A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 165: Lilyvyn’s Trials

Chapter 165: Lilyvyn’s Trials

"So what was your first trial like then? Did you need this demon’s contract?" I asked with curiosity.

"No, I didn’t need it, not for the summoner anyways." I was going to ask, but didn’t as I’m sure she would explain later anyways. "And as for the trial, or the summoning more rather, it went well. I was summoned by this rat woman, who was apparently being cheated on by her husband, and she wanted me to suck him almost to death."

"I told her that this was my first time using it on a real living being and that this was my first ever summon so I might accidentally kill. She shrugged and just said it was fine, but asked me to at least try, to which I said I would. And I did, and I actually succeeded, although there wasn’t much time left for him in this world, so I gave him the choice to give in to me and sign the contract to give his soul to me in order to live."

"Wow... You think I could do this kind of thing in the future? It seems interesting and I really wanna give it a go." I inquired, expressing my interest in this matter.

"Well... I guess I could give you a contract, but what would you use it for? And when would you even do that?" She inquired back.

"I dunno. I just want one so that when the time comes I have it. I feel like it’ll come in handy someday." I told her, my reasoning rather vague yet also simple.

"Well, you can have this one then I guess." She said as a golden parchment appeared with a puff of pink smoke in her hands and handed it to me.

"Thanks, I appreciate this." I said thanking her.

She giggled and said, "You’re welcome. Now where was I? Oh right, so anyways, I made this man sign the contract with me that would give me his soul so that he would be able to live, the thing is, I didn’t say how long, and he didn’t specify, so I got to choose. Hehehe~" She giggle with a devious glint in her expression.

"So what happened next? What exactly happened to that man?" I questioned curiously.

"Well~ When the man signed the contract, I gave him a little boost so hat he would live a bit longer, but due to the contract he signed, as soon as his wife was done tormenting him or whatever he wanted, that boost I gave to his vitality would return to me, and he would be dead without it, so the moment his wife was done with him, so too, was his life." She said with a sinister smile.

She continued, "After that I returned to the woman who summoned me and explained what had happened and the deal I made with him. I explained fully what the contract entailed, and upon hearing that the man tried to run away, but I told him that that would’ve been a breach of the contract, which would forfeit his life."

"And that was my first trial. I returned to Hell safely and when I told Mommy, she congratulated me on a job well done, and when I told her about the soul I had collected through the contract, she threw a party and invited the rest of her adopted children, whom all of which are basically my sisters, and threw a celebration as what I just did was a rather big achievement."

"Woah, really? That was an achievement?"

"Yeah, at least, for me it was, considering I was just a Succu Imp at the time, and not a Succubus. That achievement was actually what got me to be promoted into a Succubus, but I had to meet some other requirements before I could evolve into a higher species. And before you ask, I had to gather more demonic energy and have claim over at Least ten souls."

"Wow, that sounds like a lot of work. How long did it take for you to reach those requirements?" I inquired.

"Well, it took me a hundred years to gather the required demonic energy, and in that time, I’d only managed to collect another two souls. That might now sound impressive, but at the time, it was, and still is considered impressive, especially because of my race at the time."

"So how long did it take for you to obtain the remaining seven souls?"

"Uhh. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but...F-Four... Hundred... Years..." She mumbled.

"Four hundred?!?" I shouted back at her.

"Y-Yeah, I know, given my rate of growth with demonic energy, I should’ve gotten those souls sooner, but it was surprisingly hard to actually accomplish this as the years dragged on. Still, I managed to complete this second trial and evolved into what I currently am, a lesser Succubus." She finished off.

"So what comes after that? Is it just like a greater Succubi or something?"

"Yeah, pretty much, then after that is a True Succubus and then something else after that, but only True Succubi are allowed to know what that’s called. Apparently, the knowledge would kill us if we knew or something like that."

"Weird..."

"Yeah..."

A silence descended upon us as the conversation reached and end. And in an attempt to break the silence, Lilyvyn asked me something.

"Soo... Why are you even down here in the first place?"

"Oh, simple, I’m following the slimes." I answered.

"Those one’s?" She inquired, to which I nodded. She then asked, "But why?"

"I was on my way back to the desert when I encountered one of them in the forest. It then led me here and I just decided to continue following it because... I dunno. I just feel like I should. And... I guess it’s been a pretty okay experience so far. It’s been... Relaxing? I dunno, it just helps me process things whenever I have sex." I elaborated.

"Huh... That’s not something I’ve ever heard of happening before."

"Well, I doubt any of you have gone through even a fraction of what I have..." I trailed off at the end there, actively repressing those memories.

"..."

Silence descended upon us once again and just like before, Lilyvyn broke the silence.

"Uhh... Is there... Anything else, you’d like to know? About me or Hell in general?" She asked anxiously.

"Hmm..." I thought about it for a second and drew a blank right now. I’m sure I’ll ask more later on in our future conversations, but for now, I needed to make sure that she could get the message to my father.

"Do you have some blank paper?"

"Uuhhhh... I... Think? I do? Why? What do you need it for?"

"You’re going to be my messenger, remember?"

"Ahhhh! I totally forgot about that! Please forgive me!!!" She cried out in embarrassment.

"It’s okay Lilyvyn, I’m the one that got us side tracked anyways, you have nothing to apologise for. So, do you have some spare paper?" I asked.

"Sorry. And no, I don’t have spare paper on me, but I’m sure that we could just use the back of a contract. And please, call me Lily." Lily replied.

"Okay, Lily it is. Can you hand me an extra contract then?" I asked, not wanting to use the one I already had in my hand, as that was for later, whenever later was.

"Sure." She said cheerily as she summoned another contract along with a quill out of thin air and handed it to me.

"Where exactly do these things come from? Like where are you storing them?" I asked curiously, as I wasn’t sure how it worked and was curious if I could replicate it to some degree. It would make storing things so much easier.

"Well, it’s a natural skill of ours called [Succu Storage] and allows us to store things that we might be able to use for our nefarious deeds." She explained with a somewhat sinister undertone.

"Can you teach me?" I requested.

"I would be honoured to teach you." She spoke whilst smiling with glee.

"Great! Just let me write this message to my father first, okay?"

"Kay!"

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I finished writing what I wanted to say and rolled it back up and handed the contract scroll back to her.

During this time, we had been continuing to follow the seven slimes down the never-ending path. At this point, I wasn’t sure if there was an end to this place or not, but it was probably too late to back out now with how far I’d come.

"Ready to learn [Succu Storage]?" Lily asked me with a smile.

I nodded my head in response and she began teaching me.

She explained that she herself didn’t quite understand how everything works so she might say some things that are wrong and to say something if I thought as such. And after a couple of hours of practice and learning on both sides, I managed to get the skill.

Except, it wasn’t quite the skill I was expecting.