Chapter 119: Nines Torment (2/2)
Through this event, Lilith didn't seem to voice her opinion as she just gazed at Nora and Edain with a radiant smile.
”What are you thinking about?” I asked as she turned to me.
”Poison...she poisoned you, didn't she?” Lilith asked as she touched her chest, her fiery hair glimmering like flames as she smiled, ”Have you heard of Nine's Torment?”
Shaking my head, Lilith continued, ”it was a poison that killed a Giant. It started as a basic poison that enters your blood, corrupting your DNA. It changes your very structure making your own Vital Qi your enemy. It was said that when Valtrex was poisoned, he cried to Ymir. Yet, the more he screamed, the greater his suffering became.
”Eon passed before the poison evolved. No more did his vital qi try to kill him but rather corrupt his thoughts. It learned, evolved before starting to decay his mind. The first to go was his wife. He brutally raped and killed her before proceeding to do the same with his children, afterward savagely devouring their bodies alive. He became so derange his fellow brethren severed his head.”
Looking at the loving smile, I frowned, feeling a chill down my spine, ”But he lived, even without his head, the poison flowed through his body. Evolving, and so a cycle passed, and he rose out of the grave without his head. Not only had he become deranged, but he had also somehow gained sentience. Remembering everything he did to his wife, his little boy, and girl. To all those, he loved he wailed, but his madness never stopped. He viciously manipulated the new generation taking one of theirs heads for the one he lost. And thus began his lifetime of torment.
”He had to watch in horror as his body by itself would kill those he loved. He pillaged, raped men, children, the elderly, shit there were even records of him having his way with the goats and various other animals. He was finally killed, but his poison had evolved nine times. Hence the name Nine's Torment. Valtrex was so broken I heard a demon say his soul reminded him of those on the second layer of Hell.”
”Lilith? That is...” I could didn't even know what to say. It was sick, ”But could you really use it on her?”
”I was hesitant before...To lock her in a time of infinite despair, but Is it not fitting, she gave herself willingly to Drar'ethiul. Bael had put things in perspective, Sene. No mercy, those days are gone. ”
Taking a cold breath of air, I saw Lilith take out a small white vail, ”This is it. It looks pure, doesn't it? Yet, a Giant was all but destroyed due to this poison. It could not kill him, but it was never meant to kill. Just break what you are. YOu will never be a person after this. Your personality, your very Viber, will be erased as you are put down by those you love. and by some miracle, should you live, well, what you were before will fade. ”
”Is there a cure?” I asked as Lilith lightly smile.
”No, there was only one case. The Aesir Gods were bored, so they created this poison just to see what would happen. I heard Thor, watched for the beginning to end laughing as one of his cousins smashed the skull of Valtrex, destroying his inner and outer soul. When the inner or outer soul is destroyed, the core is automatically sent to Heaven or Hell. Most Gods of the various myths are not even aware of this. ”
Taking the veil, I felt it react to my touch. with a cruel gleam that matched Lilith, I kissed her lips as she melted at my touch. ”you may be the best wife ever.”
”Cough,” Erica said as she sent an odd look at us, ”Didn't you buy a mansion? Do that stuff behind closed doors. No one wants to see that.”
Shrugging, I placed the vail within the Ring of Bael, ”Want to join,” I asked as Lilith beamed in joy within arms. With a flash of black light, we faded into the shadows. Leaving those watching bewildered.