After Marco reached the end of the hall, he turned towards another way and came across a larger jail, with strange women standing around.
They were village girls, but they looked like zombies and had tentacles instead of 1 or 2 limbs, this is the thing most similar that Lily wanted to do.
Village girl 1: Hehe… I want more.
She was walking towards a man that seemed dead inside.
Man 1: Auu… Lucy… Please stop…
Village Girl 2: Your semen is delicious.
Man 2: Aieee! Ahhh….
Similar scenes were happening at other places in the room, the mutated village girls were about 10, and they were assaulting chained men, ignoring Marco.
Before one of them turned and seen him, Marco jumped in the ceiling and used his claws to grab the ceiling, before silently moving over the experimented girls.
No one of them noticed them and with Sylph beatboxing Mission Impossible inside Marco's head for fun without him knowing where she learned it from, and him not making a single noise, he was able to get past them and fell back in the ground, silently.
When he confirmed that no one noticed him, he sighed in relief and walked forward, some minutes later, he heard some metal clanging against metal ahead of him.
Marco narrowed his eyes and hastily walked, knowing what was happening.
Some minutes later, he reached destination, there was a young man trapped in a jain fighting a…
...Iron Maiden?
Yes, it was THAT Iron Maiden, the one used for torture where inside of it there was god-knows-how-many spikes, buuuuut! This one instead of spikes had tentacles.
Marco immediately frowned and forcefully opened the jail by bending the bars, creating a hole for him to pass.
The young man and the Iron Maiden stopped fighting and looked at Marco, the young man had a hope-filled expression while the Iron Maiden attacked Marco, he, still with a frown, attacked with a punch.
But the Iron Maiden, instead of breaking or anything, just flew some meters away and Marco's expression was filled with pain.
The bones of Marco's hand were a bit broken, but they soon regenerated thanks to his regenerative powers.
Marco: You, stay at a corner of the room, there may be other dangers outside from the jail.
The young man nodded and stood in a corner, where he would not interfere with the fight, Marco turned towards the Iron Maiden and bent forward, he took a deep breath and used the 2nd Gate.
A second aura-made tail came out from Marco's back, which took the shape of a claw, like the other one.
The Iron Maiden rushed at Marco while the lid opened, revealing an intestine-like interior with some tentacles where the butt should be placed and a hole where the dick should go.
Marco's eyes narrowed and instead of dodging he grabbed the two extremities of the lids, the Iron Maiden was trying to trap Marco, but he, with the help of his tails and his arms, was able to block the Iron Maiden with sheer strength.
Marco's expression changed from calm to a pained one, the lids of the Iron Maiden were trembling, like Marco's arms, but strange sounds came from the middle of the Iron Maiden, where was connecting the two lids.
And finally, the Iron Maiden broke, this thing shocked the young man, who watched what was happening the entire time, and turned to Marco with hope while the remains of the Iron Maiden turned to dust.
Marco gazed back and said.
Marco: Be careful, outside is another Iron Maiden, when I will fight that one you take your leave, don't worry if you get caught, if it's anything except the Iron Maiden I can still save you when I turn back.
The young man nodded, and followed Marco, suddenly, his two tails shot forward in the middle of the darkness, and retreated back with another Iron Maiden in their grasp, it couldn't struggle under the strength of Marco's tails.
The man used this opportunity to leave like Marco said, while Marco looked at the other side, finding a wooden door at the end of the hall.
Marco: Lily… You better prepare your anus because uncle Marco is coming…
Then Marco's tails reared back, and unexpectedly…
… Threw the Iron Maiden towards the wooden door…
The Iron Maiden destroyed the door, and turned to dust like the other one, from the broken door, Marco came out and looked around.
The room looked like a laboratory, there was a furnace, many bottles of questionable things were in the table, etc…
And at the other end of the room, there was Lily smiling at him.
Lily: Really… How savage. Shouldn't you knock before opening the door?
Marco flinched at her words and expression…
Only Illias and Lily herself knows how many men were sucked dry, tortured and killed, and how many women were used as experiments, some lost their reason to live too… People were suffering, screaming… The villagers were living in despair…
And she smiles… As if she was in a garden full of flowers… This made Marco's killing intent slightly appear.
Marco: You little... bloody... bitch…
Lily: You just don't understand. My experiments are a noble endeavour for valuable research…
Marco: This doesn't give you permission to use human life for shitty experiments!
Lily: Hehe… What a shallow sense of justice. This world contains things you cannot comprehend.
Marco's eyes widened and took a dumbfounded expression, but not from shock… But from anger, then his right eye twitched. This fucker thought about teaching him what humans could do?
