Capítulo 21: Demõn
A/N: Haha! You're going to be BAMBOOZLED in this chapter! I lied about the demons! It ain't Mephisto, and it ain't Lucifer!
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Tagging the place, I teleport away from there and sit down, to think on what I just got myself into. The demon I captured, and immediately killed, was a member of the Sons of Satannish, or so his memories told me.
Is that even a he? Do demons even have genders? NOT IMPORTANT!
So, these Sons of Satannish are followers of the Demon Satannish, who's a Hell Lord, one of the many.
Mother did tell me a bit about him, which Agamotto expanded on. He just.. appeared, suddenly, a half a million years ago. He has his own corner within the Hell Dimension, and has no seeming weaknesses other than all things Divine.
In the past, he's made various attempts at taking over Earth, by himself, which were always foiled by Agamotto, again and again. Just like all the other Demon Lords.
So, he manipulated a few mortals, giving them superior power in exchange for their souls. These souls, when they went to his corner of Hell, turned into his minions, his demons. One of them, I just killed.
This time, he is hoping to enter Earth with his full power behind him, which is a lot worse than him just sending minions to summon an Avatar. What the Demons were doing right now, was using the Dragons, and many other animals, to collect 1000 mortals to use as a sacrifice.
But, fortunately it's not that simple. Simply sacrificing 1000 souls will not work. All those 1000 souls will have to be Sorcerers, which is probably the only reason he hasn't appeared yet.
From the memories I got, the Sons of Satannish and the Demons under Satannish were capturing mortals, forcefully training them in magic, and then imprisoning them. The training wasn't much, just enough to categorise them as Sorcerers.
Like literally, they just trained mortals enough that they can make some shields or something by using the energy of the Hell Dimension which they were forcefully connected to.
They have already done this with some 900 mortals, and have some 100 to go. So, I have now two options.
Attack directly, rescue/kill the mortals, and kill the Sons of Satannish before they can summon Satannish to Earth with a portal that keeps him connected to his Hell, making him supremely powerful.
Why rescue/kill? They're connected to Hell now. No matter what happens, their life will be the worst. Either Satannish will control them until they become Sons of Satannish and sell their souls to him, or they will go crazy and kill themselves.
Or, mention this to Agamotto, so he can take care of it without any issues.
Fuck that.
Agamotto will just tell me to sit back and watch. Plus, he has the time stone. If it looks like I'm going to fail, he will just come here and take it over for me anyway.
Mind made up, I become invisible once again, and teleport to the spot just outside the barrier that protects the Sons of Satannish.
Demon deals are a weird thing. Not even Chthon is supposed to be able to hide his presence from Mother, on Earth that is, and yet, when a mortal makes a deal for it in exchange for their soul, the mortal is suddenly able to erect a barrier that does just that? The fuck?
Shaking my head at the bizarreness of Demon deals and the power of Souls, I enter through the barrier, making sure to conceal myself from the barrier. Now that I've sensed how the barrier works, and seen it erect in the Demon's memories, I know how to hide from it.
I'm awesome, I know that.
Shaking my head, I look towards the direction I can sense the most demons at. It was a mountain, as I'd seen before, although the plants around it could do with some caring for. They were dead, or dying. Probably due to the over abundance of Demons.
The Mountain contained an underground cave system which worked as the base of operations for the Demons. As per the memories, and my senses, the Mortals were kept in an isolated location at the back of the mountain, where using Sorcery was not an option.
Literally, they had disabled the connection between Mortals and the Mystic Energy around them! Again, demon deals, man!
There were 70 demons, and some 50 Mortal Sorcerers within the Sons of Satannish, and most were within the training grounds, looking over the mortals and training/torturing them.
There were 12 demons and 6 Sorcerers roaming around the base, invisible, keeping patrol. One of them, I'd just killed 5 minutes ago.
Already knowing the weakness of Demons, which is Divine Energy of most holy kinds, I summon two daggers in my hands, made out of Vibranium. Not just Vibranium, though. They are made from my own connection to the Earth, using the Nature Divinity that I have.
So, yeah, they're pretty damn holy.
Deciding to take care of the guards first, I sneak behind the closest Sorcerer, and cut his throat. Letting him bleed out, I leave for the next Sorcerer. Now that I'm in my Human form, distinguishing between demons and Sorcerers is pretty easy.
Once all the Sorcerers are dead, at least those outside, I move on to the demons. Floating behind one Demon, I hold his neck, and stab it before he can even register me.
"SCREEEE!!!" The demon screeches, as he blows up with an explosion, and turns into red dust, throwing me a few feet back. Welp, there goes my plan for sneaking in.
I see the rest of the demons coming towards my location, some flying with their wings, and some running. There were also a few riding on dragons. Then there were the Sorcerers, that just teleported directly, without any way to defend themselves, whatsoever. Idiots.
Dusting the red demon dust off, I become visible and look up at the demon and Sorcerer army in front of me. The Sorcerers were boasting Mystic bolts in their hands, spells at the ready, while the Demons were just cackling.
"Looky here, brothers! A God graced us with his presence!" one of the many red skinned demon says, dropping down from his flight.
Another demon, green in colour, joins him, and tauntingly asks, "Is the wittle God here to bless us?"
"No, no! He's here to ask us to worship him!" the first demon says, cackling loudly at his joke.
None of the Sorcerers laugh, but the Demons do, so it is probably a joke within Demon kind. The Sorcerers meanwhile just glare at me hatefully, knowing I'm against them, but not sure what to do.
Brandishing my swords to my side, I look my enemies over, and say, "Well, you have two options.."
