[…ugggg…what….where?... Vine's?...THE FUCK!?] joc's mind was fogged with the confusion of returning consciousness, But then the fog turned into shock. He was trapped within some sort of vines or roots, they were tangled around his body trapping him to some sort of black fleshy plant. The tendrils that had engulfed him were black of color, like the color of the skin of the true demon. They pulsate with an eerie purple magical glow as well.
joc tried to free himself from the tendrils, he strained his muscles and joints trying to put as much force as he could to free himself, but it was all futile; the tendrils would not give. But his struggling had made something apparent, the tendrils weren't just wrapped around him… But they were fused into his flesh; he could see the outlines of them just under his skin as they glowed.
[…THE FUCK!...WHY!?...WHY!?...THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!?!...oh!...your finally awake…YOU FUCKER!!] The voice that had twice before invaded his mind, had done so again yet again; but this time joc's mind was much more coherent and he was utterly pissed.
[…GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD YOU CUNT!!...hmmm?...you want me to leave?....YES YOU FUCKER!...well…sorry no can do… YES YOU CAN YOU FUCKING MADNESS INDUCING CUNT!... hmmm? Madness inducing?.... I guess you can call… What I do madness inducing…FUCKING LEAVE!... no…can't you see…I am here to help you?...FUCKING NO HOW THE FUCK HAVE YOU HELPED ME!?...well...hmmm?... I saved you from that demon…. Twice… THE FUCK…wait…uggg… hmmm?...ah…poor thing seems your memories are all jumbled… let me fix that…] Suddenly images, memories of the battle with the true demon, slammed into joc's mind. It was just as the voice said, whatever it did had saved joc from the true demon which he in a case of poor judgment, decide to pick a fight with it.
[…the fuck are you?...why the fuck does all this insane shit keep happening!?...hmmm?... what am i?....well… I am one of what was described to you as 'evil'….So all this shit is your fault!?....hmmm?...no…no…I am ONE of the 'evil'…but I am not 'evil'…I had a falling with them out long ago….that don't explain shit!...hmmm?... How to explain….you know of that one 'god'… You humans seem to worship…think of me and of 'evil'…as gods… you're a fucking god?... yes and no… Better to…think of us as one… Easier that way… ok why the fuck are you in my head and the fucking shit is going on… hmmm?.... You really do seem desperate for answers… That was why you attacked that demon…. For as to why… all this has been happening… Sadly I don't have the answer… I'm not all seeing…
Now why am in your head … Is more simple… It's because you bear my mark… So did that boy Victor… bear your fucking mark?...yes your eyes… The color of my realm… The veil…the fuck is the veil?...hmmm?.... So many questions... You wouldn't know what the veil is…hmmm it's… Kind of like your homeland… it's a borderland… Between here and 'evil'… Before you ask… I was kicked out of 'evil'…they didn't like me eating them…the fuck!?...
Hmmmm…. Is it truly such a shock?... Did you not feel the hungry… It is a hunger that cannot be filled by… material things… There's only one… true delicious thing that can sate… That hunger…souls… fucking souls!?...you are fucking why I couldn't use magic you fucker!...hmmm?.... no that was 'evil'… They too like to eat souls… They were eating away at your soul…
Couldn't you feel the hunger… mine…yours… That is how I saved you the first time… 'Evil' ….The demon was eating your soul… you devour your own soul…WHAT!?!... couldn't you feel that ripping… tearing of your flesh… Couldn't you see… Those images… Of rendering teeth…. Couldn't you taste that delicious leg of lamb…] joc's memory of his maddening hunger flashed before his eyes. He could feel the pull of that mad hungry yet again, it wanted to consume his mind yet again but… the hunger suddenly and abruptly, stopped.
[YOU CUNT!...hmmm?..oh!... You could feel it yet again… hmmm… Only for a moment though… Some of your soul must be left… Somewhere… surprising…YOU FUCKER STOP PLAYING WITH ME!...hmmm… I'm not playing with you… I'm being quite courteous… I don't have to explain anything… I'm only doing so because… You rendered me a fine service… what fucking service you ass!?... Just look around you…see…see my beautiful garden…] joc had been so consumed by the conversation with the voice, as well as those tendrils fused to his flesh; That he hadn't really observed his surroundings.
But with the prompting of that loathed voice, he looked up and peered upon his surroundings. He was situated in a large crater there was a strange eerie frigid fog surrounding the edges. There were also large seemingly melting crystalline pillars planted deep in the earth. They were purple of color and glowed with a purple magical light. Wrapped around these crystalline pillars were large black tendrils which seem to be squeezing them, which seem to be causing the crystalline pillars to melt.
The Liquid, like as the pillars themselves was purple and glowed with a magical light; this liquid pooled at the bottom of the crater. Where there were even more black tendrils… No they were more like roots absorbing the liquid. As joc trailed his vision along these tendrils he confirmed that they were indeed roots… They moved the base to a large fleshy looking thing… The same thing that his fused into.
He looked towards the sky and there of course was fleshy tentacle like branches at each of the tips were large budding purple flowers. He was fused into a massive tree like abomination… From what he could see it looked just like a upscaled version of that abomination he saw in Victor's memory. The instant joc made that connection and remembered that particular memory.
