He dragged a woman in chains behind him. He walked and she followed. She was a Blackcloth. The black clothes sewn into her skin with wire.He, Harumi, walked down the path for a good three meters, until he chanced upon a hole in the ground. He saw the cavity, large enough to fit a human near The Ahab"s city of sin, and he surmised that it was formed with magic.
Harumi constructed an altar and burned rotten flesh he had stored in his satchel. He was divining. He was summoning a demon with a mult.i.tude of dances. He cried and wailed with a horrible visage, and the woman looked on in horror.
A demon appeared. It had the appearance of a whale, and it was large. It looked over Harumi, and its figure was half visible amidst the smoke rising from the altar. The whale"s eyes, though beady, held anger within and violent thoughts.
The demon said, "Why have you summoned me? What is it you seek? What do you truly think?"
Harumi said, "I summon you for knowledge. I seek Leo Lionsmane. I think you will lead me to him."
The demon said, "What will you offer? Your life? What will you sacrifice?"
Harumi said, "I offer this Blackcloth woman. I will not offer my life. It is her I will sacrifice."
The woman started to run, but Harumi didn"t stop her.
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"The price is paid and accepted."
The demon whale lurched out of the smoke from the altar and swam through the air to swallow the woman, while she tried to run away.
It swallowed her whole. It took her life. The whale bellowed. It cried. It circled about in the air before returning to the smoke.
It said, "Leo is in a city by the ocean."
"That"s it?" Harumi said, "That"s all you"ll give me!"
"Blackcloths are résistant to death in h.e.l.l," the demon said, "And besides, h.e.l.l seeks your life for your many misdeeds and wrongdoings. You will fetch a higher price than a Blackcloth."
Harumi kicked the altar, and the demon faded away. Harumi left the altar near the city, and when he looked back one last time, he smirked as he thought to himself, "No matter, it"s only a medium sized coast. I"ll send our new creations to destroy each and every city in the coast within thirty kilometers of Ahab"s city."
He cast a void spell to summon the women, the victims of Harumi"s experiments. And suddenly a group of figures with demon scales protruding out from their bodies appeared. They were all women, just as Harumi had told King Brimstone, and they all were suffering from the modifications made to their bodies. In total there were ten thousand. He thought, "the supreme fairy hasn"t appeared yet, Though each were infused with the power of a snake demon.... but it will appear soon with them all gathered."
He looked and said, "start from the cities closest to Ahab"s city. Destroy until you"ve found Leo Lionsmane."
He took out a old wanted sign with Leo"s face on it and said, "Go! And Kill!"
The women disappeared into smoke as they scattered towards the coast.
And so, Harumi walked over to his horse and rode away after the latest in demon experimentation went to kill.