The Great Demon System
chapter-169

The person tasked with spying on Ray and pressing the button to take him hostage whenever he acted suspiciously was in his dorm, sitting in front of a monitor screen, his right hand shaking as his thumb hovered over the button in his hand, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets, a mixture of fear, shock, and anger on his face as he watched his fellow gang members get slaughtered right in front of his eyes.

"T-Traitor! How the hell did he do this right under my nose!? This fucker will pay!" The spy said, snapping himself back into reality with an emotion-filled voice as he immediately pressed the red button to make the scene in front of him stop.

*Click*

As soon as he clicked the button, he looked at Ray's figure displayed on his monitor screen and began waiting in anticipation for his body to get teleported. But, after a few seconds, nothing had happened which gave him a bad feeling running down his spine as his hands began to sweat like crazy.

'Hah… It must have been a glitch…' He thought to himself, trying to calm his nerves as he pressed the button once again.

*Click*

'Nothing… Fuck! Again!'

*Click*

*Click* *Click*

*Click* *Click* *Click* *Click* *Click* *Click*

*Click* *Click* *Click* *Click* *Click* *Click* *Click*

'WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING!!' He thought to himself, hyperventilating, tears of panic, horror and despair running down his face as he continued to press the button like a mad man.

They had tested out the functions of the button before they had Ray go and it worked perfectly so why did it stop working when he needed it most? That along with how he managed to pull that trap with him watching his every move, nothing made sense in his head, it was like he was living out one of his worst nightmares.

His body that was hunched over in his seat now just leant all the way back as his dead-looking eyes began to tear up even more as waterfalls of tears began to fall down his face, his right hand that had been previously holding the button now completely wide open as the useless, broken button fell on the ground with an immense thud that was filtered out by his staticky mind. "W-what the hell is going on… I-I watched his every move so carefully… H-how did this happen? I-I am so dead… The gang is gonna kill me..." He muttered to himself with a low voice as his mind delved into turmoil.

The plan was very simple, Ray would lure Moby alone into the forest, giving him night vision goggles as an excuse to go out at night. Then, when he reached the designated area, he would press a button, making his night-vision goggles malfunction while at the same time making it let out a loud, unbearable staticky noise, causing Moby to lose the use of his 2 most important senses, his hearing and vision, leaving him as a sitting duck and an easy target.

And, if Ray even showed a hint of betrayal or if Moby seemed to have caught onto what was going on, then the spy would have pressed the button, taking Ray hostage.

The plan seemed foolproof, nothing could have possibly gone wrong. Or so they thought.

The gang had made 2 huge miscalculations, the first was that they had no clue of the existence of Moby's mind link. And, second and most important was that they underestimated truly how intelligent Ray was as he had never been heard of prior to his good performance on his exam.

Ray had fully anticipated everything in the gang's plan before they had even proposed it to him, and, he had prepared and acted accordingly. He had endured all of those weeks of pain, humiliation and suffering all for that moment, to help out his only friends and to get his payback.

Prior to the gang's recruitment, Ray had already made a few storage capsules for his own personal use. After all, he made those storage capsules for especially creating traps with his ability and gloves in mind. The weight limit of 10 grams was so low because he had only intended them to hold his strings that weighed almost nothing.

After the gang let him go for the day and left the spying device on his shirt, Ray had just simply gone back to his own dorm. However, on his way there, he tripped and fell in mud, leaving his pants extremely dirty.

Then, he had asked permission from the person spying on him if he was allowed to change his pants so he seemed cleaner, and could sell his story better to his friends that he had been inside the entire time.

The spy of course agreed, using the microphone embedded on the device. He thought nothing suspicious about it as he felt like the request was fully reasonable.

However, unknown to the man, Ray had worn a pair of pants that he had been keeping his old capsules filled with his strong, vibrating threads.

Due to some prior reading, Ray knew about the spying device and its exact functions even though the gang did not explain everything to him. He knew that the spy had absolutely no idea of this as on his screen, he was only able to monitor sound, the video being taken from Ray's perspective, and a model of Ray's naked body, items and clothes being held on him were not at all simulated. And, he used that knowledge to his full advantage

After wearing the new pair of pants, Ray decided to nervously ask the spy for directions about where exactly in the forest he was supposed to lead Moby. This was a request that the spy found a little odd as Ray had just finished changing his pants, but at the same time it was a very important and reasonable question to ask in his circumstances and he might have just forgotten to ask it before he wore his new pants. Plus, he was going to have to do it anyway.

The spy led Ray to the exact area where the trap was supposed to take place and Ray decided to take his time inspecting it, his hands in his pockets as he began circling all around the edges of the clearing to better take in the environment.

From the spy's perspective, this all looked very natural and he saw nothing to hint at Ray doing anything suspicious, so he let him be as he continued to inspect him very carefully.

Yet, what the spy did not see was how Ray dropped various small capsules on the ground every few metres. By activating all of them all at once, that was how he intended to trap the gang. Once activated, the strings would automatically connect to his gloves, allowing him to stretch them out and control them using his ability, wrapping them around the trees for an easy trap.

However, the gang's biggest mistake and miscalculation was how they did not have anyone proficient in technology in their gang so they had to rely on Ray to create the mechanism of disabling the night vision goggles, which he of course did and showed them how it fully worked.

Except, unknown to them, the button had more functions than just disabling a specific night vision goggle. It also served to activate all of his personal capsules that he left in his dorm as well as send out a certain electromagnetic wave that would temporarily disable the teleportation feature.

He programmed it so that he could decide which effects he wanted by simply pressing the button longer or shorter. A short press would activate all of the effects while a long press would only activate disabling the helmet.

The only demonstration that he showed the gang was when he long pressed the button, the thought never crossed their mind that pressing the button longer or shorter would have led to different effects so they never bothered asking or looking into it.

Then, he went home to relax and play video games until Moby and Alex arrived, the rest was up to them if they caught his message and if they would lead to all of his efforts going in vain, getting him taken hostage.

The thought of activating the button to disable teleportation before he had lured Moby in did cross his mind but in the end, he decided against it. If the spy saw him make the motion to press the button before the time was right, he would be teleported or taken hostage before he could even get the chance. He assumed that the person assigned to keep an eye on him was very strong and perceptive, giving him a much faster speed and reaction time to him which would have led to him failing more times than not and he was not willing to take the risk. So, he decided to continue with his original plan.

Luckily his gamble paid off and his friends did not act suspiciously at all or force him into a corner, everything went too smoothly almost like they also had a firm grasp on the situation.

What Ray did not know was that his gamble was even bigger than he thought as he was able to evade and slip past both Abby's and Jayden's eyes who were searching the campus and forest respectively. The grounds of the school were very huge and it did not allow them to search everywhere at once, especially in Jayden's case who had to search the entire, wide, expansive forest. If Ray was not lucky enough to evade their search, he would have been either question or caught by them to send straight to Moby, leading to him getting taken hostage.

Ray was not even aware that such a reality could have happened. Everything fell in the right place due to a mixture of luck and careful planning and he would be lying to say that he was not satisfied as the gang fell right into his hands.

He held onto the spying device on his shirt and immediately ripped it out, throwing it on the ground as he stared at the gang members jumping right into his web with a chuckle and crazy smile on his face, the strings turning them into piles of meat stacked on top of each other, squirming and screaming on the ground as a result of his trap.

He was not sure if some of them were dead or unconscious but he did not at all care, they deserved what they got for all the pain they had made him go through and for trying to hurt his only friends that meant so dearly to him. If the school asks him why he did what he did, he would simply answer with self-defence and that he was scared for his life which was not at all false.

At this point, he was ready to do anything...