Magical awakening 12.3

Going back to the present, my new slave is quite interesting. He has purple eyes and black hair, even though he is a pureblood elf. When I used a mind-reading spell, I was not only blocked, his mind even fought back!

(An amazing feat I must add. My spell is something that not even one of the Cardinals was able to resist completely.) I tried a more direct mean, but with no result. I could only read part of his thoughts, and that was all. I gave up the idea of reading his mind for now.

I let him be for a while, and I could feel the difference in the mana flow lingering in the room. (He is not strong, but the purity of his soul, is something I have never seen. If enough time, this kid can be as powerful as an apostle, or even more...)

He was sitting on a chair in front of me, and from time to time, he would expel impure mana from his body. Every time he did that, the mana in the room became more unbearable. (So many years have passed since I felt like this. Is it fear or just my primal survival instinct? This little boy is a monster. A monster that has yet to be born~.)

I protected myself with a mana shield and waited. An awakening normally occurs when a being is born, but two things can delay it: When a soul doesn't fuse correctly with the body, or the body can't bear the soul's power. (If I had to bet, I would go with the last option.)

He closed his eyes and got up from the chair. "Amazing." He freed himself from my spell, and at the same time, he was training his mana control. "To think that someone like you can't manipulate the elements... Make me excited to see how powerful your control over them will be."

He smirked. A chill ran down my spine, and I swallowed my saliva. "Naughty boy... Don't think you can rebel against me." His naked body trembled. (It's time!) The mana in the room reached the apex of toxicity. Cracks started to appear on my shield. His face twisted and his skin torn apart.

Red blood flowed from him. (If he dies, I'm not paying it.) I inject more mana into the shield, so that the cracks would disappear. A faint layer of white mana formed around the boy's body. The white layer then grew as it swallowed the impure mana in the surroundings.

The white light from him went from a dim glow to a beacon. Even my shield got swallowed. "Amazing! I want to see more!" I used every kind of defensive spell I knew, just for him to absorb my mana. "You can thank me later, I'll take my leave for now..." The light formed a sphere around him, and it started rotating at a high speed.

I closed my eyes and teleported myself to the entrance of The House. "Miss Belladonna what could bring you here?" A butler asked me. "Nothing much, I just wanted to retrieve the special item that comes with each slave." The butler nodded. "Right away, you can wait in your VIP room, or the reception room." He turned around and cast a message spell.

After no more than two minutes, a maid carrying a red package with a golden ribbon came from the door behind the butler. "There it is. As for your payment, you can send it as usual." The maid left the package on the ground and left with the butler.

(Well, everyone knows that my curse can't be spread to others, and yet they always leave as soon as possible. Ah... But I like the silence. And they won't live enough to get cursed anyway~.)

I teleported far away from The House. I was on the rooftop of some mansion on the other side of the block, and I could see The House in the distance. I sat on the edge of the roof and waited.

...

"Did you hear?" "About The House?" "Yeah, people say that some slave went crazy and exploded the whole thing." "I heard it at night. The explosion sounded like the hell's roar." "I'm glad that it didn't go out to destroy the rest of the city. If the slave is powerful enough to destroy The House, imagine the damage he would cause in the main street..." "Yeah, I'm glad too."