HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

"What do you think!?" Loki asked with a smile as he walked towards Mr. X with steady steps.

Fleur's grip around her thin threads tightened while Mr. X scanned Loki with fervour. Especially when Loki's finger glimmered with a simple ring that felt ever so slightly spiritually connected to him.

Loki noticed this as well, since he'd brought out the Ring Of Harvest from the Sefirah Castle on purpose, and calmly put more pressure on Mr. X's mind on this fact.

Loki surgically added similar thoughts around Mr. X's desire to find out more about the ring.

Thoughts like the one Mr. X had already teetered on the edge of insanity, they were things like-

'The Ring Of Harvest…it was his ring…I should steal it...I should eat his finger…I should serve him to the Lord!'

Loki simply slipped in other almost indistinguishable thoughts-

'Chop him into pieces…'

'His brain on a table…'

'His bloody head lying under my foot.'

'The Lord would praise me for my offerings!'

The purpose of these subconscious thoughts was to subconsciously trap Mr. X in a hypnotic cycle of thoughts that left him with such strong desires that he lost touch with reality.

Loki had so skillfully manipulated his thoughts that Mr. X was actually 'seeing' exactly what his thoughts represented, especially because Loki was using his illusory skills to show Mr. X exactly what he was being made to dream of.

Such a trick wouldn't have worked with a normal Beyonder, even a rather weak one, since they'd immediately be able to tell the difference between what they were imagining and what their body was actually doing and feeling.

But since Mr. X's thoughts were already exploding with degeneracy, a side effect of being a fanatic follower of the True creator, Loki's 'subtle' manipulation went unnoticed.

It was like a ripple that formed when one threw a stone into a fierce and tumultuous wide river.

Fleur on the side froze in shock when she saw Mr. X lower his weapon slowly in spite of Loki not doing a single thing visibly.

Almost instantly Fleur caged her mind behind all sorts of mental defences she could conjure. Her brain was soon engulfed by not only an icy frost wall or a hurricane of black flames, but also by several thin threads that had been sharpened to slice through diamonds.

Fleur's immediate response also cleared the little bit of drowsiness that still lingered at the edge of her consciousness because of Sirius's ability from earlier.

However, Fleur's eyes rapidly widened.

Not because she realised that Loki was using mental suggestions to keep Sirius's real condition in the dark much like a Sequence 6 Hypnotist, allowing Sirius to recover fully while taking aim with what looked like a charm of the Sun pathway.

No, Fleur's eyes widened because she suddenly realised exactly where she'd heard Loki's voice before.

"Mr. World!?" Fleur mumbled out, her voice loud enough for Sirius to hear, causing him to freeze for a moment but quickly recover as he threw his charm into the air.

"LUX!"

Sirius threw the charm, causing it to soar through the air as Fleur quickly ducked away to the edge of the room, fearing that she'd be caught up in the effects of the charm since she was technically the follower of an Evil goddess.

Sirius's eyes shone brightly as they reflected the sparkling charm that was travelling through the air.

Loki however frowned even after he had created this opportune moment in the fight.

His reason for being disappointed was visible to him plainly.

As the charm drew closer and closer towards Mr. X, Loki watched a deep subconscious thought form inside his mind.

A thought that was spelt out clearly-

"DANGER!!!!"

It wasn't of the intuitive sort that one felt because of their experiences with battles. If it were, Loki could've simply stolen it and disallowed it from reaching Mr. X's conscious mind and forced him to remain standing just as stupidly as he was currently.

No, this warning came from an ever deeper place and did something even more intimate that Loki just couldn't steal.

Its source wasn't a puzzle to Loki however.

He recognised it almost instantly since he'd worked with just this part of the Beyonder world very recently.

The warning had stemmed from one of the souls that Mr. X had grazed. And this soul was likely of the Abyss pathway.

Mr. X was likely using the danger premonition ability of the Abyss pathway, and since it was likely a rather weak soul it hadn't warned him of Sirius and Fleur's preplanned attacks, since they'd likely have used anti-divination methods to obscure it before-

-but it had warned him of Sirius's most recent attack which was only a few seconds into the future.

Loki quickly took a few steps away from Mr. X, knowing that the man was likely to do something drastic because he was blinded by desires and couldn't see the truth.

And Loki was proven right only moments later.

With a flick of his wand, Loki was the only one to create a translucent shield in front of him as everyone in the room heard a sudden and loud-

*BBBBBBAAAAAAANNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGG*

Fleur and Sirius were drowned in explosive shards of flesh, blood and mucus that suddenly stared burning their way into their bodies by cursing any layers of their bodies they came in contact with in degeneracy.

Fleur's unblemished skin suddenly formed blisters, while Sirius's face grew warts.

Loki was the only one shielded from all of this as he maintained attention on the charm that Sirius had thrown.

While Mr. X had distanced himself from his attackers and created a space to breath for a moment, Loki was more interested in what actions Mr. X would take to escape the charm from the Sun domain.

And Loki was, for the first time in the fight, surprised.

'Ah! How did I never realise that!' Loki thought as he looked at what Mr. X had cooked up.

As the charm travelled through the air, its surface growing brighter and brighter by the second, making it seem like the charm was about to explode, Loki from the corner of his eyes saw the butler from earlier wake up and jump into the fray by doing something ridiculous.

The butler opened his mouth and simply and directly consumed the entire charm.

The charm that looked like it was about to explode just a second ago, was suddenly eaten away by the butler.

The blinding glow of the charm lit up the butler's head, causing him to look more like he'd swallowed a light bulb with his entire face turning pink, as everyone in the room spotted exactly how his eyeballs flickered all around the place before the room was suddenly plunged into another curtain of darkness.

The charm that was supposed to explode, had died away when the butler had eaten it up.

Along with Loki this time, even Sirius and Fleur connected the dots with such an obvious connection.

The butler was of the Lawyer pathway.

He had amplified the act of consuming the charm to cause it to be 'consumed'.

It was a strange act. But an act that had worked nonetheless.

Everyone awake in the room looked at each other with a sense of wariness.

Mr. X's eyes kept being dragged towards Loki while Fleur and Sirius kept their eyes on the butler.

Everyone was ready to make a move if the other party did something else.

But Loki was the fastest-

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