Arpious of the Planes

"Now tell me… how did you end up being my creation?" I ordered.

"THIS IS JUST MY GUESS, BUT IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU ARE BLESSED BY THE OVERLORD SPIRIT OF CURSES. DEMONS ARE BEINGS THAT UTILIZE CURSES WHICH CAN BECOME DEMONIC POWER, WHILE ANGELS USE BLESSINGS THAT BECOME ANGELIC POWER,"

Damn, his voice is so fucking loud. I have to turn off my heightened senses otherwise I have a chance of going deaf after every time he speaks.

"Is there a special place that demons and angels reside?" I ask.

"YES. THE DEMONS ALL RESIDE ON THE LOWEST PLANE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS INFERNUM. THE ANGELS ALL RESIDE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CAELUM,"

"Plane? What is a plane?"

"Y-YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A PLANE IS?"

I shook my head from side to side as I could see Paimon lift 2 of his arms to his forehead, letting out a long sigh.

"PLANES ARE WHAT LIVING BEINGS RESIDE ON. NORMALLY THERE ARE DIFFERENT PLANES OF TIME WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY PARALLEL UNIVERSES. YOU COULD BE DOING SOMETHING IN THE PRESENT BUT IN A DIFFERENT PARALLEL UNIVERSE, YOU COULD BE DOING SOMETHING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT… BUT THAT DOES NOT WORK HERE," Paimon explains.

"What do you mean?" I ask, intrigued by his explanation.

"THIS PLACE IS SPECIAL. IT WAS CREATED BY THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT OF PLANES WHICH MONITORS PARALLEL UNIVERSES. HE CREATED THIS PLACE AS AN EXPERIMENT WITH SOME OF THE OTHER HIGH RANKING SPIRITS.

HE HAD AN IDEA WHERE, WHAT IF HE COULD INSTEAD OF CREATING DIFFERENT PARALLEL UNIVERSES, WHY NOT STACK THEM ON TOP OF EACH OTHER LIKE THE LAYER TO A PLANET.

NORMAL PLANES WOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM EACH OTHER TO PREVENT INTERFERENCE BUT THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT OF PLANES WANTED TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

ONCE HE CREATED THEM, THERE WAS AN EXPECTED ACCIDENT THAT CAUSED INTEREFNCE BETWEEN THE PLANES. THROUGHOUT TIME, THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES ALTERED DRASTICALLY FROM THEIR ORIGINAL ROUTE CAUSING THEM TO BECOME ESSENTIALLY FLATTENED OUT PLANETS, HENCE THEIR NAME "PLANES". EVEN TILL NOW, THE SKY THAT YOU SEE IS FAKE, THE CLOUDS ARE FAKE, THE SUN IS FAKE," Paimon says.

"Then how did Infernum and Caelum come to be?"

"I DON'T KNOW MUCH OF THE DETAILS SINCE LUCIFER HID MUCH OF THE DEMONS PAST, BUT FROM THE INFORMATION THAT I'VE GATHERED… THERE WAS A DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PRIMODIRAL ANGELS AND DEMONS, CAUSING A FIGHT TO BREAK OUT. EVENTUALLY, THE ANGELS WON AND BANISHED THE DEMONS TO THE LOWEST PLANE, WHILE THE ANGELS TOOK THE TOP PLANE FOR THEMSELVES," Paimon explains.

"Why didn't they just kill you all off. Wouldn't it have been easier?"

"I-I DON'T KNOW WHY,"

"Alright, well that fine. This is massive information. So to sum it up, if I fly up high enough, I can reach another plane?" I ask.

"YES. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A MASSIVE HOLE THROUGH THIS PLANE, THEN YOU WILL REACH ANOTHER PLANE AND FALL FROM THEIR SKY," Paimon says.

"So it's kind of like a tower...? Can you go off the sides of the plane?"

"NO, YOU CAN NOT. YOU WILL JUST LOOP AROUND LIKE A PLANET BUT DON'T BE DECEIVED SINCE EVERY PLANE IS FLAT ON THIS… YES, TOWER-LIKE CREATION,"

"So then what about this system? Why was it created?" I ask.

"I DON'T KNOW THE REASON, BUT WHEN I WAS ALIVE, I HEARD A RUMOR ABOUT ONE OF THE OTHER SOVEREIGN SPIRITS, THEY WERE CALLED THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT OF SYSTEMS. THIS WAS JUST A RUMOR SO TRY NOT TO BELIEVE IT," Paimon says.

"How did you die? Betrayal? Angels?"

"I DON'T KNOW. WHEN I WOKE UP FROM HERE. PARTS OF MY MEMORY BECAME FUZZY BUT I SHOULD BE ABLE TO REGAIN THEM IN NO TIME," Paimon says.

"Then how do you know so much if your memory is still fuzzy?" I ask.

"YOU SURE ARE ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS… BUT SINCE YOU ARE A STRONG MASTER THEN I SHALL ANSWER THEM.

I AM ONE OF THE 10 KINGS OF HELL. I MAY NOT BE VERY EFFICIENT IN COMBAT BUT I USE MY BRAIN ALL THE TIME. I HAVE THE MOST INFORMATION ON EVERYTHING TO EXIST OUT OF ALL THE KINGS OF HELL.

