Chapter 20

[Welcome to limbo between the dead and the living]

[Mission: kill Hermes]

When I got to the eighth floor, I told Iron to go away but in a place where I could see him.

But when I looked around I saw that it was a totally deserted place, very similar to the place I got here, but this place now despite being similar was still different.

This place is totally dark and cold, but just like the place when I arrived, it had things that looked like magma, but now it was blue in a darker color.

I sent Iron to wait in the same place we arrived, and I walked forward a little, that little was enough for Iron to disappear from my sight.

I was unable to see him and while I was calling him a voice came from afar

"Oh, so you are the owner of that poor animal. So what are you doing here? You're not dead are you? " the voice spoke deeply in the darkness.

And I replied with a calm tone "so are you that Hermes?"

"Oh so you know me. And yet is it still that way in front of me? " says Hermes in a tone of superiority.

And I reply with a mocking tone "of course! What could a god of commerce do against me? "

Hermes is silent for a few seconds and then says "god of commerce? I understand now, how long ago Lucifer. "

When he said that I asked Lucifer if they knew each other he said "he is just an irritating guy who always pissed me off."

"There is then why you told me to call him the god of commerce? To piss him off? "

Before Lucifer answered Hermes asked "what happened Lucifer, new body?"

Lucifer took care of my body and said "not exactly, it's more like a deal."

"So Hermes, how about giving up your head at once? Since you never really managed to defeat me. "

"There is Lucifer like you and funny. We only fight 3 times. " says Hermes starting to look annoyed.

"Exactly. And these 3 times you didn't even give me a job. " Lucifer speaks in a mocking tone.

"So Lucifer, how about a fourth time? There is no way that you are afraid. " says Hermes trying to irritate him.

"Okay, then, let's go a fourth and last time." says Lucifer angrily.

Lucifer with only 1 flapping of his wings made all the darkness that covered the place go extinct, so he turned and spoke to Hermes.

"You already know that using your sleep power doesn't work on me. Then what you will do?"

Lucifer said that, but it wasn't completely true, since that wasn't his body, but that of a mortal, but even so he could prevent the body from sleeping using his power so it wasn't a complete lie either.

Hermes laughed and said, "But can you be as fast as I am?"

And Lucifer responds with a mocking tone "but what's the use of being quick, and his attack doesn't cause me a scratch?"

At that moment I was worried, since my body is very fragile compared to Lucifer's.

So I mentally told him, "Hey, you still remember that this is a mortal's body, right? You know that with just a few attacks this body will fall apart. "

Lucifer answers me with a tone that is not at all confident "you didn't want me to let him insult me did you? It is calm that I have a plan. "

I answer him with a mocking tone "so you said all that just so you wouldn't be left behind?"

"And how come you have a plan? What plan is that? "

Lucifer looking a little nervous says "hope you will see."

Just when the fight was about to start, I told Lucifer to tell him to release Iron so he wouldn't get hurt.

When Iron was far enough away the fight started, and I could see what Lucifer's real plan was.

He started flying and attacking Hermes from afar as his asset comes down to how fast he can run.

But Hermes was smart and took Lucifer's weakness by saying "Are you just going to attack from a distance like a coward?"

Hearing that I said "you are not going."

Before I even finished speaking, Lucifer had already dropped to the floor.

I angrily said "you and donkey happened to be just teasing you."

Lucifer calmly replied "keep looking."

While we were talking Hermes was trying to attack Lucifer at a speed I couldn't even see.

But as impressive as Lucifer was, he was able to deflect and easily attack, or rather he seemed to be anticipating his movements.

As I saw that I asked Lucifer "how are you doing this? I thought he was a lot faster than you. "

Lucifer with a smile on his face responds "look at his clothes."

When I looked I saw it, Lucifer when he was attacking from above, he was not attacking randomly, he was trying to make him think that, and take this moment to put some of the infernal flame on Hermes' clothes.

Now I finally understood how he was managing to anticipate his attacks.

Whenever he felt the infernal flame approaching, he dodged, and then attacked as if he were seeing Hermes.

And so I also discovered one more use for hellish flames.

While I was thinking about it, Lucifer was starting to have trouble deflecting, since Hermes was increasing his speed, so if Hermes continues to increase his speed even more, even if Lucifer can feel the flame approaching he would not have enough time to deflect.

Then Lucifer thought of a new plan, when Hermes was coming towards him he used the infernal flames on the ground to make a wave, thus burning one of Hermes' sandals, preventing him from using his super speed.

But even without the super speed, Hermes was still fast enough that I couldn't see him, but Lucifer was different, he could see and follow his normal speed as if it were nothing.

Seeing that he would end up losing, Hermes used his magic to try to make Lucifer and I sleep, as Lucifer said it didn't work very well on him, but still because he wasn't in his body it slowed him down.

And Hermes took advantage of that to hit him 1 punch with all the strength he had.

It hurt us a lot, but Lucifer was an angel so he could heal us.

Hermes is wise to this, so he used that attack to harness and intensify the magic of sleep.

Now Lucifer would have to decide, whether he would first take the magic out of sleep that was far more complicated than it seemed to heal or wounds the body.

Lucifer made the decision to stop the magic, since unless I'm dead, any injury he could easily heal.

Some time later while Hermes continued to beat my unconscious body slowly, Lucifer had finally managed to get rid of the magic completely.

When we woke up Lucifer punched Hermes that made him fly away.

After the punch scared Hermes says "this is impossible, it was for you to take much longer to heal the body and take the magic at the same time. There is no way that you took one at a time, but still this mortal body was supposed to be destroyed with my attacks. You two are real monsters. "

As Lucifer stood up healing all the wounds on his body he said with a smile on his face "I don't care what you're talking about, but I know one thing. It's time for the rematch. "

Lucifer took the daggers and cut every toe that Hermes loves so much again and again, and Hermes' screams echoed across the limbo.

When Lucifer was finally satisfied with his revenge he asked "and now how do you intend to kill him? For even if you took his heart out at some point or another he would regenerate again. "

I thought for a while and said "pass the control over to me."

After Lucifer passed control of the body to me again, I took Hades' sword and Hermes said in awe "This is Hades's sword. Who really are you? "

After killing him with the sword he appeared

[Congratulations you have completed the mission]

[What reward do you want? Artifact or heal all your wounds?]

[Generating random artifact]

[His artifact and The invisibility ring]

[This ring gives the user the purest and truest invisibility]

[The person wearing this ring cannot be seen or heard for 3 minutes each time it is worn.]

[It is also an indestructible and irremovable ring.]

As I already had a skill that made me practically invisible, it was almost useless to me, but

[You achieved a unique achievement thanks to Hades' sword]

[The only living semi god]

[When this achievement reaches 100% you will literally be a true god. Current progress: 15%.]

[You gained a new skill thanks to Hades' sword]

[Sleep control]

[With this ability you can put any enemy without divine powers to sleep for 5 minutes]

In these last skills I was amazed with so much happiness, and before the next floor message arrived

[The dragon egg will hatch in exactly 2 days]

[You will be sent to the next floor]

To be continued