Meanwhile in the human kingdom*
The three veil opened at the time of Gary's departure have been closed and the king had decided to hold a celebration for the hero's to welcome them back.
While the hero's arrive at different time interval to the kingdom, they were received with a parade, the two teams that were on standby to protect the kingdom incase of any out break where already at the castle.
Gathering together the 25 of them all exchanged their experiences about the veil and about the rewards they were given, some got insights to new skills, while some received magical weapons, but then the question of where Gary was was dropped, and they all fell silient untill dave spoke up
"He was sent to the demon realm"
"Huh why would they do that" asked aria
"It seems his summoning here wasn't really a mistake after all, because the same murial or whatever that gave the humans the ritual instruction to summon us also gave the demons to summon him as their hero to close their veil"
"Hahahahahaha oh I wished I could have punched him good one last time before he left now he's a hero I guess he'll now think he is on par with us hahahaha" Elijah could help himself, but deep down he felt angry at Gary for leaving, he can't really mess with anyone present here and now Gary is a hero to which annoyed him the most.
"That's enough " said Owen in a calm voice, "I know you Gary and Sophia had a rough start but you took things to far Elijah, why I never really intervened was because meddling in your affairs is non of my business and now he is gone, in case you don't know according to the information I got from magus tista the demons needed only one hero while us 25 where summons for the humans, dosent that make u think?"
"What are you trying to imply, that he'll be stronger than us and take revenge on me? On us? Ha I'll love to see him try" replied Elijah
"What do you mean us?" Asked Aria "it was you and you squad with Dave that bullied and beat him up every day the rest of us did nothing "
"And that's what I'm talking about you all did nothing, no reporting me, no standing up for the peepskwesk nothing, and don't get me started on when we got summoned here you all did nothing here either, you all had powers same as me but non of you stepped up to protect him, even when the knights looked down on him and harrased him you all did nothing, some of you even used him as training dummy sometimes so don't go making it look like I was the most horrible one, you all were just as horrible as I was hahahahaha" said Elijah with a feverish glint in his eyes
No one could say anything, cause they all knew they were guilty of everything that was laid before them
"Does it really matter what he thinks?" Asked Sophia "he'll always remain the same pathetic loser he once was, not even being a demon hero can change that and besides we have 25 of us who had a head start before him, even if he starts training now he'll never catch up with us and he'll never amount to much, so stop throwing blames, we should all work together and protect ourselves" while saying this Sophia used one of her skills to manipulate the thought process of everybody there, the new skill she received in the veil,
>skill
>queens order; ones activated the words spoken are received as an order and obeyed by those below user with weak will (cost; 30MP)
Knowing it will work at this time where they all feel guilty and afraid of the possible consequences of their action she used the skill on them, and she knew it worked well on all of them because she was the second strongest, she looked at Elijah who she knows it wouldn't work on him and said
"You are the strongest of us all, and I know you'll protect us, am I right" she asked with a bright smile on her face
Looking at her, owen just stood up and left
Later that evening during the celebration the heroes were given recognition for their works and given titile as well as gold
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Back in the demon realm* (same day of diablos demonization)
Diablo was led to a room in the castle so he could rest and get washed
"From now on this will be you living quarters" said a female demon with a bow
After washing Diablo couldn't help but stare at his reflection in the mirror, horns growing from his temples and curving down his face, his pitch black hair are now white, he still retained his old facial look but he now looked more refined, and the most catching off all was his pitch black eyes and red pupils
'Looking good ain't we' he thought to himself with a slight smile which revealed his sharp canine just like that of a vampire...
"Diablo Sama, the queen has called for you presence" said a slightly muffled voice from the door
Arriving at the queens chambers Diablo saw the five demons that escorted him through the dead forest waiting there also in the queens chamber
"Greetings your majesty, you called for me?"
"Yes Diablo, for the next few weeks You'll train alongside these warriors here to prepare you"
"My name is lilia, a dark mage and leader of this squad, we'll be in your care Diablo-sama" the blue skinned demon that was the leader of the escort team said while bowing to Diablo
"Likewise" replied Diablo with a slight bow...
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Training with the squad was not as breezy as Diablo thought it would have been, despite his strength and ability he was knocked out most of the training sessions, they started his training with 1v1, and he had to fight each of them and create an way to beat them, then 1v2 then 1v3 till he had to battle the whole squad which was something different entirely, their team work was flawless, his training went on this way because he will be the only one entering the veil….
The training that was supposed to last a few weeks went on for around a month and half till he could defeat lilia and her squad….
"Haaaa, that was intense" said Diablo, his hair was disheveled and he had some cut on his body
"Weldone Diablo" said a voice
Turing around with his gauntlet blazing with hellfire Diablo was surprised to see the queen zekora standing there
'I couldn't even sense her arrival, so she really is the strongest'
"the final stage of your training have been prepared after that you'll be sent to the most troublesome of our veil to help close it down, for now rest well" saying that she turned around with unhurried steps towards the castle