Chapter 7: Hecate 

After draining about 68 middle-rank demons and satisfying myself, I took a little break and calmed my brain. I felt like a little child, who ate chocolate for the first time. "Well, that's enough fooling around, let's find a place to build my lair in." 

I put on my Scouter and searched for a place with a lot of minerals and natural resources, I am sure that I will manage to create a lot of fun toys with more resources on my hands. After I got the location, I flowed there at top speed. 

As I flowed in the black sky of the abyss with my red core, I looked like a falling star. But I wasn't satisfied with my current speed, I wanted to go even faster. So, I created another set of wings in the system with the same abilities as my current one and made them complement each other.

 As my new wings emerged from my back a little below my old ones, it took me a few minutes to get used to them and fly without both of them clashing into each other. then I flap both my wings and flow at my new top speed of Mach 6, as I flow at this hypersonic speed, I start feeling my body heat up. My body wasn't meant to experience that kind of pressure and temperature, but I felt it start to heal and adapt again. When the adapting process was done, I felt that my body got stronger, and my skin didn't even feel hot anymore. 'I love being a demon' I then turn and flow toward the location again, I pass it during my adapting process. 

As I got close to the place, I noticed the three dormant volcanoes there. That's a rare sight in the abyss the absolute majority of the volcanoes here are active all year round. I can see the entrance of a lair in the middle of the three volcanoes 'Let's go there and say hello to the owner.' 

As I landed the fire demoness inside immediately came out and looked at me angrily while holding a sword, she then sniffed the air and spoke. "I can smell that you just came from the pool of refinement and see that you don't even have clothes, so I will show mercy this time. Now scram before I lose my temper." 

I smiled at her as I said. "I can always make clothes for myself but what are you going to do about your small chest." 

"so, I see you decided to spit on my mercy, I will just have to teach you how to speak to a lady AS I BURN YOUR SOUL FOR A HUNDRED YEARS." She said with a mad expression as she flowed and charged at me. 

I could stan her with a mind blast and kill her easily but where is the fun in that. I clashed my Halberd with her sword and pushed her back. Let's tease her a little "Maybe I should be the one who will teach you a lesson as I will spank you, little girl." 

"Little girl, LITTLE GIRLLL!!!! I WILL TURN YOU INTO CHARCOAL, YOU LIZARD" She then made a giant black fireball and threw it at me. I quickly flow beaned her and kicked her in the ass and watched as she flowed right into her fireball which exploded on impact. It was fun playing with her maybe I should keep her, I just need to train her to recognize her master. 

The smoke cleared and I saw that she had a few burns on her but overall, she was fine as expected from a fire demon. "Little girl I decided to keep you, now you can surrender to me the easy way or the hard way, it's your choice." 

She looked at me with an angry and disgusted face. "I am Hecate Mistress of fire and smoke, Slayer of frost demons and mermaids, Hoarder of treasures. To even consider you as a partner you will have to be overwhelmingly stronger than me." She said and transformed into a second form of herself. Her wings turned into fire and her skin turned into magma as she stood in midair engulfed with fire. 

"So, if I manage to defeat you in one move will you agree to be my partner?" I spoke while spinning my Halberd in my hands. 

"If you will manage to defeat me with one move in my current state, I will even agree to be your slave, not that eve…" Before she could finish, I hit her with a mind blast and teleported in front of her while swinging my Halberd with its side on her head with most of my strength. I watched her crash like a meteor into the ground and smiled. 

"HAHAHA, I won right Hecate… Hecate?" I flowed down and looked at Hecate in the crater, her horns broke and her skull had a lot of fractions. She looked like she was about to die at any moment, I felt bad I didn't intend to hit her that hard I even hold back. I made a miner healing potion and made her drink it, after a minute her skull healed, and she looked asleep. I put her sword in the system just in case she would do anything stupid, after waiting for another minute I got bored of waiting and kicked her. " Wake up bitch are you going to make me wait all day." 

*Gasp* "What happened to me? Where am I?" She looked around in confusion and then looked at me for a few seconds and had a surprised look as she asked. "Was it really you who attacked me now?" 

I looked at her and bumped her head again. "OF COURSE IT WAS ME DO YOU SHE ANYONE ELSE HERE, now acknowledge me as the victor or do you want another hit on the head?!" 

As I raised my Halberd again, she quickly spoke. "I surrender, I surrender just don't hit me again." As she walked backward in retreat she noticed something on the ground that made her drop to her knees and cry. 

"MY HORNS!!! You broke my precious horns how could you do this to me?" she held her horns with a helpless look in her eyes. 

