Curse and Holy

The Villain's Rhapsody: Evolution to godhood.

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Drake looks back and screams in terror. He rushes to save Jasmine. But it was already too late. Lilith pulls Jasmine to herself and kisses her. Jasmine was in tears. Their lips touched. And soon Jasmine's warm soft skin suddenly felt cold and rough. Lilith pushes Jasmine towards Drake. She smirks as she watches the desperation that fills Drake's face.

"I love you." were the last words she spoke.

Drake kisses her and closes his eyes. Tears slowly filled his eyes. His eyes open to see her petrified before him. Her rosy complexion turned pure white. He'd not know what happened, but when he touched her again, she crumbled, fell to the floor as she slipped through his fingers like sand in his desperate attempt to catch all that remained as it fell to the floor. The last reminder of her was the salty aftertaste that lingered on his lips.

Enraged, Drake screams as he flies towards Lilith. He punches her, but she stands as if his punch was just a feather. She grabs his neck and smiles. The tears fill her eyes.

"Now. The two of us are the same. We both lost our loved ones. And we're both immortal. With no way of dying. Drake, the demon king. And me, the goddess!"

She throws Drake into the worst prison of hell. The cage. She locks him up with eternal chains. And leaves him to suffer there. For all eternity.

Lilith vanishes from Dorian's and original Lucas's sights. Original Lucas claps his hands and shouts.

"This scene always makes me emotional! What a performance!"

When Lilith vanished from their sights original Lucas clapped his hands and shouted.

"This scene always makes me emotional! What a performance!"

Dorian looks and him with disbelief. How can this be an emotional scene? Suddenly, original Lucas turns his gaze to Dorian. And for the first time, he was not smiling. He puts his hand on Dorian's shoulder. The scenery changes. Now, they were back in the abyss. Lucas got dizzy after everything turned black. The only thing that he could see here was the original Lucas.

"Follow me."

The two of them walked for a while and saw counterpart Lucas. The counterpart was screaming and trembling. He looked as if he was crying. However, no tears came out of his eyes.

"Lilith! Lilith!!"

Dorian looks at him with no sympathy. To Dorian, Lucas was a monster. The devil. The man, who ended the world. But he was curious. Why doesn't Dorian rewind time? Why does he not return back in time and save himself?

He looks at the original Lucas. However, he does not pay attention to Dorian. He was staring at his counterpart. Lucas's counterpart kept shouting. Original Lucas fast-forwards the time.

"I fast-forward the time by a few hours. It was kind of embarrassing watching all that cringe-fest." Original Lucas blushes from embarrassment.

Original Lucas continues staring at his counterpart, who opens a hole inside his own chest. Counterpart digs out the bones and rips out his own heart. He falls to the ground with a smile on his face. However, suddenly, his golden eye shines and the wound starts to close up. It was not healing. It was as if time was reversed. Soon, he was back to his full health. He screamed and shout due to despair. Death was the only hope for him to leave this hell. However, he was no longer capable of dying. During a few hours, he killed himself many times. And all the times, his death was reversed as if Grimm Reaper was refusing to take the soul of such a disgusting creature.

Dorian sits down near the original Lucas and asks him. He was no longer feeling any danger or disgust towards the original. It was as if his feelings were numbed.

"Hey, why didn't you reverse the time in a human world? You could have survived even decapitation. And this does not explain your imprisonment. What's up with that?"

Lucas snaps his fingers and the counterpart disappears. He looks at Dorian with a gentle smile on his face. He pats Dorian's head and chuckles. He doesn't look at him. His gaze was concentrated at the empty abyss.

"Because, when I was a human. I wasn't able to reverse time unconsciously. I could manipulate time, however, I had to be aware of the changes that I make. When Lilith use holy magic to revive me, I was already a ghost. A spirit that's watching over her. And as a ghost, I took the holy energy into my spirit. My soul became bound in one moment. And when she created a body for me, my soul returned to its state where it got powered up by Lilith's divine power. I was transferred here after my time magic went berserk. At the time I couldn't control it. And I spent here for thousands of years. I realized, that even if I am in the real world, I have no ability to make any difference as a spirit. I became a god, with the power only to observe. I can see various timelines. But without a body which would fuse me with a material world, that's all I can do."

