Help! I Think We Summoned A Demon King

Zorat, seeing as there was no reasoning with Ava on her misunderstanding, decided to simply re-emphasize his point.

"That’s not what’s important, Ava, focus.... Do you really want me to dislike you ?"

Ava, who was still swooning and smiling, suddenly became solemn as she swung her head from side to side, indicating to mean no.

Zorat grinned."Well, good. I just need some space, you think you can do that ?" He asked in a lighter tone, and Ava nodded in agreement.

Zorat was about to turn and return to his former position when he noticed Ava was still standing in place, and it seemed she had something to say.

"Ava, you want to talk about something else ?" Zorat really didn’t care what she wanted to talk about, but he knew he had to manage the young lady carefully, unless he was ready to end her and be done with.

Which was also the part that Zorat found quite odd. When he looks at Ava, the usual spontaneous urges he gets to slaughter for the fun of it don’t seem to get triggered for some reason.

He might often contemplate the possibility, but carrying through was a different matter. Zorat felt it might be because she reminds him so much of someone.

Zorat saw Ava seem to struggle a little before she finally spoke." Do you remember.... The thing you promised .... " she said as she turned completely flushed in embarrassment.

"I hope you ... keep your promise." Blushing, Ava closed her face with the palm of her hands in embarrassment, and ran away shyly.

A promise ?. Interesting.

However, why can’t I pull on any such memory ?.

Hmmm... unless...

Zorat had a curious expression on his face as he watched Ava run off to join Ariana and Erica in the distance.

Zorat has already gone through the entire collection of memories he inherited from Caleb, and he could say with utmost certainty that there was nothing special between the former Caleb and this young lady.

And there certainly wasn’t any promise he could recall.

However, another possibility soon occurred to Zorat; what if the former Caleb’s soul was not actually destroyed and still exists somewhere.

That will cause a lot of things to start making sense.

For lesser beings, memories are usually attached to the mind, and when a soul becomes separate from the mind since their souls and body cannot be separated.

However, stronger memories in lesser beings, sometimes behave how a higher being’s memories would operate, and are directly imprinted on the soul, skipping the mind entirely.

This is very rare, and unless one becomes a higher being, separating the soul from the mind and body is impossible. Which makes incorporating certain pivotal memories in the soul fro lesser beings, a completely useless endeavor.

Although, what if Caleb’s soul had somehow achieved the impossible as a lesser being, and at the moment of the summoning, managed to have his soul separated from his body, and in so doing, leave with those pivotal attached memories of his.

The summoning.... I see.

Zorat muttered in his mind as it dawned on him, even though these heroes were summoned into this world with some rudimentary method; his own summoning, which could transport his soul to an entirely different dimension, had interfered with Caleb’s summoning; which also computes that Caleb’s soul might not have been destroyed at all during the summoning, and might have been thrown somewhere else.

Lumrheal!

Zorat frowned. It just occurred to him now that since his soul was shot out from his dimension with his extremely capable summoning ritual into a different dimension entirely; there exists a possibility that Caleb’s soul might have been sent to his own dimension as well.

Granted, Caleb’s soul would immediately perish the nanosecond it appears on hell’s highest plane of existence, but it was also a certainty that ’the one above all’ would have noticed Zorat’s disappearance when he left, and sougth a means to investigate his destination.

What would then happen when the human soul of Caleb appears in the place of Zorat’s sudden disappearance; would Lumrheal allow the only lead, perish?.

Certainly not. Using the memories of the real Caleb, it’s just a matter of time until Lumrheal locates Zorat.

That....complicates things.

Zorat had planned for everything, the summoning ritual that would even be veiled from Lumrheal, who sees all, and a soul resonance disrupting runic chain to veil his marked soul.

But he never accounted for how powerful his immortal body which he used to power the summoning would be.

There’s still time..hehehe.

Zorat smiled as he recalled what he stands to gain in this world.

He had the option of recreating the summoning he did at the time; though, this time, he would have to slaughter the entire star system of this corner of the dimension to achieve a sliver of its former effect.

But just that sliver would be enough to leave this world that has no doubt been marked by Lumrheal, if his analysis were indeed correct, and the former Caleb still exists.

Still, it would take Lumrheal quite some time to arrive. They wouldn’t need millions of years to perform any summoning ritual or anything like that....

But it would still take time. Time enough for Zorat to achieve all he plans to in this world, strip it clean to the bone, and finally ascend.

Hehehe... how exciting.

As adrenaline inducing as these events are to Zorat, he still planned to hasten his plans.

Zorat grinned, looking at the gathered heroes in the distance, some were talking, some were eating, some were just meditating and resting, while others were looking in Zorat’s direction furtively.

Zorat grinned as he began murmuring in rhythm, his gaze drifting over them, from one hero to the other...

"Eeny..." Zorat’s gaze drifted from Adrew to Ariana.

"...meeny..." his gaze drifted from Roberto to Julia.

"...miny" then jacon to lilly, and finally... Zorat’s grin contorted into something devilish...

"Moe" his gaze settled on Broddy.

hehehe.