Devils fate, p.5
Devil's Fate, page 5
Lillith frowned. “Maybe the metal is the prize. Could we recreate it?”
“It’s a composite alloy. While we can figure out the precise metal composition from a sample, to determine how the alloy is smelted together will be practically impossible due to the sheer amount of possible combinations, even if all base ores can be found on Earth to begin with.”
“So, we can figure out the ingredients, maybe, but we need a recipe to make it.”
“In essence, yes.”
Lillith rose and picked up her pad of paper and a pen. “I will go find the recipe.” She headed out of the room and toward the laboratory. The properties sounded like the metal would be great for weapons.
If her father sent himself a metal to make weapons from, then he packaged the recipe into it, just not in the way just anyone could find it.
Lillith descended two flights of stairs and entered the laboratory.
About sixty scientists worked in the massive hall, the casket hung from the ceiling in the middle of an apparatus that simultaneously scans and tests from a dozen wall-mounted arms.
“Stop the experiments for a moment,” Lillith said. “I need to enter.”
The scientists didn’t respond, but the arms disengaged, one by one.
She waited, and when everything stopped moving, she entered the analytical chamber.
Lillith focused on her power. Since she now used multiple different schools of magic, she needed to organize them by name. Lucas style, she whispered in her mind. Devil’s Gaze.
The world’s colors flipped in front of her eyes. No magic revealed itself on the casket. Lillith walked under it and looked inside. Nothing.
She tweaked the gaze, switching what spectrum of energies the spell revealed to her. At a completely random frequency, numbers lit up on the casket’s inner wall.
A massive smirk took over her face. Of course, he hid the message behind the ability to use his signature technique. She wrote down the numbers. ‘200; 4; 1200; 1600; 6; 3; 900.’
Lillith hadn’t the faintest idea what it meant. But she had people who could figure it out.
On the way back to the control room, she didn’t deactivate the gaze and spotted a mark of gray magical power on the door leading toward storage.
Hutriel’s magic looked like that.
She first walked to the control room though, and sat next to Gilgamesh. She placed the paper with the numbers in front of him. “These were hidden on the casket’s inner wall.”
He nodded in appreciation. “Your father raised you well.”
Because he taught her his actual techniques, not some watered-down version for kids. Her eyes watered. She always understood that, but it was different to hear it out loud.
“I apologize if that was inappropriate,” he added.
She shook her head. “Thanks.”
Lucielle looked up from her screen and shouted from the room’s other side. “Have you two found something about the metal?”
“Partially,” he shouted back. “What would you do with an extremely hard metal?”
“Specify extremely hard in SI units.”
“Two hundred and forty-seven gigapascals.”
Lucielle rose, glaring at him. “Are you sure you aren’t reading it wrong?”
Gilgamesh glanced at the screen. “Yes.”
Lillith glanced at Lucianna. “Why is it important?”
“Because that’s more than enough to build a space elevator. Figure out how to mass produce it, and we are fighting World War III with spaceships.”
Oh. Lillith paled. Her father sent himself a metal needed to advance mankind to the space age. Now, he definitely couldn’t have it, not until they figured out how to forge the metal themselves.
“We will,” Gilgamesh said. “Do you have anything on the aliens?”
“Absolutely nothing.” Lucielle sat back down. “But I will find something.”
Her phone vibrated in her pocket. Lillith drew the phone. Vampire alarm in the southern sector. She glanced at Gilgamesh. “I will be right back.”
He nodded.
Lillith walked out of the room and turned into pure light. She beamed into a ventilation shaft and made her way out from the complex.
In a second, she materialized above the southern sector.
At first look, the mountains and the valleys all looked peaceful. Yet underneath the moon’s gaze, she spotted the intruder. An unnatural puff of mist sneaked through the valley, sticking to patches of snow.
Casey’s vampire detectors worked.
Lillith beamed down to the mist and materialized. “Nice try, Vivian.”
The mist reformed into Vivian, who wore a tight leather outfit with flat-heeled boots. She smiled innocently. “Lillith, Darling, what brings you here?”
“You are sneaking toward my base, and I can’t let you do that.”
Vivian looked over the valley and then refocused on Lillith. “Your father is not taking this well. But he would be a lot calmer if I brought back some information.”
Lillith shook her head. “Tell him I’m doing well, and that I appreciate his concern. Once I have the results, I will be happy to share them with him.”
“Do you have any partial results to share?”
“No.” Lillith raised her arm and aimed her palm at Vivian. “Sorry, Vivi, but I can’t let you in.” Lucifer style, she thought and focused. Annihilating Light.
Lillith’s palm flashed, and Vivian disintegrated into nothing in that very second. All the snow behind her instantly melted, and the light burned the stone underneath, with Vivian’s silhouette becoming a white spot on the charred stone.
Lucas style, Devil’s Gaze. The world’s colors around her shifted, and she saw Vivian’s soul flying up from where her body stood a split second ago.
Since Lillith didn’t leave a single drop of blood, Vivian had nothing to regenerate from, so she had to fly home to rebuild herself there.
