I'm The Devil

25  Undercurrents

Heavenly Jade Palace

The Heavenly Jade Palace is the name of the palace of the Jade Emperor or simply the Emperor of the Pangu Realm. Shangdi didn't like to be referred to as the God King, so he went for the title of the Jade Emperor.

In this Palace, Nuwa and Bixia were tending to the injuries of Shangdi as it seems to be healing slower than expected.

The two goddess felt despair as they don't want to lose Shangdi , so they administered everything they had to help him heal.

Nuwa paced back and forth in the room and regretted her decision of attacking Lucifer earlier without reason, if she was not blinded by her rage for getting back at the man who murdered her husband, then her son would not be in such a condition.

Tears steamed down Bixia's eyes, she was crying for her husband and her Ruler, there is no heir to the seat of the Jade Emperor and him dying will not be good for the Realm as the other God King's will exploit it the moment the opportunity arises so instead of dilly dallying and, she decided to take matters into her hands.

She stood up and arranged her dress before facing her mother in law "I will be going to ask Sang-Je for help, if anyone, he is the only one who can help Shangdi without the council finding out about the situation" Bixia said to Nuwa before leaving the room quickly as time is not on her side.

Nuwa didn't bother to stop her as she knew of who Sang-Je was. He is also a Primordial God like her and the God King or the Heavenly Father as he called himself of Koguryŏ, he is a friend of her late husband Pangu and also a friend of her son, he is the only one who could be trusted among the other God Kings, he doesn't involve himself in the political affairs of the council and just want what's best for his Realm.

After Bixia left, the Primal goddess look outside through the window and saw the new mountain called The Devil's Peak and an idea came to her.

She went over to her son and kissed him on his forehead, then she walked out of the room as she made her way to the Devil's Peak.

Devil's Peak

Feng Huang was running around the premises of the Palace with Lucifer and Aphrodite sitting on the edge of the mountain.

"So, what are you going to do now?"

It has been a week since they came to this Realm and Lucifer hasn't done anything other than walking around the Palace and playing with Feng Huang.

Aphrodite didn't understand what was going on and did not know what he was even planning currently, so she asked him hoping she could get some answers from him.

Lucifer turned to face Aphrodite "I am just waiting for things to cool down before exploring this Realm before moving to another Realm after which we will go back to the Greco Realm and by then, Zeus's rebellion would have already kicked off" said Lucifer as he smiled at her.

After getting the answer she needed, Aphrodite went into the Palace as she wanted to rest for the time being.

As Aphrodite left, Lucifer sighed as he looked at the stars in the sky when he felt a familiar presence coming behind him.

"What do you want now, goddess?"

"My name is Nuwa, you can address me as that and the reason why I am here is because my son is healing slowly but he is showing no sign of waking up, I am here to ask if you have done anything to him that is slowly killing him that we overlooked or you know a way to help him, that would be very helpful"

When hearing the name, Nuwa, Lucifer raised a brow as he has heard of a particularly goddess like that from the myths and that's that, he didn't delve to deep into some of the legends of his old world.

He was just versed in the myths of the Greek and Norse as that was because of some superhero movies and comic he read that was associated to those gods, if not, everything would have been new to him.

"I don't know anything about your son and I can't help with whatever is going on with your son, you should seek a medical advice and last I check, I don't give one"

Nuwa closed her eyes when she heard that he can't do anything to help her son.

"But don't worry, he won't die, not yet, he can still live a few eons before his eventual death, so if I were you, I wouldn't shed any tears and as for that punishment that I was supposed to give out to the man who murdered your husband, I don't think that's valid and for your own good, don't pursue the matter, Pangu was meant to die anyway, My brother just happened to be passing around and lend a hand in his death"

During the week, Lucifer has pondered about the events and it is going exactly as he knew it, a perfect example is the Greco Realm even with his presence, things didn't change instead, it got even more intense.

Then he remembered a story about Pangu dying and with his death, the earth was created which turns out to be the Realm they currently inhabits, so he believed that Pangu's death was already determined and Satanael just happened to be passing by that day. After putting all the pieces together, he decided to just forget about blaming and punishing him and focus on other things like exploring the vast Cosmos.

"But you gave your word, are you just..."

Before Nuwa could complete whatever she wanted to say, Feng Huang appeared behind her with her hands on her neck coated with Hell Flames.

"Leave, I have been too lenient with you since my visit, you don't want to say my bad side. I will punish whoever deserves to be punished and Satanael is not to be blamed, if you want to blame someone, blame it on whoever is pulling the strings, and I doubt that you can do anything to him as even I am an ant in front of him, so just be a good girl and crawl back to your palace and get over your husband's death and move on. You are a beautiful woman, you don't want to grieve over someone who longer exist for the rest of your immortal life, do you?"

Tears kept pouring out of Nuwa's eyes as Lucifer kept on saying all those things to her.

She stood there glaring at him and all she could think of was rushing at him and drive her spear through his heart and ending his life.

But she knew that all of it was just her wishful thinking as she would be the one to end up dead.

She cleared her tears and turned around to leave but she stopped as apparently Lucifer still has something to say.

"While you are taking care of your son, can you do me a favor and send some servants who would be attending to my daily needs as you can see, we are are lacking in that department"

After hearing what Lucifer said, Nuwa left the Devil's Peak to the Heavenly Jade Palace.

Knowing that she left, Lucifer continued his stargazing.

Feng Huang came and sat besides him and also joined him to stargaze.

She is still young and have not finds it difficult to speak but can only say a few words which sounded stupid, so she decided not speak when anyone is around so as not to embarrass herself and only do so when she is alone.

A portal appeared behind them which made Feng Huang became alert but Lucifer told her to calm down.

"Go into that portal, it will lead you to an Island where you will meet a Nymph called Adamantheia, tell her I sent you however you can tell that she should give you a fruit, she will know what that means, when she gives you the fruit, eat of it and it will help you greatly with your growth. Off you go"

Feng Huang hugged Lucifer tightly "Thank" she said before sprinting into the portal.

Lucifer laughed at her antics and had only one word for it and that's 'cute'.

Peace and quietness returned to the peak as Lucifer relished on it and closed his eyes as he enjoyed the night.

Realm of Hindu

A men sat inside a cave looking haggard and bleeding, he was hanging on the last thread of his life and used what was left of his energy to call for help.

"I must.. I must warn... I have to survive.... I must tell them..."

The man did not want to give up now as he has something every important to tell some other people like him.

He held on for as long as he could. After waiting for some time, he decided to give up and hope they would be able to overcome the trials ahead of them.

He was slowly losing his consciousness when he heard some voices, voices he knew too well.

"Finally, they arrived.." Nôv(el)B\\jnn