{"Daddy's an asshat! He's still couldn't get over the fact that I've falling in love with a lesser noble!"} Lilith stomped her foot, crossed her arms and pouted.
Though I may not seem like it on the outside but now knowing that Lilith was the demon king's daughter, my mind was blown. Knowing mostly of the Lucifer and Lilith back in my home world, I actually like this story better. More my kind of taste. Lucifer was depicted as a fallen angel who by all means had taken up the moniker as the devil. Lilith on the other hand was the first woman to be created and was the first wife of Adam. Whilst I do find my world's story of these two interesting, I much prefer this story better.
Just the fact that she's the daughter of the demon king made my otaku self very happy. What's more was the fact that she's a succubus and yet her only one was Lucifer.
{"It's ironic since he married my mother who unbeknownst to him, lived a double life! In my mind, the word 'queen' is very loosely defined as she is well known as the queen to the whole of demon's land but then again that's what people also calls her in the brothels."} Lilith continued.
{"Wait what?"} Lucifer looked at his wife warily.
{"I'm not my mother, so don't look at me like that. I may be a succubus but I've truly only had one man."} she stated but then grinned. {"No one other than you have been inside of me, my soul, my heart and my mind."}
{"I love you too honey!"} Lucifer said, wrapping his wife into another hug.
I just smiled at the loving couple. Sooo much different from my world's lore.
[Zilma lured the heroes and succeeded. For the next few days, Zilma concocted a plan for the heroes to use. The day the heroes collaborated with a demon like Zilma was the day they lost themselves.]
As the text in front of me faded, the scene changed. I was no longer standing inside the house, instead I stood on a paved road, surrounded by burning buildings.
[The capital of the kingdom of Caldonia, Haninc, burned in a sea of red. Bodies littered the streets as loud explosion erupted a bit further inwards. The four heroes fought against the guards at the front gate to the palace. Behind them were demons of all kinds, slaughtered and laid to waste by their own kind. By Zilma's henchmen. The guards were freighted as they watched their fellow brethrens fall beside them. The demon king awaited the heroes in his throne room.]
Lucifer shook his head as we walked through the streets towards the palace. The palace was smack dab in the middle of the capital. As we walked, building fell to the ground, screams could be heard from the flames. It was heart wrenching and it's worse when you knew this had already happened. I couldn't save any of them even if I wanted too. Both Lilith and Lucilia were pouring their eyes out as they watched charred bodies inside the burning buildings.
It wasn't just Lucifer, Lilith or Lucilia walking beside me but everyone in the Shadow Legion too. Even though this whole thing was just a projection, a story just being told, didn't discourage anyone from the Shadow Legion to pay their respects to this horrific scene. We were quiet as we watched the scene unfold before us. This was a massacre, if the heroes really did killed the innocents, no matter what their reasoning was, they were no longer heroes in my books. They were no longer humans but instead monsters. If Zilma controlled them, it still didn't change the fact that they placed themselves in that situation and fell for Zilma's trap.
As we got closer to the palace, the scene changed again. This time we were standing inside what looked to be like the throne room. The demon king sat on his throne as the four heroes encircled him. It was unsettling scene to wrap my head around.
There were no guards protecting the king, I suspected there should've been some but there were none. I looked behind the four heroes and to my surprise, littered on the ground were the guards, none of the guards made it to the king, they were all killed before any of them reached him.
The demon king just stood there, his emotions stoic.
[Amano: So the humans made a deal with a demon?]
[Heroes: …]
Amano sighed.
[Amano: From the looks in your eyes, you heroes fell for Zilma's trap. I could tell that none of you wanted any of the innocents to die but there were no choices, Zilma planned it all perfectly. Strike a deal with the humans, control my council, destroy demon's land and kill me by using the heroes as his pawns like if he was playing a game of chess.]
The heroes emotions wavered.
Amano sighed again.
[Amano: I guess, this is him telling me, 'check mate'… You know this doesn't have to be a check mate, you could just let me live. It would ruin Zilma's plan if I were to live.]
The knight took a step forward and raised his sword. He shook his head once and activated some enchantments on his sword.
[Amano: Very well then.]
Amano snapped his fingers and a magic circle appeared.
[Amano: My homeland is gone. My people are gone and soon I would join them. My only regret in life was to never see my family again. I hope this result satisfied you heroes. Your own people will celebrate your victory but know this, what you have done today are far from what a hero is. I am the demon king and fought many heroes over my rule. Those heroes died a hero but you four will live as beings worser than monsters.]