Lily: Being in this village made me able to see the ugliest part of the humanity. This research… Is just my gift to repay them for that.
Marco: … You…
Lily: You… What, exactly? Do you think you're a match for Meister Lily, the seeker of truth?
Then Lily's arms turned in tentacles and started releasing a big magic power, and looked at Marco with a smirk.
Lily: You will fall down here…
Marco: ...I'll give you the last chance… Stop this abomination you call experiments right now… I have enough patience to last till now…
Lily: Abomination…? You're wrong! The village is the abomination! ...My mother was a dancer born in Sabasa. She was a mistress of the Lord of this village, and I was eventually born. Of course, I was viewed as nothing but a hindrance…
The daughter of some foreign prostitute… The villagers despised me. On top of all that, my mother died when I was young of sickness. She worked herself to death trying to provide for me… After that, the harassment only grew. The church even refused to hold a funeral for her.
After she died, I was sent to my father. But even that just turned into another hell. Do you understand? How everyone looked at his illegitimate child in his own house!? ...I wanted revenge on them. That's why I studied the magic in the prohibited books!
I killed my father and brothers by squeezing them all to death using that power! After I got rid of them, I took over the Lord's seat. Hahaha! The prostitute's daughter they despised so much was now their Lord! I would never forgive them.
They despised me… They ridiculed me… They tossed stones at me. They were the reason my mother died… Can you even begin to understand the pain my mother and I went through? No! Because you are just a little kid trying to be a hero for fu-
*Crack*
She couldn't finish that sentence and spit blood, because Marco punched her stomach and made her fling to the wall, making a crater.
Marco: You… You shitty brat… You think you can judge me…
*Warning*
*Warning*
*Warning*
Alarms could be heard coming from the Nine Tailed System, Sylph, inside Marco's head, covered her ears from hearing the loud alarms, but Marco seemed to not notice them, his vision got blurry due from the anger he has.
Marco: ...I and my mom got treated from the Illias Village as if we were demons…
*Warning, the Nine Tailed Gates are going out of control*
