Chapter 92: Lilith, Demons, and Hell.
Once he had gathered all the worth of the hero faction members and left them as regular humans, he nodded to himself.
"Right. The crazy humans are safely stored away, next item on the bucket list. Hades and Lilith. Then I got to see Nyx and the fruits she grew, talk to my friends, and then, find ways for my harem to grow stronger faster, otherwise."
The issue came that his personal strength was progressing faster than his harem could keep up. Astrid, and Celestine as his familiars did not have this issue as they had a link-back effect with him.
Runeas, Valina, and Rias had his blood so they also had this effect, but it was beginning to weaken as they were making his blood theirs, not his. He felt that was the right choice because if his harem needed him to get stronger, were they really worthy of him?
He thought that for just a moment and he knew why that was happening. It was his Concept. It worked to ensure he continued to Dominate and become Supreme. From the look of it, his Concept was not about to let him have any weakness. He did not know what that meant for his harem who could become that weakness and did not want to find out.
He shook himself out of his mind and turned to Grimnar and Leman.
"Let us return to our more portable states."
Both his familiars nodded to him as the three transformed once more. In Maulketh's case, he returned to his human form, Grimnar into his regular dog form, and Leman as the dragon, panther cat thing he was.
Maulketh smiled as he opened up a gate. He did not need to, but he just thought portals looked cool.
"Come along."
As he walked through the gate, his two pets ran behind him into Hades' Throne Room. Hades sat in his black stygian iron throne in his human form. On his lap, was sitting Persephone. Hades had a firm hand around her waist while Persephone had a smile on her face.
Now that they did not need to follow any rules separating them, they had been far more clingy with each other than before. But when they saw Maulketh walk through the gate neither moved from each other's holds.
Hades knew why he was here, but he had to greet Maulketh first. But the way he said it was in a joking tone.
"Maulketh, glad to see you returned to us in one piece."
"Yes, all thanks to you."
Noticing the noticeable sarcasm, Hades smirked.
"Well, what was I supposed to do? I can't open Interdimensional Portals like the mighty Maulketh, what was I supposed to help accomplish."
Maulketh shrugged.
"Who knows, but it would have been appreciated. Anyways, you found Lilith?"
Hades nodded.
"Yes, in the lowest layer of the Underworld at that. I can barely call her alive as she is more like a blob of flesh. I had my researchers see if they could use anything of Lilith and I can say it worked."
Now he was curious.
"What happened?"
Hades smirked.
"I created 4 extremely powerful Devils from her. You can have them if you want as Two are Super Devils and the other two are Satan Class with unique abilities?"
Maulketh thought about it before he waved it off.
"Keep 'em, so, who is bringing me, Lilith?"
Hades snapped his fingers which caused space to split apart before a blob of flesh floated out. Maulketh held his hand out and drew the blob of flesh. As Hades, said, this was a blob of flesh with life still in it, but the soul was beyond weak.
There were barely any soul fragments left of Lilith, as whatever technique went into the making of Devils was really costly to Lilith. As was noticed by the fact she was just flesh and barely any soul remaining.
"First thing to address, this is no Devil. This is something else."
Hades nodded.
"She is a Demon. From what I gathered, when Lilith refused to submit to Adam, God cursed her and instead of becoming a Devil, she became a Demon. If you are wondering about Hell, I will give you access to my personal library and research on the subject.
As the god of the Underworld and ruler of the Land of the Dead, I learned a thing or two about that place. And I can tell you that there is power that even I can't comprehend too well. Maybe you can give it a go."
Maulketh was now curious.
"I will. Now let's see if I can't make anything with this."
His Domain caused the blob of flesh to begin to float. His Divine Energy began to flow into it and the tiny soul shards that remained were stabilized. With that, by using his mastery of Space and Time magic he tapped into the past memories that Lilith once had.
By this, he got an understanding of her life and it was tragic as fuck even to him. How God created her from one of Adam's ribs, how she refused to be subservient to Adam, then got cursed into a Demon by God, taken in my Lucifer, married him, then was used to become the spawner for the Devil Clans, and her last sentient act was to give birth to her son.
