Chapter 582: Demon God?

“Asmodeus? Asmodeus!! Hey! Listen to me! Oi!”

Slap!

Yumiko’s delicate palm slapped Asmodeus across the face.

He looked stunned after snapping out of the daydream. The blow shattered the previous sense of clarity and calm in his mind—thoughts of Alex and Aria faded, and only the pretty woman with fluffy ears remained.

“Yumiko?” Asmodeus paused before suddenly lunging out and grabbing her face. His hands squeezed her soft cheeks as if testing whether she was real or not. “Yumiko…” The number of times he saw her dead… a tight feeling in his chest exploded the moment he awoke.

“Mmmph!?”

He closed her lips with a sudden kiss, the softness spreading as his tongue pushed into her warm, slippery mouth. A sweet taste filled his mouth as their tongues entangled with each other, flicking and coiling while mixing spit.

Suddenly, a faint whisper, almost nostalgic, sounded in his head.

[You Have Absorbed An Ownerless Core of Divinity]

[Gained 100 Levels]

Asmodeus gripped Yumiko’s back the moment the announcement sounded; he long forgot about the System due to Serena’s fading divinity. He couldn’t see the System easily and needed to visit a priest or guild, like the other people in this world.

Although he could see others, it was not easy for him to see himself.

Yet… the moment that voice sounded.

A sharp pain jolted through his mind, like a dagger sinking into the soft flesh of his brain and grey matter. A loud static noise filled his ears as memories flooded through him. All his previous lives flashed before his eyes.

Pain…

Fear…

Desire…

Sin…

And most importantly…

In his last life, the one where he became a demon lord and met Yumiko, but failed to save her, all those scenes — his sins and errors — flashed through his mind.

Something grew from his forehead, black… and filled with pure energy, something beyond mana that rippled through his body like an earthquake.

Yet, Asmodeus noticed a sense of distance in his emotions. He no longer felt the intense agony in his chest… but the pain from his head hurt more.

“Ugh…”

Their kiss ended as Asmodeus pulled away and held his forehead as he grunted.

“Darling?”

Yumiko’s voice of concern echoed, growing louder like a bell chiming in the church tower, “It’s loud…” He staggered back and fell against Levia’s chest, her cold armour soothing as his skin sizzled, steam rising from the heat suddenly cooling.

“What’s going on, you’re burning up!?”

Leviathan felt a wave of panic and concern well up from deep within… something felt off.

She knew Asmodeus could usually shrug off most attacks or ailments that would have killed anyone else; however, now he was collapsing under his own power.

“N-Nothing… i’ll be okay. I promise…” His hand turned bright red as it touched her armour, the heat enough to melt her exoskeleton, sinking into her flesh, gripping her breasts. The soft tissue quivered from his burning fingertips and palm.

“I can feel that is not the case!” A low groan rumbled from deep within her throat. She could endure the immense rise in temperature from where he touched her chest, his skin burning hot. Yet… the feeling wasn’t painful but… pleasant as she sank her teeth into her lips, a sensual moan leaked from her lips.

“…” Yumiko watched the pharce with a stern glare. “What are you doing?”

“Tch, don’t interrupt!” Levia scolded Yumiko, while Asmodeus gripped her flesh with more force, the soft nub hardening against his hot palm, a strange energy flowing into Levia’s body.

[Shared your Divine Aura]

[Leviathan gained 50 Levels]

“Nn!?”

Leviathan moaned, her eyes snapped open as she shuddered, a jolt of electricity spread from the palm caressing her breasts. His touch was so hot it melted her armour and left a hot, red handprint on her breasts.

Her nipples ached and stung with pain as they stood erect.

The tips pointed up due to how cold and sensitive they felt after losing her armour and touching the cool cavern air as Asmodeus pulled away.

At the same time, the horn on his head shrank slightly, and the energy tearing apart his insides became less violent and cooled down a little.

“Haah, haah, that was unexpected… I almost came from him gripping me…” Levia covered her chest, rubbing the swollen tips that were throbbing from the heat and tingling with electricity.

Levia’s aura became stronger…

Then what about Yumiko? I kissed her, so why didn’t she grow stronger?

His first wife…

And the woman he had failed to save…

The same woman who became his Empress in a different reality… Her head lowered and nuzzled her nose into his hair, inhaling deeply. “You fool…”

That’s when he could sense something different about her… the centre of her forehead glowed with a dark light, as if she had stuck a crystal to her forehead. But the power that emanated from it was familiar.

