61. Torture (Please read Warning)

This chapter contains explicit violent scenes. If you're uncomfortable with that, please pass to the Author's Note for a brief explanation.

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Ma'at and Sekhmet trembled, and their bodies fell to the ground. The strength of Cleo's mana was overpowering them, getting both women breathless from the unbearable pain.

Luckily, Cleo saved them the energy to call for help and walked out of the huge room, "watch System 0 for me" she ordered the Goddesses with a warning tone.

The two shivered and nodded their heads, fear started to move through their blood, and the crazy and terrifying sensation of close death made them behave after studying the creature in front of them.

Cleo vanished in a blink and left Ma'at and Sekhmet alone with unconscious System 0.

After Cleo walked out, she exploded her mana while floating in the sky, scaring the people by doing so, "are the Gods mad at us?!"

"Get the children, women, and elders to a safe place!" An old man ordered the people then looked up at the sky, "please forgive us" he mumbled before he rushed toward the temple to start praying for God's forgiveness.

Cleo's dark mana made contact with the clouds and turned them dark grey, the sky started rumbling before the rain started to fall followed by lightning and thunder, scaring the people down.

Cleopatra looked at the sky above Egypt and saw the clouds, the Gods with her shivered after her and flew after her to the scene. Luckily, Cleo moved her disastrous clouds to the desert, her eyes roamed around the place searching for a certain person.

Cheche sensed Cleo's mana from afar, so he tried to move further knowing fully well how mad she was. He only realized his mistake after he left them, he remembered he had poisonous blades so it wouldn't be surprising if System 0 already died.

Cleopatra was about to fly after Cleo, but Ma'at called for her and the Gods to help them, when they entered the room, System 0 was laying down with a serpent moving through his body, it was black as darkness and the mana it was consuming from him was crazy.

They tried to get the serpent in control but no matter how hard they tried, the serpent would consume whatever they throw, "we need Cleo" Cleopatra panted already sensing her mana being consumed.

"Let's leave this room before we follow System 0"

"But-"

"He's a system so he won't disappear forever, Nature and Earth can bring him back, and with a better version at that", they rushed outside the huge room and went to rest until their mana are balanced again.

Far in the middle of the desert, Cleo was still searching for Cheche, but he was good at hiding his mana and that made it troublesome for her to find him, "seems like there's a dog that needs to be taught once again" she mumbled before her mana took the form of a screen, a few seconds later hundreds of eyes opened, and they looked at many directions at the same time.

"Find him" she ordered them before each ball separated and went in different directions, she ordered her sand soldiers to also go and search for him telling them to cut off his legs if needed.

A few minutes later, Cleo heard a scream coming from the west, she teleported there and found many eyes aiming at Cheche, and blades already stabbing him and putting him in place. She smirked and calmed down the storm, she leaned down and pulled Cheche by the chin to force him to look at her.

"How does it feel to be stabbed? Hmm? You're lucky my blades aren't poisonous... Yet, or you'd be dead meat by now" her smile got wide and scary, "you dare to hurt what's mine Cheche? I saved you and that's how you repay me?" The words coming from her were calm but painful for Cheche, he started to see his old master in Cleo and that terrified him a lot.

Tears started to fall down his cheeks, Cleo rose an eyebrow at him wondering why he was crying, "are you regretting what you did?" He nodded his head and choked from holding back so he let it all out after he answered the question.

He was afraid, he was very afraid that history will repeat itself and he'll be treated the same by Cleo. He thought she was different, he thought she was special, but they all were the same. They all made him think they were good, nice, and sweet, but in the end, they all hurt him physically mostly.

The place he was staying in that whole time was his and his previous masters' home. There, he was mistreated, whenever he made a mistake, his master would throw him in the basement with no food, and in case he was merciful, he'd give him little old food that cannot be eaten anymore.

His cries got louder making Cleo blink many times and look at her sand soldiers and dark eyes, they all sweated and sighed. Cleo asked them to leave and left them two alone, "I might be merciless, but I have limits too when I'm merciful and turn a blind eye to others' mistakes," she told him before she gave him back his ability to talk.

"P- Please have mercy on me ma- Master, hic- I- I wo- Won't do it again!! Just d- Don't put- Put me in the basement!!" He cried loudly and kept choking on some words, he held into Cleo and feared if he let go it'll be one of his old masters.

"What basement?" She gritted her teeth, and her eyes turned a whole black.

"Th- The basement back in that place y- You woke up in" Cleo's eyes opened wide and her voice suddenly disappeared, her vision became blurry, and her body started wobbling, "m- Master!!?" Cheche tried to hold her, but she pushed him away.

"Wh- What also did they do to you?" She stumbled while standing up, and her breathing started to get heavier, similar to the day she first received the mana and saw the story of what had happened on Earth until this day.

"The- They used to whip me until red marks showed and drops of blood came out of them, also they used to slap my back with a heavy piece of wood until I can't feel it and faint. Ah, they also used to cut my body in different places until I faint from blood loss, and-"

"Stop" she groaned and finally managed to stand on her feet. She turned to look back at Cheche who was trembling from fear as he watched Cleo's mana surrounding her and the same stitched smile showing up on her face's left side.

Tentacles held him still, cold sweat started to form, and his body was trembling from fear, "shhh, don't worry~ Everything will be ok" she whispered in his ear before she stabbed him in the heart, "umhhhhh!!! Omphhhhh!! Hnghhhh!! Uhmmm!!" Muffled screams and begs rose the deeper the blade went into his heart, but he lost it when old memories came back to the light. He started crying and move his body in different directions to escape, but the tentacles held him still.

"Don't worry-" Cleo looked him in the eye, "- I'm just helping you" she gave him the very same small smile she gave him when they first met.

Cheche tried to calm down, but the pain was unbearable and the sensation of all the punishments he had received came back to him. Every inch of him was begging for cold water from the heat of each stab, slap, scar, and even screams, shouts, and curses.

"Let it all out" the dark mana behind her got bigger and bigger and a big smile formed in the middle of it. He opened his eyes wide as tears kept streaming down his face before he finally fainted.