Chapter 126

A Dream Come True 6

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2 Days Later

Theo’s Company Building

Theo sat in his fancy reclining chair while facing the thick bulletproof glass wall that showed him the the repulsive view of the Vermilion City Scrapyard.

With his eyes were closed and his seat was in full recline, a vast majority of people would assume that he was simply basking underneath the midday sun.

However, this could not be further from the truth.

At the moment, Theo was once again spying on Vivi, Phoebe and Dorothy as they helped a certain prostitute recover her ability to feel.

Normally, this would be nothing more than a peaceful episode filled with heartwarming moments as Vivi unconsciously gets into the prostitutes heart and her front hole.

Much to Theo surprise, it would seem that the whore was much more valuable that initially expected.

Vivi’s group was fighting off some criminal scum.

Just to be clear though, only Dorothy had the ability to fight in the truest sense.

Vivi was your typical harem light novel protagonist.

Aside from his powerful healing capabilities and his ‘kindness’, he was useless at everything else. He was physically pathetic, his grades was subpar, he was naive to a fault and he was denser than Theo’s adamantium arm.

Phoebe was also largely useless in combat. Her marksmanship was average, but her inability to kill made her extremely ineffective.

Only Dorothy had the firepower to put down, aka knockout, their enemies.

Given their enemies were nothing more than standard criminal scum, Dorothy was effectively invincible.

With that in mind, Theo finally opened his eyes and admire the stark contrast of his clean and orderly company grounds and the mess that was the rest of the scrapyard.

Small as it may, this little patch of land was the starting point towards his end goal.

While Theo was mentally patting his back for coming so far from his humble beginnings, his office door opened and Pani walked in.

“Report: All relevant parties for the meeting are available. Meeting can start.” said Pani

“Very nice. Thanks as always Pani” said Theo before giving Pani a deep french kiss.

As per usual, Theo relentless assault of Pani’s oral cavity caused her legs to buckle from the pleasure.

Satisfied with his handiwork, Theo laid Pani down on the fancy yet mostly useless couch in the far corner of the office.

Theo pulled down the window blinds and returned to his table.

He booted up the computer and opened a video chat app.

These were the following individuals in the meeting:

The frog faced doctor in his clinic

Miss Samantha in what seemed to be a fancy hotel

Lord of Vermilion in his resort

Mother Leticia in her cathedral

“How rare for you of all people to call a meeting.” said the doctor in a teasing manner.

“While I do appreciate that you never missed a meeting whenever we call for it, you never seem to keep your eyes open all the way through” added Miss Samantha

“But you can't deny that it's boring as hell, right?” rebutted Theo

“True. Unfortunately, that is what it means to be part of a group.” Lord added in a wise old man manner. “Anyways, if you of all people are calling for a meeting, either pigs have learned to fly or something extremely bad is about to happen to Vermilion City”

“First: I’m working on splicing a bird with a pigs (big fat lie). For all we know, flying pigs might be possible in our lifetime. Second: Unfortunately, it is the former.” said Theo. “Mother Leticia knows the situation more than I do. I’ll let her take it from here.”

Mother Leticia straightened her back and began speaking.

“Good to see everyone again. As our youngest member has stated, a major event is about to wash over the city of Vermilion. Before I go deeper into the issue, I would like to ask something. Is it safe to assume that all of our members are familiar of the Black Bible Cult?”

“Pretty much. But they’re just one of the many nutjob cults in the city. Hardly the most threatening or dangerous compared to the other groups..” said the doctor with Lord and Miss Samantha nodding in agreement.

“Understandable. However, please look at this map” said Mother Leticia

A detailed map of Vermilion City appeared on the screen.

A second later, massive amounts red dots appeared all over said map. At initial glance, there was at least 100 of them and they were in no particular pattern.

“These are the area where the Black Bible Cult has performed their blasphemous Sacrificial Rituals over a 10 year period.”

Theo’s eyes were drawn into one particular dot.

It was currently a ruined mall of no particular importance. Just another debris pile in the ever shifting landscape of Vermilion City.

To Theo, this mall was something he saw on a regular basis.

This was the mall he visited in his nightmares.

Surprisingly, the rage that was appeared within him was not an explosive volcano.

It was cold and silent. It was like the eerie silence before the start of an artillery bombardment.

Quite a big contrast to the usual rage he felt when he woke up from said nightmares.

It was very pleasing.

For now, he kept silent and listened to the meeting.

“100+ mass murder sites over 10 years. Once again, not particularly a rare but not common occurrence. What about it?” asked Miss Samantha.

“As I said earlier, all of them performed the Sacrificial Ritual. This ritual is meant to summon forth a demon. I’m sure all of you know of the Blood Dragon from 2 days ago. This is the result of that.” said Mother Leticia.

Miss Samantha and the doctor had the face that said ‘So what?’.

