Devourer
A few minutes earlier, before the bulky man barged into the room.
Achilles controlled the rat to move to one of the rooms on the second floor and hid near the entrance.
...For some reason, his instinct kept telling him to try this room first. It was almost as if something inside the room was calling for him.
And he couldn't resist that temptation for unknown reasons.
So he waited until a couple of man and woman ran into the room and caused a commotion.
He immediately controlled the rat to run into the room and hid under one of the patient's beds.
Achilles moved the rat's head around as if trying to find something.
A moment later, he finally locked onto the place he was looking for — the source of the thing that was calling for him.
It was on top of a patient's bed where the bulky man and the doctor were standing next to it.
After making sure it was safe, he commanded the rat to slowly move to the bed where the two were having a conversation.
After reaching underneath the bed, he activated his ability to teleport to the rat's position. He didn't do this before due to the fear that there might be security checks to make sure there was no evil spirit inside the morgue.
Achilles opened his eyes and saw that he was now inside the morgue, in front of him were two people talking to each other, a man in a white coat and wore glasses and another man who was listening with disbelieving eyes.
He didn't pay much attention to the duo and shifted his gaze to the patient's bed.
..He could feel that his soul was begging for this body, asking him to take it as his.
He didn't know why was this the case, but it was not important right now.
There was a possibility that he could get discovered, so it was best to waste as little time as possible and finish this.
Normally it was not impossible to find out about the trace of an evil spirit even if it possessed a body.
...But it was not Achilles' intention to merely possess the body like a puppeteer controlling his marionette.
He was planning to make the body wholly and completely his!
He calmly reached out his hand and touched the young man's forehead.
[Devour] His eye turned bright red.
After that, his vision went black.
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Achilles fluttered his eyelashes slightly in confusion.
He wasn't sure if his plan succeeded or not.
He turned his left and right to scan his surroundings, and he noticed that was standing on top of a grass hill with beautiful sunlight shining on top of it.
The sky was blue and beautiful and a few types of flowers were growing on the hill, it made the entire place filled with a sweet scent of honey.
In front of him was a small house, it was similar to a terraced house.
The house and the surroundings combined together to create a beautiful scenery that seemed like a paradise.
If anyone else were to look at it, they would fall in love with the place.
But the only thing Achilles felt was amusement, as he thought to himself:
'This kid lives in the ivory tower or something? How come his Mindscape looks like a children's paradise?'
Indeed, Achilles was currently in the young man's Mindscape.
When he entered his Mindscape for the first time to check his ability, 'Will of The Dominator' was not the only skill he found.
Similar to a Divine, when a Corrupted descended to a new rank, they also got an ability.
But unlike a Divine, they didn't get active abilities that could be activated on will. But passive abilities that alter themselves both physically and spiritually, which automatically activate when certain conditions are fulfilled.
And that was exactly what Achilles got, a passive ability from his Corrupted remnants which was called:
'...Heart of The Devourer. A suitable name for such a terrifying ability.'
It was the main reason why he was confident that his plan would work, and his dilemma would be solved.
The ability allowed him to enter the Mindscape of an individual whose mind was in a weakened state, typically when the said person was unconscious.
....As for the rest of the effect, it would be seen shortly.
Achilles snapped himself out of his thoughts and hastened his footstep toward the terraced house.
'That should be where the soul resides.'
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Meanwhile in the real world, in a patient's bed.
The young man's body shuddered slightly, this drew the attention of the man and the doctor as they wondered what was going on.
The latter quickly arrived by the young man's side and checked his heartbeat, then he said in a serious tone:
"What the...his heartbeat...What is going on?"
He turned his head away from the young man and yelled in a loud voice:
"Get someone in here, a patient's having a cardiac arrest!"
The bulky man and the woman heard what the doctor said and asked him in a worried tone:
"Doctor? What's going on? Why's the kid having a cardiac arrest?"
"I don't know, first we must apply CPR to the kid."
He then pressed his hand on the young man's chest and applied CPR to him.
After a while, a bunch of men in white coats walked in with a defibrillator quickly arrived by the doctor's side.
The doctor saw this and started removing the young man's armor and put the defibrillator on his chest and said loudly:
"Clear!"
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Back in the Mindscape, inside the terrace house
The door opened up widely, revealing Achilles who was standing behind it with a curious look on his face.
This was the first time he had been to other people's Mindscape, so naturally, he wanted to look around and check things out.
Just as he was about to enter the house, the entire place seemed to experience a heavy earthquake as the ground rumbled fiercely.
Rumble!
He quickly held onto the house to keep himself balanced and not fall to the ground.
After a while, the earthquake stopped and just as he turned around to ask himself what was going on, the sight in front of him made his left eye wide open.
'...Is it my imagination, or part of the space actually just disappears into nothingness?'
At the edge of the entire Mindscape, the ground and the blue sky cracked like a broken mirror as its pieces slowly faded away.
Achilles felt a horrifying sense of danger as he muttered with a terrified look:
"Shit, the Mindscape is getting destroyed? Why is this happening?"
Thousands of possibilities rose up inside his head, but he quickly shook them away. Now was not the time to make hypotheses!
As the Mindscape started cracking up more and more, Achilles made up his mind and swiftly ran inside the terrace house.
He did not know what would happen if he fell into that empty white void down there, but he doubted that his ending would be anything pleasant.
He needed to finish the rest of his plan ASAP!