Manipulateur Novels & Stories

ADA LUBE After rotating the iron tap valves to clear the ice grime from my pelt, my fingers retrieve Hayden’s ranking day token from the velvet storage case to run a detailed inspection. The asset is a high-tier, voice-integrated synthetic robot predator, engineered to look like an ice tiger because my tracking logs show Hayden maintains a supreme affinity for big cats. That specific variable drove my choice on the digital market.

Gertrude stated as she stepped behind a console and activated a thick, mechanical arm. Ves recognized the device as an advanced sensor that was capable of penetrating through almost any material. The woman gently operated the arm and brought it over to the bottom foot of the mech. The projection in front of her changed into a cutout image of the section along with multiple technical readouts that Ves barely understood.

"I can if you help me. I see you're strong. If I distract them then you can-" "Stop." Beef interrupted. She stood up and shakily walked over to Hope and I, stepping on the others that stood in her way. A few hissed out in pain as she trampled them but none protested against this intimidating female. She leaned down and pulled at Hope's torn shirt and pulled her close till their noses nearly touched. "If you don't shut your mouth right now-"

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the man in hood concealing his face said. “Yes… who is asking?” Antoine said wondering about the weird mysterious man. Man in hood suddenly took Antoine by surprise when he took long and strong steps towards Antoine and that is when Antoine noticed that the man was carrying something in his hand which looked like a rod. The man hit Antoine hard on head and the blow was enough for Antoine to take a fall. Man uncovered his face to reveal his identity. He was Brian. He looked at unconscious laying body of Antoine on the floor and said with a smirk on his face “You will know”

Daisy gave the boy a noble task to wake the man up. The boy immediately ran over to the man. His hands poked so gently into the man's clothes. The man still didn't move. The boy turned to Daisy, his eyes pleading for help. Daisy gestured to the boy. "Be strong." The boy sat on the man's feet, shook, and climbed again. Daisy assisted the boy in shaking the man's shoulder. The man opened his eyes, his mind has not worked yet. Seen the woman and his nephew sitting on the bed, raised his eyes to look at him, signaled "it's time to go". The boy is active, trying to climb onto his lap, slowly falling down.

-ADRIAN POV- I've built my career on the principle that control is everything. It's the only thing that separates the people who succeed from the people who get swept away by circumstance and emotion. Control is knowing exactly what will happen before it happens. Control is building systems that work regardless of external chaos. Control is keeping the world at arm's length so nothing can touch what I've carefully constructed. And I'm very, very good at control. Which is why the assignment Marcus just handed me is simultaneously the most strategic opportunity of my career and the most genuinely irritating thing that's happened to me in months.

Confirm. Just like that.

But his head came back up from the almost impossible angle that it had been placed in, now minus the hood that he had worn moments before. He was completely bald but Isabelle did not even notice this. The things that struck her were his eyes. Even now she would have trouble describing them to anyone, despite the fact that she had thought of not much else, but at that point so many thoughts had come into her head to describe those eyes, all of them now gone. The unmasked man licked his lips and sneered at her horribly as he pushed a wet handkerchief into her face. For a brief moment she could concentrate on nothing more than a very strong smell, which was almost like bleach.

Giving me a slight nod, he acknowledged me, then went back to looking at his leader. “What is a Mind Manipulator?” I asked in all curiosity. Stephan seemed irritated to be disrupted but answered my question. “They have the ability to make someone hallucinate, erase minds, and even the strongest ones can make you do something you don't want to do. They are a lot like foreseers, despite the fact their abilities don't work on other supernatural creatures.” I nodded slightly, indicating I was somewhat okay. I would have a while to digest this all, apparently.