The ratwraith breathed heavily. It did not have a nose and it exhaled through the mouth. Thick white smoke condensed in the prison cell.
It flung its last full limb at Mater. Only for the limb to be blown off by [Desperation Scream].
With all of its weapons neutralized, Mater used [Chains of Shadow] to hold it in place and jumped right at its face.
"Nighty night!" The black cat meowed. Its small mouth opened and aimed at the mouth full of teeth of the ratwraith.
The shockwave broke through the white teeth, shattering it like glass. Thick dark blood gushed out of its mouth as the wraith fell to the ground heavily. There were several bald patches on its fur because of the previous [Desperation Scream].
Mater controlled the Dark Grimoire to hover right above its head. Once five second passed, he screamed again, ending the life of this miserable creature.
The shockwave crushed the ratwraith's head.
"Come to Papa!"
Mater opened his small cat mouth wide. The body of the ratwraith shrunk into five floating Chaos Stones. The dark red stone flew into Mater's mouth.
"Glug! Glug! Glug! Glug! Glug!"
The Chaos Stones went down Mater's throat, making it enlarged every time a stone passed through.
"Hah... Delicious. Five Chaos Stones. Two more than that level 1 green wraith."
Five red spheres appeared around Mater's heart. Those were pure Chaos that had not yet been absorbed by him.
Mater flew around the prison cell to check for any notable items.
Aside from the four metal pins and chains, he noticed a pentagram on the ground with a piece of wooden index finger with a ring on it.
"This thing... David Rendell's house also had a wooden thumb in a similar style."
Mater picked up the finger using his fluffy paw. The black cat examined the wooden item, switching to his Chaos Eyes.
"No Chaos in this thing at all. Similar to the previous one. But it was used as a conductor to create this wraith. It doesn't have any Chaos now but it could be a storage for Chaos previously."
Mater brought the finger with him and flew away.
He returned to the ground floor then exited the house. The battle with the ratwraith was easy but time-consuming. It was already mid-day when Mater finished.
"That thing had really thick skin. Similar to that damn bloodwraith. I'm going to inscribe a high damage spell next level to deal with this."
Mater flew out of the house and over the courtyard to where Selina was. She was swiping her phone.
Mater was curious about what she's doing so he secretly lowered down behind her. Selina was using a dating app.
"Dating App? How dare you! You belong to me, woman!" Mater growled loudly, which startled Selina.
She almost dropped her phone but managed to catch it.
"Mr. Mater! You're here! Have you finished whatever is inside?"
Mater didn't answer. He only stared at her blankly. Selina sweated profusely and scratched her head.
"Is something... Is something wrong?"
Mater meowed loudly. He tapped his soft paw onto the phone.
"Oh... You saw that? I was just thinking of meeting someone, you know. It feels kind of lonely lately."
Mater flew closer to her and placed his hand on her cheek.
"Señorita... You already have me. You don't need no man." Mater meowed softly.
Even without the understanding of language, Selina still understood Mater. Her white cheeks blushed red.
"What are you going, Mater? We... We can't be together. I am a human. You're a cat." Selina looked away.
Mater grabbed her face gently and pulled it back.
"Señorita... There is nothing to worry about. This mortal form can't imprison me!"
The black cat munched Selina's cheek gently. Usually this action wouldn't be anything significant. But the sensual way Mater was doing it really embarrassed Selina.
"Stop." Selina made a half-hearted attempt to push the black cat away and protest. The cat was still way too cute for her to completely shut him off.
"Well. If you don't like me dating, I won't." Selina said.
She was only thinking about it and installing that app was just a sudden idea. At the moment, she really couldn't afford dating. She needed to become a better paranormal investigator and found out what had happened with her parents.
"That is what I like to hear." The black cat rubbed his head at Selina.
"Mine, mine! You two really are close."
Selina jerked back a little bit in surprise and saw who it was.
"Officer Carpenter!"
"We meet again, Miss Isles."
Carpenter just drove a police car to the house. She stuck her head out the car window.
"Why are you here, officer?"
"Ah. The detective saw those pictures you sent us. We figure it might be a case of possession so I am here to take a close look.
By the way, I don't remember that the cat can fly last time."
Carpenter pointed to Mater.
"Eek!" Selina quickly grabbed the Dark Grimoire. "Haha! It was just some magic I learned yesterday."
Carpenter burst out a laugh. "It's alright, Miss Isles. You don't need to lie to me. We all know that you're a psychic."
"A psychic?"
"You don't know? Oh, right. The Detective hasn't told you about that yet. Usually we only tell people about the psychics when they reach Bronze level. But since you already have your power, I can tell you that."
Carpenter exited the car. She pressed the button on the fob and caused the car to beep twice. The police car was locked and if anyone even touched it, the siren would go off.
"Let's talk more inside, yeah?" Carpenter said. "I need to examine the graves as well."
"Of course, officer."
They entered the courtyard once more. Selina's eyes stayed fixed on Carpenter. She was really curious about psychics.
Carpenter noticed that.
"You know about the NES, right?" Carpenter said.
"No. Not really, officer." Selina shook her head.
"Ah... You should go to the Institute of Supernatural Phenomenon some time in the future. They teach these basic principles about the NCE.
NES is Negative Emotional Spectrum. It is what fuels the NCE and their main source of power. The stronger the emotion was, the more dangerous the NCE can be.
But the NES is not restricted to NCE. We can also use its power."
Mater's ear perked up to listen in the conversation. He had returned to Selina's shoulder. The Dark Grimoire was being held by Selina.
Carpenter noticed the weird book but she didn't voice any doubt. She already saw its flying, the horrified appearance of the book was less impressive than that. Also, that scary book went extremely well with a goth girl like Selina.
"The people that are able to make use of the NES are called Psychics."