[Chapter 8] [Alexander POV]

I have been stuck in this world for two days now. I haven’t met any human contact in that amount of time. That doesn’t mean I haven’t had any contact with other creatures in that time framer either.

Right now I just got back from training with a bunch of my Lieutenants , which I was given when I first appeared here. They are quite an interesting bunch.

It was like ‘Welcome to your new home! Now take these people to help you become worthy of being MY subordinate!’.

Who’s subordinate you are wondering? Well the Demon Lord obviously. Who else?

Yep, as soon as I entered this ‘game’ I became the Demon lord’s General in name and class… And race. Is that how things work here?

Like are races and classes the same thing or is that just me? I do however have a sub race which is Incubus which I think spices things up quite a bit.

But yeah, I was the 665 player to join the ‘game’ so I was ‘respectively’ given this instead of anything else. But considering this is probably a special occurrence I can’t really complain about it.

I also did the tutorial like every other sane person, only idiots don’t take the tutorial right? Unless they already know how to play.

Right now I’m walking through the grand halls of the Demon Lord’s Citadel, passing the suits of armour, tapestries of war, maids, guards, stuff like that.

If one wanted to, they could stay here for weeks looking and doing everything they have available here. The Citadel has everything you could ever want from what I found out from the short time I was here so far.

They have spas, saunas, armories, training room [yards] and a red light district… I may or may not have went there for a quick peek before I had to leave.. Hehe…

Now that I’m back I have to go right towards the Demon Lord to say that I have accomplished my ONE day of training. It wasn’t even training, I was just getting power leveled the whole time.

I reached the giant double doors that are 10 meters tall made with black steel and has plenty of inscriptions of runes to help prevent it from being busted open.

It has four Greater Dullahans standing guard at the it and they kindly opened the doors for me, letting the sounds of laughter and eating hit me from inside the room.

As you can guess, this is the dining hall! Giant long tables with enough food to allow several feasts to happen at once, which will also have tons of alcohol and lots of fights!

The whole hall is filled with different kinds of demons and intelligent monsters hanging out. If anyone came in not knowing what was going on, they would assume a party was happening.

But it’s like this everyday however I would think a dining hall would be elegant and serious, not messy and rowdy.

I take long strides towards the end of the hall to reach my new boss who is probably only eating desserts and is drinking something akin to sake or just a crappy tasting version of it.

I finally reach the front where he and his left hand man/woman is seated. He is not at all what I expected a Demon Lord to look like.

For one thing he is really thin, like I’m more muscular than he is. He is shorter than me by almost a foot and he is sickly pale. About the only thing that seem Demon Lord-like on him are the two demonic wings that jut from his shoulders and his horns which spear out of the sides of his forehead with runes that curl around them. Now this is where it confused me..

He is wearing a Japanese costume. I mean a kendo sword on his hip, a toothpick clenched between his teeth and finally... He has the largest pompadour swelling from his head that put even his horns to shame.

I’m sorry but he looks utterly ridiculous. My old boss was completely terrifying to those that crossed him while my new boss looks more like a delinquent wannabe which makes me want to fall on the ground crying from laughter.

His right hand woman looks like the stereotypical Succubus with her large breasts that draw your eyes, an hourglass figure which makes me drool and which has gotten me in trouble with her before when I first met her.

Long hair that looks like silk that reaches to the floor and bangs that cover both her eyes. I haven’t seen them but they are probably very beautiful, but she also probably has a dangerous glint in them when I’m looking at her like I’m some kind of cockroach.

Anyways, the Demon Lord’s name is Abadone, and his right hand woman who is also the other general is named Yrelera. Demons and their weird names, that sometimes you can’t even pronounce.

“Mahahahahah! Welcome back Alexander! I hope your training went well? Not meeting anything too dangerous I hope.” Abadone says with a beaming smile. “It would be a shame if I had to lose you so soon right after you got here. How would I get another General! Mahahhahaha!”

I shake my head and say. “Yes sire, my six lieutenants made sure I was safe and made the trip enjoyable and worthwhile. The only dangerous thing that we saw were some Minotaurs which we killed quite easily.”

Yrelera smirks at me while putting her head in the palm of her hand. “Really now? You killed some Minotaurs? Have any proof of that.”

