Punishment room

Viktor was left speechless after he received something odd from the realm of gods. It wasn't even a day since he woke up from his deep slumber and yet, he received something enormous from someone very powerful. 

Even though the chances of getting a letter from him were less than .0000001, he still received it. 

'You gotta be kidding me…' he sighed in exhaustion.

A few hours earlier…

Viktor walked inside the training hall of his house to check how everyone was doing. He was curious about how they would react after seeing his face so he sneaked in. 'I am sure they will be surprised.'

Then the moment he walked in, everyone shouted. "Welcome back!!!!"

Viktor was shocked. "You guys… dis Adonis informed you?" 

Mors walked closer to him and patted Viktor's shoulder, "You woke up a few hours ago and didn't even bother to come and check on us. Adonis's expression changed suddenly so we assumed that you woke up. Adonis already told us about your awakening but he told us that you'd come here eventually. So we waited instead." 

Viktor smiled and replied, "You guys are still the same. Hahah… anyway I'm surprised to see your achievements. All of you have acquired 2 stages of Qi cores in just 10 years. I guess my house is filled with talented people."

Viktor then looked at Welis and saw her hesitating to make eye contact. She wasn't able to reach the 2nd stage of her Qi heart so she thought that she would be scolded or looked down upon.

"Welis, you did great," Viktor said. That made her expression change. "Thank you, master."

Viktor then said, "So, where is Midas?"

Ifrit chucked and answered proudly, "Heheh… I tormented him for over 7 years and he lost his damn mind. He's currently in the basement now, getting his punishment. Do you want to see it?"

Viktor knew it was Ifrit who took care of Midas after Adonis got bored. But he didn't read his record after that because he was busy reading someone else's records in his library. After he woke up, he got curious about Midas so he asked about his whereabouts. 

But him being living right under his feet was unexpected. 

'Now I'm more curious about it.' Viktor then followed the dark stairs towards the basement along with his subordinates. The basement was dark but the walls seemed very thick and clean. There was no ray of light in there but still, he wasn't troubled by it.

He simply walked through the hallway and stopped in front of a huge door. It was the door to the torture room. 

"Is this the room? I can sense there's someone with enormous willpower sitting inside. He wants to stop this at any cost." He chucked and again said, "He wants to stop all of this and run far away from here."

The door opened.

The punishment room under Viktor's house was made by Ifrit, the formal god and king of hell and devils. As the king of hell, he was well aware of every kind of torture. 

So he designed a punishment room and installed it under the house right before Adonis moved the whole house into the cave. 

The torture room he designed was a mirror room that had mirror walls. It had red light bulbs in every corner and a sound system that played the sound of hell in loops. 

The torture technique was like this,

A person would be seated in the middle of the room on a bottomless chair tied up neatly. His eyes will be forcefully wide opened by an eyelid opener. This would make him unable to blink or move his head or eyes elsewhere and his focus would be forcefully pointed in the mirror. 

The red light is a great way to make a person hallucinate when they are looking straight into the mirror. 

The sound of the hell adds the spices. 

This type of torture is enough to make a person go crazy just in a minute. Since Midas was a guardian, it was tough for him to lose his mind but the torture set was made just for him. Even so, it took him a whole year to lose his mind and start drooling.

Viktor then entered the room after turning the lights from red to white. 

"What a nice view. It's our second time seeing eachother, right? So, do you remember me?" 

Viktor looked at his pitiful face and didn't get any reply. Midas didn't even show any sign of giving a reply or reacting to his question. 

He was lost. 

Viktor again asked, "Hey, are you even listening to what I'm saying?" He clicked his fingers against eachother in front of his widely opened eyes. He then said, "Are you dead? I'm getting bored."

Suddenly, Midas showed a sign of understanding his question. He was drooling but in that state, he hushed, "S..spar.e…me.."

Viktor heard his mumbling and flinched. "You're still online. I see. Great to see you back on earth online. Now, your fragment will be mine." 

At that moment, Adonis walked in and said, "Wait, master. Before you absorb his core, I want to say something."

Viktor pulled his hand back from Midas's head and said, "What is it, Adonis? Is there something wrong?"

"You're aware of his fragment type, right? He's the guardian of greed. Because of his fragment, he's unable to control his desire of getting anything that he wishes. He is a wise guardian but his fragment is the only thing that drives him crazy. If you devour his fragment, I'm afraid that you might lose your sanity. Please think about it carefully." 

Viktor then thought, 'He's not wrong. His fragment may lead me to choose the wrong path. I might even dig my own grave without even knowing. His fragment power is surely a dangerous one. But, I'm not that kind of an idiot to devour the whole. The devouring power of my core has a unique power that filters out bad things. It works like a filter that filters out dirt and all sorts of bad things just to provide me with the finest quality product. The urge of greed will simply filter out once my core devours it.'