Death energy…

Mephisto’s?

His heart almost stopped in his chest.

This…

However, it wasn’t the same—a pretty black crystal formed in the shape of a flower, and suddenly the heat inside him started to fade, becoming comfortable…

[Shrine Priestess has absorbed excess divinity]

[Yumiko gained 55 Levels]

Each moment they remained close, Asmodeus could feel a tight throb, as if something was crushing his heart, forcing something to pump out and flow through his veins into Yumiko’s forehead… the flower bloomed more and more.

Then she pulled away with a groan. Sweat poured down her body as she pulled away, panting softly while her tail and ears twitched. But what shocked Asmodeus was her hair and eyes; everything had changed.

“I cannot handle any more divinity…” A smile formed on her face, her skin flushed, and her chest rose and fell with her breathing. “That was enough…”

Asmodeus struggled to breathe while his vision shifted to Velvet… who watched them all with confusion as she pointed to Yumiko. “You look so strange!”

Yumiko blushed a little before bowing.

Her hair became black, fluffy and graceful, almost like pure obsidian.

“Velvet, come here… you’re the only one left!” Asmodeus hummed with a bloody nose.

The massive black horn in the centre of his head throbbed. Its size was far too big for a normal demon… longer than 50cm and more than 30cm thick. But with each woman, it diminished, and the volatile energy subsided.

She glanced around hesitantly before slowly creeping forward until she stood right before him, her eyes wide open as she stared at him intently.

“Dear, can you kiss me and hold me tightly…?” Velvet sounded more vulnerable than usual… but after the illusion, all of them seemed to have changed slightly.

Whatever they saw left an impact… and so, Asmodeus reached out and stroked her hair.

“It’s okay…” he whispered.

He couldn’t know what she saw, but if it were anything close to his, the illusion threw all doubts and regrets at the person all at once. But Velvet rarely showed her emotional suffering or weakness, and that’s why he worried about her most…

“Velvet.” Asmodeus slowly leaned closer, ignoring the heat and pain to comfort his wife.

“Asmdoeus…” She stepped on her tiptoes to meet him.

It felt awkward, something between friends that had never kissed before, and both were too nervous to take the next step. Eventually, Velvet inched towards him and placed her lips onto his gently.

Then she pulled away, leaving behind a warm sensation lingering on his lips; however, Velvet suddenly became aggressive… Their lips mashed together, squished and wet, his hands ran through her violet hair, grabbing it tight. A sweet and slightly tart taste filled his tongue.

The heat inside him slowly calmed, his body trembling as the energy poured into the woman he loved, her muscles tensed, as she quivered in his arms, gasping into his mouth.

Their tongues twirled and entangled, saliva flowed together and down her chin.

[Demon Queen has absorbed excess divinity]

[Velvet gained 50 Levels]

“How?” Her tongue slowly retraced, curling inside her lips with a wet pop and slurping noise. Velvet wiped the line of spittle from her chin, “I can feel this strength, like fire in my veins!”

Asmodeus laughed awkwardly.

The horn on his head now stabilised, thick and curved, but like a carved black gemstone with golden veins glowing inside the core.

His eyes trailed along the faces of his women.

A new presence that didn’t belong to them hovered nearby, but he couldn’t identify it yet, since the aura didn’t feel human, demon, or even from this world.

It’s not death… this is not the same aura, and neither is it darkness.

Suddenly, a soft chuckle filled the air, followed by a calm voice echoing in his ear. “I can tell you one thing.”

“Hah?” Asmodeus paused and looked at Yumiko, whose petal now bloomed into a beautiful shape of black crystal like his horn. She looked like an ethereal and beautiful goddess.

In that moment, as his breath escaped him.

“The divinity we absorbed was yours… You must have stolen a part of Mephisto’s divinity, at least enough to gain a new power.”

Yumiko’s eyes remained half-closed as she licked her lips.

“I seem to have absorbed the shard~ hehe, so if your power goes berserk… I think we might need to do more than just a kiss, honey~” Yumiko swayed her hips as she slipped between his arms and whispered into his long ear.

“What do you think about having a second child?”

The Shard of Divinity is from the Apostle they defeated earlier.

When she fled, the divine shard that Mephisto had granted her remained in the cave and used her soul to create the dungeon.

Because Mephisto lost his divinity upon death, this dungeon core absorbed a large portion of his Divine power before it could return to the nether and transformed into a Divine Core.

Thanks to this, the black Divine core became ownerless when they cleared the dungeon.