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Chapter 13 - Chapter XIII: The seven deadly sins

From the MoonGlade kingdom where they rested from the troubles they had been earlier, Alister headed into the Alliance to go find Psyche in there along with Peebles.

Peebles shape shifted himself as his disguise using the necklace of shape shifting that Arielle gave him last time in the AnglerPort, he shifted into a six foot two muscular human form, brown skin tone with a curly short hair in a square mascular face.

When they have arrived there, they can sense that everything in the place has changed after the incident. The calmness of the place was atmosphered with mourning sorrows. Loneliness and fear wrapped up everyone as people barely went outside of their houses. Children who were used to playing outside in the afternoon were locked down inside their home like a prisoner. They only went out when they needed to. Fear spread out all over the empire. Troops of knights were like busy buzzing bees, patrolling into every corner of the place twenty fourth seven. The empire has temporarily appointed Arthur Pendragon as a king. Things were still recovering from the incident. Arthur was a good leader of his town and an experienced demon hunter. For at least, people noticed his good reputation and it gave them a little hope of progress to recovery.

Alister was wearing hooded clothing and a cloth wrapped up that covered his face. Him and Peebles headed into the capital to find Psyche in there to seek her help. They have walked into every door path of every house to look for Psyche using Alister's super hearing senses. It seemed like it was so hard for them as the whole empire was quite a huge place. It took them the whole day of looking for Psyche and it seems like Peebles was already tired of walking around. Alister left him rested but Alister didn't stop looking for Psyche until he reached into the capital. He was so desperate to find her knowing that it was the soul of the woman he loved was in danger right now. He almost lost his patience and hope but he still kept on going...

"I am willing to give up my angel's grace to fall in love with you Alister... I love you." Arielle's voice kept on reminiscing inside Alister's head every time he thought of giving up looking for Psyche.

"Where the FUCK are you? You FUCKIN Psyche!" Alister screamed as his voice blared through the air and punched and destroyed the fountain statue in the middle of the crowd-less town square as it echoed his words three times because of the emptiness of the place. He was so frustrated as he blamed himself for everything, the demon blood running inside his veins thinking of how unfair this world was, he thought of something that when he was about to achieve it, then it just slipped away very quickly.

While Alister was sitting down on the ground with his frustrations, there are two dark figures of a man in a fiery black hovering robes, a skull mask covered on their faces and holding their scythes, soul reapers. Alister stood up as he felt something darkly unusual. He sensed a powerful dark auras from the two soul reapers. When the soul reapers were heading towards to approached him, he misunderstood them as Alister made his fighting stance to fight them but before he made his attacks, he fell into a sudden paralysis as he can't feel of moving his arms and legs because that one of the reaper paralyzed his soul inside of him that made him not be able to move and turned him unconscious for a moment. This is how powerful the reapers are. They can paralyzed the souls of the living using their power or they can take their souls or make it out of existence, but still, they are not allowed to do that kind of horrible thing unless God or someone who summoned them ordered them to do it. God made the soul reapers to guide the souls of the dead into their destination afterlife. Neither they are demons nor angels, God made them to do their purpose. There are some people or mages who have the ability to summon a soul reaper and they are such a rare kind of mages, Psyche was one of them.

After the reapers paralyzed Alister, they brought him to Psyche's lair. It was in the underground hideout under the arcane tower. A black hole suddenly appeared in front of them with size enough for a human to enter it, it was a portal made by the reapers to instantly go inside the secret lair.

"So, how'd you like meeting up with my friends?" Psyche sarcastically said to Alister while he was dropped down lying on the floor as the reapers released him from paralysis.

Her hideout was quite a bit youthful. He always thought that Psyche was a grown up woman or an old creepy lady. That time when he saw her, Psyche appeared to be in her late teens. A young lady with a very youthful pretty looks like a princess, the way her dark hair and her eyes enlightened up the color of her white skin tone in a beautiful princess' dress. Her hideout was magically painted with girlish decorations, the walls were painted pink with flower and butterflies like it was a whole forest that was put in there that painted and looked so real which made him a little fascinated. There are some parts of it that were not yet finished and there are reapers that were working on it. In her living room, there are reapers that were playing lovely sting music using a violin. It looks like Psyche was a hell of a mage who summoned these powerful creatures to be her personal servants.

"The known priest that appears to be an... angel, told me about you." Psyche said.

"So, he also talked to you in your dreams?" replied Alister.

"Indeed... but I already knew about you before he told me. I may look like this but I have lived for almost a hundred years. So, you're loving someone else now? I think you've already moved on to my sister." said Psyche, as Alister made himself think for a moment. She was reminding him of something, someone that came from his past.

"Ughh, yeah, Artemis. So, you're also Zeus's daughter?..... I'm sorry for what happened to her, it's my fault. Please, don't remind me of her...I get it, I fucked up!" Alister said.

"If it is not for the Angel who asked me to do this, I don't prefer helping you." she said in a madly calm manner.

"Look, please don't take it personal. How about we agree on some conditions in return?" Alister suggested.

