Intensifying the sense of touch by a million times was, of course, a wishful exaggeration.
However, it did pass on Kai's desire to the System.
…
[Imposed Rule: Sense of Touch x100]
…
That was enough.
100 times was more than enough.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The Mad Commander howled as if millions of thorny insects had begun crawling under his skin. His nails dug into his flesh, ripping everything apart.
Face. Neck. Chest. Arms. Back.
There was hardly a place left on Black Ghost's body that his fingers couldn't reach.
Skin came ripping off, finding spaces under the nails. Strings of flesh came shooting out. One of his eyes came hanging, held by a bleeding thread to his skull.
Kai grinned.
Orochimaru, fueling the Blood Demon's regeneration, vanished finally.
Wearing a pure white overcoat over white pants, Kai marveled at the sight of a 12th-floor Contestant becoming a slave of his senses.
The Cursed Vault of Ice was still disintegrating around him, the cold wind lifting his short white hair.
Suddenly, through the overbearing madness, Black Ghost growled like an inhumane beast.
How tenacious! Kai remarked, narrowing his reptilian eyes. He's fighting the feeling…
Black Ghost didn't look like a person anymore.
In between the blood and flesh, one could barely see the man.
Everything that could identify him as a human being had gotten shredded by My House, My Rules.
Still, one couldn't just reach the 12th-floor with Stats alone.
Ripping off his flesh, Black Ghost realized he had been tricked. He could see the faint blue luster surrounding him and the Supreme standing behind him. In his right eye, that luster had turned blood red, donning the most ominous color.
"YOudfethe…" Black Ghost growled, saliva frothing in his mouth. "You… can'tstop… me!"
Then, the Mad Commander of the Millennial Magical Alliance disappeared.
Mach 20!
Boom!
The demonic grin on Kai's face widened.
Boom!!
Black Ghost reappeared with another boom… not even an inch farther than where he was standing. "AHHHAkdhf Iwillkill THISWORLD WHATAHAHHAHAH!"
"Hahaha!" Kai laughed, holding his hands behind his back casually. "Law of Conservation of Momentum. It doesn't exist in this Room, anymore. The rate at which you will gain momentum would be the rate at which you will lose it as well. You… can't outrun me."
Black Ghost pulled out his teeth, blood showering and bubbling in his mouth.
Boom-Boomm!
Boomm-Boommm!!
The Mad Commander kept vanishing and reappearing frame by frame, inching away from Kai toward the blue-red wall of hell.
Kai's laugh finally settled into a thin smile. -Selene.-
…
A silvery, ghost-like mist oozed out from Kai in slow motion.
Ever since Selene's split personalities had caused trouble for them, Kai and Black had been keeping the girls separate.
Black carried two of them within him — Time Devourer and Blood Devourer; the two personalities that had originated from the influence of an Old One and Glitch, respectively.
Kai, instead, carried the Space Devourer; the one that he thought was in line with the original Ghost Basilisk's nature.
The only thing that this partition did was to make the Three-Headed Devourer incapable of gaining its true, fleshly form. As long as they used Selene's Skills oriented to her three personalities, the effects wouldn't face too many restrictions.
Hissss!
A hiss resounded throughout the Room, bringing with it a soul-chilling cold.
The rejected and imposed Rules were valid for all beings within these 900 square feet covered by the Skill.
Thus, the Space Devourer didn't deliberately take any form, hanging around Kai like a cloak of mist rooted in time.
Suddenly, an illusion of a stony-gray vertical eye materialized within the mist.
Ripping his flesh, Black Ghost's soul chilled.
-Space.- The hissing word echoed.
And the space froze within the Room.
Skill - Space Lock!
…
Everything in Kai and Black Ghost's immediate surroundings paused.
The Mad Commander's heart sank. He had been moving away from the Supreme, toward the hellish walls imprisoning him, inch by inch, at least.
Now, even that slowed.
Not only bodily movements, but even his thoughts felt as if they were slowing down, the madness taking over his last remaining rational thoughts.
Slowly, he looked over his shoulder and —
— what true horror meant finally presented itself to his ruptured, trembling sight.
…
Kai stood in his position like a white-haired god.
He didn't even try to fight the Room's Rules. He didn't even try to force his way through Selene's Skill, either.
All he did was smile.
All he did was to wait it out.
Rejecting the Law of Conservation of Momentum had already brought Kai and Black Ghost on equal footing, canceling all speed-related advantages and disadvantages.
Speed mattered a lot to Kai, but it wasn't where he shined the most.
Kai had deliberately developed himself so that he wouldn't depend on any one Attribute or Concept too much; may it be physical, magical, or spiritual.
That's why, losing speed didn't hurt him as much as it hurt Black Ghost.
The Mad Commander still had access to his Chakra, though.
He could Summon the Characters from the Cyborg 009 Random World anytime he wanted, Kai knew.
The thing was, no matter who Black Ghost summoned, they would be subjected to the same rules as well.
All the mad monster would do by Summoning was to crowd the Room and get himself rid of the Chakra… Chakra that he was already running short of after summoning so many Characters.
However, canceling Black Ghost's speed advantage wasn't the only thing Kai had been aiming for when he rejected and imposed Rules.
Now, the Mad Commander couldn't rip his flesh off because of the combined effect of Rejected Rule and Selene's Skill.
And that let Black Ghost's Stats take over his mad ravings.
Kai… had been counting on it.
How much HP did a 12th-floor Contestant carry? The answer varied just too much.
Still, one thing was clear to Kai. The number was staggeringly high! And high HP meant a higher HP Regeneration Rate.
Black Ghost looked over his shoulder at this time.
Kai smiled gently at him.
It happened then.
…
Black Ghost stopped bleeding.
His injuries healed, flesh repairing itself.
He couldn't control it. It was an effect of Stats.
How could one reject Regeneration? It was like rejecting the System itself… unless he too possessed Biokinesis.
When Black Ghost's flesh mended, the skin began appearing, crawling over flesh like the signs of inevitable doom.
Something else was crawling toward him.
From Kai, fleshly blobs erupted. They erupted from everywhere. It was like Kai had suddenly gained hundreds of tumors.
The tumorous blobs slowly inflated and then remodeled themselves, taking definitive shapes. They resembled…
… fingers.
This eldritch horror-like sight seeped into the space, crawling toward Black Ghost.
Fingers birthed fingers, which, in turn, birthed more fingers. The constraints of momentum and space mattered little to Kai. He wasn't aiming for speed anyway.
Let it take hours if needed.
He wasn't in a hurry.
Black Ghost's face paled in horror. He had already gained all his skin.
But Selene's Skill was still active and the Room itself could last for days. Despite being the fastest Contestant on the 12th-floor, he couldn't run from this horror.
And soon, the millions of fingers covered everything within Black Ghost's sight.
With the Room, one couldn't even locate anything, but fingers. Tiny fingers. Long fingers. Small fingers. Springy fingers. Thick fingers. They were everywhere!
Black Ghost whimpered in utter terror —
— and then they arrived, touching the Mad Commander all over his body.
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