Chapter 2

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Congratulation! It's a leach ?

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Michael was yet again stuck in darkness trying to make sense of his predicament when immediately this time someone broke the silence.

“Well would you look at this, who do we have here~~.” (???)

Suddenly Michael blood froze in his veins. He immediately knew who this voice belonged to, so far everything had happened to fast he still not have had the time to reflect about his situation but now with some memories of his past fresh to his mind he could not help but feel despair at this moment.

'Let's try a relaxed approach' (Michael)

“Heyyy!!! Lulu Bro !! How ya'v been doin' all this time !?!” (Michael)

Michael then closed his eyes expecting an outburst of anger. Nothing happened... All Michael heard was “fuhuhuhuhu”. Slowly opening his eyes again he was not surrounded by darkness anymore, he was standing in a small room decorated with very ornate and intricate textiles, carvings and antic furniture. The tapestries on the walls were vomit inducing but the rest gave a vibe of old 1700's French antics..

In front of him, he was standing with a little smile on the corner of his lips. 'So nostalgic' thought Michael to himself. The one standing in front of him was someone he knew well.. Had been given time to asses his situation before being sent here he would have known... There was no way he wouldn't make an appearance at his arrival..

Standing in front of him was a young man looking around 25 years old with a very androgynous face. 'The type that make women act like a crazy horde of hyena on a feeding frenzy' You probably saw them before, you know the fan-girls at a Justin Bieber concert.. They are going nuts and faint all over the place. He was wearing a black robe type of clothing with golden embroidery showing his chest in a v-neck reaching down to his belly button putting his chest muscles on display. One would say his body looked like perfection itself. Behind his back a solid looking pair of jet black wings folded on themselves, he surprisingly had blue eyes, a very deep blue similar to the sky just before sun rise. 'One would have expected them to be red' He also had short black hairs and his striking look was finished off with a pair of small black horns on his forehead around one inch long.

“Why the surprised look? Surely you didn't expect that i wouldn't notice the arrival of THE single most powerful archangel ever to exist in my kingdom?!.. It would be similar to not noticing a hot iron rod being dug into your flesh.” (Lucifer)

At these words Michael shuddered. Back in the days Lucifer had started a war against heaven with an army of millions of demons but God didn't do anything. All he did was say those words, 'Michael, quickly take the trashes out'. The rest has been recorded in history, Michael effortlessly cleaned the floor with Lucifer body and kicked him down a bottomless pit forcing him to retreat with his army. Quite the anti-climatic battle certainly but as people would say, back then Michael was overpowered. A true battle angel.

But now the situation was gravely different, he was but the shell of himself and Lucifer was in his kingdom, here his powers are almost boundless.. Lucifer feeling the tension then continued.

“It as been a very long time, Micha[...] *Stare* The fuck happened to you?” (Lucifer)

Suddenly intrigued by the look on his face he couldn't help but ask.

“What do you mean?” (Michael)

“Well you changed quite a bit, and knowing our divine body to be the unchangeable representation of our souls, your different appearance can only mean one thing... Your soul have been permanently tempered with” (Lucifer) Said Lucifer with slight anger in his voice.

“Sighh it's a very long story but yes God seem to have experimented with me like i was a lab rat or something.” (Michael)

At these words Lucifer's eyes turned blood red faintly glowing and Michael could see the veins on his forehead bulging making him look strangely arousing. 'Wait what?' I meant terrifying..!

For a few moment Lucifer seemed to be doing something, moving his hands in all directions while looking at Michael. It looked as if he was browsing trough some kind of interface.

“I see, HE placed quite a few annoying restrictions on your soul didn't he.. No physical body for 1 million reincarnation is quite the annoying one... We both know things such as ghost doesn't exist so i can only assume he expect me to 'Bind' you to something..” (Lucifer)

“Meaning?” (Michael)

“Wow he truly wiped out most of your memories eh?!” (Lucifer) He said while clicking his tongue.

“You see to be reincarnated mean being given a new body... So the 'no physical body' is contradictory to this simple fact. My guess is, since he had good reasons to assume i held a grudge against you that he was expecting me to bind you to a long lived inanimate object.” (Lucifer)

“For some reasons this doesn't sound very good..” (Michael)

At that instant an evil smile formed on his mouth before he continued.

“Let just say, what if i bound your soul to a rock... A rock in the middle of nowhere. The rock wouldn't be your body but simply the 'artifact' you are bound to, so you would simply be floating over the rock for who know how long. What i am saying is that it would be impossible for you to die and reincarnate unless the 'Artifact' got destroyed. A rock on the top of a mountain would last forever and you wouldn't die until the world itself came to an end.. So basically billions of years.. And if i keep doing this for each of your next million reincarnation.. Well you can do a quick calculation can't you ?! Hahaha you truly pissed God off my poor Michael.” (Lucifer)

Terror just took me over and my legs gave out. Kneeling with my hands on the floor and my head lowered i could phantom the horror of what's to come.. If the rock is on top of a mountain at least i would have the sunrise and sunset to enjoy but if i was to be bounded to a rock 1 mille underground.?! Well you can imagine eternal darkness basically.. At that thought i may have peed a little in my pants.. Pants?... Wait a minute ?! I'm naked !! Was that why he was staring at me (Like not in the eyes..)?

Blush*

“Hahahahaha you may have changed a lot but you are still as stunning as ever.” (Lucifer)

Immediately i cover my manhood with my hands while trowing a judgmental look in his direction which he immediately shrug off with a disappointed look. At that instant i would have loved to be able to see how i now looked like but i could tell my time in this divine dimension was soon coming to an end. Putting my thought back in order i directed my attention back at him worried about this entire 'binding' thing.

