What? Lightforging a Greater Demon Is Already Satisfying

What? Was Lightforging a Greater Demon No Longer Enough to Satisfy the Light Butcher? — Bonus Chapter [45]

(Bonus chapter for brother "Book Friend 20170816215224737" [4/5])

Diakum left The Other Side with a task that sounded exceedingly weighty.

He had to find a vessel that simultaneously embodied the concepts of life and death for Sire Denathrius's "amulet." It sounded like something very high-end.

In the official history, when Bastion's core sacred artifact was damaged, the little blue people had encountered the same predicament.

They too needed such a vessel to remake the sacred artifact. At the time, those self-proclaimed righteous little blue people chose an utterly outrageous solution: they came to Ardenweald for help, and then a self-sacrificing fae gave up her own life.

That self-sacrificing fae was called Willow Wisp.

That storyline had once been called "the most underworld-like plot in the underworld expansion," directly causing Bastion's already poor reputation to sink even further. If their Covenant abilities had not been so powerful, those little blue people would probably have become the kind everyone wanted to beat up in that underworld expansion.

Though the fae's constitution truly was miraculous—there was no need for excessive refinement; catch one, and they could become a perfect vessel for gathering the concepts of "life and death" on the spot—how could Diakum, as a Friend of the Fae, possibly allow such an underworld-like thing to happen before his eyes again?

Before leaving Ardenweald, he decided to see the Winter Queen one last time.

The fae were creations of the Winter Queen. She had been able to create fae before, so naturally, she could now knead out a vessel by hand that would one day bury Sire Denathrius.

As Dick rode his Moon Goddess sword reindeer leisurely away from The Other Side, he turned back