Supernatural territory, Demon Kingdom.
Just like any other time of the month during the war against humans, the Godking Summit was held to discuss the matters of importance that needed the attention of all the Kings of Supernaturals. Unlike before, everyone was present this time.
Watching and inspecting from their own seats, the six leaders of the Supernaturals gathered.
Each of them sat on their respective seats with a trusted member standing on their side, the six of them gathered at a round table made of black stone and lava that are influenced by the demonic energy inside the place.
Despite the meeting already starting ten minutes ago, the place is still silent.
King Saruth rests his cheek on his fist before his burning eyes gaze at King Baralt, he was giving King Baralt a curious look while waiting for the others to open their mouths. But the silence that is present here was not because of the destruction of the Vampire Stronghold.
None of them has said a word due to the blue demon standing beside King Baralt.
Although it's the first time he has brought Azzen to the Godking Summit, the others Kings are surprised by his sudden appearance and the power shifted heavily to King Saruth which sparks a smile on his face.
Only the Vampire King, King Solomon is not surprised by Azzen.
"Well, let's start the meeting if none of you wanted to open it. How about starting from the fact that the Vampire Stronghold has been destroyed?", King Saruth said while clasping both of his hands on the round table.
Upon hearing this, the others instantly gaze at King Solomon for an answer.
Without even looking bothered by the gazes he received, King Solomon instantly looks at King Baralt and shifted the attention to him, "It's best for King Baralt to explain the situation, I believe he knows more about the attacked than I do"
"Tell us, King Baralt. Who can destroy the stronghold that quick?", King Oddity asked.
Instead of back then when King Oddity takes his neutral form that is featureless, now he's taking the form of a devilishly beautiful woman with ashy skin and yellow eyes. As the leader of the Shapeshifter, there was no limit to the form he can take.
Although a bit troubled, King Baralt opens his mouth, "Two Princes appeared in our ranks..."
Just from saying that alone many changes in expression can be seen in the others, but the ones that surprised the most were King Oddity and Queen Catsha as they were completely unaware of this matter. Only the Demons and Vampires have a direct conversation with one of the Princes.
But these two races also don't know the fact that there exists another Prince.
"One of them died, the Dark Prince died, I can feel it. But the other one is still alive and is the Royal Black Prince it seems, the Night of Parturition was caused by that Prince that has just been accepted by the Banished Dark Moon. It is also he that destroys the Vampire Stronghold in the same breath as gaining his King Mark", King Baralt explained.
Upon hearing this, King Oddity frowned as he noticed most of them doesn't seem to be surprised.
While processing the news he received King Oddity's eyes then widened in realization, he then said, "So the disturbance of energy in the humans' capital city comes from him? I thought he was on the humans' side, why is his aura riled up like that?"
"Don't act so surprised, King Oddity. We know what humans are, they're nothing but filth"
King Solomon glances at King Oddity with a meaningful look and said before he continues, "My guess is that they did something to anger that Prince, they are always arrogant and unwilling to gain help from anyone except their own"
Upon hearing this, King Oddity nodded his head, knowing exactly what King Solomon meant.
Adding from the side and attracting the gazes of others again, King Baralt then added, "With the preparation, we can get the Vampire Stronghold back in no time. Although I haven't mastered mine yet, I think moving right now would be a good idea"
"Your kind always brings problems no matter the era, is learning a simple spell too hard for you?"
Hearing the sudden mockery coming from King Saruth that is chuckling descendingly, King Baralt's expression turns hideous, clenching both of his hands under the table trying to control the anger within him.
But then King Lax'rad finally opens his mouth, "No matter, we can attack right now"
"Most of us are already mastered the assigned spells, even without the Werewolves, humans wouldn't know what's going to hit them. With the fight inside the capital city, we can use that to attack the two ninth-rank realms Awakened near the Great Barricade", he proposed with his eerie and astral voice.
After the proposal, the six leaders started to take a vote to attack.
Queen Catsha all the way to King Lax'rad voted to attack due to the perfect timing, leaving the last vote for King Oddity. Either way, they would attack as the vote has already leaned to an attack, but before King Oddity can say something.
Rumble!
"What is this, power...?"
"No, it can't be... I think the Prince has just received his second King Mark!"
Upon hearing King Baralt's remark, the others immediately felt the crisis as the shockwave even reaches this far. The Demon Kingdom is not near humanity's border, this place they are in right now is very far from the border.
But to think that the shockwave reaches this far is astonishing, very powerful indeed.
Despite the shockwave only managing to shake the ground a little bit, it doesn't deny the fact that the shockwave should be very powerful to reach this place. It definitely a force that they need to take seriously.
King Baralt stood up from his seat, "We need to kill him, he's a huge threat"
"Although it would be doing you a favor, since the Prince wouldn't claim the throne if he died, I agree that we need to take care of him. If this goes on, the Prince would definitely leave humanity's territory. We can then kill him by making a trap on the Werewolf and Vampire territories", King Baralt replied while waving his hand nonchalantly.
Even though the power is astonishing, it was not in the realm of invincibility.
Vampires, Werewolves, and Demons have already taken interest in the Prince inside humanity's territory for a while, but the only reason they can't reach him was that he's inside humanity's territory.
