"Wakey wakey, sleepyhead. Now that the lord is not here, its high-time I punished you for the impudence you showed towards the almighty. Though you're one of us now, lack of piety and respect towards the Lord must always be repented in the most brutal way…" finishes Israfil with a dark smile that is uncharacteristic and evil for an Archangel of Love.
As a ball of consciousness though Charlie has thought he has neither an energy body nor a physical body to express any sort of emotion or action. The only decipherable change is the increase in the brightness of the purple lightning.
Israfil starts to hum a weird chant with hisses and low guttural roars. It was unlike any Godly divine spell, it sounded sinister like a devil's whisper. Darkness started to fill the clear eyes of Israfil, his entire eye changed into pitch black, adding to the creepiness a crack started to form between his eyebrows. The crack opened up in the shape of a poorly drawn eye, but there was no iris or pupil, only a black void. The black void sucked the faint light that was given off of Israfil's body, like a black hole. A bolt of pitch-black lightning shot out from Israfil's third eye and struck the purple consciousness of Charlie.
Boom!
Despite the thundering explosion the black bold of lightening failed to cause any harm to Charlie's orb of consciousness.
Gulch! Cough!
"Amazing! Despite my Black Thunder Possession is an extreme tiered Devil spell, it could not pierce the protection of the purple lightning. Little mortal, I know you are awake! Let me into your consciousness, I will attempt to get into your consciousness one more time. If my soul was hurt again, I swear I will crush you consciousness just to vent my frustration. The Gods' all-encompassing vision doesn't expand to the Void Loop. If you disobey there is no one here to save you. Don't worry, I bring you benefits. Benefits better than what the god of Love offered. You're wondering, why you should trust me? It's simple, you have no choice," coldly finished Israfil with blood dripping down his lips from the demon incantation rebound.
Following his explicit threat to Charlie, he recast Black Thunder Possession and shot a black bolt of lightning into Charlie's consciousness. This time there was no interruption from the purple lightning. A phantom image of Israfil formed amidst the misty haze of Charlie's thoughts.
"Come out! I know you can form a projection phantom, it is instinctive to every being of sentience."
Slowly some of the white hazy mist started to come together and form a semi-transparent astral projection of Charlie.
"I expected you to attack my soul projection. Did not expect you to let me inside the first time itself," Israfil observed the human with fain interest.
"You're full of shit," calmly stated Charlie.
"What the hell did you just say? Do you think I won't destroy you?" fumed Israfil.
"I think you won't, your intention is not to kill me. Otherwise, you wouldn't have wasted your breath on me, risking self-injury to come to talk to me."
The Archangel was stunned into silence when he heard Charlie seeing through his little charade. Israfil did a once over on Charlie as if noticing him for the first time.
"I won't waste your time lying about it. Though killing you was not a top priority, it is still one of the options for dealing with Himeros. I like that you are smart, you won't be easily controlled by Himeros, a vengeful pawn is better than a dead pawn for our purpose."
"Our? Who does that refer to?"
"Heh, always quick to notice the crux of the issue. You need to keep your intelligence under wraps, the Gods are interested in capable attendants, but if one's too smart, he will be sacrificed sooner than later."
"Looking at you now and how you were in Heaven's Abode, I see that you follow what you preach. I'll keep your advice in mind. All that respect for the God of Love is bull crap, right?"
"Hahahahaha, you are not very intelligent per se, but your ability to put two and two together is astounding. I don't have much respect or loyalty for Himeros. I pledged fealty to a different master, the controller of a Supreme Sin, the Lord of Lust, Asmodeus."
"Do we have to use honorifics every time we address someone superior?"
"You're a funny mortal," squinting his eyes, Israfil continued," Heard of the saying, 'never take the lord's name in vain.' Gods hear everything that is addressed towards them by their omnipresent vision. Though they may take their time responding to prayer, they are swift in punishing those who disregard their dignity. However, we are in a special place here the Void Loop, their divine vision doesn't extend over here."
"What do you want with me? What does Himeros want with me?"
"Hmm, let me answer you in reverse order. Himeros made you his messiah to spread the glory of his divine inscription, Love. Do not take him for a kind God since he Lords over a noble notion such as Love. On the contrary, 'all is fair in love and war.' He is the type who believes in that notion. Do you hear the faint chant deep in your mind?"
Taking a moment, Charlie concentrated on his mind, he started hearing a faint hymn as if someone is reading the divine scripture about the Himeros and Love. The longer Charlie listened to it, the duller and slower became his thoughts. He felt unprecedented mental exhaustion settling upon him and his free thoughts are being slowly replaced by the chanting hymns.
"AWAKE!"
The loud voice of Israfil made Charlie jolt awake. Though it incurred a sharp headache, Charlie welcomed the pain as it makes his thoughts wriggle loose from the clutches of the Hymn.
"That hymn will only get louder and louder until the praises of Himeros is all that you could think."
The realization terrorized Charlie, even his experience of death was not this terrifying. To become an eternal toy was a fate worse than death. However, Charlie did not let his lamentations show on his face. He knew the Archangel did not tell all this to him just to take pleasure in his misery.
"What do you want?"
Hearing the calm voice of Charlie, Israfil frowned…
"You are a strange mortal, most that knew that they are made into toy will wail in despair. How are you so calm?"
"Heh, though it may not seem much to you divine beings, I climbed up the most cut-throat corporate ladder and made myself a CEO. Though we humans may lack the divine grace and the divine might, we never lack sinful cruelty and cunning. Making a ploy is at most an insignificant entertainment for the gods, but surviving schemes are a way of life for us. Besides, I don't think all is lost. If there is no way to redeem me, a God disrespecting divine being such as yourself would not waste so much of his breath on me, a mere mortal," Charlie finished with a faint smile.
Israfil felt his spine tingle as he saw the smile on Charlie, it was a smile that he is very much dreaded. Though it is not evoking the same level of menace, just the fact that an oblivious mortal could smile such a smile made his back covered in a cold sweat because such a smile is something that he has only seen on the Supreme ruler of Sin, Asmodeus.
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