She’d dealt with this kind of thing before—back then, Freya had been wrapped up from head to toe.
Now it was just her face… it should be fine, right?
Freya could handle the pain on her face, but she really didn’t want to go out looking all bruised and swollen.
So after hesitating for a while, she decided to put the thing on her face.
It looked like a mask, but it was so thin it was more like a facial sheet.
“Mmph!” As soon as the mask stuck to her face, it seemed to come alive, wriggling as it wrapped around Freya’s cheeks, nose, eyes, and mouth, then spreading outwards, slowly swallowing up her ears.
The mask wasn’t that big at first, but it gradually covered Freya’s whole face, even creeping down past her head to wrap around her neck, only stopping at her collarbone.
“Ah!” With her neck tightly constricted, Freya found it hard to breathe.
She instinctively grabbed at her neck, and the sound she made came out hoarse.
“I… I can’t really breathe.”
Freya opened her mouth to speak, but at that moment, it was obvious—the black mask covering her face was actually starting to grow into her mouth, wrapping around her soft lips and spreading inside.
That really freaked Freya out, and she quickly begged, “Master, don’t—don’t do this…”
“Look at you, all scared.
I’m just messing with you~” Chen Xing dropped the idea of playing around and gave the order for her black sludge to properly heal Freya.
Now, Freya looked like she was wearing a volcanic mud mask, the black stuff fitting snugly to her face.
Freya’s own feelings could be summed up in two words.
Comfortable… Now she understood why Little Dragon Girl had let out such a satisfied shout earlier.
On the inside of the black mask, countless tiny protruding tendrils gently stroked Freya’s swollen face, like dozens of hands giving her a detailed massage.
Sometimes the things would sink into her skin, but it didn’t hurt at all—instead, it brought a cool sensation, and then the swelling in that area would go down.
“Does it feel good, Freya?”
“It’s… it’s not bad.” Freya couldn’t deny it, since her expression had already given her away.
Even with the mask on, it only covered her features, so it was easy to see what kind of face she was making.
“Want to keep it on forever?”
“No, I don’t think so.” Freya knew how good it felt, but if she started craving it, wouldn’t that mean she’d completely fallen? No way! She had to keep her last bit of self-control.
“Sigh, what a shame…” Chen Xing leaned back on the sofa, still eating fruit.
Not far away, Lidi Xi stood quietly, watching the whole scene.
She didn’t show much emotion, but seeing Little Dragon Girl and Freya wrapped in darkness made her desperately envious inside.
“I… I really want to be like them.
I just can’t… hold back.”
She wanted it badly, but as the lowest-ranked dark servant, Lidi Xi didn’t dare hope for too much.
After all, she hadn’t even finished her current task.
Once she helped her master corrupt Her Majesty the Queen, maybe then, when her master was in a good mood, she could beg to be swallowed up too.
“Freya, is the swelling gone?”
“Yeah… Master, you can take this thing off now.” Even though she felt a little reluctant, Freya kept reminding herself not to get addicted to the darkness—she had to stay rational as a saint of the gods.
“Then can you help me with an experiment?”
“What kind of experiment?”
“It’s…” Chen Xing gave a command in her mind, and suddenly Freya’s body started moving.
At that moment, Freya was shocked—she hadn’t wanted to move at all, but her body was acting on its own, completely out of her control.
Under Chen Xing’s secret manipulation, Freya struck a few poses she never would have done herself.
“Master? What… what is this?”
“I’m not inside your head.
I wanted to see if I could control your actions without going into your mind.
Looks like I can.
Now, try to resist.”
“Yes, understood, Master.”
That out-of-control feeling came again, but this time Freya didn’t just let it happen—she fought back with her willpower.
Her hand, which had just started to rise, trembled, then stiffly dropped back down.
With Freya’s willpower, resisting this kind of influence was already pushing it.
An ordinary human probably couldn’t fight it at all.
But Chen Xing’s energy was endless.
Sooner or later, Freya’s will would break, and then she wouldn’t be able to resist this control anymore.
“Master, why not just break her brain? That’d be so much easier.”
Little Dragon Girl asked, confused.
She thought her master was making things too complicated—if you wanted to control someone, just break their brain.
“You don’t get it.
Sometimes, breaking the brain takes away all the fun.
Look at Lidi Xi now—no matter what I do to her, she never complains, and she even feels happy, because her brain’s already broken.
That kind of power isn’t good for tormenting people.
If there’s someone I really hate, breaking their brain isn’t punishment—it’s a reward.”
After hearing her master’s explanation, Little Dragon Girl suddenly understood.
“No wonder you’re the master, you really think things through.” She thought about it—if you broke someone’s brain and made them kill their loved ones, they’d probably just accept it.
But if they were like Freya now, unable to control their body and forced to watch themselves kill the people closest to them, that kind of torment would be even worse.
“Hehehe, you really are bad, Master~”
“I get the feeling you’d come up with even worse ideas.” Chen Xing wasn’t as extreme as Little Dragon Girl, but she did want to use this trick to torment some people she hated.
Let them feel, while fully conscious, what it’s like to lose control of their body and do things they don’t want to do.
But she hadn’t met anyone she really hated yet… “Alright.
You two, give me those things.”
Chen Xing raised her hand, and the black masks covering Little Dragon Girl and Freya’s faces dissolved, flying back into Chen Xing’s palm.
“Master, I haven’t had enough fun yet~ Let me play a little longer~” Little Dragon Girl clung to her master, reluctant to let go, while Freya didn’t seem all that attached.
She touched her face and found all the swelling was gone.
Not only that, but her skin felt smoother and softer.
Did this stuff have beauty benefits too? No wonder witches always have such good skin.
