NOVPUB"< Containment >" (Hela)
The cube becomes a film over the entire cover of the book which by the way was made of Human skin, as soon as this was done, the Sacred Power of the surroundings seemed to form some kind of restrictive connection with the book which I could feel since I am a of the Gods worshiped in this Communal Temple and the Sacred Power used also belongs to me.
Hela just looks at me nodding, then she steps forward and takes the book in her hand, there was no reaction other than struggling slightly, cursed energy still aiming for the sides of the book and as soon as Hela opened it, a flood of Mist energy from the Darkness and Death came out like water from a breaking dam.
But no one needed to do anything to stop it, the Holy Power in the surroundings worked as a natural barrier preventing all this energy from leaking out in more than small amounts, the clouds and mists were unable to advance more than just a few centimeters out of the book.
To those who saw it from the outside, it didn’t look scary, just a little strange, but for those with keen senses they would be able to sense that the amount of Curse and Darkness trying to pour out of the book would be enough to rent half a planet in darkness in a matter of minutes.
"This is worse than I thought..." (I)
"Do you feel anything Hela?" (I)
"No, the curse and darkness tried to invade my consciousness when I looked at the book as well as when I touched the book, but it is almost a stimulant for me." (Hela)
"I understand." (I)
Hela is not just a normal Necromancer, her body was created by the Dungeon and I used many high level bloodlines like my own, that of True Dragons and Demons, I even used an item made using various Dark seeds, not to mention that your Soul comes from a Champion of an Evil God of Death.
The energy of death and Darkness cannot corrupt her, this is because there is nothing to be corrupted, she is an incarnation of Darkness and Death simply for existing, because I was confident in her that I asked for her help and the same must have crossed my mind from Nicole when he handed her the book to bring.
"What do you think, Ivan?" (I)
"Strange, this death energy is not normal..." (Ivan)
"Yes, the same can be said about Dark energy." (I)
"Can you read the book, Hela?" (I)
"No, the two energies obscure my vision and are still trying to attack me." (Hela)
I saw tendrils of black liquid ooze out of the pages taking on a color almost like very dark blood and form thin tentacles wrapping themselves around Hela’s braves.
Meanwhile, a faint purple light shone from the pages, illuminating Hela’s face as if she was ready to tell a horror story around the campfire.
Of course all of this was useless, the tentacles at most are massaging Hela’s arms while that light can only be considered annoying to her, neither of them are having the intended effect and it was clear that this was a purely instinctive attack from the book as he acted like an irrational monster.
"(What do you feel, Zaya?)" (I)
"(I don’t feel anything of Anomalous power, I also don’t feel anything that I could consider normal other than Soul’s traits.)" (Zaya)
"..." (I)
I’m not as good at sensing Souls as she is, Ivan has excellent senses for Death energy and Hela for curses, but my senses are more general.
I asked Zaya to stay inside the Star Path, it was clear that this book was made using people, but I was afraid that it might have the possibility of possessing Anomalous Power which I have been encountering a lot lately, so I tried to be cautious.
I made Zaya stand by to pull any type of energy away, she has power over Death, Life and Curse as well as the Anomalous Power, in terms of power she is second only to Hades who has a lot of myself.
"Let me see that book." (I)
Hela approaches and I see the black mist as well as the purple light writhing in the open book, I smile as I can’t feel Divine Power from the book, with that worry less, I think about putting my hand on the book to get that energy out, but before I have the chance, suddenly a head comes out of my arm and opens its face like a flower of flesh revealing countless teeth.
The Sacred Power of the surroundings that contained the book seemed to receive a command and acted together letting the two energies be sucked into those horrible jaws.
It was Hinata who was silent inside me, I don’t know if she heard the conversation or if she just felt this energy, but as soon as she acted, a gigantic amount of Cursed and Dark energies were sucked out revealing the Death energy hidden within the Dark energy.
This lasted for several minutes, it seems like the amount of energy inside the book really was a lot, but after a little more time, all the energy or at least most of it was sucked out by Hinata before she closed her mouth and went back inside my mouth body as if nothing had happened.
"She does whatever she wants as always, you spoil your Familiar too much." (Ivan)
"Says the owl Father." (I)
"Like you don’t have more kids than me." (Ivan)
"Dad, I think we have a problem." (Hela)
"What would be... I see... I didn’t think about that..." (I)
"Don’t look at me, I was a General and a Prince, not a scholar." (Ivan)
"..." (I)
The thing that no one thought of happened, as soon as the energies no longer blocked the vision, the pages of the book revealed themselves, the letters were written in blood that seemed fresh.
Some pages were made of Human skin or of other races such as Demons and Runes, they were sewn tightly, there were also pages with designs made of hair intertwined as if it were a piece of fabric.
But the real problem wasn’t that, but rather our inability to read what was written, the language was something alien to all of us, we didn’t know if they were letters, symbols or runes as we turned the pages.
The book had a total of 2677 pages, even though the book was not very thick the number of pages were very large, clearly the covers had some kind of spatial technique to keep the pages stored.
Of all the pages, many had strange magic circles that didn’t resemble any concept of magic that I understood with the exception of the last page which was a magic circle that I could completely understand, the page on one side was written in an ancient language that I couldn’t read it, but I had seen it before and on the other side of the page was the magic circle.
"That’s what we’re looking for, I recognize the written language, I can’t read it, but at least I recognize it as a language that some Necromancers use, we have some books like that in the library that I haven’t read yet." (Hela)
"At least I can fully understand the magic circle." (Hela)
"Not me, my specialty is attack magic, I just recognize that the main element of this magic is Darkness." (Ivan)
"This magic is similar to the Awakening Ceremony technique and at the same time an imitation of Demonic transformation through corruption." (I)
"Yes, they ignite the Soul to extract the potential using Death energy, then use that potential on the individual’s shadow before having the shadow devour the body using finally a curse to merge the two." (Hela)
"Not only does this shorten life expectancy like Nicole said, it leaves an extremely weak Soul behind, it can even destroy the Soul over time." (I)
"The level of pain this causes is absurd, it is no wonder that the victims’ minds are affected to the point that their intelligence decreases and their emotions also become fickle." (I)
This is an extremely bad Magical Ritual, something that those of Demonic Religions would do without a second thought, but for the Church of Light to actually be doing this is more than a little strange.
I was carefully looking at the magic circle as was Hela, but meanwhile Ivan seemed to have noticed something as he began to turn several pages before returning to the last one where the magic in question was, Hela and I remained quiet as we noticed the flames increase in the eye sockets empty from Ivan.
"These two pages, in fact the entire sheet... it doesn’t look any different." (Ivan)
"Looks younger to me." (Ivan)
"..." (me/Hela)
I exchange a look with Hela and we both begin to compare the sheets of skin on the pages, not just the last one, after a few hours we are all looking at the now closed book as the film of energy around it expands remaking the cube from before with the book floating inside.
"The last sheet was added later." (I)
"The skin belongs to a strong Demon, but compared to the rest of the skins in the rest of the book, the difference is clear." (I)
"Even if I can’t recognize the language of the rest of the book, I’m sure the person who wrote it is different, a person’s handwriting will always have some customs such as the direction of the strokes, the thickening of letters and words, among other things." (Hela)
"Where did this book come from...?" (I)