"You don't have to be so sad I have a way of growing your horns back." I said with a smile as a thought came to my head. 

"Really?!?! you promise you can do it." She said in a hopeful tone as she looked at me with puppy eyes. 

I stroked her head and helped her up. "of course, I can't let my partner walk around without horns, other demons will think I have no taste in women." 

She looked happy after all if this matter also concerns his image, he will definitely help her. "Then what is your way to grow my horns partner." 

Apophis smiled and quickly made a simple pill with two attributes in the system. Then he handed it to Hecate and said with confidence. "This is a special pill that I got in a world I visited it can definitely grow your horns back, consider it a gift for becoming my partner." 

Hecate held the pill and looked at it she didn't sense anything harmful from it and the pill had a nice smell to it. She didn't think that he was trying to kill her because he already had the chance to do it and didn't, so after a moment of hesitation she ate the pill. 

Hecate slowly felt her skin getting hotter and hotter until it turned from gray to red and then she felt her horns grow back and she was happy. When she was about to thank Apophis, she noticed that her hair was getting longer and changing its color to blonde, her body got taller, and her breast and butt were triple their size. 

"What do you think about the pill? it was a little expensive in my opinion but definitely worth it." He calls this pill [Apophis's Customization Pill] Whoever eats this pill will turn into their best-looking version, according to Apophis taste in women. There is also a secondary attribute the person who eats the pill can't harm or disobey Apophis. 

"What the hell did you do to me? You bastard!!!" Hecate said as she tried to punch Apophis in the face, only for her body to stop before she could touch him. She looked confused and didn't know what to do. luckily for her, she wasn't confused for long as Apophis punched her in the face. 

"Look what you made me do and after everything I did for you, giving you this killer body for the small price of your free will. Don't worry I won't treat you like a slave now, why don't you give me a tour of my new lair." I said as I walked toward Hecate's lair wait anticipation, I couldn't wait to see all her treasures. While I was walking happily toward her lair, Hecate set there on the ground and tried to think how she ended up in her situation. She could tell that he was a new middle-rank demon, and she was close to peak middle-rank so why did she feel like a low-rank while fighting him? As she was lost in her thoughts a voice snapped her out of it. "Come on don't make me ask you a second time" She then quickly got up and ran to him, not wanting to anger him and sighed to herself. 

As I walked into the lair with Hecate it was a pretty big underground cave with small mountains of gold with gemstones lettering the golden landscape, I also saw some weapons here, there probably trophies from her kills. I felt happy looking at this site, thinking about the life I could have lived on Earth if I had this gold. 

"Now that you have my treasures are you going to kill me or use me and throw me away?" Asked Hecate with a defeated and hopeless tone, while lowering her head. 

I pulled her in for a hug while caressing her back, I could feel her feeling and knew how scared she was. I then said in a calm and sincere voice "I know that you are scared but I promise, I won't hurt you or make you do something you don't want to do." 

I could tell that she didn't really believe me, but she did become less afraid, I then touched her ass and enjoyed the soft feeling as my fingers sank inside her cheek. Plus, to throw her away after improving her body would be very wasteful of me. 

"Hey, Hecate do you want to make a bet with me?" I ask with a playful smile on my face. 

"What are we betting about?" She asked as she tilted her head. 

"If I can turn your little lair into a giant castle within only a few hours, you would have to do me a little favor I won't say what it is, but you can't say no to it." I smiled as I knew exactly what I was going to ask her to do. 

"I will ignore the fact that I already can't say no to you, what will I get if I win this bet?" She asked not that interested in my bet. 

"If you win, I promise to release the control I have on you and let you go." She immediately looked at me and said.

"If you are really not lying then yes, I accept your bet." Hecate said while looking at me seriously, I led us outside and created the liquid metal from Terminator 2. 

[Liquid Metal- Able to change into any shape or form that it touches, provided that the object is of similar mass. Has an AI capable of learning and a database with blueprints of various structures, robots, and construction tools. 100 cubic meters, doesn't have a weakness to high temperatures. Soul consumption 10,500 low-quality souls] 

'The perfect construction and excavating tool, after it finishes with the castle I will have it start excavating all the gold, silver, diamonds, gemstones, in the area.' I made the liquid metal and ordered it to start the construction. 

The moment the giant sliver blob suddenly appeared in front of us, it scared Hecate and caused her to fall back on her ass. I would have helped her up but I was too busy laughing at her which caused me to choke, I believe that's the first time she did any damage to me.