Evolution

After Mammon created the mansion,

He left, leaving everyone behind.

Lilith cracked her neck and went inside the house with the vessel in her arms, as she was followed by her sisters.

As they enter, luxurious and glamorous interiors greet them.

flooring made of gold tiles, pillars made of jade, stairs made of silver, and chandeliers made of rare metals that emit lights.

"This is quite spacious, just 4 of us; don't you think so too, Big Sister Lilith?" said Classie.

"Should I create some Valrat?" followed by a response by Mayners.

Then Lilith, who had been looking around for a moment, responded.

"What for?"

"For daily maintenance in this mansion, of course, Big Sister. Valrat are just simple creatures that have no sense of intelligence. They'll make good use of daily necessities in house chores."

"Sister Mayners is right, Big Sister. Besides, we're on top of the mountain and on a newly blooming continent. No one's going to be able to disturb us here."

"Alright, do it, then. But create some Lugras."

"Lugras? What for? Those are specifically for high combat guards?" Classie asked.

"We can't be too careless. Even if we're alone right now. We never know what will happen in the future. We can't be too careless. Especially Lucifer, not in this project."

"I understand! So how many do we need?" Mayners responded firmly.

"Make at least 100 Lugras and 25 Valrats. I think that's enough to cover the daily chore and defense. That's for today. So leave me, now!"

And Lilith walks upstairs; however, before she completely disappears in front of them, Lilith lets out a final message.

"Remember, decide on your own accord; that's best for ours!"

"Yes, Big Sister!"

And so they left, as they walked outside of the mansion.

Both Classie and Mayners immediately created the foretell creatures that they needed. The Lugras and Valrats

"Come forth, Lugras/Valrats!" At the same time, both Classie and Mayners have opened their hands towards open fields and chanted!

At that moment, a shadow engulfed the whole plain in front of them.

Grass turned into nothingness, rocks and stones instantly pulverized, and trees rotted away.

And in those moments, thousands of fingers and hands rose up from the shadows, then slowly, with eyeballs intact inside of each finger, heads with scarred faces, and wings made of legs.

And finally, they all rose up, revealing their horrendous and ghastly appearance.

Classie summoned the Lugras.

Lugras have the body of a woman; it has long black hair; it has wings made of human legs; its face doesn't have eyes, but it has vertical scars in the shape of a woman's glory hole that, if ever opened, would contain thousands of razor-sharp teeth like a lamprey. Its pale, naked body is covered in scars, and its breast is covered by one single round of a worn-out scarf that is enough to hide the nipples of the Lugras.

Lugras also has two legs full of scars and 10 arms that are made out of blades all the way through its fingers; however, even though the whole arms are made of blades, the palms aren't, as each palm of the arms contains eyeballs.

While the Lugras have a horrific appearance, the Valrats are less horrifying but still vile to look at.

The Valrats have the appearance of women; they have short brown hair and pale, smooth, and soft white skin. Besides the torso, the woman's part and their entire face are covered in pieces of wood, but not their nose. It also has six ears and six arms that are made of glass, along with its legs, which are also made of glass.

All the summoned creatures appear to be half naked, with only half of their private parts covered.

The Lugras, whose upper bodies are only covered by a single worn-out scarf, leave their lower bodies open.

While for the Valrats, their breasts don't cover anything at all, as only their lower parts are wrapped with vines and leaves to cover their private parts.

And so...

After Classie and Mayners summoned the creatures, they looked at each other before giving each other their thoughts.

"What are we going to do now?" is the statement they made to each other, blank and with no idea of the task that they should do during their stay on the surface.

However, the last message that their sister, Lilith, sent echoed inside their heads.

"Remember, decide on your own accord; that's best for ours!"

"Sis, since Big Sister Lilith let us decide on our own, I'll handle daily chores like cleaning, cooking, and cultivating crops, herbs, fruits, and many more we could need. But I'll leave the hunting, warding, sentries, and defenses to you."

After she told Classie her statement,

Classie replied with a smile on her face and said, "Leave it to me, sis!"

