"While the general populace is told that the reasoning for the awakening is unknown, it is theorised that such actions were taken by the executives, though many doubt that as the few known executives, did not seem to hold much authority prior."-Joshua Nicole(from YouTube stream: the truth, has since been removed from the site)
Chapter 4: supreme beings?
Hiro was stunned by the sudden aggression, as he felt a hard breeze hit his face, as momonga arm was raised in front of Hiro's face, as a metallic whip grasped the robed limb.
Then even quicker than the whip that had threatened Hiro's life, a short dark skinned child rapidly removed the whip from Momonga's arm, and began begging for forgiveness, even at the cost of their own life.
Hiro watched as his skeletal friend knelt down in front of the sobbing assailant. Lifting up the child's chin, so the tear ridden face stared at the expressionless skull.
"It is fine Aura, no one was hurt. However you must be careful to not act without permission." Compassion in the skeleton's voice unfitting of its menacing appearance.
Hiro was just left standing there in the surreal situation of a child which had unrealistic strength, sobbing to something out of a horror movie.
Then momonga rose up, holding the crying child in his arms, and turned to Hiro, and held out his hand to the only normal person in the room.
In a deep voice the skeleton spoke once more "so, will you be coming along."
And Hiro, having been thoroughly broken by the surrealness of the engagement, relented "fine, can't go to work right now, but you better let me go to work, once this lockdown is all over."
It was then that Momonga casted the spell, taking the trio the three far away from the dinghy apartment.
Meaning none of them would be able to witness the thin blue crack forming in the air, within Hiro's bedroom.
Hacciman, awoke laying on the lap of an unparalleled beauty. And while many would take such a situation for granted. Having important documents on him, he was paranoid enough to ignore her beauty and attempt to flee her grasp to defend himself.
Having pulled himself out of her reach, hacciman examined his terrain. She had taken him to the lowest of the slums, the walls barely blocked the toxic air outside, the windows were non-existent, mould was more common than the paint on the walls, and holes were plenty. The decor seemed to have been dragged out of the trash. This was obviously the worst place to live. So now hachiman had to figure out how the beauty in front of him had gotten into his house.
Probing for information, Hacciman spoke to the woman in front of him "who are you, how did you get here."
The woman tilted her head and spoke matter of factly "it is I kok-lir, you summoned me master."
Hacciman searched his brain for the memories of last night. And as he did such the scantily clad kok-lir approached him, and pressed herself against him. And whispered into his ear "my purpose is to serve my master in their every need" she let the last word hold in the air, as her slim fingers danced across hacciman's body.
Hacciman, having escaped his thoughts, moved away, and told his apparent demon servant that he would be testing out his magic. Not noticing her disappointment.
In his mind seemingly branded there by the previously unknown entity, hachiman, attempted to cast a much lower level spell than his first one
[summon demon: tier one]
Suddenly energy left his body, as a strange circle appeared in front of hachiman, and a flurry of small winged demons made a cyclone within the circle, and a cacophony of voices filled his mind. And though they seemed malicious in nature, it was obvious that they lacked intellect, and hachiman was able to seemingly convince two of them into a contract that did not seem to harm Hacciman. The two imps left the circle causing another drain of energy on Hackman's part, but to a much more bearable degree than his first summoning.
Then the rest of the imps within the cyclone released a shriek in the air, as they desperately clawed at an invisible barrier, clawing out to Hacciman, and the voices in his mind became much more frantic, and the cyclone seemed to be pulled back into the circle.
Hacciman then had his three subordinates kneel in front of him, as he sat down on his only chair.
Gazing at the three, as the much larger koi-lie subtly gave the other two the stink eye. But when Hacciman spoke she quickly changed her attention and mood. So tell me, what do you know of this world? Hearing this, the two little imps quickly started climbing over each other to give answers to their human master.
"This is world, is the one that master lives in"
The other imp quickly and excitedly added in
"Ohhh, ooh, and everyone here is an asshole"
Kok-lir rolled her eyes at the two bumbling imps and told her master a much more important piece of information "Lord our knowledge of this world was given by you, when we were summoned by you as all summoning magic gives the summons knowledge from their master of the most pressing information. To execute your will."
Hearing this hachiman let out a sigh, as he would be unable to use summoning to get information, of what happened that made demon summoning a thing, so he moved onto the next question,
"The summoning magic that I know should have a time limit, so how long will you three remain in my service."
To this the two imps quit their minor brawl and Kok-lir gave a puzzled look. And responded
"Well my lord, most demons last as long as the summoner keeps the proper flow of mana flowing, as you have the key to the demon realm, you have brought over our true bodies, so no more cost that which is used to."