LUCIFER WHO IS THE HIGHEST-RANKING DEMON, HAS SOME INFORMATION THAT I WISH TO OBTAIN. THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN THE REASON FOR MY DEATH, CURIOSITY ON THE INFORMATION SHE WITHHELD FROM THE KINGS. I PRETENDED TO BE THE MOST OBEDIENT SO I CAN TRY AND OBTAIN SOME OF THE INFORMATION BUT IT SEEMS I MIGHT'VE FAILED," Paimon says.

"You think you can fight with this form? I created you to fight, not give me lectures on this world… though the information about planes is useful," I say while releasing my arched halo.

"THIS FORM IS MUCH WEAKER THAN MY OLD ONE BUT, THE SIZE AND POTENTIAL ARE LIMITLESS. LET ME THANK YOU MASTER FOR THIS NEW CHANCE TO GROW," Paimon says while kneeling on one knee.

"Accepted…. do you know what plane this is?" I ask.

"SINCE THIS PLANE DOESN'T HAVE A HIGH AMOUNT OF DEMONIC OR ANGELIC POWER, I WOULD ASSUME THIS IS ONE OF THE MIDDLE PLANES," Paimond says while standing up.

"How many planes are there in total?"

"MY MEMORY IS FUZZY ABOUT THIS PART BUT IT SHOULD BE CLOSE TO 200 PLANES IN TOTAL. THE NUMBER OF PLANES HAVE NEVER CHANGED AND SHOULD NOT CHANGE ANYTIME SOON,"

"I see, so if we go up higher we might have access to more angelic power and if we go lower, we might have access to more demonic power," I say.

"YES,"

"One final question, I can't see any of the skills that my creations/assimilations use. Do you know a reason why? The reason I'm asking this, is that you were able to tell that I was blessed by the overlord spirit of curses, how come?"

"BOTH QUESTIONS ARE SIMPLE TO ANSWER. EVEN I HAD MY CREATIONS WHEN I WAS ALIVE.

I ASSUME YOU USED [Assimilation] ON SOMETHING TO CREATE ME. WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER WITH THE CREATORS IMAGINATION, THEY CAN CREATE A BODY THAT DOESN'T NEED SKILLS BUT INSTEAD USES INNATE SKILLS THAT ARE INGRAINED INTO THEIR BODIES, SUCH AS YOUR OTHER CREATION OVER THERE.

I ASSUME IT CAN MAKE WEAPONS AND LIMBS MADE FROM SLIME BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT. IT'S THE SAME WITH ME, A VERY SMALL SLIVER OF MY HELL FIRE CARRIED OVER TO THIS BODY, WHICH ALLOWS ME TO MANIPULATE THEM," says Paimon while playing with a green wisp in all 6 of his hands.

"Now… the second question?"

"AH YES, I MAY NOT HAVE [Inspect] IN THIS BODY, BUT I CAN SENSE THE CURSED ENERGY RADIATING FROM YOU. THOUGH I CAN ALSO SENSE SOME BLESSED ENERGY FROM YOU…"

"I'm [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Blessings] and [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Curses] at the same time,"

Paimons skeletal jaw almost drops to the floor.

"A-AS EXPECTED OF MY MASTER. ANYWAY, H-HOW DID YOU EXACTLY ACHIEVE THAT?" Paimon asks, clearly curious.

"Skill of mine, I'll tell you later since I want you to gather some more bones and slime chunks with my other creation,"

"AS YOU WISH," Paimon says while kneeling on one knee again.

I see the green fire in his eyes light up as I fly back to my kingdom.

"First I have to conquer this plane but I need to take my time, don't rush otherwise you will die Arpious… only then will we try and conquer other planes. It gets my blood pumping when I think of completely new worlds not only other planes but exploring the rest of this plane. It's going to be fun…"

…

At the bottom plane where demons reside, the kings of hell had come together for a meeting.

"Belial, did you feel that. It was very faint but Paimon has been revived, his hellfire still rages on but, he seems to be a servant,"

"HAHAHAHA! A KING OF HELL IS A SERVANT! ZAGAN, WE ALL KNOW THAT'S BULLSHIT!"

"Beleth, shut up for a second. Do we retrieve him or let him die? We might have been able to forgive him but Lucifer won't forgive him that easily,"

"I agree with Baal, Lucifer won't forgive him so easily and if we side with him, she might just kill us all. I think we should just let that wisdom-hungry demon die. His rants on different theories were so fucking annoying anyway,"

"Purson, can you find anything on his future or does it still not work on kings of hell?"

"Don't worry Vine, his power should've weakened greatly so let me see- ARGHHH FUCK!"

"WHAT! WHAT HAPPENED!?"

"HIS MASTER IS BLESSED BY THE OVERLORD SPIRIT OF BLESSINGS! I CAN'T GET A GOOD READ ON HIM DUE TO THE ANGELIC POWER BLOCKING IT… BUT WAIT! H-HIS MASTER IS ALSO BLESSED BY THE OVERLORD SPIRIT OF CURSES!"

"WHAT! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE! WE SHOULD REPORT TO LUCIFER QUICKLY! ASMODEUS, YOU HAVEN'T DONE SHIT! HOW ABOUT YOU REPORT IT!"

"THE FUCK YOU SAY TO ME!"

"Don't worry about it… his master is weak. Anybody here can probably swat her like a fly," says a woman's voice that instantly froze the kings.

"His master may be blessed by polar opposite spirits, but that's not the most important part. You guys may be too weak to see… but his master is blessed by…"