Hello everyone, Astaroth here. I wasn't sure why at the time, but the four elemental goddesses- Undine, Gnome, Sylph and Salamander- seem to have an odd relationship with Lady Entropy, in which they place themselves under her, whereas they seem quite hostile to Lady Luciel. Well, I can understand the feeling.
"Plea, please begin, mister Astaroth", Evyna said, clutching her hands in front of her chest nervously while staring me down with a determined shine to her face.
"Very well. Then, we shall start", I responded, gesturing to my Demon Generals standing on the edge of the large magic circle and taking the 'Dark Goddess's Scriptures' out of my [Storage] while meeting her determined gaze with a steely look.
Yes, we were in the same ritual room where Richard had been turned into an Ice Statue- although this time, in the center of the large magic circle stood Evyna, and I stood in the smaller circle. The Demon Generals were in different positions, so they were still spread evenly across the circle.
Raising my left hand forward and pointing it at Evyna as if grasping something, I recited the prayer that came to my head naturally as my eyes went over the many pages of the tome:
"O grand Goddess lording over the gentle, caring Darkness
I devote to thee an orison
This child swears she will live and die for thee
Now, claim this child's life
And make her eternally thine"
The magic circle began to glow with the same dark, peculiarly black warm light as last time, though it was several times brighter and kinder than back then. Since I didn't need to specify a master this time, the prayer was shorter and the ritual continues faster as the same light spread across the magic circle I was standing on, wrapping around me and providing me with a comfortable feeling of gentle warmth for what must have been at least ten seconds before gathering into a ball of darkness and floating over to Evyna, entering her chest, after which the light on the big circle did the same. And then, after a second or two-
I lost consciousness.
I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to ascertain my location. I was surrounded on all sides by a black void of sorts, and I was somehow still standing even though there was no floor.
"Ah, I see", I said, nodding to myself in self-satisfaction before calling out a name.
"Evyna!", I shouted, and on my shout, she appeared in front of me, looking around confusedly.
"Mis, mister Astaroth? Where, where is this?", she asked, a tremble in her voice as she looked up at me with eyes as if tears could spill out at any moment.
The sight was amusing, and I was tempted to bully her, but I controlled myself and answered: "This is a Godly Realm. In a sense, you could say we're inside Lady Entropy's mind. I imagine Richard and the Ice Queen went through a similar experience."
"G-G-G-Godly Realm?! You mean like the place Saints might get to go once or twice in their entire lives?! We're there right, right now?!"
"... That is correct", a flat voice sounded from the side. Looking in that direction, Lady Entropy's figure had appeared at some point, wearing her characteristic black dress and looking in Evyna's direction as she explained. "... This is my Godly Realm, and as Astaroth theorised, the cold queen and the perverted underling were in here, too."
"Then, this is?!", Evyna almost shouted out in a panicked voice, after which she immediately fell to her knees in a position of prayer while murmuring something about an apology and misconduct.
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Entropy's Servant
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