NOVPUBOne thing I’m sure of is that I don’t trust him and I know I can’t trust Callidora either. She’s less likely to be manipulating me than he is, so her statements are more likely to be true.
The problem is that she might be lying to me so I can kill this God and leave him to be treated as a Demonic experimentation toy for Niryna. I can’t leave that possibility aside.
"(I’ll stick to the initial plan, regardless of what Callidora wants or this idiot’s goals, it won’t change much in the plan, at most a few adjustments and the end of it will depend on his actions.)" (me)
Since I found him using the book in that Mental Realm, I already knew he was trapped and one of his goals was to be released, so I made my preparations. After all, he can still be useful regardless of whether what he’s said so far is true or not.
"I can release you on one condition, you’ll have to use this." (me)
"..."
I take out a bracelet from my storage item that was made of black metal with patterns of thin red crystals that seemed to draw a Dragon.
"An enslavement or restraint item?"
"Restraint, enslaving a God would be almost impossible." (me)
"What does this do?"
"I or someone I trust that you don’t need to know can seal you if you’re deceiving me or do something against us." (me)
"As I said before, I don’t trust you completely, even if you told the truth, it doesn’t mean that you’ll keep your loyalty to me after you leave here." (me)
"But since you were once a God, you should be able to see, the magic here is only sealing." (me)
"(At least the magic that you can see...)" (me)
"Very well, but how do you expect me to put this on?"
"Not you, only I can put this item on and off, a simple precaution." (me)
"..."
He looks at me again, since Callidora used her chains on him, it seems that the suppression and weakness in him have diminished, he can move even more easily even though it still requires considerable effort from him.
"I accept."
I exchange a look with Lara, then I approach him, it was just a few steps until I reached him, but each step increased the gravity a thousand times while adding an extra layer of torment such as bleeding, pain, corrosion, crushing and immobilization.
Of course, I just had to circulate my Divinity and I was able to ignore these effects except for the increase in gravity which was nothing for a Dragon God like me, even the other effects were too weak to have any effect on me.
How would Bleeding work against someone who controls blood?
How can pain affect me after everything I’ve been through?
How can corrosion affect me when I’ve spent days submerged in the cursed ocean of hell being corroded by endless curses?
The crushing and immobilization are also laughable, to crush my body even a little, it would need the weight comparable to half a planet as well as a force comparable to that weight, immobilizing is even more impossible, it doesn’t matter if it’s magic, curse or even freezing space, as someone who uses both the Anomalous power and the power of Chaos, trying to immobilize me is almost impossible in these ways.
I easily reached him and put the bracelet on one of his arms, the crystal Dragon on the bracelet glows 3 times as if pulsing, then it stopped, Baldr of Darkness’ eyes focused on me the whole time.
"Can you release me now?"
"I can’t, but I don’t think I need to ask, am I right?" (Me)
"..."
"Don’t take too long or I might change my mind." (Callidora)
Callidora’s voice comes from everywhere as if it were a command from the very environment we are in, the worst thing is the truth in this thought.
I look at Baldr of Darkness as the chains, seals and all forms of containment collapsed, he stood up almost stumbling and looked around.
"<Eternal Shadow Absorption>"
With a command from him, his shadow rises, opening a large mouth that has an absurd absorption power, of course it only affected the Demonic and Dark power in the surroundings, I also use these types of powers and that’s why I’m sensitive to them.
As the shadow absorbed these energies, Baldr of Darkness’ body and even his clothes changed, his wounds healed, his body became more robust, his hair became silkier, his eyes had more depth and his tattered clothes became a cloak under dark blue leather armor that looked like new.
This only lasted a few seconds before it stopped, but I only noticed the power of darkness acting on his body, wounds and clothes, but that wasn’t the only power being absorbed, as if noticing my thoughts, a Demonic sword formed inside his shadow before it stopped absorbing these energies and returned to being just a shadow, the sword then floated to stay on the back of the God who looked more like a horseman of the apocalypse with his current appearance.
"I feel great."
"(The power of this sword is different, it was nourished only by him, by his hatred and blood, it is not formed by the Demonic power he just absorbed...)" (me)
I couldn’t help but think about what Callidora said before, my eyes blink twice with me activating my Demonic power for just milliseconds in my eyes before deactivating it again.
That’s when I saw a small silhouette of Demonic energy in the place where his heart should be, I couldn’t notice it before due to the Infernal power that bound him, but now it would be easily seen by any Demonic God.
"(He doesn’t know that I’m a God with Demonic powers, so he thinks he can trick me with just this sword, it really seems like he’s plotting something, but I hope it’s for his own good.)" (me)
"Lara, the gate." (me)
"As you wish." (Lara)
"< Open >" (Lara)
Lara retrieves the medal and throws it in front of her as she transforms once again into the gate that brought us here, then she rips her wrist before swinging forward painting the gate with her blood, as if that were the key, the gate opens revealing a vortex of blood.
"Let’s go in without wasting time." (me)
Lara goes first passing through the vortex and disappearing into it, then I look at Baldr of Darkness who understanding my look goes first passing through the gate without hesitation, it was then that Callidora appeared centered on the edge of the gate waving at me with a smile.
"Remember, don’t kill him, Niryna can use..." (Callidora)
"I know, see you in a few seconds." (me)
"It seems like he’s become less naive, well, it’s more..." (Callidora)
Before she finished speaking, I went through the gate, on the other side I found Baal dismembered and Lara tied up in chains, there were also some people I didn’t know dead, but none of my Familiars were here and Niryna couldn’t be seen either.
As soon as I passed, there were already 3 attacks almost hitting me, a magic circle came from the ground where I was stepping, trying to seal my Divinity, the Demonic sword I saw before pierced my chest a few centimeters and shadow hands grabbed my body in place with the sword seeming to be between the fingers of those hands.
"What does this mean?" (me)
"I know this can’t hold you, but I needed some time..."
I could perceive everything from the moment I appeared, I could see the attacks and could have avoided or destroyed the 3 attacks, but they were so useless against me that I didn’t even bother to do those things.
Looking ahead, almost 1 kilometer away it was possible to see a field of darkness as well as flows of Demonic power condensing into purplish-red mist.
The Baldr of Darkness was in the center, his body covered in cracks, his horns were falling off piece by piece while new horns and membranous wings grew on his back.
He was transforming, his Aura and presence changing a lot, but what surprised me was his Dark Power, it was even more than what I had felt in that book.
His power was getting stronger, he was merging his Dark power with Demonic power, black flames were slowly emerging from the ground, as if they were shadows of real flames.
"You really betrayed me quickly." (Me)
I just contracted my muscles and the sword in my chest shattered, my hands broke and with just a stronger step on the ground the magic circle exploded into particles.
"You had your eye on me from the beginning, do you think I didn’t notice your caution? I already expected this since you reached me using my sacred books!"
I walk to a stop at the edge of the darkness-covered area, his arms as well as his legs seem to be rotting and falling off, the bracelet on his wrist falling off along with his arm making him smile as a red arm appears tearing his chest apart followed right behind by another, even his head full of cracks explodes revealing another appearance inside while the rest of his body was discarded revealing a new Demonic body full of both types of powers.
"I couldn’t risk waiting, now that I’ve freed myself from that damned place and your bracelet, I’m going to..."
Clap Clap Clap
"You’re an idiot, it looks like my daughter is going to get a gift." (me)
