240 Ming Bae Ki's Freedom I : The Final Seal

And then there was one. It was the very last one, and while it didn't mean anything to me, I sort of felt it should or could mean something to Baeki. The speed I had used in breaking this seal was unprecedented, but it was largely in part to my soul double.

With my clone working on it almost twenty four seven, and the fact that I was able to get stronger and expand my knowledge of runes, weaving and seals as a whole, helped a lot. Now I had finally come to the last juncture, and felt foolish about expecting some sort of sentimentality from Baeki, I mean after all, this seals have kept her captive almost as long as the pit has stood. But instead I got this…

"Well what are you waiting for! Destroy the damn thing!" She said to me as she hovered behind me with a lollipop? (Where would she even get those from?)

"Just like that? Don't you want to like...I don't know, maybe say something, or...…do something symbolic?" I asked with a confused expression.

"Why would I want to do that?" she asked me back, looking genuinely confused.

"Well, because.....because it's what you should do... I mean this is the last rune circle, the last seal! Don't you want to like act out or say something epic as a sort of...I don't know, maybe a last hurrah or farewell?"

"Seriously?"

Well this conversation got painfully awkward so fast that I felt my fangs ache. Maybe I was reading things a little different, and seeing the world from a different lenses as compared to other people. When you think about, who would want to attach a symbolical feeling, to a thing that's kept them trapped for a long time.

I mean you can be emotional about it, but I don't think you could treat like some sort of pet. Well now I feel weird, and nervous, not to mention hungry. I honestly didn't get myself anymore, I've been so out of sack since Cassiel and Michael have been born, that things that excited me before no longer did.Asare had said it was a result of fatherhood: apparently being a parent changes you.

It puts a lot of things in perspective, and a lot of the things you once believed in becomes redundant in the face of the fact that you've brought a life into the world. And that all of your heart, your mind, your unconditional love and thoughts go out to the life, to your child.From then on, you begin to put more emphasis on things you once considered unimportant. You change the way you think, behave and you're more careful.

As a parent, especially in a place like the pit, every decision made is always careful made, and made with so many revisions that in the end it would look nothing like the original. You would know that this world, this life was hard, and your life was hanging on a thread and could be easily snapped in seconds. You would want to live, not for yourself, but for your children, because you wouldn't want to leave them at the mercy of the guard tower, or even just life in the pit as a whole. But then again, my slowly unraveling youthful mindset was bot the reason I was here, though thinking about it was a welcome escape from the awkward conversation between Baeki and me.

"Ok fine, let's do it your damn way!" Baeki said from behind me as she pulled me back and stood in front of the final seal.

"Here lies one of the bastard seals that's kept me and my family trapped for a very, very, long time. I've had to make a lot of tough choices, bad decisions and deals, just so that I could get just a piece of freedom, of respite or a smidge of the world outside, within the cells of my very cozy prison. As powerful as I am, I've been cheated, lied to, insulted, violated...…raped...…arghhh! And it's all your fault! Or at least the fault of the bastards who put you here in the first place. So I wish whoever put you here, because I don't actually remember who, millions of weavers must have come here over the years that all their faces just look similar. Just blank, evil and laughing at my pain.

Yeah well, as I was saying, I wish that if your creator is dead, that he's rotting and burning in the worst hell possible, and if he's still alive. He better hope that he dies soon, because I'm going to find him, and the every other person who placed one layer of chain after another on my life, and also their families. And then I'll kill everyone of them, all of them, until the skies turn red with their blood, until it doesn't hurt anymore."

Then she turned to me, and the hundreds of vampires who had come to witness the seal go down. I was shocked speechless, and I felt sorry for her. She's the oldest leaving vampire in the pit, and over the years due to the sealing array, she's probably had to watch all of her friends, her family wither away and die. She was not right in the head that's for sure, even more than I was, I could guarantee that Ming Bae Ki was broken. And at this point I'm afraid it's beyond fixing.

"You've gotten what you wanted Kael, now break the damn fucking seal!"

I gave her a nod, and then I stretched my hands outwards, placing it on the last seal. I released my soul energy, felt it connect and cover the entirety of the rune circles structure. And then I felt myself falling, falling, until I was standing on a paved road right in the middle of a storm.

The storm was weird, but completely synonymous with every other rune circle I've taken down so far. On both my left and right were walls of storm clouds, complete with purple lightening crackling and thunder booming from within it. But it didn't seem like just a simple wall to me, it was more like an ocean of storm clouds that was parted in half, just like Moses had parted the red sea, and I was the unfortunate Israelite caught right in the middle.

