CHAPTER 32: HELP ME FEEL AGAIN

Silas glared at the woman, watching as she gasped for air as her struggling weakened, then he released his grasp. She fell to the ground like a log of wood, unable to lift a finger.

Suddenly, she rolled from the ground to her feet. Silas sighed, watching as she charged at him, baring her rows of teeth at his face. He raised a hand before swinging it to the side.

Ether was picked off the air and flung into the wall, vomiting blood from her mouth. As she slid down to the ground, steam gushed out of the corners of her mouth, as she moaned.

"Huh?" Silas raised his brows in confusion, watching as she staggered to her feet. If the same attack was used on a regular human, they would have gotten squashed to a red paste.

’Yet, Ether still has the strength to stand on her feet and chuckle?’ Silas frowned, taking a cautious stance, then his eyes suddenly widened and he quickly tilted his head to the side.

A long, jagged gash was torn across the side of his face, and blood splattered across the ground. Silas lowered his eyes to stare at the blood, his pupils trembling, "What was that?"

He’d barely sensed the attack, and Ether hadn’t moved an inch, yet there was already a wound left on his face. If he hadn’t tilted his head instinctively then it would’ve killed Silas.

"I... must... hunt," she panted, spitting out her tongue and sniffing the air, taking steps forward as her body began to morph— her fingers growing into claws, and teeth elongating.

Ether shrieked, swinging her arms frantically and rushing for Silas. Silas sighed, feeling the unsettling feeling wrap around his heart, his pupils narrowing, ’Are my legs trembling?’

Before he could complete that thought, Ether was already upon him, and she swung all ten of her claws at his face. Silas’ heart raced as he hurriedly leapt back, but it was too late.

Her fingers scratched his face, leaving deep cuts, and spilling blood. The wounds on his face burned, and Silas’ expression turned serious as he observed the strange woman, "Hah."

His body began to shift, a layer of silver forming over his skin, hardening into a metal as he entered a fighting stance. He sighed, tightening his fists and glaring at her, "I apologise."

In a blink, his arm— reinforced with layers of metals —slammed into her guts, sending a surge of kinetic energy through her body and out her back, the strike lifting her off her feet.

As she hovered in the air, he withdrew his fist and stepped back. Silas watched as Ether fell to the ground, then he kicked her across the yard, sending her rolling into a distant halt.

Ether vomited blood from her nose and mouth, trembling from the shock traversing her body. After the shock relaxed, she sat up from the ground, her body sensors bursting apart.

Steam poured out of the broken sensors, shrouding her body. She laughed crazily, lifting herself up and taking a shaky step forward, "Harder! Hit... me... harder! I want... more!"

"So, she’s this crazy?" Silas turned to the side, grabbing her neck. Her claws sunk in his arm, causing blood to trickle to the ground. Silas pressed hard, hoping to snap Ether’s neck.

She tore her arms away from deep in his flesh, then began swinging them frantically to reach his face. Silas kept her at a far distance so her small claws could only scratch his arm.

As for Ether on the other hand, even though he couldn’t break her neck with his powers, she’d suffocate from the choke hold and collapse. He tightened his grasp, "Just die already."

"No." She replied, wrapping her hands around his arm and licking his knuckles with her tongue, her false flesh healing over her hidden serrated teeth. Then she grinned, "Harder..."

|JustinLovesFish— Kinda, freaky.

|ColdSeaSalt— She must be down bad.

Silas felt his hair stand on ends as a shiver hand down his spine. He could feel his skin crawl as she licked his hand with her tongue, ’No wonder she agreed to the condition then,’

Silas didn’t dare release his iron enhancement to use telekinesis, because he knew that she’d tear his arm off. He finally understood what all these things in her body was used for.

’In order to control this monster, they blocked off majority of her sensual abilities.’ Silas deduced as a bead of sweat rolled down his face, ’Something must’ve broke with the punch.’

He recalled the lining all across her bodysuit earlier— they were all messed up now and were leaking with a strange steam. Silas wondered who would train such a deadly monster.

"Has she collapsed?" Silas, who’d strangled her until her grasp on his hand fell, said in a suspicious voice. Even as he said that, Silas did not dare withdraw his grasp to figure it out.

Silas decided to just finish her off with disintegrate. As he slowly withdrew his metallic armour, and the layers of the body suit around her neck disintegrated, Ether’s eyes opened.

Before her neck was destroyed, she tore her neck away from his grasp. Silas gawked at her in shock, lowering his trembling pupils to stare silently at the flesh between his fingers.

At that instant, he’d defended himself again, but he hadn’t expected her to rip her neck out of his grasp like that. He watched her, confused, "You were waiting for me to break it?"

She grabbed the hole in the body suit, then ripped it open, spilling her breasts out to his confused gaze. Ether tore the sensors inside her body out, then he saw the source of steam.

|Hex_Revenger— Must not goon!

|MrOOtega— My eyes.

"Your body is constantly releasing heat?" he guessed, feeling that he just made a grave mistake. He tore his gaze away from her steaming breasts, then sighed, "Rookie mistakes."

"My eyes... I want to see again..." she didn’t seem to care about her naked upper body, returning to violent craze as she sniffed the air, staggering forth, "Can... you...help ...me?"