I frown and retort at her. "Why would I need to show proof to you about if I killed them or not. If you don’t believe my group and I actually killed some Minotaurs, talk to them and they will agree we killed some.”

“Who says they won’t just lie for you and say they did but they didn’t. You could threaten them or bribe them for all i know?” She states and I snort.

“Do you really think I would do something that low just to sound better in front of Sire? I’m not like you sweetheart.” I smirk at her and she looks pissed now.

“Why you little-!” She starts but Abadone cuts her off. “That's enough! It doesn’t matter if they did or not! Just stop with this petty rivalry between you two.” He glares at both of us than sighs.

“Now that we gotten that out of the way, I will have to sadly say this Alexander but, I will need you to go to the Curvena Human Kingdom to spy on them due to them having a hero summoned. Well not intentional since you like the hero was somehow brought here, we must still make sure that the kingdom doesn’t think they can pull a fast one on us.

I suggest you only bring your lieutenants and give me weekly updates through the ‘Message’ spell. If there is anything very important you saw or that you found out, please do not hesitant to tell me right away. Now that this is said and done, you may now leave and get ready for the trip. I hope you do not meet anything too dangerous.”

When he finished giving me my orders I bowed to him and started walking out. Before I left I stuck my tongue out at Yrelera which gave me a revolted expression. I know this wasn’t mature but who cares.

Once I exited the hall the Dullahans closed the door behind me while I took quick strides to get me where I last left my Lieutenants. Every General is supposed to have 6 Lieutenants, one for each of the other seven deadly sins that the General isn’t.

This was put in place so we all could cover for each of our strengths and weaknesses. Would really suck if the whole team was Sloths or Wrath. Just imagine the whole team doing nothing or just fighting blindly for no good reason.

If I haven't explained why demons are like this, let me finally explain. Demons are created or born with one carnal desire which is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. When they get their sin, they than construct their body to better suit that sin.

An example would be Lust would have very lewd or lascivious bodies to more easily ensnare prey or perhaps added appendages to help in capturing and inducing pleasure.

Another example would be Greed where they would get special abilities or enchantments on their body or specific body parts to help with their Sin. I even heard there was a Greed demon named Sadim who had the ability to turn weaker creatures into gold with a touch.

The name and power sounds familiar but whatever, I have better things to think about such useless things.

I finally reach the room my lieutenants are in walk in to see them all yelling at each other.. I left for bloody 10 minutes max and I come back to this..

“Just let us kill the fucking Minotaur! We need the materials way more than what it could do for us. It’s just a waste of space and another mouth to feed!”

The person who said that was Contifex who is a Devil [which is the Greed type of Demon]. She wears lawyer attire which is tight on her long thin body, Has golden hair tied in a bun, purple fire for eyeballs and usually has a malicious smirk on her face however right now she looks pissed.

The person she was talking to is Prodigious which is a Superbia demon [Pride]. She has long cascading pink locks which turn up when they reach the middle of her back, multi colored eyes that seem to always be swirling around and long eyelashes. Elegant clothing that usually royalty and more specifically a princess would wear. And finally, she is currently sitting on a Minotaur who is on all fours..

“It’s not my fault Abyssi ate all the Minotaur parts we collected earlier! Why should I give up something that is rightfully mine and even if it is another mouth to feed I suggest we just cut back on Abyssi’s food budget than.”

Prodigious fires back with another glare of her own towards Contifex after she finished speaking. Abyssi that was called out on eating the Minotaur parts starts snarling at Prodigious.

Abyssi is an 8ft tall skinny anorexic looking pale white Gorge demon [Gluttony]. He has lanky arms that almost reach the ground and has six long 9 inch claws for fingers with a sharp J hook on the end of each which usually prevent anything from escaping his grasp when caught.

Fist sized sunken eye sockets that if you look into them it looks like looking into the pit itself. He also has teeth like a anglerfish which just like the anglerfish is used to prevent creatures from escaping when brought into the mouth. It was freaky this one time when his jaw unhinged itself and sucked in the rest of a half eaten Minotaur like he was a jet propeller on suck.

“How about you try to live your entire life in an endless hunger that never leaves unless you're stuffing your face. It is far more difficult than what you have to deal with, you pompous bitch.” Abyssi growls while smirking? Can’t tell with his teeth and everything.

