chapter 111: misfortune

It was midnight when he felt a pulse of darkness surge out of him, something wasen't adding up and lotus began getting suspicious as they didn't need to seal his magic with angelic seals.

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Lotus had the knowledge of a earth-grade rune master and from his analysis they used something higher than an earth-grade seal, he wasen't even that dangerous or a threat to then and they put them on him when he first arrived. . .unless... they knew.

His head was spinning as many ideas ran ramped throught his head and he started to paniced and now he finally wondered why this place was so weird, it was because it was a-

But then the pills wore off releasing his demonic features in a painful manner as his clothing didnt have a place for his tail to go through since it was since human attire they gave him and it was really tight.

He took off the clothing as quick as he could, leaving his underclothing visible/incubus's clothing. It was a bit weird as he had used his claws to rip his shirt since the whole still being hand-cuffed part.

Cleaning up the clothing scraps he saw a mirror and he blushed in embarrassment as he saw himself, the incubus's clothing was very lewd as it exposed his sholders and the sides of his belly and he also had low shorts matching it, but besides looking lewd he did like the long sleeves and the shirt which was actually like a suit vest.

Stepping away from the mirror to throw out the scrapped clothing he tried using his horns to brake the hand-cuffs but it didn't work so he just sat back down.

The cuffs were getting very irritating and it was ice cold inside of his room thanks to it being almost winter and there was no heating due to the lack of any and all technology.

He was shivering as he couldn't alter his body temperature to adapt himself, even though he should of instinctively known how to.

Lotus then heard another moan even tho it was low, but he just ignored it as he was hoping for his natural senses to magically come back to him, but as a few seconds came he became inpatient.

The whatever they we're bringers, lessened not just his stats but also his senses, like his sensitive nose which made him able to smell scents and also essential mana or his perception and etc.

It was weird as nothing should be able to do that, even if he was in a church or some holy land/territory which weekend him, but right now his senses had been dulled and it made him feel weird, well besides the fact he's been urging to eat the blood and fleash off of a few assholes who humiliated and mocked him and drage as he was doing his work today before the girl came.

Besides that, he was starting to feel empty, it was as if this place was starting to make him depressed, he needed something but he didn't know what he needed, he hated everything here, and he knew he was unable to escape even if he wanted to, seeing as he was in a weakened state. Lotus needed to lower their guard for him to sneek out or maybe even have someone brake him out, after all hiro his darkness brother needed him soon so if possible he was a perfect escapee type back up.

Louts tried to use this time and stir up trouble in hopes of getting a bit of revenge even though he was already over it somewhat, and was now just extreamly bored.

But then as he was just sitting there he heard something coming directly from the room connected to his, were there was a certain vampire girl who was making more frequent erotic sounds.

Her erotic voice wasn't the only problem, she was like a damn factory as her scent lingered into his room.

He started feeling weird as he wasen't likeing her disgusting scent... disgusting, awful, disgusting bad, eww, no, crappy, nasty smell, okay maybe... disgustingly intriguing. . .maybe tempting, its an okay scent.

He started burning up as he couldn't resist feeling perverted even if she was his enemy, he felt disguisted with himself as he was dieing to have a taste.

His breathing got slightly heavier and that fragrance get stronger. That exotic fragrance from the vampire as well as her lust was coming into the room, he needed to get his mind out of the horny zone and into the planing zone.

But it wasen't working and he felt himself sinking into nothing but lust as his control sucked, so something like this filled him with mixed emotions.

Not know what to do he pulled his hand close to his head and he bit himself sinking his fangs deep into his own fleash amd making him bleed as a his teeth also left a mark on him as he released himself.

He tried this method and it was working a bit even though he was now losing blood, but that didn't matter. He need to set his plans in action.

He attempted to switch into his darkness form but for some reason only his finger tips turned

into darkness while his body stayed an incubus.

"ahh ~ mmph~ nyaners~" her voice eccoed into his room, making his face burn strawberry red as he was clearly hearing her masterbate and the more he heard her the more his lust rose back up.

Unable to do anything about the girl who called herself his master he tried to ignored it again... Even though her voice was so errotic and lewd it was driving him as an incubus into heat.

