From the streets of Aria to the furthest piece of land edging the neighboring kingdoms, every human in sight had turned into a lust demon servant. Except for the few humans living around the town square, their lives have been spared, and they were now gathered into an assembly to bow their heads to their master in the biggest assembly of demons in the world.
Looking into the distance from the Arian castle's balcony, there was no end to the demons laying prostrate before Haruki's eyes.
'You've done well.' Interrupting his thoughts, Asmodia's voice trickled into his head.
"You're finally awake," he mumbled. The rest of his servants standing behind, turned their gazes to him with a confounded look.
"Did you say something?" Asked Athena, one of the very few who'd still not been turned into a demon.
"Shushh…" Grabbing her arm, Margarette urged her not to disturb Haruki for a moment.
Ignoring the chatter behind him, Haruki gazed over his army before talking to Asmodia again.
"Is this army big enough for you?" He asked, his hand stretched wide to the congregation that exceeded tens of thousands. Even parts of the army from all three duchies and the citizens had gathered up to honor his crowning.
"For now, they'll do," taking a brief pause, she let out a grumpy hum but then continued. "You might have turned them into demons, but they're all still who they used to be. Weak, pathetic, and useless, a single general from the emperor's army could easily cull them to a handful."
"I'm not delusional, Asmodia, I've been to battle many times, often against bands of bandits," thinking back to the times his party used to kill hordes of bandits in their sleep despite being a handful of soldiers, Haruki knew exactly what she was trying to say. "Even if we have greater numbers, it won't matter against an enemy with more battle experience."
"Wait…Did he say Asmodia?" Recognizing the name from her studies, Alice turned to Margarette for answers.
"Master has a contract with the demon lord of lust, now, settle down, I'll explain everything later," holding her back just like Athena, Margarette made sure Haruki wasn't interrupted further.
'I suppose you're quite busy at the moment, perhaps we can talk over tea in the abyss like we used to,' Rolling his eyes to the suggestion, an exalted sigh left Haruki's lips.
"We'll see," saying those words, Haruki brought his attention back to his army.
With a cold commanding gaze, he peered down at them. Making sure to bind any raised heads to the ground with Lulu or holy chain binds, he wore a menacing smile to intimidate them further.
'Did we mess up by joining forces with him?' Thought Athena, shooting a gaze at her daughter standing beside her. Returning her mother's gaze Alice too seemed just as concerned, but given that their people weren't turned into demons and freed of their chains, both of them had to keep their mouths shut and adhere to their part of the deal. Which was to say, be his loyal servant, forever.
"Margarette, Riley," calling out the two standing behind him, Haruki stretched his arms wide under the clear blue sky.
Taking a step forward, both of them placed their hands on Haruki's back and began pouring their mana into his body. As the surge of power brimmed up a smile on his face, Haruki closed his eyes to see through the eyes of a greater demonic spy.
"Rose, you get ready too," giving that order to Rose floating high up above them, he raised his arms upwards and began casting yet another spell to discourage any rogue demon to try and rebel against his reign. "Dark light!"
Pouring out mana into the spell with great intensity, he sprang a clutter of miasmic clouds floating above the city. Cutting off the sun, the clouds devoured all light and made the city appear like the inside of a dark cave, especially with the glowing eyes of all demons present.
"Shadow form body: Clasping Hands!" Following his words, Haruki's hands slowly turned into a pair of glistering lights before shattering and disappearing altogether.
With his hands gone, the demons were allowed to peer up at the show of dominance he was just about to display. Tearing through the dark clouds came a pair of giant hands, the size to that of that of the city. As sharp as razors, they roamed over the head of the demons as if simply trying to toy with their lives.
Every wave from the giant's hands blew away a few demons from the winds it produced alone, they could only imagine what would've happened if any one of them got hit by them. And as if things weren't dire enough, a meteorite-like ball of fire, pierced through the cloud and crashed into a few hundred demons. Crushed under its weight, they all let out groans of agony while their blood boiled from the insides.
"HMMMMM!" The sky grumbled as the colossal face of a fire dragon peeked in through the skies.
Her eyes burning like the very sun were enough to turn countless demons to ash with a single look into them. Raining lava from her burning horns, Rose took more victims with her flames, but what terrified the demons the most were her clutched teeth, since if she decided to open them up they'd all be turned into ashes.
"Is-Is that a real dragon?!" Despite being in no real danger herself, Alice fell to her knees from fear.
Gulping down on her anxiety Athena was no different. The burning horns, the fuming nose, and the scales of igneous rocks cackling with magma simmering underneath her skin were all too much for both of them and even made them question if it was all just a dream.
"Wh-what are you?" Athena asked, panting heavier by the second.
Turning his head to the side, Haruki looked at her from the very edge of his eyes.
"A betrayed soul, and the greatest monster you'll ever meet," his words severed from all emotions, were not just directed at the mother and daughter, but to the very world which had sullied his name with atrocities.
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