Chomp!

Cleo closed her eyes and winced as she felt warm blood splash across her face.

How could this have happened?

Sophie had fully gone out of control and it appeared that she would even attack her own girlfriend without hesitation.

Surprisingly, Cleo could feel no pain even though the fangs should have pierced straight through her neck.

Did Sophie's venom always have a numbing effect?

Cleo slowly opened her eyes and gasped in horror at what happened during those few moments.

Sophie's right arm was bleeding profusely as the hybrid girl had sank her fangs into her own flesh at the last second.

Luckily, Sophie's body was immune to the poison that her venom glands produced otherwise the skin on her arm would have begun to melt.

But it hurt like hell.

The pain brought back a shred of clarity but one look at Cleo's body caused Sophie to enter a state of rage once more.

"Stay back!" Sophie growled in pain and roughly shoved Cleo to the side.

The princess flew several feet in the air before crashing heavily against a stone wall with a hard thud.

Sophie could see a strange biomass hidden deeply inside Cleo's chest and the familiar feeling of hunger threatened to overwhelm her.

It was slightly different from the ball of flesh inside the children as this creature seemed to be vaguely humanoid.

If she had to describe it, the alien symbiote looked like a shadowy stick figure with four dark tendrils that spread through Cleo's body and wrapped around each of her organs.

One tendril was repeatedly trying to enter her heart but was being repelled by a glowing pink barrier.

Just then an ancient sounding voice boomed in Sophie's mind.

Kill.

KILL.

KILL AND THEN FEED.

Sophie stumbled as she walked towards Cleo with uneven footsteps as her mind was now split into two different desires.

The rational part of her wanted to shut off this hunting state and chase after the tablet held by the Blackguards while the other part of her wanted to eat the creature inside Cleo.

But as Sophie came closer and closer to Cleo... her sense of reason faded, and she once again became a mindless beast.

Cleo groaned as she raised herself up from the ground.

Sophie's hard throw had made her slightly dizzy, but it was nothing that a cultivator could not quickly recover from.

She saw Sophie walking over with an expression of bloodlust, so she knew that the hybrid girl's moment of clarity had gone.

Mental Link!

Cleo established a mental connection and sent a tentative message to try to calm Sophie down once more.

[Sophie?]

It seemed to have little effect as Sophie moved forward at the same pace without a moment of hesitation.

Cleo gritted her teeth with determination and tried again a second time with some more force.

[Sophie!]

[Listen you have to snap out of this]

[I believe that you are in there somewhere]

Cleo continued to send message after message into Sophie's mind but there was still no response from the hybrid girl.

"Must hunt." Sophie groaned as she swung her fist and prepared to deliver a fatal blow to the meat vessel containing the delicious food.

[Sophie please don't make me do this]

The fist showed no sign of slowing down as it approached Cleo's chest with the intent of splitting it open.

Mental Spike!

"Arghhhhh!" Sophie shrieked in pain as a severe headache shattered her consciousness and then the world slowly turned dark.

The last thing she saw was the tearful face of her girlfriend running towards her body with an expression of grief.

(Planet Calypso- City of Trinidad)

(Inner region- St. Ann's Escort Services)

"Excellent work!" Kohli chuckled as he held the mysterious stone tablet in his palm.

The tablet was warm to the touch and the strange writings covering its surface seemed to mesmerize all who gazed at them.

Strangely enough the tablet appeared to stick to his skin, and it took some effort to put it down on the table.

Kohli was in an extremely happy mood as he listened to the report given by the Blackguard squad leader.

Apparently, they had killed off that useless man John and also managed to intimidate several low life gangs who dared to threaten his authority.

"Tell me more about that madman from the slums," Kohli smiled as he cupped the breast of the prostitute serving him.

The squad leader trembled as even the memory of the events that occurred only a few hours ago were enough to cause him to become unsettled.

He took a few deep breaths and continued his report with some additional details that the young master would want.

"He is a monstrous brute of a man that is clearly not fully human. Standing at a height taller than most men at seven feet and four blade-like appendages jut out from his back."

"I do not believe that he is capable of much higher-level thinking as his speech was slow and only a few words were uttered every time he spoke."

"If I could describe him in three words it would be merciless, cruel and dangerous."

"I watched him slaughter a group of modified children without any hesitation and then he ate the flesh from their bodies," the squad leader held back the urge to vomit as he relived those dark moments.

Kohli pondered for a minute and then gave out a new set of orders to his subordinate,

"Seek out this man and offer him an employment contract to serve me personally as a bodyguard or butcher."

"Offer him whatever he desires whether it be money, men, women or children. Tell him we can fulfill any demand once it is within our power."

As the son of a Blackguard captain along with his overweight size and general demeanor of an arrogant child there were many who simply saw him as a boy drunk with power and ignorant to the world.

But they would be underestimating him.

There was a reason why despite the many illegitimate bastards born from his father, he was the only one allowed to be called the heir.

Kohli's job was to quietly grow an underground army that could one day overthrow the rule of Edward on planet Calypso.

His father was constantly watched due to his position of power but there would be fewer eyes on the son.

This madman could potentially be another valuable chess piece to aid their cause.

Should he refuse, then Kohli had no problem with killing him as a way to boost his reputation among the scum in the outer district and grow his prestige.