"Eh? Wai—AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~"
"Mwahahahaaha~ Chop~Chop~Chop~ Squeal for this queen!" Cried Lily carving my soul into pieces. Pain slter my core as I felt every neuron in my brain throb with smoldering fire.
Sensing every part of gradually losing the feeling in my appendages, I clenched my teeth. "You done?" I asked, grunting as I felt hundreds of living cognitions flare to life within . Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions.
"Your… Conscious?Holy shit! How? Oh, I see. Your pride! Well, that's boring now." She said, groaning, but the pain and anguish hamring away at my flesh and bones like a blazing inferno only grew as seconds trailed by.
"... You seem a little too disappointed."
"I am! If you were a bumbling fool, things would have been so funny! Poo!"
Hissing in response to this bastard, I spoke through clenched teeth," When will this pain end?"
"End? It'll last a few hundred cycles. A person whose leg was amputated or blown away will feel pain for months and phantom pain or possibly the rest of their life. You're in the sa boat. Cutting your soul once or twice is no big deal but a billion? You're not supposed to be conscious." She concluded with a long sigh. "Anyway, I've already set up a barrier around half of your soul. You have forty-nine percent of shares to sell: Make it count."
Soul still throbbing, I grunted in response. "I know. Let's begin soul fusion."
"So soon? You don't want to get accustod? You've got billions of cognitions rattling in your brain." Ca her warning, but—
"Into the fire, I go. If by so chance, part of my soul is destroyed, it'll regrow with ti. The sa can't be said about the other souls."
I sucked in a long breath coming back to myself as I pushed down the horrendous pain clawing through .
Master and Slave. This is the main principle I needed with the souls around . I needed them to be subservient to , but I also needed them not to know they belonged to . The concept of freedom is so delicate. Freedom, to an extent, breeds innovation. And that's what I need.
I need people like Sitri to be my slaves, but I don't want them to know that their ideas are mine. I need them to believe that they can keep stuff from . I need to give them the illusion of freedom.
Reaching back into my soul space to the endless fla blazing like no other, I turned to the small section of Soul Flas inconsequential to my own.
"Lily, do you have any idea?" I said, slowly explaining to her what I wanted.
"Sounds to you want to be their God. It's fine. But to do that. I believe contracts are in order. I've got so good ones."
"I could torture them—"
"If you use torture, then you'll only skew the potential of those you have. You'll limit the talent one can have. Rember, Angels are entities of order. To tornt them is to lower their talent. Sure they might fall, but that's quite rare."
"Fallen Angels are rare?"
"Of course. Lucifer took most that would fall with him. And only a few have fallen thereafter."
Grabbing one soul that I beckoned to, a random low-god soul. I frowned before calling on my Divinity of Sin. Chanting the Path of Abyssal Night to do the impossible, I slowly brought the two souls together using my divinity while Lily controlled the abyssal essence.
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"YOU! You bastard! Die!" cried a man by the na of Eric Naral.
I'd never seen him before, but sohow, he was part of the dead people I'd killed long ago, either on Iluthath or in the abyss. But there he was; this was the first ti I'd entered a soul. The first ti I saw their cognition.
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He lunged at , but as the domain's arbiter, I snapped, and he was on his knees. Head planted over the empty void we stood in.
"You! You!" He continued in a sobbing tone, " You took from my family! My child! My Darla! You took everything from !" he barked, squirming about.
"And what's your response? Charge at blindly, believing you can kill ?" I mocked, truly unable to believe my eyes. Are people this dumb? I'm used to seeing this in ani, but not in real life. "Did you even have a plan?"
"Release ! Release ! I'll kill you, you bastard!" He howled, glaring at with such a look that I almost laughed. But sadly, this wasn't the ti to enjoy myself.
"Eric Naral. I've got a deal for you. A deal I'm giving everyone. A rebirth. A new beginning." I conveyed.
"Huh? I… I don't understand!" He snapped, still trashing as he struggled to even move.
"I can see that. Ever heard of reincarnation? Well, I'm willing to help you reincarnate. You can have all your mories or not. It's up to you. The only thing you won't rember is this conversation."
"I'll be free?!"
A serpent-like sensation slithered out my mouth as I lied, " Of course, there's even a possibility that you'll be reunited with your kids."
Hope filled his cognition as tears bubbled from his eyes. "Where are they? My kids?"
I shrugged. " Do you want the deal or not?" I barked, letting loose my hold over this fool.
The young draconian stood to his feet, tears trailing down his cheek as he nodded. "Reincarnate ! I'll find them. All I ask is to share the sa blood as them."
"Whatever," I said, pulling out a blood stain contract Lily had given . " Sign it. It states that you are willing to reincarnate in a realm governed by ."
"That's it?" Eric said, staring at with a look of confusion. "You don't want to eat my soul, to take a part of away?"
"I could care less," I replied, shrugging. "Do you accept? I'm sure you're looking forward to seeing your kids after you are born."
Snatching the paper away, Eric wasted no ti and signed his na with bits of his soul, vanishing from my sight with the signature of his na.
"It's scary… I create a realm just to learn. I'll know their thoughts, will, and deepest secrets, and they'll never know it. Everything they do, I'll know. It's not the contract that's scary but the realm I created. I needed their consent to rge the two souls. And since Eric gave his consent to send him into this realm, he must follow my rules. And rule one… He must rge with a fragnt of my soul."
"This is like a simulation… a matrix." Said Lily softly. "Do you think you're in one? Do you think that everything you do is being processed by another? The sa way, like, what you're doing now?"
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