He delved deeper into the Spawner thing and he found out why Devils used 'Demonic Power' instead of either Demon Mana, Hell Mana, or whatever things Demons used. It was because they were literally a halfway mark to a Demon.
Demons were generally stronger than Devils, but that was for natural Hell Born ones. Lillith was not which was why her power was not even in the Superclass, but the race created from her was limited as they were using an inferior Energy than what she had used when alive.
Super Devils were in reality, just the closet to Demons and Valina was partially part Demon. The issue in question was that they were three generations apart with Devil genes diluting the Demon and then the human genes were enough for Valina to gain a Sacred Gear.
That allowed her to tap into her latent potential until Maulketh came along, took it, and gave her some of his blood. Her fast growth was that his Dragon Blood was pulling out the diluted Demon genes along with the Super Devil which should be called partial Demon or Half Demon.
'So that is what makes Valina so special. That means her grandfather is a Half Demon as well, but he is a true Half Demon and not just a Super Devil. So, why the hell is he weaker than Sirzechs and Beelzebub?'
He had more questions, but he knew that bringing back the original Lilith was possible, but doing so was not really worth it. From Lilith's mind, he found that she was happy to die after giving birth to her son.
Happy to be free from the world where she had never known a moment of peace. But she did not even die and was just hidden away by Lucifer until she was found by Hades who used her ability once more.
So, he decided to not bring back Lilith. But he would not be wasting her body. With a thought, Divine Fire. It was not his Flames of Tyrrany, just flames fueled by his regular Divine Energy to ignite the flesh ball. This made Hades he was destroying it.
"You just destroying her?"
Maulketh shook his head.
"No, just watch."
Through his flames, he burned the specs of the soul Lilith had left giving her true rest. Thankfully the Energy that her Demon Soul specs contained was still enough to give his flames Demon Energy which he would call Hell Mana. His Concept purified this further to Infernity which the Demons of his Personal Dimension used.
He mixed this Infernity with his Divinity to cause the flames burning around Lilith's flesh to become a perfect mixture of Dragonic and Demon. This fire flowed through the flesh as Maulketh crafted a new being from this.
To form a new soul. he began to use some of his Soul Energy which just like Mana or Divine Energy, recovered with time. This Soul Energy was burned up by the flames to create a new Demonic Dragon Soul.
When the soul was formed, the heart followed. A mixture of a Demon Core and Dragon heart formed where the heart should be. Once the Soul and Heart were formed the body began to follow suit as the heart absorbed the flames into itself.
He stepped back and watched as the flesh writhed and changed. From just a blob of flesh, what looked like arms, legs, and a head began to emerge. Persephone who was silent the whole time thought that was gross.
"I think I am going to be sick."
She covered her mouth as Maulketh watched the process with pure curiosity. From a ball of flesh, a woman formed out of the flesh. Se had dark grey skin, and bright golden eyes which looked like dragon slits.
She had long elf or Demon-shaped ears, large black wings covered in scales, a long thin scaled tail with a spiked end, and horns that curved back from her forehead. And she was entirely naked.
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She fell on her knees as she took her first breath. She reached up and touched her face a while before she looked up at him. With a wave of her hand, clothes that he thought a succubus would wear covered her up.
She lowered her head toward him and spoke.
"My creator and eternal master, I dedicate this life of mine to service in your name. I will do anything you wish of me, sate your lust, kill your foes, take out your frustrations on me, I am here to serve. I just ask for a nam-"
"Lilith."
He did not even change her name which made her frown.
"But that was my predecessor's name. Shouldn't I have a separate name from her for convenience?"
And honestly, she wanted her own name. Not someone else's as while she knew what Lilith knew, she was not Lilith. Maulketh wanted her to keep that name, but she gave him sad eyes. He sighed as he had a soft spot for sexy women and this girl was sexy.
"Fine, I shall grant you a name of your own. Liliana. It's a play on Lilith, but it is it's own name."
