<h4>Volume 1 Chapter 33: Skryme’s Gifts</h4>


    Trantor: The Light


    Within the Dark Sanctum, Be sat on a lounge chair, satisfaction showing on her face. Hadias was still in the attire that she had been presented to Be in, except that there was now a red pair of cat ear decorations on her head. Apart from the anti-demon cross, a red cor now also decorated Hadias’ neck, a intricate chain connecting the cor to a pir besides the bed.


    Hadias’ face was blushed as she thought about her current state, she was currently on all fours prostrating herself before Be, massaging her feet. She had wanted to voice herins, but Be had shoved a red ball into Hadias’ mouth, effectively sealing her voice.


    As Hadias had signed a Master/Servant contract with Be previously, Be couldpletely use the contract’s powers and force Hadias to do her bidding. Be, however, for some mischievous reason chose not to invoke the contract, making Hadias do this of her ‘own will’.


    “Come close Hadias, why are you hiding from your master? Do you think that I’ll eat you or something?”


    Be tugged on the metal chain in her hand and Hadias was forced to crawl towards her. One of Be’s hands gently caressed Hadias face, also making it so that Hadias was forced to look at Be.


    “It seems that you aren’t fully conscious of your identity as a ve yet! Maybe I should summon Skryme to help you?”


    Hadias was unable to maintain her resistance after hearing that Be nned to summon Skryme. She obediently got into Be’s arms, letting Be embrace her like one would to a pet cat.


    Seeing Hadias who had submitted herself like a pet, Be felt a surge of aplishment. Be had tested out the ‘tools’ that were currently on Hadias before on Noesha, but didn’t have quite enough time to enjoy herself. But now, Be had all the time she needed to satisfy her dark desires.


    Hadias’ identity as the demon world’s princess only made it all the more exciting to Be. Be wasn’t afraid of Hadias’ demon lord fathering to look for trouble. Be had thoroughly ‘interrogated’ Hadias previously, who had quickly spilled the all the beans about all she knew about the demon world due to her fear of Be.


    The demon world used to have 10 demon lords, who had joined with the celestial world’s gods’ punitive expedition against the twelve demon kings who had invaded this world with their armies of evil beings. The expedition was a catastrophic failure, with all twelve of the celestial world’s high gods being, the 12 demon kings then invaded the celestial world, ughtering most of the celestial world’s gods and bathing the celestial world in their blood.{1}


    The fate of the demon world wasn’t that much better, all 10 of their demon lords ughtered. The only fortunate thing was that the ancient 12 demon kings had all disappeared before they had the opportunity to invade the demon world, but by that time they had almost driven the inhabitant races of the surface world to extinction.


    The demon kings from 10,000 years ago had made their first appearance on the Alfred Continent, first destroying the human Frederick Empire before defeating the demon and celestial worlds’ punitive force. All twelve high gods and ten demon lords had lost their lives on the Alfred Continent.


    After that, the twelve demon kings sent their main force towards the celestial world while the others stayed behind on the surface world and wreaked havoc on the other continents. At the time, humans, elves, beastmen, as well as dragons were all cautious of each other, not willing to fullymit to an union. The beastmen had even attempted to work with the twelve demon kings and share the surface world.


    Within a year, the elves who hadcked the numbers of the other races and were therefore unable to keep up with the high number of losses as well as theirck of proportion between troop types were forced to be the first to exit the battlefield.


    Elven archers werepletely unable to resist against the unstoppable force that was the demon king armies, the elven empress at the time brought the remaining third of her people and retreated back into the forests. Withdrawing from the affairs of the outside world.


    After the elves had withdrawn, the demon kings focused the vast majority of their forces on the dragons, theirrgest threat. The beastmen were unwilling to send aid due to hatred of the dragons for invading theirnd previously. The human race had eighteen empires at the time, making it hard toe to a unified decision. After the humans finally managed to settle their internal problems, it was toote. The demon kings hadpletely routed the dragons.


    After eliminating thergest threat, the offensive of the demon kings’ armies werepletely unstoppable. The five beastmen empire were all decimated by the demon kings, a portion of the remaining beastmen choosing to defect to the demon kings while the rest of them turned to gueri fighting where they could and continued their resistance in ces far away.


