[V1/C5] LAMASHTU

Upon the supposed closure of the battle, a dozen Gods arrived at the scene, encircling Satan.

Satan took up his stance, ready to move at any given time, but after sensing their Divinity, Satan lowered his guard and welcomed them. "Welcome! My fellow Gods!"

The Gods looked at Satan and knelt in front of him, "ALL HAIL SATAN!!" they praised the Devil in unison.

The twelve Gods who arrived are those who align themselves as chaotic evil; in other words, they're the Gods who rule the world through evil means.

Satan looked at a rather peculiar God amongst the other eleven, "God of Snake, Asclepius... What brought you here by any chance?" he asked, looking down at the Young God wearing a tight robe made from the scales of the evil black dragon called "Fafnir."

With his whole body masked with the renowned black dragon scales, also covering half of his face, he answered the Devil. "Satan... I asked of you to flee this place and come to Olympus, to seek refuge from Zeus..." he implored.

Satan asked, "Why would I need to go and seek refuge from a God who practices the teachings of righteousness?"

Hearing his question, Asclepius snorted and laughed at the self-proclaimed Evil God, "Pfft... HAHAHAHAHA."

The other eleven Gods stared at him with daggers in their eyes.

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A long, long, long, long, very long time ago, at the beginning of the conquest of God, Satan sought power more than anyone else in the Realm of God but that was cut short, as he challenged the wrong God, he was forcibly sealed to make him repent for the action he did while walking the path for dominion and strength.

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While Satan is in deep waters, thinking of the purpose as to why the Gods of Olympus would try to aid him, he thought, 'There's something funny going on here... A plot...? No, Zeus wouldn't do something so childish' While he was thinking, Dozens of Divine energy emanating from the Righteous path started to make their way towards Mount. Apo.

Of the Eleven Lesser Evil, a lesser God known as Demoness Lamashtu, a Mesopotamian Goddess, kept her eyes out at the unconscious Amaterasu.

In her inner thoughts, she knew a weakened Goddess like Amaterasu wouldn't pose any threat whatsoever, but Satan and Asclepius being here meant that she had little to no chance of devouring Amaterasu's Divinity to gain more power.

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Lamashtu is a female demon, monster and malevolent goddess or demigoddess who menaced women during childbirth and, if possible, kidnapped their children while they were breastfeeding.

She would gnaw on their bones and suck their blood, and was charged with several other evil deeds. She was also the daughter of the Sky God Anu.

Demoness Lamashtu has been depicted as a mythological hybrid, with a hairy body, a lioness' head with donkey's teeth and ears, long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of a bird with sharp talons.

She is often shown standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes. She thus bears some functions and resemblance to the demon Lilith in Jewish mythology.

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Upon sensing the arrival of other Divine Gods, Lamashtu saw this as an opportunity, and so she stood up and immediately tried to convey the situation to Satan, who was still deep in his thoughts, "God of Hell, Satan, I wish to speak with you of something of great importance."

Hearing her words, Satan snapped out of his whirling inner thoughts and stared at the Demoness.

As he stared at the Demoness, he was displeased by how she suddenly butted in while he was still preoccupied with his thoughts. "A Lesser Evil God... I know your records, and you're quite an icon among the mortal women" he said with a displeased look in his eyes.

In the Demoness's eyes, Satan looks as if he is about to kill her at any second if she were to provide information not worthy of his time.

"Lo-" Before Lamashtu even finished a word of her sentence, her head got separated from her body and went flying down the mountain trails.

Satan looked at the headless body of Lamashtu as he swiftly incinerated it with his Hell Fire. "Just a mere insect with little to no accomplishments dares to interrupt me? You'll most probably be stuck in the eternal cycle of Reincarnation between my domain and Hade's domain of the underworld for all eternity," he said as he watched her body burn through his Hell Fire.

Asclepius and the other Ten lesser evil Gods silently watched Satan decapitate Lamashtu without a word of explanation.

After the body of the Demoness had been completely incinerated, Satan looked at Amaterasu and spoke, "Woman, I know you're awake. Don't just lie down there and welcome our Guests."

Hearing Satan's chilling words, Amaterasu clicked her tongue and replied. "Tsk! since when?" She asked.

Satan answered, looking down at the Goddess, "I know you've been eyeing that mortal over there to transfer your Divine Energy to escape."

Seeing that her plans were already foiled by the Devil himself, Amaterasu didn't deny the fact that she wanted to possess the young man floating halfway down the mountain slope.

Glancing at the fainted human, the Devil warned her to not mess with him, "I advise you to not stick your nose too much into that mortal and much less possessing him. Else you'll die in the paradox of time and space."

Shocked at the stern warning he gave her, the Goddess looked at the mortal once more but sensed nothing of the sort, much less being special, more like a normal living being who is born in the realms of the mortal world.

A second after their conversation, Asclepius sensed an immense energy coming from within the volcano.

Asclepius looked at the Devil, eye to eye, with no fear in his eyes he spoke."Satan, you must've known why you've been imprisoned here"

The God of Hell looked at Asclepius and answered with his arms crossed."You mean that thing below us?" Upon answering he continued whilst looking at the far horizon behind Asclepius, "That monstrosity shouldn't even be called a God."

Satan got into a state of trance, remembering the time when he fought against it.

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Somewhere inside "Limbo" where all kinds of beings are destined to meet when ascending to Godhood. A place filled with endless opportunities and dangers that can even kill Gods, the terrain inside the Limbo is endlessly vast and mixed with different structures and terrains.

While Satan was gathering his strength, an unknown humanlike being with the appearance of a child paired with deep golden eyes and hair which resembled the radiance of the moon, covered the entire night with silence.

Satan saw an opportunity to climb higher and asked the child to fight him one-on-one.

Hearing the Devil's grunts, the child answered with a smile. "Sure let's do that."

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On the other hand, at the surface.

Asclepius walked towards the dazed Satan and carried him shoulder to shoulder, looking back at the Goddess behind him."Amaterasu, I bid you luck in suppressing that monstrosity right below us" he said with a cold expression on his face.

As he lifted Satan he signaled the other lesser evils to follow him.

Upon receiving his signal, all of them except for Amaterasu have left the scene.

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Flashback before Satan went into a trance state.

Watching Satan delay for time, Asclepius moved his Divine Energy towards Satan, letting a wisp of his Energy enter his mind, showing him a rather unpleasant dream.

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Asclepius was also known as a Doctor and among his famous achievements, The title "God of Medicine" stood out the most.

The ability he used on Satan is called "Night of Eternal Dream" Though it's nothing fatal to a God, it can still induce him to fall into a state of trance for a few minutes, which buys him some time to evade the eyes of the arriving God.

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