On the other hand, Lord’s face went from realization to horror

“Good god.... A Hellgate!” said Lord

“Better explain that one in layman’s terms to the sciency guys in the audience” replied the doctor

“As the name suggests, a Hellgate opens a gate to hell, allowing denizens of chaos to manifest in our world. The main problem with the Hellgate is that majority of the times, the activation of the ritual is completely unintentional.” said Mother Leticia

“What do you mean ‘unintentional’?” asked Miss Samantha.

“As all of us already know, Magic is the reaction of the ever present mana to the collective unconsciousness of intelligent beings. Among the main mental processes that mana reacts greatly to are the emotions of fear, rage and despair. This is the main reason why sites of wars and areas of great slaughter have ghosts or even demons walking around. Said sites are considered as low level Hellgates due to their lack of magical structure, AKA spells, to completely twist reality. Vermilion City is already filled with the 3 main emotions, thus the weekly sightings of demons are nothing to the residents. However, the Black Bible’s sacrificial rituals are creating a stable reaction to all of their successive rituals. If left unchecked, an honest to god Hellgate might appear within Vermilion City and obliterate it.” replied Mother Leticia.

“In layman’s terms, it’s like drinking. The more you take in, the more your body gets used to it. However, it won't change the fact that your body is slowly getting ripped apart from within. Eventually, the accumulated damage will appear all at once and it will be too late to save the drunkard.” added Lord

Everyone went silent as they digested the information.

All of them have seen way too many things that defied common sense, thus a city ending event such as this Hellgate thing was relatively easy to wrap their brains around.

“How long do we have before this Hellgate opens?” asked the doctor

“We don't actually know. Based on conventional knowledge within the Ecclesiarchy scriptures, the Black Bible’s idiocy will eventually result in a Hellgate 3-5 years from now. However, that’s the thing with magic of the chaotic variant. It is too unpredictable to put any certain time frame on it. I’ve seen many instances where we estimated a 10 year time frame, only for a hellgate to appear 1 week later.” said Mother Leticia

Once again, the group silently munched on the tidbits of information.

A few seconds later, Miss Samantha spoke.

“If we’re having this meeting, then I assume that we have a contingency plan in place?”

“Contingency plan? No. It’s more like an assault plan.” said Mother Leticia. “Using the blood of the dragon 2 days ago, we were able to track down a few Black Bible cells where we were able to ‘convince’ the cultist to shed some light as to what their plans were.”

“And? What’s their status?” asked Lord

“At the moment, they are looking for, and I quote, ‘A holy maiden with a soul of complete purity’ that they will be sacrificing as payment to the demons when they open the Hellgate.” replied Mother Leticia

“A soul of complete purity? Does something like that even exist?” ask Miss Samantha.

“Of course not. Ever since the spell called the ‘Original Sin’ was placed on the world millions of years ago, there was never and never will be a soul without blight. Why do you think humans are capable of great good and great evil?”

“Huh… I thought the ‘original sin’ was nothing more than an Ecclesiarchy myth.” said the doctor

“The beauty of myths is that they tend to stick unto a person’s psyche much better than facts.” said Mother Leticia. “But that is not important. What is important is that the Black Bible doesn't know that all souls are blighted and they have been desperately searching for this holy maiden of theirs. This is our chance to strike.”

“Elaborate please” said Lord

“Ah. This is now where Young Lorne steps in.” said Mother Leticia before turning to Theo. “Well then, please tell them of that insane plan of yours”

“Long story short, I’ll be forcing the Black Bible cult to open the Hellgate prematurely.” said Theo, much to the surprise of everyone except Mother Leticia

“Hold on hold on! I thought opening the Hellgate was a bad thing?!” exclaimed the doctor

“It is, but as Mother Leticia said earlier, a Hellgate is like a volcano that is building up to erupt. If we punch the hole into a part of the mountain to bleed out the excess lava, then we would delay the eruption considerably” replied Theo

“But that’s only a ‘delay’. Not a permanent solution” said Miss Samantha

“Indeed. But here’s the thing. First: As long as there is magical shenanigans and slaughter, the threat of a Hellgate will never go away. All we can do is to delay it repeatedly. Second: The Black Bible Cult is surprisingly large. Taking down a few cells will not stop them. As such, we need to bait them out and annihilate them”

“And how are you going to do that?” asked Lord

“We’re going to give them what they want. That Holy Maiden garbage seems to be their number 1 priority. Let’s see just how much they want it.” said Theo

“But here’s the thing, does anyone fit the criteria of a holy maiden?” asked Miss Samantha

Theo leaned back on his fancy chair, closed his eyes and checked on Vivi’s group.

That whore… if he didnt know of her origin, she might pass off as a ‘holy maiden’

With a cunning plan already in motion, a rare vicious smile plastered on Theo’s face

“Dont worry. I have that covered.”