Conquering The Game's World

(A.N: Some torture scenes in the chapter ahead.)

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Alicia's opponent was powerless to fight back, and she ended up freezing all his limbs. Due to frostbite, he became unconscious. Diana's opponents had their faces disfigured and swollen blue by the time they had surrendered. Their fight lasted only a few minutes from start to finish, resulting in the defeat of those criminals suspected of mass kidnapping.

After gathering all the five men together. Alicia froze all their limbs into ice blocks, rendering them unable to try anything. Not that they were in any condition to do so.

"Alicia, remove the ice cage," Luis said, pointing at the ice dome-like structure behind them.

"I'm on it, Luis." Alicia waved her hand, expressing that she understood.

*Snap*

Then she snapped her fingers and withdrew the magic that she had cast over the drums for protection. The ice cage and ice blades crumbled and then disintegrated into thin air, leaving behind a slight chill in the surrounding temperature.

Luis took a heavy breath and stepped towards those drums. While Diana and Alicia followed behind.

"It's sealed with some kind of weird material," Luis muttered as he raised his hand. He used the electric currents flickering on his fingers with expert precision to unseal the closest container drum delicately.

Just as he removed the seal to look inside, Luis' body trembled, and his expression became dark. There were three unconscious beast-kin children huddled tightly in the small space of the drum. There were visible bruises on their bodies.

Luis clenched his fists and asked in a low voice.

"Lily, scan their condition?"

{The scan is complete! Master! The overdose of hallucination herbs has drugged the kids unconscious. The bruises on their bodies are because of the tight space inside the container and the beatings they have received. Their bodies are sweaty because of suffocation and hunger.}

When he heard this, Luis became even more angry. But he suppressed his rage, as taking the children out of the drums was the priority. He gently took out the unconscious kids and laid them on the grass nearby.

Alicia and Diana, who saw the state of the children, became furious and glared at the kidnappers with immense hatred.

"We will deal with them later. Let's take out the kids first." Luis said with a serious expression while suppressing the killing intent inside him.

"Yes." Alicia and Diana nodded in understanding and got to work.

Here, there were 8 drums in total. In all of them, they kept together 2 to 4 kids from the age group of 3 to 11. In total, 22 kidnapped kids were kept here.

After bringing them out, Luis asked Lily to check them all and, as expected, all their conditions were the same. They were all unconscious because of the overdose of hallucination herbs.

"These bastards are inhumane." Alicia gritted her teeth in anger.

Diana was also angry at the kidnappers. From Luis and Alicia's reaction, she understood that the hallucination herb mentioned by Lily had some terrible effects and the unconscious state of all the children made her worry.

"Luis, what is this hallucination herb? Will the children be okay?"

With a grave expression on his face, Luis sighed and said, "I can only hope that the kids will be fine after they wake up."

"What do you mean?! Is that thing so dangerous?!" Diana's eyes widened.

Luis nodded with a heavy expression. "Lily, explain it to her."

{Yes, Master!} With his order, Lily's voice sounded, and she started explaining to Diana. {Excess intake of hallucination herbs stops the neurons from working, which causes serious mental disorders or even brain hemorrhage that's difficult to recover even after using high-grade potions. In the worst case, the victim might never wake up and will be stuck forever in the world of dreams. Even after waking up, there's a possibility of having schizophrenia, which makes it difficult for them to return to their daily lives.}

"…" Diana's brain shut down for a moment, but she nodded, nonetheless. "I see. That's troublesome." She turned to look at Luis and Alicia with a serious face and asked, "Then what are we going to do? Is there a way to stop those things from happening? I don't want the children to suffer."

"None of us want them to suffer," Alicia added. "Luis, do you have a way to help them?"

Luis nodded. "I have something in mind. However, we must save the rest of the kids first."

As soon as those words left Luis' mouth, the three of them glared at the five kidnappers who had woken up.

"Alicia, you go call Miss Mira and Professor Olivia to come here. By that time, I and Diana shall do some interrogation."

"Oh, I love this idea! My hands are itching to beat them up!" Diana clutched her fist, showing a fierce expression.

Alicia also wanted to beat these kidnappers, but thought that Diana was suited for this job better. Anyway, she could join them after she made the call.

"Diana, grab this one first," Luis said, pointing at the one that Diana had beaten to submission.

"N-no, d-don't come near me."

