Burning Soul

…

The scene was quite messy.

Ember was pinned on the ground soaked in her own blood as an invisible force made sure she didn’t move a bit, while one guy sat on her and tried to rip apart her while the other stayed guard!

The tables had turned for the worse now,

just one move and Belphegor managed to rip off her clothes revealing her bare skin.

He grabbed her chest and poked his craws in causing a stream of blood to peek out and slide by.

Her eyes were widened by the horror she was facing,

“Got some strange clothes on you, enchanted, oh! How great I feel, how great how great how greaaaaat I feel” Him tearing apart her scales was no joke, Ember couldn’t help but watch this all with utter helplessness.

“Ah! Quite a troublesome person you are! How cute, oh yeah! I had to use my very own poison to suppress that regenerative ability of yours! You wanna know-how! Come on! Say yea! Yes yes yes yes yes, isn’t that easy! Oh, It’s my blood that acted as poison on you! Oh how unfortunate you are…”

He then tilted his head up and looked at her lowering his eyes only while sticking out his tongue, he continues,

“The destiny doesn’t want me to pleasure you a little bit huh! Ah! This one will be difficult to forget, I just started to barely enjoy you, won’t it be good if I hurry up and kill you? Oh! Right, right right, how can we forget it!”

Saying this he pulled out a gospel with one of his invisible arms,

“Ah! The sacrifice!”

His eyes turned red and blood started coming from them instead of tears. He used his claws to tear up almost all of her cloth exposing her bare skin.

She clenched her fist tightly as it looked, he’d rip all of it, but he stopped right above the belly portion.

Using his claws, he drew a circle and a star on her body, this time something made it hurt more and fumes could be seen coming off from the mark. Looking at which Fang said,

“Belphegor! She ain’t looking normal to me, you are sure she’s the right one! A mere mortal can’t have such frantic regenerative ability let alone her strength can easily rival any of us alone!”

Listening to which Belphegor turned his neck to look at him, he tilted his head right and gave a burst of crooked laughter before replying,

“Isn’t it even better, oh! How can I just avert my eyes from her flesh, the way she isn’t fully grown yet makes her the best?”

Hearing this Fang only nodded. Belphegor then turned his attention to Ember again with a wicked smile as he licked his lips

“Shall we begin?”

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“Crescent slash!!”

A lightning slash shaped like a crescent moon landed right on Belphegor’s hand which was tearing Ember.

In a splash, he had lost an arm!

Just like that.

The sudden movement made him shocked! He and Fang looked at the direction in disbelief!

There was a woman with a golden halo, a crescent moon on the back of her head and she was holding on to a dagger-shaped in crescent moon. Except for her weapon she was having a golden halo all over and flower petals were floating around her, she looked no less than any goddess,

Ember was looking at the scene in awe as both the guys were having a shocked expression!

“Keep your filthy hands away from her you lowly undead!”

She walked towards them saying so!

“Ahhhhhhhh! Blood blood blood, you dare chop off my precious arm!”

Belphegor screamed out loud. He then charged one of his unseen hands towards her.

Just as his arm was closing in on her she slashed down her dagger on it, so easily as if she could see it coming from a mile away!

“My My my my my my arm! How dare you?” Belphegor was about to charge on himself,

Fang stopped him looking at her.

“Don’t! We can’t deal with both of them! You can’t move let me try! If I fail retreat!”

he then moved with his lightning agility with a spear in his hand.

He was right in front of her in a moment, he then slashed on her dagger with all his power.

But to his surprise, he wasn’t even able to move her a bit, but the recoil he felt moved him almost 3 steps back!

She then poured in a bit of divine power to hit him back, at such close distance he couldn’t dodge it and took the slash head on!

The hit was so hard he was thrown back towards Belphegor! He then crashed in the nearby tree.

Looking at the scene even Belphegor was confused for a while, in that moment he understood that dealing with both of them would prove difficult! He looked at the Ember who was lying in horror even now, and gave a resentful look,

“No! no no no no no way I have to sacrifice you and yet I can’t! How undesirable it is! We will meet again little one! Yeah! We will we will we will we will meet and no one will stop me! No one will be able to!”

He said looking at the women in the halo! He then stood up and picked up Ember and threw her towards the women. This made the women in Halo lose their focus on him as she tried catching Ember.

She took a step further to catch her but noticed something off!

She saw a pair of arms coming speedily from her behind.

She prepared to dodge them but something weird happened! Those arms split in two sets of arms and one went on crashing in on her while the other appeared right above Ember mid-air.

Before she could deal with the unseen hands at her side and approach the ones above Ember, they got her for good!

Those arms were armed with sharp claws, with a slash they cut down through her flesh like a knife through butter.

“Noooo!”

A cross-shaped slash and there was a bloody mess right in front of her!

“Joking I was! How could I let go of my prey just like that! Interesting! How interesting! I can barely contain. I loved the colors she showed! I hope you won’t disappoint me when we meet again! Eleanor! Come forth!”

“Gust!”

He said with his wicked smile and a dark back fog appeared where he stood!

It was Eleanor who had appeared there in her divine form!

She wanted to chase both of them, but the scene left behind was enough to freeze her.

Ember was lying lifeless on the ground with all her limbs chopped off. There was blood everywhere!

The whole land was reddened by the blood, even the expression on her face was of pain.

…

Eleanor got on her knees to hold on to her,

it was truly a very horrific scene, even for her!

“Looks like I was late! Only because I was late, she had to die! How cruel fate is!”

She sobbed as she held her tightly.

Even though Ember didn’t remember, Eleanor knew her for a long time, she was like a child for her, and now she was dead in her arms!

Her heart ached as she sobbed non-stop tears ran down her reddened cheeks as she let her sorrow out.

At that moment she couldn’t resist the urge of letting her sadness.

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At that moment she noticed something.

A small halo appeared right above Ember!

She immediately recognized it, it was a shard of Divinity, Ember’s Divinity!

All heavenly bodies had been blessed with divinity, even though it was a gift of the heavens, those who hosted it would receive immense powers. Though it looked like the divinity in Ember was slipping out,

meaning she was losing her soul as well!

It saddened her even more!

Even though Dragon had tyrannical regeneration capacity, Belphegor’s blood has really worked its charm here by sealing her ability and poisoning her body, and with all the cuts and slashes, she had lost a lot of blood as well! Even if she was alright! It’d have taken a toll on her ability as of now, let alone after all that happened!

As it happened, she realized something!

Earlier Belphegor mentioned some sacrifice and he seemed to know her name as well! It wasn’t odd to recognize a goddess in her divine form but still for some reason he seemed to know her appearance quite well.

Just as she was thinking so she noticed the marking Belphegor drew on Ember’s body.

She could feel a sudden rise of rage throughout her body,

it was as if someone had set her on fire,

she knew that mark quite well!

It was used to sacrifice someone in order to gain false divinity, a sort of knock off of real one!

What it did was, it allowed someone with the potential to ascend to Godhood!

Though this particular mark was used by a very wicked and famous cult,

which is ran by the followers of the most powerful witch ever, Ulva!

…

Everyone had thought all of the followers were wiped out long ago by the avatars of the Gods!

It made her head go dizzy a bit but then she remembered something, it was like a flash.

She remembered the face of Belphegor, it resembled someone! She looked up towards the sky and uttered with a shiver.

“Show me your true color?”Here in heaven, a shadow shut his see-through window after throwing a smirk at the scene he had just witnessed.