Will of chaos

Pov Hela:

As we entered the space distortion area I was able to feel it more clearly, it seems that the death energy I have been feeling since I arrived here really is different.

“Strange, it looks transformed or maybe just altered… seems to have something else mixed in…” (I)

“My lady, perhaps you’d better pay attention to your surroundings before you get lost in your thoughts.” (Hellyos)

“I’m paying attention, by the way, thanks for taking care of these nuisances for me.” (I)

I might be busy with my train of thought, but I still knew about the creatures attacking us, I couldn’t see them directly, but their bodies are like clusters of this Death Energy, I can find them easier than breathing.

I try to turn to Hellyos, but even though he’s so close, his body is rippling like a candle flame in the breeze.

“This is going to be a problem…” (I)

“I have to find a way to be able to move around this area knowing where I’m going.” (I)

I tested one sense at a time, but clearly, none of them were useful, my Aura seemed like the best option, but somehow I felt the surrounding presence trying to do something with my Aura, maybe my Death trait is too adapted for that presence.

“Even far away he knows about me…” (I)

I could feel the presence around me shifting its focus towards me, it seems that my Aura in particular attracted its attention.

“What’s the matter, master?” (Hellyos)

“The presence around us…” (I)

“Yes I know, master of shadows, I didn’t expect to find this nuisance here.” (Hellyos)

I turn to Hellyos who scratches his hand on my shoulder and uses our connection as Familiar to pull my consciousness into his body.

I soon noticed him guiding my consciousness to the way he is perceiving the world, a variation of Aura manipulation along with Death energy.

After seeing such a clear example it only took me a few seconds to create an eye of Aura and death energy on my forehead, it took me a few minutes just to better understand how this new sense works, it wasn’t ex-agent a vision as I needed to add some spells to work and even so I needed to maintain concentration until I got used to this technique.

“How did you learn this technique?” (I)

“In Hell, there are a lot of collapsing areas like that, there were also some moments of more awareness for me there where all there was wandering, so I learned a lot of things.” (Hellyos)

“You said something about master of shadows just now, what did you…” (I)

“< Bone Fury >” (I)

“They don’t learn.” (Hellyos)

And when I questioned Hellyos about the things he said, a huge heap of death energy was approaching, it looked like a sphere with dozens of arms, so I used a magic that made countless bones appear to his supporter piercing him from all directions floors begin to tear your body to shreds.

I tried to leave it as it was to seek more information from Hellyos, but it was at this point that I felt a passage to Hell come out, so a big rotten arm grabbed the entire sphere and pulled it inside.

We other monsters only those strange Souls were pulled, but this time the body that was in the process of decomposition also went to Hell.

“Was that you?” (I)

“Yes, I apologize for this test.” (Hellyos)

“Earlier when I managed to defeat the first enemies I saw when the passage of Hell opened to collect the Fugitive Souls.” (Hellyos)

“I thought I could try a pass, but the energy expenditure is too great and the pass is unstable.” (Hellyos)

“Explain to me what you mean by calling these Fugitive Souls, you also spoke earlier about the Master of Shadows.” (I)

“The Master of Shadows is how he was known in Hell, most times a passage to Hell was opened by force it was a passing shadow, every time a Soul was taken away.” (Hellyos)

“Sometimes the shadow was accompanied by some totally black and strange Souls, these Souls had a strange presence and were attacked by Hell continuously.” (Hellyos)

“What he says means…” (I)

I started running at low speed as I was thinking and still getting used to the new perception Hellyos taught me.

————-

In the next 30 minutes, we continued fighting, at the beginning the enemies were weak, but as time went by we found more enemies and some more and more strong, at this moment I was analyzing one of these that was not only stronger but was also more intelligent.

“Strange, your Soul is weak, but somehow it’s bigger…” (I)

“Hellyos, bring me one of the Souls.” (I)

“Here my lady…” (Hellyos)

The monster he was studying was bound by a chain made of spinal bones, its form was more humanoid than other creatures as well as its body was less rotted, it could pass for an Ogre Zombie if not for the life energy still coursing through it your body.

Hellyos brings me one of the monsters still trying to regenerate, but soon his hand is covered with black flames that burn the body quickly without leaving anything but the Soul that was also burning before Hellyos puts out the fire leaving only the Soul trapped in his hands.

Before the gap to Hell opens to grab this Soul, so I grab the Soul with my hand and force my study target to devour the Soul, it was much easier than I thought.

As soon as the Soul was consumed I saw the limbs and jaw regenerating, of course I ripped everything off again, but I realized that once again the Soul was bigger, it still seemed weak to me and it took me tens of minutes more to understand while Hellyos continued defeating the monsters alone.

“The Soul is losing its essence, but at the same time it is being filled with something else.” (I)

“But what could that be?” (I)

I managed to understand a lot of things, but it was still like there was something missing, a center piece to tie it all together, but I wasn’t able to go any further and I don’t want to waste any more of my time on this either.

I destroyed the study matter by crushing the entire body, I still collected various body parts for future studies, perhaps Lyra already wants some of this rotten material for one of her experimental potions.

Not wanting to waste any more time I ran alongside Hellyos this time faster, with my mind more focused on fighting and having already gotten used to this new sense, I was now able to run at full power without worrying too much about all that.

After a bit of running we found another group, this time there weren’t many, but they all had very whole bodies with just a few tumors in places, they also seemed to have a higher level of intelligence.

The battle this time was more difficult, I had no way to use my magic, and the Death energy in the area seemed to be completely controlled by the presence of this Evil God, it was interfering with my Necromancy.

I had to fight with just my normal body and Skills, but luckily that wasn’t a weakness, I let Master’s Holy Power flow through my whole body, it made the wounds caused by me not be healed by these monsters.

My claws were tearing them apart one at a time while most were trying to deal with Hellyos in his Dragon form.

He was a bigger enemy that draws more attention with big attacks, but even so, they didn’t realize that I was using Hellyos as a bait while I finished them off one by one, at the end of the fight I was trying to put one of my ribs back since it was ripped out of my body, meanwhile one of the strange Souls tried to invade my body, of course, I allowed it with a smile on my face.

I might not be able to use Necromancy outside my body now, but inside the story was quite different, I trapped the soul using Holy Power and my Aura, and after that, I extracted all the power in the Soul or at least most of it before the Blessing of the Goddess of Death make an opening to Hell in front of me where a current comes out piercing my body to drag that Soul there from the prey in my body. 𝐨𝘃𝗹.

I saw the Soul being taken, the chains cut through all my defenses and spells to catch that Soul, it seems there’s nothing I can do to capture one of those Souls to study later.

With everything here finished, it took me a few minutes to heal my body’s wounds, Hellyos was in worse condition with many of his bones cracked, but unlike me, he managed to use death energy around him to recover faster.

Before both of us are recovered, a big problem arises, one of the Titans of Nature appears in front of us, it was some kind of metal Spider coming out of the ground.

Fortunately, she didn’t attack us, she just stood in front of us as her presence was so heavy that it could crush us, but luckily it didn’t do anything against us, but that I think was due to the Blessing of Goddess Kalistos that arose within me to reveal itself in my Aura, it was only after that that the Titan of Nature left.