Chapter 164 - Steal

Shallot looked at Salem then back at Cinder before he was tapped on the shoulder by Neo.

[You can make it so that you take everything from her instead of killing her since it would set two different examples. A painful death for one and a worthless existence for the other punishment.]

Neo showed him with a smile on her face.

Shallot nodded his head then looked into Cinder's eyes.

"Well, it seems you are truly unlucky. You get to live but at what price? I will be taking everything that you have gotten and leave you with nothing. Mercury is dead and Emerald will be working for me also so I will also be taking the people you work with. Your boss is no more than a maid to me and now I will take away all the strength in your body." Shallot explained with Cinder starting to panic more and more scratching swinging and doing everything she can even when her fingers and hands are bleeding.

Shallot held here in front of the crowd before saying one thing.

"Steal!" Shallot said with a normal voice but to Cinder, this word would be the word that took everything away from her.

Shallot started draining her of her energy and targeting everything in her body that wasn't her lifeforce. Her stamina, strength, and unexpectedly the maidens magic.

With every passing second Cinder, hands were losing strength when her eyes started watering. She wanted to fight back but no matter what she did was useless.

"Hmmm!!! Mhmm!!!" She tried yelling with the face that was over her mouth gripping her head that only made muffled cries.

Some of the people in the audience were uncomfortable seeing this as it looked the same as a person that was being choked into submission.

"It seems that you have a bit of strength in you but all the actions you did got you my full attention, but now that you have it why are you crying. You should have known that this would happen when you chose to stand up to someone better than you." Shallot said while Cinder stopped struggling after another minute of being drained.

"I also want to be handled roughly!" Salem said breathing heavily from inside the box.

Shallot turned to look at Salem while feeling a bulge in his pants.

'Damn, hearing that right now is not helping with her being naked right now. I can't be rough with Neo or Blake since they are pregnant so I hope Ruby and Yang aren't sore from last night.'

~~~

In the stands were Team CFVY and most of the members were looking at Velvet.

"So it seems that your boyfriend is really strong Velvet?" Coco said looking at Velvet who was watching everything.

When they had gotten back from the mission on Merlot's Island the second day of the tournament, Shallot had come and taken Velvet on a date that Coco has been talking about since then.

Velvet's face turned red while looking at Shallot from the stands with her heart beating faster.

"But shouldn't we have kept the guy alive too?" Velvet asked.

"From what I could hear, that guy made Ruby cry and had something to do with Penny being blown up," Fox said from the side of his teammates.

"I never expected him to be the overprotective type," Yatsuhashi said looking at the way that Shallot is treating Cinder on the stage.

"They did try to throw the city into chaos which would have led to the death of a lot of people so they don't have my sympathy. Besides, they broke my favorite glasses." Coco said still upset about her glasses.

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Shallot dropped Cinder's exhausted body after draining her of everything she had. She was no stronger than an average hunter now without any of her previous strength.

Shallot then looked toward Emerald.

"Might as well drain you also. Don't need you trying to escape afterward." Shallot said before grabbing Cinder and tossing her into the box with Salem.

Ropes came out from the side from where she was tossed to and strung her up pulling her against the wall.

Shallot grabbed Emerald by the throat and started draining her.

"Since you all are here that means that Adam is here. Where is he!?" Shallot asked in a stern voice that showed that he wasn't going to accept her not answering the question.

Emerald was already tired and just wanted this to stop. Mercury was dead, the one she had immense fear toward was trapped and hung up like a prize, and the one that she chose to follow was helpless against Shallot.

"I don't know!" Emerald growled out.

Shallot clicked his tongue before he also tossed her into the box after her own useless struggle.

The footage of everything was shown to everyone that couldn't see that well but couldn't hear what was being said. Some could read their lips to find out what was said while others didn't know.

They knew from what was said earlier that the ones that either were beaten, killed, or captured were the ones behind trying to cause problems for the arena and Vale city.

Shallot tried to think of a way to draw him out when he thought about it.

'The only way for him to even think that he can do something against me is if he has had someone show him how to use ki which he wouldn't even be on the same level as me.' Shallot thought to himself.

'Might as well try.' Shallot thought to himself before he closed his eyes to look for a larger than normal ki signature. He sensed around for Adam when he could feel what he thought was it.

The signature was close to the roof.

'He must be thinking that he can...' Shallot thought was interrupted when he felt something smash into his forehead.

Shallot opened his eyes to see that it was a rifle round that hit him. It had fallen to the ground making a clanking sound. There was only a slight impact point that healed immediately.

Shallot lifted his hand before trying something new with his semblance. He stretched out his hand toward where Adam was and made a grasping motion with his hand.

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Adam who took cover behind the wall after firing felt as if the entire area around him was being moved. He tried to get away but was pulled toward the arena area.

"What!?" Adam yelled before he was pulled toward the arena before slamming into the ground.

The first thing he did when he crashed was to grab the sword that was on his right side and swung it toward Shallot's neck. When he saw the blade connect he thought that he finally killed the bastard but then he heard a snapping sound.

He looked and noticed that the sword was falling toward the ground while his arm was also falling. Adam looked and noticed that half of his arm was gone along with the sword being halfway broken.

"What are you?" Adam asked stunned before using his right hand to reach for the katana on his back.

He pulled the blade from the sheath when everyone could hear what sound like the cries and howls of Grimm and people. A black sludge crawled out from the sheath covering part of Adam moving over his shoulders.

"Die you shiiiit!!!" Adam yelled out swinging with everything he had with blood flowing from his missing arm.