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Hey there again guys, AlterNate413 here, bringing to you the continuation of The Path of Darkness…
I'm really trying my best to not make the story feel rushed or what not…
So here's the story….It kinda follows Aisha's POV in this chapter
Disclaimer: I do not own Elsword
Chapter 2
Aisha
"GOODBYE EVERYONE!"
Those words rang in my ear as I touched the wound that was caused by a spear that had penetrated through my Mana Shield. Even though I knew what would happen if I contracted with a demon. Feeling fatigued from the battle against the Nasod King I then closed my eyes and hugged my knees and told Angkor that I was gonna sleep.
I slowly trudged my way across the forest searching for any pieces of Eldrit Shards. My name was Aisha Purpleheart. I was once at the peak of all magicians of Elrios carrying the title of Elemental Master, but one fateful day I stumbled upon a ring and it stole all of my mana leaving me with minute amounts just right to fire around 3 – 4 fireballs at most. When I told my family about this matter, I received a slap from my mother who then threw me outside, she then ordered a servant to gather all my clothes and burn it. I pleaded to her not to do so but she only coldly glared at me and said.
"From here on you are now only Aisha, you are not allowed to use Purpleheart again and I will then notify the Mages guild about this incident. I do not want to suffer the humiliation of trying to hide this event from them. I will ask them to strip you of your title of being an Elemental Master and have you be labelled as a Rouge Magician."
From there my entire world collapsed and I only felt despair, my world slowly lost its color. She then continued,
"Here, I'll give some gold coins, so hurry up and leave this place! You are not worthy stay here any longer!"
"Your highness… highness…. Your highness please wakes up…."
I felt some nudging from, I then groaned but slowly rose from the bed. Wait a minute…. Bed? When did I sleep on a bed?
I then opened my eyes and pinched my cheeks on to find out that this was all real.
"Oh! Human, you have awakened already!"
I then heard a familiar voice coming from my side and saw not Angkor but a person.
"A….A…Ang…"
I was so shocked that I was unable to properly speak. Instead of the petite purple winged bat I saw a man in his 30s or 40s with a long white hair that had reached up to his waist, two canines slightly visible from his mouth and he wore some intricately designed clothing that looked holy instead of demonic.
"This is my real form, that bat in which you saw is only my familiar and a vessel for me to transfer some of my power to you human."
"Stop calling me a human, though I am a human but I have a name you know, its Aisha…. My name is Aisha" I had almost added my last name
"Oh so the name of my contractor is Aisha huh? No last name?"
"I have no last name…." I then lowered my eyes and remembered what had happened 3 years ago….
"Well, that's pretty convenient for me." He said with a smirk forming up his face
"Eh? Why?"
"From now on Aisha, your last name will be Darkring, Aisha Darkring"
"Darkring….. Aisha… Darkring? Why? Why do I need to have a last name? I'm only your contractor so why do you need to give that?"
I was really doubtful, I was disowned by my family, had my surname and title strip away from me so as to not leave a stain to the Purpleheart family.
"Have you forgotten? I'm the Demon Lord of the Shadow Demons, so as my contractor you have also become the Princess of the Shadow Demons."
As I thought, there is a catch to having a last name but I was a bit surprised that I became a princess. I thought Petite Angkor was only calling me princess as a joke cause of how physically weak I am.
"Next on the agenda is about our contract, you have already agreed to the conditions I have set so…." Angkor then snapped his fingers letting out a sound that echoed.
As if it were practiced, a group of maids with horns suddenly surrounded me.
"Hey! What are you doing!? W-Why are you taking my clothes off! What's the Idea here!? A-Anyone Help me!" I screamed
As I screamed another group of maids approached me carrying some kind of clothes and then...
"W…Wait! Am I really gonna wear that! Nooooo!"
When the nightmare had finally ended, a pair of maids then carried a wall mirror and what I saw was.
"Are these thing really clothes! Aren't these things undergarments!"
From the mirror, I had seen that I was wearing a piece of cloth that was really small with a cross design and would only cover my chest area exposing my stomach, on my arms were some long purple sleeves that had frills at the ends.
