Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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“It might be but it’s empty demonic power, you need a proper demon soul to help you channel its true power. Humans or other races are simply unable to conjure this power’s maximum potential,” Querlax explained. “Hence why you’ve seen the Warlocks and other Sorcerers always employ our souls for everything! Even when making demonic monsters they imbue our souls into them.”

“What about Demonic Beasts?” Mark asked.

“Demonic Beasts are mutated beasts or monsters, the demonic power turns them stronger and give them demonic traits, they can eventually become very strong but cannot do any of the sophisticated spells or abilities demons like us can do!” Berbelianna said proudly. “Of course, my own creations are the exception, my Hell Spawns are definitely stronger and better than mere Demonic Beasts, hahaha!”

“Demonic Beasts in hell are nothing but our food, we hunt them to eat, to satiate ourselves, although our hunger for souls is never-ending, even now, I am constantly thinking about devouring your souls, it is as if we were made to only think and crave this,” Querlax sighed. “It is tiring… we are driven by this endless crave, and we even sell ourselves to Warlocks, we let them use us for whatever they want, only for the promise of more souls.”

“Oh…” I muttered, looking back at Mark, who raised his eyebrows.

“Is he being sincere?” he asked.

“Yeah… I told them to always tell me the truth,” I sighed.

“I see…” Mark looked down.

Perhaps for the first time, aside from Hellberos, we were interacting with demons and learning what was really inside of their heads this whole time… were they forces of absolute evil? Maybe, yeah, I mean they kind of are.

But at the same time, when you seal them and leave them with no other options than to speak the truth… they reveal thoughts deep within their psyche, some that might never resurface otherwise if they weren’t in this position, you learn about what’s deep inside their heads, aside from the surface monster they always show.

“I had no idea you felt that way,” I said. “Were the other demons also like this?”

“No? I mean I don’t know,” Querlax said. “I do enjoy making innocents suffer however, I laugh at their screams, and I find pleasure into eating their souls from them as they agonize. And this, is the truth of my being.”

“Me too,” Berbelianna said. “I could only think like that, with my personality and other things only beings means to an end… but now that we are sealed like this, and made to speak the truth and forbid our demonic side… I guess this is how it feels to be more rational?”

“Huh…” I nodded. I felt kind of weird as I learned more, but also I felt happy I could understand them too. “I suppose Hellberos was the same, he betrayed us back then because he simply couldn’t help it, it is part of his nature as a demon… but once we sealed him better back then, he returned to his former self and even apologized. Right?”

“Yeah,” Mark nodded. “I believe that Phantasmos dude did the same thing, he promised him souls and Hellberos quickly gave in, gaining full control of his possessed and attacking us…”

“Hellberos?! So you know him?” Querlax asked.

“He’s a bastard that ended disappearing long ago, so he’s now contracted to a human?” Berbelianna asked.

“Yeah, kind of,” I nodded. “It’s more complicated than that though. But that doesn’t matter for now, and I’m not going to talk about it either… What I need to know is what’s your purpose. Who is your leader, what does he wants?”

“You’re talking about the Demon King of Hell?” asked Berbelianna. “Who knows? Only a few of us have ever meet him in person… Only those that are Dukes or Princes of Hell.”

“We are commoners that are of low rank and weak in power… we would never have the privilege of ever getting close to his domain,” Querlax said.

“What domain?” I asked.

“He exists within the Boundaries of Dimensions, where all Dimensional Energy and the Void Decay, creating a constant stream of negative energy that generates the power for Hell,” Querlax said.

“Huh?!” I didn’t understand that either.

“Anyway so only Demons that have powerful Souls can even get through all that mess…” Berbelianna sighed. “Anyway, that’s all we know anyway! Happy now?”

“Yep very happy,” I nodded. “For now, you can snack on my Soul Essence by a little.”

I touched both weapons, infusing them with bits of Soul Essence they could absorb, making them happier as they consumed it rapidly, feeling more satiated, I hoped.

With all of that done and our breakfast ready, we departed, regrouping with my family and friends… apparently Anna’s Familiars had already been evolved, looking even bigger and stronger than before.

We went to pick up Silver, Goldie, and Belle from the stables as well… Goldie said that the treatment wasn’t too bad, although he looked clearly pissed off.

Once we began to depart, the Miners Guild and their Masters said their goodbyes, gathering around the exit route where we were moving, towards the Snowy Mountains.

It seemed that the rumors about what we did quickly spread through the village, and now everyone knew that it was us who saved them from the monsters, so they were very thankful, although quite late.

“Goodbye! Thank you for your hospitality!”

I waved my hand, as we rode over my Familiars and into the next route… the temperature quickly lowered. The closer we drew to the Snowy Mountains, the more snow started falling from the skies. The landscape changed from colorful crystals into forests covered by snow and ice crystals instead.

The slope upward was tiring, but not impossible, and with Belle here, a goat who was amazing at climbing, it was easy to move through the mountain. As for Silver and Goldie, both could fly so there wasn’t any problem either… it was a smooth travel, although it was very cold!

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