Harem Tournament of Champions

Witnessing a white pearl get picked from Melody's folds, he cringed at the sight and could see Mich laugh hysterically.

"Finally! I have the–"

Snatching the pearl from his hand, Melody took a defensive stance and had a hard time catching her breath after the rigorous activity she went under.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Mich barked and slowly advanced in on her.

Making her way toward the wall, she hid the pearl in her hand behind her.

[That's it, this is what we need!]

Creating a portal, Hisha collected the pearl secretly.

Melody took two steps forward, refusing to get into the portal after giving the pearl.

[What the hell are you thinking?!] Hisha panicked, realizing he couldn't save her the moment she disconnected his access to her eyes.

Dropping the pearl to the ground, Hisha punched at the wall–making a dent and boiling with rage at being shut out.

'How could this freaking happen?!' Hisha screamed at his system, disturbed his creation was taking a risk he hadn't planned.

The plan was simple, he had created the perfect mermaid and knew the one desire of the Merchief after deducing why Frich had requested a part of his harem even though they had enough females.

After the last fight, he had witnessed Mich having a long face as he watched Divei fighting in the arena. It was at that moment he knew she was the one Frich was after and so was Mich, it was only a matter of time before he would lay down his attack on his citadel.

All they needed was to see what sort of hidden power lay in the pearl and how he could get access to it if it meant using Divei later on.

Now, having his plan run downhill, he couldn't take the guilt he felt for leading Melody into the shark's mouth.

[Melody, back down! That's a command from your lord!] His eyes glowed with hurtful rage and betrayal.

Pointing downwards and staring at the door as though he could still visualize the interactive screen.

HTC feared for its host's health and mental stability after this due to their shared connection.

'I'm sorry, my lord. I have to do this.' Melody momentarily closed her eyes with a stray tear running down her cheeks, then a sad smile was made.

[Melody, no!] Hisha yelled, distraught that he couldn't visualize what was going on, and in no way of any help to her situation due to his identity being compromised.

'HTC give me access to aerial view!' Hisha stormed, triggered by the thought of what could have happened.

[Access denied]

'You've got to be fucking kidding me!!!!" Hisha's brows twitched, and he took a jade vase, smashing it to the ground.

Hyperventilating, he glared at HTC's screen and the loading ellipses only made him wish HTC could maintain its materialization, especially that of a male so he could take out his anger on something without causing necessary damage.

'How can you tell me I have no access? We freaking copulated because of the stupid rules!!! Yet you show me this?!' He fumed, feeling a tug at his chest and lack of air.

Having only access to the audio, he could hear Mich's menacing voice overshadowing Melody's whimpering.

'What's... going... on?'

Then came choking sounds and gasps of air from Melody.

"Noooo!" Hisha yelled out, reaching out to nothing in particular and dropping to his knees from temporal exhaustion.

When HTC had said they were connected, he had not envisaged something this drastic and could partly feel what she was experiencing since her body senses were heightened after shutting access to her eyes.

~How dare you come between my goal?!~ Mich snapped as he tightened his grip on her neck.

Hisha could only imagine Melody's struggle to get free.

Looking at the timer, he was in a state of worry that she still had over a day before she would vanish, this was enough for Mich to do as he pleased with Melody.

~Who sent you?! Where the hell is my pearl?!!~ He hissed in her ears in a blind rage.

Getting Mich in just the right place she needed him, Melody activated the glow in her eyes and managed to override Mich's will for a while.

Wasting no time to carry out the last plan she had personally thought of that could be of help and more effective than Hisha's plans, she towered over Mich.

"You will have another goal, one you didn't expect!" She snarled and activated a fraction of her ultimate ability on him.

Mich groaned in pain as his cock darkened with blue veins popping and trailing down to its cap.

"Nnnggg... aaahh!!"

Crouching from pain, Mich called out for the guards who were stationed far out and away from the door as per his request.

Time and again, he continued his yelling and groaning in pain.

A flash of Hik's warning flashed through his thoughts and realized how wrong he was to trust in his ability to do much that he had forgotten what it was to experience a threat other than the overlord.

"Ahhhhh!!!" He let out a blood-curdling yell which rang out throughout the building.

Melody stumbled back at the trembling under her feet and fell on her buttocks.

'I did it, you got your revenge, my lord!' Melody coughed out, feeling her vision blur.

[Melody please come back to me, you still have some time left, you can't spend it there, come back to me, please!]

HTC watched its host battle with his desire to make an appearance and personally save her.

Even though it was just a portal away, it was also stupid to risk making Mich aware that Hisha was behind the whole plan.

Melody was still nothing but a puppet that was bound to disappear just as fast as she had appeared in his life.

They had not intended to kill him just yet as he had some connection to Yoru and needed him as bait.

Without Melody's willingness to return, there was no way of getting her out of there.

[Host, don't feel this way, she's...]

"I know! I fucking know about that!" Hisha spat in fury, he couldn't care less if anyone could hear him outside since he chose to ditch conversing telepathically

It was hard enough to let someone he had made a connection with sleep with someone else, but risking her life was another when he could help her get out of there.

Hearing this, Hisha realized Melody had chosen to stay behind because she knew of the time limit to her short period.

Taking the risk at the cost of her life, Melody pulled on the silk blue curtains and wrapped them around herself, and forced herself to get to her feet.

With a smile on her face, she opened out her arms as she could see guards break their way in.

[Melody, you still have a chance, don't!]

Hisha could hear the sounds of footsteps and could already guess what was happening, she was getting surrounded and would not last too long after losing a bit of her Sux like that.

Melody chose not to respond and shook her head at an oblivious Hisha. Making up her mind to bring down a few guards and cause a bit of chaos before her demise.

Observing some guards surrounding Mich, wrap around his waist a piece of the bedsheet.

Helping him up, they turned to leave for help from the healer but when Mich stopped them and looked over his shoulder.

"Seize her, any method possible!" He commanded with spite, nodding his head to the guards to take him as they had planned.

[Audio access denied]

Hisha stared at the screen in shock and could tell what Melody was planning, unlike other times he had wished to get her back, he had a hysteric laugh and shook his head.

'She isn't returning, am I right?' Hisha looked down sadly at the interface, disappointed that he had created a puppet that had broken his hold at the last moment just to fulfill his wish more than he had intended it to go.

[That is correct]

Beckoning the guards to come at her, she knew they were at first hesitant when they observed she had mated with their Merchief.

Underneath the cloth wrapped around her, she was naked and must have been powerful to have caused such damage to their leader.

Her hair flew wildly around her with her eyes glowing which later spread around her body, disintegrating the cloth wrapped around her.

"I'd like to see how well you can fare against me!" She winked at one of the guards.

Earning him a glare from all the other guards who felt jealous of the attention given.

'She plans on doing something silly.' Hisha let out a sigh and shook his head, considering she might be preparing for her last stance to gain a much higher ground just for his goal.

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