Total pages in book: 116
Estimated words: 111353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 111353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
Snap.
The alligator demon exploded into dust, leaving nothing but groans of disgust as his remains blew on his neighbors.
“Whoops.” Raven laughed, lowering her hand. “Guess that message didn’t get through.”
“Raven?” cried one of her red-covered wrath girls. “You’re with the witch on this one?”
“Of course—” Raven began.
“—we are,” Eris, Sauda, Kama, and Ursula finished.
“Did you miss the part about the power of a goddess?” Raven threw back. “Listen up, all you chickenshits, if you don’t want to take up this challenge, that’s fine by us, because the Sins are. We’re going to find the hallows, we’re going to make them cough up their fucking aigrettes and manhood, and we’re going to become not the princesses of sin, or the empresses of sin, but the goddesses of sin.
“And the best part...” Her smirk drifted across the room. “We won’t need a man or a marriage to do it.”
“So this is real?” the wrath girl asked. “This is really... real? And you’ll share this power with anyone who tracks down these hallows, even if it’s not them?” She pointed at the princesses.
“That’s right,” I confirmed. “I don’t care who gets the job done or how. The power goes to first place, and the protection goes to first species. Get used to this kind of self-service, people, because you’re looking at the new and eighth sin—” I locked eyes with Ronin. “Selfishness.”
“Why would you let her get away with that?” Wrath Girl turned on the Sins. “Why let her call herself one of you? Why let her give the power to anyone but you? Why let her offer it to the leeches, mutts, or fairies?!”
“How exactly are they going to stop me?” I barked, ripping a snarl out of her. “Me and my power are needed for the final ingredient that binds the hallows together and turns a being into the All Hallows. Since that’s the case, it’s you all that need to be on my good side. Not the other way around.”
Her eyes narrowed to slits. “Or, when Princess Raven finds the hallows and forces them to cough up whatever shit they’ve got, we all just hold you down and beat the shit out of you until you give her the final... ingredient...”
She trailed off, and I couldn’t blame her. My loud, raucous laughter was a bit of a blow to her confidence.
“See?” I cracked up. “This is why education is so important. That you really believe stealing a witch’s power is that easy, is proof that this propaganda factory they call an academy is a waste of everyone’s time.”
I cupped my mouth, blaring, “Demons can’t force a witch to use her power for their benefit, dumbass.” Her face darkened dangerously. “Our magic was granted to us by the goddess, and our goddess won’t stand for that magic to serve anyone else but her. If you even tried to force me to use my magic to make you a god, the one who is already a god will strike you down where you stand.”
“She’s right.”
All heads whipped around, landing on Nik.
The mouse demon shrunk a bit under their attention, but he didn’t back down. “Take it from someone who was raised by minor goddesses. My mothers will command the vines to rip an intruder in half to protect their trees, and they’re just trees. You can expect a goddess of witches to be even more ruthless in her divine retribution to stop demons from rising higher than she thinks they deserve.”
Nik nodded to me. “You’re going to want Charlie’s complete and willing cooperation on this one... and mine. Because I know who the hallows are, and I might just tell you”—Nik smirked—“for a price.”
“Give it up, rat!”
“No, tell me!”
“I’ve always liked you, man. When we were beating you up, I stopped kicking you first! Tell me who the hallows are.”
Just like that, everyone was running, crawling, and jumping over each other to get to Nik.
No one was asking if this was real anymore.
“Spread the news,” I crowed. “If demons want to rise up on the side of the witches and stand with us as the new rulers of the twin realms, you’ll need all able bodies searching for the hallows!”
“Yeah!”
“Fuck the empire of sin!” I shrieked, seeing Lucifer... and his impending towering rage... clear as if he stood before me. “Together we create the age of sin!”
“Age of sin! Age of sin! Age of sin!”
Grim and terrible satisfaction burned in my chest as they took up the chant, and I watched all of Lucifer’s plans crumble.
That dead-inside monster was counting on being able to control me to the end. He wanted to use my fear of remaining in hell for the rest of my mortal life. He wanted to use my fear of my sister remaining in hell for the rest of her afterlife. He wanted to use me period.