Chapter 9.5 - The Tale Nicholas Freeney; Demon-Slug

Earlier in this journal I spoke of three lives that I remember, technically that’s wrong. I lived four lives... well maybe a few more then four. I just really tried to forget about this one and maybe a couple others… Yama was really pissed off at me. Thankfully, the lives were blessedly short, and even he can’t afford to offend two Elemental Overlords.

I only managed to live a week or two usually, maybe three if I got lucky. Apparently, once your soul reaches a certain level of power you require a proper vessel to inhabit. This was the true reason that Yama had left me alone for so long; he had to figure out how to create a situation where a mortal vessel that could house ascended soul that had been baptized by two different essences was born. The solution they came up with was fucking crazy…but, that’s for another time.

During this period of time, my soul wouldn’t even make it back to the courthouse before it was pushed into another body; it was a total abuse of power! Anyway, this is just a brief summary of what Yama can do to you if you really piss him off.

The first life I was born as a slave… a worker ant. Before this, I had no idea that worker ants even have souls; but they do apparently. My mom, the queen, was a total bitch apparently, thankfully she was already dead by the time I was born. My time as an ant was spent mostly following others around, picking up leaves, and generally being a good little worker ant. That is, until a new Queen and her nest took over our homes. With this specific species of ant, the Queen mates with workers and then feeds on them using their bodies as fuel for the pregnancy…

When the new Queen came everyone partied happily; but slowly all my worker buddies from before started disappearing. They’d be called into see the Queen and leave with a huge smile on their face talking about the honor of meeting her personally, never to return. Now, I was a bit smarter than all the other ants around me, and while it’s hard to think when you have an ant-sized brain, my soul was still that of a gods…

So, when I got called into see her and we started to get it on, I was like Hell Yea! But, then she tried to eat me just as I was about to climax… Now, for some reason that really pissed me off and so I blocked her mandibles and finished off, roaring out… And engulfing the entire ant-hill in flame.

Now that I was dead, back in my soul form, I could think straight again… and I was pretty happy with myself. “Even as an Ant I’m a total BAMF!” Then, the usual sucking feeling came back except instead of dragging me to the elemental sea I got dragged into the body of a falcon. That one was a fast life; I was pecking my way through my egg, getting really annoyed at the hard thing. Too annoyed. I subconsciously summoned a bolt of lightning frying Mama Falcon and all of my siblings along with me…

Many, many lifetimes had passed in a short period of time. When you average two-three weeks per life you can go through them very, very quickly.

It was at this point that I finally was given a body that managed to support me for a whole month! I was born as the offspring of a demonic-slug and the Slug Overlord…. I never really got to know my parents; a side effect of being born a demon is that you absorb energy and essence from your mother during pregnancy. Despite being quite powerful (for a slug), my mom couldn’t survive the drain I put on her. She died when I was born, and my Dad was killed by some team of famous adventures not long later. I remember watching them carry his carcass away and crying in my soul… I wanted to eat him!

Of course, The Demon-Slug Nicholas Freeney wouldn’t let some pesky humans get in his way! I spent the next 5 months terrorizing the humans… Since this body could actually handle absorbing some essence I would set fire to villages, bombard towns in lightning, and get dragons to destroy kingdoms!

Now, I know all of you want to know how I managed to get dragons to destroy kingdoms for me… It’s actually really easy if you’re powerful enough. Just shoot a bolt of lightning up its nose and run like hell in the general direction of the kingdom in question.

Despite all the fun I had terrorizing that world; my time was cut short yet again by my OP soul. One day as I was terrorizing the adventurer’s guild headquarters the lightning essence started flowing through my body out of control… I had absorbed too much by accident again… DAMMIT!!!

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*