Chapter 244: Symbiote 0244: Elder Demons (2/2)

Symbiote 0244: Elder Demons (2/2)

Alex couldn’t see the Cthulhu’s eyes, but its bulbous head was turned in his and Wanda’s direction, only identified by the tentacle mouth turning toward them. It looked at them quietly, the same way as the Shoggoth demon.

“Do you think that these guys are the real deal?” Wanda asked. “Piedro used to scare me by vividly describing these horror creatures …” Alex wrapped his arm around Wanda, pulling her close as she continued speaking, “Do you think they are the actual source of the stories? Like Thor and Asgard’s mythos.”

“Possibly,” Alex said, hugging Wanda and combing her hair with his fingers. “These guys could very well be the source of that mythos. Their powerset certainly allows them to be considered cosmic horrors with unfathomable abilities that a mortal can’t possibly comprehend. As for them being creatures outside the universe itself, the dimensions are technically outside the main material plane.”

“What does that mean?” Wanda asked. At this point, the duo had decided to ignore the waiting elder demons completely. They would only divert their attention once all ten demons showed up.

“Think of the main material plane as a sheet of graph paper with a grid all over it. That grid represents the space-time of our existence. Now the alternate dimensions like The Chaos Dimension, Mirror Dimension, and even the Klyntar Dimension where the Symbiote Hive Mind exists; all of these dimensions run parallel to the main material plane. Imagine a huge stack of sheets that are all completely separate from each other.”

“I see …”

“Now, it is not as simple as I made it out to be. Then again, I don’t truly understand a lot of it either. For example, the Klyntar Dimension where neither time nor space exist. I don’t think it can have a similar representation as the main material plane which comprises an intersection of space and time —“

“I got it,” Wanda put her hand on his mouth. “I was just asking because I was curious. I’m not Stark who would try to dissect the intricacies behind each of these dimensions and their connections.”

As Wanda spoke, the fourth demon finally appeared. It was a humanoid creature with bat-like wings and talons instead of hands and feet. As for its head, it was similar in shape to a human, but there were no features on its face. It didn’t have a mouth, nose, or even eyes. It had a completely featureless head with two horns sticking out of the top.

“He’s like the ones that we fought in that bat people horde,” Wanda stated, feeling distaste. Those bat-like creatures were particularly annoying to her since they kept slipping into and out of subspace, constantly dodging her attacks. The only way she was able to kill them was to capture them with a concentrated telekinetic burst. They slipped into and out of subspace so quickly that it rendered most of her large-scale attacks useless since they would just dodge the encroaching waves.

“Yeah,” Alex was of a similar mind, having been forced to focus on defending Wanda against the constant barrage of those creatures instead of being able to attack them. It left Wanda to take care of all of them while he defended her. Despite coming out of the battle completely unscathed, the duo were both annoyed and tired after fighting against them.

“Whatever …” Wanda ignored them and continued flirting with Alex, who happily reciprocated with her affection.

The next two demons arrived together as two cracks formed above two of the platforms, allowing the two demons to emerge from it. One of them was a malformed amalgamation of fleshy tentacles that constantly moved in a circular pattern all over its large worm-like body, ending in a huge mouth at the top. It rested on the platform, its constantly open mouth had multiple rows of teeth that were constantly rotating in alternating directions.

Glancing at the other demon, Wanda couldn’t help but comment, “A lot of tentacles, no? Three of these six are large tentacle monsters … Four if you count that slimy Shoggoth guy.”

“This worm is Azathoth, I think. As for this one, it’s the Dunwich Horror, less commonly called Yog Whateley if I recall correctly,” Alex said after examining the sixth demon. This one was a horrifying face with two glowing red orbs in the place of eyes and a frowning mouth that was open with three tentacle tongues sticking through the spiky teeth. Instead of hair, and the rest of its body, in fact, it was comprised of scaly tentacles that ended in toothy mouths, all opening and closing at random intervals of time.

“I don’t think I can look at you the same way after today, Alex …” Wanda’s words contrasted her actions as she stuck closer to him, hugging him tightly while maintaining a playful expression. He could tell, however, that she was creeped out of her mind right now. These horrors that had come straight out of Lovecraft’s Mythos were taking their toll on Wanda with their mere presence.

“Shh …” Alex said. “I’ll renew your appreciation toward tentacles in a couple of decades. Once you’re either completely used to the presence of these demons or they are completely out of your mind and thoughts.”

Wanda shivered in Alex’s arms, “I don’t even want to imagine it right now, Alex …” She mumbled. “You ever go instantly limp no matter how horny you are? For any reason. That’s exactly how I feel right now.”

Alex was going to joke about Wanda being desperately begging for cock merely minutes ago but decided not to. He didn’t think that his words would land the way he wanted them to. They would probably stress Wanda out further.

Soon enough, three cracks opened, from them emerging three more demons on their respective platforms, leaving only the final demon.

The first of the three was a pair of white masks that had red tones on them like make-up. One mask showed a frown while the other showed a happy expression with crescent eyes. The masks aligned themselves opposingly with some kind of fleshy mass that connected them like a two-faced head.

The second was a snake-like skeletal creature with a singular long spine that had four pairs of clawed legs. It had two identical dog-like maws on both ends, both of which opened to reveal a long red tongue dripping with some kind of red acid. Both heads turned in Wanda’s direction as their skeletal body, reminiscent of a human spine, coiled and rested on the floating platform.

The third emerged demon was a huge human-sized bug with two paper-like wings on its back that glowed red and a thin body with arthropod limbs like that of a mosquito. The most eerie part, however, was the head that was glowing red. It had a rhomboidal, featureless, head with a mane of hundreds of black antennae with red tips extending out of the featureless head. It also turned to Wanda, its antennae constantly twitching as if reacting to something.

Minutes passed as the final, tenth demon also arrived. This was the only one who didn’t come by through a crack in the fabric of the dimension and instead landed on the platform from the top. It seemed that it had been flying high up for a while and only now decided to land on the platform. Unlike the other demons that seemed to have come straight out of horror fiction, this demon was essentially a human with merely two horns protruding out of its head.

“Greetings, prospective lord,” It said without any deference and even a hint of challenge in its tone. “Bael, the first demon alongside the nine elder demons invites you to the platform of challenge so that we can test whether you are truly our lord or another imposter like the ones who arrived previously.”

For some reason, Wanda felt an innate sense of fury when the demon looked at her and spoke those words. The provocative tone and disrespect made her feel like instead of the lord of the dimension or even an invader — which she actually was, her entire purpose in coming here was to play along with the whims of these demons and let them use her as their amusement.

She was instead being treated as some kind of show for these demons and she didn’t like it one bit. Her anger flared into a cold expression which, under normal circumstances, Alex would attempt to curb, but he was feeling Wanda’s emotions. Not only angry, but she was also frustrated. Frustrated at her powerlessness in front of that Sorcerer Supreme failsafe. Frustrated at the lack of control that she felt in her life. She was even sexually frustrated after not receiving any pleasure from Alex for days. She was a little bit of a nymphomaniac and if anyone other than Alex ended up with her, he would be sucked dry to the point of death within days.

“You wish to test me, right?” Wanda spoke with gritted teeth as her aura flared, her hair floating up as Alex seamlessly merged with her, forming another layer of clothes over her black and red outfit. “Fine then.”

Wanda exploded with Chaos Energy.