Everything will be my way!

Up close, Lanatelle, completely captured by the process of transformation, looked pale and fragile, like a fallen petal of a white rose. She did not emit the usual oppressive imperious aura, which made her seem just a very beautiful woman.

However, she was surrounded by two contradictory auras: scorching heat and chilling cold. However, in fact there was no contradiction. This cold had nothing to do with temperature. It did not freeze, but absorbed everything it came into contact with: desires, emotions, and even god's laws. And, unlike what Valeera radiated, it seemed complete - the limit of the perfection of the void.

No living being in the universe will be able to resist this aura – as well as the one that the element of time radiates. Under its influence, the victim will experience apathy, and with prolonged contact, one will fall into depression and even lose the meaning of life. Only Kyon could neutralize the impact of "The Child of the Void", normalizing his condition with Synergy.

He wanted to touch the woman's forehead in order to impose a formation, but he stopped himself. How could he act so carelessly at such an important moment? Given the empress' personality, acting rashly was like chasing death.

At first, Lovr poured Synergy into Lanatelle's head and started searching for formations, but, as expected, he found nothing. Inactive formations are as visible as a needle in a haystack, especially if they belong to a sovereign phaser at the peaking stage.

Fortunately, over the past month, Kyon has bought through the Golden Pig guild almost all formations that could be of any use, and even ordered several unique ones that no one in their right mind would create. The scanning formation created by the legendary formacist was among them.

This formation allowed one "to borrow" the spiritual sense of the overlord phaser for a minute. With its help, it is possible not only to feel the true development of the soul through the objects of concealment (if they are not powerful enough), but also to scan the area for traps, barriers and formations. And this splendor cost the young man 250 million.

After activating the formation, all sorts of information rushed into Kyon's head in a powerful stream. He even felt the specks of dust at the far end of the room! Every pore on the face of the empress… And, of course, with difficulty, but he found the formation placed on her head.

{I knew it!} – there was delight in his eyes. He made a useful purchase!

What was the formation on her head? Obviously, protection from a subordinate formation.

Kyon took out of the ring another extremely useful thing, created to order for obscene money – "The Annihilator". Its essence lies in the fact that it destroys any formations in a small radius, created even by sovereign phasers. He had already used such a formation once when he rescued Valeera from the department. He liked it, so he ordered it.

Lovr placed the formation on the head of the empress and activated it…

The minute allotted for the action of the previous formation had not yet ended, so Kyon managed to make sure that "The Annihilator" removed the formation from the woman's head.

It was time to start!

Kyon involuntarily remembered the story of Martin from the mine. He told how one man managed to enslave a queen who surpassed him by a phase. He considered that story a fiction… Now he was subjugating not even the queen, but the empress, who surpassed him by 4 phases! Thus, an epoch-making event was taking place at that very moment.

Holding his breath, Lovr began to impose the subordinate formation…

Subjugating a living being is an art. Subordinating formations are different. Some affect the hormonal system, others affect the area of the brain responsible for decision making or motor skills, and some even affect the subconscious mind.

All types of subordinating formations have different effectiveness depending on the choice of the subdued creature. So, for example, due to the fact that supreme beasts are guided by instincts, formations that affect the area of ??the brain responsible for making decisions practically do not work on them - and this is the most common type of formations. That is why it is believed that it is impossible to truly subdue the supreme beast without an arcanum.

It would certainly be foolish to impose a formation that affects hormones on an extremely rational person like Lanatelle - she will resist the order.

The knowledge of the past world allowed Kyon to create the most effective formation for any living being - the one that affects the subconscious. However, for some reason it worked poorly for Juno… Because of a strong-willed disposition? No. The will is weaker than the subconscious. It's something else. Sometimes the girl seemed to make a decision based on something else…

In any case, this formation should work perfectly for Lanatelle.

A thread of energy stretched to the woman's forehead and gradually formed a slot… Then he began to put energy inside it, forming a flawless formation.

Given the perfect structure of the slot and the compactness of the formation, not everyone will be able to notice it. So, for example, after applying the formation to Juno, even Bai, a noble phaser at the 10th stage, could not feel it by scanning, although he would have been able to do it if he looked closely. But, according to the guy's calculations, only practitioners 4 phases higher will be able to notice his formations, that is, in this case, the sovereign phasers at the 9th stage. However, considering the gap between the phases, it turns out that even a sovereign phaser at the 5th stage will be able to detect the formation. This means that he will have to forbid Lanatelle to appear in high-ranking empires or to host powerful guests, because any formation or mark on the forehead is a great humiliation, a real stigma. And since the empress wears one, then something is wrong here - that's about what everyone will think.

That's why when the 0th general, being Fernand, felt the formation on Juno's forehead in the Grands' palace, he immediately assumed that the messenger of the goddess used the girl, which meant he did not appreciate her. Which, however, did not prevent him from double-checking this information, giving the guy the task to control the Token wedding between her and Roman.