"Okay!" Diana walked over with a fierce expression and clutched his neck. "L-let me *cough* go." The kidnapper struggled to speak in a choked voice.

Luis used his lightning to melt the Ice covering his hands and made sure that the kidnapper's senses weren't numb because of the frostbite. Then he said with an expressionless face. "Diana, I'll ask him questions. If he refuses to answer, break his fingers one by one."

"Leave it to me," Diana said with a wide grin that scared the kidnapper, who had already been the victim of her beatings.

"L-let… me… go."

"Okay, let's not waste any time. Here's the first question. Where are the rest of the kids?" Luis folded his hands, and his sharp eyes observed him with scrutiny.

"…*gasp*…I…" Looking at the kidnapper's state, Luis was speechless and complained. "Diana, leave him enough breath to speak. You will suffocate him to death."

"Ah! My bad. I couldn't hold back from wanting to kill him. Just looking at them, I'm barely suppressing the urge to beat them to death." Diana apologized as she loosened her grip on his neck a little.

When he heard her reason, Luis sighed while thinking. 'Hm, well, can't say I don't understand her. Because I'm feeling the same. But we need information from them. If it wasn't for Professor Olivia, I would have already used my illusion magic.'

With his perception, Luis had already noticed that Professor Olivia was watching their fight from around 150 meters away.

'*Sigh* Let's just do so with the interrogation method for now.'

'But seriously, if she knows that the fight is already over. Shouldn't she come here by now? Is she waiting for us to call her?'

Luis shook his head, not thinking about this matter anymore, and focused on the interrogation.

"Answer my question or lose your first finger. Make your choice fast." Luis sounded impatient, and his expression was cold.

"I… can't tell you." The kidnapper said with a scared expression.

Luis rubbed the back of his head and became annoyed. "So troublesome! Diana, break his finger!"

"Okay!"

"N-No, no, no, no, wait! Don't do that! Listen to me!"

Diana, of course, didn't listen to his pleas. She grabbed the forefinger of his left hand and twisted it to snap it and then, using her strength, she pulled it to tear it off from his hand, causing immense pain again.

"STTOOPPP ITTT!"

"AH! AHHH! AAAAHHHHHH!"

"YOU BASTARDS!"

"AAAHHH!"

Even after hearing his screams, Luis and Diana didn't feel any pity for him and just observed him with neutral expressions.

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Alicia, who had just ended the call, informing Mira and Olivia about the situation, also heard this scream. 'Have they already started?'

Because of the painful screams, a slight frown appeared on her face. But when she saw the unconscious children near her and thought of the terrible condition, those kidnappers had put them in. Alicia's heart became cold again.

'I should better freeze them to death.'

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The kidnapper was still screaming and crying because of the pain, but stopped abruptly when he heard Luis' next words.

"Diana, he is wasting our time with all his crying. Next finger, please." Luis said with a plain expression, and his tone sounded impatient.

"Sure, another finger coming right up!" Diana smiled and, in the fearful eyes of the kidnapper, she grabbed his next finger.

"D-don't do that!" He pleaded.

"Then just answer my question. Your fingers will be safe." Luis said with a smile that seemed friendly and dangerous at the same time.

When the kidnapper heard this, his eyes dimmed, and he gritted his teeth. "I can't answer your question. Otherwise…"

"Otherwise, what?"

"…"

"Do it, Diana."

*Snap*

"AAAHHH!"

…

"Next finger."

*Snap*

"AAAHHH!"

…

"Next."

…

One by one, the kidnapper lost 7 fingers in succession.

Luis came forward to grab the kidnapper, who was on the verge of passing out because of pain. Giving him a jolt of electric current to keep him from passing out, he asked with a cold expression. "Now tell me, otherwise what?"

The kidnapper, who came back to his senses because of the jolt, had a half-dead expression on his face. He had enough of the pain, and he knew the torture wouldn't stop anytime soon. From the looks of Luis and Diana, he was certain that it would become even more painful.

"*sob* Please stop this… No more… you want answers, right? Then here's the reason I wasn't telling you." The kidnapper felt his heart beating faster because he knew his fate once he uttered the next words. But he had already made his decision.

With tears bawling down his eyes, he said, while accepting his death.

"I can't tell you anything because there's a spell placed on u-"

*Boom! *

*Splash*

The kidnapper couldn't complete his sentence as a strange magic energy circulated inside him and the next moment, his head burst out splattering blood in all directions, leaving behind a headless corpse.