The sky darkened even though the sun had just woken up, this didn't feel like normal rain. On the only unbroken pillar in the entire hall stood a short girl with a dummy in her hand. She extended her hands as if coming for a hug though she stood there suddenly small, thin threads emerged from her hands racing towards us and I knew or rather I remembered who she was. I told Joyle to run away with chreshield and woden.
I said "you… we sealed you in the gourd of envy. It's almost impossible to escape that due to the sheer number of criminals stored within that jar. The only way to escape it would be to eradicate all of them and come out victorious". Among the sealing items of the 6 deadly sins left over that was the 3 one. These sealing items had a shroud of mystery cast upon them. No one knew what their true purpose was but they did know how to use it. Each sealing item was supposed to grant the user and undefined amount of strength at the cost of their freedom or so it was told. No one really escaped the seals.
Each sealing item had its escape condition and the gourd of envy was one of the two I know about after the sword of wrath my brother had. "Wait there are two of you?" I saw that behind the girl wearing the red gothic skirt type of dress stood another girl with a white colored one dress similar to what the one in front wore though I couldn't make out her face but her stature was roughly the same as the one in front. Right, I forgot to introduce who this girl, wait no who this devil was right.
In my previous life, rumors of a human girl who fell in love with a demon spread across the 7 lands. The wildfire incited both the demons and the humans to go on a hunt for this couple. After a year of running away, the demon was shot down by a human but the lady kept running. She finally escaped the clutches of everyone by hiding somewhere no one could reach her. There she gave birth to a small girl but she died as an infant who couldn't enjoy the world.
But then a small bird flew to the mother weeping with the dead body in her hands. It whispered that the girl would live but at an expensive cost. Both the mother and father (who was supposedly a ghost or ghoul at that point of time) gave up their souls without question and the little girl came back to life and her name was Luciela, but.
Something had changed. The life born from the human and demon had a third meddling in its soul. It had residues of a devil. The difference between a demon and a devil is that devils are a far stronger and rarer species but are genetically similar. Devils were known for making deals with anyone and everything at a cost.
What no one expected was the power the child had being a amalgam of three beings. The mana of the devil, the techniques of her father and the grit of her mother as she climbed up the hierarchy to kill anyone who opposed her and hunt down the people who hunted her own parents. Another point to note is that she found the devil who made the deal but not out of gratitude but out of the need for revenge as he was also someone who had killed her parents who couldn't even get a new life.
In the end her power was among that of the top tier organism who ruled each land but less than those of the draconic beings. So in the end, every one who was strong banded together to kill her but not without price. As her third parents traits engulfed her, in exchange for trapping her in the gourd of envy lots of souls were lost in the process.
If she is here in this point of time, and she is still in her original body along with the insignia of envy, then the disaster she could wreak on everyone was almost limitless but the usual bloodlust was no where to be seen. People like her or me in my previous life radiated bloodlust like it was nothing and it was natural to battle it out using it. The people around us would have their own bloodlust suppresses if it were weaker and faint.
Since she wasn't radiating any form of bloodlust, I had to assume that something had happened in the gourd of envy that has also weakened her.
Slowly something was changing in our surroundings. Luciela was saying something which I couldn't hear at all because she was pretty far away. Her threads were holding my hands, arms and fingers and threatened to cut them down at any given moment.
Since the entire place was covered with loads of dragon bone, I slowly extended my consciousness everywhere to control the bone marrow. Then at a point when I heard her laughter, I exploded everything. The entire building along with the pillar she stood on, the bones of the dragon, everything went kaboom. I could only hope that chreshield and joyle had retreated back to base and were safe.
I saw Luciela falling down and the threads loosened as she lost her balance. At the sight of this opportunity, I slipped out by dislocating some bones in my body and damn did that fucking hurt. This body not only had very low affinity for eon energy, its bones were rickety dammit. I had to train my body too after I get some free time.
As I ran out of the building, I relocated my bones back in place which gave me some relaxation and the entire palace in all its glory had fallen to shambles, not when the dragon had attacked but after its death.
I ran as fast as I could towards the beach where we had first landed outside the walls. I heard an explosion behind me, it was from the castle. Oh, shit she was coming after me, and I could see the boat at the edge of the world. Slowly as I ran, I used blood whips from the remaining scattered bones of the dragon to create obstacles for her and of course she cut em all up but it bought me time.
I could see Joyle's tiny hand waving at me from the boat. Wait since when did we have a boat like that though. But I signaled chreshield to start the boat up as she ran forward to probably inform woden to start the engine. Or she could've gone to do something else, possibly to tend to little Arthold.
A string came flying from the back as it pierced my shoulder but failed to pull me back as I cut it with a blood dagger. More were coming in.