So Viktor smiled and said, "Adonis, don't worry. That kind of thing will not cause any harm to my body."

"S..spare me.." Viktor tilted his head at him and said, "Why?" 

Midas became unable to answer his question and suddenly started to panic. He was in great shock to see all white lights instead of red and started to hallucinate. 

"Tsk…this bug head.." Viktor complained and grabbed his head to devour his fragment to make it his own. Adonis began to worry about him.

The fragment of Midas was small but a sour, unpleasant and uncomfortable one. His fragment felt like a sharp spikey ball being swallowed down Viktor's throat but it quickly became soft after it was filtered. 

"So this is what a greed fragment tastes and feels like."

Adonis then grabbed Viktor's shoulder and said, "Master!! Are you feeling alright? Is everything okay inside your body? Are you hurt somewhere? I saw you making a weird face just a second ago! Throw it out!! Don't eat it!!" 

Adonis then started to shake Viktor back and forth continuously to make him throw out what he ate.

"Aaaaa Adonis!! Stop!! Stop!! Time out!!!!"

"Master!! Are you okay?"  Adonis gave him a puppy look filled with worries. He was worried that Viktor might change after he devoured Midas's fragment. 

"Master…."

Viktor looked at his melted orange puppy eyes and said, "Stop acting like a baby. I'm okay and I'm definitely not going to change. Just a few magical abilities were added to my core. Nothing else. Since I've reached the demigod state, the guardian fragment is like a nutritious slice of an apple. I need bigger fish to fill my stomach."

Adonis fell on his knee by holding Viktor's pants and said, "Ah.. thank goodness…"

"Let go-_-. My pants will come off-_-."

At that moment, everyone felt a powerful presence outside the holy barrier of someone. It wasn't trying to break in. Instead, it was leaking out an intention of getting invented into the house.

The powerful person in front of the house waiting to get invited by the housemaster and to enter the house as a verified guest. He looked like he had his pride as a well-mannered man.

Viktor then walked out of the house after leaving Midas as Adonis's food. He stepped outside the holy barrier and looked above.

The unknown man was floating above with a box in his hand. He then came down and knelt in front of Viktor. "I am Delkira Von Andravel, a lowly but loyal servant of my master, the god of evil, Lucifer Ceyx. Today, I've come down to the realm of mortals to deliver a letter to you, an honourable, respectful person, Elerous Sirir. Along with a box that I am giving to you now, I'm hereby declaring that I've fulfilled my duty. I may take my leave after you are giving out a reply to that letter. In order to do so, I require an invitation to enter your house."

Viktor raised his eyebrows and said, "That's a heavy box. I wonder what that box contains."

"Please open the box to find out," Delkira replied with a respectful tone of his voice.

Viktor then smiled a little and said, "Well then. You're welcome in our house. Please make yourself at home."

"Thank you for your generosity." 

"It's an honour to have you as a guest. Come inside." Viktor then told him to follow Delkira inside his house. The ice cave was big so it made him think about his identity again. From the beginning of Elesis's arrival in the house of Lucifer, he knew that Elesis had a younger brother who was living in the realm of mortals. He was also a demigod but for some reason, he was staying there instead of preparing for the god's succession tournament which will be held in seven hundred thousand years. Elesis was already preparing for the tournament but on the other hand, Elerous was slacking off. He was rotting under his blanket and feeding off his one and only servant named Adonis. 

But he paid no attention to it since it wasn't that important. But when he heard that his master, Lucifer was writing a letter to him, his curiosity broke its limits. He immediately came down to the realm of mortals and then felt the presence of Elerous.

He then became more curious because Elerous was hiding his powers. Even he erased his shadows from under his feet.

"Your house is small and cosy," Delkira said.

"Oh, that's because Adonis couldn't expand its size because of the cave." 

Delkira stared at the ice spears on the ceiling straight pointing downwards. They were all modified with attack magic that surprised him. He couldn't even feel its presence so he mumbled, 'If I didn't see them hanging downwards, I'd never come to the realization of their existence. That's a god realm-level defence magic. Why is that here? Even the master's castle doesn't have them.'

Viktor smiled a little and said, "Our house might be small, but it doesn't lack anything."

Delkira gulped down his dry throat and thought, 'He can read my mind? No, it might be a coincidence. He must've read my body language and assumed something.'

"Let's not talk about mind-reading things. The guest must be tired now. Adonis, why don't you show our guest the way to his room? I will cook dinner today since it's a wonderful day"

"Understood, master. Sir Delkira, please follow me."

Delkira was left speechless.