Lillith waved, and the glaring vampire queen flew away.
As far as magic tests went, this was an absolute success. Yes, vampires burned in sunlight, so Lillith’s power, the blessing of light that once belonged to the original Lucifer, was extremely effective on vampires. But still, Elsha taught her how to do this attack at the actual speed of light, and at one-tenth of the cost her old techniques demanded. Your technique is absurdly good, Lillith said in her mind.
‘I know, right?’ Elsha’s voice replied into Lillith’s mind. ‘You should test the projection too.’
Perhaps later. The idea to create a projection of herself scared Lillith for reasons she didn’t understand. Lillith turned into pure light and beamed back to the base.
But she didn’t return to the control room. Instead, she went to examine the storages around which she spotted the marks of Hutriel’s magic.
She moved through the ventilation shafts, checking every room.
And indeed, Lillith found Hutriel and Casey in the storage room. She lay with her back on crates, legs spread wide, dress pulled up to her waist.
Hutriel stood in front of her, his pants on the ground by the side, and he was drilling her as hard as if her crotch contained oil.
Lillith beamed out through the ventilation shafts, away from the complex, and all the way to her base in the Himalayas.
Since she moved at the speed of light, the entire trip took a split second. She materialized in her workshop and grabbed the chastity belt she had prepared for Casey. Lillith turned back into the light and beamed back all the way to area fifty-seven.
She reached the storage room and waited for a little blip of light underneath the ventilation shaft.
By Casey’s moaning, they weren’t quite at the pinnacle just yet.
Lillith waited.
When the action got more intense, and Casey started digging her nails into Hutriel’s arms, Lillith beamed to them and reformed above Casey’s midsection.
In a single move, she hit both of them in the chest, one with each arm, and pushed her power into their spiritual cores. That instantly paralyzed Casey and stunned Hutriel.
Lillith landed with her ass on Casey’s stomach and lightly kicked Hutriel in the chest.
That pushed him away and made him collapse to the ground.
Lillith smirked. “I warned you, Sis.” She caught the chastity belt around Casey’s crotch and locked the mechanism.
Mighty pleased, Lillith turned back into the light and beamed out through the ventilation shaft again.
Now, she moved into the control room and materialized on her chair.
Gilgamesh now had two sheets of paper covered in formulas and was fully absorbed in the work.
Lillith had no idea what all the Greek letters meant, but she spotted the numbers she read from the casket.
The power she pushed into Hutriel would dissipate in about ten seconds, and he was then going to help Casey recover from the paralysis, but that would take a few awkward minutes.
Lillith had no way to contribute here, so she walked over to the other side to see how the biological part of the research went.
Lucielle and Linn all glared at the screens, their pads of paper without a single note.
Lillith leaned on the table next to Lucielle. “How’s it going?”
“Like shit.” Lucielle kept glaring at the screens. “These things aren’t supposed to be alive. They have no digestive tract, no lungs, nor any opening on their bodies that could intake nutrients or energy or anything else. They also have no other organs, just muscle, a chitin-like skeleton, and whatever that goo inside of them is. No brain. No heart.”
“And yet they keep trying to break out from the containment,” Lillith pointed out.
“Exactly,” Linn said. “Movement expends energy. With constant outtake, there must be an intake. But we have tested it with every energy we could think of, and they neither emit nor react to any of them.”
Well, another topic to which Lillith had nothing to contribute. Luckily, her phone buzzed. A message from Casey: ‘Could we talk? Same spot as where you caught us.’
“I need to handle something,” Lillith said and happily walked away from the control center. This whole research thing went completely over her head. But she could always bully her sister.
She turned into light and beamed into the storage room.
Casey awaited her alone, standing by the crates, dress rearranged.
Lillith materialized in front of her, a smile playing on her lips. She focused on her angelic truth sense. “We can talk now.”
Casey returned the smile. “I think we got off to a wrong start. I understand your position about me and Hutriel, and I do acknowledge that us having sex when he’s on duty was extremely inappropriate, in spite of it being equivalently exciting. So, I would like to extend an olive branch.”
Truth. Lillith measured the vampiress. This was not how she expected the conversation to go, not at all, which slightly threw her off. “An olive branch?”
“An exercise tool, to be precise.” She moved her hand, the palm opened and blood flowed out. The blood formed three large steel bracelets, each with an adjustable circumference.
Truth. Lillith narrowed her eyes. “Is that a sex toy?”
“No.” Casey maintained her smile. “Imagine this scenario. One day, heaven sends a new archangel to Earth, say, Gabriel for example. You meet him, obviously, one thing leads to another, and before you realize it, you are getting married. The wedding night comes, and it’s an absolute disaster because, at that point in time, your genitalia have atrophied to uselessness since you have literally never used them in your life.”
That wasn’t how it worked. Or… did it? This hit a soft spot because Lillith did plan to eventually find a partner, get married, settle down, and all of that. While it seemed improbable right now, the Void was large, and Heaven had countless angels, so the odds weren’t zero.
Or she would end up like her father, who actually met the person he wanted to marry and settle down with, but she dumped him because she wanted to become a pop star.
