I felt the single skinny ring I had made to start my fourth circle snap in an instant and that was the only reason I lived. Mana was sucked from my body to plete the tract. The same amount that a sixth-circle mage would have. I didn’t have that much as aire circle's worth of magic was sucked free in about ten seds. I sat down and begaating.
It was a losing battle. I could feel my mana draining faster than I could recover it. Even in this mana-rich area with six collectors depositing mana, I couldn’t recover fast enough to equal out the drain. I refused to quit ahe tract fail though as I kept going, fighting against it. When I ran out of mana the pain ramped up to unimaginable levels. It made it almost impossible to meditate but my indomitable will made it at least possible.
I kept gaining mana which was draihe sed it entered my body. As I felt my ans start to shut down the tract finally was fulfilled. I coughed up blood as Solomon’s eyes fluttered and he fell over unscious. Superman who had been watg asked. “What happened?” I wiped the blood that was leaking from my eyes and nose off my face as I gave him an answer.
“He’s been starving for years. What do you do when you’re fed a big Thanksgiving meal? He’s sleeping peacefully for the first time in over a tury.” I felt like shit and was fading in and out of sciousness. Sleeping on my feet. I let them both know. “I’m… Gonna take a nap now. Don’t let this big guy run around until I wake up.” I barely made it to the bed before I colpsed.
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“I k!” I couldn’t help but speak out loud that one of the fan theories I had about Ben Grimm from The Fantastic Four was true. It didn’t make sehat his power was the only ohat couldn’t be toggled on and off like the others. A quick mental check let me know that it was based on a mental limit he pced on himself. All I had to do to fix… I should probably tell him what I want first.
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I walked into another hospital room after having tracked down someone I o make sure they weren’t part of the mind troller's pns. With a kno the door, I walked in with a big smile. The miserable look on her face as her broken leg was raised turo that of shock then fear as she reized me. I started the baffle just as she burst out into screaming.
“Hey now. None of that, I just want to check your head real quick to see if you know anything about the person I actually want to murder. You’re fine and I’ll even heal y if I find anything of value.”
Alice stopped screaming as I flooded her body with enough endorphins it was like she was on morphine. I began by cheg her memories and the mental pulsio on her. It was truly siing. I thought that the extra mental pulsions on Cassandra were bad but it was clear that the lohe person worked with the mind troller the more he would implement.
Many tradig ones were causing immeress on her already destroyed psyche to try and solve themselves. Most of his pulsions were for his own prote. She wouldn’t be able tnize him if he entered a room. If the man said certain code phrases she would bark like a dog or act like a rabbit or… The darker ones didn’t o be mentioned. He even gave her the pulsion to lure potential super-powered people through… Well, it was best to not say.
As I unraveled them I made sure to look through and see his face from the beginning. With this, I knew what he truly looked like before he gained many superpowers. I could only smile as my pns and a pattern of his methods came into my head. With this, I could start destroying his mini-empire one mind-trolled victim at a time.
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How did everything g so fast? One day he mao mind-trol most of the city's superhero and criminal anizations and the all of his pns y broken and scattered to the wind. The main two who he used tthen himself were killed and that was the start of his downfall. He mao have one of the men he had under mind trol figure out who did it.
Another one of us, of the huhwarted his pns and he couldn’t let that go unreciprocated. His inal pn was to get one of the man's female panions to lure him to a different location to mind-trol him . Using the same methods he had used against many others he thought everything would have gone smoothly but the man saw through it in an instant.
Not only did the man break his mental pulsions on those two the man started to systematically tear down any he came in tact with from then on. As if a hound with the st of blood he was relentless. Out of stubborn pride, the mind troller refused to leave the city as it would have shown he lost… Now he had grown tret not leaving the moment his other men were killed.
His works were crippled and in the few instances he saw the man w he wasn’t destroying them. No, he was taking over his criminal empire one brick at a time while freeing those under mental pulsions who then quickly turned against him. If he hadn’t moved locations the same day he tried to mind-trol the man he’d have been found out.
He could only y low for now until things blew over and then he would ambush the man when he finally dropped his guard. No matter owers he picked he couldn’t be good at everything. The mind troller only had so many powers because he had a team unwittingly w nonstop to get him more powers.
He wasn’t sure which sex sve he wao sample. He had grown fond of the heroes and vilins under his trol. The mahat raping people you knew from ics was just a different level than other women. He loved trying to choke them to unsciousness just as he asmed. The man loved making the heroes feel weak. He loved to do more evil things to the vilins because in his mind it's what they deserved.
A sudden explosion as half of the wall of one of the buildings was ripped off and three meered. The main problem person he had been thinking of how to destroy, was a giant undead zombie and an e stone maried to use his mental painst the three but they were useless against them. With a smirk, the man asked. “So, you’re probably w how I found out about you. Ben, you go and rescue the damsels in distress two floors down? I have to talk to him for about ten to fifteen minutes.”
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