Chapter 231 - 231

"Oh god Mark you are a fool now but as it seems you were one in your previous life too. How could you anger Asmodeus one of the twin demon princes. How?" Alias asked in despair. 

"What?" Mark asked surprised. He had never heard that name before. He wasn't really religious anyways.

"Have you heard of Malleus Maleficarum?" Allias asked him. His friend blinked a few times, staring at him like an innocent sheep as he stood there waiting for a further explanation. He definitely did not know anything about a book like that. The closest thing he knew about demons was Twilight, if that had any demons at all. "I will take it that you haven't. Well let's just sat it's a book. This book mentions a demon named Asmodeus. In that book Asmodeus is one of the princes of hell, or even a King if you would like to call him that. He is also thought as the prince of revenge by others while he is called the prince of lust too. In the demon realm live other demons too, like Achlys who comes from ancient greek mythology, but he, he is the real deal a pure blood demon, made from divine essence. Remember the origins of magic right? It's either from nature, where people like me come from, fairies and many other monsters and spirits or from humans. Human's beliefs created the divine entities, like the twelve gods of Olympus, the Nordic gods many other minor gods and obviously the Christian God and in result Satan, from those came angels and demons…"

"You are making things too complicated and I can't follow." mark mumbled with a pout and Allias sighed. 

"What I am trying to say is that he is very powerful Mark!" the elf king said and rubbed his temples. From all the species. From all the people out there, the red haired had to anger a demon. A demon! The worst kind of all. Demons were even worse than werewolf. They were cunning and skillful liars enjoying the pain of others. It was like they fed on it, becoming stronger as their prey shook in terror. "Why? How...oh gods…" the king mumbled.

"Well he did say that he loves me so it can't be that bad, right?" Mark said with a smile and Allias' eyes widened. He was at a loss of words. How long had this been going on? Why was there a demon roaming in his best friend's head and how was he supposed to fix this? 

"Wait, wait Mark slow down. What do you mean he loves you? Demons can't feel love! Not the way we do it. It could be lust, need or want but it's not the pure feeling of love. How? Tell me how did you get yourself into this mess? What if he kidnaps you and turns you into his sex slave or something?" Allias rambled and mark shook his head in a negative motion. 

"No, he was clear he just wants to kill me, painfully." he said and shivers ran down his spine as he remembered the demon's words. His vicious smile and his cocky attitude. It was all happening inside his head so it was slightly hard for him to believe everything. He couldn't feel the actual danger or the severity of the situation but Allias, who was conversing right now with him knew very well of Asmodeus and what he could do, that was why he was already going insane with worry. He couldn't kill one of the Kings of hell. He wasn't allowed to, so who would protect Mark? Theseus was probably not strong enough to take him on. 

"Wait a second. Mark, Asmodeus has been sealed away in hell. He was meant to suffer 300 years in solitude in the demon realm. Exorcists took him down a while ago. If he said he is searching for you that means that his punishment is over. You have a vicious, just released from hundreds of years in hell King going after you. You are taking this too lightly. I will have Theseus call in my guards. We need to have people in the perimeter as long as we are here. Once the Council leaves we will return to the palace and do some research." Allias told him and looked at him strictly. The red haired just shrugged his shoulders. He hadn't told Allias about what Amelia had given him, that remedy which would allow him to tap into his previous life. He wanted to keep it a secret because he was almost sure that the elves would force him to take it. He didn't want to though, he didn't wish for his life to become even more complicated. He had fallen in love with a werewolf and got his heart shuttered a few hours ago. Now, while he still didn't have any time to heal, he had to worry about someone trying to take his life. He wanted to remain as normal as he could and he was scared that looking back, knowing what happened would change him. 

"What's an exorcist?" Mark asked hoping that he could kind of change the course of the conversation. It was obvious Allias was very upset, his mind running as to how he could find a solution fast enough to keep him safe. The red haired man didn't want to burden him like that though. He had so many things going on at the moment so adding his own problem would just be a bigger hustle. He just waited for the time he could see him finally happy. Every time they got out of one trouble they faced something else. He was scared about his friend. That he would get lost in his worries. So if staying quiet would help, he was willing to take that risk. 

"Exorcists don't exist any more. You can think of them as a special time of hunters. They specialized in demons, vampires and werewolves from time to time. They were different though, they had a form of power too and they choose when to kill or release someone. Of course they send all the demons to hell but it wasn't the same with vampires or werewolves. You could say they were kinder in a way, or more rational than hunters." he explained and mark nodded. 

"So what kind of powers did they have?" he asked again, glad that he was slowly guiding the conversation to another topic. 

"It differed by the clan. Depending on which side of the world you were born, they used many different techniques. It wasn't obligatory that your birth could define your techniques but what every family used was kind of tradition. Some used christian prayers, holy water and such. Others mantras from India, some used blessed weapons made by angels and many other stuff. Some even had contracts with low level demons and they would summon them to fight." Allias explained.

"That does sound pretty cool." He said and the elf king nodded. 

"I met one once. He taught me a technique to control my power since I couldn't use it. He used to fight by calling his familiar. He had if I remember correctly a lion made out of fire, a puma made of shadows and an enormous crow he used to fly with. He was actually pretty strong, he came from a very famous clan too. That was the only exorcist I ever got to meet a long time ago. My mother had brought him. I guess she had suspected that one day they would try to restrain me." Allias said. 

"So the dude owned a zoo." Mark joked and Allias rolled his eyes. 

"You think I don't know what you're trying to do? We need to talk about the demon King and see…" Allias started saying when Ea walked through the door, interrupting their conversation. He had a disturbed look on his face as he looked at the two man and Allias called him over with his hand.

"I am sorry my King but I think it would be best if you joined the others at the entrance. Luke will need you." he told him. 

"What happened?"

"You see, the Council is here." he said and Allias sighed. They were supposed to come tomorrow but obviously they had to make an entrance by just popping in during the chaos. Allias stood up, unwillingly dragging his feet outside with Mark following him closely. The person he hated to see the most was definitely Achlys. That woman was annoying. As annoying it could get and he was perfectly sure she would try to blame the elves somehow. He still hadn't talk to Theseus about they would handle the Hara thing either. He just hoped they were not suspicious of anything, since they hadn't heard about a funeral or his body being found. 

They reached the entrance, Allias noticing that all of his friends wolves and elves were gathered there, staring at the so called almighty Council. It certainly looked like a battle ground. He noticed the angel representative, Dionysus and Suijin but Achlys was nowhere to be seen. He looked around confused as to where the woman might have gone off to when a voice drew their attention. 

"Looking for me?" a male voice was heard, low and smooth and everyone looked back. There was a man standing at the window. Actually sitting at the sill. He was smirking as he looked at everyone with confidence. "Got to admit it feels great to get some air after 300 years." the man said. 

So there was a new Demon representative. 

"Shit." Mark mumbled.