Revenge of the Serpent

Chapter 30 (Repost)

Asmodeus pursed her lips. “Will you be okay? Greed is not someone you should underestimate, sure he might be below me in rankings, but he’s just about as strong, maybe even stronger when it comes down to it.”

Despite his plan being a gamble, Theodore sounded confident. “Since I can beat you, I don’t think it would be too difficult to beat Greed either.”

Asmodeus worriedly frowned. “He doesn’t like it when his things get stolen, so he’ll definitely lost his cool when you flank them”

“It’s fine, if the opponent becomes irrational, wouldn’t that be best for us?”

Asmodeus shrugged. “Yeah I guess…Okay, fine…I trust you, so we just need to get ready now, right?”

Theodore nodded. “The quicker this ends, the better.”

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Several days of preparation had passed, Asmodeus had gathered everyone at the surface of the Lake of Rage, there were around ten thousand soldiers standing in orderly lines, all looking at the demon king expectantly.

“So Your Majesty had finally decided to take action.” Cyrus was Asmodeus’ most royal aids, he was given to position of ‘General’ and had lead many of her armies during territorial wars, he had the very distinct features of a dragon, red scales partially covered his entire body and his golden eyes shone fiercely, he wore heavy black armor and wields a dark broadsword, his hair was pure white and he had a large stature.

Asmodeus laughed at her general’s comment. “Well, I finally saw a good opportunity, I still need to thank you for preparing things so well, it only took a few days for your troops to travel here.

Only five thousand of the demons were Asmodeus’, the other half was the Lake of Rage’s inhabitants, Theodore had hand-picked the stronger ones using the ‘True Dragons Eye’ skill, it didn’t take as long since he only needed to look at them once.

Cyrus glanced at Theodore with a questioning look. “…Your Majesty, who might he be?”

Asmodeus looked at Theo with a smile, as if urging him to introduce himself.

He’d hoped that she would just tell him outright, but over the past few days, she’d told him that he needed to establish his place as a demon king on his own or else the demons won’t take him seriously. He sighed, showing his annoyance before replying to the general. “I’m the new Demon King of Pride, me and Asmodeus are allies, we’ll be helping in this fight too.”

“Ah,” Cyrus unexpectedly gave him a bow. Theodore thought he would be doubtful like the other demons, but it seemed that he could tell the truth from lies. “We are thankful for your help, Your Majesty, apologies for my rudeness earlier.”

“It’s fine.” Theodore shrugged, turning his attention towards Rhys, who was decked out in his shiny armor and was talking to one of the mermaid-like demons.

Rhys had been very well-behaved thanks to the slave collar, since the Pearl Palace’s construction was completed, he now had to do all the nitty-gritty instead of Theodore, who would only look at the more important documents and sign anything that needed his signature.

Though in Rhys’ mind, doing work was way better than getting beaten up, at first he would try and resist the collar’s magic, and the result was Theodore punching him as a punishment.

While Theo still hated Rhys to his very core, after the days had passed, he calmed down a bit and now saw him more as a tool rather than utter trash.