Affinity: Chaos

Chapter 2001: In Danger?

The silver robbed Gnome licked his lips at the potential new Puppet he was about to acquire. He had faced off against Klaus on a few occasions and knew just how terrifying this Human boy was. Taking his lower cultivation into account proved that he was a genius even among many other geniuses. Now that he was getting such a great Puppet, he could not help smiling from ear to ear.

Preparing himself, he shut out any distractions and sent a thread of his Mental Energy into the dead body.

“What’s happening, why isn’t it working?” The silver robbed Gnome frowned.

He tried to refine Klaus’s already cold body but found it unresponsive. Generally speaking, as soon as the Human body dies, Gnomes are able to send their Mental Energy into the body to form a connection between them. Although it is not a simple process, the first step is usually the easiest. Yet for some reason, the silver robbed Gnome was finding it simply impossible to achieve this first step. There was no way a dead Human body would be able to resist his attempt to form the initial connection.

He spread out his Mental Sense and confirmed once again that the Human before him was indeed dead and there was no form of life coming from him. Calming himself, he once again sent out the thread of Mental Energy into the body, as he weaved a simple set of hand seals this time around. He felt there must have been some issues during his first attempt, so he used the secret technique in this try. The attempt ended in the same way; futile.

‘What is happening?!’ The Gnome scowled internally. This was the first time he was getting a corpse that harnessed such amazing potential, yet he kept failing in his attempts to try to create a connection between them. If he fails to do so, then it is impossible for him to make it his Puppet.

He tried once again, and failed, he tried again, also failing. He repeated the same process over and over again in a matter of minutes, all ending the same way.

‘Could it be that he has something in his body that is stopping me from creating a connection?’ The silver robbed Gnome pondered. To be honest, there are techniques that can be employed that have the ability to make it difficult to turn people into puppets. Over the thousands of years of existence of the Gnome Race, they have encountered some masters that after their demise, it was impossible to turn their corpses into Puppets. Even when the Half God Plane experts took action, they still failed to create a connection between these corpses.

Facing repeated failed attempts, the silver robbed Gnome felt Klaus might be in the same category. Given how powerful he was even though he was still a Seventh stage Sovereign, it is not impossible that he was from a powerful Force that used such a technique on him in case he fell into such a situation.

The silver robbed Gnome grunted in displeasure, after sacrificing so much, he thought he would be rewarded with turning Klaus into a Puppet. Now that things were not looking positive for him, his displeasure and frustration was clearly visible. The only silver lining is that he killed off one of the Humans’ growing geniuses. It was easy to tell that Klaus was still very young, and given enough time, he was bound to become a pillar of the Human Race in the near future. The war between both Worlds is certain to last for a few years at least. It has been ongoing for some years now, and it will continue for a few more years. If someone of Klaus’s potential is allowed to grow in that few years, he might turn out to become a problem later on.

He decided to give it a try one more time, if he fails, then he did not mind going for their main plan, which was to take Hugh away.

He was about to send out a thread of his Mental Sense when he suddenly felt his heart throb. Filled with a sense of danger, he turned around to look where the threat of death was coming from. Unlike Klaus whose senses were impeded when in the darkness domain, the silver robbed Gnome had no such limitations. He was the owner of the domain and could naturally sense his surroundings, this is the reason he was not afraid Klaus’s companions would be able to help Klaus because he knew they were occupied.

Looking around, he saw no one coming his way. If that is the case, then where was the sense of danger he was feeling coming from?

It was at this moment he heard a subtle ‘ba dum’ sound. It was almost inaudible as even sound was swallowed up in his darkness domain. Yet, he was a hundred percent certain he heard that sound. It was like the beating of heart.

He turned his gaze to Klaus’s cold corpse, inspecting it from head to toe, and he sensed nothing from it. He was once again overwhelmed with the feeling of danger, all his hairs standing on edge. He hastily turned around again, trying to pinpoint where the feeling of danger was coming from, ending up with nothing once again.

At the same time, he heard the ‘ba dum’ sound, only this time, it was not as subtle as the first time. The sound did not stop like the first time, it sounded again, and again slowly taking the rhythmic sound of a beating heart.

The silver robbed Gnome’s gaze darted around, before finally resting on the body of Klaus that was before him. When his eyes landed on the body, he finally realized where the threat of death was coming from, because the moment he laid his eyes on Klaus’s supposed corpse, he felt the same scalp-tingling fear he felt a few seconds ago.

Without hesitation, he struck out at the body. He did not know what was happening with the body, but his best option now was to destroy it.