Erebus left after giving a riddle, I looked around and seeing the other Demons trying to figure out the answer I thought to myself
'Seriously was the riddle this much harder?, I mean if you carefully think about the riddle words you could easily decode this riddle'.
Any ways I tried to walk away from these dumb demons but they stopped me in my track.
"You!, where do you think you are going? Huh"
"I was just trying to take a walk"
"Do you think that we are fools"
"No, I believe that you are not intelligent"
"Ohhh"
"...." 'Seriously' I thought
"Huh, what? What did you say bastard?"
"Stop talking and kill that human " another demon chimed in between our conversation.
"You will regret it later" I tried to stop them cause they were nine in numbers and everyone came here after killing 100 demons that means all of them were strong.
"Why should we?" One of them asked, he was the second person, who cleared the first trial after me.
"Do you know the answer of the Riddle?, Because I know the answer " I replied to him.
Hearing me their eyes sparkled and hastily asked about the answer.
"What? What's the answer?"
"Tell us what's the answer?"
"Speak or else we will kill you"
"Hold on, hold on brother the answer is A river" I answered them.
"But even if you know that the world stone is inside the river, how you are going to find it in the whole river and there might be dangers in the river" I warned them because I knew that after knowing the answer they would kill me, so I gave them a reason to not kill me.
"So I am telling you all that use me as a tool to find the world stone and then the strongest one will get the stone after killing others" I suggested them a great solution.
"We can't trust this human" one of them said.
"Do you have any other plan?" 2nd position demon asked him.
"...."
"Then shut your mouth and follow this plan and you human, if you tried to be smart, we will kill you"
'Being smart is not a Crime, right?' I asked my heart but he didn't give any reply.
After which I started my search inside the river, day and night I dived in the river in search of the world stone.
The river wasn't too long but it took me entire one year to search the river and today I finally found a note and when I came back to the surface I informed the demons about it.
" I found a note related to our task" I said to them.
" Huh, a note what does it say" one of them asked.
" There is another riddle written on the paper"
"Shaped by wind, water, and time,
In me, nature's artistry you'll find.
Carved and smoothed, I stand in grace,
What am I, with a weathered face?"
"What the hell, now we have to solve this" one of the demons said.
"You don't have to, because I already know the answer and the answer is eroded rock formation " I answered them.
"What does this mean?"
"This means a rock that took the form of a specific thing over the years? Have you seen this type of rock any where near the river while I was searching the river"I explained to these dumb demons but as I asked about the question, I saw two of them flinch but didn't point out this.
At night when everyone were sleeping one by one two demons left the place in search of the eroded stone.
Seeing them I smiled and woke up other demons.
"Hey wake up, wake up, otherwise every one is going to die"
"Huh, what are you Even saying human?" They woke up from their slumber and asked.
"The two of our group betrayed us, and they went to take the world stone"
"Huh!, Who?"
"Those two are not here"
"Francois and Draco"
"Whaaat, we should find them otherwise they will find the stone"
"I know where they are" I informed them about their directions and they all went there.
But I laid down and Started sleeping again.
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"Haha, I finally found the world stone, now I am going to rule this world" Draco(2nd position) started laughing like a maniac after finding the world stone inside the eroded stone formation.
"Leave that stone or prepare to die"Francois (3rd position) came to this place and warned the Draco.
"Huh do you think you can defeat me" Draco said in his Deep voice.
"No, but we can defeat you two" other seven demons reached there and said in heroic tone.
(A/N:- a heroic dilogue by villain themselves seriously 😒.)
Soon the battle starts between them.
Hearing the battle voices I also woke up and went to the that place, I again manipulated those demons, at first they all wanted to kill me but as I helped them in solving the riddle they forgot about killing me.
After that I intentionally took too much time and searched the whole river despite knowing the exact location as an author, so that one or two wannabe smart demons notice that eroded stone.
In this one year I also won the trust of the demons by my hard work. That's why when I told them that we were betrayed, they believed my word and started fighting each other.
*Slash*
"Hah hah, see I killed you all" Draco said with difficulty, he was injured and tired.
*Clap*clap*clap*
I stepped out from the bushes and started clapping.
"Bravo Draco, and thank you for the world stone" I praised him and immediately charged at him using boost with summoned sword in my hand and
*Splash*
A look of disbelief could be seen in the face of the flying head of Draco.
Then I picked the world stone and went back to the starting point, where Erebus was already waiting and then gave him the stone.
(A/N:-I went to the aquarium this weekend, but I didn't stay long. There's something fishy about that place. 🤔🤔🤔, so I came back and uploaded this chapter in hope that you will donate power stones and give your reviews.)