---- The specters surrounding them watched in anticipation, eager to ---- feast.


    Lucrecia struggled, summoning every ounce of her magic but she couldnt! She couldnt cast a single spell! She tried to open her mouth to chant an incantation, but suddenly Ss was right in front of her.


    His gloved hand, ck and covered in spikes, gripped her face, digging into her flesh, forcing her mouth shut in an instant.


    "What does it feel like, being powerless in the hands of a sadistic son of a bitch?" Ss whispered, his voice brushing against her panicked red eyes.


    "When you forced me tomit all those atrocities, I always wonderedwhy? Why did it bring you so much pleasure to break me like that? And now I understand.


    Its intoxicating to have control, isnt it?" Lucrecia couldnt answer.


    She couldnt even move! And thensomething started forcing its way into her mouth.


    A corrosive magic, devouring everything in its path.


    Tears welled in her eyes.


    The agony in her veins, her tendons, her bonesevery cell of her bodywas unbearable.


    But the worst part...


    was feeling the ck magic escaping from her core.


    Her very essence as a sorceress was slipping away.


    Her powereverythingwas being drained by him.


    ---- "Nothing I do to you will ever make up for what you put me through.


    It wont bring back my life, or my parents.


    But at least...


    at least Ill die happy knowing you''ve be exactly what you love to collect." Ss spat pure venom into her face, relishing a moment he never thought he would live to see.


    He was the terror now.


    Her lifeor deathbelonged entirely to him.


    "Tell me, Lucrecia Silver...


    how does it feel?" A wicked smirk curved his lips.


    "Tm going to turn you into an elemental.


    A weak, powerless creature, stripped of magic, of anything supernatural.


    No spells, no strengthnothing.


    Youll be just like all your victims."