The Burning Fiend

Within the Yulan Empire Palace, a new lavish one as the previous one was destroyed a couple of centuries ago, a brown haired youth sat comfortably on a chair as he was drinking wine. This youth was Oerph the only God within the Yulan Empire, having under his control 5 Demigods and nearly a hundred prime saints.

The last hundred years he had lived in a conservative way, avoiding expanding his empire, as he believed that Adkins was killed by Beirut and even more disturbing was that Bluefire had also managed to escape the Gebados Planar Prison. He was thankful that the old monster had decided to create his own continent instead of ruling over the existent ones, and he felt apprehension now that he realized that the original deities of the Yulan Continent were, to some degree, under Beirut protection.

"Two Highgods died in the past two centuries, Beirut and Bluefire are ruthless... hopefully I would not be attacked for having taking over this Yulan Empire." He muttered with a little distress as he enjoyed the fragrance of wine. But his pleasant moment was disturbed when a voice shock the entire Yulan Empire.

"Demon Oerph, the usurper! Come out and met your death by the name of the High Priest!" The cold voice was indifferent and the people within the Yulan Empire perked their ears while some had tears on their eyes, even with the repression of the old religion there were many people who still believed on the High Priest and prayed for her return.

Oerph was angry and understood that this person was making him into a demon in order to reestablish the High Priest religion and take it to another level while using him as the personification of sin. He was so angry that he did not react in time to stop the 5 Demigods that floated on the air over the Royal Palace with angry condemnations. "Disrespectful fool you will die today and those women with pay for your actions." The l.u.s.t was clear within the voice of the man who had just spoke but before Oerph could even say anything, Reynolds released a simple mind attack based on the law of 'Heat', he simply directed his spiritual power in the form of radiation along with the traits of 'illusion' and 'soul erosion'.

The 5 Demigods screamed in agony and fell from the sky dying as flames burnt their corpses, the middle level mystery 'Heat' accompanied by 'illusion' and 'soul erosion' was simply deadly to a Demigod without soul defense artifacts. Reynolds voice shook the whole Yulan Empire again as he said. "Oerph your five demonic minions are dead, it is your turn to accept divine punishment".

By this time Beirut along with his two sons were looking the show with amus.e.m.e.nt while Wharton was feeling shaken by the power Reynolds was showing. The remaining Demigods, part of Adkins entourage, that were still living within the O'Brien Empire fled towards the Planar Overseer hoping to leave the Yulan Continent before they met the same fate.

Oerph was livid, and he floated out of the Royal Palace realizing that he was in disadvantage as there was another God and two Demigods behind the challenger. After thousands of years surviving within the Gebados Planar Prison he knew when to retreat and his only choice now was to look for refuge under Lord Bluefire or escape the Yulan Plane. Without even a word he turned to escape but was restricted by Reynolds's Godrealm that was slightly superior to his making Oerph scared thinking in his panic that this demonic purple robed man was a Highgod.

Reynolds turned into a dark purple Ba-Serpent using the fusion of the three laws and space trembled with every breath the snake took. It took only a few seconds to reach the screaming Oerph that was covering his body under a dark curtain and wielded a sword trying to defend himself but the mouth of the serpent soon closed over him taking him to a purple inferno were his soul was in greater pain that his burning body.

Soon the dark curtain that he had used to protect his body was burnt into nothingness and Oerph turned into ashes, he did not have another divine avatar and his saint body never stood a change. Reynolds recovered his human form as a sword, a divine spark that shined with dark aura and an interspatial ring floated in front of him. His voice resounded within the Yulan Empire entering the mind of every sentient living being.

"The demon Oerph and his minions are now dead in punishment for usurping the place of the High Priest. Remember that she is under my protection and she must not be challenged!" Many people were on their knees praying and thanking the heavens for the return of the High Priest and his companion while most of the people were heartbroken as they found that their God was nothing but a lying demon that had just being slayed by the true deities.

Beirut and his two sons were laughing in the distance while Wharton's forehead was covered in sweat and thanked the heavens that his elder brother had asked that demon to protect his family. Catherine was blushing under her mask cursing Reynolds for his choice of words thinking that the people of the Yulan Empire will start thinking of her as his woman. She was muttering things like "liar", "treacherous womanizer" and "this was not part of the agreement", making Koral and the other girls to laugh at her distress.