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He wanted to yell out he could hear her so she could simply stop, but he was simply to flustered to say anything,

But what crossed his mind was completely unexpected from even himself "stupid vampire" he said as his face was clearly blushing deeply and he felt shame for the thought that ran ramped thought his head.

***

It got worst as he heard another feminine voice and they both were going ham on theirselves and he began tring his best to ignore it and focus on his darkness problems.

"Annie, system, you know what's going on?" he asked as normally he could just switch...like that.

[ System is not compatable to that part, we can only resonate with your souls level and a bit more other things, but we system suggest that you try training your soul/Darkness to see if you can slowly unseal those angelic seals through pure will and power ]

The system suggested.

[ I've only ever heard of a few fairy tales about the darknesses back when me and my sisters were still living in the upper world and before b÷"@$! @<"<;> !@$%^@# -,";:*?''×>÷_+/÷<= during the holy rebellion, so I have no clue ]

Annie said as most of her usefull speech was restricted.

This wasn't going anywhere and lotus immaturly pouted as this was very annoying and he couldn't stand having these seals on him. It wasn't like he could see them, but he could feel them on him, but unlike the hand cuffs on him the seals were pissing him off and it made him feel more aggressive, which he was able to hold back and control perfectly fine.

Somewhat

He tried pulling the cuffs apart for half an hour, but he ended up losing alot of HP as his wrist were covered in blood and he couldn't pull them apart, he felt like Scott McCall as he wanted to roar in fustraion.

With lood now driping down his hands from his wrist he gave up as he had a limited amount of blood seeing as his mana was unable to greatly produce more since its flow was cut if. Also she might of been busy fucking herself but he didn't know a vampires capabilitiea so she could of been listening in on him.

Mana was a no go even the Demonic mana he built up and stored was unavailable, so the systems darkness training idea seemed like the best option to gain a portion of freedom.

Lotus was unable to concentrate as another smell entered his room so he said fuck it and took two more human pills before going to sleep.

***

The next day was stressful as him and drage had more work to do, he already felt drained but he did it anyways.

After thinking for hours he was able to find a loophole in the truth reasurment and it wasent to tell them what they wanted to know or the truth in general, but it was to shift the truth while keeping it mostly true with no false's.

During his time there every guard had an eye on him, they must of not had anyone kill anyone here before.

He didn't like all the eyes on him but he didn't mind it either.

Before being sent back to the vampire girl he simply refused to talk and this time the fox guard talked to him which she only got a few glances at.

If he spoke he knew it wasen't going to be good so he simply stayed quiet, which made her intrested but different at looking at him.

Finally working as a servant for the girl he just stayed quiet and followed her like asked, but the discrimination for being human was big here, unless you were a human born here, they all seemed to be treated good.

During his time with her he found that second person to be the witch she knew which was also a bigger bitch than her, but atleast she was tring that's what he respected but it didn't mean he was going to take her off of the list.

Also that demon guy was kind and friendly to him, surprisingly while they all were going going around doing pointless things he was the only one to treat him like a person. Unless it was just an act.

Finishing the day he returned to the room with the girl since there was some sort of curfew and now with a strait mind he started bis training.

Lotus sat down, crossing his legs and holding his hands together, he then began to slow his breathing as he tried syncing his breath with his hearts beat.

After a few minutes of this he finally synced his body and then the little darkness avalable to completely go in a state of body and soul.

Doing that sent him into a state of meditation and particals of darkness seeped out of him forming a very thin mist of darkness surrounding the entire room.

[ Starter mission 7/25 ]

[ Description - level up you're soul to get one step closer to becoming a stage 1 darkness in one month ]

[ Progress 11% ]

[ Reward - skill

Failure - penalty zone for a year ]

[ Keep note - to become a stage 1 darkness, you must get your soul/Darkness to level 25 and then return to the void so your soul can go back to where it was once born and then absorb part of the void for nourishment, also keep note as well...Fighting with others while using your ability is a faster way of training then meditation ]

The system prompt appeared ruining his concentration

He thsn looked at what it had to tell him and then his eye twitched as he was forced into a tight spot.