    Of the human race’s eighteen empires, thirteen of them were destroyed by the demon kings, the remaining five forced to put aside their differences and create a unified frontier to make a stand. These five empires would go on to be the five great empires of the current time, but back then the five were still the rtively weaker of the original eighteen empires.


    After, the demon kings and their forces had mysteriously disappeared, sparing the five remaining human empires. As for the demon world, it had fallen into a chaotic civil war for power due to the deaths of all the demon lords that had previously maintained order through force, the devastation of the demon world’s civil war wasn’t any less than that of the war on the surface.


    Many of the noble families that had lost favour chose to flee to the surface world in order to avoid theplete extermination of their lineage. These were the demons that would go on andy the foundations for the current four great demon empires.


    Thest group of demons that had managed to escape had decided topletely destroy the only route that connected the demon world to the surface in fear of their lives. The demon civil warsted for over a thousand years, ending with the Naler family’splete victory. The Naler family was the one that Hadias had descended from.


    In the present day, the only way for the inhabitants of the demon world to enter the surface world was through the extremely rare transportation orbs, a one-use item that would be destroyed after use. Hadias had entered the surface world by stealing a transportation orb from her father, the demon lord.


    Therefore, the demon lord wouldn’t be able toe to the surface world, he might not even know that his treasured daughter was currently in the new demon king Be’s hands. This meant that Hadias’ fate waspletely under Be’s control, a familiar bound by a master/servant contract couldn’t deny anymand given by the master, meaning that Be could make Hadias kill herself and Hadias would have to carry it through. It was a rather brutal contract that was effectively enving the servant and depriving them of their rights.


    “So I’ve heard that you have a cute sister back at home Hadias, you should invite her up here sometimes...”


    Of course Hadias knew that Be didn’t have anything nice nned, but she didn’t even have the ability to speak right now, there wasn’t anyway for her to voice her opinions. She could only nuzzle up to Be and pretend that she didn’t know how to answer.


    This little temptress, if there wasn’t something that Be needed to attend to right now, she would have already ‘eaten’ this girl already. Well, there wasn’t harm in waiting just a little while longer, Hadias was chained and wouldn’t be able to escape her fate. Be looked at Irene, whoy on a bed behind her and Hadias, still fast asleep, she wouldn’t be able to escape Be’s grasp either.


    Be took out a strip of red cloth and blindfolded Hadias, then blocking the loli’s ears with some cotton. Hadias couldn’t resist and could only let Be have her way. After finishing all of this, Be pulled Hadias towards the pir and secured her to it, nning to leave her here for a while.


    Be returned to the Unholy Spring, a blurred figure at her side. Judging from the figure, it seemed to be a female that was made of a viscous fluid, but no details could be discerned.


    This was the main body of Skryme, the only one of the 6 void monarchs that were allowed to enter the Dark Sanctum. The other five void monarchs were unable to understand why Skryme had been fortunate enough to be allowed in, Medusyr was technically more powerful, but was still not allowed to enter.


    Probably only Be and Skryme knew the reason, the two of them hade together because of their shared interests, it was impossible for normal people to understand theplex friendship between ‘gentlemen’. From the moment that Skryme had gifted Be, the two of them immediately became good rades’.


    “Be-sama, this is a gift that I had obtained by exchangingrge amounts of live captives with that big spider, Yulysses, I hope you’ll like it.”


    Because Skryme’s body was made out of a fluid that ignored thews of physics, it was able to change its size at will and was easily able to enter through the 3-metre entrance of the Dark Sanctum. As it was able to freely enter every nook and cranny of the Dark Sanctuary, it could do a lot that the other five void monarchs couldn’t.


    This time Skryme had brought Be a familiar yet unfamiliar girl, with brown eyes and a horsetail of the same colour. The girl had not a single scrap of fabric on her body, her arms tied together above her head by semi-transparent spider silk that was also connected to a metal hook on the ceiling, making it so that the girl was forced to stand straight.


