BXBX NOVEL Chapter 123: Judgement.
"We?"
"She gave up on her chance of escaping to buy us time to get away, that was yesterday."
"And where are the others?" Sol looked around. "Ah-" his head snapped back toward Sitri who flinched as soon as his eyes fell off her form.
"Don\'t move a muscle, don\'t even breathe, if I so much as smell your mana you\'ll be a corpse, this is an emergency situation now so I\'ll have to ask you to stay here and watch over Dina for me." Sol looked around again, sensing out the other gods who were still hightailing it toward the canyon.
"What are you saying, have you forgotten who she is?" Dina asked, but Sol was distracted with thoughts of Ikaris and only patted her shoulder again, releasing her and placing his hand against her forehead.
"Wait right here for me, I\'ll be back in a little bit."
"H-how dare y-" Sitri finally found her bearings when she realised that Sol was not even paying heed to her presence, but as soon as her words formed her jaw was on the ground in a puddle of blood and her tongue was dangling beneath her face.
"I have no idea what state Ikaris is in, to the point where I\'m afraid of confronting or seeing her right now, Sitri, you took our child, and then you took her from me as well, I don\'t want to imagine what she\'s been through because of you, so I\'m going to make this as clear as it can be;" Sol\'s eyes rested on the demon-god a third time.
"There is no more warning, there is no more mercy, I\'m simply saving you as an afterthought, so make sure to stay right there and wait for your death like the good little bitch you are, not a move, not a sound, shut your brain off and stop existing." His eyes narrowed and mana violently leaked from the crevices dissipating in the air around him.
"I will be back for you after I\'ve retrieved my wife." Sol watched her jaw regrow and remain slack as she held her breath and fell to her knees, with her eyes trained on him.
Dina couldn\'t believe her eyes, even when Sol slowly arose off the ground and took off toward the city the mage remained in complete disbelief as she stared at Sitri, the demon god that had done nothing but brag and show off her power, the narcissist was completely obedient to her death sentence to the point where she fell still and refused to breathe.
"So... You won\'t even try to run?" Dina sat in the sand, but Sitri seemed to truly have just robotically shut off.
She didn\'t understand yet, Sol to her seemed like the same person, different in appearance with this new demonic transformation, but otherwise he seemed the same. But for one like Sitri who could see the monster he had evolved into after their fight, he was terrifying beyond her imagination.
"The princess said not to touch her-"
"Ah shut up, we just have to clean up nicely after we\'re done." One fish demon guard responded to the boat demon guard.
"What do you mean we, there is no we, she threatened my entire family, I have my people to look out for!" The boar entered the cage and grabbed the fish demon who was hovering over Ikaris and drooling on the floor. "You stink, there is no way the demon-gods won\'t know your stench when they smell her later on, forget it!"
"You fucking coward, grow some proper backbone and stop being such a slug, this is a god, she is trash, so what if we fuck her for a few hours, who cares?"
"The princess does!" The boar snapped at him, but the fish hissed and turned to Ikaris again.
"What bullshit; if it\'s as bad as you say I can just go live in the ocean with my clan again, they never go there anyway." The fish demon licked his lips and reached out to Ikaris who was still chained to the chair, resting his slippery webbed hand on her leg and smirking when he felt her shudder beneath his palm.
"Don\'t you dare!!" Ikaris snapped raising her head and unleashing a hellblaze of crimson fire at him, but after seeing her repeatedly use magic he was already prepared for that, with a single motion the guard flung an extra bit of cloth-wrapped chain around her mouth and muzzled her, then cocked back his hand and slammed his fist in her jaw causing blood to start trickling from her mouth and nose.
"I do fucking dare; the nerve of this one haha!" He looked around at the other guard who was already going through a series of panicking and lamenting after Ikaris was hit.
"They think they own everything, but the moment they come here they fold so easily, I have broken so many of these little goddesses already -do you think you\'re some hot shit or something?" He asked leaning forward and speaking in her face with breath so rancid her nose started to hurt.
"They can pretend all they want, but after a while they start liking it when I stick my tongue deep into their throats and stir their insides, that shit turns them on, you\'ll like it too little goddess, but first I might as well enjoy the main course..." He held on to her other leg and started forcing them open while Ikaris put up all the fight she could while being burdened by the chains.
"For fuck\'s sake stop man you\'re gonna get us killed down here!" The boar slapped his forehead and peeped up and down the hall. "We have no idea when the princess will return!"
"Shit man shut up about it already, if you\'re so tight why not just join in and say fuck it to everything?" The fish demon folded his fist and punched Ikaris so hard her chair broke off from the ground and shattered in the wall, but she was so stunned by the attack that she couldn\'t even move as he picked her up by her arm and raised one of her legs.
"Did it have to take that much to get the fight out of-"
His hand fell off, and then his tongue that had pressed against her cheek dropped to the ground, Ikaris remained airborne watching with a half consciousness as the demon fell to his knees before a portal opened up beneath him and burning disfigured hands grabbed and started dragging him into a fiery pit of screams and shrieks.
The chain was gently moved from around her mouth, and the other shackles that had been on her all turned to powder and fell, and before her, a soft hand cradled her and she was embraced in a slow hug while her wounds suddenly healed meanwhile she felt a powerful surge of her divine mana erupt from within her followed by the humming of her sigils.
"...Master?" Ikaris\'s eyes started adjusted again, and her limp arms slowly wrapped around him as the seal on her was broken and her mana continued to surge and surge. "You came..."
"I\'m sorry, Ikaris," Sol had his back turned to the boar demon that just stood there watching a demon-god cradle a god who had just called him master while his panic from earlier resurfaced violently and caused a stroke killing him where he stood.
"What took you so long?" She cried in his grasp, biting into his arm and sobbing uncontrollably. "He nearly... I nearly...!" She wept, and while she wept Sol\'s anger continued to grow until it reached a boiling point and he vanished with her leaving a burning magic seal where he stood.
Only a few minutes had elapsed, but Sitri had still remained in place, not even flinching when Sol returned with Ikaris crying in his grasp next to her.
"Did she move?" He looked at Dina.
"Not even the wind was able to move her hair." Dina replied hesitantly when she saw Ikaris\'s crying state, the blood on her armour, as well as the adhesive liquids that were on her legs and chest. "W...ah... What happened?" She asked whilst simultaneously being afraid of the answer, but Sol shook his head and waved his hand over Ikaris, erasing all traces of her being touched.
"Luckily nothing, but that changes nothing." Sol held Ikaris a little tighter, taking a knee and hugging her properly as she glued herself to him. "It doesn\'t matter to me anymore, innocent, guilty, born or unborn, I don\'t care anymore..."
He held his goddess tightly and his inverted red eyes turned to black and white, his black hair turned to white, his demonic features completely vanished as the system made an announcement to Dina who he had touched earlier, Arla who was on Zola-Prime and Ikaris whom he held on to.
[Cursed is the land, Cursed is the air, Cursed is the sea, Cursed are all their inhabitants, a decision has been made, the inhabitants of Hāl have been judged]
"They have forced my hand, I don\'t care what god of what intends to stand in my way, let them gather their armies of demon-gods, let them amass their forces, let them fucking believe their existences will carry on!" Sol looked at Sitri who\'s eyes had gone wider than before at the power she could feel trembling inside of him.
"Three days, I\'m giving them three days to grow their strength, every lifeform that tries to leave will burn, every being that tries to hide will be swept away, I\'ve had enough of all demons, I\'m killing everything."
[This is not the path of a god, nor the path of man]
"I\'m murdering everything!"
[This is the path of a devil]
"...I\'m ending it all."