He knew it was practically impossible for him to level up his darkness within only a month after all it took him many years to get to level 3 before he got the system.

"My plans for this place was ruined and now I need to focus on escaping and training, or. . .Maybe this place could be my training"

He gasped as that was a perfect idea, with Sarah keeping close to the ones he cared for back in shadowfall and with aiko being close by his sisters, they were all perfectly safe, so now he could use this time to get stronger.

But he was still very worried for Maria, but Sarah had his phone so he just hoped she called Sarah and returned home after Sarah pulling a separation tactic or something.

Also he would miss a few people, but he accepted that this was the best idea for him.

He went back to meditation as he ate two more human pills and then he started focusing on training.

***

The training was going well as it had been many hours and his darkness increased by 1%, but it was still too slow of a process and he needed it to go up by 3% or 4% a day to complete the mission

* * * * *

Meanwhile in a room far away from there "I don't understand why he hasen't been killed yet, he murdered another human in cold blood!" moxie yelled.

"I read the report and baby my actions are never wrong" handsome Jack said sitting down and reading over some base improvement papers as well as trading ones.

"But maybe this time they are!" she yelled and he finally lost his patients "kid your being too dramatic, now stop being so disobedient and go away before I get mad" he said not having time hear anymore her words.

"I'm not a little kid anymore! I'm thirty-seven Jack! and you can't keep treating me like one" she yelled but he only raised his brow as he looked up from the paper to look at her.

"You haden't aged a day past sixteen" he said in his defense "how was I supposed to know I was a succubus and that's a bad excuse" she came back at him.

"Fine, you stop trying to kill my prisoners and I'll treat you however you want" he said and she suddenly got flustered and looked away "so does that mean you'll start treating me like a woman" she responded shyly and he sighed.

"Sure" he said not knowing the full extent of his words.

Finally getting moxie's out of the way it was time to run thought more paper...but moxie didn't leave.

"Jack I have a question?" he put it paper down "what now?" he hissed.

"Why are we keeping that kid? I get he was able to touch your light, but dosen't that mean he's a Saint and we should release him" she asked and he put the papers down

"So your saying you belive he's a child of light" he said and she shrugged her sholders believing he might be the opposite of a chaos.

"You might be right, my lord did order me to bring him in, but as a slave untill he arrived" Jack said and then her eyes opened wide.

"Are you seriously saying a light bringer is coming to our base! ! !" she yelled in excitement as that had never happened before.

But something was wrong.

"Wait I thought that the elder gods refused to procreate with humans, or even bestow their blessings unless the human was a Saint of the highest order" she said confused by lotus's existence.

"And aren't you a light too, so shouldn't you be able to recognize if he's one as well" she said not giving him time to respond.

"Well that's the problem, we've never run into another one before, and you know that" he said not knowing,

"Also my lord the first light bringer/elder god told me to be weary of this one because not even he could tell" he said with a trimmer before going on "so that's why he said to keep him restrained untill one of his sisters came to check the captive out and also if we could, try to find out as well" but not even Jack knew how to aproch lotus, so he used the vampire Alex to hopefully gain his trust and male him reveal himself.

He didn't tell Alex but he had a feeling they would get along...Not.

"Don't worry Jack I'll make sure to find out for you~" she said in a flirty and sweet manner before going to the door.

"Goodnight Jacky love you~" she said with a smile before leaving.

"What am I going to do with that kid 'sigh' "he said as he's known her since he was eleven and she was only seven.

She used to hate him for a few years due to the succubi instinctively not liking snake people but they were unbreakable together and even if she had her differences she wasent going to be separated from him.

***Next Day***

He gained another percent up and now after finished with his labor, he was carrying books for the vampire chick as she was walking around the large base of the resistance with the witch and half Demon she was with before.

The witch was just as bad as her but probably even worst as she hated and looked down on humans and that included lotus and didn't care to show it, even though she moaned louder than Alex last night after sneaking into her room after curfew. Yeah it happened two nights in a row.

But the Demon was actually kind, he was truly someone who lotus found respected for unlike those two.

"Your so lucky Alex, hey do you think I could use him for an experiment, I would love to have a live subject" the witch said and lotus changed his kill list order.

