[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra":3,"chapter-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-188":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","As A Mafia Boss, I Refuse To Be An Extra",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},154716,290,"Chapter 188: The Real Ant II","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-188",188,"\u003Cp>Rubious’s Aura flared defensively as understanding crystallized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A Domain! I’m inside someone’s Domain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who? Which awakener would dare attack Kestrel property without warning?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood and walked quickly to his door, opening it, stepping into the main courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And... stopped completely, his blood running cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of people stood perfectly still throughout the compound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adults from his branch family. Guards, administrators and awakeners of various ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All frozen in place like statues, their eyes open but unseeing, their bodies unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious’s expertise in mind manipulation let him recognize what he was witnessing immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Hypnosis! Every single one of them is under hypnotic control. But the scale... the precision... this is beyond anything I’ve seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who has this level of mental power?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could activate his own defensive techniques, his consciousness was yanked forcibly from his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation was disorienting with the reality shifting and the physical world replaced by something else entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mental Domain! Someone else’s mindscape made manifest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>****\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lyandra’s Domain - The Throne of Chains]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious found himself standing in a vast space that defied normal physics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground beneath his feet was smooth obsidian, reflecting distorted images like a dark mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above, chains hung suspended in the endless sky, each one wrapped around ghostly figures that struggled without success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the center, elevated on a dais of black stone, sat a throne constructed entirely from interwoven chains that pulsed with purple energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on that throne sat a woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had black hair that fell past her shoulders and black eyes that stared at him with absolute zero warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wore dark combat armor that looked ceremonial and functional simultaneously, a long coat flowing behind her like a cape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her presence dominated the entire Domain, her will made physical and her power radiating from every chain, every reflection, every shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the throne stood a man with silver hair and silver eyes, wearing matching armor, his hand resting casually on a katana’s hilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious opened his mouth to demand explanations, to threaten consequences and to assert the authority his S rank and Noble status should provide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... Lyandra spoke first, her voice carrying throughout the Domain with absolute clarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know... my son never calls me in the middle of the night without reason.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone was conversational, almost pleasant, which made it more terrifying than shouting would have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But tonight, he called and he told me he loved me. He’s not one to express emotions easily, so hearing him say that out loud was... unusual.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious tried to speak, tried to activate his own Domain to counter hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... A katana appeared at his throat, the blade’s edge resting against his skin with enough pressure to draw a single drop of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alaric stood beside him now, having moved faster than Rubious’s S rank perception could track.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver-haired man raised one finger to his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shhhhh. I don’t like when people interrupt my wife.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then... Alaric was gone, standing behind the throne again as though he’d never moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious froze completely, cold sweat breaking out across his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Impossible! I’m S rank as well! I should be able to track his movements! But I couldn’t even see him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just... Who the fuck are these people?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra continued as though nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I contacted my connections in the military. Called in favors from people who owe me. And look what I found.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her black eyes fixed on him with intensity that made his mental defenses want to collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ever since my baby left our house, you’ve been targeting his organization. First, you went after his Mafia students’ families. And made it a game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forced him to run desperately trying to save them while you hunted them for sport.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crackle Crackle\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pressure began building in the Domain, the chains above rattling, the obsidian ground cracking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And when he saved two of them, when he thought he’d won your sick game... you had something special prepared for Zavier Wells’s family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra waved her hand, and a projection appeared in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious’s own face, laughing and holding a recording device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing a husband to eat his own wife and daughter while mentally controlled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The projection showed every horrific detail, complete with Rubious’s commentary about teaching commoners their place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You created a video to remember your cruelty. How thoughtful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra’s voice had dropped to something quiet and deadly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You made that man consume his wife while fully conscious. Made them suffer the worst psychological torture imaginable. Then... you left a note threatening my son. Calling him an ant who needed to know his place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack Crack\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pressure intensified, Rubious feeling his own mental defenses beginning to crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind was screaming in panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The information we had said his father was just a military trainer! His mother a housewife! Low-level connections! Nothing to worry about!