"I've been thinking about that. You don't have to tell me first. I'm gonna help you and then after that, you'll go find my father and his friend Odin. We haven't seen them for three days, since the day after that fifteen minute fame incident of yours, they chased my uncle Hades that seems like he was possessed by a demon. They didn't come back until now. People need their presence here. Everyone was so scared this time. So, please don't fail me like you did to my sister!" Psyche said.

Alister was hurt by her words but he didn't have a choice but to accept and do what she told him.

"So how do I go to purgatory?" asked Alister.

"Well, you have to bring me this list." she replied as she handed him a list of things to get.

List:

6 black candles

Cremated powder of human

Fresh animal blood

"What was this cremated powder for?" Alister asked.

"Just get it, okay?!" Psyche madly answered.

"Pfft... Crazy woman." he whispered.

A reaper made a portal to help Alister to instantly go out from the hideout as Psyche didn't want him to pass through the door of the arcane tower. The reaper accompanied him. Alister went to a merchant who sold some things somewhere at the town market in the southern part of the capital. Alister hid himself at the alley near the stall of the merchant he spotted who sold some black candles, planning on how to get it without even buying it with money knowing that he didn't have some.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Please go back to your crazy friend. Someone's gonna see you there." Alister whispered to the reaper. The reaper suddenly blinked, teleported itself right next to the merchant's stall.

"Hey? What the f....." Alister whispered to himself and tapped his head as he got worried that they were going to see the terrifying looks of a reaper.

When the merchant moved his way, Alister thought that he was gonna see the reaper but the merchant just passed through its body. Reapers have the ability to choose the only persons that were able to see them.

Using his super speed, Alister stole some six black candles from the merchant's stall. After that, he told the reaper to portal him to where Peebles was and then they went to a pig farm, killed one of it and got its blood and then they secretly entered into a crematorium in Cassemere. After they've done gathering all the resources on the list, Alister ordered the reaper to portal them back to Psyche's hideout along with Peebles this time.

"Good, I didn't expected that you've done it very soon. This cremated powder is for you to drink so you can understand in communicating with the reapers. These candles are for the incantation rituals for you so, you're not going to feel the pain when the reaper's scythe was stabbed in your heart, in short, you're not gonna die." Psyche explained.

"It's a little terrifying... just make sure it's going to wo....rk!" Psyche didn't even let Alister finish to talk, through the signs of her gestures, she commanded the reaper to stab the scythe into his chest hurriedly without letting Alister know to prepare for it as Alister enduring the pain from it, however, he can't be died with it as she placed him on the floor where she draw the ancient symbols through the used of animal blood, a huge six sided star or a hexagram with ancient languages written inside of it, and the six candles placed on every corners.

Psyche mixed the cremated powder with water and then she poured it to Alister's mouth. She began uttering her incantations. "Pnévma tou zontanoú, theristí tou thanátou, me ti chrísi tou drepánou sou páre ton póno mou apó káto..." as she uttered it repeatedly until a transparent light came out from Alister's body, it was his soul. He stood up confusedly and somehow amazed. He can't believe that dying would be felt like this.

"You can make a deal with her now." Psyche said to him.

"What?" Alister asked the reaper.

The reaper unmasked her face as she revealed her physical appearance. The reaper was a woman, her looks was a beautifully grown woman, dark hair with dark thick eyebrows and eyelashes, sexy thin red lips and dark eyes, and a slightly tan skin tone.

"Hello dear, you can call me Jane. Thank me later..." the reaper said. She introduced herself as Jane through the ideal human body she preferred to be looked like because reapers were just a hovering spirit that guides the soul into their destination afterlife. But when someone got in the situation of what Alister have been now, they can somehow communicate with them and understand them.

"This is crazy." Alister said with a confused looks of his face.

"Are you going to save her or not?" Jane asked to him.

"Portal me to purgatory. And help me find her there." Alister said.

"In one condition... when you die, you will be my soulmate. In short, you will be like my husband. I'm so lonely, I think I need someone to be with me. You're perfect, you just looked like a prince in my fairytale dream. Hehehehe." Jane said.

"This is crazy! You women are crazy!" Alister madly said.

"You want me to leave? Sorry for your Arielle right now, I think demons down there were enjoying chasing her beautiful soul now." Jane said.

"Damn! Stop lying!" Alister replied.

"I'm not..." She insisted.

"Okay! Okay! let's save her first, then you can have my soul." Alister frustratedly said to her. "Damn it!" he whispered.

Jane made a portal to purgatory as both of them entered in it. An elegant dark purple color of a mildly atmosphere as it adds the tiniest kiss of color to their look.Purgatory was a scary place, it was always dusk in there and as a newcomer soul, the place was so unpredictable that made it more scary. It was exactly like hell, except it wasn't forever, but no one said exactly how long it would take though. Eventually, the purgatory sufferings like being chased by monsters like where Arielle was right now was one of the hardest survival sufferings of souls that were being punished down there.

"I just hope she didn't gave up yet." Alister said with anxious look of his face. "What if she gave up? What exactly would happen to her?" he asked her.

"Demons will toast her into the fire using pitched fork being peirced to every part of her body. She can't die by that but she will feel its endless pain until the years her soul will done paying her sins." Jane explained.

