The days passed, and of course Vincent made a lot of progress, completely breaking a soul was a costly process, and it takes time, people with a pure soul, could endure centuries, a rare few even endure an eternity of pain and torture, without breaking his soul.
But that was clearly not the case for Alex, his physical behavior accurately demonstrates the clear level of corruption his soul is going through.
The first step was torture, subtle, exposure to the idea of death, fragility and inevitability of life, how fragile is the human body, the methods used were simple but efficient,
Death by loss of blood.
Hanging, set to happen as slowly and agonizingly as possible, suffocation putting the capacity of his lungs to the test, slow drowning to prolong the despair as long as possible.
Each session left him at the moment when, when all will to fight is gone, and acceptance of death made him give up on life, Vincent ended that session, leaving him to recover.
After all, hours in the spirit world are just minutes in the ordinary world.
In total 4 of these sessions were done in a single day.
During the first week one could notice the following effects: depression, lack of appetite, he became less active, barely leaving his cell, psychosis, hallucinations, and his soul was more unstable, leading to the next stage.
In the following weeks, the subject of tortures was violence, all kinds of physical violence, burning alive, skinning, at the end of a session Vincent would gently prepare a meal for Alex, using one of his limbs, forcing him to eat his own flesh. .
Which greatly increased his aggressiveness, in the fourth week he fought with another detainee, and was isolated in solitary confinement.
Vincent took advantage of this moment to make his stay even worse, even bandits, there are people who cherish, and who love, even Alex was not spared.
Alex was tied up to watch his loved ones brutally tortured in front of him while he could do nothing but beg to stop it, leaving him at his lowest point.
His situation in the real world did nothing to alleviate the despair of his soul, alone in that solitary cell, it left him more and more broken.
When Vincent had already tried out all the classic methods of sadism and torture, and running out of ideas, he felt he was ready for the next act.
After a session, torturing a man who looked like Alex but older, his father.
Walking in front of Alex, Vincent tapped his cane on the ground in order to get his attention.
Vincent " You want this to stop... of course we can stop, you just have to torture that guy…" Vincent created an illusion of another criminal, with equally rotten criminal record.
Alex " If I torture him, will you let me die, in peace?" He replied sheepishly, as if he didn't believe the words of this monster.
Alex in his mind, he was broken, he couldn't even decide what was reality or hallucination, he knows he was tortured to death for... he doesn't know how long, the strangest thing was that he didn't actually die.
In fact, all damage disappeared and everything started again, and again, he didn't want anything else just for everything end, even dying, it would be just relief.
Vincent " Of course, after this is all over you can finally rest." He says as he approaches the other prisoner's illusion, and materializes a table with many tools, pliers, scalpel, hammers, firearms, all man-made tools like means for creation, treatments, defense, but here they would be used only to inflict pain and destroy the victim.
Alex's bonds came loose, and the first thing he did was run towards his father, his illusion to be precise, but Alex didn't know..
After a quick check he approached the table, observing the tools, in the corner of the table there was a pistol, without thinking twice he grabbed it, without thinking twice he shot the masked man.
Alex "Die asshole" screaming while unloading all shots.
But it was useless, the bullets stopped in the air a few centimeters from the masked man, floating in the air.
Vincent "You are not being so cooperative Mr Turnbull, This calls for punishment" Using the bullets still floating, Vincent shoots him at his father's illusory form, staging his death.
The bullets pierced, his heart, leg and one of his eyes, at the last moment the illusion turned to Alex, and looked into his eyes, with judgmental eyes, as if he was accusing that this is all his fault.
Similar scenes played out throughout the week with other delusional members of Alex's family.
Until he surrendered, following his tormentor's will.
Following the processes that were used on his own body, he began to torture the illusion prisoner, this act seemed to have an effect on Alex.
Alex developed ecstasy, and even contained sadistic smiles, tormenting that man, made him feel relief, he found that he liked it very quickly.
The routine continued, until he got out of solitary confinement, to the people outside, he seemed calm, it made them feel strange, this shouldn't be how a person who got out of solitary confinement should act, more relieved, not giving a damn. due attention to this.
Fatal mistake of the guards, on a night of the same day of his release from solitary confinement, he gained access to the person that he was torturing, every day in his hallucinations,
He could not say that the man in front of him was real or not.
But for him it didn't matter.
As if by divine will, he ended up as his cellmate, courtesy of a certain little mouse, who altered some records, simulated some orders.
Here he didn't have the tools, but it didn't matter, during the night after his roommate fell asleep, Alex rightly came at him, staring him down, knocking him out, with a rear-naked choke.
When the man woke up, he was contained in his bed, tied with the sheets, and in front of him was Alex, in his hands were objects, A pen, pieces of toothbrush, a plastic spoon.
Alex meticulously restrained the Man's mouth with cloths and began the torture as he always did.
Using a plastic spoon, he gouged out one of his eyes, the other prisoner almost fainted from the pain, pity for him, maybe he would have spared him what is to come...
Some hours later
Guards arrived and saw a bloody scene in one of the cells, Alex is over the remains of the other prisoner, he was watching and, catatonic, as if waiting for something to happen.
Alex "he will heal, it won't take long" he affirms while looking at the policemen, with a calm expression, but his eyes showed his madness.
Guard "contain him and send him to the doc, standard procedure." This shit had to happen right on his watch, but as a seasoned cop who's worked years as a prison guard, he kept his composure.
Guard 2 " Sir, what the fuck happened to that... that's not Mister Turnbull, who was released from solitary confinement Today? "his stomach was churning, the scene in front of him was really horrible, he's used to dead bodies, but that's too much even for him.
They contained Alex, sending him to the medical wing, accompanied by two guards, it was normal for an individual to freak out in solitary confinement, but this was extreme.
The doctor who analyzed him, found that he had serious mental damage, and could not be close to the other detainees, in the end he was restrained and sent to the solitary cell again.
While contacting an asylum, to find a place for him there.
But they don't have to.
Vincent went again, that night, finally ending he could feel it, that Alex's soul was almost completely cracked, it lacked a little push, and that was murder, the result was better than he planned.
In the cell he had handwritten in his own blood from his delusions, Phrases of I'm going to kill mister T., They heal, daydreams, senseless...
He was lying on the floor.
The black cloud completely envelops him, forcing him into the dream world, his demonic energy was used, to further shatter the soul, while feeding on the smallest fragments, in the end only a lifeless body in a terrible state was left.
The soul absorbing process was an interesting experience, he saw as a spectator, all of Alex's memories and life experience, up to that point, that was like watching a movie of a person's life, each fragment contained different memories, after absorbing everything , he can feel that something has changed inside him.
changed forever
Author's notes: Artas here, with that ends the first arc, I had a lot of different ideas for all of this, I wanted Vincent to have a personality development, I don't think a slacker, could suddenly become a Slytherin, An ideal Slytherin that has cunning, resourcefulness, leadership and ambition. At first he didn't take anything too seriously, he thought he would have time and he could live in peace, so he needed a scare, my original idea would just be a scare, but I ended up getting excited, and I put on a big battle with the main names of HP, I liked that part.
My regret, is that I could not demonstrate the impact of all this on him, to the point of resorting to extreme methods such as torture devouring souls sinking into the demonic side, which will bring harm later.
Finally the next arc he goes to the magical world, Thanks everyone, any tips please contact me.