13 I am here peacefully (1/2)
The ghostly woman couldn't even believe what she was hearing. After seeing the cultist dying, she thought she was gone as well. However, not only did she kept her life, she was even proposed to regain her original body. While a small spark of hope was ignited inside her mind, the cold cruelty of the world quickly extinguished it. No free meal was ever served on this planet, and the first won't be given by a demon inside a burned and broken body. Those changes of sentiments didn't escape the observing eyes of Leilade, but the truth was that she didn't care at all. Her only goal was to reduce the incoming pressure that will fall on the survivors of the Artosis planet. And gaining the sympathy, or at least the favor, of a princess was a good way to do that.
”Well, looks like you are not really happy about that. So, farewell Muïrne.”
And as Leilade said those words, the tentacle near her feet began to slowly move toward the spirit. Seeing the incoming doom approaching without any artifices, the princess quickly explained herself.
”No, no, I gladly accept it. Yes, yes, I accept it. Thank you very much, ehh, dark god? Great god? Great being?”
The visage of the little girl was totally impassive, not reacting at any of those names. Muïrne knew that, by accepting the offer of the monster in front of her, she will probably sell her soul or something like that. But she still didn't know who was responsible for the attack perpetrated by the Church of Torment. The only one that could have answered her questions was the grandmaster, but he was swallowed by the moving shadows. Only by staying alive, will she finally reach her goal. Filled with that newly formed determination, she was ready to suffer anything, except being enslaved. If that was the case, she will try by any means in her possession to kill herself.
”What do you need in exchange of that service, great one?”
At that point, the Empress found out that a terrible misunderstanding was happening in front of her. The tongue and voice employed by the transparent woman looked like the ones used by the new recruit of the Demonic Army. Those that were thinking horrible stuff, like them eating babies at every meal and slaughtering anyone just for fun. Well, those things kind of happened, but they were not common at all. Feeling another headache in her head, Leilade decided that she shouldn't even think about that braindead woman and just end this comedy.
Seeing the still intact body of the princess, she picked it up telepathically, not letting anything happen to it. With just a gesture of her hand, the broken armor was disassembled and turned into a metallic ball, without any imperfection. Concentrating for a few seconds more, she shaped it into a necklace, a white metallic necklace. On it, she conjured an enchantment of her concoction, something she was usually very proud. With this, she will enjoy a bit the spectacle while fulfilling her promise.
As for the princess, she was astounded by the spells of the little girl. One had to know, even the Archmage, the only magician of the seven Circle, needed to spell the names of the sorceries he will employ. For example, the grandmaster had to shout the two spells that turned her into this. But even after concentrating, Muïrne couldn't hear anything coming from the monster surrounded by shadows. And as far as she knew, the things that small child was doing was not achievable by a lot of people.
In the end, all she could do was receiving the floating necklace, not knowing what to do with it. After a few seconds were the little girl watched her with her disturbing dark eyes, the princess guessed that she should wear it. Only after this did she realized that the necklace was still in her hands and not on the ground as it should be. As for the enchant on it, she was not capable of either detecting it or even activate it. She only had a weird feeling about it, but since it was the simplest design, just a chain, she decided to discard this feeling, not wanting to displease the powerful being in front of her.
The moment she put the chain around her neck, she began to feel again the sensation of flesh. It was hurting her so much that she began to scream. She fell from around twenty centimeters, but to her, it looked like it was twenty meters. Only at that time did she realized that since she was turned into a spirit, pain and suffering were gone. But now, those were coming back with interests. For a dozen of seconds, she felt in her entire body more pain than she ever imagined. She crawled on the ground, but even touching it with her arm caused more scream.
During that, Leilade was smiling at this sight. Others didn't know, but she was far too familiar with this feeling. She had resurrected countless beings for the demons, and even the most hardened warrior, veteran of thousands of wars, ended up crying like a little baby. Most fainted after that torture, so the fact that the princess was still conscientious was an honorable feat. In the end, after nearly a minute, the screams were replaced by the sobs of the crying woman.