Further down below, I was wearing a really short tight skirt that was only enough so that my panties won't be seen. There were also four wing like things attached to the skirt, these kinda resembled bat wings.
I was also wearing thigh-high purple boots with high heels. All in all the design was good but the top was really too revealing.
"Angkor! What's with these clothes!? Do I really need to wear them?"
"Yep! You have already adhered to my contract so whatever you say to me is useless."
"Can't you at least make the top less revealing! Please!" I pleaded to him with all my heart. "No can do! Hahahahahaha!"
Damn it! I'm really starting to think that he is really just another perverted lolicon! I don't how he had done it but he had also managed to revert my age back to 14 to suit his fetishes! Damn it all!
"Well then, Aisha follow me, there is a place where we need to go."
"What? Where to?" I hesitantly asked
"To the balcony! I have an important announcement to make right now."
"Ah okay, but can I please wear something else, at least give something to cover up my chest!?" I shouted towards Angkor
"No can do."
Since it was a contract I couldn't do anything without the consent of the one I am contracted. Seeing as my actions were futile I then quickly followed Angkor.
When we had arrived to the balcony I was greeted by a very loud applause from thousands to millions of demons that came in all shapes and sizes. Angkor raised his hands and silence took over the entire area, slightly nodding his head Angkor than declared.
"My subjects I gathered all of you today to announce the coronation a new Princess of the void! Princess Aisha Darkring!" He then motioned his hand signalling for me to stand up beside him
"As of today she will be the crowned Princess and shall wield the powers of the everlasting darkness of the void!"
A loud cheer then erupted from the demons gathered for today. I then felt embarrassed and thought that if Elsword was here I would have had vented all of my anger and embarrassment to him.
"Also, a year from now we shall invade the world of Elrios, though blood may be shed I hope you all to follow these wishes of mine so that we can still see the rise of another moon."
With that said cheer louder than the previous one erupted. I was shocked to hear of a demon invasion into the human world that I threw Angkor a question while clenching my fists at both sides.
"Why do you need to invade and create chaos in Elrios even though we had worked so hard to stop the Nasod King!"
"We need to perform ritual to create a barrier in this world to protect us from the beings from of another dimension."
"Do you really need to attack Elrios again to protect it? Have you ever tried to tell the barrier you had said? "I then gave him a cold glare
"Yes, we had tried but that had resulted in the destruction of the Nasod Kingdom. In order to prevent that tragedy from ever happening again we are prepared to be called evil so as to have the least amount of blood spilled" His eyes then became sharp and continued to say
"I don't ever want to let that happen again! I would do everything in my power to prevent another kingdom from being destroyed! For that I will invade Elrios and perform the ritual to rejuvenate the barrier between dimensions without sacrificing a race!"
I then thought about Eve and place both of my hands to my mouth as I listened to him further.
"We only need to secure the Giant Eldrit shard from Hamel and perform the ritual of dimensions in Peita to fix the barrier."
"So the demons will really not destroy the Kingdoms?"
"Of course not, since we Demons ourselves have sworn to protect all life that was created by the Void."
I then stared wide eyes at Angkor as he a maid walked near him and began to whisper something into his ears. A few seconds later he then began to speak to me again.
"Aisha, during this year you will have to learn all the things about Dark El Magic and Moonstones, by the way your tutor is a red haired knight and my trusted Demon General, Ran and Elesis Sieghart."
"Okay I see…. Sieghart?"
"Yep Sieghart." He replied as he turned his body back and went towards the door leaving me thinking of a certain red haired boy that also had the last name of Sieghart with him.
And its done!
Elesis and Ran made an appearance in this chapter! Yey…
Angkor is pretty important in this story and though I'm the author, I'm really shocked to find him really noble and well respectable… hahaha!
Please give me any feedbacks or criticism or any violent reactions regarding this chapter I'm really thankful if there are any… ^^/
I'm gonna upload another update the day after tomorrow… just saying! hahahah
By the way, I'm really glad you liked it Spirify… \^o^/
