Chapter 380 - Far Future Ch. 90 – The Power of Love (1/2)
I handled over the vial of mostly clear gooey fluid. Duke Rimval took it with an uncertain expression, and the datachip with it.
”I believe our research should match up with the forensic investigations of your Umbrans,” I told him and Duke Parablum calmly. ”I have stored the information away in an akashic record, that is the only remaining dataset left. I had the drives the results were stored on melted down, and the teams doing the investigations submitted to voluntary mindwipes of the results.”
They watched my Tails vanish, and the poison spikes thereon, which I had just filled that vial from.
Yeah, I could mix up Madame Shauna's diabolical venom from either my Tails or the poison glands in my mouth I already had. Only, the Hag Curse made very sure that the results were aligned to me, especially to the Brands I could administer with my primary Tail, and not the Warp.
Furthermore, the potency of the stuff was based to a large part on the natural vitality of the one administering it. To say I was leagues above the Madame in that department was no lie. One dose of this, and I had a willing slave for life. Their life. Which would not be overly long.
”There's no effective antidote, as I'm sure your own men confirmed, and trying vaccination just starts the process. Maybe removing the pleasure center of your brain ahead of time would do it, and your sex organs... but more likely it'd just drive you insane that much more quickly.” That was one nasty piece of work. ”You either resist it initially, are naturally immune, or you are toast.”
”You spoke of... other ramifications?” Duke Parablum asked, interested and cautious.
Both men acted towards me with a level of instinctive respect they couldn't shake after they Bonded with their Ranthas. It was probablymaybeyeah related to the way I took part of their souls to make the girls, la la la, but it was also because of the Hag Sisterhood effect. To their Ranthas, I was Mom, no ways around it, so in their eyes they subconsciously were treating me like their mother-in-law... and they had a very good idea what I was capable of, being so closely linked with Vala and Bluma.
The fact that both were Twelves and still did not have a prayer in heaven of getting past my Null with their psionics was also a thing.
And yet, that same link with my daughters forced them to realize that I was not a true threat, and I certainly had no malicious intents whatsoever. That I was incredibly ambitious, personally extremely dangerous, and unbelievably talented... didn't actually mean I was a threat to them!
”The stuff is only rapidly effective if it is psionically energized, or in a Warp Zone where it can be empowered. However... the basic formula could be replicated and synthesized, with some difficulty.” I let that hang out there as their faces darkened. ”I think we can praise our lucky stars that they didn't think of mass-producing her spit and introducing it as a recreational aphrodisiac. I calculate that our losses from this last action would have been at least a hundred times greater, there would have been a Mass Incursion generated as a result, and you would have had to Omega Sanction the planet.”
They both looked at that vial. Saved by being too lazy to think beyond her own personal realm of control...
”Above and beyond that...” I sighed despite myself, ”that stuff will work on non-sentients as well as intelligent ones, and if they are phrenic, it is even more potent. It leads to being able to reproduce with things you should have no ability to whatsoever.”
Their faces were like stone to hide their shock, and I could tell they really, really wished they could burn that vial. Maybe they still would.
”Lastly, if you get enough Energized Elements in the making of it, you can turn it into an aerosol form. Get enough spread to blanket a planet, and you've an alternative Omega Sanction. Every higher life form on the planet will go full Amourean, trying to ****, kill, or eat every single other creature on the planet, until they eat themselves while trying to assuage the need for a fix.
”Of course, anyone stupid enough to try that is going to trigger an Omega Incursion and lose the planet anyways as the Warp is drawn there, but the fact remains that they could do it.”
The vial and chip disintegrated in Duke Rimval's hand. He bowed his head and put his palms to his forehead. ”Holy Throne, hear thy servant and bend thine ear to my plea...” he began, and neither I nor Duke Parablum thought that was at all inappropriate, even though we knew that Duke Rimval was about as pious as a bullet in the skull. Still, Emperor's Mercy and all that...
The Great Enemy had a double-duty Omega Sanction. Kill off every higher life-form on the planet, AND summon an Incursion strong enough to take the whole planet because of how they were going to die? We'd been saved because the one who had the potential had no idea of what her little addictive gift could truly become, and hadn't thought past the reach of her tongue.
”And you can do this now?” Duke Parablum asked with a sigh.
I nodded. ”And I don't mean to sound mean, but if I ever run into a Warped World already claimed by them, I'd be perfectly willing to wipe them with this, and then burn the planet en vivus with the saturation of Warp Energy that would result. Making them pay four times over, as it were.” The huge influx of Warp Energy layered on to the previous would burn the planet very clean, indeed, and probably restore it to a natural paradise, turning an unsalvageable hellhole into a jewel of the galaxy.
Nah, I wasn't the vindictive type, was I? Quadruple indemnity was enough for me!
Duke Parablum took a deep breath. He was extending a lot of trust to me, but one look at the Markdoor and he realized he could probably trust me more than he could himself. ”You said you had other plans?” he went on, after Duke Rimval's quiet prayer finished, and they both could regard me again.