Chapter 345

Chapter 299: Killing Desire

“This thing… is one of the results of research, made from brains and nerves… it can release spiritual influence-type extraordinary abilities and is a wonderful invention belonging to the ‘Butcher’! Because of my achievement in subduing Dalena, Lord Duval awarded this to me. Recently, I’ve been pondering how to use this thing to capture you too and earn another merit… hehehe…”

Holding up the brain jar scepter, Alex proclaimed, as if showcasing some victorious achievement. Seeing his smug demeanor and the terrifying scepter in his hand, and recalling the face of her former teacher, Adele’s anger became uncontrollable. In an instant, her emotions were ignited, and the flames of rage ultimately transformed into a desire.

k*ll him! k*ll that b*stard who committed such a cruel act against my teacher and is now gloating about it! Shred him into pieces and make others pay!

“d*e!!”

Faced with the smug Alex, gritting her teeth, Adele roared in anger. She launched herself at Alex like an arrow released from a bow, aiming to tear him apart with her bare hands.

Upon witnessing this scene, Alex’s smile grew even wider.

‘Finally erupted… your desire, your anger…’

Seeing Adele’s furious action, Alex tightened his grip on the brain jar scepter and activated its ability. As a faint light emanated from the brain at the top of the scepter, the Desire Dancer’s ability that originally belonged to Dalena was unleashed in Alex’s hands. He redirected the target of her overwhelming killing desire to herself.

Suddenly, the rushing Adele came to a halt, her eyes widening in disbelief as one trembling hand reached out, forming a kn*fe-like shape. Then, she abruptly drove it towards her own heart. A spray of bl**d blossomed on her chest as her right hand plunged directly into her left breast, into her heart.

Dumbfounded, Adele looked down at her mangled chest, bl**d spilling from her lips. The light in her eyes gradually dimmed; she tried to say something but couldn’t. Eventually, she collapsed heavily to the ground, her head lolling lifelessly as her hand, inserted into her heart, slipped out from the bloodied cavity. Even as a White Chalk Tier’s extraordinary being, she could not survive once her heart stopped beating.

Watching this scene, Alex staggered over, his smile twisting even more as he looked at the beautiful corpse lying on the ground. Despite the beast form, the smug expression on his face became extremely exaggerated.

“Hehe… the Desire Dancer ultimately died from desires she couldn’t control. Isn’t this a satire, Adele? Someone who cared too much about Dalena could never win against me from the start…

“No need to provoke, uncontrollable intense desires… that is the best target for the Desire Dancer…”

Alex spoke to the deceased Adele. For a Desire Dancer, the stronger the enemy’s emotions, the better; the more extreme the desires and the greater the anger, the easier it is to manipulate. There’s no need to provoke desires that swell to their ultimate heights—manipulating such desires would be quite easy for the Desire Dancer.

The main abilities of the Desire Dancer are twofold: Desire Expansion and Desire Guidance. Desire Expansion evokes weak desires and gradually inflates them to their peak, while Desire Guidance shifts the target of desires onto something else.

For a Desire Dancer, it is quite easy to provoke and guide ordinary people’s desires. However, it becomes much harder with higher-tier extraordinary beings, as it requires dance to stimulate the gradual increase of desires. Otherwise, only small guidance and minor stimuli can be done. For example, before, Alex used the scepter to enhance the spiritual influence from fear, prompting the captains to retreat a bit further. Earlier at the Charred Wood Intersection, he guided Edmond’s doubts towards Adele, a person who already seemed somewhat suspicious.

This means that the Desire Dancer’s abilities have limited effects on high-tier extraordinary beings if there hasn’t been a long accumulation of dance. Immediate release abilities cannot achieve the level of making a high-tier extraordinary being commit s*icide on the spot.

However, Adele’s situation was different. Her extreme anger and killing desire were not triggered by the ability; they erupted from her own anger over Dalena’s situation. This killing desire and fury reached their peak without any influence or manipulation, and once her rationality was burned away by her fury, Adele’s ability to maintain spiritual control drastically declined.

Faced with an Adele overflowing with killing desire and diminished mental control, Alex directly used Dalena’s ability to redirect her target, prompting Adele’s s*icide.

For the Desire Dancer, the more uncontrollable emotions one has, the more dangerous it becomes. Realizing that Adele’s target was Dalena, the initially panicked Alex felt no urgency at all because he held the trump card regarding Dalena’s current status. He knew that when Adele saw her beloved teacher’s condition, she would lose control of her emotions. As long as Adele lost control, with some of the desire manipulation capabilities he possessed, he had nothing to fear.

“Hey… I knew you wouldn’t be able to control your killing desire, Adele… your fate has long been sealed; I’ve been looking forward to this moment for a long time…”

Standing before Adele, Alex grinned maliciously, surveying Adele’s body, greed evident on his features.

“But… I have to thank you properly… for delivering a grand feast to me at such a time… hehehe… I’ve long wanted to taste your flavor…”

Saying this, Alex, still in his werewolf form, leaned down towards the fallen Adele, beginning to sniff at her fragrance closely, drool uncontrollably pouring from his mouth.

“Then… where should I start? The white neck first…”

Opening his bl**d-filled maw, Alex prepared to feast on Adele’s corpse, but at that moment, Adele—who should have been lifeless—suddenly moved her previously wide-open eyes, turning them to glare at the gigantic black wolf nearby. Alex was momentarily stunned.

“Aw!!!”

A piercing wolf howl echoed through the small woods as the once-crouched giant werewolf was struck with tremendous force, his entire right arm torn off, bl**d spraying from the severed limb.

Adele slowly stood up, holding the enormous beast arm she had ripped off, coldly prying the wolf claw apart to retrieve the brain jar scepter that Alex had always held.

At this moment, a heart was vigorously beating within Adele’s left chest.

……

In another far-off place, on a street corner in the western Tivyán, Dorothy sat in her carriage, gently stroking a red gemstone scepter. The scepter was engraved with the pattern of “Amniotic Sac Holding Gift,” which was none other than the Heart-Eating Staff Sword that Dorothy had obtained from Lu’e.

“I never expected this thing to work here, and its passive effect can even be transmitted by spiritual threads.”

Touching the red gemstone on the scepter, Dorothy murmured.