LILITH, THE MOTHER OF DRAGONS
LILITH, THE MOTHER OF DRAGONS
"This Lilith will not be kind if she knows Mother Nahase is still alive in your soul. We must be careful", I told Rinna.
"Nahase will have to deal with Lilith eventually", Rinna replied to me.
Suddenly, the walls around the cavern began to move. Soon, an opening was created in the walls, allowing us to leave the gargoyle chamber.
"What next? Should we ask the snake woman?" Ratatouille asked us.
"She probably has no clue about this place except there is another trial", I replied to him.
We walked through the exit in the chamber. We passed through an ancient corridor adorned with carvings of stories about the Revelations.
"Meera would love to study these walls and their stories", I said to them.
"Don't worry, Sara will record everything here for her collection", Rinna replied to me.
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Eventually, we entered another chamber, though this one was far from ordinary. It was a prison.
Massive chains, forged from Mithrium and other rare metals, were anchored firmly to the walls. At the end of these chains, bound in place, was a colossal figure.
The prisoner was a woman, reminiscent of the serpent-like creatures we had encountered above.
But unlike them, she possessed striking human features. Her legs were graceful and alluring, her form captivating, radiating a beauty that was both enchanting and dangerous.
Yet, despite her human appearance, there was one unmistakable feature that set her apart: great wings stretched behind her, unmistakably those of a dragon.
Though her body was human, the wings betrayed a deeper, more fearsome origin.
She was Lilith, the mother of Dragons.
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"Who awakens me from my slumber?" Lilith asked us suddenly in a crackling, thunderous voice.
"Mi..Mistress. It is me, Ranas, your slave. I have found you at last", Ranas said to her mistress.
Lilith looked at Ranas and recognized her immediately.
"Who have you brought here to meet me?" Lilith asked Ranas.
"I brought the bastard and his wife", Ranas replied to her to our shock and surprise.
"Are you certain?" Lilith asked Ranas.
"Yes, Mistress. We have the nascent soul of Asmodeus and Nahase here in this chamber", Ranas replied to her mistress before whispering something to her.
"Eden is kind to me. The Revelations will be fulfilled", Lilith proclaimed.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ratatouille asked the snake woman.
"Do you think I don't recognize the both of you in the oasis above and do you think I am so powerless to be captured by the likes of you so easily", Ranas replied to us.
"The bitch is pretending to be weak. We have been tricked to come down here", Sara told us about the situation.
Ranas quickly went beside the Dragon mother together with the other snake women.
"What are we going to do now? Lilith is not easy to deal with", Ratatouille asked us worriedly with exaggerated expressions.
"Do not worry. This place is precisely where we should be", Rinna replied to us to our surprise.
Rinna's eyes suddenly turned flaming red.
An aura of mysterious energy soon enveloped her body projecting out a menacing presence that matched those of the Mother Dragon.
"Damnit, Rinna. What is your plan?" I asked her as Sara devised a battle plan.
However, Rinna was certain that a battle was unnecessary.
"I shall kill all of you", Lilith shouted to us in her thunderous voice.
"No, you shall not. We came to seek the third trial of the Dragons", Rinna said to Lilith.
"What is the third trial of the Dragons?" I asked.
"The third trial of the Dragons is the Trial of Killing. You must kill the Mother of Dragons, like you should have done all those years ago", Rinna told me to my surprise.
"Did the Mother Serpent tell you that?" I asked her.
"It is all according to the prophecies of Revelations", Rinna replied to me.
"Damnit Rinna, you are brainwashed by this Revelation crap just like Meera", I said to her.
Rinna wouldn't reply to me as her eyes were locked with the Dragon Mother. There was a serious grudge between the two.
Rinna wasn't a believer in the Dark Church's religion, initially.
She was a prophetess of the Valhalla, a religion about inter world traveling space gods. The religion of Nerakah wasn't going to convert her easily.
However, since the soul of the Serpent Mother Nahase entered her soul realm, she was being converted, brainwashed even, little by little. Even her temperament was changing, becoming dark and even malicious.
Her change became more obvious once we came to Elis. The influence of the Mother Serpent on her is getting stronger in this place.
"Sara, do something about Rinna. She's being manipulated by the dark soul in her now", I told Sara, and she nodded in acknowledgement.
"We have more to deal with than your wives' attitude. What are we going to do about the Mother Dragon?" Ratatouille asked me.
"We must help Rinna first. She's being possessed by the serpent soul inside of her if I am not mistaken", I said to them.
"We can't do much about Rinna now, she's being controlled or hypnotized by the Serpent mother", Sara told me.
"The Serpent Mother would not harm Rinna yet. We should consider what to do now", Ratatouille asked.
"First we deal with the Dragon Mother", I replied to him.
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"Let me out of here", Rinna shouted to the presence in her soul.
"My dear daughter, once this is over with Lilith I will let you out", Nahase the Mother of Serpent told Rinna in her soul realm.
"Why must you take control of my mind?" Rinna asked Nahase.
"Because you cannot deal with her. I have final unfinished business with Lilith, my sister", Nahase replied to her.
"What are you going to do?" Rinna asked the Serpent Mother.
"You should ask your husband that question. Something that he should have done the first time", the Serpent mother replied to her.
"What should he had done?" Rinna asked.
"He should have taken her heart when he had the chance. But it is not too late, he can remedy his mistake finally", Nahase told Rinna.
"That isn't my husband you talk about. It is yours", Rinna replied to her.
"Eventually, it will mean the same thing", she replied.
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