Her eyes seemed to shine as she got up and she lunged at him in a big head pressing her succubus-like body against his.
"Thank you, master, let me thank you properly sometime."
She said the Thank you part with a successful tone which caused a reaction in him. Hades cleared his voice as they were still in his throne room. Liliana leaned back and shot him a glare which made Hades aware of just how strong this girl was.
She was stronger than him that was for sure, but she was made by Maulketh so that made sense. But Maulketh raised his fist and punched her relatively firmly on top of her head.
The blow caused her head to rattle and she grabbed the top of her head. She fell to her knees in pain as tears began to pool in her eyes. She looked up at him with both fear and hurt.
"Master, why?"
As the tears pooled down her beautiful face, he felt bad. But he had to teach her a lesson. He reached down and picked her up to her feet.
"You glared at my friend, can't have that. So don't do it next time."
She nodded whipping away the tears. It was in part of the pain and mostly that she had to be punished by her master. While she sulked behind him, Grimnar and Leman walked up to her to laugh at her.
She instantly did not like these Familliars of her master, but in Maulketh's mind, they were above her in the hierarchy. They were above everyone, but only Maulketh knew that. So while they did that, Maulketh turned to Hades.
"What can you tell me about Hell and what have you learned?"
Hades got up causing Persephone to get off him as Hades walked toward him.
"Follow me. Persephone my dear, will you take Tempurina and show her how to be a prim and proper lady?"
Persephone nodded.
"Yes, hubby. Come along, girl. You have much to learn."
Liliana was about to say something, but Maulketh raised his fist so she nodded.
"Right away."
Once they left, only Hades, Maulketh, Grimnar, and Leman remained. Hades sighed.
"First thing I will tell you, Hell is not a place you want a mess with. Ever since I was born, the number of Hell-Born Demons that have crossed over into our world is no more than 10. But each one was a monster that could rival a Heavenly Dragon.
And each one that crossed over was a threat that required several powerful beings to kill. One of these Demons crossed over when the Titans still ruled in their territory. My father Kronus, his siblings, and their armies fought the Demon and killed it. But once it died, it seemed to return to Hell."
Maulketh was instantly curious.
"Who knows what other ranks of Demon there could be."
Hades nodded.
"Correct. If the common Foot Soldiers are as strong as the class of Dragon before they become Gods, the rest of Hell's forces cannot be underestimated. But, Danger is equal to opportunity. If we can put a foothold in Hell, we would be set for our future plans."
[I once fought one of these Demons from Hell. He gave me one of the greatest fights I ever had, but in the end, despite his over all strength matching mine, he had no techniques. He was just a brute, so I won in the end. Same as before, the body disappeared."
{I also fought a Demon. Same as Ddraig says, these foot soldiers of Hell have no minds of their own except for the desire for violence."
That made Hades think of something.
"All the 10 Demons were reported to be the same. They focused only on violence and carnage, and nothing else. If the human version of Hell is real, and they believe in Circles of Hell, we may have only seen Wrath Demons."
Maulketh grinned hearing the word Sin. If he could take the Deadly Sins for himself it would match well with his Red Dragon Extreme Emotions. If they worked as he thought and gave power through Sins, Pride, Wrath, Envy, Sloth, Lust, Greed, and Gluttony, he felt all 7 perfectly suited for him.
But as he thought of the Seven Sins, he thought of the opposite, the Virtues. Humility, Charity, Chastity, Gratitude, Temperance, Patience, and Diligence. They honestly did not fit well with him at all.
He shook his head as he would figure it out in the end.
"Now, we must take control of all of Hell. And we need to figure out if this 'Hell' is The Hell or just a Hell. Either way, the Sins will be mine."
Hades felt that Maulketh and Red Dragons were the most Demon-like out of all Dragons. Their emotional extremes were jus that, extreme. And Maulketh here was no exception.
"I will be checking out your library on Hell if you don't mind."
Hades shook his head.
"I do not. Come, I will show you what I have gathered in my magical experiments. I took the path of magic long ago and I have learned many things since then."
"Lead the way."
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