He could feel a burning searing rage, flaring up in his mind… It was not his own rage that seemed to burn so brightly; It was the voice's rage. He could hear no… feel the voice's rage fueled screeching burning his mind and consuming his thoughts completely.
The large crystal pillars surrounding the abominable tree, started to grow brightly before finally they released a magical burst; the burst of magic turned into an eerie ethereal screech as soon as it was free from the pillars. The Ethereal screech bounced around the air for a minute before finally fading.
[…HOW DARE THEY?!..THAT IS MINE!...MINE!!…MINE!!!…MINE!!!!…MINE!!!!!...TRY AND CIRCUMVENT ME!?...NOO YOU DAMN LIARS…I AM NOT GOING TO LET YOU DO THAT!...] joc's thoughts were engulfed by the enraged voice.
[…YOU…YOU WANT REVENGE DON'T YOU!...YOU HATE THE CHURCH DON'T YOU!... I WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR REVENGE…BUT YOU NEED TO TAKE BACK MY STOLEN PROPERTY…AND KILL THOSE WHO WOULD EVEN DARE… HERE THIS SHOULD BE ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW] information and knowledge had seared itself in joc's mind; it was the knowledge of what this abominable tree was and how to make use it.
[…I AM GOING TO DEAL WITH THOSE LIARS…HAHAHAHA…YES I THINK ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER FEAST…HAHAHAHA… I WILL DRAG THEM OUT!....] the presence of the wrathful voice faded from joc's mind finally. Joc's relaxed his muscles that he unintentionally tightened and let out this long sign. He was finally free from that damn voice… At least for the time being.
[ its finally fucking gone…at least it answered some of my fucking questions…and showed me how to use this fucking… Ridiculous abomination…] the tree that joc was fused into was one particularly horrid thing. It was quite literally used to produce true demons; it was literally a fruit tree for true demons. From the information seared into his mind joc understood the 'voice' would use these trees to farm true demons that it would 'eat'.
That was why it was being so courteous and answering his questions. It was overjoyed with having a new garden to feed its hunger. But the thing that was truly terrible about this tree was that to produce the true demons it need souls and the soul of animals were not particularly of use… It needed the souls of sentient beings.
But the interesting thing about the tree was that it wasn't confined to just making true demons. No it was a general-purpose abomination that could produce all sorts of living with pseudo-souls. In actual fact joc now believes that this abomination is what was used to make all the 'lovely' fauna and flora in the helllands. Some jackass must've got their hands on one of these abominations and thought it would be funny to produce the most horrid things they could imagine.
See one of the most horrid things about this 'tree of life' was that its creations that weren't true demons, could self-propagate. To make things worse joc couldn't even understand the different between pseudo-soul and real thing, really anything could be a creation of one of these 'tree of life' and you wouldn't even be able to tell.
It is fully possible that humans, the false demons basically everything was created by one of these trees. The thing that makes all of this compounded on, to become even worst. Is that pseudo-souls can be also be used to produce true demons. So it is possible to produce a sentient creature which could self-propagate, then you just let it breed for a while and when there are a good number of them you reap the harvest; basically you could create sentient cattle.
That is what truly makes this tree horrid, because it could easily mean that the false demons and humans are just free range cattle for that 'voice'; that their reason for existing is to be soul fodder. Such a thought to say the least was disturbing. Another thought that was horribly disturbing was the thought of one of the sadistic inquisition having their hands on one of these.
There's no organization he hates more than the sadistic branch of the church that is known as the inquisition. So of course joc isn't going to let them have their grubby hands on it. He is going to destroy it… And this one, once he got what he wanted out of it; joc doesn't care if that will most likely enrage that 'voice'.
There is no way in the helllands he was going to let that 'voice' have either of these abominable trees. The reason for this was pretty simple; it was because that 'voice' is a lying asshole. The information that was seared in his mind provided him with a very interesting little tidbit that proves that. For the tree to be operational and be able to produce true demons it needed a catalyst, this catalyst being the soul of one who bears the 'voice's' mark; That was why joc was fused to the tree in the first place.
It was pretty clear to him that the' voice's' plan was to just leave him there fused to this abominable tree for eternity and puppet his body which it clearly can do, to eat the demons it creates. It is no wonder why in the Southerners tongue that they call those malignant entities 'evil'.
[… that fucking thing was one fucking lying son of bitch…oh 'sadly I don't have the answer' utter bull crap…it fucking knew something at least… It probably orchestrated this whole fucking thing… One more fucker to add to the list…] joc started to laugh maniacally " HAHAHAHAHA…just one more fucking whoreson bastard to fuck over!" His voice was strangely eerie and sounded much like his original voice, but there were something off about it.
Joc had come to the conclusion that he was going to hurt and piss off that 'voice' as much as he possibly could; he did not care that it might as well being a God… He wasn't going to be its tool nor was he going to let it fuck with him.
Joc looked towards the sky and let out a long sigh. "Let's just hope that I can find a way to keep that fucker out of my mind…"