NOVPUBI couldn’t help but be surprised, I’m also here with my body and this isn’t the first time, but I’m a special case and I’m Boleyn aware of that.
Staying in Hell just as a Soul already slowly corrupts, but staying with the body is even worse, the body will have its Vitality devoured by the infinite power of death in this place, not to mention the curses that will accumulate eternally until deforming its entire existence, until then corrupting only the Soul will be just one of the things that will happen.
Even Gods and Demigods can’t stay here for long, at that time I was just a Demigod, but the power of the curse, death, blood and Demonic that I already possessed gave me a certain degree of resistance while my power of Chaos granted an almost smooth adaptation to this ’environment’.
Of course, there were still places where even my body would be annihilated and my Soul would be corrupted, that ocean was one of them and there were possibly others, even now I still feel that place trying to corrupt me, that’s why I try to keep my guard up at all times.
"(I see, he’s using his hatred...)" (me)
After looking at him again, I realized where he was drawing power, hatred from.
Not from the hatred of others, but from his own hatred, he’s creating something within himself and this malicious power is surging in his Aura, he’s trying to hide it, but in his situation it’s almost futile to do so.
"What should we do, sir?" (Lara)
"From now on just watch, I’m sure your Master is watching, so leave everything to me." (me)
Niryna has made a point of seeing what I’m doing, since she woke up she’s been spending a lot of her time with Callidora, so she must be wanting to observe what I do as a measure of how far she can go, using me as a moral baseline of reference.
In the end, even if she doesn’t open up to me yet, she still trusts me more than Callidora and cares about me, I have to pay more attention to her in the future, I don’t want her to get lost in Callidora’s schemes.
"You took your time..."
"You seem very calm for someone in your situation." (me)
"Things can’t get any worse... so don’t even try... threatening me, like I am now, to death... seems like a tempting path..."
He speaks in a weak voice as if he was struggling to even speak, but even so his emotions are firm and he seems calm, his mind clearly wasn’t influenced by this place or his emotions would be with less inhibitions, his body besides being mutilated, trapped and also weak, doesn’t seem to be deformed by the eternal curse of this place.
"(I’m curious about him, but I have to stay focused, I need to know about Baldr.)" (me)
"You know why I’m here, tell me about Baldr." (me)
"Free me... I thought I made that clear..."
"I don’t know you, I don’t trust you and I won’t do anything just because of your mere words." (me)
"If you want my help, then first tell me what I want to know, as well as prove that your words are true or else I will leave the same way I came in, only with an escort." (me)
"Ownership... haha... ha... haha... hahaha..."
While he was laughing, his Aura went slightly out of control and it was as if everything in the surroundings was consumed by darkness, but of course that was not an impediment for me, my own Aura was much stronger than his and my Divinity was Anomalous and not exclusive to any universe.
I took a few more steps, stopping in front of him and sitting down, resting one of my arms on my knee, I was relaxed when I realized that his power was very weak and even at its peak it would only be slightly superior to mine.
"Tell me what you know about Baldr, if it’s true and can help you defeat him, then I’ll let you go and that’s the most you’ll get out of me." (me)
"..."
"I’ll believe you this time..."
"I have nothing left to lose..."
He lifts his head with great effort as if he were lifting a great mountain, his whole body contracting his muscles as the chains tremble and the spikes etching into his flesh tighten.
But as soon as his head lifts, the inside of his hood can be seen, it was filled with darkness, it could block the vision of others, but it was useless against me.
In my vision his skin was pale like a corpse, almost gray, his eyes are as black as two bottomless wells, his hair is also black to the roots.
What really catches my attention was something much simpler than all these features, his face.
His face, apart from the scars on his eyes and mouth, as well as the fangs that came out every time he opened his mouth, was an extremely handsome face, a face that I had unfortunately seen in Temples and books many times, a face that I had even seen in a fight, even if indirectly, the same face as Baldr.
"Don’t look at me like that... I’m not him..."
"I think we can start our ’conversation’ with you, can’t we?" (me) 𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑝𝘶𝘣.𝑐𝘰𝘮
"I’m a God of Darkness... from a universe that no longer exists..."
"I’m Baldr’s other half... so we share the same... name..."
"At least that was the case in the... distant past..."
"..." (me)
I was surprised once again, did he mean that Baldr was an Evil God?
A God that came from another Universe could only be an Evil God, but he has a Divinity from our Universe, a well-established Religion and also became one of the Great Gods of the universe.
"(I want to know more, but I think it’s better to listen before I start asking questions.)" (me)
"The reason the universe no longer exists... doesn’t matter to you..."
"In our universe, the Gods are always... divided into two entities... opposite to each other... because one exists, the existence of the other is reaffirmed..."
"In our case... because Darkness exists... the Light was perceived... the opposite is also affirmed..."
"(A concept of duality, Yin and Yang... opposite sides, blah blah blah... I’ve heard a lot of things like that.)" (me)
"So in your Universe there were no Demonic Gods?" (me)
"We called the invading Gods that..."
So it was the same as in this universe, opposites will always exist, in this Universe there are separate Deities that make Gods and Demonic Gods exist, as well as the Goddess of Life and the Demonic Goddess of Death.
The Gods there must have a duality of Divinities, an interesting concept, but if that is true, then the one in front of me is really Baldr.
"Don’t look at me like that..."
"I’m not him... who do you think trapped me... here..."
"My Divinity was stolen... my power devoured... the only reason I’m alive... was your fear of dying if you killed me..."
"So if I kill you..." (me)
"Nothing will happen to him..."
"He was devoured a long time ago..."
"What do you mean by ’devoured’?" (me)
"It all started..."
He began to tell his story from his point of view, he didn’t go into details about his universe, he just talked about himself and Baldr as well as their relationship.
As opposing Gods their relationship should be to complement what was missing in each other and seek a balance or that’s how it should be, but the two were equally selfish and authoritarian, even so they never went very far in opposing each other.
At the end of his universe, Baldr of Light did not accept dying and did not accept losing his Divinity that shattered along with the universe, so he used a ritual to steal the Divinity of the already injured Baldr of Darkness as well as devour his power, completing his broken Divinity by merging the two opposing powers that had always been complementary.
Using this power, he traveled to another universe, just as his other half was imprisoned in Hell along with pieces of his universe.
I look around once more. These futuristic ruins with architecture I don’t know must be part of one of the worlds in his universe.
After that, he stopped for a moment, his eyes filled with hatred. There was no way to fake such an intense feeling. But I couldn’t just believe his words. Baldr may be hateful, but he’s not a coward to the point of running away like that. Besides, the Infernal ritual he used must have come from somewhere. His universe shouldn’t have Demonic Gods, from what he said.
This whole story took too long. His tired speech dragged out the time. I spent more than an hour listening to all of this and I still had my doubts.
"(Something isn’t right, it seems like there’s something more behind this or he’s only telling me half the truth, that is if I consider that he’s not completely lying to me.)" (me)
"Don’t believe me... then ask Hell... if you were able to get here so fast... you must have approval from that... HAAAAHHH!!!"
Suddenly, chains crossed his neck causing a purple energy to rise before he retreated, his scream was thunderous as Callidora appears hugging him from behind, her claws tearing his chest making completely dark blood gush like a fountain as she looked at me.
"He speaks the truth, of course he’s not a Decent God, his personality was as authoritarian as his enemy’s, but what he said so far was true." (Callidora)
"Why are you helping?" (me)
"Because I have my own plans, but that doesn’t affect you, just something I just thought could be fun." (Callidora)
