Author note: exposition exposition exposition lore lore lore
Chapter 12: Summoned by the goddess and the history of the world.
Many days later after the trio left Lescatie, they shared stories, made love just like she dreamed about, surprised her with how many prisoner fruits and other aphrodisiac foods they could fill themselves with, talked laughed and knew one another better, Magatsu was in awe of Sieg feats during the age of the Dark and Beatrice own power supporting him and by the end being the one responsible for ending that age. She was also afraid of the knowledge as the only living person in this era with knowledge about those times, thinking to herself she would put them in danger but then promptly being teased about it by the duo for taking this too seriously.
"Oh you, stop teasing me! I have the right of being worried for my beloved ones" she smiled.
"But you're so cute when being teased, the encyclopedia was right about you kunoichis, you really wear your heart in your sleeve after meeting your loved masters"
"Ahhh not all of us are like thaaat!" the ninja enjoyed this moment even more because both truly were literal lords, so her dream has come true in every way possible.
Then as if on cue, the levels of holy energy in the area skyrocketed making the kunoichi wince in pain and a magic circle formed close to them.
"Well it seems she's finally calling us" Sieg looked at the circle filled with holy light and sighed.
"Magatsu stay in here and wait for us okay, we have an audience with the Chief God, come Beatrice" the pair began walking to the circle.
"Why the Chief God wants to meet you Sieg, what have you done?!" the kunoichi was worried and fearful for them.
"Well i promised to meet her in exchange for letting Sasha go, since the kind sister was declared a traitorous heretic and would be killed by a Valkyrie under her orders after helping with the invasion" He explained what happened when he was summoned by the nun on that night.
"Sasha, forgive us... and please find your happiness..." Magatsu was sorry for risking the heroine life like that, if it wasn't for Sieg helping her, even the plan of monsterizing the sister would fail, because she would be long dead and without a corpse by then.
"Be careful, please don't fall for whatever her promises are, she's a long time enemy of ours, the Order actions more than prove it" the kunoichi warned the couple.
"I know i have my fair share of dealing with gods, weakened gods but gods nonetheless, still i doubt she's as much of a monster as the incompetent people of the Order make her look like by comparison" strangely he defended the Chief God making the girl raise a eyebrow.
"If she tries anything i'll defend him Magatsu, you have my word" Beatrice flexed her arm assuring the girl.
Then the couple stepped into the Summoning circle and disappeared
Heaven realm
After one moment and a feeling of displacement that reminded them of bonfire warping they opened their eyes and met a realm filled by light, the floor they stepped on was made of golden clouds, marble pillars of the purest white paved the way, many angels flew around in the distance making Sieg wary then relax, they weren't the angels of the Dreg Heap and for now he doubted he would be carpet bombed with lasers, they also saw Valkyries accompanied by heroes, champions from before the Rise of the current Demon Lord who weren't trapped by Hel and the Fallen Goddess inside their realms, there was a disruption in the current age cycle of souls and this realm was getting lesser and lesser each year, not that this mattered for the undead, the only afterlife their kind knew was the one of eternal silence provided by the First of the Dead or the prison of insanity in their own bodies if they ever became hollow.
"It's beautiful, strangely i feel at peace in here" the woman commented.
"But not as beautiful as you my love" the man answered, his maiden was more beautiful than ever with her delicate features and black dress against this scenery of gold.
"This reminds me of the Archdragon peak, maybe it was like this during its heydays"
"Soul seeking Sieg and his companion in black welcome, the Chief God awaits thee, make haste" Valkyries looked all the same but he knew this one was the girl who attacked him yesterday.
"Long time no see, i found out you watched our little trist while invisible, what a bad pervy Valkyrie~ be careful with your fetishes either you'll fall~" he jabbed at her.
The angel was flustered, she was close to falling by remembering that hot animalistic scene, if the Chief God hadn't possessed her, riding her of the demonic influence, she would've fallen for this man even thought and he did such unspeakable things.
"Forget you ever watched us you hear me! Forget it! forget it! forget it!" Beatrice strange reverie was broken
"Either" the firekeeper tone turned cold.
The flustered Valkyrie nodded, the woman was more than her petite form seemed to be, she remembered once again the reason why she was so, and a tinge of anger appeared in her face before her expression blanked once again.
"The Chief god awaits thee, make haste either you'll be smited where you stand" the woman disappeared.
The couple walked further into the realm guided by the pillars until they reached a gate of light and stepped in, transported into a new place now they were facing a throne of the purest Gold and emblazoned with sculptures that reminded him of the throne Yhorm once sat upon but without the suffering motif, sitting upon it was a woman shining with light and a judging gaze, but she looked far from her best form he could tell.