Prodigious goes bright red with anger and starts yelling some stuff in [Pector] which is the Demon’s language. The reason why they were talking in [Angelicus] earlier is because I don’t understand [Pector]. They got in habit even talking in [Angelicus] because I was always nearby but it seems like she snapped.

Those three continue to argue amongst themselves while the other three are just watching uninterested. Well besides Odioinf who is a Pit Lord [Wrath]. He seems pretty entertained about this argument, probably hoping it will end into a brawl which he can join in or perhaps kill the Minotaur if Prodigious gives in.

He is currently riding on his 5 meter long Hell Drake which he named Doom. It’s pretty dangerous looking. Sharp spikes all over it’s body which are glowing bright red due to having lava underneath it’s skin. It’s blood is literally lava for heaven's sake. Two wings with 10 meter wingspan and a vicious snarl with rows of shark like teeth.

Odioinf is wearing his family's legacy which is basically the family’s armour and weapons. Black plated steel with images and runes inscribed on it of the family's history and to boost the stats of the wearer. He has one of those helmets with a slit for the eyes and holes to help breath through. You can see two bright red orbs which are his eyes in the slit however his Giant mustache which he religiously grooms is coming out of the holes, so it looks like he has little brown fluffy spots on it.

His voice is very deep when he has his helmet on and has an feeling of bloodlust and hatred even if he isn’t upset. The only thing I haven’t yet mentioned about him yet is that the is around 4ft tall and if you took off his mustache and put it lengthwise against his body to see which is longer, the mustache is about 3 thirds of his height and without his helmet on his voice is pretty squeaky.

You wouldn’t be able to tell if he is that tall unless the gets off Doom which if the is on him, he looks average height like someone from Shrek who rides a horse which made him look taller.

The other one of the two left is Informis which is a Doppelganger [Envy]. It looks like a big blob of grey goo or slime that is always changing his shape. Faces can be seen coming and going as well as random appendages making it look pretty terrifying sometimes. It doesn’t help that it’s voice is always changing and is usually distorted.

The last one is Castitas who is a Mammon demon [Sloth]. She is around the same height of Odioinf but is a Purple Loli slime girl who has long slime hair and usually wears a long to large for her sticky kimono which makes her even look more innocent and adorable than she already does. She is very childish, sleepy and like I said, innocent to the world around her and is like an little sister which is usually dotted on and being over protected.

Informis notices me and grows two long arms and starts crawling over to me and grows a large clown like mouth to speak to me. “Welcome back General. I hope your time with the King was a little bit enjoyable. As you can see right now the others are complaining about some stupid shit again. I hope you can put an end to this, General?”

I smile wryly at him and nod, which I than promptly walk over to the rest of them which they now realize I’m here. Contifex comes to me with a smirk. “General, Prodigious is stubbornly holding onto the Minotaur that submitted to her I don’t want to take it away from her but we need to kill it for it’s materials to make better gear. So if you could tell Prodigious to stop being a baby and let us just harvest it? I’ll make it worth your while”

When she said that she gave me a sly smile when she said that. Oh I want to so badly now.. I smile back at her and look over to Prodigious who is giving me a death stare. Sigh.. Looks like I won’t be getting the reward..

“Sorry, but even if we need the materials the Minotaur is still hers so we can’t touch it.” When I said that Prodigious sneered at Contifex to her supposed victory however it is short lived.

“However. We are being sent to Curvena Kingdom to see what they are going to do with their Hero. Which means we will have to be discreet while we are there. And I don’t think a Minotaur will be quick enough to follow us to there unless something is carrying it and not only that, I doubt hiding a Minotaur will be easy.

So unless Prodigious will take full responsibility and make sure it will be able to keep up with us and keep it WELL hidden she may keep it. If not, might as well kill it now. Is that good enough for a compromise?” After I was done talking everyone agrees a little unhappily that it’s a compromise but better than one side winning and the other hating the winner.

Prodigious is pale because of her side of the bargain but still agrees. She seems pretty meek right now, how cute.

“Okay everyone, let's go. I want to be out of the Capital in an hour so get everything you want now!” With that being said they all quickly leave to grab anything they need for the long journey ahead.

[And there is the first part of the chapter which was Alexander. The rest will be Elivia, Gideon and a special Guest POV in the rest. I hope you enjoyed this part and I also hope you have a great day!]