In a part of the supernatural world between demonic dimensions and between worlds.
During that time, in the two weeks prior, while Tsuki was being escorted in some investigations, and later, when he was taken to his mansion, he was there in that cave.
They sat down, and Tsuki Miki realized she was watching a screen displaying information that was easy to construct, but that having small holes didn't matter.
"I was included in this bet," Tsuki Miki said. "And now?" he asked.
"You know we have a story to tell," said Mammon.
"We've been making bets for ages," he said. "And we're going to tell you what they are," Mammon said.
There, countless ancient stories existed among the most ancient beings, the demons and the gods, ancient entities.
As far as they knew, there was a deity who was a high gambler.
They knew he was a mediator and witness to great wagers, and that it concerned a long-forgotten deity.
This deity, who exiled herself from these worlds to other unknown worlds, was, according to ancient stories, the greatest gambler, but her betting wheel was set up in an ancient castle atop the waters and mirrors of different dimensions.
From time to time, during major upheavals and events, she would send invitations between each of the demon kingdoms. Those who accepted the invitations were to go to the mythical waters located between the borders, and they had to adhere to the rules...
Yes, there were rules, but they were established by the mirrors that had been in charge for a long time, an agreement between the red mists and the mirror; there was a rule that could not be broken.
Eras that did not see their hostess, who granted the bets from time to time.
She was famous for showing each of the mirrors that displayed possible futures and worlds for each solution; among these worlds, they chose an avatar or mediator, who would be their judge or magistrate.
The exact reasons for her self-imposed exile were that she was the guardian of the back door of the spiritual world, so to speak, but even that didn't stop the bets among the elders; demons were her greatest gambling partners.
There lay the biggest gamble since ancient times.
Obviously, Gotham City and Golden Valley were the den of gambling for demons, who amused themselves at the expense of other humans, in addition to Metropolis and Lovecraft County.
There, in the view of Trigon, Lucifer , Mammon, Michael, Raphael, Azazel, Neron, Spectro Nekron, and Phantom Stranger, who were seated in what appeared to be a circular room amidst mist, white marble, pillars, and white wells, there was a white puddle in the center of that table with a reflection of a person, surrounded by several mirrors.
"They are gathered here because they accepted my invitation," said the crystalline voice amidst a river of numerous streams and waterfalls surrounding what appeared to be a world of mist.
"So, what's the bet?" he asked.
First, let's stick to the rules...
I will choose a mediator, who will be my representative, and you will compel him to follow the established rules.
He will be a mortal man who has lost everything and is only months or years away from death; he must be a warrior, the strongest among mortals, and cannot possess any powers.
"Let's choose two or more cities, we'll send our avatars, and we'll choose a representative who will act on behalf of each of us," said the voice.
In my case, I choose the human, who has lost everything and, because of that, has lost faith in humanity, the one who fought for it for a long time and will lose his life because of it.
"I will use it, and you will use it," Tsuki said.
"The rule is to induce him to bet," he said. "Summon him to a neutral place and make him follow the rules," another said.
"And if he wins and prevents what we've done, the souls of all of them will be mine, and I will choose him as mine," one of them said.
- You can choose whoever you want and influence everyone there, you can use your tricks, but she can't use mine, only her own resources without powers.
You will bet me the following, according to the rules...
One or more blessed souls, being pure and without sin, within a final period of seven consecutive days, without rest, they may kill one or more blessed souls.
Being so, they will be free from any fear and sin, and being pure, without being induced to practice, acting of their own free will. – He said. – Purely by their own free will and initiative.
The man in question is not expected to know the exact details of his winnings from the bet.
"If sinners kill the innocent, it won't be worth it," he said. "Because sinners will always kill, since they sin."
A sinner can influence an innocent person to kill, he said. And he will gain a share of that innocent person's desires.
"Both will be taken to their kingdoms, both the person who was sacrificed and those who sacrificed them," he said.
"Why would a blessed soul commit sin?" Lucifer questioned .
"For the greatest and oldest of sins," said the voice.
"Greed, pride, avarice, gluttony, and arrogance, besides lying," said the voice.
Greed will be used. – We will give them wealth equivalent to the world's greed. – He said. – If they win.
"And what would that be?" Mammon asked .
"The most righteous of men would do anything for money," said Trigon.
"The riches," said the voice. "I will give an amount equivalent to the greed of the four richest European countries combined."
- An amount that would make him a multimillionaire and not make him any poorer.
"Give it some value..." her hostess said.
Everyone there thought about it and started calling out until...
"How about..." Trigon began, "...This would be my contribution." The red demon said, "...$550 billion in solid gold."
"330 billion euros," said Lucifer .
"700 billion dollars," said Azazel.
"The gift of abundance and prosperity," said Mammon.
"Eternally a millionaire," said Neron.
"Good luck," said Gabriel.
"A vacation package to travel anywhere in the multiverse for a year, round trip," said the Presence. "Without anyone or any danger finding you."
"Eternal youth," said Phantom Stranger. "For as long as you need."