"The Chief God was struck so long ago and still didn't recover?"
For a single instant Sieg thought about putting her down and collect her Soul to see what wonders she could be transposed into, the thought was gone as fast as it came, he knew that without her this world balance would be broken and the Dark would come even faster, even if it was "tamed" nowadays and acted different from his era, he wouldn't dare to try it thought unless it was the last option he had.
"Welcome soul eating Sieg, or should i call you the Ashen One? And you the keeper of the flames Beatrice"
"You know about us?" both were surprised.
"After some searching and looking up the old archives from the time the last Chief God ruled i could find our world history had a even Darker past, a past filled with your kind" the goddess spoke with distaste.
"Then you know that if we interfere too much there's a chance of that past coming back right?"
"Yes... Even still it's worth the risk" the woman decided on it long ago.
"Hero of Ash Sieg and Last Firekeeper Beatrice, help me dethrone the current Demon Lord and the traitorous hero, you are my last chance of correcting this world" she asked without authority, more like a plead.
"And why should we do it, tell us your story"
"I was rash" The wounded goddess began while rubbing her wounds.
"Once the old Chief God left without any of us knowing his reasons, i was put on his throne as his most worthy successor, then i let the power rise up my head and when i found out the last hero of the old era married a succubus and together with her defeated the Demon Lord, letting her assume the throne and in the process turned all the monsters in the world into what you've seen, i decided to strike them myself" Her face contorted with shame.
"And as a newly crowned god you weren't as strong as you thought you were and got promptly defeated by the couple with far more battle experience than you had" Sieg had pity for the casul in front of him.
"The Demon Lord has power that rivals the gods, and even now she grows more powerful, a cheating slut is what i call her! getting more powerful the more her husband fucks her is absurd!" the woman began stomping at the throne.
"It really is absurd" Sieg nodded, such a thing is completely insane even by the undead standards who found pretty messed up ways of attaining strength, the closest they got to such a concept was the art of lifedrain by the Dark Wraiths who "kissed" them during it, but just doing lots of sex making you stronger?
"Because of my rashness in dealing with it, the Demon Lord also affected the other Gods, some were converted and fell, others didn't give a damn about the old system and changed allegiances, others thought her promises would change the world for the better and accelerated the monsterization of their followers after becoming monsters themselves, the biggest loss was that of the one responsible for the afterlife, the goddess Hel, her job of giving the souls proper rest was corrupted and now she ressurects them to become monster husbands, or worse monstergirls independent if the corpse and soul was of a man before his death, sometimes the corpse and the soul come back separated and turn into 2 different beings altogether, surely you read about the Alps didn't you? that happens with the undead as well".
Sieg and Beatrice cringed with this information, at least the Alp was the result of a homosexual wanting to become a bottom for his friend, for some reason this world doesn't accept a man choosing his own kind and turns them into a woman, but in the end it doesn't seem to matter that much for the involved, but a soul without choice being put back in its corpse and suddenly the corpse turning into one of a woman, messing with their minds forcing them to search for males, just no.
"Hel's surbordinates became monsters as well, they stopped being the guides to the afterlife and instead if no monster is around when a man ressurrects they take the man to themselves such thing created a rift between them and the Order who used to see them with good eyes, now they are chased for this blasphemy against life, the dead should remain dead after all."
"Tell us, are those undead similar to our kind, do they carry the Dark Sign?" they really didn't want to see the curse of the undead spreading and ruining this world with insanity like it did before.
"Thankfully no, if that horrid curse spread together with what's happening right now then this world would've fallen since long ago, the gods of your age were a bunch of imbeciles". She answered with spite and hate.
The Chief God had utter spite for the old gods means of controlling humanity, forcing upon them such a curse because they feared man, and such curse coming back to bite them in the ass because it began affecting the gods as well. The current way of just limiting human growth, and releasing the seal for those who would be heroes was far better and acceptable than cursing them with immortality that came with insanity and cannibalistic tendencies sooner or later.
"But worse than Hel quiting her job, is the slut who is my direct opposite, the Fallen God, if you ever meet her don't fall for her tricks, that bitch got stronger when i was wounded and just like the Demon Lord she's getting more power the more depravation happens in the world, it reached the point that she can hijack my connection to the Heroes and send them guided by false oracles alone into dens of monsters they aren't ready to face, being raped into following her instantly!"
The goddess began cursing again.
