" This ring! I have seen it before but where did I saw it? " Ryan tried to ponder where he had seen such a ring but the power of the ring only made him even more confused making his head pound hard in pain.
He raised his head to see the face of this beautiful woman that was driving him mad but what he saw left him aghast and horrified. His knees buckled bringing him on his knees while his body shivered fearfully as he quickly withdrew his stare from her. He was wide awake! He can't help but wished he was never there as he can not even stand up to walk away. His body was out of energy that even moving his fingers about was a strenuous task to him due to the sudden fear that struck his soul and suppression from the high being.
" I have to get out of this place this instant. " He cried internally. " What did I saw? Is it even real..."
The face of the woman was veiled in the dark energy, so he didn't chance to see her pretty face but above her head on the dark red wall that look like the inside of the intestines, there was a skull of a goat with an upside down cross on its forehead.
What frightened him was not this skull but the thing above the skull. A vortex that leads to ' I don't know where ' took the space above that skull. This ' I don't know where ' place was blazing with fiery red flames that had turned the place hellish. The scary thing about this flame was that it burns his ethical side changing him to an evil being just by staring at it alone. It also made his previous evil deeds appear more vivid and in an exaggerated way that came back to haunt him. This feeling left him with despair and loneliness which made him shiver uncontrollably with fear.
The throne of the woman was made completely of humanoid bones showing her supremacy in front of her audience. Ryan can feel a faint soul energy of the humanoid beings flickering in the skulls that decorated her armchair.
" What do you want from me? " He finally asked the evil woman disgustingly.
" I want you to serve me and all these would be yours. " She said calmly her voice sounding in the whole space as if she was close yet far away from him. Thousands of powerful stones appeared out of nowhere in front of her. The stones themselves bended the very space around them and gleamed in their different original colours.
Seeing this, greed flashed through his eyes and he felt as if he was being pulled by an invisible thread towards the stones. The evil woman nodded satisfyingly at his reaction as a confident look appeared on her face as if she has already bagged his prey.
Those were saint tier stones after all. If he got his hands on them, he can easily manipulate over hundred empires on par with the Elven empire, not to mention that his cultivation stage will soar to the heavens quickly with these resources.
Ryan gnashed his teeth agitatedly just imagining several empires on his mercy. He felt like he had gone insane with desire and almost accepted to be taken by her before coming back to his senses.
" I appreciate your generosity but I am not interested. I don't want to be bound like a dog, freedom is priceless afte all. " He said unwillingly with a strangled voice while clenching his fist tightly. Even if the allure of power was so tempting, he can't make a deal with this woman. He didn't know how it will end after all. What if he ended up like those humanoid souls impresoned by her?
The evil woman was disappointed by him before she gritted her teeth and put her pride aside and asked him impatiently in a flirty manner, " What if I add myself to the equation? Serve me and I will be yours, come to our side and we will invest fully to your boundless potential. "
" This! "
Why was she adamant on pulling me to her side? Did she fall for me at first sight?
" I will pass, yes! I will pass, yeah. I will pass..." He chanted forcefully fearing that he may change his mind the next instance.
The dark space disappeared together with her as if it had never appeared leaving a lunatic Ryan still chanting ' I will pass. '
He snapped and run for the vortex which was in front of him leaving the dimension...