The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 23 - Beelzebub's Interest

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Somewhere in another Universe

Deep within a realm covered in the deadliest bugs and arachnids of all kinds in the entire multiverse, a single man sits atop a throne while leaning forward and focusing on a floating screen made out of curse energy in front of him. One showcasing different clips of The Winter Wolf as he fights his way through the Centurion Quinzel. All the way until the screen ends showing him right now as he lazes away inside of his house waiting for the other contestants to finish.

Interesting… so after all of these years, and even after we had him take it out of that competition of his, we still get to see a mortal outsider attempting the Quinzel?

Beelzebub’s eyes narrow a little bit.

Or… is he even a mortal anymore? We sense…

His ten eyes widen as the humanoid creature made up of numerous different bugs and arachnids mixed into a single chimeric species stares with his pincers wide apart and his mouth wide open.

Pseudo progenitor… just what’s been happening in Grim’s universe?!

Beelzebub hasn’t contacted the Progenitor of Void in years. At least a thousand, if not several thousand years. And he hasn’t really thought about him much in that time either.

All he has been focusing on are the children he’s spread through his own universe. Simply watching them grow up and gain power and independence.

He hasn’t really focused on much outside of that.

But now? As he watches this strange new pseudo progenitor?

A pseudo progenitor with a new element that appears to be a mixture of radiance, ice, and void elements, along with Fenrir’s own variant thrown in?

Now he feels his interest piqued.

So he reaches out to connect to one of the few connections he may consider being close to a friend. Making a large circular ring of curse energy appear before it shows his maybe-friend floating quietly inside of a dimension filled with various clocks hovering all around her.

The woman in question slowly opens her, revealing eyes with clocks in them slowly ticking away as she looks directly at Beelzebub. But she doesn’t show any surprise or expectation.

Almost as if she knew this was going to happen.

And Beelzebub knows that she most likely did know. Seeing as she is the Progenitor of Time.

Kali.

“The pseudo progenitor is one with the blood of wolf, reaper, and fairy, born to rule and lock all that opposes him into eternity,” Kali declares, speaking just as cryptically as she always does. “Amidst this, war rages and the fairy and reaper search for allies to join them. Yet the allies know not the cold of the light.”

Beelzebub tries to fit together her little prophecy as hard as he can, meanwhile his maybe-friend closes her eyes again without paying him any more attention.

Blood of wolf, reaper, and fairy implies he has the bloodline of Fenrir, Grim, and Titania. Born to rule likely implies that he will succeed in becoming a progenitor eventually. But that second part… did Titania and Grim finally begin fighting for real?

The Progenitor of Insects and Curses narrows his eyes as he considers the last part of the prophecy.

Allies know not the cold of the light… and the pseudo progenitor’s element is lunar ice…

After several seconds of contemplating, he finally comes to a decision. But before he can think any further on it, a void portal suddenly appears within his palace, enraging the insects buzzing around it and aggravating the spiders making their homes in the corners of his own home.

Beelzebub just watches though, as the Progenitor of Void steps through the portal and into his domain.

Grim looks a little surprised when he finds Beelzebub watching him instead of either sleeping or focusing on his insects. Then he grows even more surprised when he spots the screen showing Wolf. But after a second he clearly puts all of that aside as the Reaper asks, “Will you aid me in my fight against that despicable fairy, old friend?”

The term ‘old friend’ makes Beelzebub twitch in irritation.

“Old friend, is it?” Beelzebub asks, his voice echoing in numerous different pitches all at once that grates on the ears of anyone who hears it. “Liars and schemers have no right to call us that. You betrayed us and stole what was ours. You betrayed our pact. And there will be no forgiveness for that.”

Grim grimaces as he asks, “Really? What if I-”

“No forgiveness,” Beelzebub repeats, interrupting Grim before he can make any sort of plea. “Betrayal is the end of all relationships. Once the line is crossed, no retreat may come.” Beelzebub raises one of his many arms and waves away The Reaper as he declares, “Leave us out of your war. You may continue to use our Quinzel for this Beta Dungeon as that child is intriguing, but no more.”

Grim grits his teeth before slowly nodding his head and retreating back through his portal, leaving Beelzebub alone amidst his hive.

It doesn’t even take a full minute after the Progenitor of Void leaves for another portal to open. This one made of ice, letting snow sweep into his domain the moment it opens as Fenrir steps through with the wolf’s towering height of several meters.

“I will take no sides in this conflict,” Beelzebub declares before Fenrir can even ask, granting the wolf what he no doubt desires. “However, I will be sure to pay attention to this child of yours and reward him should he clear the Quinzel. The same as I reward my own people.”

Fenrir nods his head in gratitude. Then he leaves without even stating a single word.

Beelzebub looks at both of the places where the portals had formed at the same time with his numerous eyes before focusing all of his eyes on the screen in front of him. As The Winter Wolf rests while still waiting for the other contestants to finish the fifth.

An intriguing child indeed.