"So that he lacks nothing," Rafael said. "He lacks neither drink nor food," he added.
"So, if he loses, no version of him from the multiverse will exist in this lifetime; he will be taken to me and will cease to exist completely," said the entity.
If he fails to prevent death from occurring through these means, he will be taken away and will no longer be able to reincarnate or return to any reality, any reality in which he lives, his soul from each
If, within seven days, the chosen cities succumb to the deepest sins and kill all the inhabitants of those cities during that period, they will be condemned to hell, each one of you.
Then they will be taken to hell and divided equally. – Said the entity.
"Which cities will be chosen?" they asked.
- Gotham, Metropolis, Central, Keystone, Gateway City, Coast City, Keystone City, Star City and lastly Fawcett City.
Current situation, after two weeks.
"So," said Tsuki Miki. "Besides, I won a bet."
"A trip," said Tsuki Miki.
"Do you want the money?" Phantom Stranger asked.
Tsuki Miki glared angrily.
"Of course, I want to," he said.
"I'm going to take my sabbatical year," said Tsuki Miki.
Before him in the cave, mountains of gold, money, and many other things appeared...
A long time ago
One era in a distant kingdom of another ancient mystical dimension, long torn apart by wars, was, for some, devastated by nature, and worshipped in those past eras in a distant kingdom of another mystical dimension.
Knowing that in their shattered and embittered ancestors of a vast plain devastated by destruction and a battlefield of the gods of ancient Ragnarok,
Among these battlefields lies a crimson silhouette of a slender and powerful cosmic entity, long since scorned by barbarians in ages past in a distant realm of another mystical dimension that fell into monstrous wars.
Whose name was this? In ages past, in a distant kingdom of another mystical dimension, Astron was lost due to successive wars and progressive devastation; there was no time to save many peoples, it was mostly total.
As for the few who remained, they belonged to an ancient religion; they worshipped the primate goddess, gradually regressing as they prayed daily to ancient, millennia-old gods.
Those were forgotten times and long wars of eternal proportions.
While wars raged in distant times, across a vast and ancient constellation, on ancient worlds when they still existed.
They were the ones who ruled the existing solar systems in their dark and foul-smelling civilization, destroyed amidst the chaos.
In the bygone eras of Zaraniun, when they were just crawling babies amidst the birth of their pre-industrial civilization.
Centuries before the fall of the ancient gods, there was a civilization, but it was much older. This civilization worshipped ancient and righteous gods who received rewards for being worshipped.
The ancient scientists of this world were nothing more than priests lost in desolation, thus swearing amidst ancient prayers invoking ancient names that rivalled their beliefs.
Even during what happened, before their own destruction and cataclysm, minutes before the actual collapse amidst the light that appeared amidst a torrent of lava that rose, and when they were isolated underground.
While the skeletal remains of life strewn across the barren surface of a white dwarf planet, decaying bodies—remnants of life from countless past eras in a distant realm of another mystical dimension—were spurred on by prayer and despair among most of the adults.
What happened, in the final moments of life, at that exact moment, was the regret of those who renounced their beliefs and the end of a life, and of their gods, they in this moment of destruction.
What happened was that they were in moments of time when everything changed in the impending catastrophe, moments and remnants of civilization destroyed seconds before their imminent deaths, and lava covered their bodies from the implosion of the solar system and what remained of it...
As all of this changed, death lurked, and in the final seconds before destruction, the shattered layers and ascending flames revealed those rocky remnants, fragments of asteroids and constellations.
It was during their investigations that they found themselves in those following seconds amidst the destruction, when everyone had lost hope, the cosmos extinguishing rocks and comets and asteroids approaching the destroyed orbit, a whirlwind of destruction enveloped in flames and lava lights.
All of this was what remained of frozen seas breaking and rising, evaporating with the lava that rose to the center of the earth moments before, bodies evaporating and self-destructing along with the center of gravity that collapsed, the stars disappearing and with lights in this solar system.
What was becoming something different, when the white dwarf that was once a sun and now the black hole that was sucking in the nearest stars, and sucking in like never before, was a star and rising clouds of poisonous gas.
When they were in these cosmic substances and at that time when the children were engulfed by the flames and their past eras, in a distant realm of another mystical dimension, everything embraced was destroyed.
In the imminent seconds of their deaths and the flames consuming everything around them, spreading along with the destruction when... when seconds before, when everything was about to end...
There were tears on the faces of the children engulfed in flames of lava and destruction when, in an instant, with their imminent death, everything stopped and a deafening, shrill sound of breaking glass was heard...
All those who turned around even surrounded each other with tears in their expressions of pain, and saw themselves enveloped in a rounded barrier by their companions around them...
Above their heads, like flames, long red hair shone with an incandescent light, and their legs were long, strong, and their thighs thick.
Her naked silhouette, with only a ribbon of fabric, a veil covering her arms and slender body—long arms and rounded breasts, her eyes equally red.
With her eyes fixed on the surface and her hands raised, she pointed forward, and the energy capsules were teleported and thus turned around.