"Know your place, You are in the presence of an upper God in the lesser division. I shall soon acquire the Old God title, so imagine my disgust that I should come down here. In this place of filth and livestock. To try talking some sense into you... No, you are too much of a thread that needs to be eliminated."
In all of this, Mike's face never changed. It was as if he expected this.
"You couldn't pretend for a moment longer huh. I'm quite disappointed. Well, just kill me and be done with it"
With eyes devoid of motivation, a voice that speaks of no reason to live and a body that has been his prison since a young age.
"Ow, death huh, You really think I will allow you just death without regret?"
Swishhh
Suddenly Nannia was held by the Goddess.
"To make sure you get tethered to this world and plane of existence, I thought I might kill someone you hold dear."
Raia's hands went and held Nannia by her neck.
"You know, you almost got us worried, you have something we need and we had no way of extracting it from you. Plans that were epoch in the making almost got destroyed."
She stopped for a moment and looked Mike deep in his eyes
"But.. I'm not surprised, that thing you have has always eluded us. We would have had to wait for another epoch just to have a chance at it. But this woman here, her being in your life turned her into an essential instrument"
Seeing the intensity at which Nannia was being strangled. Mike's stoic face started to show veins. The young soft neck now rich with pulsing streams of veins.
"Hey, just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Voice dripping with malice, you could almost misidentify it with one of a beast. Eyes void of life, where light never thought to touch now seem to be brimming with void energy, ready to devour all that is within its sights.
"There it is, that power, such a shame for it to be in a worthless human."
The hideous creature with a face hard to read was exuding greed. Her attention had even shifted away from Nannia, now trained only on Mike.
At this moment Mike had no clue what the goddess was saying. His perception was on his opponent, so he could not see what was going on with him. He was even a bit startled by the sudden change of attitude.
"GET YOUR UNHOLY HANDS OFF HER!"
A beast ready to pounce at any moment. His voice commanded the moment, the second and the surrounding environment, the Goddess' hand even got a bit loose, giving Nannia a moment to catch a breath.
"Mike, get away. Run away Mike, don't try to fight her. She is not only the Goddess of love and protection of the children..."
"Shut up"
Nannia's voice brought the goddess back to her senses. Upon gaining her senses back , she realized a fatal situation.
'Did.. no. Did my body voluntarily move on his command? Impossible. He has no control whatsoever on that power'
"Kid, swear your allegiance to the Gods and she lives"
Mike was beyond angry, he was practically oozing killing intent. But currently his body couldn't allow him a chance to express his emotions. His mind was debating on taking the deal. But still, his soul was screaming to him to not even consider it.
'I really want to kill all of you'
That was all his mind was repeating over and over again. His life. His parents. His destiny. His freedom. And his tank of f*ck off energy. It is all caused by one group. His fellow human just chose to be blind and be strung along by those very beings he hated.
Today, it was a human who kicked him out. A human who tried to scam him into swearing his allegiance to the Gods. And humans were the ones who took the only human he cared about and strung her to a pole to be sacrificed to the Gods.
"I HATE YOU ALL. PLEASE... PLEASE LET ME KILL YOU"
*Silence
The world stopped. Sounds of human steps outside stopped. The mist of cold breath stood in place. Suddenly up in the sky. The once starry night full of starlight turned completely dark. Goddess Raia's energy barrier also lost its luster, turning dark before it faded away.
All sources of light were sucked away by the dark void. Leaving only the golden door and one street lamp near them as a source of light.
Goddess Raia reverted back to her human-like self. Her innocent oval face looked drained of colour.
'What could make a Goddess have such fear'
Nannia, who was close enough to get a closer look, was able to see Raia's face.
"Wh... What are you doing here? Y..."
"Be quiet!.. It is amusing. I stay silent for eons and a snot nosed brats thinks they can question me"
Suddenly, pressure that made Raia's feel like a toddler playing, came crashing down. It was mostly concentrated on Raia. She tried resisting at first but soon her body hit the floor like it was being pulled by invisible chains. Her bones were audibly cracking. Unable to even blink.
Zoooop!
A golden light came crashing and enveloped her body. What was there one moment was gone the next.
"Tsk, they sure are good at running away as always"
Looking at the new arrival who looks 30 years of age. Built like a Greek God wearing a suit. Dark long hair and even darker eyes. They seem as if they could take in any light they look at.
Mike who was angry before was now visibly shook. With his spiritual eye. He could not see anything. Not because his powers were off. The shadow of the man before him was so huge that everywhere he goes all spiritual senses get blocked off.
"Who... What are you, you don't seem or feel like one of them."
His head turned back to the person asking the question. The man put on a smile looking at the boy in the wheelchair.
"Do forgive me, I was busy trying to swat a mosquito that I forgot to introduce myself."
One hand in front and another at the back with a bow.
"I am Satan. Pleasure to meet you"
*Silence
Nannia's eyes grow 3 times their size. Mike was shocked as well by the introduction.
"You mea..."
"Yes, that Satan"
He could even finish his sentence.
"Ow where's my manners"
Snap!
The once lightless pupils gained life. Mike was visibly surprised by the sudden influx of imagery information. Especially in this passive manner. He always had to put in an effort if he wanted to see anything. Not that he minded, and if he had to make a comparison, Spiritual sight was a hundred times better than using your real eyes to see. Eyes had so much physical limitation, for example, he couldn't see the energies around him.
His sense of sound came to life as well. He didn't have to decipher air vibrations in order to listen. Though both senses had limits in their quality, just the fact that he didn't have to make a conscious effort or use more brain power was a plus.
"Now you can hear and see me. I figured I had already taken the spiritual space, I might just compensate you"
"Uhh, Thanks I guess.. You ... You"
"I am not behaving the way I am depicted in the books and legends?"
"You can say that, I was expecting fire, heat and some screaming in the mix. Don't take this the wrong way, this is totally underwhelming"
Mike had totally forgotten that he was talking to Satan, The devil. The embodiment of chaos and suffering.
"Ow. I guess you didn't see the ominous entrance. I didn't want to mention this but I have frozen time, only 3 of us can move in this universe and if I was lucky, I almost killed a Goddess!"
Visibly pissed by the underestimation. Satan snapped again and the three blinked out of existence.
Another moment they were in front of a huge gate. The gate had two doors with skulls on both sides facing each other, skeletal hands interlocked. Chain holding the doors together as if trying to stop what was inside from coming out.
"Are…are these the gates of hell??"
As a devout follower of a religion and all the stories she heard about Satan and Hell, Nannia was visibly shaken by meeting THE Satan himself and even being sent to hell.
"Really, are we really doing this? First of all, Hell doesn't exist. Well it does but not in the way you think. Also, this is not Hell's gate. It's the gate to my castle. Jezzz those Gods really did a number on you humans. No wonder the Gods have grown so powerful since my slumber"