast race didn't take the Puppet String seriously because he was seriously
convinced that he was immune to its powers. He merely scoffed at Austin's attempt.
But soon enough, his eyes widened in surprise. He felt something was amiss. 'What's this sudden drop
in temperature?' he questioned mentally.
"Hey! Why is it so cold?
What did you do?
Why do I feel sharp shards of ice in my Soul Sea? It seems to have become an ice cellar." He
bombarded Austin with numerous questions. After all, the Puppet Strings skill was not supposed to
work on him.
"Oh, no! Some parts of my Soul Sea began to freeze.
Brat, what did you do to my Soul Sea?" the prisoner kept asking, panicked.
He shivered with cold. The cold coming from his Soul Sea was slowly killing him.
"Hey, you'd better not do anything stupid. If you piss me off, I'll finish off you in a strike!"
Austin threatened.
Thousands of red strings tightly wrapped the spiritual soul of the beast race member.
It was impossible to see his spiritual soul now.
Each red string emitted a terrifying cold air, penetrating his spiritual soul.
However, it was true that the spiritual soul of the genuine medium-grade divine god possessed the
enormous amount of energy.
Austin kept trying to tie up his prisoner's spiritual soul with the red strings and the original chaotic law of
snow.
However, each attempt he made was futile. The beast race member's spiritual soul withstood all those
and refused to be affected.
Despite that, his soul looked weak, and shook with cold.
It even turned purple.
But the member of the beast race held on, and prevented himself from being controlled.
He wasn't turned into Austin's slave.
"I will not give up.
Let me try the law of earth!"
Austin summoned numerous red strings and got them into the Soul Sea of the beast race member. The
red strings rushed forward and tied up his spiritual soul.
Each of the strings had the power of original chaotic law of earth of the Intermediate Stage.
The poor beast race member's spiritual soul couldn't be seen due to all the red strings Austin had
produced.
Despite that, more strings encapsulated it.
Soon, a large amount of the original chaotic law of earth permeated into the spiritual soul of the beast
race member.
"Ah!
Damn it!
What are you doing, brat?
If you keep doing this, I'd rather take my own life!" the member of the beast race defiantly growled.
The pain his spiritual soul was experiencing was tremendous. At this point, death seemed to be a much
better option.
"Ha! I doubt that. You are so afraid of death. I don't think you'd have the guts to commit suicide,"
Austin scoffed.
"Don't worry.
I promised that I wouldn't kill you, didn't I?
I think you should also understand that everything is possible as long as you are still alive.
If you die, you will lose everything.
What do you say?"
he comforted the panic-stricken prisoner.
Although he said so, he was worried that his prisoner might take his own life.
Then, he would lose a laboratory rat to test the power of the Overlapping Law Skill.
The beast race member kept silent. But deep inside, he was practically dying out of the excruciating
pain.
Austin kept unleashing the Puppet Strings. He kept experimenting what would work best against
genuine divine gods. He would take turns adding the original chaotic law of snow or the original chaotic
law of earth to it using the Overlapping Law Skill.
He repeated the process again and again.
Slowly, the member of the beast race was dying.
His face was deathly pale.
He couldn't even scream anymore since his body was about to give out.
He stared ahead blankly, and smiled at Austin from time to time as if he had given up the hope to live.
'No way. Did I turn him into an idiot?'
Austin wondered.
The spiritual soul of a genuine medium-grade divine god was too powerful.
Despite the failure he kept on receiving, Austin did not get frustrated. He tried and tried.
The member of the beast race was about to die of pain.
Five days had passed.
Just as Austin was about to give up, something was going on with his prisoner.
"Wait!
It seems that I made it," Austin exclaimed.
His face lit up with joy.
After a short pause, the member of the beast race looked at Austin obediently.
"Master!" He bowed before Austin respectfully.
"Ha-ha! I finally did it!"
Austin went with wild joy. This new discovery would prove to be useful for his battles ahead!
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