章節 6: The Demon Lord Astalfion
Arion and the other 5 slaves that are to be sold tomorrow, are now located in a new room. They were told to take a rest, so that they look acceptable for the presentation tomorrow. The better they look the more likely a richer customer would by them, and the more richer their new owner the more likely they be fed well. That's why Arion decides to sleep as he was told to, this though proved a bit difficult as he is still waiting for something to happen. Some kind of magical reaction from when he put his bloody palm on the scroll. After some time passes and still no reaction has occurred, Arion fell asleep on his own.
An unknown voice can be heard: "Arion…, come on now Arion". Arion, yet not knowing what exactly is going on, attempts to locate the origin of the voice. "Arion, now get over here, you were the one that summoned me!", the voice said a bit louder this time. Arion opens his eyes, to his surprise he is surrounded by complete darkness. Similar to the one when he met the glowing entity, yet this time in front of him is standing a man. Maybe not a man, but rather a demon, considering both his horns on top of his head. "Finally, you made me wait quite a while, even though you were the one that summoned me to this meeting son.", the demon says. "What, did you just call me son?", Arion replies. "Indeed, we may have never met before, but I am certain, our demonic powers have a similar feel to it which can only be found in direct blood relations. Therefore I am certain, that you are my son.", the demon explained. "My name is Astalfion, one of the four demon lords, that once existed. Now there is only two of us left." "So you are telling me I summoned you?", Arion asks. "Yes, you summoned me with the help of your blood, don't you remember?". Astalfion proclaims. Because of the demon's explanation, Arion understands that this is the reaction that the scroll had. "So basically the scroll is used to summon a blood relative to you?", Arion voices. "Exactly, yet it comes with restrictions, the one you seem to have used was weaker and uncomplete, why our meeting seems to be occurring inside your dream.", Astalfion explains. "I heard that the predecessor of a half human, half demon child would usually attempt to kill him, is that true?", Arion asks. "That depends on the person, but I suspect that nowadays something like that never occurs anymore. There are just so few of us left, and if we even dare to get close to humans or their territory, they immediately hunt us down. That is also the reason why our meeting in the dream is fortunate. If it would have been a complete magic circle I would have been summoned in the flesh to your location. In that case I wouldn't have dared to show up as it would have been my demise.", Astalfion continues his explanation. "Now that I am here, is there anything you wish to ask?", the demon asks. Arion a bit taken by surprise, by the explanation from his father, answers: "Yes, I mean, I am a half demon, so I should have powers similar to yours. But I don't really know how to call upon them or make us of them."
Astalfion clarifies demonic powers: "Calling upon once powers is not really something that is easy to explain, it should come to you naturally, were you never able to use them?", the demon inquires. "Yes I was, I just wanted a specific thing to happen and at the exact same moment it happened out of nowhere", Arion proclaims. To which his father replied: "Yes that's exactly how our powers work, but for them to be as effective as possible you must have a clear image in mind. A clear image of what you want, and at best you must understand how that happens. As an example, you want to freeze the water in front of you. So in that case you image the water to be frozen, but you must understand how water freezes. If you don't understand it though, that doesn't mean you can't freeze it, but the effect will be weakened and slowed.". Arion listens carefully to Astalfions explanation and therefore now has a deeper insight on how to use his powers. "It looks like our time has come to end, the magic has diminished and I will be ...", Astalfion attempts to finish his sentence. But during the voicing he slowly vanishes and Arion is left surrounded by darkness.
Arion now left at the end of the meeting stuck inside this dream like moment that hasn't completely ended. The darkness and silentness is interrupted by the familiar sound of the iron bar dragged along the cages. Arion opens his eyes and perceives the guard waking up one slave after another: "Waky Waky, it's time for tha auction", he proclaims.
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