Confused at the mention of the 'key to the demon realm' hachiman tried to think of what that could mean, until he gazed at his arm and saw a occult tattoo, depicting a familiar object. Upon focussing on it the tattoo seemed to rise out of his skin forming into 'the first altar', seeing the world item, the demons seemed to bask in its unholy light , as it let off an ominous glow that it had not before.
Seeing this Hacciman freaked out, though not that his previously focused servants noticed as they full concentrated on absorbing the dark power emanating from the world item on top of that,Hacciman noticed that once again his 'mana' was leaving his body, hachiman quickly attempted to force the item back to where it was, and surprisingly it did do as he wished as the statue formed back into a tattoo on his arm.
Then the three demons held an expression like a child who had to return home after spending time with their friend, saddened by the fact that they had to go, but unable to complain. Seeing this hachiman chuckled.
Feeling hunger from the loss of energy he had experienced, Hacciman asked Kok-lir to bring him a nutrition tube from the cabinet, pointing out the shabby wooden box in his 'kitchen'.
The demon swayed her hips as she walk over to it, and punched straight through the wood, grasping a handful of the tubes, and walking back to her master, she sat on the arm of the chair, and attempted to seductively open the tubes, only for the weak chair arm to break leaving the demon on the floor.
The absurdity of her ridiculous strength followed by the embarrassment of ending on her butt after trying to seduce her master, assumed Hacciman, but also concerned him, as he had no idea the limit of their strength.
Deciding on this he probed his servants for explanations of their power levels.
The two imps claimed to have strength comparable to teen, but have a couple powers used to trick up their opponents, such as the ability to change into the shape of anything smaller than them, however the eyes would remain the same, meanwhile kok-lir claimed to have power of about a bear, which freaked hachiman out, not to mention that most of her strength came from her ability to affect the mentality of her foes as she was a lesser succubus.
Knowing that demons in front of him might actually pose a minor threat he worried about himself, until he remembered that he had a spell which seemed to be offensive. Wanting to test it out, Hacciman had the two imps turn into black cats and follow him out onto the street to find some of the rats on the street to test his powers on though he was able to find a rag to cover up kok, it had still looked quite out of place for a beauty of her calibre to be hanging off of a bum like hachiman followed by two cats with glowing yellow eyes. It was even more out of place as even the homeless were missing from the previously crammed streets. This puzzled Hachiman even more than his new demonic companions.
That was until a voice called out to him "hey what are you doing out here, don't you know that there is a lock down."
Turning around, Hachiman saw a lockdown special forces officer, or as those in the slums called them a 'bruiser'. These were the lazy officers who liked to throw their weight around, only working if there was a lockdown, but acting all high and mighty on those in the slums.
The bruiser in front of them was a particularly ugly one, making hachiman think perhaps his parents put him in the position to ensure as few people interacted with him as possible. But even still, hacciman saw that the looks in the pig-man's eyes changed when he saw kok, as though he was smitten,
The officer attempted to coriece the demon to go with him, saying that he would let hacciman go if she spent the night with him.
This led to the previously flirtatious kok-lir, to quickly turn sour, as she spoke of her repulsion "you think one such as I would ever allow someone as low as you touch me!"
Hearing her criticism of him the pig-man quickly became irate, "listen here, you bitch we are on lockdown, so listen before I blow this guy's head off." Saying this the pig-man reached for his gun.
Having her master threatened, kok held out her hand for the pig man to grab. Then as the greasy hand got a hold of her hand, she rapidly grabbed his hand, and squeezed.
The sickening cracks, as the strong hand, which had surely beaten many of the poor, was compressed, holding it for a solid three seconds, Hacciman was able to watch the blood leave the pig-man's face.
Throwing him onto the ground, the imps soon joined in the attack, as their cat forms did nothing to dull their razor sharp claws.
The man, having pissed off hachiman, screamed in pain, even as Hacciman ordered for the demons to back off. The once pompous officer whimpered.
Seeing his already pathetic state hachiman, decided to test out his spells, first up was
[burning hands]
Then out of nowhere small red hands swarmed the officer, intensifying the screams, as the hands seemed to attack the wounds specifically, Hacciman let out a smile, at least until he realised that the hands seemed to only be cauterising the wounds and actually causing very little damage. It was then that Hacciman tested his other spells
[minor curse: pain]
Seeing as the status effect took place the officer renewed their screams, but it seemed to subside relevantly quickly.
Disappointed once again, Hacciman seemed to sulk, that was of course before a new flood of information regarding his curses flooded his mind.
Now Hacciman should be able to perform a ritual to expand his powers, and in doing so he was able to put a curse of amnesia.
However this did mean one thing.
The former grand catshopte, most destructive mage in all of Ainz Ooal Gown, did not have a single attack spell.
