Finishing my three days of training in the tower place, a light summoned me to Asmodeus, where all of the generals I knew and a new armored one had been.
"Congratulations!" He said looking at me with a over joyed look on his face, "Thanks father," I readily said back ready to cary out the request I'd promised.
And just like that, telling him, he was less shocked than I had originally insighted, instead, he carried out an order to the Dark Knight Demon. He brung them.
Talking to the demonic spirit who attached herself to me, I confirmed it was them, and in a fury, ice spiked out of every part of the wall in a permafrost. Crazy...
And seeing that, and how ice locked them in place, I saw Asmodeus frustrated and hesitant to do anything to the two of them, they're probably some long timed subordinates of his. So I stepping forward telling him.
"They're my prey," gripping my sword, I slashed their necks, cutting them out in front of Asmodeus without a shred of emotion.
Wiping the blood on my dirty stained clothes, I said turning around, "I'm going to take a bath, I finished what needed to be done. Forgive my rudeness dad," telling him what he needed to hear, or at least what I think he needs to hear, from a warriors stand point.
"Yeah," he said, his voice came, breath white and cloudy, and his eyes sparkling with a blue hue," I have a heart too sometimes, so I stayed with him for a little. Before leaving with him, and then leaving to bathe.
Taking care of business, I felt a sense of relief from the spirit, who, I think is named Bell. "Glad that it's over Bell?" I asked, laying back in the steam
"My name isn't Bell, It's Mika, and yes. They're dead and that's all that matters here," she said as if that's all she had left in life, "Join me out here for a little?" I asked her, and whisp-like haze came out of my skin, and a mass of mahogany manifested in front of me.
"You called," she said like her voice was worn out.
And chuckling, "You want a new body? I can get you a vessel to hold yourself in or keep," I asked her to get a little favor with her so she could stop laching onto me.
"I'm fine, if I do you'll toss me away," she said, and shaking my head with my hand to my face, to believe that's actually what I was planning on doing, damn it.
She caught me.
"I'm a sex demon, as you can see there's a lot of things I do in which I don't think you'll be able to accept, even if you were one of Asmodeus's"
Unable to tell her expression, she said, "And he's the ice king, I don't see a difference, can we stop talking about this and just continue our journey, or rest here"
Talking to her is seeming to stand impossible, looks like she'll just have to see how bad my habits are in person to wish to leave me... Wait, is this like one of the first times I'm actually trying to not have... What?
I don't even know how to explain it it's so rare...
"Well, if you plan on sticking around, at least try and make a humanoid form, you look like a blob... Yeah" I told her, "I'll consider it eventually" and she said that.
Sighing, I just spoke to her and casually bathed, it's like having a second Mari from when I was Hiro, just less of a overbearing bitch and more of some loner.
Then again, all her friends are either dead or traitors.
Guess she'll just have to be sidekick until she leaves.
. . . . .
Heading back to the dark realm, I appeared in front of the witches coven at the break of dawn, and as the sun arose, I was prepared for whatever was to come.
Coming back to the dark realm with a rune spell book, three shadow domain rune cards, three ice trap rune cards, and a new set of skills prior to them I left.
I'll make sure everything goes alright.
But then as I stood there and the guardian spirit left, I froze, wait, I didn't need to fight? Why am I preparing for war? For some simple report filing??... But then again, I can use them later on some later plans.
. . . . .
Opening my eyes to see the morning sun, it's dawn. And glancing around, I was back in the forest, I just have to return to the village and meet... Who was I with again? Well, one of the girls, and follow along.
Coming back to the village, people were already up and getting themselves together for the morning, it looks like they're planning some sort of tribute as the merchant warlocks are preparing sacrificial hoglins.
However, minding my business as they're gathering them up, I barely even walked into the village before seeing Alison passed out on someones fence-rail.
And remembering I came with her, I just had a look of disappointment as I forgot I came with her, she's kind of awkward I guess. Then again, being with me is too.
So just waking up to her, I started poking the top of her head as I found her friend passed out behind her with a glass bottle half drunk next to him, and more.
And judging by the way her ass is hanging out, looks like somebody scored too. Chuckling at the sight of this, my stomach growled ruining the funny mood.
