Verial briefly looked at me and suddenly took out a small dagger and lunged at the person behind us. With the expression of shock still being displayed on my face, I looked towards Verial who now had murdered a helpless victim that was gurgling in blood. "Sire, though he could have been innocent at the same time he could've been with the mistress. We should knock out anything in our way that isn't loyal to you." I nodded my head in understanding. I'm not going to question my mortality when my life's at stake, especially in this world where strength dominates everything. Embracing my new path, I resumed following Verial where he led me to the gate where the last carriages were being pulled in by skeleton horses. I scanned around the gate and spotted a group of mercenaries heading towards the inn to the left of us. I turned to Verial who was observing the guards who were standing on top of the wall. "We have to hurry and leave now, the guard had said the commander would be back between 7:30-8:00 and it's already 7:30- "Meaning the commander will be back any minute," Verial said completing my sentence. "I think we should disguise ourselves as mercenaries, they wouldn't question people like that leaving the past dark right?" Verial placed his hand over his mouth as pondered my idea. "It would work, but unfortunately we don't have a mercenary badge, meaning they won't let us out without confirming our identity." I started to get a bit frustrated as every minute we wasted figuring out how to get past the guards another minute would be wasted until the commander came back.
Rumble, rumble, underneath our feet the ground was vibrating, speak of the Devil! "Prepare for the Commander's arrival those near the gate upon their arrival will be slain!" Instead of getting more nervous I took a deep breath and with a confident smile, I decided to grace Verial with my plan. Verial looked at me with great anticipation thinking that I'd maybe come up with a great escape plan. "Let's just book it." Verial's face immediately turned from anticipation to shock. "Sire, did I just hear that properly, you want to...just book it?" "Yes you heard me right Verial, most of the guards are facing the gate where the Commander will be returning so all we have to do is cause a distraction to get the guard's attention and slip out while they are unaware. Which we then proceed to run as fast as we possibly can to get the hell outta here." Verial looked at me as if I was insane, but nodded nonetheless since he couldn't come with anything else himself. "How are we going to cause the distraction then?" Verial asked. "Simple I have a trinket right here that can playback your voice. My plan is to announce that the succubus likes to have sex with women and that they should all hide their wives. A good plan right?" I actually felt that my plan was quite innovative and definitely would cause a noisy disturbance. Verial looked at me and shook his head helplessly and sighed. "I give up trying to reason with you sire, you truly are beyond saving, let's just try it out and hope it works." I quickly activated the trinket and proceeded to carry out my plan
In the distance, the rumbling of hooves could be heard running on the plain of death. Normally horses could gallop at 30 mph, however, these horses had been running at 40mph for hours. This was due to the fact that they were undead thus meaning they never Hunger, never tire never fear. (Sorry Biako had to use it :P) In the middle of these skeleton horses stood a giant one whose bones were covered in black. Sitting on top of a giant skeleton warhorse was a humanoid figure who like the horse matched its size and carried a giant battle-ax. A dark helm obscured everything but his eyes, which were a deep red color that pierced through anything who started upon him. His lieutenant, though a Fallen, proved his strength in his trials to serve as an officer for him. Not only did he prove his strength, but his brutal, bloodthirsty means of getting his job done was fully displayed to Commander whom he had earned respect. Most fallen tended to lean towards the gentler side and often were weak beings who hid in the background. Having a fallen like this was an extreme abnormality that was truly a welcome change. Lieutenant, when is our approximate time of arrival? Commander Argan sir, we should arrive within 15 minutes as I already see the castle in sight. Argan grunted and faced the front again. Orcs weren't known for having good eyesight and heavily relied upon their sense of smell and hearing. Though this wasn't to be underestimated since these two combinations created a warrior who had almost instantaneous reflex reactions. "Men prepare for our arrival, I want us to come home being admired not seen as just simple hunters returning home with some game!" The soldiers yelled in agreement and formed up as a column sprinting towards the castle.
Meanwhile, at the castle, the citizens were lining up to greet the Commander coming back when they heard a noise that was coming from the center of the crowd. "People of the mistress's castle, you may have thought your ruler was just your normal succubus. However, you are wrong! We have heard reports that the succubus loves women and tonight she will be looking for women to make a slave of! Father's hide your daughters! Husbands, hide your wife! Virgins hide your hidden lotus! For the succubus, lesbian will soon be descending! The guards looked completely bewildered, but they shrugged it off as an odd occurrence. But, they never expected what happened next. Women young and old began to scream in horror and fled the area back to hide in their homes. While fathers quickly secured their daughters and ran with even some forgetting their sons were there as well. There were also a few men who began to kneel and pray that the succubus would take them. The guard's bewilderment turned to helplessness as they saw the people below panicking and quickly turning the once peaceful greeting to full-blown chaos. Running out of the office a fat officer still chewing on his food peered down below at the chaos happening before him. The fat officer turned towards the guards and screamed, "HURRY GO DEAL WITH THIS NONSENSE, WHAT DO WE PAY YOU FOR? The guards wanted to reply that they were held here against their will and hadn't been paid for almost a century, but they kept quiet and hurried down the flight of stairs. "I'm done for, I'm done for." The fatty could only pray that the mistress would let him off lightly for this happening, but he doubted it.
