Chapter 86: Let's make a contract

Again the System sent a message ahead of you while the tremors only grew stronger, every second.

[You stand before the Spirit of Ouroboros, the King of the Abyss]

The message echoed as the residual dimension around him began to fracture, pieces of the environment cracking and breaking like glass under immense pressure. Strax looked around, his heart pounding as he tried to make sense of what was happening. He stood before something more vast and terrible than the Dragon.

Tiamat, until now a towering presence before him, remained still, observing with an expression that was hard to decipher what was going through the dragon's mind, something truly strange was happening.

The tremors continued, the darkness around engulfing everything, as if the abyss itself was materializing to claim its prey.

Tiamat, unlike before, was now silent, waiting, as if acknowledging the authority of the new presence.

Strax struggled to keep calm, but the aura emanating from this spirit was entirely different from Tiamat. Ouroboros did not exude Tiamat's pride; instead, it was an abyssal force, a presence pulsating with a devouring hunger and a fury that seemed to want to consume everything around it.

The tremors became even more violent, and Strax felt the pressure in the air intensify, crushing him.

Stax fell to his knees on the ground, trying to maintain composure, but it was an even harder struggle, even with the aura of a dragon, it didn't matter, he just fell to the ground, almost powerless.

The air was infused with a new and devastating aura, and Strax was forced to the ground by the overwhelming force of the new presence, and his knees gave way. A female voice, laden with anger, fury, and disgust, echoed again through the dimension, "How dare you ignore me, insolent human!?" She shouted as before.

As he struggled to rise, the ground trembled again. The sound of something colossal being dragged reverberated through the cave. Strax, with great effort, lifted his face slightly and saw something that filled him with a new form of terror.

A gigantic serpent emerged from the darkness. Its body seemed endless, a creature so vast and infinite that only a fraction was visible before him. The scales gleamed with a dark shine, each movement causing a new tremor that reverberated through the environment.

[You stand before the Spirit of Ouroboros, the King of the Abyss]

Strax read that message again, this time it seemed heavier than before in front of his eyes.

"Where have I got my hands on ..." He commented. "Damned whore." Tiamat commented again and Strax looked at her. "Release the Boy, if you're going to talk to him, be polite!" She shouted with a native spirit of justice, something that Tiamat didn't like was lack of education.

Strax looked at Tiamat confused, but saw that Ouroboros's colossal body began to glow with an ethereal light. The scales shimmered and rearranged themselves, the serpent twisting and shrinking, metamorphosing. In a matter of moments, before him, where once stood the colossal serpent, appeared a feminine figure.

"Talk about being polite when at least using a humanoid form to speak with a human, your Proud Whore" Ouroboros said.

"You speak as if you have any control over him, Tiamat. But the truth is, he chooses who he will take with him! And it seems you can't handle the competition."

Tiamat advanced as well, her chests were already almost touching, but she remained upright! "This is not a matter of competition, it is a matter of principles! I will not let you drag him into your idiotic darkness!"

Ouroboros cast a disdainful glance at Tiamat, then turned back to Strax. "So, boy," she said, her voice now sweet, quite sensual "The choice is yours."

"Which one of us will you choose?" The two shouted together... Strax... who managed to get out of Ouroboros's aura looked at the scene and just wanted to go away... "And I thought I was going to get a quiet spirit that didn't talk to anything and stayed by my side, I got two old bitches" Strax said, "Well, a man has to take responsibility" Strax said and stood up, apparently neither was listening.

Tiamat and Ouroboros were with their faces almost glued, sparks literally flying between their looks and the air was charged with hostility.

Strax arrived at the center of the dispute, and with an effort, he raised his voice to be heard above the turmoil. "Both of you!" he shouted, trying to make himself heard over the noise and tension. "Stop this shit now!"

The two entities turned to Strax, their surprised and angry looks fixed on him now. Tiamat and Ouroboros seemed almost hateful for having been interrupted, and the silence that followed was deafening.

Strax stared at both, "I'm not a prize to be fought over between you. I am a man, a being with my own will. The prize here is you! Not me!!"

Ouroboros stepped back slightly, her expression of anger softening into something more thoughtful. "You are bold, boy," she murmured.

Tiamat took a step back too, "You have courage, Boy," she said, "And maybe, that's what really matters."

Strax was already getting nervous, he was the one who should be the winner here! He was to be the person who won the prize! When the values were reversed ?! Who is sealed were they! Why are you turning it into an object!

He was furious, he had been a long time, for all possible reasons, but now? Now he broke.

"I came to this shit to choose a sword for me to kill a fucking son of a bitch who kidnapped my wife, and you two... You damned bitches are messing with my mood."

Ouroboros and Tiamat exchanged brief glances, but he continued. "You know what? Fuck it." He said and raised his hand.

"Both of you come with me, Both are mine." He said, his anger was already at the limit and he had no more time for that. Tiamat had already agreed with him and Ouroboros seemed favorable then. "Do this shit of Contract, I Have to Kill a Rude and Save My Wife!" He shouted at the women who were left unreactive.

[You've made a contract with two Higher Entities from Sector #######]

Autor Note: The images of Tiamat and Ouroborous are in auxiliary chapter 3! It could be that the bot is blocking the images, so go to the discord server for more details, no big problems!