Destroying My Own Novel

“You have failed me,” Mara’s voice echoed throughout the space. “You also broke the rules that you promised to keep,” Mara continued and her voice was moving from left to right so quickly. “You already know what’s going to happen, so you can say a few words before I erase your existence,”

Lucifer was on his knees with his wings folded and head down staring at the vast space. He seemed to be deep in thought and wasn’t bothered by Mara’s words.

“Do what you must, I have no reason to say anything to you,” Lucifer said.

p-a- n-d-a-n-0-v-e-l、 Mara hummed as she walked toward Lucifer with black clouds covering her whole body. She forced Lucifer to lift his head to look at her, and then she started to chuckle softly.

“Oh, Lucifer, how foolish can you be to fell for his words,” Mara said as she walked past him. “Not only he betrayed you, but your own creations are also betraying you,” Mara said and her voice sounded so far away.

“There’s no need for you to remind me, Mara. I don’t care about him taking those children,” Lucifer replied.

“Even if it’s your own?” Mara asked and her voice was right in Lucifer’s right ear.

Lucifer furrowed his eyebrows and looked to his eighty, but nobody was there. “What are you saying? Luciel is betraying me?” Lucifer asked with a confused look.

Lucifer couldn’t feel Mara’s presence at all, and suddenly a screen appeared right in front of him. He watched Mykel looking at the mess they both made. He didn’t even blink his eyes as he kept staring and watching Mykel’s every movement.

Mykel looked up and Luciel was testing her strength against Nidhoggr. Although her strength couldn’t be compared to Mykel’s, her sword on the other hand was strong enough to cut Nidhoggr’s skin. Unfortunately, Nidhoggr had an unbelievable regeneration that she couldn’t cut him deep enough since it would regenerate immediately.

“Are you having fun up there?” Mykel asked.

Luciel stopped attacking Nidhoggr and realized that Nidhoggr had stopped caring about her presence at all. She then looked down and decided to land in front of Mykel.

“Where did you get that serpent?” Luciel asked as she put her sword away.

“The world is bigger than you know, and since you have been spending your whole life in Gehenna and Empyrean world, you won’t know even if I tell you the answer,” Mykel answered as he watched Nidhoggr carefully rest his body on the ground. “But I got him from Niflheim,” Mykel looked at Luciel.

Luciel didn’t know about that place as Mykel said.

“But we shouldn’t be talking about that. I’m amazed by your acting skill. Not only you fooled your sisters, you also fooled him,” Mykel said.

“I thought it was necessary, but I believe he was a bit confused and suspicious when he looked me in the eye. I thought he knew, but he didn’t. Also, I would never have thought Mazikeen could fight me for that long. She has become so powerful, and I’m quite curious about what you did to her,” Luciel said as she looked at Mykel.

“I didn’t do anything, I just let her do whatever she wants. Sometimes letting anyone be free is the only way for them to experience a lot of things,” Mykel said as he looked away. “She’s not the only one. I let Beldathiel, Zherlthsh, Vixelleth, and Glasya experience it themselves,” Mykel continued.

Luciel looked around and could feel the presence of her sisters scattered around the Aersland world.

“Now that he’s taken away, what are you going to do next?” Luciel asked with curiosity.

“We will stick to the plan. You’re going to replace his position as the new Devil Arcana,” Mykel answered. “More importantly, it appears he unsealed one of his siblings’ powers. How do you feel to be able to control the space?” Mykel asked as he walked toward Luciel and tilted his head.

“I feel powerful,” Luciel looked at her own hands with her eyebrows furrowed. She was still in disbelief at how powerful it was.

“Soon you will get all the powers. I can promise you that,” Mykel said as he put his hand under Luciel’s hand. “Just wait until I unseal all the powers within your body,” Mykel stared Luciel in the eye with a serious expression.

Lucifer who heard their conversation was dumbfounded and speechless with his eyes wide open.

“They both have planned this beforehand, and their plan was to bring you here,” Mara said. “I’m quite thankful since not only Mykel prevented you from collecting all those souls, but also for bringing you here,” Mara continued.

“Look at how pathetic you are, Lucifer. You were trying to create a monster to defeat me, but someone else decided to use that monster to defeat you. How ironic,” Mara said in a joyous tone.

Lucifer was quite shocked when Mara found out about his plan to defeat her by creating Luciel. He was confident that nobody knew about his true intentions since he never told anyone about his plans. He started to believe that Mykel knew because they both were the same person.

“Since when did you know?” Lucifer asked.

“When he sent all of them to Aersland. He explained it to them, and I was quite surprised that you’re trying to defeat me,” Mara answered. “Looking back at how powerful the nine of you were, I might not know who would win if the nine of you decided to fight me. Thanks to Mykel, I can prevent that from happening,” Mara continued and her voice suddenly became louder and echoed throughout the space again.

Lucifer could help but laugh, and it made Mara look down at him. He couldn’t stop laughing, and his laughter became louder and wilder.

“Looks like I’m not the only one who’s getting fooled here,” Lucifer sighed as he scoffed. “I felt that feeling before. The feeling of relief because I believed in his words,” Lucifer looked up with a smirk and remembered that moment. “He’s playing with both of us,”

“You think by erasing my existence would secure your position? It only makes him have one less problem. The three of us would love to see one of us disappear,” Lucifer said. “Although I’m at my lowest right now, I still have something that can change my situation while you, Mara, you have nothing at all,” Lucifer continued and he said it with confidence.

Lucifer could feel the immense amount of presence right in front of him. The presence of the world itself was judgingly staring at him.

“You have lost your upper hand the moment you can no longer punish him. Now look at yourself in the mirror, and then look at the situation in the Constellations where everyone is pointing their gazes at Mykel. They feared him more than they fear you now,” Lucifer said with a smirk.

“I can’t wait to see you fall, Mara. Even if I can’t do it with my own hands, there’s someone who will do it in my stead,” Lucifer sounded so excited and he couldn’t hide the excitement on his face. “I warn you to not underestimate him. I have underestimated him many times, and I regret that decision of mine,” Lucifer’s voice softened as he stared blankly at the space in front of him and listened to the ambient sound of the space.

Mara landed right in front of Lucifer, and suddenly the black cloud covered Lucifer’s body. Lucifer screamed his lungs out as he suffered an immense amount of pain. He felt like being crushed and stretched out for hundreds of times each second.

“My existence is one above everyone else. You’re nothing compared to me, Lucifer,” Mara said as she sounded a bit annoyed and kept torturing Lucifer to a pulp. Mykel couldn’t even break a single of Lucifer’s bones, but Mara was easily breaking every bone in his body.

Lucifer’s scream suddenly stopped, and for a second Mara thought that he fell unconscious. The moment she was about to remove the clouds from Lucifer’s body, she heard a faint chuckle.

“Your existence?! What makes you think your existence matter when you’re against someone who was raised from a mortal to stand equally to you in a blink of an eye?!” Lucifer asked as he held his pain and stayed conscious. “Your existence, my existence? Do you know where we both came from and who made all these?!” Lucifer shouted to suppress the pain as Mara kept torturing him.

“Mykel might be the one who…” Before Lucifer could finish his sentence, he lost consciousness.

Mara removed the clouds from Lucifer, and she looked a bit confused because she didn’t hear the words he said since he spoke quietly.