New Eden: Live to Play, Play to Live

Chapter 857  Unethical, Even For Demons

Geminae nodded, keeping silent.

The truth was that Astaroth had no idea how to seal anything. He wasn't versed in sealing techniques or even half decent in runic language.

Which was why he was asking Geminae for help.

"Help me seal this flame on the demon's head. I don't know how to do it."

Geminae seemed confused about Astaroth's chain of actions. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

First, he powered up the demon, which was a terrible idea in his mind. Then he knocked him out and wanted to seal away a part of its power.

Why power him up if he was going to seal away his power anyway? He could have just let him die.

Seeing his confused face, Astaroth sighed in annoyance.

"Stop dawdling there and help me. I don't have all day. I have shit to do outside of here."

Geminae jumped out of his daze and cupped his hand around the flame, which tried to lash out at his hands.

But Astaroth's Aether protected the hands, forming a miniature barrier around the ball of black fire.

Geminae jumped out of his daze and cupped his hand around the flame, which tried to lash out at his hands.

But Astaroth's Aether protected the hands, forming a miniature barrier around the ball of black fire.

"Use the Aether I'm injecting to seal it. And do it quickly. I can already feel him rousing."

"Yes, master," Geminae replied.

In a matter of seconds, dozens of lines of runes surrounded the flame over the demon's head, forming a cage around it. Two small chains shot out from the cage, tied to the demon head's horns, creating a floating cage bound to the horns.

Once this was done, Astaroth could already feel the demon weakening. Now, he only needed to merge a bit of divinity into him.

But he also had no idea how to do that. He wasn't in control of the fragment; neither was it even present anymore.

Glancing at Geminae, an idea sprouted in his mind. But Geminae would not like it.

So he didn't give him a choice.

"I'm sorry, Geminae," Astaroth said before stabbing his hand into the young angel's chest.

Gemini gasped as the pain assaulted him, but before it could devolve into screaming, Astaroth was already pulling the soul out.

And with a quick movement, he jammed his hand, still holding Geminae's soul fragment, into the demon's body.

The demon's soul pounced on the fragment, trying to consume it as per its nature, but Astaroth intervened.

Pouring more Aether into the soul, he forcibly separated them before tying them together in an attempt to force them to merge.

This was as far a travesty to souls as it was possible to commit, and he could feel a part of his soul seethe at his actions inside him.

But it was a necessity.

He had no other recourse.

It took time before the two souls started to merge, but with enough Aether and constant supervision, the transition happened. And once done, the demon exploded in power, pushing Astaroth away.

But when it stood to its feet, it started convulsing as its body changed.

The wings on its back fell before a set of white wings burst out, splashing black blood everywhere.

But the wings didn't stay white for long. They burst into black flames; the demon trying to cry out in pain, but no noise coming out of its throat.

The wings stopped burning once they were pitch-black.

However, the changes didn't stop there.

The originally red irises in the center of its eyes turned golden as black blood leaked out of the eyes, each change seemingly causing harm to the demon before a red flicker appeared in the pupil.

Its dark red skin lightened slightly, going from a crimson tint to a more vermillion tone.

A golden ring formed on its neck, looking almost like a collar, with black runes on both sides of the ring.

Astaroth stood there, watching the changes, wondering what he had done. There was no telling whether this would turn out well for him.

He had acted on impulse, as he always did, and crossed his fingers.

It took what seemed like an eternity for the demon to stop convulsing and bleeding out of every orifice and pore on its body. And once it did, it stood there, silent, for a while before raising its head and locking eyes with Astaroth.

"What have you done to me?" it asked.

But its voice no longer resembled either his or Geminae's. The coarse, demonic, grating voice it had earlier had softened.

But the soft crystalline voice of Geminae was gone, having lowered in octaves, as it intermingled with the demon's voice, creating a strange two-tone voice, as if both of them spoke simultaneously, through the same mouth.

"I did what I had to," Astaroth replied, his face stoic.

"You fused us! You did something even the goddess of souls would have never dared! How could you?! Undo this!" the voices harried him.

But Astaroth ignored their plights.

'Is there another step?' he asked the voice inside his head.

There was silence for a while as the chimeric being before Astaroth kept shouting at it to undo this.

'There is one last step. Naming it. But I would have never thought you would do this. This… thing… is an abomination to the nature of souls. To the nature of our domain,' the voice said, sounding dismayed.

'I don't care what you think anymore. You said seize the power. Make it mine. Well, now it is, and I have decided what to do with it. Once this is done, I would prefer you never speak to me again,' Astaroth said, before locking eyes on the aberration.

"Stop shouting. I'm not undoing this," Astaroth ordered, wincing as his ears started hurting.

"No. No no no no! NO!!!!!" the being shouted before dashing toward Astaroth.

"Undo this! Now!" it howled.

"Enough! On your knees, and shut your mouth!" Astaroth shouted back, his face morphing into a mask of rage.

The ring around the being's neck glowed, and instantly, the being stopped, threw itself to its knees and closed its mouth.

"From now on, you will be called Sanguis Oxym. And, if I don't call on you, I don't want to hear your disturbing voice inside my head. Understood?"

The ring shone again, and some new runes appeared on the golden ring.

The sealing was complete.