"Are you a goddess?" Rhenius asked out of the blue while we moved forward in the wake of the blood army.
As Winston sagely advised Ray, I answered with the only correct answer, "Yes, of course. By the way, do you have the power to turn my friends into demonic dogs?" I asked with a mischievous grin.
"No, why would I?" He blurted, confused.
"Oh, thank goodness. I didn't know who I'd gonna call if you did."
He didn't say anything, weirded out by my little joke.
"Hey, Rhenius, what's the na of the First Hero?"
"It's lost in ti. But she was a noblewoman from King Ackerton I's lineage."
"King... Ackerton?" Did the Master beco a King?
"Yes. The First King of Stuteron. His capital was the very city where the First Hero killed the First Demon Lord."
So, the Master indeed beca a King. Funny how Kazuyran forgot that little tidbit. Or he wasn't aware of the Master's secret identity. Like most wouldn't be aware I was both the Death Princess and the First Hero.
"Hum," I nodded, feeling a nostalgic stint. "What about the Death Princess?"
"The counterpart to the First Hero. She was a villain of the worst sort... I'm sorry, [Princess], that's how you beca known to History."
We just followed the wake of the blood army from ship to ship. The empty vessels I stored as we passed them. All of them as the blood warriors were very thorough. I bet they could sense the blood of the living. There was no hiding from that. Rhenius showed he could leap dozens of ters with his physical and magical enhancents. I just used {Shadow Step} to follow in his wake.
"Why are you scowling?" He asked three ships ahead.
"No, nothing," I tried to hide my feelings. "Go on. How was the [Death Princess] regarded?"
"Well, the [Death Princess] was known to strike at royalty and villains all the sa. She was a force of chaos, and so scholars say she's related to the demons. I an, how would they summon two Demon Lords in the span of a few decades?"
Maybe because the first summoning was a freaking accident. But I said nothing.
"She was romanticized by an author in King Ackerton's court, Lady Hazel. Her books are popular even now, centuries later."
"Oh, Hazel. She had the sa condition as . I wish I had more ti to teach her and live, but the bastards had to summon the Second Demon Lord."
"About that," the [Prince] carefully asked, "Why did it destroy half of the continent?" He finished trying to not sound accusatory.
"Let tell you one thing about demons. They don't gain Exp. They outright devour the souls of the living. The first Demon Lord, I killed it before it could grow too much. The second was too far away and I couldn't travel fast by then. By the ti I reached it, it was already too big, killed too much. Each Demon Lord has a special characteristic. This one was that it generated heat. A lot of heat. Once I killed it, the bastard exploded.
"I died almost instantly to the explosion."
Rhenius clicked his tongue and huffed a sigh. "Along with half the continent."
"Would've been all of it if I didn't stop it there. But my family lived on that continent. Hazel and Anjou were my nieces."
A sudden blaze over two ships ahead stopped us. The Virturian army set fire to a few ships to cut the path of the blood army. The blood warriors heedlessly jumped into the fire and boiled to nothing. Behind the curtain of fla, I could sense the soldiers and knights cheering. Probably the ones that set the fire were getting Exp up their arses.
Marlowe asked through our contract.
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