(????? Pov)
I remember that day. The day i saw a light. The day i finally got out from the darkness. The day i felt the air. The day my bond with her got cutted off. The day i cried for the first time. The day i first saw her face. She’s looked very exahusted yet very, very happy. When i saw her, somehow i stop crying. That day is the day i won’t ever forget.
The day i born again.
<22 hour ago>
“Professor! The trajectory of the meteors have been calculated! All fourteen of them are aiming to earth in twelve different country. One of them is going to this very facility in T-20.” Says a young man in a lab coat.
“Hrggggh, STEVEN! Inform all reseacher in this island to evacuate immeaditly. ANNA! Spread the news to the UN of this finding. Tell them to evacuate all country that are in the path of the meteor. RYU! Release all specimen ZERO once everybody evacuated. It’s finaly thetime we can destroy those abomination without getting a single casualty for once.” The old Professor order all of his assitants in the vicinity. I can’t feel his ever happy-go-lucky attitude anymore which scared me a little.
“AND YOU!” Suddenly the professor look toward me, frowning. At the time, i was suprised by how serious he look. He always take everything lightly, even if it cost his life. But this person here is not the professor i know. Albuss Malefoy did not rhyme with heavy atmosphere, ever!
“Go make some coffe. We’ll going to be very busy from now on. Don’t bother cleaning up, this place is as good as dead” And that is the end of my worry. Geez, of all time you get serious for once, it’s got to be the apocalypse.
This master of mine always do as he please. I do feel glad he let everyone escape first. In fact he always slept the latest among the other worker. Although he give everyonea job that work them to the bone, the wage he’s giving are more than enough. Even me, his personal maid, get an earning equal to all of his assistants minus 100.000.000 a month. Of course i don’t spend all the money for my self. I’m giving 75% of my money to my family in my homeland. Most of the rest i use them for charity. I usualy spend only 3% of my earning for daily necesity.
“Right away.....” ugh, should i really do this thing even now? I took a glance at the professor and he’s beaming with expectation. *Sigh*, i hate this person for making me do this all the. “....nya......” GOD, just kill me already! I’m already too old for this play.........
Seeing him grinning ear to ear really irritate me. This is actually one of 100 embarassing thing i need to do as his maid. My innocents already lost 10 second after we first met. Well, enough complaining. This coffee can brew it self without beans.
<18 hour later>
Right now we are at the port where all the escape ship lined up. The reseachers and the servants are all present. Some of them are in state of shock and few even manage to passed out. I can’t blame them though. In less than 2 hour, the meteors are going to hit the island and very toast all of us. It’s a good thing the professor prepare all emergency measure againts most thing imaginable.
One by one, everbody board the ship priotizing the women and eldery excluding me and the professor. Both of us already pass our prime but we basically the remaining founder of the laboratory. There are a total of 40 ship ready to set sail and we board the last ship along with the assistants.
After cruising for nearly an hou and half, we finally saw the meteors enter the athmosphere. It would be a romantic view if not for the fact they gonna bring doom to us. Just as predicted, the meteor hit the laboratory and make a huge shock wave from the explossion of collision. It seems like the meteor hit deep enough to reach the nuclear reactor underground, you know what i mean.
Luckilly for us, we are already far from the island. After that, everybody basicaly slacking on the ship. The ship it self are on auto pilot mode with it destination already set. I was already quite sleepy and already sleeping. Simply acompanying my master for 17 hour straight and pulling all nighter doing many odd job and handfull things took a toll on my body. I wonder how he manage to stay fit after 50 year of working.
Minutes pass by when suddenly ifelt a pain on my chest. I open my eyes and look upon the culprit. A large lizard-like creature, standing with its two hind legs, thrusting his ‘arm’ through my chest barely miss my vital. I look around to see everybody alredy killed excluding the professor. It’s look like the specimen still hold a grudge againts him for locking them for years without sunlight and food. He intentionally force them to kill their own kin or they will die of hunger. I wonder how the specimen made it out here?
And that was the last thing i remember before my rebirth.
<3 year later>
This morning, i wake up on my king size bed in my spacious room. Currently i’m 3 year old and i already able to walk & talk. As you can see, i reborn as a royalty of a certain country. Normaly, in this kind of development i was supposed to be a beautiful princess in a fantasy world armed with cheat skills. Well, it actually is. Didn’t mean to braging but i’m quite cute for a girl, even i would fall for myself. To be honest, i always tought when people say i’m beautifull, they just want to please me. I practiclly ignored all of them until i saw my reflection for the first time. Needless to say that now i gained a slight complex for myself.
