Chapter 61: Jellyfish
"What if I don’t want to?" Vacuse grimaced. "What are you going to do if I don’t want to?"
The man smiled and then gestured forward. The shadows around Vacuse latched onto him like thick ropes, binding his limbs to the stone floor. "What if you don’t want to? Do you think you have a choice in this matter?"
Vacuse’s eyes narrowed and he ignored the shadows binding his body. "So, you’re going to take me and do what exactly? You still haven’t told me who you people are."
The man snorted. "Let me guess, you’re buying time so someone can come to your rescue, right? No one will come. I’ve already separated us from the outside world with illusions.
Besides that, the people with me are enough to finish the job."
Vacuse’s heart dropped and he realized then that things were worse than he expected.
But he also didn’t just give up.
Words are meant to play on the mind.
What the man said might not be the whole truth. Vacuse wouldn’t know if he didn’t try. He narrowed his eyes... and took a step back.
The darkness that was holding him was shrugged off as easily as if it weren’t there at all. Nothing held him back.
The illusions weren’t real. It was made to trick the brain into thinking it was.