James Vermillion-heart was relativity talented but his hatred for Alistor led him down a path of pure self-destruction. After Alistor died James became the heir and inherited the Vermillion-hart fortune and army but since he sold his soul for the demon assassins to kill Alistor the demons could control him for an hour, and they chose the hour so perfectly it allowed the Demon King to reincarnate once more as they stopped him from sending the Vermillion-hart army to stop the ritual. No one blamed him as everyone thought that the demons had such a powerful mind control spell to control him, but he blamed himself as he only knew the true reason eventually, he became an alcoholic and committed suicide which created a spiral effect as Maximillion and Aliana who have lost both of their children also committed suicide which shattered the short peace the world was living through. Which sent the world into an apocalypse which happened in the middle of the third book.
The last thing that happed in the fourth book, which is up to what I have read, Dexter killed 4 of the Demon Lords which were the weakest as the last 3 individually could kill the other 4 easily.
I stared at James as I sat down at the end of the table away from them.
Maximillion spoke in a deep voice that shook all the cutlery "Alistor come sit next to you mother or your brother."
"Father I polity refuse to your suggestion as I want to sit alone."
With that I started to dig into the beautiful meal before me. The food was simply miraculous. The orange chicken curry with the fluffy rice melted on my tongue.
Maxmillion's voice interrupted my enjoyment of the meal.
"I heard from Rachel that you ordered some very expensive ingiedents. Why do you need them as we can afford them but why?"
"Simple father, due to my superior intellect as you very well know I have figured out a cure for Pure Mana Death that we can profit of for a lot of money." I spoke while I continued to eat this beautifully presented feast. There were all sorts of things from fried chicken to ice cream.
As soon as I completed my sentence Alistor's mother, and his brother dropped their cutlery. Tears started too well in Alistor's mother's eyes, who would not as she just found out that her firstborn child was not fated to die in a few months, meanwhile James could barely hide his anger. I smirked at this until I realised that this would mean his planned assassination on Alistor would go ahead sooner. Maxmillion on the other hand welled a single tear in the eye with an iris but the moment he blinked it vanished.
Maxmillion spoke with a slight crack in his voice "That's great son." before looking down at his plate and starting to eat again.