Looking at the chaos around me I had a proud smile on my face as I watched the crowd descend into chaos. "I never expected this would ever happen in my life...well actually I never thought this would happen in the entire world." Verial was standing next to me and was lost on how this plan worked out perfectly. "Well Verial, as you see your master, is truly unparalleled, and also we need to escape soon before the guards calm down the crowd." As I was speaking more guards started to show up to contain the disturbance. Although it would take them at least 10 minutes to calm down the crowd it was best to slip out when the chaos was still at its peak. "Sire the messenger service always has extra horses in-case of overflowing, let's see if we can find one. Hurry follow me!" I was rushed after Verial who was sprinting towards the messenger stables. After I finally caught up to him he had already begun untying the skeleton horse and putting a special type of harness over it which I assumed made it more compatible for riding on- top of bones. Creak! I looked towards the messenger building where a fallen man was looking at us in hatred. "You dare try to rob my horses, I will have you hanged for this! I will make sure the mistress burns you in the most horrific pit of hell you-Smack! Before he could say anything else I socked him right in the face with a jab and he fell to the floor like a sack of potatoes. Reversing around Verial was staring at me with a grin, "I see sire is changing to be more like a Demon Lord." I shook my head, "Nah, he was just getting annoying." "Sire hop on, we need to hurry before the Commander arrives. Although the messenger horses are some fastest in the Underworld it doesn't change the fact that they can't escape an encirclement. Verial was spot on, this castle was on a peninsula surrounded by lava, if we got stuck here we would be like an animal trapped inside its pen. I quickly jumped on top of the horse and as soon as I got on Verial got the horse to shoot off out of the stable. People jumped or ran out of the way while guards attempted to stop us, but after Verial showed no signs of stopping we plowed ahead. Suddenly we heard guards shouting that we were wanted by the mistress. Unfortunately for them, we were already at the gates and they had no way of shutting it in time as we stormed out the gate.
Admittedly instead of getting excited over the speed, we were going at, I felt rather scared and was holding on to Verial for dear life trying not to fall off the horse as he had a devil's grin spread out across his face. "Don't worry sire, I'll get us out of this mess!" I didn't like putting my trust in an incubus but I guess I didn't have any other choice.
The mistress screamed in anger and felt absolutely humiliated as she heard the voice talking about her at the gate area. "I want that man brought to me in chains! Now! The maid bowed before quickly fleeing the room before the mistress became angrier. Throughout the castle, the mistress's screaming could be heard making all the Demon Lords shiver in fright.
Commander Argan, we have received reports that Demon Lord Dagon is wanted by the mistress and he has escaped the castle on a messenger horse! Argan who's orc eyes could now see the castle frowned, he didn't want to deal with nightfall where it became much more annoying to get his job done, but an order is an order. Men! Lord Dagon is wanted by the mistress and is needed to be brought back in chains. Assemble into formation. We are going to trap him in the peninsula since he's the weakest Demon Lord I doubt that any warrior here couldn't take him and his butler on. Show them the power of the mistress, and our army! The warriors roared in unison and they began to break off into 3's to lock down the peninsula.
"Sire I hear hooves in the distance, the commander and his forces are here, I recommend that you deactivate your Demonica Aura." "Demonic Aura?" I replied back confused. "Sire every demon has its own Demonic Aura, however, this is especially true to Demon Lord Aura's. Thankfully since you are weak, your Demonic Aura isn't as strong as normal Demon Lord's, otherwise, the commander would have long detected us and be right on our tails. That still doesn't change that he'll still detect it if we're close enough." Verial's information was quite helpful, but at the same time, it made me feel even more sad about how weak my character was. Sighing pitifully I looked into my menu where I saw a system prompt that asked whether I wanted to keep enabling it or not.
Disable!
Demonic Aura Deactivated
Although it was very faint I still felt like a balloon being deflated after losing its hydrogen. Verial seemed experienced about this when he turned to me and said, "Demonic Aura is what makes you a Demon Lord, without it activated, though you'll still be one it won't have an effect on various other creatures." Once again Verial revealed some useful information, but before I could ponder this newfound information I heard Verial shout, "Sire incoming soldiers ahead!" I quickly raised my head from Verial's shoulder where I saw 3 riders on horses who caught sight of us as well. "Uh Verial, should we take care of them?" I asked. "Sire a single one of those warriors could easily annihilate you in a fight, I could hold off 3 of them but I'd lose in the end. Either way, their soldiers meaning one of them will probably run off to report to their commander." As Verial completed his lines like he said, a soldier quickly turned and ran in the opposite direction."Well shit, how are we supposed to get rid of these fuckers?" "Easy, I will use a technique that only incubi can use. I was quite confused with Verial's statement, but when I saw that devil's grin appear across his face again...I knew it wasn't going to be any good.