Chapter 203: From Lag to Disconnection

Chapter 203: From Lag to Disconnection

Inside the battered, broken room, with his hat fallen to one side and his clothing damaged, Klein faced the enormous demon Gilchies, whose back bore bat-like wings, from a distance of roughly four meters. The scene was so quiet it seemed as if they were performing a puppet show.

In truth, Klein still had some spare capacity to do other things.

Back when the Marionettist Rosago had forcefully controlled both him and Sharron, he had been able to resist the projection possession of a Wraith while manipulating flames, summoning a stream of fire, and annihilating the shadows Sharron had drawn over. If Rosago had not made the mistake of focusing mainly on Miss Sharron, a Sequence 5 Wraith, he would long since have found a chance to kill Klein and would never have given him the opportunity to use the Foulness Charm. Now, although Klein certainly could not compare to Rosago, his enemy was only one person!

Of course, the things he could do were not especially many. Under the premise of not abandoning control over Gilchies, he could move, but not too hastily or too quickly. He could use the Beyonder abilities that belonged to himself and did not place too much burden on his spirituality, but he could not split his attention to drive the mystical items he carried, nor could he make a large movement such as drawing his gun and firing.

Before the target was controlled to a sufficient degree, many attacks might push or stimulate the opponent, increasing the force of their resistance against the manipulation of their Spirit Body Threads, or even allowing signs of breaking free to appear.

Therefore, Klein had to wait.

Just then, his heartbeat suddenly quickened by two beats. An uncontrollable sense of fear and tension immediately surged into his mind.

He could not help suspecting that Gilchies’s companions, whose intentions had been “distorted,” were about to return!

Not good! My emotions fluctuated! Klein first froze, then immediately relied on his meditation techniques to forcibly calm the waves inside his heart.

Haha… He has… emotional fluctuations… A chance… A slow thought flashed through Gilchies’s mind with a burst of joy.

Then, relying on his own Beyonder ability, he attempted to magnify Gehrman Sparrow’s fear and tension, planting emotional seeds.

If he succeeded, he would only need to thoroughly “detonate” them to half-cripple his opponent, making him unable to affect him again!

No… How could this be… no effect… His… emotional fluctuation… disappeared… The crimson eyes of Gilchies sluggishly contracted. Gradually, they filled with astonishment, shock, rage, and other emotions.

Klein, who had thought he would suffer a counterattack from the Apostle of Desire the moment he revealed an opening, only realized after he had completely calmed himself that nothing had happened. The curved goat horns on Gilchies’s head had clearly burned down completely, yet the demon had not attempted to use that emotional fluctuation!

A thought turned in Klein’s mind, and he roughly understood what had happened:

It was not that Gilchies did not want to manipulate his fear and tension—he had failed!

Starting from the moment he sensed an emotional fluctuation, he first had to spend several seconds digesting that situation, then two or three seconds making a decision, and finally even more time organizing his thoughts and mobilizing the corresponding Beyonder ability. From start to finish, he needed at least a little over ten seconds to complete his response.

And from detecting the problem to calming his emotions, Klein had only taken three or four seconds in total.

Therefore, Gilchies’s Beyonder ability had faced an enemy in a normal state, and naturally failed to take effect.

Simply put, the lag was too high! In a situation like this, don’t try precision operations… Klein lampooned twice, then quickly smoothed away his schadenfreude and continued deepening his control.

After roughly another ten…