Today Elijah received news that he did not know if he should feel fortunate or unfortunate about. Mike and Delilah were thrilled. His Mother was almost ready to throw a party and his dad seemed ready to talk. The silent treatment had ended and there was an air of approval. At least that was the case for the rest of his siblings.


    The Athena company had used their connection and was about to play the first episode of their adventures on actual TV. TVs had advanced with time but they tended to always lag behind the time they were in. Despite their tendency when something was played on TV it always made it feel official. So this was a big milestone. However, he could not let go of the horrible backlash the program could have.


    Maybe stress was the reason that made him let go of his carefully prepared story for Dr. Carl. He had an emotional burst and all thoughts of secrecy went away from his mind. He was beginning to believe there was something in his psyche against him, which would be true according to the great Carl Jung. However, Carl did not blame an objective complex in his mind. He listened in silence. Finally, Elijah remained waiting for his professional judgement but Elijah could not help feeling like someone who had confessed to a priest. Thinking of Dr. Carl in priest clothing was enough to stop that thought.


    Despite rationally knowing that Dr. Carl would try his best to be objective, He expected summoning the demons, sacrificing a village, and the emotional bursts, and the misjudgment when he had fought his father were too much to be thought of as depression. He would never admit this but his father''s irrational talks of him not being depressed and being at fault had got to him.


    “Have you calmed down,” said Carl


    “Yes,” said Elijah already familiar with this routine. After an emotional burst, he would be drained but strangely calm. It was quite addicting. He was beginning to see why some people would, in their vulnerable times, confide in a friend or a therapist. He guessed he could count himself among those people.


    “First, Congratulations on being shown on TV. Elijah have you ever seen anything unfiltered, or as you said once politically correct in TV so rationally you know it will be fine and this is something to celebrate about.”


    “Understanding it is one thing but what about feeling? I have come to realize I can not dismiss it entirely” said Elijah


    “Elijah, for a young man as brilliant as you are, it never ceases to amaze me how much you tend to suppress your emotional development. You tend to bottle up your emotions and as you have seen in our short time together, this will lead to these random bursts. You need to process your emotions. Everyone does something. You have your methods too. You brought me to this library. The library is a calming place for you. As you did today, you could in such an environment process your emotions. For you I would suggest you write” said Dr. Carl


    He guided Elijah through a mental exercise. He then proceeded to talk about the rest.


    “Elijah, I don’t tend to say it quite this direct to most of my patients but you need to hear it. Objectively you are doing better, this game had more positive effects on you than negative. However, I suggest you customize the game''s adult filter. With something as simple as that you can fix your problem. Elijah, I sense you are looking for judgment. As unprofessional as it is to say these. You are not a criminal. Despite all this realism VR has come to possess, it is not real. You are far more aware than me about that fact Elijah. It is quite unhealthy to think so. It is cruel of me to say that but it is a fact. I have seen how people truly heal by relating to an NPC. You may not believe it. One patient of mine overcame a physical limitation through this. To me though their feelings, and beliefs healed them. They projected something inside to something outside and overcame it. Despite how much psychology has advanced more people heal by projecting themselves onto me. Being a blank page is something we therapists take as a principle. This session is ended Elijah but I will see you in the family session. ” said Carl.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    Elijah felt the tension leaving his body. It was as if he was demon-possessed and had just gone through an exorcism. Now that he thought about it he could see why demonologist had become his title.


    “As much as you hate them. It is quite funny for me” He said with a smirk and vanished. The bastard.


    Elijah felt freed. He knew this was momentarily but he felt as if he was on cloud. He decided to customize the adult filter and made sure by simply saying the word “filter” it would turn off and on. He decided to leave it mostly off but if he needed it or was thinking the game had become too real he would turn it on.


    The TV program their playthrough would be on was the Holy Wars channel. A channel that was dedicated to Holy Wars. While not many games got to have a TV channel, some such as Rise of the Warlords, which was also Philemon''s work, did. The program itself was called Evil Pantheon. Its first episode was titled The Doomed Chosen One Ka. The reactions were much better than he had hoped. The editing was spectacular. As Dr. Carl had said the edits were such that despite being shown as evil, it did not disgust the viewer.


    While they had yet to be shown on screen, the program had hinted at Raven and Hastur. So Deli follower numbers had risen more than ever. She had a great time. Mike also had a great time but it was for another reason entirely. He and Deli had managed to find traces of elves. He was not that impressed but Mike said he had been inspired by him inputting magic circles to modeling AI and tried to use an AI model usually used for expeditions into the Amazon forest to track elves. Tina, the girl from the same medical school he had been obsessed with in high school, had seen that and thought he was a fellow Amazon enthusiast. He had gotten a date with her four years after his crush. Normally this would not be a good thing but he said he had a newfound crush on her. It made Elijah wonder if it would not be more logical to assume it had never waned.


    Everything is taken care of. Elijah allowed himself to be excited. He was about to venture to hell.


    When using the skill divine gate a golden door appeared. As he thought about hell the golden door changed. It was like it was not a true golden door but a golden coating and the coating split with red lines. Then the golden coating fell piece by piece till all remained was a wooden burning door with demonic depictions.


    Opening the door led to a realm with a red sky and burning clouds. The sun looked ragged and was more like a crimson moon than a real sun. The earth was as you expected hell to be ragged with magma rivers in between. Demonic creatures were everywhere. Some were like the artworks in churches, the others were more strange. As he walked to the hellish realm, he was greeted by a message.


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    You have entered the hell realm. As the first one to do so, you have made a significant achievement. Your title Forbidden Seeker was strengthened.


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    A named demon has noticed your entrance. The eye shielded you from the perception of other great beings of hell.


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    As much as he was excited about this before, he found himself at a loss as to what to do in this realm. Fortunately, he had an easy solution. He approached the weakest-looking creature he could find. It was a construct of flesh. It was disgusting to look at but because he was eating corpses, he assumed he had found the target. Fear Domination had proven to him even monsters in this game had some decision-making capability, though way too limited compared to actual NPCs let alone an AI like Eve. He was not sure if this was a work of AI but this would work. He tamed the creature and asked for its assistance. It would lead him to lands that looked different from the landscape. He put it in words that the creature could follow. Given his unfamiliarity with hell, this was the only way he could search for legacy in hell. Forbidden Seeker had given him confidence that he may find something. The eye notification had him a little concerned because despite summoning him, every time he had encountered a wisdom-type character in games he had ended up screwed in the way heroes always were. The good thing about this type of character was the danger usually came with reward and at the end, you may even have a revenge quest to kill them or watch them kill themselves. Holy Wars was from Philemon though and he was a little concerned if the routine could be different.


    He proceeded to hide himself. His consumables had grown less than he was comfortable with. He did not plan an expedition to hell. He wanted to find legacies. Rationally he knew he was being greedy. He would be better off venturing to other possible locations he had marked but he needed to do something big. Hell had no competition. The system had confirmed it. He knew it was impossible but he considered if he was the first player to step into hell, He could also be the first player to find the pillar. If Killian words were to be believed, Pillars were corpses of the primordials. What if they left a legacy or the pillar was a legacy? In either of those scenarios, a pillar was his lead to one of the most high-ranked legacies in the game.