Chapter 253 - Unfortunate News At Unfortunate Times[18+Extreme Gore And Torture]
Picking up a scalpel from the torture table, Riley moved in front of the goblin queen who'd been strapped to the torture board for about a week now. Scanning her up and down, she noticed multiple bruises and marks left behind by Fay and Moriyana's illusionary torture before her.
"While I do feel bad for you two, you were both playing with fire knowing you could get hurt," closing her eyes, Riley grabbed the potion saber from her waist and stabbed the goblin queen right over her hips. "Hopefully this will keep you alive."
Ignoring the muffled screams of the goblin, Riley opened her eyes and looked down at the saber slowly injecting high potion into the queen's body. Spreading quickly through her bloodstream, the high motion healed all her injuries and even made her feel fine for once in a long time. As her arms lost their tension and relaxed, however, Riley held up her hand with the incision knife clamped between her fingers.
"Moriyana told me the potion will keep healing you for a while," pressing the knife against her chest, Riley excitedly bit down on her lower lip. "Don't get too relaxed though because you're still going to feel all the pain as I tear into you."
Hearing it all from the other board, Medusa was thankful that it wasn't her being tortured, whilst also being afraid since she was the next person in line once Riley was done with the goblin queen.
"Here I go," saying that Riley pressed the knife against the queen's chest and ran it down her entire sternum. Cutting her chest open in half, a wide grin took over Riley's face. However, with the potion trying to seal the wound shut, she didn't have much time to waste. "Mhmmnn, if only I could eat your heart, but Master wouldn't be too happy if I acquire a taste for goblins."
Licking the blood off of the knife, she dug deeper into the chest of the screaming queen of goblins. Running the knife down her stomach, she spilled up all the bile and stepped back for a moment to watch the bile spill out of her body.
'Riley?' For a moment, Riley didn't even notice Haruki's voice ringing inside her head. 'Riley? What the hell are you doing standing there?'
Shaken from behind, Riley's eyes flickered open and shut before she turned around to face who it was. The moment her eyes met Haruki's she felt drawn out of her murderous trance and fell back into reason.
"What happened to you? I've been calling your name for a while and you were just standing there looking at the goblin queen," Haruki asked, glancing towards the torture boards.
Following his gaze, Riley turned around to find the queen free of all wounds that she had allegedly put on her. Squinting her eyes in shock, Riley moved closer to find any hint of the torture that she'd put the queen through. The only proof of her actions was the potion saber still stuck in her hips, but with not a single drop of blood on the ground or even on the scalpel she was holding, she didn't know when she'd started dreaming with her eyes open.
"How?" She mumbled, toiling her tongue to taste the blood from before.
However, no matter how much she tried there was nothing left in her mouth to be tasted.
"Is something wrong?" Haruki asked, placing his hand on Riley's shoulder.
"I-uh..." Letting go of the scalpel, Riley grabbed her head and just tried to clear her head for a moment. "That blessing has been messing up with my murderous instincts."
As she spoke, Haruki was reminded of the blessing Riley had acquired after Stella accidentally healed her somehow.
"Illusions?" Haruki asked.
"Daydreaming more like," throwing her hands down, Riley replied.
"That could be a problem," moving towards the torture subjects, Haruki began undoing their binds even though their punishment was far from being over. "A spy who's daydreaming? Maybe, you shouldn't go out on missions anymore until we figure out how to deal with or make use of that blessing."
"What?!" The thought alone of not being able to do what she did best, stiffened up her body with angst. "No way! What else would I do then?!"
Undoing the final binds on Medusa, Haruki left the queens to catch up their breaths and stretch their tormented bodies a little. Turning back to Riley, he opened up two mirror-like portals over his shoulders that showed Moriyana and Margarette directing other demons in each.
"Everyone's back to their posts so there's no need to work yourself too much," moving closer to her once again, he placed his hand over her shoulder to say something before pushing her out of the dungeon. "Asuka and the demi-cat duo are aiding those two as healers, and since Fay is busy taking care of Stella, I want you to go work with the blacksmith from the gremlin colony we brought here to make the most vicious weapons possible."