Marco: ...She got sick… I tried to help her, asking around, kneeling, killing…
*Engage with the Special Mode: Nine Tails?*
Marco: And nothing happened… She died… Telling me to not have a grudge against them… I wanted to kill every single one with my very hands… I had the power to do so…
*Reconfirmation: Engage with the Special Mo-*
The System was interrupted from something and Marco's vision distorted like the screen of a TV, then a dark voice was heard in his mind.
*Y͞e̴s͘…̨̡͏ ̴̧̕͡G̷̶̡̕͏ę̷͜͡t̀͏́͢ ̢̨͜͜a̛͟n̛̕g̶̶͡͠r̸͟͝͝͝í̸̕͟͝e͘͘҉͟r̡͘͜͡…̵̢̛̕͡ ͏҉̴̨Ś̴̕͞h̴̵̕͡҉e̢̛̛ ̴̨t̡͏͜͜͏h̀̕͞͡͡į͢͟͟͝n̵̢̢͜k͘͝s̶̢͏̛ ́͟͝s̨͟h͟͞é̶̷̡͢ ̡̛͟į̢s̀̕͞ ̸̡̀s͏́ú̵̸͠͡p̵͢e͏̸͝r̨̡į͡ǫ̶͘͡r̵̡͠҉ ̴́͜͝͞w͢͜͏i̧̡̛t̵̨̛͟h͏̧͘͟͜o̡̕u͏̴̀͝ţ̴ ̨͡͠͝e̛͘͟v̷͜e̡̢̨͝ǹ̛͜͜ ͘҉͏k̡̡̛͢n̶͘͞o͜͝w͟͏̶̴͡i̧͝n̵̛͘͟g̕͝͠ ̷̛̕͢w̶̶̡͠h̛́͞͝͝a̛͟͡t̸̵̀ ̧́͢͢͡ý͞ò̵͠u̵̡̕ ̴̡͠ṕ̸͏̛à̧̧̢s͞҉̡͝s̢͞͏̷e͜͏͘͝d̨́̕…͏̷̶̛ ̷̨́̕͡S҉̧̛͜͟h̴̢̨͡͡e̛҉ ̶́t҉̷̧̀h̨͘͜͜͟i̧͟͠͏ņ̷k̢̡̀͞ ̢s̴͟ḩ̵̸͏͜e̶̡̛ ̕͝͏i̷̧͟͟͠ş̛͢͝͞ ̡͏͠s̸̡͟͡u̴p͠҉e̷͝r̴̸͏ì̶͢҉̢o̸͟r̶҉̷͢ ̵̛͟͡͞b̷̷̡͠è́҉̀c͏̸͜͝a̴̴͜͜͝u̵̢͘͢ś̨̢̀͟e͏̢́ ̴̢͘͠s̸͟͡h̨̀͘e̷̵̵̡ ͠҉̶҉i̸̸̢̡͠s͠ ̡́s̛͞ţ̕r̴̷͘ơ̴̧͝ǹ̢̕͢͠g̴̨̨͢͞e̕͞͞r͜͝͝͠ ́͘͝t҉͠h̶҉̕a̵͜ņ̶̵͢ ͞͝a̸̸̢͢͞ ̷͘͟n̶̷̸̢͡o͏͘҉r̸̴͠m͏͏͘à͏l̵͞ ̶͡͞͏i̶̴͘̕͢ņ͢͢͢f̸҉͟e̸͏͢ŗ͘͟͡͞i̧͢͟o҉͜r͟͜͏͝ ҉͝҉h̶͏͜͠ù̡m͜͝͏a̵̡̨̕n͘͠…̶̕ ̢̕͞S̵̶͝h̷̡́͜ȩ̸ ̶̴̴̢̀t̴̡̛h҉i̵҉n̴҉̴̸k҉̢͜s͏̸̷̀͝ ̧̧̛͟͟s̛͠h̨e̴̸̛ ҉͝c̛͏a̴̵̡̛n̷͏҉́͝ ̵̴͞b̧̡e̵͢͠҉a̴̢̡t͟͝ ̡́͘͜y͜͡o҉̛̛u̶̸̧̨̡ ͏̷̧͢b̸̧e̸͜͢͞͞ć̷̨a̢̧͠͠u̷̡͡s̴̀́͟ȩ̷̵̴͏ ̵̶́͘͠s̨͢͞h̨̛͟e̵̡̨͜ ̵̢͘͞h̸̶̨̕a̸̧͝͞ś̷͢͠͠ ͘͏a̶ ̧́́́b̵̸̢̢͡o̷o̡͢͡s̸͞t͜ ̡͞f̶́̕͠҉r͘͞͝͏͘ó͝m̴̢̨ ͞͏̷͘s̷̀͜ǫ̴́͟͡m̴̧̛͢ę̷t͠͡h̶̀͡͞i̶̸͟n̸̨͝g̢͡͏͟͡ ̷̢ẃ́̀͡͡e̶͜͜͜a̴͘͟͝k̵̀͠ ̶̨͞ļ̵í͜ḱ̸̛͢͡ȩ͡ ̡̀t̴̵̡͘͢h̨̕͞͡͡ó͞s̶̷͜͞e̡̛̕͘͝ ̶̨͡͠t̀e͡͝n̛̛t́͞a̴̡͘͜c̵̀͞l̶̶̨͡é͘͟s͘͠͏̢̨…̸̵̡͝*
Marco ignored that corrupted voice, and continued to talk with anger
Marco: But I couldn't… I promised my mom that I would not have any grudge against them… And you think that little talk of yours could really make me feel pity for you?
*S̶̕͜c͟ư͝m̕͝͡ ͜͜ĺi͢͞k͜͠e̢ t̴h͜a̷t̛͠ ̧do͡é̛sn̵͜'t҉͜ ̛̕h̀͏av̵̸̵e ͘r̡i͞gh͘͘t͝ ̛́͟t̷̛̕o̷ ̧͏ev̛e̛n̷̡̛ t̡a͝͠l͘͡ḱ̵̶ ̨͝a̴b̡͞҉o͟u͘͞t͜͜ ̶̡̨y̵͘o̡̧u҉͢͢r͘͟͞ ̡̀p̶̢̛a͜͞s̨͝t͡…̀ ̕Ś͜͢h̴ów̨̨͞ ̶t͟h̷̢e̴m̷̛ h̷͘o͜͏̵w ̶̕t͘͞h͡e͜ ̷͞w҉o̕r̀͠l̷̨d̛͏̵ c̶á̧n̴̨͡ ̸͠b̢é͢ ̨͜e͢v̶̕i̡ĺ̷…̶͜͡ ̢̕Y̷ơ͘͢ú̢ ̵̴j̶̢͟u̸̡͘s̶̡͜t҉̡ ̢n̢͠ee̴d̸͝ ͠t͏̴͜o̕ ŕ̕e͡la͢҉x̸…̢ ̡W̸̧͢ḩ́i҉̡͠l͏̸e͏͞ ̶͠I͞҉ ̧̕҉g̡u҉i̴d͠é͟ ͡҉y̸o͡u͜…́͞*
Then Marco's eyes turned completely red, and his slits turned larger. He crouched down and under Lily's terror-filled eyes, he developed a 3rd tail, his aura got denser, but unlike the other times, his aura alone was destroying everything around, going out of control.
