"Is everyone alright?!" I called out into the darkness as I turned on master's eyes.
No one answered.
I realised that I was laying on a cold hard surface, so I sat myself upright. I looked around and confusion sets in. I was sitting on top of some kind of table and when I looked to my right, my companions too were laid on tables and seemed to be unconscious. I hopped off the table and walked towards the table next to mine and on it was Pyrus. Namise was on the table next to him and the spell caster was on the next one after hers.
I lightly nudged Pryus's shoulder but there were no response.
I turned master's eyes off and boy was that a mistake…
The whole place was pitch black. If I didn't have master's eyes, I would've felt claustrophobic due to the fact that the darkness boxed in most of my senses.
This prompted me to quickly turn master's eyes back on or otherwise I'll start to hyperventilate…
Thank the god for the hacker's skill that is master's eyes.
Now that I could see again, I tried to use helping hands, to see if that would wake them but alas it was in vain.
I sighed before turning my attention to my surroundings.
Where the fuck am I?
All of us were laid on tables in some kind of room.
There wasn't anything in here, no doors, no furniture, nothing besides us, the marble tables we laid upon and a creepy feeling that sent a shiver down my spine.
How are we going to get out of here?
The fact that there's nothing in here and that we're in total darkness, my mind started to speculate.
Are we in some sort of jail cell? Or are we in another one of Zilma's illusions?
{"We're in the examining room…"} Lucifer said as he appeared next me.
"Examining room?" I asked curiously.
{"Sure… or it's official name is Purgatory."}
My eyes widened at the name.
Purgatory? Isn't that the name of the place in the bible for people's souls to await to go to heaven? And if the person only did minor bad things, they can still go to heaven simply by being punished for however long until they are cleansed?…
…
Now that I think about it, as I looked around, I guess the name for this place is quite appropriate…
{"This place."} Lucifer continued, {"Is a place that had housed an abundance of pain and misery.}
"What do you mean?"
{"When I was seated at the High council, I heard many rumours of this place. Most of it comes from officers that spilled things from a night of drinks… mostly constant moaning and not of the sexual kind."} Lucifer looked around, then raised an eyebrow before continuing, {"Actually, this is my first time here… And if you're wondering how I know this place was Purgatory, it's because this place is the only place in the palace, I've never set a foot in. I was always scared to."}
"Would you know where Zilma might be right now?"
{"Probably the throne room?"} Lucifer shrugged.
"If we get out of this place, you would know how to get to the throne room?"
{"Of course, though I think we should find those heroes first."}
I scratched my head in confusion.
"Why should we find them?"
{We need to think logically about this. Firstly, this is a dungeon raid, finding the secret boss is a must because you might get rewarded with some interesting stuff and secondly, we should help those heroes out of their misery."}
"Oh?"
{"I pity them."} Lucifer shrugged, {"They were fooled by Zilma but most of all, I think they have been punished enough."}
"What do you mean?"
{"My family and I have been in the Shadow Legion for a very long time. I believed that the event that followed happened not long after we joined. Which meant that the heroes have been those monsters for almost a millennia. I think it's time for them to be put to rest."}
"So, how do we wake them?" I asked as I pointed to the unconscious members of the High Flyers guild.
{"Easy, my wife and my daughter will bring them back from the depths of their slumber," Lucifer turned his head to his right, then the left and both Lilith and Lucilia appeared on either side of him. {"Isn't that right my loves?"}
Both of them nodded to Lucifer then to me.
They both then walked over to the unconscious members and in a split second, they both vanished in a puff of pink smoke that formed into a shape of a love heart.
The smoke floated towards the members and all of them inhaled the smoke.
The next couple of minutes was something I didn't want to see and had to turn around and look the other way. I could still hear them even though I was cupping my hands to my ears hard.
"Ah!~" I could hear Namise moan screams and at that moment, I told myself, I shouldn't have agreed for them to do this…
Lucifer sidled up to my right and peered around with a curious expression and a wide smirk.
{"I thought you wouldn't be so prude, now that you have slept with our little princess. You're no longer a virgin and anyways, all they are doing is having a 'wet dream'."}
Wet dream?
I slowly turned around and expected them to be in a precarious situation but they're not. In fact they just laid there as they were in the same position before I turned around. But when I took a closer look, all of them have a wet spot on their pants and dress…
I sighed and wondered how am I going to fix this.
And then I had an idea.
I used weather creation to conjure up some rain and then let the rain soak into their wet spots in hopes to absorb their business before I used elemental shift and changed the element of water to fire for only a split second before changing it again to air in which turned the liquid into steam. The steam evaporated and the wet spots were gone.
Wait…
"Hey Lucifer, will they remember the dream they just had?"
{"Nope. The dreams my girls uses is only a tool to create a desirable effect, once the dream is finished, no one will even be aware they had such a dream. Well unless they looked down and saw the wet spot but we don't have to worry about that because one it's pitch black and they can't see a thing and two, you took care of it."}
"Well that's good."
Not long after I finished the fix up, both Lilith and Lucilia reappeared with a exhausted look on their faces and as if they both were about to collapse, Lucifer immediately rushed over and caught them both in his arms.
"Ugh… what happened?" I heard a voice said that shifted my attention to the tables.
"Oh fuck! Why can't I see anything?" Shouted another.
"P-Pryus, R-Ryan are you guys there?" Namise called us in a quivering voice.
"I'm here." Pryus responded.
"Same here," I responded as well.
"What's going on?" Asked Namise.
"Can anyone conjure up some light?" Pyrus called out.
"Nope." Replied the spell caster.
The others also chimed in with a 'no'.
"Does anyone have an idea on how we could get out of this darkness?"
I could see all of them shaking their head though none of them could see themselves or the others which made it funny.
"Well, well, well. If it's isn't Lucifer." A voice boomed with a sneer. "Why am I not surprised you're still alive!"
{"Who says that I'm alive?"}
"You're not?"
{"I don't have to tell you anything."}
"How are you here then? And why are you with humans?"
{"Zilma, you're going to pay for what you did to our homeland!"}
"Ah! Lady Lilith! The whole family is here! Perfect!"
{"Zilma! What are you up to? And why are we in Purgatory?"}
Zilma laughed hard.
"The great Lucifer, oh how the mighty have fallen! You helping the humans will be your biggest downfall and do you want to know why?"
{"Not really."}
"It's because I was in a similar spot as you but I took care of the problem before it happened! Thanks to your absence, you gave me the opportunity for all of this to happen!"
{"…"}
"Those heroes thought they had fooled a demon! But I fooled them!"
{"And you're a murderer! You've killed your own kind, killed all those innocents! There's no regret in a tragedy, if you're the one who pulled the strings!"}
"Lucifer, I have never regretted anything I've done. What's more, you're the one in Purgatory, not me. Stay in purgatory with those humans, they will be your greatest regret."
Zilma laughed hard again.
{"We need to get of here now."} Lucifer told me with a hint of fear in his voice.
"What do you mean?"
It was then master's eyes faltered. And then I couldn't see anything.
"Like those heroes, be ready to be punished! No one can escape Purgatory!"
Out of the darkness, four pairs of red dots appeared.