"I don't think that's appropriate, you shouldn't do stuff like that, after all thats what caused the witch trials we're your people were hunted down in the first place" the Demon said defending lotus as he was just a kind hearted person.

But as they were talking, the vampire didn't know who to side with as one said yes and the said no, she wanted to say yes.

But as this happened lotus showed a Cresent smile for a second before going back to looking indifferent.

Lotus had a plan, and it involved braking atleast one seal and gaining resources "miss witch, what type of experiment is it?" he simply asked and they looked at him with complicated looks.

"It's nun of your concern slave" she said being a bitch and he frowned "I see... so your a pathetic novice" he said back as he seriously hated her.

Lotus planned to get into her head and if she spilled anything useful, he might be able to manipulate her into getting what he wanted.

She was angered by his wording "silence motal! you know nothing or the arcane and all the magical art" she said gesturing her hand and then began saying an incantation to make him unable to speak.

As she did that he simply put his hands up to his chest while keeping the books in his hand and then flipped her off basically saying "fuck you".

"I'm no novice you fool, now I would tell you to shut up but you can't speak anymore hahaha" she did this with a shit eating grin as she haf shut him up.

"You shouldn't cast magic so easily like that adéla, also you shouldn't use magic on people for stupid reasons" the Demon said tring to be reasonable as these girls he knew were pretty antagonizing.

"So magical girl, have you ever heard of the malinous partifrus, it's alot of crazy history bundled into one, also I'm pretty sure that's where the witch and warlock originally came from" he said surprising the three as he had spoken.

"How is that possible, I'm sure I casted the right spell!" she said and he held back his laugh as she was too slow to understand what he did to her spell which actually had work on him.

[ A support type curse? I didn't think you could use a low-grade support curses to neutralize a silence spell? ] - Annie said dumbfounded at his actions

'Well it was hard since I used a thought incantation, but using a no mana consuming curse to counteract her spell was the only logical thing to do' he explained

[ What's next? ] - Annie asked 'you see, it all starts with the corruption of the vampires, after that, I'll use that to tear away at these seals even if I have to use everything I have avalable' he told her a fraction of his scheme.

"They say your kind are the only ones loved by nature and the mana, but I'd have to disagree, after all the mana clearly favors me since you can't even use a simple spell right" he said mocking her.

"You! ! !" but as she began her tantrum he ignored her as a sence was happening and he playfully taped the Demon who was too surprised to speak just like his "master".

"The good guys always get the bad girl's hahaha, but if you wanted to make a harem bro I would suggest maybe have two people that don't drive you insane, just a little tip mate" he said as the man infront of him had two other perfume scents on him, so it was kinda obvious.

And with those word's and a devilish smile, he scent chills running down all three's spine even shutting up adéla "actually I take it back, your one of them, I could say how I know but where's the fun in that. master Alex rains dominate in the triple relationship, after all you've been bit just like me" lotus made it clear as day that he knew and he looked at the witch adéla and she had a bite mark on her too

"It-It's not like that! we're just friend's!" he said tring to not be put in a misunderstanding.

"Oh... Okay, I'm thinking of something else then, haha forgive my rudeness" he said being friendly but sarcastic to the demon as he took a step forward.

"Hey Demon, who do you serve? your not a follower of Lucifer are you?" lotus asked as he contined walking forward and the Demon backed away 'this isn't any normal human, he broke free from the spell I taught adéla so easily, and without magic too, that shouldn't be possible...can it, also why dose does his eyes look kinda scary' he thought as he backed up.

Lotus about to mess with the Demon's head by cursing him with a simple low-grade curse but not even a second into reciting its incantation a hand grabbed his sholder digging their nails in there as they gripped him hard.

"What are you doing lotus!?" Alex used a high demanding voice triggering the collar to work.

But as that happened she mad it seem as if he was disobeying and it shocked him with visible blue electricity.

This caused a relapse inside of him and it instantly put him in a defiant rage, his eyes turned crimson and he swiped his claws at her hissing like she was the enemy.

"¿I surve no one and especally not someone like you!¿" he roared causing a scene as eveyone glared at him.

