Everything was going surprisingly smooth, merely obe minute left on my timer. Goddess Kali had been surprisingly receptive to conversation, too much for comfort even.
Perhaps some black magic was being worked on me?
No, that couldn't be it. How did I know this? Because a deduction I had made through observing the chains binding the giant woman to the wall. It was sealing magic.
I know that sounds incredibly obvious, but I didn't have enough time to think about it previously.
And, because there was only one timer ticking in my mind, I knew that the only magic I was gaining currently was the sealing magic. So it was impossible for her to be working some mind magic on me right now.
32 seconds left…
After Goddess Kali finshed her long explanation on how exactly the ancient Indians made plumbing, and how their civilization had fallen, I started my own conversation.
"I think I might have a way to take you out of… here." I said slowly. Draining the timer to 25 seconds left. "It involves me sealing the area where you are sealed within me. Making me a vessel of sorts."
The Goddess's eyes widened. "You have sealing magic? That is incredibly rare." Her eyes sparkled with unconcealed joy, for both herself and me.
Perhaps she was a major extrovert before? I shivered.
"And I could probably change the conditions of this place. Make it more hospitable. Perhaps I could move the chain's location so you could move around." I asked, obviously thinking of making her my own little personal Kurama.
Although she didn't have any magic currently, she had immense raw mental energy that I could potentially tap into if I made the spell correctly.
The Goddess didn't respond, instead silently… laying? On the wall. Her eye lids closed.
"Thank you." She said finally, right as the timer for the sealing magic ran out. "I… am grateful. I am grateful that you have chosen to help me, even if you may gain something from it."
I didn't respond. Instead, I began to make the spell for attempting to seal this place inside of myself. So that I could potentially alter the conditions in it.
[Eight-Trigrams] was what I decided to call this spell. After a few minutes of thinking, I decided on the perfect components.
[Select Area], [Seal Area], [Sealing Medium: Self, Stomach]
It was simple. Surprisingly so. So much so that it should not have taken me minutes to think of it. But I doubted it would be easy on my mental reserves. Sealing magic was undoubtedly powerful.
And although it didn't contain the features I wanted it to currently, I could add them later. It would be to mentally draining to do it all at once.
"Are you ready?" I asked, breaking the silence brought on by my thoughts.
Goddess Kali's eyes sharpened, "Yes. Do you need me to do anything?" She asked inquisitively. Here was the problem, although I had sealing magic I didn't know the intricacies of it. So I could only guess. "I don't know all too much about sealing magic, is there anything you should do?"
She paused for a moment and opened her mouth for a few seconds before speaking, "Unless the spell directly involves me, then no."
"Good then. When I cast the spell, you will still be contained like you are now. As I probably don't have enough power to cast the spell fully." I said, to which the Goddess nodded.
After a few moments of silence, I released the spell.
——
Opening my eyes, I awoke back to the exact moment after I had clashed mental energy with Goddess Kali. SCP-029 passed out on the floor and foaming from her mouth.
My mental energy drained to near depletion. The clash against her energy, sending two mental messages to SCP-029, and casting the sealing spell resulting in this.
Placing my hand on my stomach, I felt my own magic within it. The spell had succeeded. And now it was only a matter of a day or two before I had a Goddess's worth of energy to cast spells with. Then, eventually, her death, time, and destruction magic.
Overall, it didn't matter if I stangled a few SCPs or criminals here and there if I could gain access to that.
Suddenly, to me, my radio blared.
"Junior Researcher Asmodeus! Are you alright?" The senior researcher watching my interaction with SCP-029 questioned.
"Yes, I'm fine." I responded after putting my radio ti my mouth. "I assume thd cross test is over? And any suspicions of her… being mind controlled by me have been cleared?"
The radio beeped, "Obviously not."
———
Later that day, once the chaotic situation with SCP-029 died down, I was ushered off to my own private room. Where I would be doing my duties as a junior researcher.
Those being searching the internet for any mentions of the SCP foundation and co. Or any anomalous creatures, objects, and phenomena mentioned on said site.
Although 99% of it was fake, creepy pasta garbage, the 1% was still an astronomically high number. So they even had senior researchers on this duty.
After researching a lot on the disappears of small children whose parents were brutally murdered, I reached the source of it. It was just another Yule man case.
It made me sick to my stomach to say that, but there was nothing I could feasibly do about it.
Or was there? V-sauce, Micheal, here-
Potentially, once I gained access to Goddess Kali's energy reserves through the seal, I could lock down a large enough area with sealing magic to make him unable to teleport. Then I could call in the MFT or just myself to kill the bastard while also gaining teleportation magic.
Although, for the latter, I could potentially just use another SCP that had similar properties that was far less dangerous.
But, I really wanted to kill the yule man.
Not only would it give me much credibility within the foundation, I just couldn't stand its kidnapping of oh so many children over the years. Also, it would help towards the goal of freeing Goddess Kali. As killing that sucker would aid immensely due to its power.
For example even causing the Scarlet King an odicum of suffering would free her 10 times over. Something about the law of equivalent exchange.
But, more importantly right now, my energy reserves had filled themselves back up.
So,
Its go time.
Looking into the notebook I had jotted down all the modifications I wanted to make to the seal, I started off with some of the tier 1 ones. Aka the foundation.
… anytime I say foundation, it makes me want to make a pun so bad.
First on the list was the most important to me currently, the energy sharing. Not only would this allow for me to build the rest of the 'seal' up more quickly, but it would also allow me to cast far more spells outside of it.
But, sadly, I didn't have any sort of siphoning magic. So it would have to be held back for now.
Second on the list was a mental communication link. This would have more affects than just allowing me and her to telepathically speak to each other, but also give me a certain level of immunity towards mind altering SCPs. As I doubt they could also effect the mind of a goddess.
Currently it was in a very primitive state, as I didn't have enough energy by a long shot to create a permanent communication link. Let alone a permanent 'share mind strength' spell.
So for now, it would be something like this.
[Create seal], [Medium: Object],
Then,
[Create link between minds], [Link lasts for 10 seconds]
Then put that spell in an object and smash it against my stomach to activate the spell in it. This was the only method currently available to me. And I could only do this because of something new I discovered about magic.
Binding vows.
Binding vows, or limitations, basically cut into a shape of magic. Reducing its cost, but also limiting its effects.
But before I could create this object, which was basically a bad grimoire, I had to do something else.
That being the most second most important thing I had to do. Improving the conditions in which Goddess Kali was sealing in.
I will admit, after talking to her for 30 minutes, I did care about her and her wellbeing. Even if she did order the strangling of a million people, and tried to kill me with that blast.
I guess this was like a ((spoiler)) Denji/Makima relationship.
Oh well, all men have second heads sometimes. Even me.
[Send consciousness inside seal], [Give power to modify seal]
That was my first pyramid spell. Hurray for me.
Instantly, I was sent inside of the interior of the seal. And I found within it…