Later, in the evening, Scarlet who could not stand the boredom of staying indoors to look at yet again more paperwork so she contemplated on the idea of maybe visiting the dark rune village. It possibly couldn't hurt to take a look a look around, right? 

So, she went off to the underworld, on her own without Severus who was busy patrolling for soul eaters. It struck her while she was there that nothing ever changed in this realm, nothing that she had noticed anyway. The trees remained the same, always blooming season after season, the reapers dressed the same, the soul registrars retained the same uninterested gaze, the fish in the ponds and streams remained the same kind and size, soul pets chased each other around. Conversations changed, but not much else did. 

Scarlet wondered then if the other realms were the same, did they look like this? 

"No, they don't." A voice said in her mind. "The realms are shaped according to the will of the deity and the purpose they serve." 

"Hello old deity," she said, and she looked around, just in case he was somewhere close to her. "Nice of you to invade my mind, as always." she finished with sarcasm. 

"Well, you work for me and I can do whatever I want in my world. Just what did you think the underworld would look lie anyway?" he replied. This content belongs to novelhulk.com, if the content is missing please go to novelhulk.com website to read the full content

"Dark, with fire everywhere and demons and screaming souls being burned by the eternal flames which will never burn out." she answered. 

"This is not the final destination of souls my dear Scarlet, this realm can be equated to__, say a transit point in a long destination. You bring the souls, we send them off elsewhere for punishment, reincarnation or non existence." he explained. "Is there something wrong with the appearance of my realm?"

lightsnοvεl "No, it's beautiful." she replied. "I was just making comparisons to the changing seasons in the human worlds that do not exist here. I think maybe it's a good thing, souls of the dead do not take breaks because it's raining or snowing."

It was more than beautiful, the houses here were gorgeous crafted from beautiful wood, not concrete or clay but just wood, spiritual wood from the warm feeling she was getting. Some stood as tall as the mountains themselves, others floated on water and many floated above in the skies. Even though they floated, many remained in place just seeming to move enough to create the illusion of travelling. It was no small village, for it extended beyond where her reaper eyes could see, but at this distance, she could see a beautiful blue waterfall coming from the inside of one mountain and spirit pets were leaping from above and falling below, into the water. A few, were hell hounds even which surprised her, apparently they could have fun when they wanted. 

Beyond the waterfall, far behind, she saw gardens, planted with many varieties of fruits she had never even seen. The vast gardens were being tended to by grim reapers and spirit monkeys, they were the pets that always stole Lythia's fruits. She always wondered where they came from and she had an answer now.

This village was beautiful, it had the kind of beauty which painters longed to capture and put on a piece of paper to be remembered eternally. 

All the roads, foot paths and side walks she could see were lined up with beautiful flowers on the sides. Flowers, of many colors, some red, some yellow and others white. 

The occupants of the village walked with smiles on their faces, many of them, using the blink skill to travel, disappearing from the roads in an instant. 

Why didn't Severus tell her how beautiful, enchanting and captivating the dark rune village was?

She wanted to look further, and she took two steps in when she was bounced back by an invisible barrier that denied her entry. 

"What is this?" she looked at Hawk. She was a grim reaper, this village was a home to grim reapers so why was she being denied entry? "Why can't I get in?" 

"Did you not read the instructions." he asked her. 

"What instructions?" she asked him with a very puzzled look on her face for she had seen no instructions that he spoke of. 

"Pay," he said, "Residents pay rent or buy a house or space and visitors must also pay an entry fee. Put an energy crystal in the open mouth of each head of the hound." he pointed to a very creepy looking statue of a three headed hell hound with blood red crystal eyes. The mouth of each of it's three heads was wide open, sharp fangs out and ready to bite. There was something very life like about it, as if it could open those eyes, spring to life and immediately tear her throat out. 

But aside from that, she was dismayed by the aspect of having to pay energy crystals to enter the village. The old deity really knew how to make them spit out energy crystals, no wonder he put that bracelet on her hand. 

"So ridiculous." she mumbled as she paid the very expensive entry fee. Even the three headed dog was here as a threat, it was extortion. 

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