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Chapter 556: Chapter 556: Taking Over
Soon, Ivy was informed as well.
But by the time Ivy received the report...
It was already too late.
...
Meanwhile, Felix had already moved forward with the plan he and James had discussed.
He stood in an isolated area outside the main paths of the base.
The wind brushed lightly against the dry grass around him.
Felix leaned casually against a broken fence, pretending to look relaxed while secretly remaining alert.
He waited.
Three minutes passed.
Then suddenly...
A cloaked figure appeared in his line of sight.
Felix smirked.
"Well, well," he said loudly. "Who are you?"
The cloaked figure remained silent.
Felix crossed his arms playfully.
"And why have you been watching me for so long?" he continued teasingly. "What’s the matter? Do you like me or something?"
He laughed lightly.
"But I should warn you," he added with a grin, "I don’t like men."
He paused dramatically.
"Actually, I’m not even interested in women anymore either. I already have a girlfriend."
His playful blabbering echoed in the quiet field.
However...
The cloaked man didn’t react at all.
Not even a slight movement.
Then suddenly, in the blink of an eye...
The cloaked man appeared directly in front of Felix.
Felix froze.
For a split second, his heart skipped.
A cold sense of danger rushed through his chest like ice water.
Without hesitation, he activated his communicator.
"James..."
He called out immediately. But no response came.
Felix frowned. "James?"
Still nothing. His eyes widened slightly.
A terrible realization slowly crept into his mind.
’Wait...’
All the strange details he had been ignoring until now suddenly began connecting together.
And in that moment...
Felix realized something horrifying.
It was strange how James had suddenly seemed to realize his mistake.
It was strange that James had noticed something at all, and even stranger that he had dared to suggest something so risky.
Felix had taken time to understand it, yet the thought kept circling in his mind like a cold wind that refused to stop.
What troubled him the most was how James had specifically warned him not to tell the entire base... or Ivy.
"Don’t mention it to anyone," James had said earlier, his voice unusually serious. "Especially not Ivy. I don’t want her worrying for nothing."
Now, as the memory replayed in Felix’s mind, he could only feel a bitter sting of humiliation creeping up his spine.
His eyelids drooped for a brief second, his chest tightening. ’How stupid can I be...? How did I not see it earlier...?’
Meanwhile, the cloaked man did not waste even a single moment.
He understood very clearly that meaningless conversation could only delay things, and delays meant risks.
The longer he dragged this out, the higher the chance that something unpredictable, something miraculous, might appear out of nowhere and ruin everything.
Without hesitation, he stepped forward toward Felix. Yet he was already a step too late.
The next second, a deafening roar tore through the air, shaking the silent surroundings. It was quickly followed by a woman’s voice, sharp and trembling with emotion.
Both Felix and the cloaked man turned toward the direction almost subconsciously. The moment their eyes landed there, they froze in shock.
It was Annie’s mother.
Even Annie’s mother herself did not understand how she had arrived there.
It felt as if some faint whisper had guided her through the shadows, a strange voice pulling her step after step until she reached Felix’s location.
She had simply followed it, her heart pounding violently inside her chest.
The moment she arrived, however, it looked as if every shred of rationality inside her mind had vanished. Her eyes were bloodshot, her breathing erratic, and without hesitation she rushed toward Felix like a person possessed.
The cloaked man’s eyes flickered.
He immediately realized this was a danger.
Not wanting to waste even a second, he began chanting at once.
His lips moved rapidly as ancient, twisted syllables slipped out of his mouth.
In his mind, the calculation was simple.
Annie’s mother might be fast, but she would not reach Felix before the incantation finished.
By the time she arrived, he would already have control over Felix’s body.
Indeed, the cloaked man was none other than Damien.
This entire situation had been carefully planted by him.
He had long realized that his own power had grown far beyond what Damien’s body mediocre potential could handle.
The energy was too much, too wild, too overwhelming.
Because of that, the superior being needed someone else. Someone with better potential. Someone whose body could withstand the power... and someone he could secretly control from within.
Felix was perfect.
Taking over Felix’s body would not raise suspicion either. Once inside, there were countless things Damien could accomplish.
That was why he had appeared here.
That was why he had made this plan.
Yet who could have imagined that, at such a critical moment, a crazed woman would suddenly appear and try to ruin everything?
’No... I won’t allow that.’
His chanting sped up until the words sounded like flashes of lightning spilling from his mouth.
Yet once again... he was too late.
The moment the final syllable escaped his lips, a body suddenly appeared directly in front of him. The entire incantation collapsed onto that body like a blinding storm of light.
That body was none other than Annie’s mother.
Her eyes widened in terror as a brilliant light surrounded her, swallowing her figure entirely.
The cloaked man’s face twisted in disbelief.
"Shit... how did this even happen?!"
But the words had barely left his mouth before his voice abruptly stopped.
A violent pulling force ripped through his soul. In the blink of an eye, his spirit was torn out of his body and dragged into Annie’s mother’s body instead.
Meanwhile, Damien suddenly regained control of his original body.
The moment he realized the terrifying entity that had been occupying him was gone, a wave of cold fear flooded his entire being.
His legs trembled so violently that he almost collapsed.