HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

There was a *thundering* explosion that occurred when the two forces collided.

Everyone was forced to cover their ears due to the loudness but Loki was only pretending since he had only made everyone else hear the sounds to sell the effect that the clash was real.

He didn't want Mr. X or his butler to figure out about his plan any early and ruin the surprise after all.

And so when Mr. X and the butler appeared to be fighting for their lives as they strengthened the barriers around them, Loki casually walked up to them under cover of his illusions, moving closer to them until he stood right against the barrier.

He admired the constipated faces that Mr. X and the butler were displaying because they were trying to pour out all their spirituality to fight an illusory enemy for a while before he quietly stretched his hand.

And with a flick of his wrist, a simple rune that was part of both Mr. X's and the butler's body split away from them as it was forced to travel to Loki.

Neither of them realised what Loki had done since they were so focused on dealing with the most apparent threat, but Loki smiled politely and stood calmly.

It wasn't even a few moments later that the expressions of Mr. X and the butler changed.

At first, their eyes grew wide and large, before streams of blood started to pour out of their orifices.

The sudden shift in battlegrounds caused the butler and Mr. X to lose focus on their barriers as they collapsed into nothingness.

To both of them, the world suddenly started to seem like a mental imagination. Loki's mental storm wasn't akin to the mind storm of a Sequence 4 Manipulator.

It was more of the gentle sort, targeted towards a single part of the mind and making sure it was destroyed or untethered as much as possible.

Loki's new spell, or the mental variant of his old spell, targeted a person's ability to distinguish imagination from reality.

It worked by simply breaking the lock that the conscious mind had on the gates to the subconscious. It destroyed this lock, opened the floodgates to a person's subconscious mind and forced them to live by looking at the parts of the world that their minds would've normally never seen.

They were currently simultaneously experiencing the soothing and calming time they spent in their mother's womb while also experiencing all the times they had ever felt anger or sadness.

Their mental space was a mess of emotions thoughts and experiences that they couldn't stop.

But that wasn't the worst part.

The worst part was what Loki had stolen from them.

To put it simply, Loki had stolen their ability to breathe.

As such, both Mr. X and the butler were doing their best to *gasp* for air as they collapsed to the floor in an attempt to claw their throats while fighting their deep dive into mental insanity that was being amplified in their minds with each passing moment regardless of what they did.

Fleur shivered as she saw Mr. X and the butler starting to mutate while on the floor, each starting to take on their incomplete Mythological Creature forms as they were being slowly forced to lose control.

Sirius on the other hand was downright terrified since he couldn't understand how the beloved Mr. World had managed to do such a thing right under their noses.

Neither of them could even begin to comprehend what was going on because of their shock.

'Zid he only uses mental spells? Legilimency?' Fleur thought rapidly as she thought back to Loki using his wand and not displaying any other Beyonder abilities.

'Is he a Beyonder from the Spectator Pathway!?'

'But is he not Mr. Error's blessed?'

Mr. X was the fastest to get out of this predicament.

Loki noticed it but didn't interrupt and calmly allowed Mr. X to solve the issue with his mind since he wanted to see what methods could be used to avoid his attacks.

'If I have such a perfect opportunity to perform a few experiments shouldn't I make the most of it?'

'What if I use this ability in its untested form on you-know-who?'

'What if it doesn't work then because of some obvious flaw?'

'No. I should obviously test it first.'

With his mind made up, Loki calmly walked up to Mr. X and kicked him a little in the stomach, as if non verbally telling him-

"Come on. Do whatever you want to do to get out of this soon."

Fleur and Sirius were dumbfounded at Loki's casualness but Mr. X did not waste the opportunity he was given.

The shadows around his body suddenly split apart from him and formed a real and tangible shadow creature.

The creature, however, instead of attacking or trying to escape or even distract Loki, instantly collapsed on the ground and started screaming.

Loki looked at it with apprehension for a few seconds before he put two and two together and realised what Mr. X was doing.

"I see…so you're trying to separate all the damaged parts of your mind using the Shadow of Depravation ability?" An ability which allowed its user to separate a part of their minds and give it to the shadow creature, essentially forming an alter persona.

Mr. X didn't say a word and quickly started to separate more and more shadow creatures from himself.

Loki just watched curiously and even flicked his wand to sew the butler's mouth shut so that he wouldn't interrupt his 'experiment' with his deep *gasps*.

But that didn't do very much since the *gasps* just turned into *groans* and Loki was forced to finally put a silencing charm around the man who was quickly starting to mutate into his incomplete mythical creature form due to his lack of sanity.

So Loki was forced to steal away the man's mental corruption periodically so that he wouldn't become an even greater annoyance.

As such, there were currently several people in the rather small room.

The people from the gathering who had fallen asleep due to Sirius's charm.

Sirius, Fleur and Loki.

The butler and Mr. X.

Along with several shadowy creatures that were all drooling on the floor, trying their best to alleviate the pain that was split apart from Mr. X onto them.

Fleur and Sirius couldn't comprehend what was happening in front of them.

But Loki remained calm and nodded after taking a few notes.

'I see…so occlumency skills that allow you to isolate the corruption can help you partition the affected parts of the conscious mind and then seal it away to keep your sanity…'

'Too bad Mr. X is not very good at occlumency.'

'I guess you-know-who will be much better at this than I can imagine.'

With no more to gain from the experiment, Loki stole away all the corruption he had embued into the butler and Mr. X and placed a firm lock on their sea of subconscious so that they could regain their sanity.

But there wasn't much left in them to continue living.

The experience had been tortuous for both of them.

Neither of them even moved when Loki prodded them with his wand/staff or when he *clicked* his tongue before standing up and walking away from the gathering hall.

"You guys can carry out your assassination…I'll tell Mr. Error about your invaluable help in the next gathering.", Loki said calmly before vanishing from the hall, teleporting away to a place that both Fleur and Sirius knew about, Hogwarts.

Before he left, however, Loki flicked what looked like playing cards at the walls.

Fleur inspected them carefully and spotted the three cards had specific pictures.

"The Empress."

"The Star."

"And the Lovers."

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