I didn't say anything as I looked at the person that said this.
When they saw me looking at them, they couldn't help flinching and moving back a bit as if they were being pushed back by something.
It was the pressure that I was releasing that made them move back like this.
However, I didn't say anything as I waited to see what else they would say.
That person opened and closed his mouth a few times, as if he was trying to say something. It was only after a while that he finally stammered out, "Is there something wrong with those that are stronger taking the resources of those that are weaker? That is just how the world works."
I still didn't say anything as I looked at this person after he said this.
Then I turned my eyes and looked at the others that were with this person.
Though they seemed like they were still afraid of me, I could tell from the looks on their faces that they didn't seem to disagree with this person. It even seemed like they thought that what he said was correct.
I slightly knitted my brows seeing this, or I would have if I still had brows.
So instead, the flames that were in my eyes seemed to stoke themselves as they became a bit more intense.
When they saw this, it was as if they recognized something, but they just couldn't tell what it was.
That was until one of them suddenly said, "You're a lich!"
The others were surprised by this outburst, but then they looked at me closely as if they were trying to verify this.
It was only after a while that it seemed like they all recognized that I was a lich.
It didn't seem like they knew why there was a lich in front of them, but they actually seemed less afraid now that they knew that I was a lich.
It was most likely because they were necromancers, so they didn't fear me as much once they knew that I was an undead. Either because they were used to dealing with undead or because they knew how to deal with a lich.
But it wasn't as if I would let them do anything.
Before I could say anything else, there was this strange feeling that came from inside of me.
Though it was a strange feeling, it also felt a bit familiar…like I had encountered this feeling somewhere before.
It took a while for me to realize what it was.
It was the feeling of someone trying to take control of me.
It was just like the feeling of the cloaked figure who turned me into this lich trying to take control of me through that magic array. Only this feeling didn't seem to be coming from my phylactery since that was no longer in me.
That had already been passed on to the main body to take care of.
So this feeling was something completely different.
"Ha, ha, ha, fall under my control!" One of the teens suddenly started laughing with confidence. At the same time, it seemed like the others were also filled with confidence seeing him do this.
It seemed like they all knew what was happening.
"If you control this lich, you'll definitely be able to increase your ranking in the society."
"Forget about increasing his ranking. With this lich, he'll become one of the executives."
"When you become an executive, you can't forget about us."
That one teen kept laughing in a confident tone as he said, "Of course not. When I become an executive, you'll all be followers in my faction. I won't mistreat you!"
They all looked like they had already triumphed.
The problem was that this feeling of control didn't actually have an effect on me.
It did catch me off guard with how suddenly it had appeared, but it wasn't as if I was actually losing control of myself to this feeling. This feeling only lasted for a few seconds before it completely disappeared.
The reason that I didn't say anything during this time was because I was baiting them.
One was the most vulnerable when they thought they won.
These kids were especially so since they didn't have as much experience, which was why they let their guards down right away and started exposing many things.
Only they were kids, so there wasn't much that they actually knew.
They seemed to only know a few things about what they called a 'society', it didn't seem like they knew anything important about this 'society'. So it seemed like it was a waste trying to bait them.
I suddenly raised my arm.
The moment that I did, the teens noticed and turned to look at me.
The one teen that had apparently used a special technique looked at me with a smug look on his face before saying, "I want to see what you're capable of. Let's see how strong this new subordinate of mine is."
After he said this, I started gathering flames around my hand before suddenly shooting out the fireball at him.
"What are you doing?" That was all that he could say before the fireball exploded.
When the flames cleared, the teens were just in the middle huddled together with terrified looks on their faces. They weren't actually hurt, they were just a bit dusty because of the flames raising the dust around them.
The flames had actually formed a circle around them so there weren't any flames that actually touched them.
That was all because of my superior mana control.
Once the flames settled, the teen said, "What are you doing? I am your master."
"Who said that you were my master? You idiot." I said in a taunting voice before raising my hand again to gather the flames once more.
With these flames in my hand, I pointed my hand at them and said, "Now, tell me about this society that you mentioned. If you leave out a single detail, there's no telling if my hand will slip."
"Gulp."