68 Bending Will.

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Walking slowly so that his footsteps reverberated through the hall and became an extra ambiance of scary things that Keira Metz will experience, William added the extra sound also since his gloves look like Daedric Gauntlets. His index finger grazed the soul's prison cell grate, the auditory tap-tap filled the whole room, telling anyone that someone is here for their minds to be enslaved and never see the true colors of this world anymore.

After three minutes of grueling waiting for the one trapped in the dungeon, William finally stood in front of the blonde sorceress's cell. Seeing the incorporeal entity shaking uncontrollably, as if exposed to the third degree of frostbite, he then proceeded to do some of his acting, "Hmm… Nunon mey haav dii mund. Wo los hi? Dii aar los hinzaal. Rok nis possibly vos hi mindok daar nizaag do dii mund. Pahfos. Hi fen—"

"I will do anything! Anything to get out of this place! Please! Please make this sorcery stop! It is hurting my Chaos Magic! I don't want it! I don't want to be here! This is torture…"

Raising his eyebrows seeing her instantly breaking down with only just a greeting, William just chuckled and shook his head seeing this lady that was still mumbling "wanting to do anything", just given up like that. But to her, the small laugh that he did only out of spontaneous reaction is scarier than any Specters Banshee wails in the middle of the night. To the point that her concise words of pleading are not really words anymore but become just gibberish rambling.

Luckily, the one who is in front of him is only a soul-like being that has no body to convey the emotion. If not? Well, he needs to get out of this place immediately and activate the air ventilation enchantment if he doesn't want the dungeon to reek of something unpleasant. 

Thinking of the proper words that he will use, considering Keira in front of him is unable to understand his Dovahzul language due to her state of mind, William then mixed the scary tongue with the common one so that his message will be understood. "Anything? Hi laan wah dreh anything? Hahahaha! Vir ful moorus, vir ful rinik moorus. No, Mundus tir reid jor. You do not get to command me. Since you will become my aar ahney ven. Nu, vosro fahbo krodren fent mu?"

Shaking her head slowly, letting the words sink in before finally understanding what he meant, Keira at first softly denied, "No… No, you cannot do that…" And then mildly denying him with reasoning as a fellow human being, "It is too cruel, right? Forcing someone to become someone else's servant, right?" Before finally shrieking when she sees William in a Dragon Priest grab casting a modified spell that she thought to be a means of bending someone else's will, "NO! LET ME OUT! GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME! I WANT MY FREEDOM!"

Weaving the Candlelight spells according to the special effect that he watched on YouTube in his first life, William then applied a small Aerotheurge push magic to the switch at the side of the prison cells. Keira's shrieking intensified, not because of the pain but because she felt her Chaos Magic being messed with without knowing what was happening, he finally finished the special effect display after five minutes of grueling moments for the blonde lady.

Cruelly chuckling at the successful prank that was done to trick one of the powerful sorceresses, William then simply said one sentence to make her doubt the existence of her being enslaved and not at the same time, "Welcome, my zaam aar. Welcome to the new lein that we want to build. Our master will soon arrive to grace himself with his presence. All moro Alduin the Lein Al Suvulaan Rah! May his everlasting permanence devour us all! Until the world created by naal unslaad dremserah Akatosh is destroyed! Hahahahaha!"

Receiving only confused cries and not knowing what was happening, William then left the prison dungeon so that his bluff would not be exposed if he got carried away by the atmosphere and continued pranking the poor lady.

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Arriving at the main core room once again to deactivate the imprison enchantment so that Keira's soul can go back to her body, William just shakes his head and chuckles when seeing her still shrieking and pleading. The built-in sequence of spells concerning intruders has been switched off, and he sees her incorporeal entity slowly being sucked into the portal, probably into the Bromjunaar Sanctuary of the known timeline.

"Well, that is done. Now let's think about how to kill Sheala de Tancarville without ruffling up the feathers of the Lodge as a whole."

Even though killing her will deliver a blow to their pride as a powerful group of female sorcerers, at the least possible minimum reason, since they are not that close, William thinks that if he does this right to the point that they think it is not worth it to do a counter assault, there is a possibility that they won't become hounds thirsty for some kind of revenge.

But he knows that it will be very difficult because at the end of the day, killing one of their members is an extreme thing to do that destroys any kind of reason to be cordial anymore. So, thinking about how he is about to go about his operation, his line of thought couldn't help being drawn by Keira, who was just recently imprisoned. Or more correctly, to the prison that was being built to bend the will of someone, until that person never tasted the true colors of this world anymore.

"Hmm… I could throw her in prison silently and then let her out like something never happened. But, it will only work for the undead or someone who has already become a soul-like being."

Rubbing his chin and contemplating how to get past that prison restriction, William then deactivated his Third Spectrum Transcendence, which he had kept active, to stop his shivering muscles. And proceeded to find Thu'um scrolls that Konharik might have created when he wanted to enslave someone, preferably with the word Gol Hah Dov. Because in his mind, if the prison cannot bend the will of someone alive, then surely the Shout would be able to do that.

But after searching high and low in this big mansion of a house, the scrolls or anything that comes close to what he is searching for, William is unable to find anything that resembles the Shout done by the Dragon Priest itself. However, he did find something that surely will help him in his current endeavor, or subsequent endeavor, per se, because it technically allows him to use the Shouts without being a native of this world.

Looking at the mouthpiece artifact prototype in his hand, William says, "It seems only this item comes closer to making me able to bend someone's will. Still, it is surprising that Konharik wanted to create this item that basically can be mass-produced to make an army of Thu'um users, without that person needing to learn for decade upon decade of intense training."

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