RINGS OF AZAZEL

Ralph left through the brass doors to enter a long dark hallway with similar brass doors arranged in regular intervals.

"what do you think?''

'He's a strange one, I'll admit but to assume his proficiency over the soul seems exagerrated to me'

"Hmmm...you think I'm wrong?"

'Not necessarily, it's just these things shouldn't happen to any random individual. He doesn't even have mana, it all just make it difficult to believe '

"Could he also be an envoy"

'impossible, I'd know if he was'

"Regardless of what it might be, I'll make sure to understand it..."

The bright light from the area he entered illuminated Ralph's face to reveal the fiendish grin on his face. He walked to the center of the room.

"Little butterfly", Ralph spoke in a louder tone than usual.

A circle was drawn around Ralph's feet by a blue light, the circle made a click sound and began lowering slowly, bringing Ralph deeper down the facility.

After a moment of going through a narrow hole surounded by concrete, Ralph eventually arrived in a room surrounded by white tiles throughout it's surface.

It was an almost empty room, the only thing inside being the opened up monstrosity on an operating table in the middle of the room.

"17th June 2032, no display of aggression, heart rates maintain a steady rythym of 30 beats per minute...upper extremities still show no sign of remorphing."

Ralph commented as he walked around the creature on the table, the almost 9 foot tall creature had it's limbs spread out to the edges of the table where they were restrained to. It's tail could be seen under the table, it passed through a hole in the table, the end of the tail was likewise bound to a fastner under the desk.

It should be noted the bindinds on the arm were different from the rest. It arms were enclosed in tubes that were firmly attached to the desk.

A vertical incision was made on his anterior thoracoabdominal wall, through the midline of it's body, it's purple scaly skin was resected to reveal it's internal visera.

A pair of large tissue mass was attached to a stalk that connected them to its posterior thoracic wall, the tissue mass were always moving, continuously taking different shapes, sometimes they'd be perfect spheres, sometimes they'd be amoeboid and sometimes they'd resemble flowers about to bloom.

And although the tissue kept changing it's shape, approximately every two second they would pulse simultaneously.

Around this organ were the other viseras. They weren't much unlike the usual abeit they likely differed in length, mass, color and probably mechanism of action. The lungs in particular were decidedly smaller.

Further downward, where the loop of intestine lay, there was a dull purple colored ball covered in slim and surrounded by loops of intestine. It gave off a dull shine like a gem that had lost its lustre but hadn't reached the end of it's life.

"Hmmm....it's regained consciousness?"

Ralph raised an eyebrow when he saw the slightly opened lids that covered the gems of black that were it's eyes.

He slowly walked closer to the creature, picked up a 50ml syringe by the desk and stabbed it into the stalk connecting the hearts to the body swiftly emptying it's contents.

"Ughh...guess I'll have to up the dosage again, tsk these things aren't exactly cheap you know...and you're not exactly giving me enough to fund your upkeep"

Ralph complained as he placed down the empty syringe and walked to the side of the table where the head of the creature lay.

"Now, don't disappoint me...show me everything"

"Old man...it's time"

'You really are bipolar aren't you"

"Who knows, maybe I am...

"Rings of AZAZEL... Records of Duadel"

An Old book that looked very ragged appeared in front of Ralph, it's cover was pitch black, reflecting no light whatsoever, contrarily they seed to absorb the lights in the imediate vicinity dimming the lights of the room somewhat.

Ralph stretched out one hand to grab the book when it's pages swung open with a loud bang as it came to hover above his palm.

Ralph's eyes went pitch black, from the sclera to his pupils, they were as black as the night. He stretched out his other arm over the creature's head and made a pulling motion, a downscaled image of what resembled a brain took form above the creatures head.

"Haaah....show me your secrets", Ralph grinned.

.....

Back in his cell, Jacob sat calmly against the walls of his cell, his gaze directed up as if there was something on his mind and he was trying to gaze at it.

He suddenly raised his left arm and stared at it for what was almost half an hour, then he suddenly swung it forward, the chains that should have restricted this motion shattered into pieces. Jacob however only sighed at this, he did the same to his other arm. Then stood up and kicked his legs forwards to break the chains that bound them.

"I was too focused on moving in the abyss, I overlooked how much my strength could benefit..."