I awoke in a void it was quite unsettling, but I already knew what I had to do create a place of suffering for any species that could be sentient. I smiled as I began to create the sharp rocky ground that underneath had lava heating it up which I would have the lava recede during the night. The sun was so close the place felt like a desert and at night the temperature would drop so much due to all heat disappearing causing the souls themselves to almost be frozen and to keep them hopeful in the distance was a giant black castle of which when they traveled for their first sentence would get to the gates.
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At the Gate the two guards would ask "What is Your Crime?" and if they lied, they would be teleported back to the start to redo their first sentence. On this first layer it would rain either acid or glass that would destroy their soul-like forms only for them to regenerate. I also made sure there were clouds in the sky that seemed like they would provide cover but never would. Occasionally a merchant would come up to the suffering souls and offer them water and food only to cause them to feel extreme pain as they couldn't eat here it would just slip between their hands.
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I opened the gate to my hell with no denizens just a suffering way to the Black Castle where a person would be judged. I smiled as I saw souls arrive and begin their walk I approached one and said "Good sir do you know where you are because I am Lost?".
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He smiled sweating and reached for my hand and said, "Poor child you must be lost let me relieve you of your pain." He reached for my neck squeezing it, but his hands went through my fake body. I smiled and simply causing his hands and arms to slowly melt away. They regrew constantly too. I tested each of the souls on their walks and began to create a personalized hell for each of them.
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I trapped them each in a perfect little hell that old man was a serial killer who loved to suffocate his victims he especially liked it when they were weaker then him and were ignorant as he thought so I brought him to a place where he could see the perfect victims for his hands but never be able to harm them and erased the memory that he wasn't alive anymore so he would try his best to blend in but still be so tempted to kill them but every time he would get close to getting them alone suddenly someone would show up and be oblivious.
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There was a woman who had raped many men and sued them for child support she was a whore beyond whores so I made her feel the helplessness of her actions and had the images of the ones she rapped rape her every single moment with no break and made sure she would only feel pain and no pleasure at all making her unwilling in it all.
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There was an old man who had swapped many bodies always stealing the life from others slowly raising young children to be suitable vessels for him so I made him age and feel every bit of it he would age over a hundred years in a second and then be reset to a hundred years old every time he would die so he could suffer more.
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Luckily, I made it so these torments would reflect their innermost fears and hates and would change with their fears and hates as they adapted making them suffer until their sentence was up which would be a year for everyone and then they would be reborn so hopefully they would no longer do the things they had done. They would be doused in the waters of Lethe the river of Forgetfulness.
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I made sure the soul scaring would stay so more people would no longer have to go through hell meaning eventually if everyone was good there would no longer be a world of pain and less people would come through. Strangely enough the gods visited me and said my Hell was too good and was siphoning more souls than any other hell due to reincarnation and death loving the thought I put into my version of hell so they wanted me to stop and I said "Want me to start a hell for Gods?" they shut up and left quite quickly I guess they don't want me to make another hell so I stayed within my hell.