Clearing the prison was easy, in a general sense. My mask simply made sneaking around and choosing my moments too easy. My only gripe with my mask really is that most of the abilities only worked on those beneath my weight class. Neither the guards nor the demons were in said weight class.

The guards were relatively simple to remove from the board as long as I paid attention to preventing cognition chains. The only close calls I had were from demon screeches reaching farther than I predicted and causing guards to rush towards us.

In addition to almost killing me, the high pitch screeches were also just plain annoying after a while. Seriously this is why I like humans; they were quiet if you kill them during the tail end of the bargaining phase. While that way causes me to miss out of some of the emotions, not having to hear all the crying and begging was worth it.

The demons were easy pickings after I removed the guards. Not much loyalty existed between them you see. The screeches sent the demons running away which helped mitigate guard reaction and thinned both groups. But don’t be too hard on them, the demons were all starving after who knows how long without food. It was just bad luck that the first living thing they met was an energy vampire that did not exude any sin for them to feed off them, much like looking at a regular vampire seeking blood. It wasn’t happening papi.

After collecting the lives of all the inhabitants of this here prison excluding the warden and my lovely self, I collected all the demon corpses.

These corpses were turned into a set of artifacts that I chose to call the jars of hearts. I chose to not create cores to increases the power of the artifacts in return when they ran out of energy that was it. These canopic jars were temporary artifacts I created from the core essences of all the demons. Each of the seven jars was created with all the essences of an entire population of demons and featured an animal head.

The red demons contributed The Bull’s Jar of Wrath.

The pink demons contributed The Hare’s Jar of Lust.

The green demons contributed The Dog’s Jar of Envy.

The gray demons contributed The Lion’s Jar of Sloth.

The brown demons contributed The Wolverine’s Jar of Gluttony.

The purple demons contributed The Rooster’s Jar of Pride.

The yellow demons contributed The Squirrel’s Jar of Greed.

When I entered the warden’s den trailed by the floating jars I took in the warden’s distorted form. Five faces twisted together to form a head that looked in every direction but down. The torso was jam packed with as many arms as could fit, all with weapons. The torso full of arms elongated long past what was normal creating what could best be described as a millipede tail.

“Well, nothing to it but to do it”

And with that I took a bottle full of viscous black liquid that bared the word sin in gold lettering out of a starry black void and downed the entire thing. I had collected all the corrupted nature existing in the human heart from entire groups of people. I previously collected it hoping to find something to do with it. my new vampiric nature could consume it in place of emotions thus allowing me to store a food source indefinitely.

Now I usually only take a shot every few days as that is all I need. My bottle currently contained about 2 gallons or around one hundred seventy shots. All this to say the bottle condensed a year and a half of feeding into a single moment.

My left eye suddenly seemed to contain a raging inferno until the moment that it could no longer. The fire spilled from my eye like tears that flowed down my body and formed into a puddle that surrounded me.

Each of the canopic jars feed themselves into the fire.

The Bull’s Jar of Wrath caused the fire to gain an angry oppressive heat that turned it a vibrant blue.

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The Hare’s Jar of Lust caused the fire to spread across the floor like a cancer.

The Dog’s Jar of Envy caused the fire to gain an almost animalistic hatred of the warden.

The Lion’s Jar of Sloth caused the fire to appear as if it were about to die out, but in reality, the fire gained the ability to burst out with the entire sea of flame anywhere even a spark remained.

The Wolverine’s Jar of Gluttony caused the flame to start devouring the surroundings to feed itself as the air was no longer sufficient to feed the growing beast.

The Rooster’s Jar of Pride caused the flame to become inextinguishable for as long as its enemy was not vanquished.

The Squirrel’s Jar of Greed caused the flame to start feeding off the warden animating magical energy.

The only downside to my new friend was that it was quite the air hog, and I still needed said air. While I could hold my breath for a long time, a long time was not forever.

***

Two entities stared at each from across a cavernous cathedral made from smoky black bricks. The first was an abomination made of a bunch of statues stitched together. The other was a blond surrounded by a field of azure sparks.

“PrIsOnEr!!!!!!!!!!!!” the abomination screeched in a distorted voice before rushing the blond with its tail trailing in a wavy line.

The blond simply raised his left hand, extended the pointer finger, and drew a line across the air. As his finger went along its path the sparks pointed at flared into life creating a wall of blue plasma.

The statue tried to halt its momentum, but tons of stones simply do not stop on a dime. Seeing that the wall would have its pound of flesh, the statue arrested its momentum by swinging its tail. It also hoped to get an ounce back with the severed tail flying around the side of the wall.

Alas it was not meant to be as the blond simply dodged backwards using artifact provided superspeed.

This was followed by the blond pulling an invisible bow string with his left hand. The plasma wall quickly deformed with its center being pulled towards the blond. The statue quickly used its remaining tail to launch it to the side seeing what was about to happen.

The blond released the invisible string, and the wall quickly surged forward taking what was left of the statue’s millipede tail. The statue now had to use it arms to support itself off the ground.

The statue tried to scuttle toward the blond but was stopped by a blue wave on energy that emanated from the blond’s foot following a stomp.

The wave took most of the statue’s torso away from it leaving only the shoulders and head.

The blond raised his left hand and splayed out his fingers causing all the sparks to form a constellation around the statue remnants. As the man closed his hand into a fist, the sparks flew towards the center leaving molten pin sized holes all over the statue’s remaining body.

One last distorted howl emanating from its soul across the vacuum before it promptly died.

The blond walked over to the statue and placed a finger on its remains. When the man took his finger back, there was a single blue spark on it about to die. The man quickly placed the spark in a sphere made seeming of outer space itself. The sphere crafted of unreality would hold the spark in stasis until the man could find some kindling to nurture it.

While a single spark that may never find powerful enough kindling was not a lot of reward for a day where death was a possible outcome. Any plan that would allow for increased spoils was deemed too risky. Better to burn with fire than to be buried with dirt.

Being:

Body:

[Nascent Energy Vampire Progenitor]

Soul Tattoos:

[Celestial Weaving]

[Sand: Tier Three]

[Water: Tier Five]

[Faith: Tier One]

[Holy Water: Tier Three]

[Shadow: Tier Five]

[Necromancy: Tier Five]

[Rot: Tier ErRoR]

[Phoenix Fire: Tier Nine]

Special Abilities:

[Empowerment: Tier Nine]

[Emotional Empowerment: Tier One]

[Emotional Manipulation: Tier One]

Current Equipment:

Head:

[The Black Wasp Jackal’s Face]

[Vampire’s Hunger]

Earrings:

[]

Necklace:

[]

Clothes:

[Idle Hands]

Rings:

[The Mentalism Ring]

[Mena’s Book]

[Petrifying Ring]

[Olivia’s Friendship]

[Brash Ring]

Bracelets:

[]

Shoes:

[Comet Kicks]

Armaments:

[Beastly Heart]

[Murder Weapon]

Storage:

[Various Utility Artifacts]

[Various Articles Of Clothing]

[Death Dogtags]

[Leech Muscles]

[Leech Teeth]

[Chimeric Essence]

[Spark Of Emotive Flame]