The Demon looked like they were absorbing Senya's Ki. Keya panicked and tried to use apprehension technique to see Senya's Ki particles but with no avail. The numbers looked bugged out.
At that moment Senya grabbed the demons hand and reaped it apart from his shoulder.
"AAaaagh, what the meaning of this, I just killed you bitch!!"
When we looked up at Senya's face her eyes were imbued with red markings.
She removed the rest of the demons arm from her stomach and in an instant teleported behind the demons back plunging her hand in his chest. The force was so strong that it reaped through the other side. She raised his whole body up making him look at the sky.
"Learn your place you garbage!" Senya said before she released a red beam from the same hand towards the sky, piercing through the whole body of the demon leaving just his head and a small part of his chest.
"Now I see, the dark mother is back. How unlucky I am to die now" The demon whispered with the last of his breath before Senya crushed his head with her foot.
"You should leave this town, a war is coming and you will be targeted by many, I won't be able to save her again like that and I don't want my vessel to die before I am complete. Learn new techniques that you can use in the battles ahead, your apprehension technique could be the key to that." The being inside Senya told Kahiro and Keya before Senya fell to the ground unconscious.
People heard the noises and came to check what was happening, at that moment a luxurious horse wagon approached us and picked us up saying they would move us somewhere safe. We couldn't stay at home so we trusted them.
"I am the second prince of Ine (Clydea's nation), my name is Haretou. We noticed the huge amount of ki particles used towards you and we rushed to investigate. What happened over there?"
"A powerful demon attacked us, he used the beam but when he was about to kill us he left." Kahiro said trying to hide the truth about Senya.
"Oh, that must have been terrifying, how about your unconscious friend?" The prince asked.
"She used all her ki to create a barrier. Although it wasn't of use in the end" Kahiro replied.
"I see, you can rest safely out our palace tonight" The prince said.
"Thank you your majesty" Kahiro replied.
The palace was huge inside, we got a room for 3 people. Senya was still unconscious. So we just tried to get some rest too.
The next morning Senya was waiting for us to wake up.
"Hey guys wake up" Senya said.
"Senya, you are awake" Keya happily shouted.
"Yeah, I am awake but what happened yesterday? Didn't I die?"
"Speak quitter, we should hide some details about the incident yesterday" Keya said
"So what happened exactly?"
"Is there anything strange happening that you haven't told us about? Kahiro said.
…
"You died Senya. You died and you came back, or something else came back" Keya said.
"Pff, hear me out, at first I thought it was just side effects from us being teleported here, but it eventually got more apparent that it wasn't. Since we landed to this world, a voice has been hunting me. She calls herself lilitu and she seems to be a demon possessing me"
"Wait that reminds me of the mythological demon Lilith, a female demon that appears in a variety of earth's religions" Kahiro said.
"That's probably her. She said she was called by many names, Lilith was one of them. It seems that her intentions are not harmful for now though." Senya said.
"So yesterday it was her that took control over your body. She is really strong, she disembodied the demon in one move and then fully healed your body but she warned us that this was a one time save, she wont be able to save you like that again" Keya said.
"Of course she is strong, she is depicted as the mother of demons after all" Kahiro said.
"That aside, we must decide what we are going to do next. The demoness warned us of a coming war. Also she said we would be targeted by many" Keya said.
"We should ask help from the prince, so we can travel to Lumen shi. Meanwhile we should also learn how to fight." Kahiro suggested.
After a few days, Kahiro, Senya and Keya were able to travel to Lumen shi, the second biggest town of Clydea as well as the one of the biggest ports of Ashora.
"We should not forget the great help prince Haretou offered us, we should pay him back whenever we can." Senya said.
"Of course we will, but we should help ourselves first." Kahiro said. "We wont be staying for long here, we must keep moving to keep ourselves safe." He continued.
"I am so tired of this already" Senya said.
"For now lets find a place to stay for the week." Kahiro said.
On the next morning:
"Good morning guys" Keya said.
"Good morning" Senya replied.
Kahiro was already dressed and ready.
"Where are u going Kahiro?" Keya asked.
"We are going to practice how to defend ourselves. Eat up and get ready, we are leaving soon." Kahiro answered
The three of them found a quiet place outside the town.
