Nicklaus was woken up by his phone ringing. Reluctantly, he took the phone and went to the bathroom. He knew it was a client and he did not want Aggie to listen to his conversation. He looked at the ID and saw it was a man wearing a clown's make up. He knew it was the version of this earth's joker and his code name was The Killer Joke.
"Hello? How can I help you?"
"I have to say, I am impressed, Goldie. I have been trying to kill The Chill for years but the bastard been getting luckier and luckier. How would you like to go on the next big score?" the teasing voice of the madman came from the other line.
"Who do you want?" Nicklaus asked.
"I have been thinking, maybe I want a hero dead, maybe I want a villian dead. To be honest, I almost put my head up for the prize but then who would pay you? How about we come to an impasse,"
"Continue speaking," Nicklaus said as he opened the sink's tap all the way to the end.
"I will pay you four hundred million if you kill all the members of the Evil Seven excluding me. I have called them for a meeting in two hours but I will not be there, you will. Then you will proceed to slashie slashie stab stab them all. Do we have a deal? I will send forty million as the down payment so you can start the job immediately,"
"You will hear the news when the time is right," Nicklaus said and hung up. Nciklaus then saw a bag in front of him. He opened it up and saw hundred bills stacked together. With a quick count, he confirmed it was all there so he put it into his ring. He later brushed his teeth then took a bath. When he got out of the shower, a towel round his waist, he found Aggie sitting up on her bed.
"You're up early," she said.
"Yeah, I had a call from a likely client. He said he would like to invite me for a chat," he said as he wore his clothes.
"It's still early. How about you stay in bed for a couple of minutes?" she asked him. He just chuckled then kissed her on her forehead then her neck.
"I wish I could but this guy sounded quite serious," he told her. He kissed her goodbye then went back to his apartment. He made sure everything was in order before he went away. Once he made sure he was clear, he changed into his armour then proceeded to the building where the Evil Seven usually gathered. Nicklaus then sat on the Killer Joke's chair and turned to face the huge windows. An hour and half later, the other members of the villian club arrived. There was Scars, a huge man covered with scars all over his body, Banshee, Minatour, Fallen Angel, Mad Hatter and finally Live Stream. None of them were talking as they were used to their leader's theatrics.
"Has any of you ever wondered how it feels like to be a god?" Nicklaus asked them. When they heard his voice, all of them became ready for combat. "Don't get your knickers all twisted up. All I need is an answer."
"You are that new mercenary," Banshee said in her high pitch voice.
Suddenly, Nicklaus felt time being manipulated. He frowned as he armed himself with Tsune. He turned around and saw a young man looking at him. He had a two budding horns on his forehead.
"Who are you?" Nicklaus asked him.
"Three years! It took you three years to be a Mid god! Not only me but even the Author was scared shitless! Don't worry, he is trying to revive his three children to care about you. I am the one who brought you the Origin universe so that you can cultivate Qi."
"Origin Universe? What is that?"
"This is the Universe that has been there since Time strated. You can call me Hulgrum, the Demon tribe Proginetor." Nicklaus had read about him about it was so little that it might have been next to nothing.
"Why did you take me there and give me a new body?"
"To be honest, I thought about playing you and take the body back after a hundred thousand years when I grew bored. But you just did something I never thought you would so I am here to offer you a deal. I want you to be a fallen and become a demon," he said. Nicklaus looked at him and thought he was mad.
"Why would I do that?"
"Because once the Author is done reviving his children, he will come after you and he will destroy planets, galaxies and universes to get to you and noone is more powerful than him in the light faction. Once you become my surbodinate, you are under me now and if he decided to come after you, he is going to war with me," Hulgrum said. Nicklaus found sense in that. He looked at the frozen villians here then remembered Aggie. Quickly, he erased her memories of him before agreeing. Hulgrum gave him a demon heart and told him to eat it. When he did, he felt a sudden sharp pain that spread all over his body to his soul, making him pass out. Hulgrum got hold of him and brought him with him.
Nicklaus opened his eyes slowly and first thing he saw were twelve looking demons at him. He quickly sobered up immediately. He immediately saw that he had become bigger through his consciousness. He also saw he had grown a tail, a pair of demon wings and a our of hands. He got up from his chair and looked around, not believing what he was seeing.
"He looks like a mutt chasing his tail," one of the demons said.
"Enough! Nicklaus is a newly ranked up Demon King and he can probably take on most of you as he is. He uses Dragon Force better than dragons and has four galaxies as his base," Hulgrum reprimanded them. By then, Nicklaus was already done with his check up. He was now easily six metres and was looking even more menacing in his golden Armour and Tsune that had also grown with him.
"How do you feel?" Hulgrum asked him.
"Stronger and weird. It's like waking up in the body of another. Even though I can still use Dragon Force but I can feel the aura of the Abyss in my soul," Nicklaus said.
"Welcome to the Council, Demon King Nicklaus. You are the new Demon King and with that name come the responsibility. You can command any demon lord you want as long as the demon lord is not under other demon kings. You will be given a part of the Abyss to rule and all demons in that part will be your subordinates by defect. When the trumpets of war are blown, you can either heed the call or ignore it but the demons under you cannot, except your personal guards. You cannot also use your divine weapons in the Abyss unless fighting against other demon kings. Do you have any questions, requests or concerns?"
"Yeah. I am not a leader, I am my own army so all I asking is to be giving an uninhabitable planet out there and I will be satisfied," Nicklaus said to the surprise of the other Demon Kings.
"I thought so so I had the planet prepped for you. You can make it anyway you want. Now, the Abyss is spread all over through faith and it is the largest dimension out there, spreading to fictional world's and others so you can go to any. As you are a Demon King, the world laws do not affect you much or none at all. You cannot bring the end of a world without permission or other ancient races will come at you, hard, especially Asuras. Now, I will leave you alone," Hulgrum said then disappeared. Nicklaus looked around and was somehow reminded of a new kid in school.
"So, my name is Nicklaus," he said just to diffuse the situation. One of the demons suddenly got up and glared at him.
"The demon that sat on that chair before you was a hundred times the better demon than you so do not think I will think of you as my equal unless you prove to me you are," he growled at him. He then disappeared allowed by all the others save one demon.
"Do not take their grumpiness as hatred to you. The demon that sat there before you was one who was known for his love of his race be gave his life to fight against six mid gods of the light faction when he was in a mission from his majesty," she told him. Nicklaus then nodded at her.
"I take it that you were not close to him?" he asked her.
"He was my partner," she told him. Nicklaus was surprised by this. "You never had a partner, huh? We are like what humans would call it, friends with benefits. He would bring things for me to buy and me the same and sometimes we would meet for an orgy. As a long lived race and now we can live for however long we wish, we get to be surprisingly laced about each other. Sometimes we betrayed each other yet we would sleep in each others bed,"
"So you are one of those relationships that is toxic to each other but still get addicted to one another, huh? Well, nice to meet you..."
"Lilith," she said. Nicklaus's eyes grew big as saucers.
"Lilith, you are fabled to be the first wife of Adam!"
"You are from that earth, huh? Well, I was there because I heard that garden was beautiful and since there was no other race there that I could receive my stress with so I slept with Adam twice or thrice. Imagine my surprise when I got pregnant and thus bore demons for that earth's hell," she said then got up. "If you need any help we can be partners, what do you think?"
"I'll think about it," he told her.