"Is that enochian? it's been a long time since I've heard that, lets see kid, are you a light like my Jacky or what~?" moxie said from the second floor as she looked down at him casing a scene and she pulled out two things from her pocket.

Dodging his swip she swayed around like a dance and chained of ice wrapped around him subduing him.

She then looked at him and then down to his claws and raised a brow "so this is what master jack ment by telling me to be cautious of you, haha if claws are the only thing dangerous about you he so overestimated you, after all your very weak and the only things that can hurt anyone are those small claws of yours...but only if you manage to catch them" Alex said mocking him and he just gave her an indifferent look as his eyes were sharp and it said he only had one thought in his head.

"¿I don't need power to kill you, just take this collar off and I'll triumph in your blood¿" her ice is really cold...like super cold.

Wait wait wait, I heard something...the hand-cuffs cracked, the sudden rate of the metal condensing due to the cryofrost cracked it, if only I could somehow get it to crack more them I can brake it later with my horn.

"Hey witch do you have a deafing spell becuas I think silence is better that the words of this stupid blood sucker" he said looked over to her as his eyes died down to green again.

"You looking to die lotus!" Alex said as putting up with his shit was getting irritating "death sounds better than dealing with you!" he came back at her and then the Demon went in-between the two.

"Calm down guys" he tried being the peace and well it worked for one side as lotus didn't care for his words but listened anyways.

***

It took a but for the heat to go away but in the end lotus was just a bit more defiant and they contined on to their destination as the three had to run Erin's and it was alot so they needed the extra arms aka lotus and the Demon named Simon apologized for it.

Walking to the main building to drop stuff off Simon walked next to lotus and began asking friendly question, but in the end he was dissatisfied as he only got one or two words put of it.

More time passed and they arrived, but as they did someone walked past lotus and hit his back putting something up there

He didn't notice at the time, but there were two things up there and they began absorbing inside of him.

"Did you three bring the documents like I asked for" moxie said as she was behind lotus, they all turned to her and as the other said they did.

Lotus had a look of pure hatred as he released his killing intent, he could hold back as darkness started erupting out of him ready to kill her.

She was the first one to feel it but then as it came it suddenly disappeared.

As darkness began sounding bits and pieces of him he suddenly retracted it as he didn't feel like it anymore.

She looked down at him and he still had those sharp murderous eyes but then slowly faded into gentle ones

" 'Let's see what your ture colors are' if you keep looking at me like that I'll kill you boy" moxie said but he suddenly started looking around.

"Sorry he didn't mean it boss, he'll be punished later seeing as he offended you" Alex said rushing to his side and infront of moxie.

"Oh its you... I remember you were the one to carry him here right? haha who would of thought Jacky gave him to you" she chucked as her face still was stern and more authority like despite her natural beauty.

The two were talking for a few minutes and moxie asked the three how they were doing since they got here since all the were races discriminated like her.

But as those minutes passed lotus stoped looking around and toughed on Alex sleeve.

Looking at her, his expression softened as he then spoke "um... 'heavens this is so embarrassing' m-mas...master can I go thought the experiment that idiotic witch suggested, it seems intresting and I kinda want to know more about it" lotus asked in a shy manner as he felt all nine of his hearts throb.

"Huh?" Alex was confused by it but then adéla jumped in "yeah of couse you can jump in, the experment might be painful but I think a puny human like you will understand the gratness of it" she said messing with him but his face them lit up and sparkled.

"Dose it involve humaric revisions, machines, sharphicncion tension...sorry if this sounds like to much, but if it has anything anything do with machines I might steal it and use it to create something spectacular~!" he said as his expression was soft and his tone was childish as he suddenly got excited.

His whole personality flip floped as his motivation from before changed as he had ideas and thoughts about mechanical engineering running throught his head.

"Wait! Wait! Wait! I need these idiot angel seals off of me, then I can turn this pace into a fortress of metal... No! No! No! No! No! I can't use fire magic so melting metal will be hard without it.... Wait is there any equipment!? Hey vampire... I mean master Alex, dose this place have a blast furnace, no wait you've been here as long as me so I doubt you would know, maybe I should ask someone else" he said as his tone of voice was more hyper and immature like a child as he then looked around the room to all the people and creatures looking at him, but then he realized that someone who possibly knew her way around here was just infront of him with the others.