However, that smiling face that she gave made Mayners worried as she immediately put her hands onto Classie's shoulder and said: "Classie, don't cause trouble or create attention that would attract outsiders. Remember, you don't want our Big Sister to get furious. She is one of the first beings created by our creator; she is built different than any of us."

Mayners's expression turned into fear and anxiety as her face sweated.

However, even with the terrified looks that Mayners express, Classie responds like it's nothing and still smiles at her.

"Relax, sis. I've got the security!"

Her mischievous face made Mayners even more worried.

"Fine. Go. I'll handle the chore now, starting today. Take those Lugras and set a perimeter around the vicinity."

"How far should I set a perimeter, sis?"

"5 klicks? That would be enough. Make sure you don't forget to put a sentry and an observer, ok?"

"Aye, aye, sis!"

Then, Classie turns away from Mayners, squats down, and leaps away!

As Classie left, the Lugras automatically followed and flew away. following Classie from behind.

As they left, Mayners began to instruct the Valrats.

She claps to get the Valrats before speaking firm and loud.

cleaning, cooking, and cultivating crops, herbs, fruits, and many more they should need.

"Alright! All of you listen up! I want 10 people to create fields for herbs, crops, and fruits! While the other 10 do the cleaning, and for the remaining five, you are all in charge of cooking! You all understand?!"

The Valrats didn't say anything; instead, they just simply nodded.

15 people went quietly inside the mansion, while the other 10 who were in charge of the crops and cultivating the land stood at the edge of the cliff before jumping off the cliff, where below it is a deep rain forest.

Knowing they don't have the resources to start crops and all for their fields, the 10 Valrats went improvising to look for some crops, herbs, and all that could benefit them and that they could take with them to start a field. Some went and took a few wild potatoes, wild carrots, garlic, unions, ginseng, ginger, and many more; others took some wild mushrooms and herbs; and most of them took some seeds from inside the freshly bloomed fruits, wild roots of the Pippali plant, and sugar cane.

As most of the Valrats covered all the ingredients to re-cultivate in their field they were about to create, all of them realized that they were forgetting—no, they couldn't find one important spice, that is, salt!

Finding a salt mine is a difficult task, and going farther away from the mansion will not only be dangerous for them and their master, but it will also risk finding their location.

Thus, they decided to return today.

Upon returning after a long run, all the Valrats were greeted by their master, Mayners.

"Oh, welcome back."

Valrats nodded in response to Mayners greetings.

"So, has any complication happened?"

Valrats looked at each other before one raised her hand and responded back to Mayners.

However, Valrats aren't known to speak by using their mouth, as all Valrats are muted while wearing their wooden mask.

So the Valrats step in, using sign language to speak Mayners.

As Mayners understood one of the Valrats statements to her, she replied in a quite calm yet troubled expression.

"That's quite a problem. Since you're non-combat creatures, it's impossible for you all to go any farther. Ok! Leave that problem to me. I'll handle it. So all of you start to cultivate! Remember, I don't want anything that unorganized. So be sure you all planted all of them in the right place, understand?"

After that.

Their daily lives start.

After months of cultivating, the first fruit of their labor has finally bloomed; however, such toxic and unrefined crops that are not edible to eat are not only dangerous but also unfit for their Lord's service.

Thus, Mayners began to experiment and genetically engineer each crop to make it not only pure and healthy but refined and perfect.

To make them truly fit to serve their Lord.

As time trickled by, weeks became months, then years, then decades, then centuries.

After 100 years went by...

Lucy has evolved.

She can now talk, interact, write, and play.

With the guidance of Lilith's teaching, Lucy was able to express her emotions and make decisions.

The years of hard work she invested in Lucy have finally paid off with a great result. The days became so delightful and beautiful that even Lilith gradually forgot everything around her.

And so, everything continues as Lucy continues to evolve.

Lucy's body, the vessel, has begun to show results as her thick skin has begun to become softer and softer, and her legs and arms have begun to develop as her chest is starting to grow.