“Worry not Michael, i've never been one to do what's expected of me. Let see, i can find some loopholes here and there i can exploit hehehehehe yes i see what i can do. I will greatly enjoy watching you in the next cycles to comes. But first, i have a small gift for you which will be of great help to you in your next life.” (Lucifer)

“A gift? From you ?” (Michael)

'A gift from the Devil himself?! That can't be good.' (Michael) Thought Michael with the feeling of powerlessness abruptly falling upon him.

Nothing can prevent him from tormenting and 'playing' with me. I could immediately notice him frowning..

“You know i can hear that right ?” (Lucifer)

'Ho crap!' (Michael)

“I heard that too fuhuhuhu.” (Lucifer)

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'1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+4=8 [...]' (Michael)

“Ahahahahahaha how enjoyable to have your company. Now! Moving along to my gift!” (Lucifer)

He then approached me while lifting his index and slightly touched my forehead. After which i didn't feel anything different to be honest..

“A simple gift, you should now be able to communicate in any language found in my kingdom.” (Lucifer) Say Lucifer while giving a suspicious smile. (How super convenient for author-san !!)

“I have kept you here long enough! Let's get it started. SHOW TIME !” (Lucifer) Exclaim Lucifer lifting his arms up in the air.

Once again i am, or feel like i am falling. No more 1700's room, back to the darkness..

'Sighh It's quickly getting old now..' (Michael)

As soon as the feeling of falling stopped Michael quickly tried to assess his situation.

'I'm still in the dark, i can't see anything but i can see stuff.' (Michael)

Sound weird? Certainly it also feels weird. Must be the same feeling as seeing with your ears (Echolocation) or seeing with your skin trough water pressure like most fishes... The feeling i am getting is similar in many aspect and from what i can gather i am most likely seeing troughs air.. Meaning that i can feel the smallest change in air pressure and wind.. Like some spider seeing in pitch darkness thank to some sensitive hairs on their legs.

But that's not all.. I can feel something else all around..

'What's this feeling?! So.. familiar.. i've felt this before...' (Michael)

I can feel what feel like presences, something life forms usually gives off... I can feel stronger concentration of this 'Energy' here and there when it finally hit me.

'This feeling!! I remember it now ! It's mana ! And i can also feel mana from me, therefor i have mana and can use it to get a better understanding of my situation.' (Michael)

With a new understanding on my environment i then try making out my surroundings. I proceed by sending weak mana pulses in all directions. (Basically mana echolocation?!) By doing so i can now understand that i am most likely inside a cave since there's an irregular ceiling, what feel like stalactites, stalagmites, and no flat surfaces anywhere..

'That would explain the darkness....' (Michael)

But immediately after that Michael take a few minutes to make out what his new 'body' might be..

'I can move around, it feel like swimming actually... i have a mana pool... And my body is supposed to not be anything physical... Therefor it can't be a rock or a fish... When i try touching myself it's the same as when i was the dark divine dimension waiting for my soul to get processed, 'nothing'.. Well i was expecting that much since i can't have a physical body but what the hell am i ?' (Michael)

After a few hours of 'looking' testing and poking around i finally had a basic understanding of what i was. 'Very basic'.. I basically am.. Mana.. Not THE mana but a lump of it.. And i could tell i was considered an entity since the mana constituting my body had a different 'print' to it. Let me explain, mana found in the air, water and nature in general all have the same 'print' which is basically (natural mana). All 'entity' (anything with a consciousness and mana) have their own unique 'print' similar to fingerprints. And in my case i had my own unique 'print' as well and could tell what mana belonged to me... Not that a part of my mana could be someplace else because mana need to always be connected. Which mean i can place a bit of my mana on the other side of the room as long as it stay connected to the rest of my 'body'. So by linking them via a small mana thread i could extend my body in different directions..

You can basically imagine me similar to a slime with the same body propriety but being made of smoke (air based) instead of goo (Water based). But fact is, i am no smoke, i am mana.. 'A mana pool with consciousness... with apparently no need for a body to exist.' I can move 'float' around by creating pulses with mana looking a bit like a jellyfish.

'Damn lucky i'm in a cave because if there was wind i would have been dragged who knows where... I quickly need to get stronger!' (Michael)

Now when you have a physical body you can increase your mana pool size via meditation but in my case, seem like i can't produce mana... Well it's quite logical you can't produce mana with mana. And mana is all i am/have...

'Sighhhh this life's going to suck... [...] No wait!!' (Michael)

Suddenly illumination came upon him! A memory from one of his previous life. In that world Michael was a 'Spiritual Vampire'. He also had a mana pool but was lacking the ability to produce mana. Situation very similar to the one he's in now. Spiritual vampires are vampires that live eternally by stealing mana from other living creatures instead of blood. Since physical bodies tend to die if emptied of mana people always thought that spiritual vampires were feeding on their life force.

'So i believe i can “leach” my way out of this impasse!' *guhuhuhu Creepy laugh* (Michael)

Then as suddenly as it had appeared his good mood darkened as a grim realization came upon him. Even if he stole a lot of mana from living organisms.. He still would be like a puff of smoke, just... a bigger one... Never could he feel the caress of the wind on his skin, even less feeling or touching anything... Never could he ever feel the warm embrace of a woman again. With this in mind, unbeknownst to him something inside broke.

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