“What is this device then?” Lillith asked.
“It is a training tool for the muscles in the pelvic and pubic area. You put the larger bracer around your waist, straight above the hips, and the two around the middle of the thighs. This is how you conjure the menu.”
Casey showed a simple pulse-like spell that made an image that looked like an application menu appears above the bracelets.
She interacted with one icon by touching it with her finger. “Here, you can set your custom training program.” She moved back by waving her hand and touched another icon. “And here, you have pre-set programs that I have prepared for you. There are twenty-two of them, but I will prepare more. At each pre-set, you can see length and intensity.”
Truth. Lillith narrowed her eyes. “And what do the programs do, precisely?”
“The bracelets release soft magical pulses that stimulate specific the muscles to exercise them, as per the set program. It’s essentially electrotherapy, just magical, and for a specific area. The battery should be large enough for it to last for a month, and then you can always come to visit me for a recharge.”
Truth. That sounded surprisingly tame for Casey. “Does it do any of your vampire blood magic stuff on it? You know, orgasm block, hypersensitivity, blood-flow alteration, vein adjustments, blood parasites, stuff like that?”
“Sister, dear, it’s an exercise device, not a sex toy. The only such thing on it is an orgasm block that’s only active during a program. And that’s a necessary safety feature because having an orgasm mid-program would risk your muscles getting damaged.”
Truth. That troubled Lillith, because there had to be a trick to this. “And in exchange for this, you want me to remove the belt?”
“No. This is an offering. I want you to accept it, try one of the lighter training programs, and then decide if you couldn’t be more lenient with your little sister.”
Truth. This made it even more suspicious. But the idea appealed to Lillith. Muscles did atrophy when unused, and she saw no reason why the vaginal muscles would be any different from all the other muscles in her body. She worked out those other muscles for at least two hours a day.
Lillith took the three bracelets and hid them underneath her jacket.
“Is there anything else I should know about this?” she asked.
“Not really.” Casey smiled. “But I do suggest you start with the lightest training programs. You do not want your bulbospongiosus to tear. Trust me on that.”
Truth. She had to look up what that was. “All right. Thanks.”
“Any time, Sis. If there’s anything else I can help you with, let me know.” Casey turned into mist and started washing away over the floor.
“Wait,” Lillith said.
The mist reformed into Casey. “Hmm?”
“May I test a spell on you? It’s not painful or harmful in any way.”
“But of course.”
Lillith stepped to her and placed her hand on the side of Casey’s neck. Dark Alexandra style, Succubus Touch.
Casey screamed out a moan and had to catch herself by the knees to not collapse, suddenly panting.
Success. “Thanks.” Lillith turned into light and returned to the control room.
She took her seat next to Gilgamesh. Not that she would be useful in any way, but perhaps, she could learn a thing or two from this.
Lucas 4
With Alsha, we built and connected four hundred and eighty portals, linking all her dimensional pockets.
She ruled over six thousand worlds scattered across the Void, each a unique piece of art. I estimated the total population to be around two and half billion souls, with zero of the worlds being physical.
For the finishing touch, I created a power core that we placed in her main world, from which the portals drew energy to function. I taught her how to maintain the power in the core.
“So,” I said after I dropped her off into her throne room. “I suppose you will be joining me on the conquest.”
“Of course I will.” Alsha sat upon her throne of clouds and crossed her legs. “Let me know once the others are prepared. While I do not often get sentimental, I cannot wait for us all to meet again.”
I nodded and soulstepped out from her world. I made my way to Hell and took the portal back to Earth.
First, I headed to the vault, where did another round of compression and strengthening on the muscles.
Once I finished with that, I soulstepped up to Trisha’s office.
This time, I found there both the giant succubus and Vivian.
The moment I appeared, Trisha smirked. “Good timing. Vivian is just explaining to me how she has managed to return after over two days of work with absolutely no results.”
Vivian raised her chin. “I have not brought nothing. There is a secret military base deep in Alaska, which is where the fallen artifact and its contents are being studied. I couldn’t get too close because the entire area is surrounded by vampire detectors that actually work on me, and Lillith comes herself when the barriers are breached.”
Heh. No one aside from her own progeny could create vampire detectors that worked on her. Lillith has apparently managed to motivate her sister to help her out.
Good.
The better relationships with others Lillith had, the less devastating it was going to be for her when I faked my death. “Anything else?”
Vivian smiled. “I spotted Lucielle’s plane flying overhead. If she is there, then the other members of the Hand of God might also be present. Were I to wage a guess, I think the entire Hand of God is in that facility. Except for you, of course.”
The package I sent myself was apparently even more important than I expected it to be. Now, I definitely had to get it. “All right. I will go check it out myself.”
“Before you go,” Vivian said. “I have noticed irregularities around the nuclear vault underneath this tower. Do you know anything about that?”
My heart shot into my throat. I waited for a second to calm down. “That area is off-limits for everyone, including you two. Forget about it, stay away, and everything will be fine.” I looked into Vivian’s eyes. “Don’t ignore this warning. I am dead serious.”
