Relaxing Bath

(Third Person Pov)

Days passed, weeks passed, months passed, years passed, decades passed, centuries passed, a millennium passed, and then ...well, he stopped counting.

He didn't see any point in counting.

He tried various things to relieve his boredom living alone in his forever-trapped space. Whenever someone entered the space he played with them to his heart's content until they became an empty shell.

No longer screaming, no longer crying in agony, no longer begging for death, no longer being desperate, no longer in pain, no longer fearing, no longer having any hope left, just boring empty shell.

And whenever that happened, he instantly killed them.

But it had become all boring for him.

Why would it not? While he found pleasure in people's misery, it was no fun to only have a single person coming to him, and even that once in a decade or sometimes centuries.

But he couldn't leave the space, he was bound to it.

And cursed.

But things changed when he gave him a visit.

Maybe since he had lived alone for such a long time, never meeting anyone more superior to him, stuck in this trapped space he had forgotten, he was just a ....low-ranked Devil.

Nothing more than that.

And so, in his presence, the presence of a devil, a far higher-ranked than him, his body uncontrollably shivered, and he remained on his knees, head downcast during the entirety of their conversation.

At first, he couldn't even understand why such a powerful Devil would want to meet him but it didn't matter for it had provided him with something that he had been wanting the most.

It had decided to remove its curse in return for a simple mission.

The Devil who had simply been living the entirety of this time with no particular task was now given one.

He needs to consume him, take over him, and using him he will leave this shithole forever.

And once he does, he will be able to get out of this forever-trapped place.

To him, this was a sweet deal.

So, he accepted. Not like he ever had the choice to refuse.

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(Noah's Pov)

Holy moly.

I have been descending for an hour.

Finally, reached the bottom, and man this place reeks.

Makes sense, there's nothing but skeletons all around me and frozen blood on the ground with lots of different types of torture shit.

Ignoring it all, I kept walking until I finally came across a figure sitting on a throne(?), he didn't have any crown on his head or anything though.

"I highly doubt you are a human but okay," I said

"Due to certain reasons I don't possess a body nor can I take the shape of one, so I have simply taken hold of this decayed human corpse....well, not for long" He shrugged sitting cross-legged on the throne as he continued "But let's about you, it's amazing how you are so unfazed despite coming here. Do these corpses not scare you? You could end up like them, you know? Many of them were stronger than you, far far stronger than you, and yet here they are, all dead. These fools who had come to seek my power, you too have come with the same purpose, have you not?"

"I have, so what do I gotta do to get you to give me-"

"How impudent. Only answer what I ask of you." 

He simply flicked his finger in my direction

...and the left-most part of my body simply blew away as blood splurted out of my body and my guts and various visceral liquids of my body started to fall out.

Without wasting time, I chewed down the healing potion that I had turned into a pill on my right side of the mouth resulting in regeneration of every inch of my body back to normal.

"Oho... that's quite interesting," He said, his expression wrapped into a twisted smile, he raised his hand upwards and sharp spikes started emerging from the ground as I tried to evade them by instantly using mana strengthening and brain tempering.

I jumped backward only for an iron maiden to appear that didn't give a single second to dodge embracing me, without wasting time I took my scythe out of my inventory and sliced through the iron maiden as I skidded backward.

I am fucking sure Alyssa didn't go through this type of shit at all.

Somethings definitely wrong but what, that I don't know.

Whatever, we ain't winning this one, let's try to get as much information I can from here, and once I feel like I have reached my limit Imma just bail outta here.

With that thought, I looked at me.

My eyes met his.

"Well, someone seems to be enjoying himself"

"We haven't even begun though. Please entertain me to the fullest"

I shook my head as the next barrage of attack came towards my way, almost managing to cleave my limbs apart.

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"Motherfucking son of a motherfucking bitch... can't believe I wasted my precious healing potion on this shit, shoulda bailed out without using them."

And now, I don't have any potions that could help regenerate an entire missing limb. All 10 of those potions have been used.

And I haven't gotten a single idea of what's going on.

I have been just trying to evade his continuous attacks which didn't give me a single second to think.

