Chapter 98 – Carlos Visited
Thirty minutes after Mia had wiped out the ant nest, he finished collecting the loots into his inventory.
297 Worker Ant,
192 Nurse Ant,
477 Soldier Ant,
2 Queen Ant,
And one Ant King.
Those were the available carcasses that Mia could use. Unfortunately, Mia could not find anything else useful in the hive, and he did not want to waste his time here anymore.
Prometheus leaped out of the ant hole and landed next to the crater.
Upon landing, Mia found several black sedans parking nearby, waiting for him. As Prometheus turned to them, all black-suited bodyguards exited the vehicles, yet none of them showed hostility.
Mia watched them as he tilted his head to the side, "What are they doing here?"
*Mrrr?* (They are unarmed. It doesn't look like they've come here to fight.)
Soon, an elderly man got out of his vehicle, sitting on a wheelchair. One of his servants used a loudspeaker and relayed the old man's words.
"THE GOVERNOR OF MAFDET CITY AND THE FOUNDER OF MAFDET FEDERATION WISH TO TALK WITH THE MECH'S PILOT. WE'VE COME IN PEACE. PLEASE DON'T SHOOT!"
Mia was surprised to see a bigshot in-game this early. This was his second day in real life into the game, and he could see the city ruler already.
He giggled in his mind, 'I'm so good at gaming. Should I work as a professional gamer in the future?'
Several sighing echoed in Mia's mind.
'Huh? Why are all of you sighing? You're getting older each time you sigh, you know?'
[Haiz.]
[He's dense, isn't he?]
[After all this, he still hasn't realized it?]
"???"
Mia still did not know what his colleagues were talking about. Still, he operated his mech to kneel.
Since Mia could not see anything that could harm him at this point, he opened the mech's front hatch and leaped down from the robot.
Even after Mia got down, no one drew a weapon nor a gun. As before, every bodyguard stood attention.
"So, what do you want from me?"
One of the black suit men pushed Carlos wheelchair forward. The old man looked at Mia with a broad smile on his face.
"Child, I'm sorry. I'm already old, and I cannot hear clearly. Can you come closer?"
"…"
Letting down his guard, Mia walked closer to Carlos. He knelt beside the old man's wheelchair as if he was his child trying to listen to his grandfather.
The face of Carlos turned cold as he activated his overmind skill, Psionic Possession.
Mia's body shook as his mind was infiltrated. His eyes became blank as his conscience was pulled back into his inner mind space.
The soul of Carlos ventured into Mia's humongous white room. As soon as he saw the size of Mia's psyche, the old soul was astonished.
"Such psychic potential! I hit the jackpot! Once I get rid of her inner soul, this body and her potential will be mine!"
In glee, Carlos slipped into Mia's white room. When he could see the spacious interior, the delighted expression on his face turned into horror.
Instead of a blank white room, Mia's space had transformed into a bungalow resort. Ten plain white bungalow huts lined in rows at the sides, while the mind core was decorated into a statue with a swimming pool under it.
The statue was in the form of Misha, who was carrying the round core in her arms. As if it was designed to scare the intruders, the statue moved. She peered at Carlos with a cold grin.
In Mia's mind, 72 young girls in their teens were staring at him. Half of them had a mocking grin on their face, while the rest gestured a RIP prayer.
Noticeably, all of them had the same appearance as Mia!
Behind them, a three-meter cage locked a dozen young men behind bars. They also looked at Carlos in a pity.
[It was nice knowing you.]
[RIP in pepperoni.]
[The betting house is open. Will it be instant death, or he will join these prisoners?]
[Ten minutes on instant death.]
[I bet five minutes on prisoner!]
[Is there a third option? Can I bet that Maou Mia is going to torture him for an hour before he kills the geezer?]
Carlos was shocked once more as all girls ignored him and even mocked him in the open.
Infuriated, Carlos pointed his finger at them, gathering his power to kill the residual souls inside. Before his unleashed his psychic strength, a hand with a firm grip grabbed the back of his neck.
Mia's conscience was standing behind Carlos, and he was looking at the old man with a dark face.
Though Mia was usually slow when he was not in his combat mode, his inner self was always the Maou Mia whenever he entered this space.
"An interesting development. I've never thought that one of the locals is an overmind."
"Y-You're not a dragonewt! What are you!?"
A corner of Mia's mouth lifted, but his smile faded when his eyes noticed Carlos' finger.
"Those girls are under my protection. Your finger will dirty them."
Both arms of Carlos shattered into fragments, which they disintegrated into dust. Instead of disappearing to the wind, the core statue absorbed them.
"Your eyes frightened them."
Half of the old man's face splitted as Mia yanked his facial skins apart by poking into his eye sockets and peeling off everything he could pull.
Instead of a bloody scene, everything that separated from Carlos' body converted into dust and was eaten by the white statue.
"NOOO!!"
Although Carlos was injured, he mustered his strength and escaped from Mia's mental space. He rushed back to his old body in a panic.
In the outside world, Carlos pulled back his damaged soul into his body. Within one breath, the old wrinkled skins sweated all over as if he had just run 100km.
Lightheaded, the old man could not maintain his balance, and he collapsed from the wheelchair.
All bodyguards rushed to his side, while the others pulled out their guns and aimed at Mia's head.
"Kill her! She's a monster! Kill her!"
Terrified by Mia's inner conscience, Carlos screamed like a helpless old man.
Mia also regained his sense at the same time Carlos exited his body. As he had just exited from his inner conscience, Mia entered his Maou Mode right away.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
All bodyguards spammed their triggers, unleashing all AR and AP bullets at Mia's head.
*TINK*
*TINK*
*TINK*
Mia allowed them to hit him, which the bullet heads flattened as if they hit a stronger metallic plate. Since 9mm bullets were ineffective against his high VIT, he could use this endurance and toughness to his advantage.
Tama was about to use her tentacles to kill these men, but she felt that something was controlling her body.
Mia enabled his psionic link on Tama, controlling all her limbs and her blood vessels!
*MYA!* (I CAN'T CONTROL MY BODY!!?)
"Be quiet and let me use you."
Tama always used her six tentacles as weapons to slash or thrust into enemies. However, Mia was more creative and bolder than this inexperienced symbiosis.
Hundreds of Tama's blood vessels which merged into Mia's muscular system moved. They burst out of Mia's skin like pufferfish needles, stabbing into the surrounding 30 bodyguards in one move.
Had anyone seen Mia at this moment, they would have thought that Mia transformed into a porcupine as over a hundred needle-like orange tentacles extended from his body in straight lines.
The small blood vessel needles began draining all liquid in their body, absorbing all blood for Tama. Within five breath, all bodyguards became dried mummies.
"Remember this move, Tama. Be sure to use it when I ask in the future."
*MYA MEW!!* (That was freaking lit! I've never thought about using my blood vessels like that!)
"This move is originated by Alex Mercer. It's called Tendril Barrage Devastator"
*Meh* (Bad naming sense. At least, he should have made it more chuunibyou.)
"..."
Mia did not follow up with a punchline after Tama's joke. He withdrew all tentacles into his body and walked to the trembling old man.
He sat down beside Carlos, "Hello again. I want to play a game."