The magic circle lit up and then Amano dropped to the floor. In a matter of seconds, the whole room filled itself with red orbs, thousands of them and more kept appearing.
The orbs weren't stagnant at all, some moved fast and others just spun around like if they were dancing. It was then, the orbs morphed into people. Demons.
The demon king's body started to glow and then a red orb rose from the body and joined the rest of the orbs. The body of the demon king, disintegrated.
[Knight: You're wrong!] The knight spat as he looked at the orbs.
[Knight: We aren't monsters. We didn't kill them! Zilma and his men did! We are the heroes of the humans, not the demons. You all are our enemies!]
The mage moved towards the knight, turned him around and slapped him in the face. Tears fell from her eyes.
[Mage: Yes, when we set on this journey, we were heroes but what happened today? Like that demon king said, we are no better than monsters.]
[Knight: We aren't monsters!]
[Priest: I feel like one…]
The knight looked over to the priest as she looked down, staring at the floor.
[Knight: We had nothing to do with killing those innocents, it was Zilma who killed them.]
[Assassin: And we complied with him. We were heroes, we should've act like ones. Back at the house, we should've killed him. Now we lost the meaning behind the title of a hero, we are no better than that demon!]
The knight walked up to the assassin and raised his fists.
[Assassin: Do it. Hit me. And you'll will never be my brother again. You will never see my sister again.]
The assassin leaned forward and looked the knight in the eyes.
The knight dropped his fist immediately.
[Assassin: Good. We are all in this together. We are at fault and we should own up to it.]
The knight spun around and walked to a wall and smashed his hand against it.
[Knight: Fuck! That fucking bastard! If we ever to see him again, he will die!]
The mage walked over to the knight and hugged him from behind. She pulled his fists in and held him still. Her cries filled the room.
For a few moments, the only sound was of the mage's cries. That was until a scream erupted from the priest.
The priest fell to the ground as she continued to scream, the assassin caught her but then he too let's out a loud roar of painful agony.
Both the knight and the mage looked back at the two with horror on their faces.
What they saw, what I saw could only be described as a nightmare.
Both the priest and the assassin morphed into what I described as monsters.
It wasn't only those too, soon the knight and the mage too turned into monsters. The magic circle pulsated as if it was the source that caused this to happen.
All four heroes had turned into monsters. As the heroes stopped howling, a laughter filled its place.
Zilma appeared out of nowhere and walked to the throne.
He sat down as he continued to laugh. He wasn't afraid of the monsters but instead spoke in calm manner.
[Zilma: I am finally king! Thank you heroes for all that you've done. However, I do agree with the previous king, you guys are no longer heroes but instead turned into monsters. A fitting end don't ya think?"
Zilma laughed loudly as the red orbs faded. The monsters howled and growled at Zilma which only made him laugh louder.
[Zilma: I think I'm going to enjoy this more than I thought. I couldn't believe my luck when that damn Lucifer disappeared, along with his family. He would've been my only obstacle but when he disappeared, I thought I couldn't become any happier.]
Zilma continued to laugh as text appeared in front of me.
[Zilma now controlled all of demon's land, renamed it as 'Hilliox'. He ruled over Hilliox with his monsters (Who were once heroes) and took on any heroes who were sent by the humans to kill him. The monsters (who were once heroes) over the years killed their own people, the heroes they once were. Zilma is the new demon king and the heroes, now monsters, fought by his side.]
[Visualisation is now complete.]
[Story mode is now being deactivated. If you would like to revisit this story, you will find it at the story tab.]
Everything started to disappear as I felt like I was pulled out of a dream. Time resumed once again as I looked around and nothing changed. It was as if nothing had happened.
Takoon was still deliberating our next move as Pryus, Namise and I stood and watched.
I felt Lucifer's and all of the demon's emotions as what they witnessed not a few minutes ago shocked them. Now knowing what happened, this place took on a whole new meaning.
If what we've seen is true, then the boss and secret boss of this dungeon must be Zilma and the four heroes.
I could feel the emotions vibrating from inside of me.
Lucifer.
{"Yes master?"}
Do you still want to stick Zilma's head on a pike?
{"Yes master!"}
Good. Because now you have a chance to do so.