Marco was sleeping… Now there remained something like the Nine Tailed Fox, a being aiming only for destruction…
M̴̧̀a̸̷̧͜ŗ̀ć͢ờ̢̕͞:̵̷̢ ̧́́R͜͏R̴R̷͡҉̵͘Ŗ̷̛͡Ḩ̧͜H̸̸̶̶̨H̀̕͏H̨͡A̸̕͜͡͠A̴̕͘A̸̵̴̛͝A̡̡͞Ą͘A̴̡A̶͠A̛͞A͏҉A̛͞Á͡A҉̛A̸̷̡̕͞A͏͘͝A͏҉͘͏͟A̸̧̡҉͡ÀĄ̸A̶̕҉҉A̕!̶͠͞͏!҉̧!̵̛͟͡!̵̡͘͢!̶̢̛̀͢!̢͞!̡͞!̧́͘͟!̵̀͡!̵̨͠͠!̨!̨͡
His roar shattered every glass in the table, turned off every single flame, and made Lily crash against the wall another time.
Lily recovered from the attack and tried to defend herself by attacking Marco with her tentacles, the attack made Marco retreat some meters, but when the tentacles came back to Lily, she noticed that they had some burns, the attack itself did almost nothing to Marco.
Marco gazed back to Lily with an expression that would promise death from cannibalism, and jumped at a really fast speed towards Lily, who put her tentacles in front of her to defend herself, but the impact made her crash to the wall behind her for the 3rd time, and broke it.
She fell to the other side of the wall, revealing the room where the village girls were sucking out the semen from the men.
The village girls turned towards Lily, before turning towards Marco, they were immediately horrified and ran away, they might be addicted to semed but they weren't idiots, they could literally touch the destructive impulses coming from Marco.
[Lily's POV]
What is that…
Everything froze when I asked myself that, I never seen something like that…
Almost nothing could describe what I felt that time… Except for one word…
…
Fear.
…
That is what I am feeling… I thought I left behind such feelings together with my cowardice… But I was wrong… While I sat frozen in fear, that beast in front of me that could be described as the "Destruction" incarnated…
The beast that once was a man younger than me…
"It" slowly walked towards me, every step it made was like a thunderbolt striking at my side, I slowly crawled away every time it made a step towards me...
Am I going to die? I am, I am going to die tonight and every second I stand here waiting for death will delay my doom, I know it… Will it continue to taunt me like that? Will it suddenly jump at me?
Then what? Will it use his arms to wrap around me and squeeze me till my eyes pop out and my soul drips from my mouth? Will it wait for me to move so it can devour me? Will it use its tails to smash me flat like a dirty cockroach, and stain the floor with my guts?
Run… I say to myself, but I can't move…. Why? I'm telling myself to move or I'll going to die, but I couldn't…. It's crimson eyes froze me in silence, and I lost control over my body...
What is fear?
I can't just ignore it, kill it, or attempt to escape from forever… Mother always said I should recognize that fear… And I should deal with it…
But Mother… How can I do it? Please… Help me… Help… I can't do it alone...
[No POV]
Lily was slowly releasing tears from fear, she couldn't fight anymore, so she tried to escape and survive...
Marco slowly walked towards Lily, who slowly got up, not wanting to die, she prepared herself to run away, but was surprised when Marco suddenly stopped, and looked pained.
