DOOMED TO BE A VILLAIN



After leaving the estate of the Lecroy family… in style, I might add as they had literally taken to the skies. Davies had found his mind reverting to the mission of finding another method to deal with the poison coursing through his system before he ran out of time and had to use his fail-safe plan.

He had previously been thinking about how the poison would lose its effects if he could hold out long enough for it to become ineffective, but there was a limitation to this idea as his mana would kill him before he could survive that long, yet Davies did not plan on giving up this idea yet as there was still seemingly hope for him to be able to survive through the period of the poison's effects…

As long as he was able to find something that could weaken his mana enough for him to hold on long enough, then he could survive the dangerous situation he was in right now without having to use Reversion…

'But how could it be so easy?' he thought with a wry smile.

"So, have you come up with another idea to deal with the poison?" Melinda asked not shifting her eyes from the front of the car because they were still off-road and she had to pay full attention to driving as it was easier to have an accident in this kind of environment, especially as it was nighttime.

"Yeah, I figured something out and thought something up… but the idea has a few flaws," Davies didn't hesitate to share his thoughts in the hope that he could figure something out from her due to some knowledge she had, or her way of thinking.

While he was a well-established and certified loner, he understood very well that no one was an island of knowledge and everyone constantly needed new sources of ideas and inspirations, so he had never been a loner to the point that he thought he could come up with every genius idea by himself. 

In fact, most of the things he had invented to date weren't based on just his thinking, so he fully understood the importance of receiving inputs from minds other than his own when he needed to solve a problem that was beyond his ability to solve.

"The poison isn't the kind that can inhibit my control of mana infinitely… there probably isn't any poison like that, or if there was, it wasn't this one,"

"I should be able to survive if I can hold on long enough for the poison to lose its effects," he began explaining.

"I would say let's do that, but I feel like there's a but in that statement," Melinda chimed in.

"I was getting there…" Davies sighed, a little ticked by her interference in his explanation.

"Like I was saying… I should be able to survive if I can hold on long enough for the poison to lose its effects, but," 

"Surviving long enough till the poison loses its effect is nigh impossible for me right now, especially since I was shot by the poison twice, thus getting double the dosage, which stands to reason that the duration till the poison loses effect is doubled,"

"So, even if I had the stamina of a camel and the willpower of a tiger, I still wouldn't be able to survive the effects of my mana rampaging in my body and causing havoc to my internal organs," he continued.

"Can't we find a way to weaken your mana so you can survive till the poison loses its effects?" Melinda cut in again.

"I'm still explaining, Mellie, hold your damn horses," Davies snapped, her constant interruptions were getting annoying and he didn't have the luxury of time to banter with the queen-like MILF that was driving him… unfortunately.

"Oh, sorry," she apologized in a quiet tone after a slight pause as it was not something she was used to doing… apologizing, that is.

Many men, and even some women would kill to be in his shoes right now. Just the fact that the famously stunning 'Flaming Winged Enchantress' was talking to him was something that many wished for, and for her to even be driving him while trying to help him save his life, most people would give their all to switch places with him even if it meant they would die due to the excruciating pain of being frozen from the inside in a few hours.

If they were to even get a glimpse of her apologizing to him, they would immediately cough blood to death, giving the grim reaper a lot of extra souls to ferry to the afterlife, but Davies wasn't like those simps who would lose their heads over a woman like Melinda.

Sleeping with queens and princesses of Empires that were great enough to be called world powers was right up his alley, and Melinda just about barely matched that level of beauty and temperament so he couldn't simp for her, especially when his life was on the line. 

Beauty that can topple kingdoms could go to hell if it meant he could save life… this was a rule that he created for himself and fully followed. Unfortunately, all his deaths could still be related to a woman, but that was yet another story for another day.

"As I was about to say…"

"If only I could find something that could weaken my mana, but unfortunately, due to my special circumstances, the conventional methods that could weaken one's mana cannot work for me," he continued after another interruption from the Flaming Winged Enchantress.

Davies had actually given this point a fair bit of thought, while there were things that could help weaken one's mana, but due to his special physique and sheer amount of mana, those things were completely ineffective on him.

He knew because he had checked due to his cautious nature and fear that such a thing could be used against him in battle. Back then, when he had discovered that those things were ineffective on his mana, he was thrilled and relieved, but now, his unease and annoyance at such defensive measures of his body reached new heights.

He never knew there would come a day when he would be annoyed at the advantages he had over other people, but there was a first time for anything.

"Since conventional methods wouldn't work, then I can only try to think of some non-conventional methods to weaken my mana long enough for me to survive through the poison's effective duration," he finally mentioned the basis for the new idea, as well as the part where he needed her input so he could find a way to survive.

"I can't purposely weaken my own mana as I don't have enough control for that and forcing it would only make the current situation worse…"

"I also can't try to disperse my mana to the point where it isn't enough to damage my body as I no longer have that much control," he said outwardly, but inwardly he knew that he couldn't disperse that much of his mana since the amount of mana his body generated and contained was more than he could handle.

It was why he had set a limit for the amount of mana he was allowed to use, because even though his body contained that much mana, using that much mana with such a weak body was not possible, but that was mostly because most of his own powers were sealed.

"Since your mana is of the ice element, can't you try using the fire elemental mana to try to suppress it?" Melinda was hit by a brainwave and quickly spoke out her idea, showing Davies that his idea to find answers by knocking their heads together wasn't a bad idea, but despite that, Davies's answer still knocked her down a step or two.

"It's not a bad idea, but it's currently impossible as due to my lack of control over my mana. I won't be able to resist the burning effect of the fire elemental mana and would probably die to the flaming mana instead," he answered immediately. The ice mana coursing through his body was very potent and also had quite the quantity, so it would easily require a great amount of fire elemental mana to weaken it.

"Not unless you're trying to cook me with such intense mana," he muttered. 

Letting such mana come in contact with his body would turn him to ashes immediately… he'd rather avoid that situation.

"Is there really no way around that?" Melinda asked with worry, not happy that yet another method to save Davies had vanished before it was even formed.

"Not unless there was a way for the fire elemental mana to directly come into contact with the ice elemental mana that is inside me," Davies said in passing as his mind was currently working at top power while searching for other methods to deal with the poison.

What he did not know was that the words he had said so harmlessly in passing would be the key to solving this poisoning incident without the use of Reversion.