Chapter 35: Better of Dead and First Demon.

Nerezza usually patrolled the mansion with her familiars as she considered it her job to protect it. Now that she had been given a master to serve she wanted to do the best she could to prevent Vander's displeasure. However, she started to get a grasp on her master's personality.

He did things that he wanted to do and no one could tell him no. She doubted he would listen to Grayfia who was technically his master. That was one reason Grayfia thought of him so highly as Vander was just so different.

His strength was enough for him to get that distinction as could just leave if he was displeased. As she thought that she felt a familiar overwhelming presence return to the mansion which signified the return of her master.

When she teleported to the location she was greeted with a surprising sight. Tied up and bound were over 60 humans all over the floor. She knew they were the stray exorcists he planned to use in his Demon Summoning rituals so she clapped her hand.

Black wolves made of shadows began to grab each one by their collars to drag them to a storage place.

"Sir, how do you plan to keep them alive?"

"I plan to put them in stasis with some Time Magic. Don't take that one there."

He pointed at Freed who was about o be taken away by one of her wolves. It stopped the moment Vander said that.

"Do you have a use for him master?"

Vander looked at Freed with a nod.

"Of course, I plan to use him up for all his worth before offering him up as a Demon Sacrifice."

La Folia walked up to Freed and nudged him with her foot.

"He is the partial clone of the hero Siegfried, so that counts for something. However, you plan to do something else with him first right?"

Vander gave a nod as he looked at Freed who was unconscious.

"I plan to use him as a blood bank so I can get as much of that cloned blood as possible. My ritual will have to wait for when I have enough so I will make do with another exorcist."

Naerdeath thought of something.

"If he is the partial clone of the hero Siegfried, does that mean they wanted to clone someone with his power?"

Vander nodded.

"In the legends, Siegfried used the Demon Emperor Sword Gram to kill the Dragon King Fafnir they must have wanted to create someone capable of using it. What I would do to add that thing to my collection? Maybe give it to one of my future knights."

Asia who heard what he had planned for Freed and the Stray Exorsits felt it was too cruel. It was a fate worse than death and even she would never wish that on her enemies.

"If you are doing this for me, please don't. They do not deserve such a cruel fate."

Vander, La Folia, Naerdeath, Raynare, Dohnaseek, Kalawarna, and Nerezza all looked at her with weird looks. Vander shook his head as he never had any intention to add her to his peerage. A servant sure, peerage never.

"Who said I am doing it for you? You are not that important for me to do that. I am doing it because I want to."

La Folia added on.

"I mean the three of us are Devils kind of and those three are Fallen Angels. She is a Devil Vampire and Ripper in your shadow is probibly just as evil as a Demon."

Asia looked down and saw a pair of yellow eyes appear in her shadow. Ripper lept out of it next to Vander and gave his master a small head tap. Vander returned it with a smile as Ripper was becoming tamer and tamer recently. Of course, this only applied to Vander and his group.

"Look Asia, this is just how real life is. Cruel and dark, Nerezza please take her away. She does not have to watch this."

"Right away. Please, this way."

Asia nodded as she followed Nerezza to get what was going to happen out of her mind. Once she was gone Vander levitated Freed off the ground.

"Raynare, Dohnaseek, Kalawarna, you are free for the rest of the night. Tomorrow, your training will pick up again."

They gave him a bow as they headed away to leave them with Freed. Vander was going to set up a blood-draining station in a random room until he drained Freed of all his worth.

"Let's go."

Ripper entered his shadow while La Folia and Naerdeath braced for teleportation. In a flash, they appeared in a random room that was not being used for anything. It was a small room so the bed was regular-sized compared to Vander's giant bed. He tossed Freed onto it and started to produce some items from Demonic Mana.

He looked at La Folia and Naerdeath to ask them about certain potions he needed.

"Are their nutrient and blood production potions."

"I got them."

Naerdeath reached into her necklace and pulled out two potions. One was bright green and the other was blood red like actual blood.

"The green one is made of super condensed nutrients which will substation you for a whole month. The red one will increase blood production by 200 percent.

"Perfect, I will take those."

By using his Demonic Mana he created several needles which were injected into his veins that connected to a large tank for his blood. Of course, nonstop draining would kill him so he made sure to use the two potions Naerdeath gave him in an automatic injection.

Freed was still out cold, but Vander was not going to let him sleep through the process. He woke him up just as the machine began to slowly drain his blood. It was not painful, but he could feel his strength leaving him.

"NO! STOP!"

He could not even resist as Vander placed his hand on his face.

"Can't have you moving, here let me cut that out of you."

Vander cut off his nerve connections to his body which left Freed unable to feel anything. That feeling of losing everything made the mad man begin to cry tears of loss and rage.

"KILL ME! YOU BETTER KILL ME RIGHT NOW! IF NOT I WILL RAPE THOSE TWO BITCHES WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS! I WILL EVEN CUT OFF YOUR DICK AND-"

La Folia grabbed his throat and with magic cut his vocal cords leaving him unable to even speak.

"That is better, hearing him screeching would be annoying."

Vander kneeled at the large tank that was slowly filling up with blood.

"I have no idea how long this will be able to sustain him, but I just hope long enough to get a few tank's worths. It would be a waste otherwise."

Vander made a few last checks to make sure the draining was just below the production of blood. The nutrient potion was enough to sustain the blood potion, so things were working fine.