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this... this power... these Domains... I’m S rank and I feel like I’m facing something beyond my understanding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who are these monsters?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First you torture my son through psychological warfare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crackle Crackle\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra stood from her throne, the chains in the Domain beginning to move actively, wrapping around Marcus’s limbs, holding him suspended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you had the audacity to send people to kill him tonight. Four A rank operatives to eliminate a sixteen-year-old boy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t even know how he managed to survive, all his information is suddenly classified as well. But I guess someone must have saved him. And you... you almost deprived me of my baby.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tilted her head, and the Domain’s power focused entirely on Rubious, trying to overwhelm his mental defenses, to hypnotize him the way she’d hypnotized everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious fought desperately, activating every defensive technique he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will Reinforcement! Mental Barriers! Counter-hypnosis! Domain Fighting principles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own considerable skill in mental manipulation gave him tools to resist that most wouldn’t have.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then Lyandra’s voice echoed inside his head, bypassing all external defenses, speaking directly to his consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re a mind manipulator? How pathetic! Did you really think you could resist me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His defenses collapsed like wet paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One moment he was fighting with everything he had. The next, his mind was no longer his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body remained conscious with his awareness intact. But control was gone, surrendered to Lyandra’s absolute dominance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked forward slowly, her hand reaching out to touch his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she read his memories directly, experiencing everything he’d done, every cruel decision and every calculated cruelty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So in that letter, you showed off your intelligence? Bragged about predicting my son’s movements? How smart you must have felt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her smile was cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quite impressive for someone who never even identified the background of his enemies. My son was right – the Kestrel Family really is filled with stupid brains.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She released his memories and stepped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And... you threatened my family. Told my child that Nobles were his betters. That commoners needed to learn their place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra waved her hand, and the hypnosis on everyone else in the Domain released.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"WHO?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"WHAT’S GOING ON?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"IT’S AN ENEMY ATTACK!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"RUN! THEY ARE TOO STRONG!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of Kestrel family members suddenly regained awareness, finding themselves trapped in a mental mindscape they didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tried to move, tried to flee and tried to activate their own powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Alaric’s spatial Domain overlapped with Lyandra’s mental one, holding everyone perfectly still through spatial manipulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one person was pulled forward through the frozen crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious’s wife – Elena Kestrel. Crying and begging for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please! Whatever he did, I wasn’t involved! I didn’t know! Please don’t hurt me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra ignored her completely, addressing Rubious instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will face the same sickness before your death that you made Zavier’s father endure. But I’m not quite the monster you are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was clinical, almost like stating facts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So we’ll make this efficient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious’s mind screamed desperately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’NO! NO! NOT THIS! ANYTHING BUT THIS!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his body wasn’t his anymore. Lyandra’s hypnotic control was absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand moved on its own, reaching out, grabbing Elena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rubious?! What are you doing?! RUBIOUS!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife’s screams echoed through the Domain as his hand plunged into her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tore out her beating heart and brought it to his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’NOOOOO!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The internal scream was soundless, trapped inside his own mind as he was forced to bite down, to chew and to swallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All while fully aware and fully conscious. Unable to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His family members watching began screaming, their voices creating a chorus of horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some tried threatening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The main branch will destroy you for this! Our connection will have you executed! You’ll die screaming! You’ll–\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alaric unsheathed his katana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tck\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The movement was almost too fast to see, the blade leaving and returning to its scabbard in the space of a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every person who’d been speaking went suddenly silent and still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not unconscious or hypnotized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just... stopped. Like puppets with cut strings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubious finished consuming the heart, his eyes completely dead inside, his mind shattered beyond any recovery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra summoned her weapon – a chained blade that appeared in her hand with comfortable familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She threw it, the chain extending, wrapping around Rubious’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ant who needed to know his place wasn’t my son.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice carried absolute conviction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was the Kestrel Family... And now you do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she pulled.\u003C\u002Fp>",1567,"2026-05-29T04:31:49.426Z","2026-06-01T04:29:09.863Z",1,"novelbin.me","99aa2ac2b263b1b85c0428bd55167cd20c41db95a15e7cdb5167e64f8e252732","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-189","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-187",318,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fas-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-cover.jpg"]