Corrupt Creations

Seth saw Seren was a bit confused, but since he wanted to clarify everything for her, he explicitly told her about his relationship with Rina and Arwen. 

Serene didn't feel jealous after she discovered that Rina was Seth's girlfriend as well. If there was something she felt after hearing Seth's words of explanation, was gratitude and curiosity for Rina and her mother. 

Actually, for demons and devils, having more than a single partner was a very normal occurrence and even her own mother had two husbands at the same time when she was the empress. For the demonic race, what mattered the most was power; the strongest ones, would rule over the others in the way they wanted and that was one of the reasons Serene didn't intend to fight back against Velgor's marriage alliance with the Lion's Pride Golden Sanctuary. She would rather suicide instead. 

As strange as it may sound for a devil princess, Serene didn't have the profile of a real princess of the devil race. Even after Seth unlocked her ability to cultivate and taught her many things, she hadn't studied or trained anything apart from the Hades Manual. And even her way of developing the Hades Manual was kind of strange as well. She was focusing too much on the Soul Link, studying and testing everything she could, that was related to that particular ability. 

Living all her life confined inside a house located in the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan, had made her develop some housewife habits, always trying to manage things for Seth and making his life easier at the time he still was Velgor's "disciple". 

Unknowingly for Seth and even for herself, Serene had plans of managing Seth's future harem with the Soul Link technique. It's just that she had only formed that concept recently, after seeing how many beautiful ladies were circling her man. As a demonic being, she found it oddly enjoyable when she saw that her man had conquered so many beautiful ladies. 

But those things were still too vague, too far from being understood. Her soul was not strong enough to properly handle and understand that technique and she was still discovering what was going to be her real role in Seth's life. 

. 

. 

. 

Serene and Seth finished eating their breakfast and together, they departed towards the Elf Queen's house. When they arrived there, Arwen and Rina were already awake and waiting for them. 

Impressively, just after he properly introduced Serene to them, he found out that Rina and Serene were practically friends already. There was a really friendly atmosphere around those two and they easily found a topic to talk about together. However, somehow, that topic would always circle around Seth. Maybe that's how they got to become close to each other. 

Noticing those two girls were entranced in a conversation, Arwen went towards Seth and asked him to do somethings inside the house for her, before leaving. 

"Seth, I need to attend to a meeting at the Ereinrith City and I won't be able to come back until late at night. Take care of those two girls for me." 

"Don't worry, I will do those things you asked me to do and look after them as well." 

"Good. So, I'll be going." 

"See you later." 

After Arwen left, Seth went around the house, binding each one of the formations to recognize Serene and himself as allies as well. After that, he checked on Serene and Rina and realized they were still having a good time together, so he decided to go to his room and work on cultivating his soul. 

While he was inside the abyss, he never got the chance to do it even once. The constant barrage of attacks he suffered there and innumerable battles going on in that place, were a perfect training for his body, but unfortunately, it didn't add much to his soul prowess. 

Seth entered his new room and sat in the middle of his bed. Very quickly, he projected his consciousness to the insides of his soul, appearing in the middle of his blue Soul Lake. 

Impressively, more than twenty five percent of all the lake "water" that constituted that Soul Lake, had already been converted into Soul Mist. But still, there was a long way to go till he finished it all. 

Seth closed his eyes and concentrated on converting his Soul Essence and almost as if instantly, a blue mist could be seen forming around his projected consciousness. 

After doing that task for what seemed like an eternity, Seth was already completely enveloped in that blue mist from his Soul Essence. Suddenly, in that particular state, he felt that the mist was not the final form of his soul. 

In a moment of enlightenment, he realized that maybe, there shouldn't be a mist and there shouldn't be a lake. That feeling only increased in power and at a certain point, it was just like he knew those things should not exist, but there wasn't an explanation for that. 

All Seth could think, was that he should nullify his own Soul Essence somehow, but it made no sense. Doing that, was akin on erasing his own existence. But that thought only kept growing and growing inside his mind and eventually, even Lexi was compelled to come out, after she felt something was off. 

When she appeared out of his Soul Lake, Seth was entranced, looking at a very small particle of that blue mist, desiring it should just vanish. 

"Seth? What are you doing?" 

Seth was suddenly expelled from his reverie and was forcefully brought back, after hearing Lexi's voice. 

"Lexi? Ehm... It's nothing. I was just transforming my Soul Essence into Soul Mist and increasing its power." 

Lexi had no way of telling what was wrong and she had to go with his explanation. But she felt something was a bit strange. 

"Seth, there is something I need to ask you." 

"Oh? Go ahead." 

"I've noticed that you've been rarely using your soul abilities during your last fights.... Are you perhaps avoiding to use them?"