"Can you spot her instantly?" Alister said.

"Yes, but you have to agree with deal I made with you right now." She insisted to him, as she tried to leave him no choice. "You know, it's almost a week by now since she got in here. She's not an angel and she's probably tired by now." she insisted again as she handed him a pen and a paper, a contract of the deal.

Alister signed it as she made him no choice but to do it. Jane made a portal to where Arielle was. They just perfectly got there in time as she was surrounded by hellhounds and other ugly monsters. She was tired already but when she him, she was somehow energized with her adrenaline. Alister killed all the monsters that surrounded them as he rampaged around. With his super speed and strength of vampire things, he managed to kill them all. Hellhounds being torn in half. Ghouls and ogres being incapacitated as he embraced the madness of blood splashes out while it spilling all over the ground.

No one can measure the happiness she felt right now as the pupils of her eyes dilated without them even realizing it as she felt like dreaming, found out herself being saved by the man she admired, willingly to go with death and face death. Jane immediately took them out and brought them back to Psyche to prevent them from hugging each other in that scenario knowing that Jane also admired Alister's royal looks.

The time they got out from the purgatory, Arielle was fading to light. As a soul who still has a living vessel, she was dragged into where her vessel was. Into the place on ahead of Sven Borgia, in the middle of nowhere on the polarized place, there was a frozen throne in there where her vessel was well placed and preserved.

In the other scenario somewhere in the barren lands of death valleys, Marchosias and Abaddon had a little conversation.

"How could you do that brother, do you really wanna die?" Abaddon asked Marchosias.

"Brother, I have done it because of my ambitions. When I was angel, I always wanted to live and feel how love like. I always wanted to be human. Now that I'm here, I don't wanna destroy this new world. I wanna live with it." Marchosias explained.

"The revolution was just about to begin. Why don't you just help us first with it then we will give you your freedom after that. We're still in debt with them. So please.." Abaddon begged to his brother Marchosias to give back his loyalty to them because he doesn't want him to die by their hands. "Know your true enemy."

Thunder and lightning were rumbling and ravishing up at the skies in blizzard storm, it was the time Dante and Luther arrived at there. When they got there, they were surprised by Marchosias and his pack of werewolves. Him and his pack was just a couple of hours ahead from them of reaching there. They already torching up the frozen throne to take out Arielle's vessel. The ice that froze Arielle's vessel in the throne seemed so pretty hard to get easily melted that's why it was never too late for them to stop Marchosias and the pack.

"Finally, it's been a long time." Marchosias greeted Dante.

"Is that your friend?" Luther aaked Dante.

"Never! That monster, killed my friend! He's the one who made me a monster like this! I'm gonna tear him to fuckin pieces!" Dante replied furiously as his eyes gone bluish-black as he immediately turned into a werewolf. The fury of his anger errupted upon him as he changed towards Marchosias and so did Marchosias too. Luther shape shifted into a wyvern using his magical ring and targeted those wolvepack that were busy melting the frozen throne. Luther easily freezes them all with the powerful ice breath he can make through his wyvern form.

Marchosias and Dante had their moment of their one on one hand to hand battle. For the time Dante had figured and adjusted of using his power, he can now somehow be matched with Marchosias, not like on their first time they fought. Marchosias wasn't giving his full potential on purpose until Dante pierced his claws into his heart. Dante pierced it more and more as he squeezed it and took it out. Dark blood was dripping out from Marchosias' chest as it mixed up with the snow.

"Don't... let them.. destroy this world, use the pack... to protect the people. You are now... the new alpha...." Marchosias' last words, as he died in the hands of Dante.

Dante has now become the new alpha of the pack knowing that he was the one who killed the last alpha as Marchosias intentionally died into his hands on purpose.

The thunder were getting more and more louder, and the lightning released a more destructive strikes into the frozen throne as it melted down directly as Arielle got awoken up inside her vessel.

Dante ran away heading back into MoonGlade to get away from his pack. Luther was the only one left to accompany Arielle but fortunately,

Alister and the reaper Jane portal them instantly into the Capital. They reunited again. As he hugged her squeezed her tightly into him feeling the warmth of the love.

In the other scenario, in the abyssal prison where Lilith was, the seven princes of hell were there, Lucifer the pride, Mammon the greed, Leviathan the envy, Beelzebub the gluttony, Belphegor the sloth, Satan the wrath and Asmodeus the Lust also known as the seven deadly sins. Because of the failure to get the pure womb of Etheline or Arielle's vessel as the womb that was supposed to be destined to carry their seven deadly offspring, they found an alternative. It was Lilith's vessel. Her vessel was once a very pure but it can be restored once they took out Lilith from her. The seven didn't wasted any seconds. They enchanted Lilith to get out of her vessel and after that, the horrible things happened. They lusted the hell into of her, loaded their filthiness into her. First, Lucifer and then followed by Mammon, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Belphegor and Satan. And lastly, Asmodeus as the lust demon, he bore her body well until Lucifer told him stop and not to kill her. Lucifer got angry with him as he almost killed him from being an over-lusted pig. This girl has now carried the seven offsprings of chaos...