Chapter 1224: Test (1) [Bonus]
The Duchess froze, seemingly realizing what had happened. She tried to pull back, only to find that Sylas’ arm was practically like a steel bar.
No, it wasn’t that Sylas’ arm was so strong, but instead that she felt almost as though her body didn’t have any strength remaining at all. If she pulled away from Sylas now, she realized that she might fall and collapse right there, making an already embarrassing situation all the more embarrassing.
What music there was hanging in the air almost fell on deaf ears, countless gazes focused on the scene right before them.
"You... I..."
Her voice was so soft it came out in a raspy, hoarse tone, almost as though her lungs couldn’t produce enough air to project at all. Her legs trembled and she almost fell, but Sylas only tightened his grip.
The Duchess had never felt so embarrassed in her life—it was like nothing in her body was working properly at all. All of her blood had rushed to places it shouldn’t have been, leaving no strength for the muscles that actually needed it.
She was devastated, a crushing weight threatening to break her apart.
At a moment like this, Sylas knew that he could use Semi-Fusion and Nosphaleen’s Compelling Gaze Gene Talent—he could almost certainly subdue the Duchess.
It also wasn’t long ago that he had felt a certain connection between his Madness Comprehension and his Seeds. He felt that the true method of using Madness might be in bolstering the effects of the Seeds and projecting it out to impact the minds of others. Madness had always been able to do that—it just depended on whether Sylas reined it in or not, something he often did because it made the other effects more potent.