Snapping his fingers, Haruki took the potion saber out of the goblin queen's hips with shadow hands and brought it in front after healing her with rejuvenation.
"Take the queen and Medusa with you. You can be the weapon's expert and they can deal with the magic part of it," snapping his fingers once more, he dropped them where they needed to be.
'Now to go and meet Asmodia at that colosseum.' Holding his hand in front, Haruki opened up a mirror portal; similar to the one Asmodia had used to escape into the abyss. Emerging from the ground, it reflected the inner streets of Dolatia with countless demons and cyborgs carrying around hunks of metal and logs about to be used for the construction.
"You better be there like you told me you would," stepping into the mirror, Haruki hoped Asmodia wasn't simply messing around with him since he pissed her off so much when didn't let her get close to Stella.
The moment he came out the other end, all the other demons in the surrounding area stopped in their tracks and turned to look right at him. Mixed in a jumble of Haruki's servants and that of Deus, none of them knew how they were supposed to react to his arrival and simply froze in fear of offending their masters in case they made the wrong move.
"Keep moving," realizing their dilemma, Haruki fanned his hands to keep them moving. "I'm not a demon lord yet, and I'm not gonna kill you if you make a mistake."
Despite his assurance, the demons who'd once seen the giant demon claws swinging at them from the sky were much more reluctant to move than Deus's servants and cyborgs. Shaking his head, Haruki ignored them all and simply grew his wings out and flew towards the interior of the Colosseum.
From the sky alone, Haruki was baffled by the peculiarity of the structure. Not only was it made from tons and tons of metal, but it also had beams of light emitting from long strings of tubes that he'd never seen before. And even though it was still bright in the morning, he couldn't see all that much because the metal floor reflected the sun in his eyes.
Shutting his eyes for a moment, he was hit by a beam of iron being carried inward by a giant apparatus with a claw. Upon inspecting it closer he noticed a cyborg sitting in a box attached to the claw and perhaps somehow controlling the machine with levers and dials in front of him. Having hit Haruki, he had his head lowered to the metal floor to convey his apology.
"You're lucky, I don't have my companions with me, they would've eaten you alive," giving him a warning, Haruki quickly descended inside the colosseum right where Deus and Asmodia appeared to be fighting.
"I told you no nuon!" Asmodia complained her teeth gritted in rage.
"First of all it's neon, second..." Noticing Haruki from above Asmodia's shoulder, Deus put up a smile so he could use him to get out of the situation. "The champion is here!"
His faked enthusiasm was a dead tell of his bad acting skills. However, feeling yet another presence behind him, Haruki didn't have time to call him out on his false act.
"Mellicia has been grumbling for a while," muttering behind Haruki, Merciella appeared from a dark portal.
"What?!" Asmodia yelped, sounding genuinely shocked by her words.
"She's trying to terrify you, don't just believe everything she says," Deus tried to calm her a bit.
"And Deus, your machinas are all dead and that stupid war general is securing your territory as his!" Yelling at her brother, Merciella looked at him with pure disgust.
"Wait..." Confused in their back and forth, Haruki had no clue what the hell they were all on about. "What the fuck are you guys even talking about?"
"If Mellicia's active by herself, you'll know soon enough," Asmodia replied, her eyes seeming droopy and drained.
"Shut up, okay? The fight is happening tonight so I can handle Dominion after we're done here. As for Mellicia, we can't do much about her anyways, can we? Not unless she decided to descend down from the heavens, right?" Unsure himself, Deus tried to put up a facade of courage that none of them bought.
"This was a stupid idea from the start, but with the emperor apparently missing, and Mellicia waking up, this is nothing more than an utter waste of time," growling at everyone around her Asmodia evidently not too pleased with the situation.
"Can someone just tell me what the hell is happening?" Haruki asked once again, and this time Deus turned to tell him everything about what all of it entailed.
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