If for some reason the Prince left then he would be stepping to his doom.
Unlike humanity's territory, which they have little influence over, the Supernatural territory is under their thumbs. Not even the most desolated sector of the Supernatural's territory that their influence and power can't reach.
Queen Catsha nodded her head, "Me and King Lax'rad can prepare the traps for the Prince"
But out of the leaders present here that are discussing the Prince that has just received his second King Mark, King Oddity was oddly silent in his seat. Looking down to the ground, King Oddity's expression shows a hint of trouble.
More matters were discussed in the meeting as time flies by.
Now the topic shifted to King Oddity as he was asked by King Baralt, "How is the exploration going? Have any of your people found any remnants of the ancient? Any tombs that may contain beings that we need to take care of?"
Waiting for a moment, the others were confused to find King Oddity in a daze.
"King Oddity? What is wrong?", King Baralt asked again for the second time, it's rare to see King Oddity space out like this in the middle of an important summit. Something he never does.
Upon hearing the second call, King Oddity snapped out of his daze.
Even though he wanted to answer regarding the exploration that is tasked to his people to contribute to the Supernaturals, King Oddity finds it hard to talk about that as he finally said, "I've always believed that the world we're given is too good to be true, those monsters definitely have some backup plan, time is not cruel to them"
Despite not answering the question, the others knew exactly what King Oddity is talking about.
For something or someone to be called monsters by the powerful leaders of the Supernaturals, it takes a huge feat to make them do that, but even referring to those things as monsters is an understatement for what they have done is outright cruel and diabolical.
"I've searched our entire territory and found nothing, not even a trace of them", he added.
But then King Oddity raised his gaze to look at the others before he continues, "But deep down I know that there's something, something that they left in this world foreseeing this would happen. I'm sure of it..."
Looking up at the rocky ceiling, King Oddity looks very troubled and even pale.
"If there really was something they left behind, I think that Prince's aura is going to do something to it, and believe me that we don't want anything to do with that. My proposal is we kill the Pr-"
Just before King Oddity finish his sentence, everyone jolted up from their seats.
Even the trusted member they brought alongside them in the meeting place was confused seeing the leaders suddenly jolted up from their seats like this. Moreover, they were not wearing their normal confident and overbearing expressions that of a King and Queen.
Although they find it surprising, the powerful leaders look very scared.
Out of everyone that suddenly turned like this, Queen Catsha was the one that shows signs of suppression the most. With her shoulders rolled a little, she was breathing heavily as if she was carrying a big weight above her.
Not stopping at that, Queen Catsha was even forced to support her body using her hands.
Pressing both of her hands on the round table made of black stone, Queen Catsha tries to keep standing which makes the trusted members to sucked in a cold breath. Even though she was the weakest knowing that she should've been under King Saruth, she was still a ninth-rank being.
To think that she got suppressed like this is out of this world.
"It's too late...", King Oddity murmurs inwardly as his entire body started trembling.
Upon hearing this King Saruth clenched both of his fists and asked, "King Lax'rad, mark that direction using your spells. We will need to do something about that, not that I know if we're capable of doing so..."
King Lax'rad summons his floating orb before chanting a spell.
With a little chant from his mouth, the source of devastating energy that they all recognize instantly was immediately marked by King Lax'rad. But then King Baralt said, "Of course, you're not going to find it, King Oddity, it's in humanity's territory from the start. It's only one, we can take that monster on"
"No, we can't...", King Oddity replied with extreme terror in his voice.
Gazing at King Baralt with his glowing yellow eyes, he then continues, "The energy we sensed is muffled, there seems to be a barrier blocking its energy. But if those monsters only put one here, then it must not be the regular ones..."
Although he was trying to be calm earlier, King Baralt can't hold it in anymore.
"Yes, it's an Executor. The Ancient Humans put an Executor just in case, we can't fight that with our strength. Even though it is probably still restricted by the world and only as strong as a ninth-rank, the black staff is a problem", King Oddity added while having flashbacks of the Executor.
It was the most ruthless ancient humans that are tasked to keep them in check.
King Solomon glanced at King Oddity with his trembling red eyes before he said stutteringly, "W-We have the Origin Cutlass in our arsenal, worst-case I'll need to wield that if the Executor tries to attack us. But I don't know how many clashes the Origin Cutlass can withstand..."
"At the very least, it will give us a fighting chance", he added.
Upon hearing this King Oddity nodded his head, "We'll use that for the moment, only Origin's weapon can clash against the Executor's black staff. But we're safe for now, the Executor seems to be still in captivity"
"So what will we do now? Attacking the humans are out of the options", King Lax'rad asks.
With the Executor already awakened and wide awake, more energy they caused would hasten the Executor's break from captivity. It would be the end of them if that happened, so there must be a change of plan.
King Saruth finally opens his mouth from the side, "We need to make plans to deal with it"
"But for now we're going to prevent the Executor from breaking free, and that can only be achieved by one thing. We know to not use too much energy so that the captivity didn't break, but that Prince doesn't"
In the blink of an eye, their eyes turn murderous almost instantly.
Looking at each one of them in the eyes, King Saruth then added, "No matter the cost, we're going to kill that Prince before he did something stupid and hastens the Executor's break out. We're not stopping until he's dead..."
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