Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1525 - 78: The Origins of Elliog (Part 3)

"Call me hypocritical if you like, say I’m making excuses if you must, but just like Sidi, I truly abhor this instinct that, for you Humans, is as simple and natural as eating and drinking."

Elliog stared impassively at Fisher before her, and spoke calmly,

"When I first came into being, I had yet to realize this. On the contrary, I exhausted myself without exhaustion, like a bottomless pit of desire, in gratifying my nature. For that, I once roamed everywhere to fight the strong, to fight the weak. I could do my utmost to defeat Elves and Angels, and I could also wield weapons with skill to overcome Humans far beneath me. In those days, day and night I was steeped in the ecstasy of victory over others, relishing the baseness of those so inferior to me, washing my triumph in the blood of their defeat..."

Her words echoed through the quiet library, as if, in that moment, they were scouring and polishing bright the long-dusty armor and weapons stored within her fortress.

"Until I sank deeper and deeper into victory, and my power grew ever stronger; as I delighted in all under heaven chanting my honored name, rejoicing in their admission that they were beneath me, I suddenly discovered that my nature was twisting everything else I had never meant to touch..."

Elliog closed her eyes; at this point in her tale, Fisher could hear in her voice a trace of indescribable remorse.

"Under the influence of my nature, everything around me began to change, and at that time I still had not realized that this was not what I wanted... until my servant, in order to prove her excellence, killed all the other servants; until my followers, to prove whose sacrifice was the finest, slaughtered their wives, their children, and their parents and set them upon the altar; until men and women, in pursuit of love, did not hesitate to mutilate their own bodies, cutting their flesh to prove they were more outstanding than the other—only then did I sense something amiss.

"When I saw all of this, my heart immediately told me that this boundless, absolute competition was not what I desired; yet my body, having drunk in this ceaseless Fallen Self, felt an inescapable pleasure. My body demanded more of me, longing for me to obey my nature, to bring strife to ever more innocent living creatures..."

The honored name of the Elliog Demon once resounded across the whole world, especially in that age when past Myth had not yet perished and the world had not ceased its upheavals. Such a powerful and battle-loving existence was bound to have many followers and enemies beyond counting.

But from the moment she herself became aware of the evil fruits of her nature, that Demon God who ruled over war and the consciousness of warriors vanished. In her place appeared a woman Demon who, across long ages, lived in obscurity, like a cat that did nothing but sleep.

Perhaps even now, to this very day, she is still struggling against it, only because she has grown accustomed to doing so, outsiders can no longer sense her bloodthirsty, warlike nature.

"I bear a congenital Rejection toward external things, to the point that they will dissolve of themselves in my presence. That is the true source of the conflicts I incite. And when I realized this, I began a sleepless struggle against it... I tried countless methods, all in vain, and in the end could only consign my consciousness to slumber, using unconscious sleep to oppose my nature and its influence.

"In this way, so long as no one comes near, there will be no more strife arising because of me. Even if Mythical War raged on every side, even if the Mother Goddess, in her anger, locked our entire race beneath the earth, I never again showed my face... To the point that, when I was sealed, I even felt a kind of luck, for being passively confined could still shore up my not-so-steadfast will...

"But nature is nature. I can endure, yet I must inevitably overcome pain; and that pain is beyond words, impossible to restrain. No matter how many times I endured, that spark of conflict would still flare up in my heart, seeking to burn me to ash. Therefore, when Agares came seeking my aid, I accepted this task, leaving the Abyss in spirit to hunt down the Human who possessed the Completion Manual, all to ease the hunger within me that had been held in check for so long and had nowhere else to be vented..."

Fisher swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He suddenly recalled the earlier records and summoning method concerning Elliog in King Solomon’s scroll, and at last understood the true meaning of the phrase "summoned but does not respond" written there. He could not help but ask,

"Back then, was Saint Nali also affected by your instinct? Why did I not feel anything at all?"

Elliog smiled faintly and said,

"No, because at that time I was already full, with food and drink enough. Don’t forget, when I left the South Continent, the Humans and other races’ living creatures there were waging war over their homelands. Once awakened, I drew sufficient Food from that place. Although, in a sense, I also hastened the progress and intensity of that war, by the time I reached Saint Nali and formally began Agares’s mission, I had already once more embarked on a second cycle of overcoming my nature...

"Fisher, you must understand, the process of overcoming instinct is a warrior’s painful cycle; for me, all the more so. I see no end to it, and can only struggle through one endurance after another, one bout of indulgence after another, and the release that comes after each indulgence... Of course, what happened in Saint Nali had nothing to do with me, not only because I was enduring, but also for another reason, which is that... I encountered you on Snake Head Street."