The Deal

"Hmm? Whatever do you mean?" Alastor said while being coy with what I was talking about.

"Oh I'm sorry, I guess I was just imagining things, of course you wouldn't want to make a once in a lifetime, no several lifetimes, deal and would rather just wait for decades, centuries, millennia, several millennia even before what I could do for you with a mere snap of my fingers, Ahh but that doesn't matter to you now does it, anyway since I'm here, Husk mind getting me some of that scotch over there?" I say all that before proceeding to ignore Alastor before turning to Husk to have him get me a drink.

But out of the corner of my eyes as while Alastor was acting like what I said meant nothing to him, his eye was ever so slightly twitching while he was drumming his fingers on the counter, he was irritated but he knew I basically had his balls in a vice if he wanted to get what he really wants out of all of this.

Soon enough Husk brought back the bottle before pouring it into a glass which I soon grabbed as the glass itself chilled from my powers.

"…. I have to ask, how many powers do you have?" Husk decided to ask because from what he has seen is my magic arsenal is large.

"I'll make it simple, any magic power you have seen, any superpower from comic books, any of that at all, and I have it, I just decide for the occasion what to use, though I'm not omnipotent as there's some things I can't do since well, I'm not a god, but I could definitely call myself a Demigod with all the powers at my disposal." I decide to explain though not mentioning a rather large flaw in my powers that even after all of these years I haven't been able to fix.

And that's when I use more different powers at the same time my powers diminish though this diminishment becomes only apparent when I use more than 7 powers at once, why 7? Well it's because of my Mark, better known as the Mark of Cain, as before I was pulled into hell I was cursed with this 7 mark on the back of my shoulder.

Unlike in the Bible where if anyone attacked me the damage would be returned 7 fold, I was cursed to be weakened 7 times over, but after Roae took me it was shifted and instead of weakening me in the physical sense it made it so I became exponentially weaker the more power I tried to use beyond 7.

Now if I used all my powers at once I could blow up a city block, which while powerful for a normal person, that should be on the size of a continental sized explosion so you can see how reduced my powers are if I use to many at once, but since I've never been forced to use so many different powers at once I don't think that will be an issue for now as only Roae can make me desperate enough to use so many powers at once.

"Why do you care?" Alastor decides to ask me which I shrug.

"I don't in the slightest, but since doing so would make Charlie happy then I'm even willing to make this offer, otherwise you would have to beg me to even think about doing this." I say while swirling the scotch before drinking it in one gulp before I put it down as Husk pours more into it as I swirl it up.

"Should I even be here?" Husk asks but I just nod towards him.

"Of course you should, after all it's about ending or at least loosening the contract on your soul." I say which makes him nearly drop the glass he was cleaning before barely catching it again as he was completely shocked that this was happening right now.

"As I said I could care less about this in the slightest, but since doing so would make my daughter happy that I'm willing to offer this to him, but sad to say he seems not interested so I'm really wondering how expensive yo-"

"50 years and I'll break the contract." Alastor said as he gave his side to the deal which makes Husks eyes widen.

"Oh sure, I'll just bring you there around the outer edge and let you figure out how to make your way there, should take a few months to maybe a year and you'll reach your destination, oh and by the way your powers won't work down there at all so you'll have a Wonderful time with those nasty beasties that love to take on the shape of your worst nightmares while they come to rip into you, and they especially love to take on the shape of dogs, you wouldn't have anything against dog- oh wait." I say laying all that out before I stop drinking as I turn to look at him as I see his eyes go black as he looks at me clearly pissed while holding his tongue.

"5 years, and no bullshit I will bring you right to her doorstep." I said my counterpoint to him which caused him to simmer with his thoughts as he thought about it while Husk turned around as seeing this was making him nervous and visibly sweat.

"Haha, not gonna happen." He said shaking his head which makes me rub my forehead in return.

"Is this beacuse of who Husk was? You and I both know that losing that power makes him no better than a normal sinner now, so what is he considered? a trophy to you that you can show off? 'I have a plethora of overlords under my thumb, I even have one as my bartender' is that how you see this along with those actually literal husks of the remains of those other overlords that you have that are nothing more than shadow demons to you?" I say pointing out one of his secrets that while not obvious to others I can see clearly and that being all those shadow demons that are basically mindless drones when not given orders were once actual Overlords and that's why he has the reputation of 'killing' overlords when in actuality he was able to take their souls by winning deals against them through the help of Roae giving him the power to do so.

"…. 10 years then, I'll let him go after 10 years if you bring me right to her." He said as he conceded to my end of the deal.

I smirk felling hood about my win, "Then we have a deal, Husk, your needed for this part, Alastor if you would be so kind." I say which I got and eye roll from Alastor before he pulled out Husks contract.

"Now fair warning, this is going to hurt a bit." I say as I touch the contract which instantly makes Husks chains appear and wrap around his neck as he grabs at his tight collar before I touched the chains.

The second I did the chains along with the contract turned pitch black as both Alastor and Husk, Husk more so than Alastor, grabbed their chests in pain before a countdown appeared on the chains before I let go as the contract was edited as a result.

"Fuck, that felt like getting hit with a Sledgehammer." Husk said as he catched his breath while the chains faded and the contract disappeared.

"I said it would hurt, but time to keep my end of the deal, so come along Alastor, I don't want to terrify the others with what I'm about to do." I say getting up from the bar after drinking the last of the Scotch.

Soon enough we both headed on upstairs while both Vaggie and Angel went to see what me and Alastor did to Husk since while it wasn't very loud or attention grabbing, it was still noticeable.

"Hmm, this will do." I say before cutting open my hand before pressing it up against the wall, soon enough an extremely evil energy appeared that even forced Alastor to raise an arm instinctively as it manifested.

Made out of a black and red corrupting liquid covered in esoteric tunes and oozing blood while one could hear the distant screams of tortured souls coming from it as well as I turned to look at Alastor.

"Well then, are your prepared to meet the Root of All Evil?" I ask him as I can see his signature smile falter as he seemed genuinely nervous.

But getting his act together he put on his signature smile before twirling his cane, "I'm prepared for whatever is to come." He said with a clear and firm resolution in his voice.

"Good, well let's go then." I say before pushing the door open as both me and him entered through as we entered the abyss, however…..

"…."

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"What the fuck is this?" (x2)