381 Side Chapter; Demon Gods (1/2)
In the Pantheon of the Demon Gods that founded the Thanatos Kingdom, several Demon Gods felt the presence of Megusan dissipating.
The one who they once saw as their companion and ally had always showcased strange conducts that were innate to its nature and divinity. And the moment he betrayed them; the Demon Gods never forgave him again. They knew that due to its nature, he would always try to betray them again if he did so once.
The Demon Gods Pantheon is usually misinterpreted as evil and terrible beings that only enjoy the suffering of others. But several of them do not pertain through such behaviors. And are usually conservative and cold headed creatures that stick together and survive.
Their leader, Thanatos, the Demon God of Everlasting Darkness, was a being that worried about the safety of his Kingdom and that of his children and brothers, the other Demon Gods.
Thanatos already knew that adding Megusan to their group back then would have eventually led to such a situation, but due to the circumstances present in that very moment, he saw Megusan as a valuable warrior.
Thankfully, because Megusan was so set on surviving over anything else, he cooperated with the rest and did not betray them nor tried to kill others to steal their divinities. Megusan was at least intelligent enough to understand the situation in where he was, any such thing would ignite the rage of the Demon Gods, and in the middle of the Ragnarök, it would have only led to his inevitable doom.
However, as the war settled down when the World of Genesis was split into Realms, he slowly released his toxicity, natural and instinctive of his own divinity. One could say that his attitude was a curse, and others that it was the nature of his divinity, but everyone was certain that he was a dangerous individual.
Although several Demon Gods had created 'bonds' with Megusan, and even mated with him to create children that could survive the harsh environment of the Realms, they knew that he would soon release all of the desires he had saved from within his heart.
It was inevitable.
And so, he did. He betrayed his siblings, made its own children sacrifice the tribes of other mortal demons, and enraged his siblings.
Megusan's response was ”I just desired power. Don't you all do?”.
Thankfully, the Demon Gods had already prepared for such a thing to happen eventually, and quickly disposed of him, exiling him from their Pantheon. He was wounded after being attacked by the rage of whose children were sacrificed, but he survived and escaped.
Only to come back one day, with offerings.
The Demon Gods were not involved in Megusan's sealing but did not interfere either. They knew that the enraged Beast Gods destroyed what barely remained of its physical body, and then torn apart its soul into pieces, that were then sealed into artifacts.
Unlike Thanatos and other Demon Gods, the Beast Gods were born after Genesis was destroyed into Realms, so they did not possess powerful offensive techniques like they did, which were essential to survive in the Ragnarök. Due to this, they were not capable of killing Megusan, neither eat him, so they had to just seal him.
Thanatos and the rest of the Demon Gods then forgave about this issue and concentrated on the present, they raised dungeons to nourish their children and taught their apostle's different ways of gaining strength and power, evolution, forgotten magic, and special exercises such as nourishing one's body with magic, which they named cultivation.
After such an explosion of power from the mortal demons, and as hundreds of years went by, they began to set their eyes on the nearby Kingdoms, Tribes, and Empires made by other demi-humans. The Children of Tiamat, or the children of the Ova, the Great Goddess of Beasts.
Allying with the Vampires and Agatheina, the Goddess of Blood, they obtained a valuable force that could act at night and dispose of the enemy forces their core. Due to this, they recognized Agatheina as a valuable ally…
”I don't really care about that Megusan dying, he was dead for all of us already… But what I care about is the one who killed him…” Thanatos muttered.
He had the size of a twenty floors building, a Giant being, his entire body was humanoid in resemblance, and it was covered in a powerful dark armor that exuded darkness and shadows. The armor was, in fact, its exoskeleton, and inside of it, there was only red flesh and blood.
He sat down on his Divine Realm… an arid place with an everlasting night, a bright artificial crimson moon shined at the sky, and countless of disgusting beasts and demonic monsters roamed the dry stone and the sky. Below the dry, gray stone, countless black and gray jewels were growing, and there were several giant mushroom forests, exuding toxic mist.
The Divine Realm of Thanatos was vast, he had stolen the Divine Realm of Megusan and merged it with his own, creating a larger landscape and making Poison Attribute beings grow alongside the Dark and Shadow Attribute ones that naturally formed in there.
Thanatos was not alone, as beside him there were a dozen other figures, some were grotesque in appearance, resembling masses of flesh, hundreds of eyes, a floating brain with tentacles, a hundred-headed bull… while others resembled humanoid-like creatures, but after closer inspection, one would quickly realize that they were disgusting beings, using 'armor' which were in reality exoskeleton, or beautiful maidens which were only wearing masks, and were in fact monsters made out of bones or fangs… The appearance of Demon Gods was very distinctive than conventional Gods, those born as Humans or very human-like demi-humans.
Agatheina would often sit beside these creatures, however, she would usually show herself as the giant bat-like monster that she is capable of transforming, as 'beautiful' appearances such as her humanoid form made the Demon Gods vomit in disgust.
A mass of floating eyes of different colors and shapes spoke, with a child-like voice, though it did not have a mouth, it talked telepathically with its siblings… Oculus, the Demon God of One Hundred Cursed Eyes.
”Thanatos… are you thinking the same thing as us?” it said.
”Indeed… We really did not put into the thought that the mortal named as 'Kireina' had already acquired the ability to eat God's souls… which means that she can also damage them, even without possessing Divine Energy” analyzed a giant, fleshy floating brain with tentacles… Kinesis, the Demon God of Brains and Telepathy.
”This is… Thanatos, Oculus, Kinesis… are you certain of such information? A mortal being capable of eating Gods… this all seems like a tale that an ignorant mortal would come out with… If it was capable of eating gods, wouldn't it be a god already?” said a 'beautiful' and tall woman, with fair purple skin and bat-like wings… but at closer inspection, such beauty was but a façade, it was her exoskeleton, behind her back there were six bug-like legs and large transparent wings, its bat-like wings were also part of its exoskeleton, and besides its pretty face was a grotesque fleshy face… Primidone, the Demon Demigoddess of Deceiving Beauty, mother of all Succubus and Incubus.
”Yeah! I don't understand this either… wouldn't she be a goddess then?! Thanatos, are you certain about your 'itch'… you know that the things you come out with do not happen all the time… aside from Megusan's incident” added a pale, phantasmagoric lady, which was made out of millions of bones… Varilok, the Demon Demigoddess of Phantom Bones.
”My siblings… I do understand your concern, but this isn't an 'itch', it is the factual truth. Trying to find another way out of this incredible situation will lead to nothing… 'Kireina', is a mortal capable of not only damaging Gods, but it is also capable of eating their souls and steal their divinities… the reason why Megusan's presence disappeared, but his divinity was still existing is because she most likely obtained it… while being a mortal…” said Thanatos, with a harsh and metallic voice, each time he spoke, his voice would make the entire Divine Realm tremble.
The god's reactions varied, but their shrieks and grotesque voices resonated as much as Thanatos inside the Divine Realm.
”That's…”
”But it's impossible…!”
”Wouldn't she have died then?”
”Megusan's soul was capable of dissolving even other divinities! How can it be?”
”How can…. How can a mortal have a divinity? Wouldn't her soul die down? What kind of Soul does she possess?” asked Primidone, bewildered.