And so, after nine millennia have passed, the vessel has finally reached its peak of evolution.

The vessel has finally fully formed a human being.

Her soft and smooth brown skin did not appear to change much on the surface; however, her brown eyes changed into blue eyes.

Her short brown hair turned into long, smooth, soft black hair, and she had the height of an 8-year-old girl who wears nothing.

Like a child who has neither shame nor matured a bit even though nine millennia have passed, Lucy runs naked inside the mansion while playing hide and seek with Lilith, Mayners, and Classie.

Hiding one inside the closet in one of the vacant rooms. She giggled as if her hiding place were absolute.

But Lilith, who's the seeker, has instantly shown up in front of the door of the room where she's hiding.

Menacing as she entered, Lucy held her mouth shut, avoiding making a noise as soon as she heard the door of the room open.

Holding her breath due to Lilith's steps making a noise trying to get close to her.

"What do we have here? A cute little mink hiding?"

Lucy jolted as the noise stopped, and Lilith's voice was menacing and clear.

And then...

All of sudden.

Lilith, open the closet!

In shock, Lucy was so panicked that instead of getting agitated and screaming, she leaked due to her holding her voice.

"I found you!" Lilith said as she found Lucy.

Quivering due to shock, Lucy has been unable to stop the leak, making Lilith notice it as soon as she saw the wet floor.

"My goodness! You peed! I am so sorry! Did I scare you? I am sorry, Lucy! Mommy didn't mean to scare you."

Lilith immediately tried to console her by gently pulling her up.

Lucy's joyed expression changed into frightened and then embarrassed looks.

Her face became shy and red due to the unsightly image she created.

"It's alright now, Lucy. Mommy didn't mean to scare you, sorry."

"No, Mom, it's my fault. I held my emotions and peed myself."

"Ohh, figures. hehehe. Next time, then, you should scream if you're scared, ok? Screaming is not a bad thing; it just means you're a normal person who knows fear. Anyways, how about we take a break? and let's take a walk?"

"Ok, mom..."

Then Lilith gently held Lucy's soft hand and went outside the room.

As they left the room, the two Valrats went in. Looking at each other, one made a giggle while the other was devastated.

As if that one Valrats who was laughing was saying to her companion, "This time it's your room. hehehe."

while the other Valrats replied, "Why Milady has to pick my room..."

Even without voices coming out of their mouths, their playful conversation continued until Lilith and Lucy were far away from the room.

Meanwhile, after leaving the room and on the way outside, Lilith and Lucy have met a few Valrats doing their daily tasks. Some are cleaning the hallway, while others are cleaning glass windows.

Unlike before, when the Valrats wore almost nothing, now the Valrats are wearing a decent long white and black dress, like a maid.

Each time they passed by, Lucy greeted them one by one by waving her hand at them.

The Valrats simply replied by waving her back using one of their six arms.

And then, upon arriving at the front door, they met Classie and Mayners.

"Here, I was wondering when you would seek us, Big Sister... But it looks like the game ended already." said Classie, her face both disappointed and playful.

Mayners on the other hand, respond differently.

"Oh my goodness, did you wet, Lucy?"

Lucy shyly responded by nodding her head.

"I see. So are you two going to take a walk after this, big sister Lilith?"

After confirming, Mayners shifted her eyes to Lilith and asked her firmly yet calmly.

"Yeah. Since you're here, can you wash her and prepare appropriate clothes for her this time too?"

"Alright~"

Then Lilith handed Lucy over to her as Mayners gently received Lucy's hand from Lilith's.

"Let's go, Milady?" With a genteel smile on her face, Mayners left with Lucy and went straight towards Lucy's room.

Leaving Classie and Lilith behind, the two began to talk with each other.

"Sis," Classie said to Lilith in such a calm yet firm voice.

"What is it?" Lilith replied collectedly.

"Elder Brother Lucifer just sent a letter."

Classie took out the letter from her left pocket and handed it over to Lilith.

A small piece of red paper was folded four times.

As soon as Lilith received the letter from Classie, she immediately burned it in her hand.