    The girls feet had been forced apart and glued to the ground by Skryme’s special glue, probably to stop her fromshing out with her feet as well as to deny her the ability to escape. The girl’s pretty face had a look of fury on her face, her eyes fixed on Be.


    Be thought for a bit and remembered that this girl was one of the legendary heroes that had apanied Lisha, ???Shadow Thorn??? L. One of those that had ambushed Be back at the An rk Strip, defeating the unawakened Dolores.


    As an assassin, L usually covered her face and this was the first time that Be had seen it. Be hadn’t expected L to be a beautiful girl that looked only around 16 years of age, apart from her attractive face L also had a great figure that was on the thin side, simr to the swordswoman Ivy, with whom Be had just parted ways with.


    After remembering that this was the girl that had almost ended Dolores, Be kind of wanted to call Dolores over to let her take ‘revenge’. But decided against it when Be remembered the battle madness that took over Dolores in Battle, it would be a waste of such a beauty if Dolores ended up crippling or killing L.


    Even though Be liked ‘ying’ with beauties, but she wasn’t perverse enough to be intopletely breaking her victim. L was also the good friend of Be’s ‘little sister’, Lisha, Be didn’t want to do something that would damage her rtionship with Lisha any further, only partly because she was a ‘cheat’ hero.


    ‘Be-sama, this girl is quite the feisty one, don’t be tricked by how cid she is now. She kept trying to kill herself on the way here, I had to gag her with some of my special material to stop her from biting her own tongue. It’s the first time that I’ve seen a prey resist for so long, she resisted even harder than that demon world princess that I brought herest time, I just had to scare that loli a bit and she gave in.”


    “You’ve done very well Skryme. From today on you’ll be my exclusive void monarch, follow me and we’ll conquer this entire world!”


    “I thank demon king-sama... master’s appreciation, this slime will help aid master in the conquest of the world until my death!”


    Be patted Skryme’s shoulder in encouragement, the two experienced members of the gentry didn’t need words tomunicate with each other, having the ability to understand the subtlest of gestures. Be wasn’t wearing anything currently but it didn’t matter much because as they were currently in the Dark Sanctum, the only ones that could enter were the girls that had some form of rtionship with Be.


    As for the void monarch, Skryme, its gender depended on that of its owner, it was a female which meant that it wouldn’t cause any problems. Skryme still had a gift that it had not yet presented to Be, Skryme was saving that one as the grand finale, but there was still some special circumstances with that gift that made Skryme unsure of whether or not it should deliver it to Be.


    L had quickly recognized Be as the princess Felia who had gone missing months ago. She had watched the fight between Be and Lisha back at the An rk Strip, when the ‘demonized’ Felia had been defeated by Lisha and had chosen to jump of the cliff to her ‘death’.


    Because of the giant explosion that had happened after, as well as the fact that one of the Church of Light’s three cardinals. Salo, had quarantined the entire An rk Strip; Lisha’s wish to find Felia’s body to bring home for a proper burial had been broken.


    As apanion that had been at Lisha’s side for over a year, the friendship between Lisha and L was strong, she was rather knowledged in the matters concerning Lisha. Lisha had regretted bing a dragon knight not long after she had became one, because of the fact that it inadvertently shattered the rtionship between Lisha and her sisters Felia and Irene because Lisha had ‘stolen’ the opportunity from those two.


    After that, Lisha had been trying to find a chance to apologize to Felia, but didn’t know how to do so and had been avoiding her until she could find a way. The next time that they had seen each other, everything had changed. But now, Felia was still alive and standing right in front of her, this shocked L.


    Felia had already fallen, this was something that L could confirm. Or else, there was no way a holy knight like Felia couldmand all these terrifying evil beings. Not far from Be, L was able to see the still asleep Irene, she hadn’t expected Be to be the one behind the disappearance of Irene.


    Irene had been tied up with semi-transparent red silk, not far from her was a loli with blood-red hair that was equipped with some strange essories chained to a pir. Hadias’ snow white body was still shaking lightly, probably because she wasn’t sure what Be was nning to do with her after. Hadias was also too scared to move, because Be might use the excuse that Hadias was moving without permission to ‘punish’ her.


