Entropy's Servant

Chapter 17 - Some time ago

This is a story of some time ago, before Astaroth established the country of demons and the five Demon Generals.

Long before Luciel started summoning Heroes, the world was split into three- the demonic realm, known as 'Gehenna', the mortal realm, known as 'Atlas', and the heavenly realm, known as 'Akasha'.

In Akasha lived the goddesses of the world, looking over it and occasionally interfering, being revered by mortals and granting them their power. Even back then, there was a distinction between 'worshippers' and 'cultists'- but that's something for another time.

In Atlas lived most creatures, such as humans, elves, dwarves, beast-people, cows, horses, wolves, goblins, orcs, vampires, slimes, dragons, etcetera etcetera. There were often wars between different races of people, between the same races, between people and monsters, between monsters and monsters, but just as often, there was peace between these groups- in a sense, it could be said people and monsters were roughly equal.

In Gehenna lived only monsters, and even then only certain monsters could live there. Devils lived there, fiends lived there, hellhounds lived there, etcetera etcetera. Oftentimes, these monsters lived in tribes.

One such tribe was the Bral'goch tribe.

A part of this tribe was a young girl. Her name was Lilith.

Lilith's father, whose name is unimportant for this story, was the tribe's shaman, and he deeply loved his wife.

As he was the shaman, Lilith was next in line for the position, and from a young age, she was taught magic and rituals. This lead to her acquiring various spells from the [Hell Magic] and [Devil Shamanism] skills, on top of the spells from [Devil Magic] and [Darkness Magic] she would've learned naturally.

Lilith was an only child, but she always felt it would've been nice to... not be an only child, much like someone with a stab wound might feel it'd be nice not to have that wound.

Her father, to her, was a reliable person, and a teacher, but he had always been lacking in the interpersonal department, so he was terrible at getting his point across and winning arguments, and Lilith recognised these issues at a very young age.

Lilith's mother was absent for much of Lilith's life, since she was a huntress, but still, Lilith loved her dearly. When she was around, she showed an incredible kindness to Lilith and her father, though she was never all that lady-like.

Due to this unbalanced upbringing, Lilith never truly learned manners, and even in the present day, it shows.

Also due to this unbalanced upbringing, Lilith started wishing she had a person who would teach her these manners, who would reproach her when she did things wrong and praise her when she did things right. She wished for a person to quarrel with over nothing, and then later laugh it off like the nothing it was.

In her early youth, there was a human man who would occasionally come visit, with eyes black as ebony. He wielded powerful magic, and as a young child, Lilith looked up to this man, but he would always talk to the chief about things Lilith didn't understand. He was fond of children, so he played with her every time he visited, and it was from him Lilith learned of Entropy and her faith.

One day, he suddenly stopped coming.

Despite these wishes and the man's sudden disappearance, it could not be said Lilith was unhappy, and eventually, as her father grew older, she succeeded him as the Bral'goch tribe's shaman.

She was the tribe's shaman for a while, and she was quite good at it, to the point the chief praised her for it.

This is the story of one such day, some time after Luciel started summoning Heroes from another world.