CAT WARLOCK: This Darklord Feasts Upon Horror-Chapter 252: Integrator Program

The black cat activated its Octagram Chaos Eyes. Apart from the ability to see through invisibility and illusion, the Octagram was much more capable in seeing and deciphering Chaos.

Mater was trying to understand what Marlene was doing.

’Chaos is an everchanging matter... In its purest form, Chaos switched between liquid, gas, and solid constantly. Chaos Tentacles made use of its liquid form. Chaos Control made use of its changing quality. Chaos Flesh made use of its pure energized core.

In theory, one could develop the same skill from its gaseous and solid forms. This Empath ability seems to be derived from the solid form.’ The black cat stroked its whisker.

With Mater’s octagrams, he could see the Chaos of that dog travelling through those tiny connections that Marlene made and went into her body.

The surprising thing was that Chaos went into her nervous system instead of her blood or other pathways.

The black cat frowned deeply, ’What is she doing?’

The Chaos followed Marlene’s nervous system and went into her brain, where her Chaos Singularity was.

’That... That dog’s Chaos is being processed...’ The black cat meowed.

Mater could see that the Chaos changed when they went out of her Singularity. Marlene’s eyes turned green as soon as the Chaos touched her Singularity. They stayed green until she had completely ’processed’ all the Chaos inside the dog.

The Chaos went back to her hand and inside the dog. They ate the wraith from inside out, slowly shrinking its non-corporeal body.

When everything was done, the dog from before had become a piece of green gem inside the glass box.

There was no sight of the previous wraith inside it. No black fur. Not white teeth. No tongue. Just a clear shiny green jewel.

Marlene took the gem out of the glass box and showed the students.

"This is how you made an emotional gemstone."

The student made some noises. They were all very impressed by what Professor Kovac had just shown. However, a few were really taken aback. Marlene tried to stand strong during the entire process, but she couldn’t keep the tears from coming out.

It didn’t look painful. But it looked very miserable. Some Psychics only followed this path for power or for wealth. They didn’t know what Empath Crystallization really was. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

They were not about to risk their well-being and sanity for something like this.

A few of the students left the class. They apologized to Professor Kovac constantly. She didn’t seem to be too upset by it and let them go.

It was still just the start of the semester. Changing courses was still allowed.

The class became much less crowded than before. Not that it was ever crowded. Less than ten students were in the class.

"Woah! We have more than five students this year!" Marlene said.

A student sweated profusely, "Is this class always this empty, Professor?"

"Yeah." Marlene nodded, "This course is not easy. It requires a lot of sacrifice. I used to try to ease the students in but that resulted in even more dropouts.

So I have been trying to show all the new freshmen the reality of Empath Crystallization."

Marlene scanned the entire classroom and remembered each student’s face. She was surprised to see that Selina was still here.

"Dark Knight? Aren’t you going to leave?"

"Please, Professor. Just call me Selina." The goth girl said. She didn’t understand why people keep giving her names. She already had a name.

"Are you staying just because you like me or something, Selina?" Marlene covered her mouth and chuckled gently.

"I already told you, Professor!" A vein popped out of Selina’s forehead, "It was my cat! I am not interested in women!"

"Oh? That’s a pity. Why are you staying then?"

"My cat said so." Selina unapologetically pointed at Mater.

The black cat stuck out a tongue in response.

After the exhibition, Professor Kovac gave the ten remaining students their own wraiths to practice. These were all animal wraiths and their levels were 1. They were harmless and the most serious injury they could make was a bite to the hand.

"As I have explained, the process of creating Emotional Gemstones includes two steps. Collect and Crystallize.

We will not practice either of those today. We will instead practice Hold.

Now you may question what is Hold. Hold is the action I did where I trapped the NCE from before. I need to Hold it securely and make sure it can’t hurt me before I can collect its NES."

Professor Kovac continued to give a lecture about how to use Hold.

All three actions, Hold, Collect, and Crystallize were individual steps of a single Psionic Skill. This skill had the same name as the class, Empath Crystallization.

To use this skill without assistance from the Integrator was very difficult and Marlene suggested everyone install the assistance program for this Psionic into their Integrator.

"I will send the file package to your Institute account. Just use any of our computing facilities and you will be able to access the program. Make sure to keep the program safe. Leaking is punishable by death!"

The classroom erupted in laughter.

"Nice joke, Professor K!"

"Punishable by death, Haha! It sounds like we are in a dystopian world."

Selina and Mater were laughing however.

Marlene’s face turned sour, "I am not kidding. Leaking any information inside the Institute, especially Integrator Program, is punishable by death. This is military-grade information."

The classroom became quiet. The students were still bathing in the recent opening ceremony. The grandeur of it. The friends. The luxurious facility. For a second, they thought that this was just any university.

But this was no ordinary university. It was a place to build the best warrior for the Union. And any betrayal would mean death.

Selina’s expression stayed calm, "What did you guys expect? That we’re here to enjoy college life?"

"But isn’t that a little bit excessive?" A student said.

"We’re living in a world where the dead walk amongst the living. Is it really that excessive?"