CHAPTER 421: BOTANIC TORTURE

I spent two days watching the Group 1 of heroes being cooked alive while several inhabitants of my universe tasted this "soup" and I must say it was quite entertaining, since I’ve lost interest I said that in 1 month the inhabitants can take them out of there and give them a place in the school.

Vanessa is a student at the school and will be there for eternity studying while being tortured by absurd rules, I will make all the heroes stay trapped eternally in the school after I torture them.

After all, school torture was also made and planned by me, it’s a mix of order and chaos in one spot, combining school with torture disguised as rules that they tried to follow, but will never be able to.

I enter the second place where the second group to be tortured is, the place is a very large greenhouse full of various plants, my universe has grown a lot and although I still don’t have animals scattered around, I already have plants and many new places.

"Hello, heroes!! I’m here to have fun together" I say excitedly, closing the door and seeing the group gathered in the only open area of the greenhouse, they watch me somewhat terrified.

"I am the Demon King, the one who killed you outside! And now I’m here for personal fun, those gathered here are..."

"Elliot Kiyot, Kokona Ueno, Sora Nakamura, Daiki Yamamoto, Itsuki Matsumoto, Shun Inoue, Kenta Shimizu, Souta Abe, Hiroki Kuroda, Ryota Fujita and finally Keita Morita" I say, seeing them all here.

"..." I modify all the plants in the place, I will use them in the torture, so I can make a very unique torture with all of them.

They get up, but I don’t let them do anything and before they do something I trap them with the plants that completely wrap around their bodies, completely covering their mouths.

"You don’t need to talk, you know, I know what you’re going to say, it will be a mix of cursing, attempts at an agreement and when it all fails, you’ll beg for nothing to happen to you" It’s pretty obvious and I don’t want to hear obvious things.

"Hmmmf!!" I hear their muffled sounds trying to speak, but I completely ignore it.

"Well, well, well...we have a good number of heroes here! So I’ll be brief, after all you are Group 2" I say, approaching them with deliberately slow steps, seeing them trembling.

After this group, only Group 3 will be missing, which are the 6 heroes I most want to torture, so I’m being so brief with Groups 1 and 2 since my focus is more on those who made me suffer the most.

"You can start" I murmur, releasing some shadows into the plants and modifying them with my [Creation Essence] ability.

I sit in a chair I create and start watching the stationary bodies, immediately the plants begin to penetrate the skin, sinking their thorns into their bodies.

So far nothing special, but I wait, watching slowly as the thorns begin to release spores and seeds inside their bodies.

"..." It briefly falls into an uncomfortable silence until Kokona begins to let out painful moans, I get excited and go up to her to watch more closely.

"Oh, what a wonder! It seems to have started, I was really looking forward to seeing this, you know?" I say with a smile as Kokona desperately looks down, seeing her veins gaining strange markings that seem to be growing.

"Do you know what that is?" I ask, wanting to explain to spread the fear.

"It’s a plant, pretty obvious, right? It’s inside you, growing through your blood, it’s infiltrated your veins and will soon reach your heart, when that happens it will start to spread rapidly throughout your body, and after it spreads enough it will grow outward" When I say that, she starts to cry.

"That’s right, be afraid, the faster your heart pumps blood, the faster the plants will grow and spread" When she hears that, her despair increases, which increases her heartbeat.

Everyone around tries to move desperately, the fear only making everything worse for everyone.

"HmmmfffH!!" Ryota lets out a strange sound of pain as I look at him, seeing a root coming out of his arm, seems to have missed the path, puncturing his vein and coming out, making him start bleeding.

"..." I just wait until things start to get worse, they all start to move uncomfortably, some crying and others trying to break free from the plants that are holding them.

"An interesting plant, don’t you think? Let’s see how they react if I encourage them?" I say as I tighten my hand with force until I start bleeding.

As soon as the scent of my blood spreads, they all let out a scream almost in sync as roots violently tear the flesh, coming out before stopping.

"My blood is quite attractive, you know? It’s unique in various ways, and it’s probably very nutritious too" I squeeze even harder, increasing the bleeding, this drives the roots crazy, they start to deform their bodies trying to get out, but also trying to grow.

"..." I look into Kokona’s eyes, seeing a root crawling through the inner part of her eye, it seems to have entered her eyeball.

’They’re fast...probably the regeneration means they have no limit to how much blood they can steal’ Kokona rolls her eyes in pain as blood begins to drip from her eyes like tears.