I don't even know how long I have been fighting on.

When was the last time I had to fight without sleep for days? I don't remember but even those battles weren't this shitty and so one-sided.

Another one of his attacks made its way towards me while he remained seated on his throne.

Gotta bailout.

My marine-colored necklace shows your magic, get me the fuck outta his hidden dungeon.

Actually, this necklace is supposed simply to take me to a safe place but I don't really know if it had worked in a hidden dungeon nor do I know what had happened to the hidden dungeon mission if I am able to actually disappear from here.

But hey, 'tis my only bet, right no-

"Oh no, you don't." 

Huh?

All I need to do is to form a simple thought to activate my necklace and it will work.

Did this guy just act faster than I could form a simple thought?

No... 

Since when?

"You cast a spell on it before without me ever realizing... you knew what it was from the beginning"

All I got in response was a twisted smile of his.

Well, I am up against someone who I shouldn't be up against as of now.

Another barrage of his attacks begins and my bail-out plan has gone down the drain.

Oh well, let's die trying.

...I ended up remembering my talk with Eliona.

Fucking karma. 

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(Eliona's Pov)

"This... this is heaven!" 

I shouted at the top of my lungs as let my body sink into the hot water spring. At once all the tension that had accumulated inside my body seemed to leave my body.

I could spend my entire life here.

"No, my dear. This is not heaven. It is the pond of divine blessing that would help cure your legs, help strengthen your body, provide you a divine blessing, and awaken your latent abilities" The gentle, soothing, charming voice of hers was like a sweet melody that entered my ears.

"I know, I know. I have understood. It was just a figure of speech, Ms. Angel"

According to her, curing my legs was the easy peasy thing that she could do with a flick of her finger but what she wanted was to help me gain this divine blessing and help me awaken my latent abilities. 

I still don't really get what divine blessing is and as for latent abilities, she said everyone has latent abilities dormant inside of them, and taking a bath in this hot water ...I mean pond helps awaken them.

Currently, I don't care about anything but enjoying my sweet bath.

This is so relaxing.

I wonder what Noah is doing? Since he went to the path of the Devil is he taking a bath with him in some pool of blood or something??

Whatever, fuck that bastard.

Ah.

I feel like I am melting, this is just awesome.

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(Noah's Pov)

"Well, well, what do we have here? Did you just stop the attack that coulda killed me?" I asked

Since there didn't seem to be a way outta this, I thought let's end this shit, so I kinda stopped moving but he stopped the attack right that instant.

The attack wouldn't just simply injure me but kill me.

My, oh my.

Splurt!

Squelch!

Fuck.

Spikes pierced my limbs, fixing me in a single position.

"You are right. I can't kill you, I need you alive but I can injure you as much as I want, you know?"

For the first time, he stood up from his throne and slowly started walking towards me while a hot iron rod was suddenly stabbed into my stomach.

"Agh"

I coughed up blood as I felt the high-temperature rod stuck in my stomach start moving as if it was trying to tear me apart.

Thanks to my brain tempering though, I wasn't feeling any pain.

'Tis but a scratch.

"Now then, please sing a song of your screams and pain for me"

"That so? Make sure to protect me, okay? Now then, I hope you enjoy the song"

"What?" He tilted his head to the side.

Until now, I couldn't really fight to the fullest with anyone. After all, my psychic came from a simple fact, it could be as strong as much of a pain I can feel, added with my ability to use mana, aura, soul energy, and myst all these things whose proficiency I have increased quite a bit.

What I am saying is, that I never really got the chance to pull off my strongest attack on anyone.

My blood which was now spilled all over the ground, in every direction worked as the medium as a strong vortex of wind gave birth to a tornado, the strong waves of tsunami to drown someone, crush them from within, the fierce flames that seemed to erupt from a volcano that had melt everything in its path and the ground beneath us that shook violently with fissures forming on it as if it will break apart any moment.

"AAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I screamed.

I screamed loud enough for my vocal cords to tear apart as I felt the excruciating pain running through my body, one that I had never felt before as I poured every drop of my mana, aura, soul energy, and myst into my attack, calling forth something akin to natural disaster over this field of space.