Date- 14 Jan 1877
Time- 00:32
Location- Earth, South Korea, North Gyeongsang Province, Taegu Village
“How dare you a mere mortal treat me like this! I am Belphegor the 3rd ruler of the 7th Nether Flame realm. It is your honour that I am willing to help you get vengeance in exchange for your soul.” In anger, Belphegor finally revealed his true intention.
“No wonder you are being so adamant you are after my soul. Well, today is your lucky day Mr Demon as long as you bring back my father to life my soul is yours.” Corey was not surprised that Belphegor was after ger soul but rather delighted as she saw a way to bring her father back to life.
“No, ask anything but that.” Even though Belphegor could bring Corey’s father back to life he only wants to enter a deal beneficial to him. And bring Corey’s father to life was not beneficial to him even if he gets to corrupt Corey’s soul in exchange.
“I have nothing else to wise for other than bring back my father to life.” Corey was pretty adamant about what she wanted and did not budge the slightest.
“Okay fine, but in exchange for your father’s life, your soul alone is not enough.” Feeling the push of earth’s will getting stronger Belphegor finally decided to compromise.
“What else do you need? Except for my flesh and soul, I have nothing else to offer to you?” Corey was confused and did not know what else did she have worth coveting of a demon.
“I want your loyalty along with your soul. Become my adopted daughter and lead my army to conquer my enemies.” Belphegor was not kidding he did find Corey worthy to join his faction as one of his adoptive children.
“I lead your army. I am just a novice hunter. I did not even lead a hunting expedition. How do you expect me to lead a demon army?” Corey was puzzled by the demons sudden demand in exchange for her father’s life.
“Do not sell your shelf short. Your strength is weak but your Will is very strong, with my help you will become strong in no time. And remember even if you are my adopted daughter you will be starting from the bottom rank as in my realm only the strong are respected and rewarded. Hurry up and decided my time on earth is reaching its limit.” The rejection of the earth’s will has gotten stronger and Belphegor was barely maintaining his presence on earth.
“Wait! How will you resurrect my father? He is already buried. Won’t he died of suffocation if you resurrect him as he is now?” Though Corey believed Belphegor could bring her father back to life she never trusted the demon.
“Who said I will bring your father back to life now. Your father’s soul has already departed. Do you know how much power and time I will have to waste to find and gather his soul? And what if you are not worthy of the power and time I have wasted bring your father back to life.
I will bring back your father to life after you have proven that you are worthy of my help by satisfying my conditions,
1. You will become a demon and move to the 7th Nether Flame Realm. Do not worry I will help you with this.
2. You will become a Titled Demon in under 100 years. As for this, it will depend solely on you and your strength.
Do you still want to continue with this deal?” This was the nature of the demons, seeing that Corey was hooked Belphegor changed the terms of his deal with her in a matter of seconds. Either way, Belphegor would only do deals in which he was going to gain the most and satisfy his sadistic fetishes. Not to mention that Belphegor had already taken Corey’s father’s soul as an offering by the villagers and the shaman who summoned him by chanting the weird words under the moonlight.
“How do I know that if I complete those conditions you will hold up your end of the bargain?” Despite Belphegor changing his conditions, Corey continued to negotiate with him because she did not have anything worth living for on earth. The only person she cared about died. If she died trying to bring that person back to life she would consider that death worthy.
“Do not worry, If you agree to these conditions then we both will enter a soul contract with your world will as a witness. Which even a god cannot violate. So if you are ready then just say the magic words. Hurry I have very little time left on this world.” Seeing Corey become docile and par to his tune Belphegor was satisfied but it did not stop him from hurrying Corey into deciding by asking, “Corey Park, do you agree to enter the soul contract with me Belphegor the 3rd under the mentioned conditions.”
“Yes, I agree” Corey did not understand what soul contract is but if there is the slightest possibility that she could bring her father back to life Corey was willing to risk it.
“Hahaha good!” Belphegor laughed out loud gaining a new plaything and also because as soon as Corey agreed to the soul contract the rejection of the earth on Belphegor became weaker but it was still there.
“That’s it! Now what?” Besides Belphegor’s maniacal laughter hurting her ears Corey felt no change in her after entering a soul contract with Belphegor. She thought that after signing the soul contract with Belphegor she would be forsaken by the heavens and become a demon but to her surprise, nothing happened.
“Patience, the best part is yet to start. Here swallow this demon core and become one of my descendants.” Belphegor having achieved his goal reverted to his enigmatic self and handed a pitch-black core to Corey for her to wallow and turn into a demon to satisfy the first condition.
Just as Corey was about to swallow the core Belphegor reminded her,” And one more thing daughter, try not to faint as long as possible. This will decide your future.” Corey did not understand what Belphegor meant by his reminder but still swallowed the pitch-black core as she had to. And soon a heart churning scream sound throughout the forest.
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Author’s Note: Guys, I know Corey’s past is taking too long but the dark realms are going to be one of the important parts of future arcs.
Right now we are in Tournament volume (ending soon)
Next is University vol (coming soon)
Later the Dark Realms vol (under development)