Reynolds came back to them and escorted them to the Royal Palace where Catherine would take over the situation and start her work in reestablishing the religion with the few agreed modifications while Reynolds and the girls took residence within the Palace where they expected to live for the next 5 to 10 years.

Reynolds did not pay attention to the fleeing prime saints that were part of Oerph entourage as his part of the agreement was already completed and for the first time he started to feel the faith energy that seemed like a golden mist surrounding his soul. The show of power he had just made implanted a powerful image on the inhabitants of the empire, but he found that the effect of the faith energy in helping to ponder the laws was minimum to nonexistent and realized why the Sovereigns had made the magic spells as a prayer... 'If all the mages within every lower level plane used the spells the amount of faith energy might be of some use on pondering the laws and even fusing them, but it will require billions of years of acc.u.mulation to have a minimum effect'. He thought in disappointment but shook his head thinking that a little help was better than nothing.

"Master how did you kill the Demigods?" Koral's voice was confused as she could not understand what he had done, Reynolds smiled and patted his leg indicating her to sit on his l.a.p. She did not even blush and kept looking at him with expectant eyes making him chuckle. "I applied the law of 'Heat' to my spiritual energy creating a soul attack that transmitted heat directly to their souls burning them to death". His voice was calm as he explained while starting to free her from her dark red warrior outfit, she seemed oblivious of his actions as her face was full of confusion as she had not gained entrance to the law of 'Heat'.

She suddenly yelped as Reynolds started playing with her full b.r.e.a.s.t waking her from her thoughts. "Bad Master!" She managed to said before her lips were sealed by his...

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A few months after Oerph's dead, a group of dignitaries of the O'Brien empire arrived to start negotiations and hoped to gain the protection of the High Priest and her 'husband' establishing the new religion on the O'Brien Empire. They had suffered under Adkins and his entourage for two hundred years and they missed the times were the War God had protected them, but they also knew that the War God was no longer within the Yulan Continent. The rumors said that he was killed by the demons hundreds of years ago and that the demons had fled when the divine Fire Serpent, that had taken the High Priest under his protection, had killed the demons within the Yulan Empire.

Catherine was angry and frustrated as no matter what she said or did, the rumors of her being one of the beautiful women serving the 'divine Fire Serpent' kept growing every day and how she had sacrificed herself for their sake, turning into some sort of martyr goddess enslaved by a powerful fire snake divinity in exchange for the freedom on her people. She looked with grievances and dissatisfaction towards the unconcerned Reynolds that only chuckled at her misfortunes. Without been able to do anything, Catherine was forced to sigh in resignation muttering. "... we will leave this forsaken lower level plane in a few years anyway".

Time passed quickly and soon the number of deities within the Yulan Plane was reduced as only Bluefire and his two brothers remained from the ones who had escaped the Gebados Planar Prison. A few other Demigods that had reached the realm within the past 200 years remained as they did not start conflicts and the other deities ignored them. After 10 years Reynolds, his four wives and the still annoyed Catherine returned to the island within the Forest of Darkness as it was no longer needed for Catherine to manage the religion.

It was no long before both George and Yale came to visit and ask for advice in training, Reynolds was happy to help them, but he can only do as with the girls and show them the use of the laws of fire hoping they could get insights. Rosarie also performed a few examples of the use of 'Ice' and 'Water Elemental Essence' that she was close to master but had not being able to find a point of fusion. Reynolds had tried to comfort her by saying that perhaps the point of fusion was on the part of the law that she had not mastered yet and that in time she would be able to find it.

"Eldest Brother, Second Brother pay attention. I think that the Elemental Laws have similarities and you can take that as a base... at least you will find an 'Elemental Essence' and an 'Elemental Body' based on fire, water, wind and earth... you can start from there. Windsor had already made good progress on the 'Earth Elemental Essence' and even had a few insights on something similar to an 'Earth Elemental Body' so lightning should have something similar and from Rosarie and Jenne we know that water indeed has the corresponding laws. Everything else depends on your own efforts and luck I guess".

Reynolds expressed concern for his two brothers and pride over his wives as he talked to them making George chuckle as he remembered the youth who had slaved Windsor for fun and p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e, and Yale now was so focused on becoming stronger that he seemed to have forgotten his womanizer nature... at least for a while. 'Well I guess it is better than the monk persona that Third Brother turned into... I should thank the heavens that Delia did manage to tame him'. George sighed and returned to ponder the Water Elemental Laws.