"What are-" a demon says, before he finds himself unable to speak on the account of my sword buried in his throat.
This time, I teleport back to my location before the explosion, and am hence ready for it.
As the demon disintegrates, I glare at the rest, daring them to interrupt me again, and say, "As I was saying, you have two options. One, step aside, go back to wherever you came from, and you won't get hurt by me. Two, you attack, I kill you, and you won't even get to go to Hell."
Eh, 4/10. I could have done the threat better, but I'm pressed for time. There are still many mortals being trained into Sorcerers as of this moment.
The demons exchange a few looks, and as one, they start converging on me, while the Sorcerers stay back.
Dodging the flying tackle attempted by the first red demon, I stab him in the head, and kicking the dead demon away, I lean back, letting an unknown spell pass by.
Looking at the direction of the spell while stabbing another demon, I see that it hit a tree, rotting it immediately.
Cool, cool, cool. Stay away from the Hex bolts, gotcha.
"STAY STILL, GODLING!" A bigger demon screeches, as I dodge it's attacks repeatedly.
"Oh, hey! You're a woman! Not that it's wrong, but hey, I'm all for gender equality." I say, honestly surprised at the feminine voice of the topless demon.
Nope, I'm not looking there. Don't want to see no Demon tiddies.
As the demon growls, turning her horns aflame, I summon lightning to my sword, and throw it in her eye while she's distracted with her anger.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt." I mumble, as the demon starts smoking, and drops down. Never let your guard down in a fight, especially when angry.
As she explodes behind me, and not in a fun way, I summon another sword, to parry the attack made by another demon's club.
Waving my hand, I divert the flames coming from a dragon towards another demon, burning it and sending it to Hell, and kick the club of my enemy towards the dragon riding demon. Immediately, I block a punch, albeit a weak one, by a demon at my back.
Seeing another spell come my way, I dodge it by throwing my current opponent in it's way. Surprisingly, the spell does not work on demons, which should not have been a surprise, actually. So, I simply throw my sword at it, getting both the Sorcerer and the Demon, in one attack.
Getting fed up, I look around and take stock of the situation. Getting each and everyone in my sight once, and knowing their positions, I smirk, and stomp on the ground.
Immediately, pointed wooden stumps grow from under each and every being surrounding me, and goes to stab it forward.
Some of them hit their targets, Killing them, a few dodge, but most of them get out unharmed, thanks to the dragons they were riding on or their shield spells.
"Okay, now I'm getting bored." I mumble, and close my eyes.
Before the demons or the Sorcerers can even do anything, they all die, courtesy of Lightning bolts slamming down from the sky, right on top of each one of them.
Divine Lightning, baby. No Hell for the demons. The Sorcerers are definitely in Hell right now. Can't destroy Sorcerer souls, now can I? Demons are fair game, Mortals, not so much.
"Damn, that's gross." I say, scrunching my nose at the disgusting smell. Where before, it smelled like a lot of sulphur, thanks to the Demons, now, it also included burnt flesh.
Waving my hand, I dispel the scent by using my Wind control, and leisurely walk towards the caves. Time to kill some more demons. I've already given them more than enough time to get ready for my appearance.
Before I can take another step though, I feel something big coming, and look up, just in time to dodge. A being, as tall as Uatu, and robed in dark blue robes drops down where I just was, blowing dust everywhere.
Landing a few feet away from the being, I curiously look at it. Before the dust can clear completely, a hex bolt travels through it, and splashes harmlessly on a tree, missing it's mark, me, by a foot.
Looking behind, and seeing the tree it hit, and a few surrounding it rot, I ask, "So.. Satannish gave you a lot of Physical and Magical strength... You forgot to ask for aim, didn't you?"
"Laugh, Godling! This is only the last time you're going to!" the Sorcerer says, and I know it's a Sorcerer.
The robe kinda gave it away. No self respecting Demon is wearing an open robe like that, I can say, as the dust finally clears.
The mortal in front of me is tall, as I said, as tall as Uatu, only bigger. The muscles he had were something my old self would have killed for, if he didn't know he was going to become me.
His eyes, though, showed craziness. There was no sanity left alive in there, and they were full black in colour. No whites.
Before I can analyse him any more, the Sorcerer focuses on my position, and kicks off.
'Fast!' I think, ducking under the punch the Sorcerer just threw, and punch his guts.
My punch throws it a few meters back, but I don't get time to celebrate, as he fires a few spells at me from mid air.
Dodging them all, I send a Lightning spell at him, which grazes him as he dodges, but he does not do anything more than twitch a bit as he lands.
'So, resistance to Divine spells too. But.. my punch just told me he's not that resistant to Physical attacks. What about stabbing then?' I think, and get ready.
Like before, my enemy jumps back into the fight, eager to finish it. Dodging his first punch, I cut into his wrist, kick his own knee away from my hip, and lean down, letting his spinning punch fly harmlessly.
As I'm under him, I spin both my swords, and stab them in his stomach, ending the fight.
"Ugh- uck- how?! My Lord promised me I would win!" the Sorcerer mumbles, choking on his own blood.
Removing the swords, I simply behead him with a swipe, and say, "Well, Satannish is a Demon.. he lies."
As the body of the admittedly formidable mortal Sorcerer drops down on the ground, I banish my swords away.
"Ugh, I have blood all over me now! Maybe I should have let Agamotto handle this." I mumble, spelling the grime away, and stomping towards the mountain.
Let's just hope the rest isn't this messy.
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A/N: Reviews please? My first demonic fight!
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