    While L wasn’t sure what had happened between Be and Hadias, but she knew that it definitely wasn’t anything good. Seeing Be’s vile gaze turning towards her, L wanted to loudly reprimand Be about how shameless it was for a holy knight to fall to the dark side, but was unable to voice due to the soft, almost jelly like substance in her mouth that made even talking an impossible task, not to mention suicide.


    Be walked up to L, who could only express her emotions through her gaze. Beughed to herself, this girl was quite stubborn, at least more so than Hadias the demon world princess. The first words that Hadias had spoken were to beg for mercy, Be guessed that if she were to give L the ability to speak again, her first words would probably to insult Be, all Be needed to see were L’s furious eyes and she could tell that this would be the case.


    “You’re my little sister’spanion, L, right? Wee do the Dark Sanctuary. There’s no need to worry, I won’t kill you, it would be much more interesting to make you submit to me.”


    Be’s hands wandered this beautiful assassin’s body while the girl could only watch furiously, unable to do anything about the hands that were recklessly traversing her body. She found it hard to understand why Be was doing so and why she had such strange interests, what’s the point of this if they were both girls!


    “Skryme, did you capture my little sister, Lisha, too?”


    Be knew that Lisha travelled everywhere with L, there ws no reason that Lisha would be fine if L was caught, Lisha wouldn’t abandon her good friend like this. So Be asked Skryme to try her luck, not expecting an actual result, Lisha was a hero after all and it wouldn’t be so easy to capture her.


    “Master, I did in fact, capture Lisha... it’s just that the circumstances are kind of special... master, your little sister might... no, is very likely someone from our side.”


    Hearing the whispered report from Skryme, Be felt a little out of the loop; She and Lisha had fought a battle of life and death not that long ago, when did Lisha suddenly be an ‘ally’? Was she an existence like Kriss, a dark hero?


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    Back in the Gabriel Empire’s(Swordsmen) military town of Sakerid, the returning Kriss andpany brought new hope to this town that had been in despair. The return of the empire’s number one hero, as well as the Ignaz family’s youngdy, Ivy, and the Church of Light’s 3rd holy maiden, Susan, brought a ray of hope into this town that had been overcast with dark shadows.


    In one of the town’s many alleyways, Kriss looked cautiously at the beautiful female magician that blocked her way. Even though this magician was a little shorter than Kriss, the aura that she gave off made Kriss instinctively endangered.


    The magician’s flowing hair was the same silver as Kriss’. Her beauty wasn’t any lesser than that of Kriss, while Kriss gave off a bewitching air; this magician gave off a feel of mystery and unpredictability, a sort of indescribable beauty.


    The only big difference between her and Kriss were her pink-hued irises,pletely different from Kriss’ violet ones.


    Looking at Kriss who was staring at her in caution, Brittany Ariel found it kind of awkward. She hadn’t followed Kriss because they had the same coloured hair, nor was it because Kriss was also as beautiful as herself.


    In Kriss’ hands was a box of delicately crafted desserts that Be had gifted her when they had parted ways, the desserts’ style was undoubtedly from Earth, this was something that Ariel could confirm. She had transmigrated several times and had yet to see anything like it, she wouldn’t ever be able to forget the style of her homnd.


    Ariel wanted to ask Kriss where she had gotten these desserts from, but she didn’t how to word it now that she had confronted Kriss. Just like how Kriss had avoided asking Be if her clothes were from Earth, it was hard to find another transmigrator in another world and many transmigrators were cautious about their identities.


    The two girls looked awkwardly at each other for a while, until Ivy who had been looking for Kriss finally found her and broke the stalemate. Seeing an outsider, Ariel took this chance to leave, leaving behind a relieved Kriss and a curious Ivy. Ariel decided that she would find another time to ask Kriss about the origins of the dessert.


    —TL NOTES—


    {1} All the inhabitants of the celestial world are ‘gods’, but can only be considered fakes as they were all created by their dimension’s Creator, therefore they have nowhere as much power as that of demon/evil gods