Chapter 95 Gemory.
Anzel and the others looked at each other, and knowing Sasha wasn\'t in the right mind to lead, they didn\'t know what to do. They could leave and abandon thousands of lives, but they didn\'t have the heart to do so after they saw babies and small children crying in fear.
"I have made up my mind. I\'m going to lure that thing away from the crowd. This whole country is big enough to bring that thing somewhere far away from people," Danny said with confidence even though he was nervous and trembling in fear.
"I agree. I can\'t abandon these people. I have to try to prevent them from dying no matter how," Gea nodded in agreement.
Anzel, Eun Soo, Anastasia, and Luis were still thinking if they wanted to stop them or join them. Sasha was standing still as if she was frozen in time because she couldn\'t believe that Lucifer would go that far.
"We don\'t have a choice, aren\'t we? Let\'s try our best until the reinforcement arrived. Let\'s stick together because we can only rely on each other," Anzel said with a serious expression.
They all nodded as they drew their weapons and collected their courage to fight that demon. They realized that it could be their last time fighting a demon, so they had to prepare mentally.
"Miss Sasha, what about you?" Anastasia asked.
"I\'m right behind you," Sasha answered as she drew the daggers from her suitcase. "I know that I have said something that I shouldn\'t have, but I want you to know that I want you guys to stay alive and become strong enough to save this world," Sasha said.
"What are you talking about, Miss Sasha? Of course, we also want the same thing for you. We are in this together," Gea replied and looked at Sasha with a confused look.
Sasha weakly smiled and didn\'t say anything afterward which made them feel like she was giving her last will. But they didn\'t have time to think about it because the threat was coming closer and closer and they had to think about how to deal with it.
(Inside the portal)
"How many days has it been since we entered the portal? Four days?" Lillith asked as she pulled out her dagger from the demon\'s head. "They keep coming like there\'s no end to it," Lilith said as she looked at the thousands of dead bodies around her.
"We have entered the surface of hell. This place is no longer suitable for Awakeners because the difficulty is too much for them," Amaryllis responded as she read the demon\'s mind. "Perhaps a decade of leveling up would make them strong enough to enter this place," Amaryllis pointed out.
"To be fair, we took a different portal back there. I don\'t think we are supposed to be here in the first place," Brynhilde said with her eyebrows raised.
Elena was sitting on top of the highest pile of dead bodies, and she was talking with Mykel. They both were sharing information they got and what happened on their sides. Mykel wanted her to leave as soon as she got Kiersha and regroup with him inside the portal in Antarctica.
"How many worlds that we should go through until we find Kiersha?" Elena asked.
"It\'s not that far. We can go straight to where she is now, but the place is protected by a Duke of Hell. He owns these demons that you have killed," Amaryllis answered as she looked up at Elena.
"Is that so? Let\'s head straight to where he is then. This place is starting to make me sick," Elena said as she stood up.
They followed Amaryllis as Aurea dealt with all the legions that tried to block their path. She had collected hundreds of thousands of souls from killing demons, and she wasn\'t satisfied with what she had and would get as many as she could.
They flew for two hours and finally, they found a giant altar in the distance where hundreds of thousands of demons were guarding the altar. Aurea volunteered to deal with them on her own, and so she flew ahead of the others toward the altar.
Aurea was flying right above the altar, and she used her [Scream of Chaos] skill to shoot down at the demons who were trying to fly toward her. She instantly made all the demons pass out with her scream, and then she used [Soul Siphon] and collected their souls while they were unconscious. She was surprised that her [Scream of Chaos] wasn\'t enough to kill them. But, she already knew the demons she had been fighting were a lot stronger than the previous ones she had encountered.
"What\'s with the dissatisfaction?" Elena asked as she landed right next to Aurea after she saw Aurea\'s expression.
"My scream wasn\'t enough to kill them. I need to do something about this skill, perhaps combine it with something to make it more powerful," Aurea answered.
"You can discuss it with Amaryllis once we are done here. Right now let\'s just focus on Kiersha and bring her to Mykel," Elena said as she looked at the altar in front of her which had a single pillar that reached the sky.
Amaryllis looked at the pillar and suddenly she touched it, but then she tilted her head with a confused look. She then tried to use some kind of chanting so that the others had no idea what she was saying, but that also didn\'t work.
"What\'s the problem?" Jeanne asked.
"This pillar is our only way in. I have tried to use the same chanting that the demons used to operate this thing, but nothing happened," Amaryllis answered and she looked a bit pissed. "There\'s another way to operate it, but I have tried it and nothing happened," Amaryllis continued with an annoyed expression.
"And what\'s that?" Lillith asked.
"A touch of a maiden. A virgin," Amaryllis answered. "The fact that everyone here is no longer a virgin, I don\'t think that method will work," Amaryllis pointed out.
Everyone looked away and somehow they felt embarrassed when Amaryllis said that. Not to mention, some of them lost their virginity to Mykel and it made them remember how they lost it.
"What are you on about, Amaryllis? I\'m still a virgin," Elena said. "Did you forget to count me or did you assume that I\'m not a virgin?" Elena asked as she walked toward the pillar and then touched the pillar.
The pillar reacted to Elena\'s touch and it started to send a beam up high into the sky.
"No, because I should be a maiden as well and thought that we both aren\'t qualified when the pillar didn\'t react to my touch. I apologize for assuming that you\'re not qualified, Elena," Amaryllis answered sadly.
"It\'s fine. You don\'t have to worry about it," Elena chuckled and grabbed Amaryllis\' hand to comfort her.
The pillar stopped releasing the beam because the portal had been opened in the sky. They all then flew up and entered the portal since that was how to do it. The moment they came out of the portal, they were teleported right in front of a giant castle made of prison cells. They could see people or creatures imprisoned in each cell on the outer walls, being exhibited like art.
"Are you thinking what I\'m thinking?" Manna asked as she looked at all the prisoners.
"They\'re all women?" Aurea asked back with her right eyebrow raised as she stared at the women and the creatures with women\'s features on their chests and between their crotches. "What kind of Duke of Hell who only takes women? No wonder the pillar needed a maiden\'s touch," Aurea continued as she looked around.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Duke of Hell, Gemory, and he has the power of procuring love from women and trapping those who fell in love with him here. They have become Gemory\'s slaves and servants," Amaryllis answered.
"Disgusting..." Lillith said and she sounded furious.
"Not really," Amaryllis responded. "He\'s quite beautiful," Amaryllis continued.
Everyone looked at Amaryllis and was surprised that she would say something like that.
"Thank you for the flattery, beautiful lady," A soothing woman\'s voice could be heard from the castle. "To think I would be visited by beautiful women is really a pleasure," A woman said as she showed herself from the second floor of the castle.
A woman with a black and gold belly dance face veil that covered her mouth and yet her red plump lips still could be seen through the veil. She had bright brown hair with thick eyelashes and eyebrows that made her dark red eyes look beautiful. She wore a crown with jewels on it that made her look like a queen or even a goddess of seduction like Aphrodite with slim and shiny skin on her body that she showed off.
"That\'s Gemory, one of the Duke of Hell," Amaryllis said.
"Lucky that Mykel isn\'t here with us," Aurea jokingly said as she chuckled.