A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 141: Broke

Chapter 141: Broke

"He wants the soul of one of Yggdrasill’s children." I informed everyone, which seemed to surprise Diablo.

But he didn’t let that get to him and just started clapping.

*Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

"Well done Asmodeus, I thought Belphegor would’ve solved that, but not you, then again, your daughter is there right now isn’t she? Would be a shame if something happened to her."

"I will kill you." I stated with dead emotions, sending shivers down everyone’s spine, including Diablo’s.

"Well, you’ll be too busy to kill me." He said, trying to distract me. "As you see, I have made an ally. Someone you can easily guess."

"Hello, punks." Satan greeted from behind us.

I didn’t take my eyes off of Diablo though, my gaze colder than that of gods of Ice and Winter.

"OI! DON’T IGNORE ME YOU CUNT!" Satan yelled as I continued ignoring him.

"I’ll let you deal with this fucker, I’ll deal with this traitor." Lucifer said as he left to deal with Satan, leaving Diablo to me. "Everyone else can take your pick of who you want to kill."

Beelzebub and Leviathan went with Lucifer, leaving Lilith and Mammon with me to face Diablo.

"Ho? You really think you can kill me with just the three of you?" Diablo said mockingly.

"I stand by what I said." I retorted.

"I’d like to see you try." He said with a mocking smile and arms wide open.

So I moved right in front of him and punched him in the face at full power, sending him flying all the way to the other side of his bubble.

I hadn’t told anyone, but ever since I had my daughter, my desires to protect her have inadvertently cause me to become twice as strong as before.

"What. The fuck. Was that?" Lilith asked upon seeing me punch Diablo so hard he literally went flying.

"What? I got stronger." I stated like it was an obvious fact, because it was obvious.

"I can see that! But like, HOW?!?" She screeched.

"It-" I was about to answer her when I saw something that stun locked me to the point that my mind shut down.

Traytora, my sweet little girl. My precious little gem, broke.

Literally, her soul fractured upon seeing something. I couldn’t tell why as my mind had already shut down.

I could sense something approaching at high speeds, probably Diablo. Whatever it was reached me and tried to attack me, but I simply raised my hand and caught it.

I heard someone stuttering in surprise, probably Diablo. I looked to the person in question and sure enough, it was Diablo.

I didn’t talk and just simply punched his face in repeatedly, still holding onto his fist that tried to attack me so that he couldn’t get away.

My fury had never been this huge before, it felt like a maelstrom the size of the new, reformed Earth. And all of it was being unleashed upon the bastard who dared to harm my daughter.

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

Strike after strike, I punched him without mercy, every hit filled with my full power, a desire to annihilate him, empowering my strength even more.

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

I kept on striking him in the face relentlessly, and he was powerless to stop me. He was now unrecognisable, with his bones now starting to show, or at least the splintered fragments of his skull were starting to show.

He tried to say something but it just came out a a garbled mess, his mouth dented inside his skull and splatters of blood spurted out with each hit, now with some brains as well.

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

I didn’t stop until I completely obliterated his skull. And when all that was left was a stump of flesh and bone with a jaw hanging off of it, I threw the body to the floor violently.

I observed my work and noted that I was now covered head to toe in blood, wo I burned all of it off of me and descended to the body, knowing that he was still alive despite not having a head.

"Get up." I commanded as I loomed over him like a mountain.

Instead of standing, he, well, his body started to crawl away. I flew down and broke one his arms by landing on it.

"UP. NOW." I commanded again, with such authority that Diablo’s body actually did so.

Most likely out of fear, he didn’t move a single step, remaining as still as a shivering child who just witnessed atrocities beyond his comprehension.

I didn’t say anything to him, I just stood there and stared at him menacingly, thinking about how I wanted to torment him.

I wanted to make him suffer the Hell-storm of emotions that I was feeling right now at seeing my daughter going through her own tempest of emotions. I craved, to see him suffer the most pain that I could think of, and that’s when I heard an unholy scream.

"YYYYYAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!"

It was Satan, and as I looked over for a second, I could see the metaphysical manifestation of Wrath being torn from his body.

’Yes. This’ll do nicely.’ I thought to myself as I reached out my hand towards the Sin and pulled at it, forcefully ripping it out and commanding it to come to me.

All the while, Satan kept on screaming in agony as a core part of his existence was being forcefully cut off of him. He struggled to keep a hold of Wrath, but he also had to deal with fending off Lucifer, Leviathan and Beelzebub at the same time. Something he couldn’t do.

And when the last shreds of the Sin were torn from him, it landed in my palm, and I immediately knew how to use it.

I pointed my left palm that held Wrath in it and channelled all of my hatred and wrath into it, and fired a concentrated beam of vengeful flames at Diablo’s broken body. He tried to run as soon as he realised what I was going to do, but it was too late.

Horrifying wails of pain reverberated throughout the entirety of Hell as Diablo’s body and soul was afflicted with an unimaginable amount of pain stemming from the sheer power of the raw emotions that I was unleashing upon him.

His voice kept on screaming and echoing throughout every corner of Hell as I continued burning him with concentrated flames of Wrath that came directly from the source of both my burning anger and the Sin itself.

When I stopped, all that was left was a waning soul and a couple of charred limbs that flopped to the ground. As for the soul, it looked like an eldritch monster with how it was folding in on itself to try and retain its form in some way.

I walked towards the shambling soul mass and it began screaming hazily at me.

"D-Don’t come any closer! I-I-I-I’ll b-blow myself up!" It threatened, thinking that it could harm me if it did so.

"You really think you can harm me? In this state?" I asked him as I reached out towards him with my right hand.

"NO! NONONONONONNOONONONNONO!!!!" He screamed and tried to run but I grabbed a hold of him before he could get away.

I brought the disgusting mass to my face and said, "You will suffer, for eternity, for what the pain you caused my daughter."

"I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry." He kept mumbling over and over again.

"Sorry won’t cut it. You’ve fucked up this time."

That was when Lucifer came over with Satan’s body.

"I trust you to deal with him, but what are your plans for Wrath?" He asked.

I looked at the mystical phantasmal red fire in my left hand, pondering that question for a bit before responding.

"Honestly? Use it to torture this filth until a suitable candidate appears. Other than that, I have no purpose for it, I don’t intend to integrate it into myself as I know that while I’m good at using it, I won’t be able to make full use of it all the time."

"Mm. In that case, do let me know when you plan on giving it to someone else or find some other use for it." Silence permeated the place after her spoke those words, well, apart from the constant whining coming from the soul in my hands.

The silence was then broken by Lilith who said, "I wasn’t expecting this conflict to be over with so soon, and so easily at that."

"Indeed. Also, you and I didn’t even do anything." Mammon pointed out.

"Well, I don’t mind that, I’m just glad that this is all over." Lilith said.

Lucifer agreed, "Indeed, it’s good that we won’t have to do this ever again. Hopefully."

"Well, now that this is all over, I’ll be going back home. See you all later." I said my hasty goodbyes to everyone, and they all waved me off as I returned to my domain.

And from that day forth, all of Hell knew not to me with, and were always reminded of it whenever the screams of Diablo rang out throughout the realm.