A Serpent's Tale-Chapter 383: Powerless

"Very well then, if that’s how you want it done, then it shall be done as so. Thank you." I could hear the sincerity in his soft voice.

Then it came back out with a more domineering and commanding presence across the realm.

"All demons return! Fail to abide by this and die at my hands!"

Many demons suddenly started to head back up to the crack in the sky and return to hell. All of the Lust demons obviously returned. The rest hesitated for a moment, but still went away regardless.

This then left the realm full of its native inhabitants, the remaining monsters and the commonfolk. How exactly they were going to prevent any of them from touching this blood for the next several thousand years, I don’t know. But I’m sure that they’ll figure it out.

In the meantime, I teleported back up to the crack in space in an instant to better talk with my father.

"Hello father." I called out.

It took a second, but he responded as well with, "Hello Traytora."

I reached out my hand and pressed it against the spatial tear, feeling an incredibly weak barrier stopping me from going through, which I could easily break, but didn’t. And I could feel my father doing the same.

It really was annoying that we couldn’t just pass through said barrier without consequences happening for either of us.

Still, we just stayed like that for a while, just basking in each other’s presence. That was until father told me to wait here while he went to go and get someone.

I didn’t understand what he meant by that. Just who was he getting? Who in all of Hell could he possibly be getting?

As I waited to find out, I heard Lucifer’s voice come through.

"You should probably go now, little niece. If you do, I fear you won’t be able to resist the urge to come through." He urged, his voice stricken with minute traces of fear. "Go, go now or you won’t be able to return."

"What? Why?" I was just confused. What prompted his sudden warning?

"Just go!" He yelled. "If you didn’t, then you will end up condemning your life and throwing it away for no reason."

Despite him trying to make me leave, I wasn’t just going to go without at the very least saying goodbye to my father.

"No! I want to say goodbye at least." I harumphed, crossing my arms and pouting.

I heard him grumble slightly as he muttered something under his breath before he spoke again. This time in a much sterner tone.

"Listen, I won’t repeat myself. LEAVE. Or you WILL die by your own hands."

"No! I want to say goodbye." I repeated more aggressively.

Lucifer just sighed. And I could feel something had changed about him when he did so. It was instinctual.

Whereas before, he was just kind of there, but still had a hidden caring side, now, he felt incredibly imposing and majestic.

Then he spoke, "You WILL leave. And you will leave NOW! And neither will you come back."

The moment he said those words, I felt some kind of force take hold of my body as I suddenly started to move away from the tear and back down to the surface of the realm.

It took less than a minute for me to do so, even when I was actively fighting against this force. And once I made it to the ground, I felt my Mana flaring up.

I tried to supress it, but to no avail as I suddenly was teleported somewhere else. Once I had arrived, I felt free from the external force that was controlling my body and keeled over the ground in a cold sweat. Even slightly light headed.

*Pant* *Pant*

Me breathing was heavy as I clutched my chest, sweat dripping off of my face and staining the ground as my vision periodically blurred.

’That was... So intense...’ Was all I could say to what happened. And for a while, I just kind of sat there, resting and catching my breath.

When I finally recovered, my vision was still a little foggy round the edges and my breathing was still somewhat ragged, but for the most part I had recovered.

I was just unusually tired for some reason. And I quickly found out the reason as to why.

My [SP] had dropped to below half.

I was flabbergasted. How could it have dropped below half? I mean, the answer was obvious, but still. I had JUST increased it massively by millions. How could that have drained me so much?

Also, if that had drained me by half, then what would’ve happened if I didn’t increase it? Would I have fought for a few seconds if that, and then just become a mindless puppet?

Lucifer wouldn’t go as far as to take advantage of that obviously, but still.

Even with how absurdly powerful I’ve become, I still don’t hold a candle to beings like him. And I bet he was going easy on me too, barely even using his authority and power.

But as my shock over my ’uncles’ power faded, I began to tear up.

He forcefully tore me away from my only chance to be with my father again, even if only for a short while and not even in person or able to see one another.

I didn’t even get to say goodbye. Nor did I find out what it was that he wanted me to see, or hear in this case since I couldn’t see into Hell as it was just a red void of sorts. Visually at least.

*Sob* *Sob*

’Why? Why can’t I ever have anything nice in this world?’ I started crying in sorrow as my mind splintered in emotional distress.

’Even after becoming as strong as I have now, why can’t I ever seem to be happy for any period of time? Am I just going to have to always suffer at every turn? Why, just why does everything in my life have to go wrong or be horrible?’

It wasn’t long before my wails started to get louder to the point where they could be heard across the current layer I was in. Especially after I realised that even if I could go back, Lucifers power suddenly returned to stun me when I tried.

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(Eric POV)

After the hostile takeover of the dungeon, which felt extremely demonic in its form, much more so than what Traytora could ever accomplish as is, I expended my power even faster, just to find her.

I knew that she would’ve cause the demons to invade, which shouldn’t be possible since this is a dungeon. Unless its not, in which case that changes everything.

Still, I had to find her as I knew not of the nature of this invasion. What if there are demons that want to kidnap her and take her back to hell? An extremely unlikely scenario, but it’s not implausible. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Then there was why this happened in the first place. She hadn’t died, had she? That felt extremely unlikely since her father would’ve likely destroyed most of this place by now if that was the case.

Then there was that weird surge of power that I felt. It felt endless, infinite even. That surge didn’t last long before it was suddenly snuffed out as if it never existed at all.

I’d only searched about seventy floors, or layers at this point and still hadn’t found her, but I was running out of Mana with how I was rushing things.

Which wasn’t good for two reasons. One, I would spend my Mana faster and in an inefficient manner, and two, I wasn’t looking over each layer properly, meaning I could’ve missed her.

But given how there were no demonic presences anywhere, I figured she likely wouldn’t be on any of these floors, so when I confirmed as such, I moved on and went deeper.

Honestly, everything I was doing wight now was incredibly stupid. I was heading deeper into more and more dangerous territory filled with even more dangerous monsters.

At some point though, the demonic presence suddenly surged in power before slowly receding entirely. Then at some point, I felt a faint trace of incredibly unstable power.

And that was when I knew I had found her. But the problem was I still had no idea how deep exactly she was in this place. Like sure, she was further in dungeon, but how much deeper exactly?

Either way this was good as it meant I no longer had to waste Mana searching for her.

Still, with every layer I passed through, I felt like something was off. It felt like Traytora, yet it wasn’t the same as what I remember. Even as I kept going through several layers, it just kept on getting stronger and stronger, without end.

I was starting to worry for her as some kind of monster could’ve possibly possessed her, especially with how much power I felt even after reaching the hundredth layer. And she was still so far away.

But I kept on going. I don’t know how I would live with myself if I let this happen to her. She’s suffered enough in several lifetimes. She doesn’t need more in this one.