"Don't you dare!"
Lust, whose spirit core had already been amalgamated within Adam's chest called out to him not to make any sudden movement, meaning if Adam dies so does him.
"Relax a bit, I'll take control now."
Lust suggested as he places Adam's astral form on the borderline between the realm of the dead and the living. He then took possession of Adam's body.
"So this is what my host is worth?, Intolerable!!"
Lust scoffed perceiving how low Adam's level was. Levels were formulated as a means to recognize the extraordinary from the average, the prodigies from the halfwits.
Lust then turned towards the saber-tooths as two tried to pounce on him and with a wave of his hand, an invisible force field appeared before him.
The unwary duo got their fore limbs and necks twisted as they splattered a few drops of blood on the glass like force field. The remaining saber-tooths which had already increased by thirty five more. Added to the two that had released their last breath resulting in a total of fifty saber-tooths.
Seeing their comrades dead on the ground, the remaining tigers scowled and bared their fangs as they growled towards lust. Lust who was unperturbed by their gaze furrowed his brows as he looks at his hands.
"Glass?, Don't tell me you knew about this Athena. Now what relationship does this boy have with the white Knight."
Adam who doesn't recall any past occurrence he might have had in this world couldn't possibly know the relationship he had had with the said Knight.
Lust could only ponder about their relationship but concluded that maybe Adam had known of the white knight long before Lust knew of Adam's existence.
"What!!"
Lust who was flabbergasted by the event that ensued where he kept Adam's astral form could only smirk seeing as how Athena had unknowingly unleashed a demon into this realm. (Please note; Lust sudden awe was purely based on what was happening with Adam's astral form)
Three more saber-tooth leapt towards lust who waved his right hand once more as three spike-like thorns of fifty centimeters protruded from the glass like force field impaling each of the saber-tooth.
"I would have loved to keep you guys company but it seems my master has other plans in store for you guys. I can only feel sorry for you lot."
Lust who had been multitasking all along as he fights against the saber-tooth tigers while he spoke with Adam's astral form could only heave a sigh towards the foolish cats who would now serve as a stepping stone for the demon like human he once called 'Host' but now 'Master'.
But before he vanished, he waved his hand once more, enabling all forty-five saber-tooths to be frozen in befuddlement.
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**Adam's current astral form's location while Lust was still in control**
With a bewildered look on his face, Adam wondered if he had truly died as he finds himself surrounded by a thick black mist and then suddenly a voice called out to him.
"Adam."
Recalling he had heard such a voice beforehand warning him not to jump. He began to doubt if this was truly hell. But he inquired nonetheless.
"Who's there? Where am I?, Who are you?,"
"I am the driving force that attracts you to the opposite gender, I am a source of passion for many. None had ever been granted such privilege to witness my profane self. Many a creature refer to me as Lust but you shall call me Reverse, why? because you are weak and...uh?...what?,"
'Reverse' was flabbergasted by the inscrutable look on Adam's face and so he inquired. But Adam had initially thought he was talking to a celestial being just like in the movies but couldn't care less about what 'Reverse' was trying to say.
Why? Cause he felt lust words sounded like it had been planned and rehearsed by a lonely being who had been rehearsing such words countless of times beforehand. Adam wasn't in the mood right now to listen to such folly.
"Just because you were chosen by Athena doesn't mean you should act so ill-mannered,"
"Eh? Athena? You mean the goddess of war?,"
Being well-versed with things relating to Greek mythology Adam couldn't believe what he was hearing, if this was to be the case, then the stories of gods such as Hermes, Zeus and the likes were also true.
"Yeah, she chose you as her champion to ..."
"Okay."
"Eh? But you do not Know why you were chosen."
" It doesn't matter really, I'm to be a hero here right? It's the same classic transmigration cliché. so yeah, you can count me in..but....uh?"
While taking a few steps forward within the black mist Adam declared such words but his attention was immediately drawn to the sound the floor made and so he squatted down to confirm what he heard.
*Knock* knock*
Surprised by how the floor sounded as it did, he kept knocking, trying to confirm his suspicion.
*Knock*knock*Poom*
"Yes"
"What are you doing?,"
Lust inquired seeing as how Adam suddenly became silent, but Adam paid no thought to his words as his consciousness was completely filled up with the thought of how his body was warming up.
He could feel unfathomable powers welling up inside of him. Adam clenched his fist as he directed a blow into the point where the knock sounded differently.
*Shatter*
The triangular glass prism containing the thick black fog which turned out to be where Adam's astral form had been kept all along shattered into various shards of glass.
"What?"
Lust exclaimed as his eyes couldn't believe what they were seeing, he had never heard of a mortal capable of entering into SHEOL with their astral form still intact. It was a direct invitation to death.
Celestial beings were the only ones capable of achieving such feat. Lust briefly forgot the fact that Adam wasn't just any mortal. Aside from the fact that his father is a god, Adam already had the blessings of three goddesses in him, surely it will take more than a simple feat like this to stop him.
"Oh? So you were a giant?, No wonder you sounded so high and mighty,"
Adam declared as he glanced at the eight meter tall being in front of him. Pride had notified the phantoms not to restrain lust in chains or manacles but they were ordered to lock him up in the prison he finds himself now.
Pride acknowledged it would be wise to seek an audience with Anubis before acting egocentric lest he ignite Anubis ire.
"Are you talking to me?," Lust inquired.