"I see. By the way, how come when curse magic is fused with holy, it becomes time magic? This makes no sense."

"This world is managed by these two energies. Curse and holy. Two gods, who were a part of the universe, not even humanoid creatures. Just natural energy. A natural phenomenon if you will. One of them is Isaac. Isaac got awakened and created himself a body after a mortal girl came into his world by accident. And another one is the non-awakened god of the curses."

"Elisabeth, right? She was his lover. I know that much."

"To understand more about Isaac, you should see this."

Suddenly, Lucas snaps his fingers. The whole scenery changes and now their standing in a different world. It was an endless forest, and above them, there were two suns and three moons. Dorian was amazed at this sight. 'Beautiful'. They observe as a young girl was crying deep in the forest.

*Isaac's world thirteen years before the current timeline*

Elisabeth met Isaac when she was around 16 years old. After she used the sleeping pills and fall asleep, somehow her soul got connected to his realm. It was just an endless forest. No other life, just plants. In the sky, there were two suns and three moons One of the moons looked so close to the planet, it felt like it will drop on it soon. She was tired and scared.

Soon, something woke up. It was the only intelligent being of this realm. It was a deity. First, he gained the ability to think, then he shaped his body. He became a handsome young man, he had beautiful black hair and golden eyes. He sensed that something with his world was different. It now had another intelligent being.

The deity mentally and emotionally was like a newborn, excited about the beautiful world he is now seeing, he was excited about meeting another intelligent being. He instinctively knew how to use magic. While he was sleeping, he observed humanity, he learned from it. But the way he saw a human world, was like a dream. To him, everything will change, the moment he takes his eyes of. He remembered how he saw an ancient civilization building pyramids, but the next moment it was already a different era.

Dorian was intrigued. Isaac's backstory in the novel intrigued him, so to be able to see it in person… It's like a dream.

Dorian watches as Isaac grows wings and flew over the forest. There he found a lone girl. She was crying. She was lost in the woods. An eternal sleep was broken by a human girl, that accidentally wandered into his universe. Isaac decided, he will talk to her. Isaac gathered all the courage and erased his wings. Fall was about 300 meters, but he was unfazed. He was excited! However, the girl suddenly screamed.

"Kyaaaaa!" she jumped and turned around.

Even though the being was all-knowing and all-powerful, his common sense was still of a newborn. He was completely naked and didn't even try to hide his junior.

"Are… You alright? Don't worry, I won't hurt you!" Isaac smiled. The girl took off her top and told him to hide his family jewels. She was in her bra, but it was still better than having a weird man completely naked. She realized that this is a different world, so she understood the difference in common sense. However, she still did not want to see his junior.

"Is this a gift?" the creature asked.

"That is for you to hide your family jewels!" she said without looking. She was blushing. This man was really good-looking after all.

"Oh? OHHHHHH! Clothes. I forgot humans wear it!" Isaac snaps his fingers and recreates clothes from his latest dream. The dream was in a modern era, he had a dream of nobles having a dance party. So he created himself an amazing tuxedo.

"Huh? How did you do that?" girl was shocked.

"Do what?" creature was curious.

"Did you use spatial magic? And if you know about clothes. why weren't you wearing them in the first place?" she got angry at the creature. The creature was still not sure, why is she so stressed. But he decided that it doesn't matter.

"I created them. I can create anything." he created thousands of flowers in the forest. The whole forest was filled with all types of flowers. The girl was so shocked, she couldn't speak. She realized this is not what humans can do. What is this man?

"My name is Elisabeth. What's your name?" Elisabeth was now curious about this boy that can make miracles.

"Name? I Don't have one. Oh, yeah. In my dream, when humans prayed to me, said my name was Isaac. So let's go with that." Isaac was smiling.

He remembers, how humans whenever they wanted a good harvest, they prayed to him, sometimes even offered their animals as a sacrifice. He didn't like the sacrifice part, but he always wanted to help. So sometimes, he offered some of his energy to humans. Those people who received his energy became heroes, saints, and kings. Places that got his blessing, were always purified and became holy lands. "Oh yeah, I remember. I am god. You humans call me a god."

Dorian and Lucas observe. And Lucas tells him.

"And little did they know, this was the beginning of the greatest fall from grace in the heavens. Fall of a god."