Chapter 73 - The Seductress

Lillian went back inside the Palace and stood in front of the King's Court, which was the center of the whole Palace. She already had invisibility spell on and was masking herself from other's eyes. She spread her arms and then faced towards the clear night sky. Then she began to chant the spell to summon a being from the other world, that world being Hell.

As she had drawn a large magic circle, she was absorbing vast amount of negative energy from the Netherworld to power the magic circle. The Hell had unlimited supply of negative energy like hatred, lust, revenge, anger, etc. They would be emitted by the beings of the Hell as well as the humans that had gone there after dying.

And because she was letting immense amount of dark power flow through her body, she was in great pain. But no matter how hurt she was, she gritted from between her teeth and kept on chanting the spell.

By this time, Lillian's dead ancestors had also given up on her and had already stopped to whisper to her when she would perform the forbidden magic. They had already accepted that there was no hope for Lillian and that her soul had already been corrupted.

However, after many years, Lillian was hearing the whisperings again. The ancestors were screaming in her ears as if they were in a lot of pain, as if they were being tortured by someone in the other world that they were in.

Her ancestors started to beg to her all at once.

"Lillian! Stop this madness once and for all."

"Do you think you can get away with all of this? You will pay for this while you are still alive."

"You will have to pay for all the cruel things that you've done even after you die."

"You will rot in hell for thousands of years if you keep this up."

"I will curse you for tainting our family name."

Lillian's ears started to ring and her head started to hurt with all the screaming and shouting from her ancestors. She was feeling like all of her ancestors were currently in her head and were trying to hurt her from the inside. She swore that if she would ever get a chance to meet her ancestors in the afterlife, she would kill them all again.

Her ancestor's warning were turning futile because Lillian was not backing out, nor was she afraid of going to hell or rotting there for eternity. "I will gladly rot in hell for eternity if I take my revenge on that bastard." She would have yelled back to her ancestors if it wouldn't have interrupted her incantation.

And in addition to the ringing of ears, she was also feeling excruciating pain in her whole body. She was feeling as if the dark power was running through her veins and that it would pop out of her veins at any moment now.

But no matter how much pain she was in, she was not the one to give up in the middle of completing the spell. "I just have to endure it a little more…" she thought that as she kept her incantations going.

Slowly the whisperings in her ears died down and with a clear head, she sped up her chanting. However, the more she approached the ending of the spell, the more her body was in pain. And after one point, her whole body started to shake violently as if she was possessed by a demon.

A dark mist started to whirl around Lillian. The mist swallowed her like a tornado and it started to spread all over the Palace. The sky above the Palace that was clear just a while ago was now gloomy and dark. Not a single star was visible from down below.

After a great struggle, Lillian finally completed the spell. Her body stopped shaking and she gasped for air. When the mist slowly cleared, a winged creature came into view. And even in the dim moonlight, one could tell what it was.

Lillian had summoned a succubus; the seductress from hell who thrived by seducing men. According to what Lillian had heard from the folklores, she had thought that succubus had deformed bodies and looked very frightening. But she was surprised to see the one in front of her. The succubus that came upon her summoning was really beautiful.

In fact, beautiful would be an understatement. She looked like an epitome of beauty. Though she had a set of large black wings, horns and a tail, one could not overlook her other-worldly and womanly features. She had a beautiful face, voluptuous breasts and hips, long legs and the hint of seduction dripping from her without even trying.

It would be a lie if Lillian said that she was not jealous of the youthful succubus in front of her.

"Did you summon me to just look at me or do you actually have some task for me?" The succubus asked in an enticingly beautiful voice.

Lillian cleared her throat and then spoke in a stern voice to make sure that the succubus would not disrespect her like the Demoness had done before. "I want you to appear in a man's dream and do what you do best. And the goal is to ultimately push him towards his death."

The succubus sucked her lower lips and moaned, "Mmm… taking the life of the man I seduce… I like it. But I do hope that the man will be worthy of my effort." She seductively touched her womanly figure and said, "I don't want to waste this gem on some nobody."

"Oh don't hurt me by thinking so low of me darling." Lillian proudly folded her arms and gave a sinister laughter, "I am the Queen of this Kingdom. Do you think I would waste my time and effort on some nobody? Do you think I would endure so much pain for some no-name?"

The succubus's wings flapped slightly with great expectation. And she asked happily about who her prey was going to be, "Who is it, who is it? Who am I luring with me beauty?"

"Will the King do?" Lillian had a huge smirk on her face.

The succubus clapped her hands and then flapped her wings. And she did a little dance in the air and landed back on the ground and said, "Yes! The King will do."

"Come on then, follow me." Lillian started to walk in front of the succubus and led the way.

The succubus was, however, confused when Lillian started to walk away because she thought that she would be confined with the magic circle. Till now she had not looked down to check the magic circle. And when she did look down, she was surprised to see that there was no magic circle at all. She took several steps and realized that she could walk freely.

And she flew by the side of Lillian and excitedly whispered, "Did you kill a human to make me walk freely?"

Lillian shook her head and casually replied, "No, I just drew a larger magic circle. You can walk freely inside this Palace."

And the succubus exclaimed, "You drew a larger magic circle? And that worked?"

Lillian nodded her head, "Mhmm."

"Impressive! I have never heard of this before. You must be a powerful witch then." The succubus praised Lillian as she kept on flying alongside her.

Lillian did not show it but she was happy to hear that from a mystical being of Hell. "Did I improve from the last time that I used the summoning spell? Am I becoming more powerful?" Lillian asked to herself. She wanted to believe that she was becoming more and more powerful by the day. She wanted to be able to control the greater demons and demoness of hell and make them do her bidding.

Lillian led the succubus towards the King's private chamber. Though there were several guards standing at several places, they were unable to see the two of them. Some of them were able to feel a gust of wind when the succubus flapped her wings as she passed by. But they never thought that it was something abnormal; they thought that it was just a gust of wind and nothing more.

There was a small problem when they reached at the door of the private chamber though. Four guards were standing by the door, two on either side of the door. And all four of them were wide awake. To enter inside the room, Lillian had to open the door. And though she was invisible, she couldn't just open the door without the guards noticing it.

Lillian was trying to think of a way to go inside the room but the succubus understood that her prey was behind that door. And she signaled to Lillian that she would go inside the room alone.

Before Lillian could signal back anything, the succubus disappeared from her sight. And Lillian puckered her lips and screamed internally, "I hate it when they just disappear. You never know if they will complete the task or not."

But she had no other option than trusting the succubus. After all, succubus lived by seducing men and taking their life force for themselves.

Seeing there was no use of her in standing outside the door, she tiptoed back towards her own quarter and patiently waited for the succubus to do her deeds.