NOVEL WEB Chapter 95
95. Swear
Now, become my servant──.
The voice of Levin echoed in my mind.
“Guh…… uuuu…… uaaaaaaaah……!”
Jack groaned as his consciousness faded, replaced by something else.
There was no pain.
No discomfort.
Instead, there was even a sweet sensation.
(This is his…… power……!)
The impulse to surrender everything to him surged within Jack.
A desire to kneel at his feet and pledge loyalty arose.
It was an overwhelmingly sweet, seductive temptation.
A power of absolute domination that enslaves everything──.
There might be no way to resist it.
If Levin’s skill took effect, Jack would become his servant.
Moving according to his orders, being forced into unwanted actions, or even fighting, killing, and destroying──.
He would be used as a pawn to realize Levin’s kingdom.
(I don’t want to do that…… absolutely not!)
Jack mustered all his willpower and reactivated his enhancement skills.
First, he enhanced his own leg strength and sense of touch.
At the same time, he enhanced his vision and hearing to a negative degree.
He blinded and deafened himself.
“Ugh…… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Jack roared.
In a state of blindness and deafness, he flexed his entire body and took on a quadrupedal beast-like posture.
He charged forward with enough force to pierce the floor.
Even though his sight and hearing were impaired, he felt the movement of the air with his enhanced sense of touch and dashed forward with explosive leg strength.
The resistance and flow of air hitting his body indicated his speed and position.
The slight disturbance in the air ahead was probably Levin’s voice.
Surprised or agitated.
Or perhaps angry.
In any case, it was certain that Levin was reacting and making a sound in response to Jack’s actions.
The Black Beast Knight raced straight toward it──.
[Anyone who meets my gaze and hears my words will be placed under my control, no matter who they are. Eventually, even gods and demons will bow and be made to kneel──]
Recalling Levin’s earlier words.
In other words, the domination skill would not be effective unless one looked at the opponent’s eyes and made them hear the words for a certain amount of time.
And it probably couldn’t be used unless the distance was relatively close.
Both are just hypotheses.
But if there were no such restrictions, Levin would have ruthlessly controlled Jack while he was fighting the adventurers.
So, assuming this hypothesis is correct──a way to counter the domination skill becomes clear.
Temporarily closing off vision and hearing, and fighting.
Jack could do that.
By enhancing his sense of touch and compensating for the two sealed senses.
──At the next moment, he felt a collision.
Jack’s tackle hit Levin head-on.
Even though he had controlled his force to avoid killing, Levin was blown away significantly by the speed of Jack’s charge, which far exceeded that of an ordinary person.
At the same time, he restored his vision and hearing, which had been enhanced to a negative degree, to their original state.
“Guh…… uuu…… u……”
In front of him lay Levin, groaning on the floor from the impact of the tackle.
Jack stepped on his chest, pinning him down.
“It’s over. At this distance, my attack is faster than your domination skill.”
“Ck……”
The boy, realizing his disadvantage, bit his lip.
“……Wait, let’s talk. I don’t have anything── guh, ah!?”
“Don’t make any strange moves. Don’t say any strange words.”
Jack increased the pressure of his foot, reinforcing his warning.
If he relaxed even slightly, Levin would immediately retaliate with his domination skill.
He needed to seal him before that happened.
His power.
Yes, so that it can never be used again.
Completely──.
To do that, he needed to instill fear first.
Threats weren’t his style, but he couldn’t afford to worry about that now.
“If I put just a little more force, your body would shatter easily.”
A cracking sound of bones echoed beneath his foot.
“Ah…… gaa…… aaaaa……!”
Levin’s handsome face twisted in pain as he let out a cry of suffering.
Jack showed no mercy.
Unless he conveyed the intention to truly kill, it wouldn’t be a proper threat.
“W-wait, wait! Are you going to kill me!? No, I can’t die here! Please stop!!!”
Levin screamed.
Gone was the dignified, regal demeanor.
Only misery remained.
Only desperation.
Only struggling and flailing──.
The pitiful sight of the boy begging for his life.
“Please, don’t kill me! Help me!”
Levin cried out, his face streaked with tears.
“Please, help me…… help meeeee……”
His pride was completely broken.
──Is this enough to intimidate him?
Jack sighed and deactivated his enhancements.
He returned from beast knight form to his human appearance.
He removed his foot from Levin’s chest.
“……Alright. Then, swear that you will ‘never control others again.’”
“I-I understand. I swear!”
Levin answered immediately.
“No, not just with words, but also show it through actions.”
“Eh……?”
The stunned boy asked. Jack replied coldly.
“Bring a mirror. Use it to control yourself and command yourself: ‘Never control others again.’.”