Chapter 3: City of Petoskrim

As the thick doors of the Gate were opened, Aleg and Annie were welcomed to the city of Petoskrim. Right after the city was visible through a small gap a buzzing noise hit their ear drums, indicating this was a very busy city. They walked down the street for 15 minutes seeing mostly merchants of different races selling various ingredients that make you apparently stronger.

Most merchants were lowly human souls trying to make a living, while selling bat wings, frog eggs and fish tails. Those ingredients mixed together had various effects depending on how much of each you were putting in. You could either get an aphrodisiac, increased stamina for a short while or the ability to grow wings for two minutes.

Obviously the human souls were not skilled enough to make those potions and thus the potions were mostly sold by imps, who had the knowledge to produce it. Imps had red skin, small horns and a short pointy tail. Their size was more or less the same as the size of the goblins.

Goblins looked like deformed midgets with long ears and a face that makes you puke. Even though their looks and stench was horrid, they were selling very beautiful necklaces and rings. There were also rare amulets, some of them had an onimous black aura due to the effects of being cursed.

Aleg told Annie:" It looks like those goblins are the richest in Petoskrim. Kind of funny considering they are fucking ugly."

Annie chuckled and it looked like they reached the center of the city, since all the different streets lead to this place. In the middle was a four meter large fountain made out of black marmor. Although it wasnt water that was spurting out, but thick, hot magma.

Annie remarked:" Woooooooww, Aleggg!! This looks soooo beautiful! The spurting magma looks soooooo entracing."

Aleg replied:"I see someone who is even more charming." While he watched her big breasts jump up and down, because she was jumping out of sheer happiness to see such a captivating view of the fountain.

A goblin approached Aleg from the back after seeing the mark on his neck and offered him his most valuable piece:" I wish you a very bloody day my Lord. I have a very special amulet for your human slave you have with you. It can make an exact same copy of the slave. I promise you double the fun for only 20 thousand blagos!"

Aleg was a bit confused as to why this goblin called him a Lord too and refused the offer. In the very same moment he refused the offer, two male thieves came with blackjacks knocking Annie out and kidnapping her.

"Finally we can fuck something! Those prostitues are way too expensive and since they are demons we cant kidnap and rape them without vanishing in the Land of the Void.", said one tarnished soul to another.

The other soul replied:" Yes my brother, it has been ages! Working at that construction site for four years, because of those lava floodings we kept respawning at Hell's Gate and that damn dog kept sending us back to work. Damn that construction site with its special magic resembling a purgatory!"

Aleg felt responsible for Annie, even though he didnt know her for a long time, because of Arnold who kept raping the girls he touched. He did not want it to happen again and stormed right after the thieves with a malicious look in his eyes. He followed them in a small dark alley way without being noticed, where they suddenly disappeared. He walked to the dead end, just to see a hidden door in the wall.

The thief holding Annie put her on the table and started undressing her:"Ooooooooohhhhh, my brother look at those firm breasts. They are as big as honey melons!", while feeling her down there with his hands and grabbing her breasts.

BAMMMMM

The door was smashed open and in the door frame was a panting Aleg.

Aleg saw the scene right before his eyes after smashing the door open. A thief touching Annie's private parts and the other sticking out his tongue like a horny dog. Something in his stommach felt like exploding and Aleg started hyperventilating. His vision got hazy, but his mind was still comprehending the whole situation.

HE angrily yelled:" YOU DAAAARRREEDDD TO TOUCCHHH HERR???!!!!!!"

The mark on his neck started glowing fire red and all the hatred bottled up inside of him for all those years was exploding. Around him appeared tons of ghost like faces flying all around him. The ghost like faces were tormented souls, who have been abused their whole life. With Aleg's wrath they have been summoned to inflict the pain they have experienced on others.

Aleg ordered:" DEVOUR!"

With a high pitched screech flew the tormented souls towards those thieves entering and exiting the thieves' soul body and slowly tearing them apart. The thieves were screaming in anguish until only black mist remained of them.

The black mist slowly faded away and disappeared after five seconds.

Annie woke up after Aleg yelled at the thieves. The situation for her was like a knight in a ghastly armour saving her from the evil.

She was still unsure whether to approach Aleg or not, since the scene how the thieves died was purely demonic. Their very soul essence had been ripped off until only the core of it was left, which aldo disappeared in the nothingness.

Aleg calmed down and asked Annie:" Are you alright?"

"Yes, I am. Thanks to you."

-"I hope you are not scared of me after seeing it. Even for me it was a first. I did not know I had such a power."

"We are in the hell realm, everyone has sinned here. Do not worry I know how I can repay my debts to a demon.", Annie stated.

Annie was kind of flushing, since she had a special constitution, because of her line of work she got wet every time someone touched her private parts directly.

Annie seducingly asked Aleg:"Wont you, maybe... join me...? Here on the table..?"

Aleg was flabbergasted due to the inexperience with the opposite gender, but who could resist such an alluring sight. Annie was biting her lips softly, demanding for him with a finger making a sign to come to her, while spreading her legs slowly.

Aleg was drowning in his first sexual experience and after the deed was done on the wooden table. Annie smiled and said:" You are my first demon ever." And so did Aleg reply:" You are the first human for me, too."

Ingulfing himself in the feeling he just had experienced, he started thinking about the meeting with Satan:" People call me a lord or Nobleman, the blood-red cut on my neck disappeared and the back of it burned. Most likely Satan inscribed something there and the possibility of me being a human soul is close to zero, because of my newly discovered ability Pain of the Tormented (Description of the ability is found at the bottom of thus post.)... I wonder what is inscribed on my neck though.."

Aleg asked Annie while she was dressing herself:" What is written on the back of my neck?"

-"666, why?"

"Thank you Annie."

Aleg kept pondering:"666 heh.... What could it possibly mean."

As soon as they dressed themselves up, they left the house walking back to the fountain.

Aleg saw something unexpected that made his mouth drop down. The gaping hole between his teeth let out a sound:" What the hell is this old geezer doing here?????"

As soon as he blurted the words old geezer out loud, the very said person was walking towards him and Annie.

"Good evening second Prince. I see you arrived safely to the city of Petoskrim", said the old geezer while making a bow.

-" How??? I thought you were sentenced for a longlife sentence in the jail??... Did they execute you, too?"

"No, I commited suicide just to serve under you.", answered the old geezer with the jetblack eyes, that were once void.

"By the way, my name is Gavro. Sentenced to a long life prison sentence in the jails of the royal castle of the Slavon Kingdom for experimenting with the souls of animals. A devilish work I gotta admit hahahaha."

-"Why would you want to serve me Gavro?"

"You, master Aleg, I saw the soul you had and the future I wish has the highest probability of happening, while serving under you. Hopefully you will accept this, mad scientist."

-"I guess, why not?" Said Aleg while trying to figure out his motive thinking:" He is hiding something, however who am I to judge. An opponent of my opponent is a friend of mine. Definitely he hates thr Slavon Kingdom as I do."

Gavro replied with:" I swear my loyalty to you, master", thinking:" It was the right choice to choose him. I have studied the dark arts since the age of seven and never have I seen a demon walking around with the number of the beast"

Annie heard none of the conversation between Gavro and Aleg, since she happily watched the entrancing fountain a few meters away. Nonetheless she was happy to have another comrade join them, when Aleg introduced Gavro to her.

Spoiler : Pain of the TormentedSummons tormented Souls to attack. Beings, who cant withstand the mental pain, have their body devoured leaving only the core of the soul behind.