Tale of a Hedonistic wizard

Chapter 289: The demoness' might



But it was those eyes that truly betrayed the undercurrents swirling behind the mesmerising facade. Pools of scintillating onyx seemed to glitter with the light of distant galaxies spiralling in their inscrutable depths. Timeless and all-consuming, they held the promise of sublime rapture and soul-shredding devastation in equal, intoxicating measure.

As this statuesque vision coalesced fully into the material realms, suspending herself in a subtly sensualistic hover just above the scorched ground, her full lips parted to reveal a voice that could have inspired wars with its dulcet yet profoundly inhuman tones.

"My my...what do we have here?" The words themselves seemed to caress and insinuate, each silken syllable effusing pheromonic undercurrents that sparked involuntary physiological responses in those nearest.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

For the soldiers arrayed before this impossible manifestation, their senses were overcome in a disorienting tumult of primal arousal and existential horror. Mundane psyches rebelled at the proximity of such an overtly extramundane presence, making them corporeal, even as hindbrain impulses stirred in untoward fascination.

Only Jaegar, having willfully initiated the ritual, appeared untouched by the disorienting tsunami of conflicting resonances. Though his jawline betrayed the faintest tightening, his piercing gaze remained locked on the entity in an unmistakable challenge of sorts.

It was then that her obsidian eyes narrowed in appraisal, and that infuriatingly sensuous smirk morphed into a chiding parody of a matriarch's affectionate admonishment.

"How positively wonderful," she purred in a tone edged with layer upon layer of metaphysical implication. "Though I must admit, I had expected some old bones."

Allowing one lithe, silken-wrapped leg to slowly cross with the other, the entity cocked her head in an almost predatory display of evaluation.

"You seemed quite convinced you would be ushering forth my descendant, Nymryna. Imagine my amusement to find the source of beckoning belonged to a singular mind of such... elevated dispositions."

Her smile took on a serpentine edge that somehow rendered the expression even more disarmingly sensual than before. "Allow me to introduce myself, since formalities between peers are always...appreciated. You may know me by many honorifics, whispered across countless ages with equal portions of reverence and fear. But for our purposes here, you may simply address me as Lylith."

Jaegar frowned, looking at her deeply. He had drawn the summoning circle to summon a demon, the succubus, who came to visit him at the academy. But right now, the demon, the succubus, seemed to be a rather more mature and refined version of Nymryna.

Jaegar regarded the statuesque demoness before him with a calculating look. Though Lylith was not the intended target of his summoning, her vastly greater power presented an even more tantalizing opportunity. One he did not intend to squander.

It was actually favourable on his side, and he didn't imagine that he could summon Lylith, a formidable demoness, the queen of hells.

With a subtle mental exertion, Jaegar willed them both to descend, allowing their forms to lower until they stood amidst the blood-soaked soil, separating Wrescia's forces from the arrayed ranks of Daikrimore's army.

As his boots settled into the churned earth, Jaegar cast a backward glance towards where Kyra, Kaeso, and the others anxiously observed.

His pointed look in their direction served as a clear, unspoken instruction. It was time to commit their full military might, for Jaegar had just acquired their decisively powerful edge.

Turning back to the demoness with an air of practiced nonchalance, Jaegar inclined his head respectfully. "My Lady, the reason I have called you here is simple: I require your assistance."

A throaty, melodious chuckle escaped Lylith's full lips, sending involuntary shivers of both revulsion and arousal cascading along the spines of anyone within earshot. "My my, such polite manners from one who so brazenly trespassed upon the boundaries."

One shapely eyebrow arched as her devouring gaze raked over Jaegar's form in an overtly sensual once-over. "Very well then, pretty boy. Let us have your purposes plainly laid before me. What is it you wish for me to accomplish?"

Jaegar's expression remained impassive, yet his next words carried an unmistakable undercurrent of challenge and the promise of grand conflagrations to come. "We need to clear this army—the entire force—from our path. By whatever means you deem appropriate."

No sooner had Jaegar voiced his audacious intent than a thunderous war horn sounded from the enemy's central command. Daikrimore's General could see the rising threat all too clearly and was swiftly implementing disciplined countermeasures.

From behind their front lines, formations of heavily armoured battle mages began responding to the call, marching forward in precise lockstep to form an imposing bulwark directly facing the transdimensional interloper and her would-be master.

The general's commands were explicit: eliminate the anomaly that was Jaegar at all costs, no matter what fresh reservoirs of arcane he had tapped into.

As if in answer to this escalating force disposition, Jaegar's body began to levitate once more, swirling waves of eldritch energies swiftly encapsulating his hovering form. Tendrils of ominous purple mist intertwined with crackling filaments of powerful lightning, creating an ever-intensifying spherical maelstrom of preternatural forces held in perfect stasis around the eye of their creator.

The rolling storm clouds overhead seemed to shudder and pulse in sympathetic cadence with each surge of power exuded by Jaegar's rapidly escalating might. And then, like the birthing cry of a giant, he unleashed the full brunt of his capabilities directly towards the mustered phalanx of Daikrimore's defensive measures.

Lylith, for her part, seemed utterly untroubled by the snapping whip-crack detonations of force rippling outwards from Jaegar's onslaught. In fact, an almost childlike delight danced across her features as she revelled in the convulsive expressions of power playing out in flashing waves all around her.

"Well now," she mused with wicked amusement, lacing every syllable, "what an interesting child you have summoned me through." Extending one hand, Lylith negligently erected an iridescent sphere of distorting force to deflect the stray tendrils of temporal and spatial energies bleeding in her direction.

"It has been quite some time since I was afforded the opportunity to walk among your kind once more," she continued in a thoughtful purr. "I simply must remember to show my appreciation accordingly."

With an almost languid toss of her cascading obsidian tresses, Lylith turned an infinitely hungry gaze upon the rapidly advancing wedge of enemy mages. Raising both arms in a sweeping, embracing gesture, her lips parted as a dreadful litany of indecipherable power took shape. Chapter Continue:

The demoness seemed to swell with each uttered profanity, taking on an increasingly vaster, more metaphysically ponderous presence that quickly dwarfed the mortal glamours overlaying her physique. Reality itself began warping and distending in grotesque defiance of all governing physics, folding in upon the expanding vortex of her dark magic.

For the hapless mortal mages seeking to duel this ancient entity on her primal playing field, it was a battle irrevocably doomed before their first counterspell had even left their lips.


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