"Sister!. . .Hey do you know where I can find a blast furnace~!" he said as a big smile came onto his face and he looked at Moxie who gave him a questionable gaze.

"Well this wasn't what I was expecting?" she said to herself as she looked down at the short boy with black and white tipped hair who just called her sister.

"Sister?" the three looked at him strangly and then to the purple skinned succubus infont of them "are you mocking me boy? you really are hoping to die" she said with a strong willed tone.

"No no no, I didn't mean to mock you, your a half blood so it's understandable if you feel that way 'I thought a half blood would like to be treated like everyone else of our race. . .but I guess not?' " he said innocently as he was putting everything out there.

She was confused by his wording but then he pinched his nose and backed away from her "eww you smell of snake" he said looking at her a bit disgusted.

She was irritated by him and she grabbed the hilt of her sword ready to draw it,

He looked at her facial expression and she looked very upset "oh!. . .Sorry if i offended you, I'm just. . . Not a snake person" he said as his hatred for lamia and pythons ran deep through his blood.

She looked at him menacingly but he didn't even flinch, meanwhile the other three were trembling as this succubi indront of them was of the fifth-stage, so she was a succubus queen and she didn't even need to activate her aura to have been feared.

Lotus was about to say something useful but then "shut up boy, answer my questions or I'll cut you down, I would say don't lie but you can't as I already tagged you with a nature talisman and truth crystal, which has already been absorbed into your body" she said as there was nothing on his back anymore.

"So that's what that cold energy going trhought me was? I just thought a portion of mana was coming back to me" he said understanding now.

"State your name, intentions, and who the hell exactly are you and why did you attack my Jack when you first met him" the succubus Moxie said as she was still upset with him and still wanting to kill him even though she promised not too, but she was also planing on seeing if he was a child of light like Jack.

"My name is lotus Ito and I think the others called me... Ten?" he said as it was just a number and not much of a name.

"I intend to... kill of the boardum I'm suffering from right now became... well I'm bored? that's kind it" he said not answering strait to the point, since he found that loophole he was going to use it whenever he wanted to not tell anything improtent.

"And you all can only blame yourselves for why I attacked him, i was busy looking at that pretty and tasty light and he suddenly pulled my hood down and simply surprised me and also he looked dangerous plus he smelled like that of snake person" lotus pouted blaming them for his actions.

"Intresting, eveything checks out, but can you tell me more about your interaction with the light bolt" she said prying out information without having to force anything out.

She said that but he could tell she wanted something else, a teasing smile appeared on his face as he looked up at her.

"Wouldn't you like talk about Jack instead, after all your in love with him right~?" lotus said and her face burned red as he was correct.

"It's not like that! this is about you touching his light, it's not about my romance life or that I love jack!" she blurted out but then her blush deeped as she yelled that out loud.

"I see, so its a one sided love then" he said as he's exoerianced that before. her expression shifted but before she could get man and yell at him he spoke again,

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"Do you want any help capturing his heart, I don't like snakes but I'll help you if you want" his words captured her attention and she pouted "its none of your business" she stormed away failing to find out if he had anything to do with the light bringers.

"So is that a no?" turning back to the three "so...can I still do he experiment" he said with a sweet and bright smile.

***

Time passed and it wasn't what he expected, she was just bluffing, but there was still some useful experiments she ran on him, like tests and physical capabilities which might of been planed or not.

But she told him to come back tomorrow and he was happy to run more test. and that very night he was unable to train as he was in a state of overwhelming heat and lust due his time with adéla which she had been a bit too hands on without realizing what she had been doing to him.

The next day started off normal but he only had enough for two days left so he needed to start quickly.

But at the moment he was busy getting his blood sucked by his vampiric targets named Mallory and Kira. he was pretty drained after offering the both of them his blood willing.

But it was all apart of his plan as he already had three of five vampires consume his blood, now all that was left for today was to find a way to undo or loosen a seal.