Some time passed, and the subordinate formation was finally imposed.

Kyon was in no hurry to start dancing with joy. Anything could happen. He left the area surrounded by the phoenix barrier, entering the astral, and sat down in a corner. He could only wait.

~br-r-r~

The stomach kindly reminded the owner that not a crumb had been in it for several days, and it was time to eat. Lovr took out a juicy piece of meat, but someone's annoying piercing roar prevented him from concentrating. He had to put a soundproof barrier over the trap chasm.

The days followed each other.

Kyon regained his former physique and thought carefully about the whole story with Valeera and the 0th general. Where exactly did he make a mistake? Could he have prevented the tragedy with his wife? Could he have predicted that her fate was being prudently managed? Definitely not. It was not possible to trace the spy-Alexander until his death. As for the formation in the cracked mirror that Weber always wore around her neck, with his development, he could not detect it in any way.

It turned out that it was a mistake that he decided to cooperate with the 0th general, and did not go to the sects? No. The guy chose the most reasonable option at that time. He did not know that the Fat sect was directly connected with the Golden Pig guild and the Bakers, so he believed that all three sects and Rosarrio could provide him with the same power and resources.

In addition, the management of the empire was much more suitable for Kyon than recruiting people in order to further turn them into devoted fanatics to fight threats from outside.

Firearms, as well as the planned expulsion of demons, that is, two significant services for the empire, could be added to this. The desire to take revenge on Kara and return the debt to Valeera. In general, the choice was extremely obvious and unambiguous.

But where did he go wrong? Lovr found three answers.

Firstly, he should not have made a whole event out of the enslavement of Julia for Franz. If everything had gone quietly, and no one would even have realized what had happened, then the 0th general would not have been able to connect Franz with him, which means he would not have been able to suspect him of an imminent robbery.

Secondly, if he had robbed the Feruzs treasury much later, after arriving and registering at Dantes, and having provided himself with an airtight alibi, no one would have suspected him for sure. But he hurried. However, this haste by a happy coincidence saved his life – the attacking formations of the Feruzs allowed him to kill a very strong demon, and the defensive ones – to gain precious time.

Thirdly, that event with the capture of Valeera and "The Dark Baron" by Elsa in the warehouse… He underestimated his sister. He should have asked her to follow him at all, and it didn't matter that she would have found out that he worked in a criminal organization. However, if all this had not happened, it is unknown how long he would have had to pretend to be Zosimos.

The change in the energy flows emanating from Lanatelle brought Kyon out of his thoughts. By some indications, he noticed that the final phase of the transformation had come. However, not a single muscle trembled on the woman's face. It was weird. She should be feeling a burning rage right now… Had "The Child of the Void" absorbed those emotions? Did this mean that she would successfully break into the overlord phase?

A few hours later, Lovr felt a powerful pulse of energy, resembling a mighty tide. If earlier the total amount of the empress' energy was comparable to a huge lake, now it is comparable to the sea! That's how huge the gap between the sovereign and overlord phases is. The volume of his energy can hardly be compared to a pond. But the most interesting thing is that all this sea is now subordinated to the unsightly-looking pond!

A minute later there was another pulse of energy. The sea seemed to have increased by a third.

{She broke right into the second stage…} – Kyon fell into some confusion. On the one hand, he wanted to see her face when she failed, but on the other hand, now she is in his complete power, so it doesn't matter what the result will be.

A minute later, Lovr's eyes widened: another pulse of energy came out from Lanatelle, which was another third higher than the previous one! But that wasn't all…

Five minutes later, Kyon was sitting, numb, with his head thrown up, and staring blankly at the ceiling. Even obtaining the 3rd stage immediately after the transformation was considered impossible, but Lanatelle immediately became the overlord phaser at the 5th stage!

During the last impulse, it seemed to him that he was doused by the tide not of the sea, but of a small ocean that could sweep away any mountains in its path. Even the clouds over Dantes parted in all directions! Having transformed into the overlord phase, the woman significantly increased the amount of energy in her soul. However, this did not say much about her strength, because now she would have killed even a hundred of her old copies without any problems.

Kyon just made sure that the 0th general wasn't exaggerating when he said that divine artifacts compared to "The Child of the Void" with three shocks were trash. The impact of the universal laws that bind the soul during the transformation is too great!

{Too much… This is too much…} – he still could not come around from what he saw.

As soon as Lanatelle's eyelashes fluttered, a distinct voice rang out.

?I order you to do nothing.?

Time seemed to have stopped. Some noble phaser gives an order to the overlord phaser, who also bears the title of the bloody empress… Even a madman wouldn't believe that. Nevertheless, the woman did not open her eyes, and her heart was pounding furiously, which could only mean one thing: she was in shock and could not disobey.

Kyon calmed down and began to give dozens of different orders, depriving her of the opportunity to act freely, as he once did with Juno after enslavement.

At last he got to his feet and sternly ordered: ?Come here!?

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