*Y̕͟e̶͜s҉̴… ҉M͞o̢r͘͞͠e̕͝…͘͠.̸ ̡͘͟M̡̕ore҉̵!̨! ̵Y̴o̢u̸̧ ͜ḑ҉͢ơ̸n͏'̵͜͜t ̨̕͜n̴e͟e͏́d̢͞ ̛t͢o͏ ̡͝h̷̨̛o͞l̀͟d͘͏ ̢͢b͠a̷c̴̢̡k͝!҉ Y͞o̡͜u̷̴ ar̶̕e ̵͠f̶͟͏r̵e͞e̸ ͘͟t̨͜͝ò̴ ̛dǫ̷́ ̷wh͝a҉҉t͡e̸͘͏v̵͘é̢r͠ ͟҉ỳ͜o͜u̷̷͜ ̧w͏an̕t́͟͠!̨̀͟ I̡ ̴̢c̸a̸̵͡n̢͘ ȩ͠v̀e̢n͏ ̵pŕ͘o̧͢͟m͢͠i̶͟s̛͞͝e ̡͟͝y̨̨o̶u͜͡ ̸̢̕t͞͡ha͡͝t̴̕ I͏̢͏ ̸̢͡ẃ̧i͟҉͡ll ̡͞k̸͘͜i͞l̨l̷̛ ͘t̸͝h̵̀at̴́ ̧b̴̛įt̵̡c͞h̨͏ ̷̡͟in t̵̕h̨͘͢ȩ͘͝ ̧h̢̕e͟҉a̢͟v̕͏ȩn̴͢!̵͝ ҉͜I̢͘͠ ̶̸͘w͏̡i̸҉̡l̷͘͠l̴̛ ҉dơ ͜͞i͝t̷̸͞…̧̛́ ҉Ò͟n҉̶ļ̷y̴ ̴į́͘f͟ ̡͜y̧où ̷͟͞l҉͝e̡͟t̴́ ̶҉m̨e҉ ҉͟f̢ŗ͢͡é̴̵e͠…*
M̨̀͘͡͝a̸r̷͏̶͠͝c̡̕͝o̴̵̶̕:̧̧̛́͞ ̢́́̕̕A̸̵̕A̛͟A̢̢̨̕͘A̢͏A͟A͏̛A̷̢͢͡͝A̷͏́͠A̷̵̴Á̢͡͝A̶̕R̴͝Ŕ̶͘͢R̢͡͏̢͝R̡͜͠R̶͜R̕͘R̀͠R̀̀̕͘͟G̸̡̡̨͜Ǵ̸̴͡G̶̕͝G̡G̸̵҉G̵̢͢G̶͝҉̨Ḩ̸̶H̷Ḩ̵H͏̧͟͜H̶͠H̀͢H̴̴̛H͟҉͏̕͜H̡̧Ḩ!̵̧!̸̵̀҉!͡͡!͏͏͘͝!̷̨͜͝!҉̡!̕͢͠͝!̴̢͜͞!̡̛͟!́͠!̢̀͞!̡͘͡!̧̀͟͞!̨̨̛́!̵̴͡!̢̨́͜!͏̛͢!̴͘͏̡͞
Marco's back bended while he released a scream filled with pain, and slowly, a 4th tail was created… This made Lily despair even more, having an idea that the more tails he would get the stronger he would become, but this change was different.
Marco still didn't moved, and his skin started to shed, revealing a rage filled dark crimson aura behind the skin.
Marco started to get surrounded by really dense black aura, covering him, Lily started to run away, using this moment at her advantage, she didn't turned back, so she didn't noticed a figure walking behind Marco.
?: Marco…
Marco's expression changed from rage and pain to a dumbfounded one, and turned towards the familiar voice.
Revealing a incredibly familiar silver haired woman, with complex tattoos at her left side of the body, and showing a great deal of skin, but the cold face that concealed that weak side of hers made everything more clear...
?: Is that you…
M̶̴͜a̧̧͢ŗ̴̀͜c͏̴o̸͜͢͟:̨̡̡͜͞ ̶̨͘Á̶̵͟҉…̨́.͝͡͠ ̷̴͟L̀͞͡͝i̴͘̕…̴̨̧͜͏ ̸̸̀Ç̕e͟͏̵?̡̛́
The voice coming from Marco was corrupted, but it was perfectly understandable, Alice shivered under his gaze and his voice, but didn't let it show out, she still had her pride even if she greatly missed him.
She looked completely different from how she was in the bedroom, if Marco knew about what happened to her, she would immediately hypnotize him.
It seemed that the transformation stopped, the black aura around Marco vanished, revealing Marco with some spots showing what would be himself in the 4th Gate.
*Warning*
*Warning*
*Deactivate the Special Mode: Nine Tails?*
Marco didn't listened, and slowly walked forward, towards Alice, who took a step forward and crouched down before opening her arms and let out a small smile.
Marco finally reached her, and Alice hugged him while smiling and closing her eyes.
Alice: Did you miss me? '...Because I do…'
She didn't said the second part, but Marco immediately woke up from the trance.
*Deactivating…*
The 4th tail disappeared, and so did the other 3 tails, leaving an unconscious Marco with burned spots in his body where his skin was shedded in Alice's arms, she just caressed his head.
[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Kick Gabriel's ass
2nd. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
3rd. Kill Illias
4th. Return to Lucifina's grave
5th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and Hellgondo
6th. Slap Lazarus' face
7th. Find and make a contract with Gnome