And just like the red sea, this sea of lightening storms had fishes of it's own, big, massive, sharp teeth, and they looked really angry. I looked ahead of me and realized that the path ahead went up at an incline. I couldn't see the end, but I knew I had no other choice but to keep moving forward if I wanted to find the key to breaking this seal. Of course it could be that all I had to was slaughter all of the soul beasts currently swimming in parted ocean of storms, soul energy and lightening. That was an available option, but no way in hell am I going swimming into that thing, not unless I don't have a choice.

I had scarcely taken a step forward when I heard a loud boom of thunder, along with a flash of lightening as someone or something jumped out of the storm and landed in front of me. I closed my eyes a bit to avoid the flash of light, but that seems to be a mistake as I felt a leg slam into my chest, a very big leg.

I was thrown backwards for almost ten meters, which spoke volumes about the power behind that strike. But this was my soul form, a form that's only as strong as I perceive myself or am in the real world. Which means the kick felt like a tickle, and whatever was responsible was in for a world of hurt.

I got back up to my feet and took a good look at who or what just attacked me, I recognized it almost immediately. This was a fish man, but the proper naming term would be a Sahagin. Humanoid fish men native to a planet that was predominantly water in it's composition and plagued by intense rain storms all year round. There's hardly any piece of dry land on their planet, and it rains all year round. However the Sahagin secrete an oil of sorts that's a good balancing agent in not just alchemical experiments, but also chemical, biological and magical. They could make two unlikely elements bond well, and without repercussions, much like the compound Dasenite.

It made them quite the commodity on the interplanetary slave market, and more often than not, they don't survive captivity. However this guy here was just a soul beast, and he was in my way. Which means he has to go bye bye.

I moved, a complete blur to the Sahagin as I walked over and slapped his fish head of his human neck. I died without even a sound or even know what hit as it dissolved into grey white soul energy that seeped into my body.There was another boom of thunder, and another, another, until the path ahead and behind me was filled to the brim with Sahagin themed soul beasts looking to rip me apart.

"Well then, what are you waiting for, bring your fishy asses over! I have to be home before my babies wake up." I said to them with a nonchalant attitude.

CRAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!

Oww!My ears, from the looks of things, I don't think these guys like my tone of voice. It seems to have pissed them the fuck off, and they were all attacking. Good, I needed to get this over with as soon as I could, I really needed to get home early though, Asha's been looking at me strange whenever I bring up Baeki and castle Sarang. I don't know why,it I feel as if she's plotting my demise of some other shit, I got chills whenever she looked at me. Women are scary, really, really scary. Especially when you don't know what you've done wrong, or what the fuck is it, that's wrong with them.

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THE SERPENTIS NEST

GREY FANG MANOR

CORNELIUS AND SHAMIR

This meeting had gone off without a hitch, the food was surprisingly good, the maids, even though they had the lower ends of a snake were beautiful and for quite a while both Shamir and Cornelius were entranced by their appearances. But it's been a known rule, that mixing business with pleasure was beyond stupid, which was why they were facing their potential ally with the most serious expression and attention possible.

"So you're telling me this Kael Cor has delusions of grandeur, but it's not his delusions that make him dangerous, it's the fact that he has the power to make them a reality that's not good."

"Yes, that's exactly true prince Adrien. He has the people brainwashed because of his huge amounts of money, and the fact that he has broken the sealing array of the vampires. We can not oppose him, not with the soldiers and resources we have. That's why we've come to you. To put a stop to his madness before it gets out of hand." Cornelius said as he shifted on his seat, fully intimidated by eight foot tall Naga prince and cobra hood open behind his neck, because that meant he was angry.

"And this Kael Cor, he's preparing his army for the conquest of all the prisons, starting with ours. But he has a deal in place with Nephilim, so only the Serpentis are in any danger." Adrien asked as he slithered around the table, pacing in deep thought.

"Yes he does. And he doesn't just own an army, he has the weapons to win any skirmish he involves himself in, as long as it's within the vicinity of the dancing caves of Noxis Nyx. He's preparing for an assault, and my spies tell me he's going to be making a move in under two weeks." Shamir answered with a cool voice, more in control of his emotions than Cornelius who was even an elder.

"Shamir we've been friends for a very long time, and you've promised to help me get the throne after my father passes, so I believe you wouldn't lie to me. I have to take this troubling news to my father, so that we can prepare our defenses and reach out to our allies. But I assure you, in 10 days I'll be personally leading the army that will squash this Kael Cor. A preemptive strike would most definitely throw him of his game, and whoever he is, whatever power he holds, or weapons he carries; one thing is for sure. Kael Cor will die!"