Corruption is Magic

by DrabFelmore

Chapter 42 Round 2

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“Don’t mind if we do, I still have a lot of juice in me?” Vo says walking towards me and as he does I snap my fingers and teleport behind him, seeing this he frowns and looks to where I now am. “So it seems you still have fuel in the tank too. It is too bad I have an ace up my sleeve.” With a snap of his fingers at the end of his words I feel magic come from him and in seconds I hear many feet.

“It seems we are trapped.” I hear Corrupt me say in a lamenting tone.

“Yes, it seems that way. He definitely planned this through.” I say quietly as I snap my fingers teleporting Gelfree to my side, getting a yelp from her in surprise. “Sorry Gelfree. I didn’t mean to shock you.” I happily say to the Goblinoid I quickly wrap my arm around.

“Twilight?” Gelfree softly says as she looks up to me.

“Aright Vo…” I say but the sound of the commotion going on in the room is drowning out my voice causing my anger to rise. Fine, if they all want to be an annoyance then I’ll make them be quiet. “You all are being so very distracting. Would you stop making a ruckus?” I say looking at the fighting going on. With a firm snap I weave my magic through the entire hall, gripping everyone present and casting the spell to freeze them in place, not everyone is restrained but the commotion quickly dies out due to the simple act of magic that draws everyone's attention to me. “I am talking!” I loudly call out, turning my attention back to Vo and the many armed guards around me.

“Good, we have their attention. Now, we still have the trap and many people still want to help Vo skewer us.”

“Yes we are getting to that.” I respond to my corruption side. “So Vo, you’ve got augmentations to your body, handy right? Wrong, you see those changes are permanent, they are always there. You're big and strong but you know something? You have no way to revert it on the fly.”

“What’s your point, pony bitch? Why in the hell would I want to get rid of these changes.” Vo angrily says as he storms towards me to which I teleport on to one of the hall’s chandeliers with Gelfree where he can’t reach.

“Well that is simple, you have a flaw. A huge one, an astronomically big one that it’s a joke I didn’t see before and that it took this long to realize.”

“And what is that?”

“Gravity.” I say snapping my fingers changing the freeze spell into an enhanced gravity field causing the area I have wrapped in my magic to have double the gravity. Immediately everyone besides the most resilient people collapse under the pressure. The amount of magic being pulled from my wellspring is immense but the aid from my anger by infusing the spell with dark magic keeps it so it is manageable. Vo all the while is breaking under his own body weight, that’s what he gets for being all mass and no brains. “So, while you are there with all those pretty little augmentations and guards and weapons, intending to take the throne, Just remember who’s in your way, remember I stand here. All of you who want it.” I say to the entire hall, the throb of magical fatigue nagging at me. “Instead of being foalish and trying to take me on, why not do the smart thing, and leave.” I say lifting the spell. “Let’s hope those new arrivals toss in the towel.” I mutter to my corruption getting a grunt of approval from her as we put on a look of still being strong and ready to go for a fight.

Watching out of the corner of my eye I see the armed people getting to their feet but slowly as they do I see the first two leave. Then three, soon many are leaving and as they do Vo watches and yells vowing to rip them apart and I smile.

“You’re really getting used to this leading thing.” Gelfree says as she wraps her arms around me. Feeling her this close and finally safe once again makes my heart flutter and I pull her close as I feel tears form in my eyes. She’s safe… I finally did it… finally.

“You bitch!” Vo yells as he looks up to me getting up to his feet.

“Oh right, that one.” Corruption me says in a groan. “I thought for sure he would turn tail.”

“Well, that can be fixed.” I say happily as I look at Gelfree. “Mind waiting for me just a small bit more?”

“You keep a girl waiting often?” Gelfree chuckles and I laugh too as I gently guide her down to the bars holding the chandelier together. With her safe I teleport down to Vo who sees me and lunges at me. I teleport out of the way watching as he stumbles and turns to me.

“You might feel so big and strong,” I say teleporting as he lunges at me again. “But you are truly just a small, weak vermin to be stomped out.”

“I’ll show you-”

“What? You have only been throwing fists and using might.” I say as he is lunging towards me and I wrap another gravity field around him at three times normal throwing him harshly into the ground breaking the tiles and caving in the ground and causing his face and clothing to get torn up. A bestial roar rips through the hall from him as he struggles to move an inch. “Here is what you are going to do,” I say as I create another magical contract. “I have another… two hours of doing this worth of power. Five if I use just gravity times two. You are at five. If you want to be able to get away somewhat unharmed, you must bring Beryl to me at the city I’m ruling and deliver her alive and unharmed. Then leave my city without doing any harm to it before, during or after you leave.” I say bringing my face down near his. “And if you break any part of this contract you will willingly surrender yourself to me for any punishment I wish to put you through. The delivery of Beryl will also be required to be made within a week.” I say finishing the contract and floating it over to him and I stick my hand out to him lifting the graffiti field over one of his arms.

“Fuck you!”

“Not in a million years but you know what can happen. You shaking my hand.” I say with a wide smile. Growling he tries to move again but doesn’t make it far. It seems he didn’t catch the bluff. Time is ticking though. With stiff movements he slowly raises his hand and grabs mine sealing the deal and I lift the spell on his body.

“That puts the ball in your court Vo.” I say snapping my fingers and teleporting up to Gelfree again. “Sorry I kept you waiting.”

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