"That bitch is also trying to break inside my realm and get my angels, lots of angels already have fallen for her, this realm was much more populated, many the heroes of old that got respite in here besides their guiding valkyries left by the dozens once their valkyries fell to her temptations this is cheating! they just need to think about something sexual and soon enough they become monsters! CURSE THAT WHORE CURSE HER NAME FOREVER!" her anger induced a lighting storm down into the human world and many Order ruled countries pleaded to the Chief God to stop her rage.
"It seems demonic energy can do whatever the hell it pleases unabashed even in this place which should be the inaccessible to it and spirit energy is useless other than being monster feed, why is that?" Sieg was curious and asked after letting the woman calm down.
"Demonic energy is a descendant of the Dark from your times, and since you let the Dark win it got stronger, the world was covered by it after all..." the goddess answered with spite.
"Better letting it win and hopefully end that cycle of insanity, than keeping the weak fading Flames going for another cycle and condemning us to the same hell over and over" the Goddess nodded with hesitation, she wouldn't be here if not for the world being cleansed after all.
"Spirit on other hand is a parallel to the Flames and souls, but the Flame died out and soul stealing is the highest heresy, the Old Chief God banned the manipulation of souls to strengthen oneself and we all followed his decision by making a realm to put them to rest which Hel ruled over, the only one who didn't follow his order was the Fallen WHORE, but she doesn't devours them to empower herself, she found that by locking human and monster souls into her realm and filling them with depravation, more demonic energy would be produced and she absorbs that to power up".
"Great, we have the living breathing equivalent of the Abyss at full strenght, and this Abyss likes depraved sex... why you even think i can defeat something like that?" Sieg asked the woman in front of him, her job for him was too tall to be accomplished, in a short term that is.
"She isn't the Abyss, you know its horrors and she's nothing like it, she's more of a follower than anything" There was a chance then.
"So what you want me to do? Go into her realm and cause chaos, maybe destroying it in the proccess? If she's your counterpart killing her also risks toppling the balance completely" Sieg voice became cold and the goddess knew what he was getting into.
"Are you ready to lay your life right after for it? because i do not want to risk everything going to hell like before if you both are the current analogues to the Fire and Dark and killing one of you ends up restarting that cursed cycle once again" the man threatened, if the world was to fall to demonic degeneracy in some centuries it was far better than doing it now and ruining his peaceful life with Beatrice.
"If it comes to that i'll accept that fate... For now i ask of you just to wound her like i was, so the status quo can be achieved" The goddess feared for her life more than anyone else after being wounded like she was, in no way she would want to die and be devoured by the undead in front of her even if that meant the corruption of the world sooner or later, better let that whore live wounded just like she was than risking it.
"That, i can try to do, but what do we get from this? We heard your story but still have no compelling reason to help you" Sieg wanted a deal for this new quest.
"What do you want Sieg, i doubt a man like you couldn't get everything you wanted by your own hands in this world even the Demon Lord throne if you choose to fight for it".
"Ruling as a Lord is tempting, but it would be too bothersome and after taking the throne, you would send a bunch of heroes to try and kill me only for them to die themselves and give me strength" He was close to falling for Yuria temptations once but he refused to be a Hollow Lord, finding the firekeeper eyes was a boon in that way.
"What i want something only you can offer~" Sieg said with a smile
The beautiful Chief god was flustered at the proposition, she too has seen how animalistic the man was and gulped with expectancy, but also angry at his gall to ask something like that.
"Don't be like that, i do not desire your body, i'm also not after your soul even if it sounds so tempting to strike you down while you're weak and discover what marvelous things it can be transposed into~ i bet you would love to be one with me thought~" the expectancy gave way to anger and a crackling lighting cloud formed at the room ready to turn the undead into ashes.
kick "Oww! Sorry Beato sorry!"
"Magatsu was enough, i'm not letting you build an harem!" the firekeeper who was silent until now delivered the punishment
bash "Ok please stop using the shield i submit i submit, c'mon beato i'm trying to be serious here" the Chief God approved of Beatrice actions and the cloud receded.
"cough Just send the word to all the followers you can still contact, telling them to not get in our way, as you can see it's our long and deserved honeymoon after all"
"That i can do, with this our meeting is done" another holy circle appeared close to them and they stepped in
"The Fallen Goddess will come for you just like i did, try to trick her into lowering her guard before you strike, remember if you can wound her enough so she suffers the same as i did, then you'll always find peace in the nations that still follow my teachings" the Goddess said before the couple disappeared.
"May the chief god bless you unkindled".
Back at the summoning spot they were
"How did it go Sieg, Beato, are you hurt, did she do something to you i wont forgive her if she did!" Like an abaddoned puppy the Kunoichi came out from hiding after the holy aura disappeared and the couple was back.