At that moment, the flame instantly created a circle of fire and then turned into a mirror.

"Lilith, how's Lucy?"

A familiar voice, which in fact is none other than Lucifer himself.

Lucifer's image has begun to appear inside the mirror flame that Lilith burned.

Then Lucifer's voice continues.

"How's the development that she has? She's still innocent, like our Lord, right?"

Lilith, who's listening to Lucifer's message, has made a quick comment.

"Of course she's still innocent. Being isolated from the outside world, who in the world wouldn't be innocent thus far?"

After that comment, Lucifer's message continues, on and on, about Lucy's well-being and how the environment is doing now.

Until the last message, in which Lucifer's tone changes from that of a concerned parent to that of a serious person,

"Lilith, I've received a report from Satan, who is currently living on the surface. He said that Cain had a child."

Classie, who was standing beside Lilith and listening to Lucifer's message, had made a comment.

"Seriously? That kid made another offspring even after all the trouble he did during the flood? He doesn't learn, does he?"

Lucifer's message continues.

"Lilith, the report I've received from Satan was 21 years ago, so I am sure you'll probably encounter Cain's grandchildren if destiny allows it by the time you receive this message. Anyway, just make sure you don't leave Lucy in your sight. That would be all. May our Lord be with you."

And then the flame-mirror message vanished into thin air, ending the message instantly.

Lilith, who received the last message, became silent and thought.

"So Satan is on the surface as well. Why did I never receive a report until today? How long has Satan been living on the surface? Don't tell me from the very beginning that Lucifer sent us here? Has Lucifer also been monitoring me in case I ever lie to him? It could be. Lucifer is a very meticulous and controlling being, especially when it comes to the safety of our Lord."

These thoughts and questions continued in Lilith's head until Classie spoke to her in concern for her being silent for awhile now.

"Sis, are you okay?"

"!" Lilith flinched from Classie's face, who was leaning close to her face.

Then once again, Classie asks

"Sis, is everything alright?"

"Y-y-yeah, don't worry." Lilith said as she stutters a bit.

"Are you sure? If something is troubling you, I don't mind accompanying Lucy today."

"!" Lilith has come to a realization before speaking firmly.

"You know what? Do that. Accompany Lucy today, but take Mayners with you."

"Alright~!" Classie came back to her old self like a child.

And then, from that moment as well,

Mayners and Lucy finally came back wearing a long blue one-piece dress and black shoes.

Upon arriving, Lilith immediately crouchs down and talks to Lucy.

"Lucy, I am sorry, dear. But something came up; Mommy has something to do. Would it be alright if Classie and Mayners took care of you for a while?"

"Eh? Why? You said today is your day off? Let me guess, has that guy named: Lucifer sent you another letter? You always become like this whenever you receive a letter from him."

Lucy pouts as if she were a bit annoyed and trying to make Lilith feel guilty.

However, Lilith responds differently; instead of feeling bad about it, she smirks and taps Lucy's head.

"I can't help it. It's work. But don't worry, once I am done with this, I'll make up with you tomorrow; we'll play all day long. So will you forgive me?"

Lucy, still annoyed, took a moment before responding back.

"...You'll promise to play with me tomorrow?"

Lilith smiled before kissing Lucy on the cheeks and spoke in such a soft and sweet voice.

"Of course, Mommy promised to play with you."

Lucy touched her cheeks where Lilith kissed her and then responded to Lilith with a delighted expression.

"Alright! Lucy will behave today and play with Elder Sister Mayners and Classie!"

Or what she said...

Later, after leaving the mansion with the Mayners and Classie, Lilith went to her room.

An hour has passed.

Lucy has sneakily gotten away from Mayners and Classie while strolling around the forest.

And found herself in a group of people—kids, 4 boys, and 3 girls—where all of them were gathering herbs and crops.

"Who are you people? What are you all doing here?" Lucy said, curious yet unaware.

One of the four boys has replied.

"I'd like to ask you the same thing: Who are you, and what are you doing alone in this deep forest?"