The Throne Is Mine
Chapter 332

Chapter 332: Chapter 332

"I am going to bring Amelia into the underworld to have a word with her father. Her cousin if she wants to. It won’t be long before her grandmother also dies and comes down here."

"The moment she does, I want you to tell me. Find a way for her to come into the underworld as a human without any complaints for the others. That is what I want," Killian said, referring to the gift Lucifer was offering him.

"I feel like that mirror you stole from me is already a good gift, but fine. How could you take something so special from me, watch me search high and low for it, and say nothing? You know I don’t like it when something is stolen from me. And what is this I hear about a soul being placed in another body?" Lucifer asked, folding his arms as he awaited an answer.

Just because he was in the underworld did not mean he was not told what was happening up top. He was told about a soul in a body that did not belong to it. A soul that was meant to be here.

Souls were not to leave the underworld without his permission. He let the demons catch the souls who ran away from their torture rooms or got lost on their arrival, but that was it. They all had to come back into the underworld to feed.

Nothing should have been taken from his realm without his permission. The other Gods would laugh at him if they knew there were people easily stealing from him.

"Amelia’s mother was revived by witches. She was raised by them. Half of her soul is still stuck here and I need it. As soon as you can find it, give it to me," Killian replied as he walked further into the dungeon to find Richard.

Lucifer would make his job of bringing Amelia here as human and finding Anne’s soul a lot easier. It was his turn to lay around with his wife while Lucifer did all the work.

"First you take my mirror and now you want me to give you the other half of a soul that wasn’t supposed to be taken in the first place. I really hate witches. Always with that black magic to take things from the underworld. I should have never given them that power."

It was Lucifer who offered a witch many books with spells that were out of this world. These spells made the appearance of witches change because it was like making a deal with the devil. You needed to offer up something important to use those spells.

Witches lost their ability to look like humans the more spells they used and sometimes, they would lose themselves, becoming a part of a dark world of witches.

"Asking me to give you the other half of her soul is a big deal. What is in it for me?" Lucifer questioned, refusing to let this chance for Killian to strike a deal with him go by.

Killian stopped upon hearing Lucifer asking what he would get. "Did I not leave my wife to carry out plans for you since you couldn’t leave the underworld-"

"We had those plans for years before your wife so don’t act like I just woke one day and decided to disrupt your life," Lucifer interjected. "I am aware that you flew back every night to sleep with her and go back in the morning so don’t act like a husband who has not seen his wife in years."

"Things change and I would have made the choice to stay by my wife’s side, but I finished what we planned so you should be grateful and do a few things for me. It is rare that I ask you for something since you’re a pain in the ass and you never allow anyone to forget that they owe you," Killian said and then continued to walk to find Richard.

Lucifer tapped a finger on his arm, tempting to let this human appearance wash away and be in his true form so he could pick up Killian and properly fling him halfway across the underworld. "How did someone like you get a wife? How does she put up with you or is she the only one who gets to see your good side? All it takes for you to be nice is to sleep with you. I should have made a move on you."

Killian tried his best to ignore Lucifer who would not stop following him for some reason. There was so much to look over in the underworld and yet, Lucifer was always bored. He needed Lilith to stop hanging around Amelia and come deal with her husband.

"I will get you the other half of her soul if you bring my mirror. You know how rare it is and you stole it from me!"

"I didn’t steal it from you. I borrowed it," Killian clarified. Lucifer could have always come to take the mirror from him whenever he wanted to. "It is not my fault you took so long to ask for it back."

"I didn’t know you had it, you insufferable demon!" Lucifer yelled, raising his right hand to hit Killian over the head, but he held himself back. After all the good work Killian did with conquering other lands and having demons take over, he couldn’t hit him when he really wanted to. "I have suspected a few people took it from me and I killed them."

"That’s why you need to properly investigate before you kill someone. It is not my fault that you didn’t look to see if it was in their possession before you killed them or ask me if I had borrowed it from you. It must have slipped your mind," Killian said, stopping to look at a large stone gate.

On the other side of the gate were the rooms to where special souls were kept. Important people who helped make the world miserable so Lucifer held them here away from other souls. Kings, queens, emperors, warlords, and more. It was like Lucifer’s playground to come to check what kind of punishment these people would get.

The gates slowly opened without Killian or Lucifer having to say they wanted to enter. Their presence alone would have any gate in the dungeon opening.

"It’s been a while since I came here. These people felt on top of the world when they were alive. Now look at them. Are you feeling hungry, Killian? These are the best types of souls you can eat. I will be kind enough to give one to you. Just pick," Lucifer said, going to one of the doors to look inside at what the punishment was. "Losing your head over and over again must sting."

"If it were possible for me to die, I think Lilith would be my torture. She already does that daily so it wouldn’t be anything new. What do you think you would be punished with?"

Killian didn’t answer Lucifer, but he did think about it. He expected his torture would be seeing Amelia or their future children dying. There was nothing else he could think of that would hurt him. If not for Amelia, if he were ever sent into the torture rooms, it might be the first time someone just stood around in there.

Luckily, a demon could never enter the torture rooms. They would be more aware that they were in the underworld and snap out of the illusion that tortured them. It was why demons were killed rather than imprisoned.

Killian stopped in front of the door leading into Richard’s room. Above the door, his name and former title were burnt into the stone wall. Rather than taking a peep inside, he entered the room to see what had become of Richard.

It was a great shame he never got to meet Richard face to face when he was still alive since Amelia had taken care of her father herself. He had looked forward to killing Richard when he had made plans to take over the Blackwell castle.

Seeing that Amelia had beat him to it sealed the fact that he had taken a liking to her.

The moment Killian entered the room, the illusion of Anne being intimate with Leonard slowly vanished and all that was left in the small room was Richard tied up in a corner where he was forced to watch.

"Pitiful," Killian said, snapping Richard out of the trance he was in.

The former king looked away from where his wife once was with a man he called his friend to a man he didn’t know. "Who are you?" Richard asked. He licked his lips which felt dry. He desperately needed water to quench his thirst. "Water-"

"You don’t need water. There’s no point in giving water to a dead man. That’s just the feeling you get from snapping out of your punishment. You must really be tortured to forget who I am. The king of the north who you kept poking at. Now, your daughter’s husband."

Richard looked around the small room that seemed bigger not long ago. It took him a moment to remember his past aside from Anne and Leonard. He also now remembered that he had a daughter.

The memory of Amelia leaning above him after pouring something into his mouth filled his mind. "She killed me," he remembered.

"My daughter killed me," Richard repeated as his memories became clear. "Amelia-"

"We get it," Killian said, interrupting Richard before he could repeat it a hundred times. "My wife killed you. You were lucky she reached you before I did."

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