"Calm down, calm down doggy~ sit!" Sieg teased the woman.
"I'm a kunoichi not a doggy!" Magatsu didn't take it well.
"Who's a good girl~" Beatrice petted her.
"Wan~" the woman barked.
"She still likes you more" the undead was crestfallen.
"I win Sieg~" Beatrice flexed with a smug smile.
"Ahhh stooop~ can you tell me already how it was, facing the Goddess by yourselves?". the kunoichi was tired of being teased, she should be the one doing it but these old mummies she loved so much had far more life experience than she ever would.
"From what i got she wasn't a absolute monster like your kind and the Order acts like she is" Sieg answered.
"She's really pitiful, and emotion driven, she had fear" Beatrice added.
"See? if only she accepted our love and became our ally like the other Gods did, she could have more friends". the Kunoichi began feeling pity for the goddess.
"Ah yes, the Fallen God... She requested me to wound her as much as she was herself". the man confessed.
"What?! Y-You wouldn't do that, right Sieg?" the kunoichi took a step back at his silence.
"Beatrice?" the maiden was silent as well.
"We told you heard about our times didn't you Magatsu?" She nodded.
"And how the pitiful fight of the Flames vs the Dark brought the world to ruin" she reluctantly nodded.
"After comparing our era with the current world, the status quo toppling in favor of the Dark by her being weakened and abandoned by the others was good enough of a reason to think about helping her for now, too much Dark and the Abyss could be stirred"
"BUT!" Magatsu still was in denial even if it seemed like a solid reason to help the goddess, she still couldn't accept her beloved ones to be the one striking against the god who most favored monsterkind.
"Rest assured little one, i'll just give the Fallen goddess a good spanking but i wont kill her" Sieg tried to comfort the woman, she escaped from his arms to Beatrice who began calming her down.
"What you're doing is worse than the Order ever tried to Sieg, you really believe she won't finish the job once you weakened our Goddess enough?" she spoke with tears bubbling out.
"Hmmm yes there's a high chance of the goddess invading the fallen realm and finishing the job".
"Then why?".
"If she tries to do it and topple things in favor of her light, she'll become one with me~ i assured her of it and she looked tasty after all~". He teased and got kicked
"You want to eat both? Sieg you look more and more like a old Demon Lord". She still remembered the horror of watching him drain Druella and her painful screams, even if later he assured them all that the princess was fine.
"I doubt she would though, i noticed her fear for her life maybe from what happened to her with the current Demon lord, she's more than satisfied if i just wound the Fallen Goddess to slow down the corruption of the world and put both goddess back at equal positions".
"Tell me Magatsu, would you find happiness in a world where no humans were born anymore, and eventually no monsters as well? I'm more than happy in spending the rest of my days with just Beatrice by my side and her with me, after all we did so once, what about you? Wasn't your choice following us and being our partner? Would you have enough willpower to be one of the last living beings in the land together with us?".
"But they-"
"Shhhhh little one, tell me it's been hundreds of years since the Demon lord rise to the power and being helped by every god, then why they still didn't find a way for monsters to birth humans and realize her supposed objective of uniting both races, why all we still see is still a forced assimilation?"
"Thats-"
"Her ways are flawed, the original mankind was so deeply connected to the Dark that the gods feared them and cursed us all to control us, she is the current Dark Lord, but can't link it to humanity don't you find this strange?" The kunoichi nodded, all monsters had faith in the Demon Lord and Fallen God, but they also keep to themselves the doubts of people so powerful still couldn't make them give birth to humans.
"So i'll wound the Fallen God to postpone the advance of the corruption and give the world enough time to deal with the problem, maybe the Fallen God and the current disparity of power with the Chief God is the reason for it".
"Hopefully this will be the last thing i need to do before finally enjoying our honeymoon to the fullest~" She remembered how these last days were so full of body melting fun with the two.
"I really can't change your mind about it..."
"Once a undead sets a objective to itself its almost impossible to make them stop" Sieg caressed the woman's, now fully calmed down she could only accept whatever the future had in store for them.
"We don't know when we'll be summoned by the fallen god and have a chance to strike at her, the goddess didn't give us a time limit for this quest after all, so until then my dear, let's live happily" Beatrice spoke also caressing the girl before separating from her and pulling out her whip
"Speaking of which it's time for our lovemaking of the day~" She craked her whip, making both Sieg and Magatsu eager for what would come next.
"Now both of you, it's time to honour your queen~"
"Yes my lord/dear husband~"
Letting these serious matters for later the happy trio indulged themselves without a care for the future.