Chapter 163 Withdrawal symptoms from Deva
"Eheheh..."
"Hahahah."
Theresa and Edea laughed hysterically without apparent reason. Their hands formed fists before releasing them, their eyes were bloodshot and walked nervously from the left to the right.
"Ah...Deva. Deva! I miss you so much...so much...so much..."
"Mmmm!Deva! Agh!The moment I have you in my hands...the moment I have you in my hands...I'll...I'll kill/kiss you!"
Whispering a certain name the two erratically repeated that name over and over again.
Seeing these two insane elves one might think that the term 'madness' and 'withdrawal symptoms' reached its peak of meaning.
Years passed since they last have seen, talked, touched, smelled and heard Deva. Days passed like eternity...no, each second seemed an eternity for the two.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the two compared to the three were relatively tame, the two only whispered and whispered and whispered 'Deva' almost all day but other than that they could continue to function normally.
On the contrary there was Era who remained motionless in a corner of a room and seemed to be void of a soul. If not for the fact that one could see her chest heave up and down someone might think that the four left the corpse of Era in that dark corner. The goddess Era didn't move from that corner for the exception of eating, anything else could be solved with her powers. She can clean her body without bathing, render her body unable to release wastes and maintain her beauty without moving away from that corner. The absence of Deva for a long time left Era similar to a puppet without strings.
And lastly Velena and Ira who seemed to be fine on the outside.
"Oh, Deva!You are awake? Then let's go pick up some herbs, you know...for our special potions and lotions...hehe." Velena laughed blissfully in the open but no one was there and the 'Deva' she was talking with didn't exist but was a fruit of her imagination.
"Where were we? Ah! Yes at page..." The same for Ira who sweetly smiled as she was reading a book.
These five could be the finest of warriors and deadliest in their craft but without the love of their life...was there a meaning to pursue that...? Certainly they are already powerful enough and resourceful enough to be classified as amongst the best within Intris but if they wanted to become the strongest and maximize the utility of their skills and levels then they require time and motivation to do so...
But was there the need to do so...? If they spent their time in just training then they wouldn't be able to maximize the time they could spend with Deva and without the presence of Deva they didn't have the motivation to continue the pursuit of their own crafts.
Everything about Deva became such an object of intoxication and obsession to bring us to where we are now.
A week.
A week is all that required to Deva to kill the remaining champions in the domain.
Since Deva's victory was assured and no entity dared to waste their champion by sending them to death thanks to Perpetua's phantom presence Mother Nature decided to send an avatar of hers to where the five yanderes lived.
A grave mistake of hers since the only person the five expected to appear was Deva and by disappointing the five then...
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In her throne Mother Nature with her closed eyes watched the countless domains and worlds inside 'Everything'.
Since she was Nature itself she could use the eyes of every living being as her own for the exception of special cases such as other Entities, Devils, Major Gods, Representations or possessors of certain titles and artifacts.
Entities and Representations were quite similar if not the same. Both potray an important subject for example 'death' 'sin' 'evil' 'life' 'creation' but one side is trapped in these domains and are unable to escape or greatly affect the outside while the other is free to roam 'Everything' and with their own natures cause either bad or good things.
"To think that four Representations merged together to form one...Angra Mainyu, your daughter despite still ignorant of her true self she is the definition of your kind...evil."
The first Daeva, the third Daeva, the fourth and fifth Daeva merged to form Deva who is a distorted mix of the nature of Negative thoughts, Unrest, Ruthlessness and Destruction.
Deva, however, is not actively causing chaos and instead do it only on a whim or when she has the mood to do so. Yet isn't that even greater than evil?
Bullying a poor and ugly person just for laughs and giggles or ruining the life of a person because one was in the mood...little acts of evil that in time will accumulate in something worse and grow in something that can distort one's self.
Causing wars, causing extinctions, robbing of someone's life and their possessions...
Watching villages being raided by bandits or monsters while having the power to stop such thing.
Doing nothing is also an act of evil given certain circumstances.
Deceiving and lying naturally just for entertainment.
And with so many things that Deva could become obsessed with she chose emotions...it's more like that emotions chose her as it is both her strength and weakness. One cannot truly understand the emotions and it is so variegated Deva became intruiged by it and as such she wants to experiment with them more than anything else to the point that she wouldn't mind to either be the victim or perpetrator, the dominant one or the submissive one, the hunter or prey...
"Then two Devils made contact with Deva...the more relevant one in her early years who became a sort of maternal figure. If Deva was left alone she would've become someone who just pursues evil and only understands evil but Demogorgon taught her the ways of life and soon enough Deva grew up learning with a supreme being who lived since the beginning of times.
She was, however, not given any legacy, supreme artifact or anything of the sorts but the basics of every subject and other than that depended in Deva herself who in turn barely remembers the things Demogorgon taught her other than few ones and the ones she liked the most.
And after all that is the adventure she experienced to this very point where she can finally have the artifact capable of dealing with the ogre.
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