Marvel: I'm really not an evil god!

Six years after Ilyana came to Limbo, four years after Alita came here.

"Very well, Ilyana...show me what you have learned."

I shuddered at Belasco's voice, his touch, his presence. He was my lord...a demon mage in the service of darkness and Earth's Old Gods - and I was his. apprentice.

If I work hard, he said, I will become just like him!Part of me yearns for that day, but another part still fears it.

Like everything else in Limbo, my soul became rotten...evil...but for now, it's still mine!My name is Ilyana Rasputin.Velasco wanted me to be his means of demonizing humanity.

But my good friend, the powerful magician from the earth, Alita Oroch, told me not to worry, just follow my own will and let nature take its course. If I really become a devil one day , she can also change me back.

I have seen her strength and her unparalleled learning ability. Not only has she read all the magic books in Belasco's library one by one, but she can also understand the spells in them and use them. Magic, even Belasco was amazed, as if she was his best apprentice, and I was far from enough.

I looked at the little creature in front of me and thought silently.

I should probably call this little creature a "hissing monster" because of the strange and delightful sound it makes when it speaks.It is a red demon the size of a puppy, with bat-like ears, sharp fangs, and claws.I've had him since he was born...I love him...and he trusts me, just as he trusts his own kind.

The soul of this little monster is very pure...I can easily shape it with magic...make it look like what I imagined.

Ilyana used a soul spell to pull out the hissing monster's soul.

The hissing monster was once a gentle creature, but not anymore...it knew what had caused its transformation...and jumped right into my eyes, claws ready to tear them to pieces.I whined in pain as the hissing creature scratched my cheek...and managed to slap my pet aside.

The hissing monster ran towards the door, wanting nothing more than to escape and hide, and I wanted so badly to catch it...it was frightened by my actions, and I was determined to put it in place, this castle was a huge, confusing place Rabbit hutch.If it escapes from Velasco's study, I will never find it again.

Bang.

At this moment, the door of the study room was opened. My good friend, the person who has always been by my side to comfort me and encourage me, Alita, walked in, blocked the hissing monster, and... Rita stretched out her hand and pointed, and a white light lit up from her fingertips, hitting the hissing monster that was still trying to escape, and then it instantly transformed back into the gentle little animal it once was.

Yes, Alita can learn magic faster than me and is more powerful than me. Now I only have the ability to change a small creature, but Alita has completely turned all the powerful monsters around the castle into monsters. Even the demons around Belasco will be afraid of her because they don't want to be controlled by Alita like those monsters.

Although Alita is more powerful, I am not afraid of her, because she also taught me all the knowledge she knows, and asked me to read all the books in the library like her, and I did it. Although there are many magics that I can't use yet, I remember them all very clearly.Alita said this knowledge will be what I rely on to defeat Belasco in the future, and I hope that day comes soon.

"I expected better from you, Ilyana Rasputin. You mastered the soul spell without considering its consequences. The scar on your face was caused by your overconfidence and carelessness. It's a mistake. Logically speaking, I should let you keep this scar forever to remind you. Now, use a healing spell to cure it. I don't want my friend Oroch to preach to me again. That I abused children."

"I...I'm sorry, Belasco, I'll do better next time."

"Of course you will, go back to your bedroom, go ahead, kid, think about today's lessons and get ready for tomorrow."

I turned around and left the study with hissing monster in my arms. I knew that Belasco must be talking to Alita again about opening the passage of the snake god Set. I don’t know why, but Belasco could obviously do it. He has a connection with his master, the Ancient God, but Alita has never been able to communicate with Set. This also makes Belasco confused. He has always wanted Alita to return to the embrace of darkness and be with him. Let’s realize our dream of ruling the earth together.

Alita secretly told me that it was because she changed the spell behind Belasco's back each time and it was not successful.Alita said that if she really got in touch with Seth, she would probably never come back.

I returned to the room and lay on the bed, echoing the spell I had just used on the hissing monster. It was not an ordinary spell, but a spell with energy. Those words would appear when I needed them.In the past, it was only during the course that I could slightly open the door to darkness. I can still feel that energy. Some of it is hidden in my body, and more is waiting outside the door. That is darkness. 's residence.

It was a living thing, aware of my existence, and just as I made myself a part of it, it became a part of me.It welcomes me, it expects me, expects me to call it again, and again.I don't want to do this, but I will.

Velasco doesn't know about this, I think...his dark god likes me as much as he does, and he'd be very angry if he found out.

But I told Alita, and Alita told me that if you want to defeat the darkness, you have to try to understand it, touch it, make it your own power, and Alita showed me how She is not only my closest friend, but also my teacher in how to gain energy from behind that door and cast powerful magic.

Maybe I can surprise Belasco in another way, Ilyana thought to herself.

Before I first came to Limbo, Ororo...the leader of the X-Men and the Windmaster, looked after me when she was still young and still on Earth.However, after she was in Limbo, she aged and became a mage like Belasco.She taught me magic before Belasco.

Ilyana walked to the open space in the room, raised her hand and used magic energy to draw a magic five-pointed star circle under her body.

The circle protects the caster from harm if the spell goes awry... at least, it protects the caster.

Velasco's circle was made of red and black flames and he would stand in the circle with his cardinal point hanging behind him, Ororo's was silver and she faced her cardinal point.Alita's is a rich black color, standing on the base point.

Belasco's symbolizes destruction, the hunting of all things and humans... Ororo's symbolizes creation and healing... Alita's symbolizes swallowing everything.

And my circle is also silver.

Ilyana floated above the five-pointed star's magic aperture, with silver flames rising all over her body.

I relaxed and tried to feel every corner of my body, not just my fingers and toes, but every individual molecule!Then, taking a small part of me, I bring other molecules and elements in the air closer to it.What I did to my poor hiss was nothing compared to this, Ororo said it was always easier to destroy than to create.

Her ultimate test, her proudest act, heralds her winning of freedom from Belasco, is the creation of an oak seed.I wonder where I will plant my one acorn.

However, when Ilyana opened her eyes, she saw that the acorn she had created began to rot from the inside.Ilyana fell from the sky.

"I...can't possibly die, this hurts too much."

"You are indeed close enough, Snowflake."

"My acorn, rotten and corrupted from the inside, just like me."

"Like me too, my little cutie, but you can fight this evil, and that energy will only corrupt if you allow it."

A voice answered Ilyana's soliloquy.

"what??"

Ilyana came back to her senses and looked up at the person who suddenly appeared opposite her.

"Ororo!! It's you!!"