The trapdoor led Arnold to a room. A throne room to be specific. However, the room looked as if it had been abandoned for decades if not a century. There was dust and dirt everywhere. The paint was coming off of the walls and the cobwebs seemingly covered the entire room. Though strangely enough, the torches hung on the walls were still lit as if they had been left untouched by ti.
In the middle of the room was a throne that oddly enough had been turned to face away from the entrance. The path to the throne had been marked with blood that seed to have been dried long ago. Countless gold and silvery armours were scattered on the floor. It looked as if the armours were trying to fight against soone or sothing but failed miserably.
Arnold didn't know why but the throne room was giving him so odd vibes as if soone had been waiting for him there. No, it wasn't that. The place seed too familiar to him. Arnold was sure that he had been here before.
A couple of monts later, he finally recognised the throne room. It had changed quite a bit. The golden curtain that once hugged the walls were now lying on the floor all tattered and ripped to shreds. The silvery paint of the walls had long been replaced by black moss and cobwebs. The gems which had once made the floor resemble the stars were also missing.
"There is no doubt..." Arnold mumbled as he walked deeper into the room, "It's where the trial to my first ascension ca to an end. This is the place where I had to answer all those ridiculous riddles to get out of the transdinsional portal..."
"I didn't know you thought my riddles were so ridiculous. Frankly, I even thought you enjoyed them." A voice echoed throughout the room as the throne turned around by itself to reveal a woman Arnold thought he would never have to see again, "It's been far too long, Vassal of my master... or should I say, forr master."
"The hell are you doing here, Satina?" Arnold clenched his fists as the mories of the pain he felt all those years ago ca rushing back to him as if it all happened yesterday, "What tricks are you going to play now?"
"Oh my, calling a goddess like by her na? How bold of you..." Satina, also known as the Guide between the worlds, got up from her throne and slowly made her way towards him. Her hips were swinging left and right like a pendulum in perfect sync.
She was wearing the sa dress Arnold had seen her wearing before. But much like the rest of the room, even her dress was tattered and ragged. The satin dress, or whatever that was left of it, was loosely held by her shoulders and looked like it could slip off at any mont. It had a low neckline that almost completely showed off her ample and voluptuous chest, sothing which would have made Arnold extrely uncomfortable if he wasn't already used to being around Natasha. In fact, Satina was dressed quite modestly in comparison to the threads that Natasha wore as a dress.
"I must say, you have grown a lot." Satina went to flick Arnold's nose but he imdiately jumped back, "Huhuhu, I see you really live up to your reputation. As the one who has beco cancer to Olympus. No wonder that pervert's son, Hercules lost to you. I quite liked him though... there was an aura around him that pulled everyone towards him. It's a sha you hid his body after killing him."
"Cut the crap and tell why you're here." Arnold's mind was screaming like crazy. He already knew sothing was seriously wrong with her.
Also, he was not in a mood to play gas with her even if she was an underling to the Immortal one. He hated her from the bottom of his heart and he didn't even know he had all these feelings inside him waiting to erupt like a volcano. After all, he hadn't seen nor thought about her in a long... long ti. But now that she was standing in front of him, the dormant feelings he had for her inside him reawakened. A feeling of intense hatred.
Arnold was aware that what Satina did to him was most probably as per the Immortal one's orders. After all, she was just a disciple of him, she would not dare to harm his vassal without his knowledge. Thus there was no reason for him to be hostile against her and yet all he could think about was how much he wanted to rip her heart out of her body.
"Now now, I know I didn't make a good impression on you the last ti we t." Satina sighed and slipped out of her dress before turning around to show him her back, "But as you can look I already paid for what I did to you."
"That must have hurt..." Arnold mumbled when he saw what Satina's back had beco.
Her back was full of scars. It looked like soone had incessantly whipped her for quite a long ti. Not only that, there were multiple burn marks on her as well. Arnold hated the person in front of him but after seeing the scars on her back, he couldn't help but feel a bit of pity for her.
"You can bet it did..." She replied before magically pulling her dress back to her, "I assu you enjoyed the little show. It's not as if a mortal like you gets to see a naked goddess every day. You can call it repaynt for back when I saw you naked last ti."
"Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not into older won. So... the immortal one did all of this as well?" Arnold inquired before pointing around the room.
"Ah yes... He said I went too far while enjoying the riddles and the rewards. As you can see he destroyed all of my proud armoured babies as well... even when I said I felt terrible about hurting you." Satina shrugged her shoulders, "He even stripped of the title of a lesser god that he had given ... That fcking barbarian!"
"You seem oddly devoted to soone who did all that..." Arnold could feel sothing was wrong there. The last ti he had t Satina, she never bad-mouthed the Immortal one. However, that did not seem to be the case this ti, "Also, you did not answer my question. What are you doing here?"
"Oh... nothing much. I'm just here to get rid of the nuisance who happens to be the cause of all this!" Satina roared before lunging at Arnold, "Die, you basta*d!"
Instead of being scared or worried, Arnold was quite happy. After all, he got quite a bargain for himself. Now he could kill Satina for the pleasure of it, while also completing the task of slaying three demigods simultaneously.
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