"So, Lilitu said that Senya's apprehension technique was the key. Do you have any ideas as to how it would be of use?" Kahiro asked.
"Maybe we should use it on me, we might find something out." Keya said.
"The last time I tried to use it on you, it seemed like glitched, but we should try again now that things are chill." Senya said
The three of them all touched each other on a circle. Channeling their ki.
"Apprehension technique, activate."
"Share data with named individuals Kahiro Kedi and Keya Shkigal?"
"Approved."
At the moment of activation, their minds were transferred to an astral plane of existence..
There, two women, one dressed in white and one dressed in black were waiting.
"Hello!" Keya shout.
"Here you come Vessel, or should I call you with your name? Keya." The woman in black asked.
"Who are you?" Kahiro asked.
"We have met before. I am Lilitu, the queen of darkness. And the one besides me is Cundi, Mother of the perfectly enlightened. Together we Balance the existence, by being the ying and the yang of reality." Lilitu said.
"Welcome mortals, to the astral world. Here where no human has been before. You were successfully brought here by our united efforts because we want to explain the role you have to play in the upcoming war. We will now proceed to show you the truth of your arrival." Cundi said.
The two omnipotent women started talking, each time one of them stopped talking the other one continued and every time one of them disappeared for the other to appear.
"The balance of existence is shifting, we cant balance it anymore. Angels and demons have gone out of their way to win their enemies, with the result being a flawed line of reality." Cundi said as she disappeared.
"If we don't stop their pointless war, reality will cease to exist. The world will crumble and everything will perish across the dimensions. So we had no choice but to transfer our burden to you, the ones who can save reality. Lilitu said as she disappeared.
"We were the ones that teleported the plane to Ashora and I was the one that talked to you Senya, when you placed your hand in the water of the river. Isn't Ashora magical?" Cundi continued.
"To answer that, it is. But there is a force that is trying to darken it. The same force that makes the angels and the demons go on an all-out war. The Demon God Nama. He who never left Hell before, wants to bring hell upon the world and turn it into a wasteland of demons." Lilitu said.
"The angels, led by Krahma the holy god of angels, wouldn't let that happen since this could break the balance of power between the factions. A holy war is coming." Cundi said.
"Now, your purpose on that war is to help humans prevail. Even if you have to annihilate every single angel or demon that exists. As long as they fight the combination of holy and dark energy they produce flaw freely inside the lines of reality making them unstable. To prevent a cosmos destruction, you must take this burden upon you." Lilitu said.
"It will be dangerous, but with our help you have a chance. Shall you agree, we will awaken the great power inside of you." Cundi continued.
Glimpses of what may come ran through their thoughts. Dark places, burned to ashes from the war. Earth scorched and lifeless.
"Our families and friends" Senya shouted while sobbing.
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"So what's your answer mortals?" Lilitu whispered.
"I will help" Kahiro answered immediately.
"I am with you Kahiro" Keya said.
"Let's do this guys. Lets find a way to stop the war together." Senya continued.
"Good. We have no time to waste, we shall start with the basics.
Your techniques, Keya has a pact with me. It was a drawback forced upon me for teleporting you to an other world. But it will end up working to our favor, the pact forces some of my energy and powers to transfer to Keya. Which means she can practically use my powers, in any way you can think of. My greatest power attribute is that of gravity, I have lost the power of darkness when the demons banished me from hell." Lilitu explained.
"Senya, your apprehension Technique was a gift from me. Now that you have gotten the hold of it, I will awaken it to new levels of knowledge. By my blessing! Awaken and walk the path to light Sovereign Solomon!" Cundi continued
"Enlightened Technique acquired. Sovereign Solomon has been distributed." A voice sounded through the world of Ashora, heaven and hell.
"Now for you Kahiro, you will soon unlock the technique that fits you the most. But its not our call to give it to you. For now, keep using your logic, even Sovereign Solomon cant find solution to everything, knowledge is not always the key." Lilitu whispered. "One last thing, we won't be able to have conversations like this for some time. Keya! You can find ways to use your combat abilities with the help of your friends. But the potential in the gravity attribute is limitless, think out of the ordinary and you will be a force of nature." She continued
"Now, we shall bid farewell mortals. Wake up!" Cundi shouted.