"3...2...1"

"HMMMMM!!!" She lets out a scream as her eye bursts, which makes everyone even worse.

"Oh yes, I forgot to warn you, they’re not good at measuring their strength, so they should soon start contracting to grow in just one direction" I say maliciously as Kokona’s body begins to contract violently.

The sound of crushed bones echoes in the greenhouse, a dry sound mixed with a wet sound of blood as her body twists in a grotesque way.

Soon a white flower blooms from Kokona’s empty eye, it’s a beautiful blood-red flower that pulses with wonderful vitality, I move my hand, holding the flower and tearing it off.

"What a beautiful flower" I smell the flower, feeling an acidic and copper-like aroma, a mix of blood and something else.

I tear Kokona’s clothes and see her chest with abnormal protrusions of the roots that have reached her heart, they begin to twist, slowly and painfully destroying her torso.

I notice that roots are starting to come out of Kokona’s ears, mouth, nose, and any other opening where the vines can find.

I look at the others, seeing the same process has begun, their muffled screams are contained, partly by the plant in their mouths and partly because the plant inside their veins prevents them from doing much.

Visually, it seems less painful than being cooked alive and devoured by piranhas, but realistically, this is much worse, their blood is constantly being drained as this plant spreads through their bodies, using them to grow while breaking everything inside them.

"I created this plant based on two things, first a carnivorous plant, and second a parasite, forming this beautiful creature" I say with a smile, crushing the flower that releases a red liquid.

I look at the others who are in different stages of this, Kokona was the first to suffer the effects, so visually she shows the future of the others, which makes me focus more on observing her.

I notice several of these bloody flowers blooming on Kokona’s body, while the roots become even more blatantly visible on her body, generating prominent veins everywhere I look.

Kokona’s stomach is completely distorted, as if something is twisting it inward, forming a bizarre spiral with her organs, causing blood to drip from the wounds.

"You know, this plant is quite interesting, it moves through the blood, and uses it to guide itself, which means the more wounds you have, the more this plant will come out, creating more wounds"

"And it’s funny to see how your bodies are twisting in spirals, this is quite common in nature, it seems I’m a pretty efficient goddess in my creations, don’t you think?"

"I think you look cute like that, nature is correcting the ugliness you all had before, and is making you ’perfect’ according to its own logic" They won’t stay like this forever, though.

Although I could do this, I’ll leave them like this for two months, and then they’ll just be sent to the school and will be there eternally, following the absurd rules made to torture them.

"I’ll watch and see how much you grow before this plant contracts so much that you become just an unrecognizable, deformed mass of flesh" Normally they should end up like statues with roots sticking out.

This would happen because the blood ran out, and this plant doesn’t grow without blood, but they regenerate because of my universe, so the plant doesn’t stop growing, but I’ve set limits on this plant.

So to keep growing, they start to compress and twist into a spiral, which makes the heroes’ bodies deform in the same spiral instead of becoming a statue.

And the best part, their brain keeps working, and the plant itself acts as the nerves, sending signals to the brain to get blood, so they feel everything.

Although they can’t scream in pain, the pain they’re feeling is infernal, long and prolonged, never diminishing, only getting worse as the flesh deforms, but their brains are preserved.

I decide to sit down again and watch, most have stopped making sounds because their vocal cords are already gone, so I only hear the grotesque cracks of the flesh and bones being deformed.

However, this is interesting to study the behavior of the plants and to what extent my creation can "evolve" on its own, animals, plants, and insects in nature always evolve when they find a difficulty.

So what will this plant, which has a growth limit, do in the face of this barrier? It has infinite food, but can’t grow, so what will it do to deal with the abundant food it has?

I want to see, I want to watch the heroes’ pain as this plant tries to break its own natural limits to become something better.

Even though to the heroes it may seem like just a senseless torture done by an irrational being, to me it’s the long-awaited revenge.

I spent years planning to torture them and make them pay, and now I finally have this chance, so I’m going to make the most of it, I’m just "returning" what they did to me for years.

’I wonder, will any hero really think about why they’re suffering? Or did they just blame me?’ I look at them with doubt, I don’t regret anything I’m doing.

But I’m unsure about what the heroes are thinking, do they feel remorse for their past? Understand that they are only suffering for actions they made in the past? I have no idea.

The minds of such people are complicated, so I don’t know exactly what goes through their minds, if they think they are suffering because they made people suffer, or if they just blame everything but themselves.

However, I will focus on what matters to me, and what matters to me right now is that I’m enjoying their suffering.