"Ok, things are in order. However even this has limits so when he reaches his limit I will stop. We can go."

Freed glared at the 3 of them as they closed the door on him. Once the door closed the room went pitch blade leaving him in a body that did not move used as a blood cow. That was more humiliating and painful than anything he had ever experienced before.

Outside the room, Vander placed his hand on the door and placed several wards on it. Especially some to monitor Freed who was not too dangerous, but you never know.

"Alright, my new blood producer is in action. I will only sacrifice him when he can no longer sustain any more draining. Now, are you two ready for some Demon summing?"

They both nodded as this was actually exciting. La Folia still remembered when she summoned her demon which tricked her by looking like an innocent puppy. When she signed the contract is when things changed, but she did not regret it.

"Let's go."

Vander teleported into a ritual room that was designed to protect the outside from more dangerous rituals. He looked around at the large ritual room that had several wards that glowed with familiar power.

Vander placed his hand on the wall with a smile.

"Your mom really cares about us. She put up these wards with considerable Demonic Power."

La Folia smiled at her mom's help.

"She knows me and maybe you well. She knew you would be doing something like this so she prepared for the consequences. Still, you will upgrade them further right?"

Vander nodded as his Infernity, began to fill up the wards Grayfia placed. They were being filled up with Vander's stronger energy leaving them intact, but stronger. This process took about a minute before the room was covered in Infernity wards.

"There, nothing can get in or out unless these are turned off. I guess we can start."

Vander waved his hand and from his stock of Stray Exorisists, appeared 6 of them. There were 5 men of different ages and 1 middle age woman. Naerdeath looked at Vander who seemingly had everything he could need.

Vander looked at both La Folia and Naerdeath who looked ready for anything. Vander bit his wrist and began to spill his blood on the floor. He opened the Demon Summoning book that La Folia had used as a kid to summon hers.

He willed his blood to take the form of the familiar pentagram that covered the floor. He looked at the exorcists who were still unconscious. He placed 5 of them at each point of the pentagram with the woman in the middle.

Before he started he looked at La Folia with an important question.

"When you were a kid, what did you sacrifice?"

La Folia's face turned bitter.

"I didn't offer anything, but Fenrisúlfr answered the call anyway. He decided that I would be a good slave considering my talent, but he ended up mellowing out when I became stronger. I think yours will be stronger than mine as you actually are doing the ritual right."

Naerdeath placed her armor and even her helmet as she looked up.

"Not that I don't trust you, but now I am nervous."

Vander looked at her with a smile.

"How about you summon one as well? You will be able to get your own partner and a way to use resonance."

"I will think about it, but maybe later. I am not sure if I feel so comfortable anymore."

La Folia gave her a reassuring smile.

"I did it when I was just 5 years old and my Demon is not that bad."

Naerdeath and Vander gave her odd looks. She remembered the torment it put her through, but that seemed too minor now.

"Ok, maybe I am not normal."

Vander chuckled.

"None of us are. Now, I will begin."

Vander placed his hand on the bloody pentagram and began to fill it with his Infernity. This caused his blood to glow a Dark Red that nearly looked black. Vander's dark green eyes began to grow as he began to chant.

"In nomine Vander Abbadon.(In the name of Vander Abbadon."

The moment he said the first verse the circle began to pulse with ominous power. However this was normal and just as La Folia remembered it.

"Daemones inferorum voco ut mihi serviant.(I call upon the demons of the underworld to serve me.)"

The second verse caused Hellish Energy to leak from the circle and begin to wrap around the 6 exorcists.

"Has animas offero ut sacrificium.(I offer these souls as a sacrifice.)"

The tendrils of hellish energy began to drag the exorcists in as if accepting the offer. Vander's Infernity was too good to pass up on and several Demons were about to fight for it. However, stopped any resistance as he waited for the ritual to end.

"Sanguis meus pro obla- tione mea* et vigor meus quasi stipendium.(My blood for my offering, *, and my strength as payment)"

The moment the entire chant was finished a bloody portal to hell was opened that made La Folia and Naerdeath brace for what was emerging from the other side. However, Vander stayed steadfast as he watched the creature emerge from the portal.

A dark hand emerged from the portal grabbing hold of the ground. Vander watched as a second emerged which pushed off the ground as the Demon dragged itself into real space. It was a grotesque being of skin similar to stone with blades protruding from its back.

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Two curved horns emerged like a ram, but it was just a little bigger than Vander.

"Mind answering why you are so small?"

The Demon kneeled and answered in a distorted dark voice.

"เ ค๓ ςยггєภՇɭץ รђгยภк. ๓ץ Ŧยɭɭ รเչє เร гคՇђєг ๓ครรเשє, ๓ץ รย๓๓๏ภєг. เ ค๓ ﻮ๏гՇђг๏Շђคภ, ςคקՇคเภ ๏Ŧ Շђє ɭєﻮเ๏ภ ๏Ŧ Շђє ค๒ץรร ๏Ŧ ɭ๏г๔ ค๒๒ค๔๏ภ.(I am currently shrunk. My full size is rather massive, my summoner. I am Gorthrothan, Captain of the Legion of the Abyss of Lord Abbadon.)"

His voice was hard to understand, but Vander realized him picking the name Abbadon got the real Abbadon in Hell's attention. This might be good or bad, but either way he was interested.