So grabbing her chin and pulling it up a little, by the time her eyes opened, she was already falling back.
And landing on him, I openly laughed as I found my own form of entertainment to ease the hunger!
... Then again, how long has it been since I ate too.
And with the both of them waking up now, I sighed and said to them, "Don't we have thing to be doing outside of you fucking around sis," I said looking at her... But, glancing back at me drunkenly... Fuccck.
Now not really in the mood anymore, I felt a stronger connection to my own emotions and feeling the need to take a more drastic approach since my only way of translation and or filing this report is drunk off her ass and barely awake as fucked up as she is. I think I need to do the most demonly approach, and I guess this could be a fun way at trying out a new inherent skill~
Feeling the flow of mana circulating around my heart, I let out a breath and released the growing mana that continuously stores there for later, manifesting aura around my body, this time, I focused my hostility.
And the previous aura I had began condensing to a more liquid feeling than gasious and dense-like air. It shrouded around my body and focusing on hidding myself to the coven, I focused on this feeling of wrath, turning my aura pitch black and covering up my body.
Forming my appearance to be similar to Mika's when we were in the bath, I grabbed her by the ankle as well as him unable to see my own skin behind the magic.
But grinning as this experiment is now on. I kept dragging them both by the ankle for annoying me.
"We're going to meet the elders, NOW!" I told them.
Getting to a chapple like structure, where there was a sacrifice going on inside from the stench of blood, as we approached the entrance, I manifested a tentacle to open the door dragging these idiots both inside.
And when I did, two to three dozen cloaked people turned to us, there was a live hogs in the middle of a magic circle, and some robe royals in grand chairs.
Looks like it was them. The elders.
And seeing me, not fazed, I hear whispers from the wind before opening my mouth to speak, but before I could, I summoned a thin tentacle to stick out of the ground before me and placed a spinning magic disc of magic circle on the top, now able to talk with them.
"Yeah, so I brought two of your idiots from my home," and looking only at the elders as others questioned who and where I came from, I just spoke more, and ignoring what they were saying, went on to say,
"But don't haste in your luck, the forest has warned you of trespassing during this suspended time, like it has always under stress, but you ignored. For that, I will be taking some of your coven by force, claiming those who live in it for ourselves and our ecosystem"
I spoke from what I heard from the whispers.
Seems like I'm to help the forest as well.
And gain a little bit from them too.
"This is absurd!" An elder rose up, but as they had Mika started manifesting this time in a bright and transparent like blue haze, acting like some spirit.
"For all we have given you, consider this our mercy mortles*... For us allowing you to not pay the price"
Before anymore hostility was thrown out, especially by Mika who became overly sensitive in the moment, without even an order to act, another one rose up.
"Please, we have always cooperated with the forest, if it's compensation the forest wants for however we offended, then it shall be yours," he said, *in fear of the nature of life and deaths aura around him and the demonic presence of something unholy yet holy*.
"Then we will tell you, while also giving you a warning, our newest brother guardian has just been risen, the forest will not tolerate anyone outside of this village, if you wish for harvest in the forest, buy from the new nature witches of the forest, if you wish to give them the rights to make a coven, then we'll allow a new settlement for trade and barter only, and thats not all"
"Now onto the main topic" I said, readying myself as I was fed information from another guardian who wish to build a co existing ecosystem for both them and the witches, which is why they thought of a new idea for allowing the witches to sustain themselves and not bother the new guardian for their growing phase.
So talking to them and making demands, by the time Alison was coming to her senses after puking up a lot, I already had her resting at the side of a treestump.
But ignoring her as I sort of just misidentified myself by accidently showcasing the manifestation of my 5th rank power, demonic manifestation, or so I think it is?
I was given the rumored title of Dark Spirit of the Forest.
And so pondering it a bunch, sure I helped both our coven and the guardians, but now I feel like our relationship with this coven has turned upside down.
I feel like they'll work on a revenge plan by being petty for a petty humiliation of sorts, maybe not, who knows?
All I do know is, the coven is secured, and now it's time to go back, train, help build I guess a settlement coven village now, and take care of nurma as well.
How long has it been since I last saw her, I wonder how far her pregnancy is too? I should visit later.