Eheum, where was i? Oh yeah! In case of fantasy world, i reborn as one of the fantasy race. Most of you may think i reborn as an Elf or such (probally not). Well, sorry to dissapoint you but my race is a Demon. And no, i’m not a succubuss. I’m your plain humanoid demon with a long tail and horns that yet to be grow. Mother said that we demons didn’t grow our horn until we reach puberty, which is 5 years old. Speaking of my Mother, she’s the current Queen and thats makes me a princess. Huhuhu, are you jealous of me. Yes, you should be jealous.
Cheats! Yeah, this is quite a sensitive subject. As far i know, i have at least 2 cheats in this world. The first cheat is my potential mana pool are rather high, even higher than the Arch-magus. This cheat already evaluated when i was born. The mage cast a spell on me which is (un)suprisingly a skill to check my status. It’s says that to unlock my mana, i must go through some kind of test at the ziggurat to gain a ‘mana mastery’. Then, i can finnaly see my status for the first time.
Having a ‘mana mastery’ isn’t a must for you to see your status, but you need to have a second primary resource mastery to enable you to see it. There are a variety of resource mastery but most race choose mana because it’s the easiest, provide that mana literally flowing everywhere. One can only take a test when they reach 3 years old, which happen to be today for me
As for the second cheat, i have an enormous point on my ‘Resistance’ stat. The reason for this leap of stat probally from my trauma of my death. I probally wishing for a body that can’t be harm by anyone. Bassicaly, this stat allows me to decrease the amount of damage i take so it’s basicaly counter my lack of vitality stat. This stat point have been seen by the nurse when i was born.
*knock knock*
“Princess, it’s already morning. Breakfast already served so please get ready. The Queen are expecting for you in the dining room.” My maid, Athuma, always wake me up this way. I wonder when was the last time she bargin to my room and woke me up by suddenly lifting me to the air then down to earth then to air agin and so on. “Also, H-happy b-b-b-birthday p-p-Princess.” Huhuhu, in the end, she’s still as nervous as ever. I can’t get enough of her quirk. One time, she overslept and start doing chores hastily without changing into her uniform. She spent a full day wandering around mansion in her sleep wear.
As i come down to the dining room, my mother, literally sitting on the table with only lingerie to cover her body and eating her meal in an unladylike matter. She’s actually a common born who wed to my father who already in heaven.......or hell? I still confused about this circumtances but i decide to not bother with it. Anyway, after my father passed away from old age, my mother has been promoted to be queen. This topic will get too long to explain so lets skip this part.
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“Mother, please wear something decent when we going outside to the ziggurat.” I said to mother when we about to exit the castle. My mother start pouting like a kid but thanks to my stubbornity, i manage to make her something decent.
The walk to the ziggurat (yes, we walked. It’s still early morning so we kinda used the opportunity to excercice, unlike the author) pretty much uneventfull. When we arrived at the gate to the ziggurat, we were greeted by the accolyte. Most of them are young boys at the age of 8. It seems the god/goddess of darkness preffer boys instead of girls unlike other gods and goddesses. No one know the true form nor gender nor the name of the god/goddess of darkness so we kinda confused wether we need to refer him/her. In the end we refer him/her as it. I pratically an atheist but for now i could try this particular religion. After a test that is too explicit and hard to explain, i finally gain a ‘mana mastery’. When i check my status, i found out that my mana pool is indeed larger than average. My stat by far are actually basic except for vitality and resistance (no table for a reason).
It’s already around noon when we finished so we bid farewell to everyone in the ziggurat and back home, but not before we go to my mom’s favorite restaurant. The chef at that place is skilled beyond imagination. Athuma even said that mother tried for thoursands of time to recruit her and failed misreably. Well, i now can symphatize with her. All the food the chef make are top knocth to the point of addiction. If we can have her cook for us everyday 24/7, 100 gold a week is too cheap.
Back at home, my mom told me to close my eyes for a bit. When i open my eyes again, infront of me is a young boy, probally 2 year older than me. His face is oddly familiar, but i don’t quite remember when we even met. The boy is quite odd in a sense. We, demons has a rather dark skin close to gray. We too have tail with a variety of size and shape. Not to mention we have a poity ear akin to elves.
Unlike demon though, this kid has none of the aspect. He had neither horn nor tail even though he is older than me, his skin is a bit pale and his ear are rounded. Its as if the boy is infact, a human.
“Darling, i introduce you to your first servant. This servant is my present for your 3rd birthday. His name is Albuss and rather obbidient kid. I actually thinking of buying you a female servant but when i see this kid, i felt that you two will hit off just right. Treat him well, okay. ” Says mother a bit suddenly. I don’t actually mind wether i got a servant or not,but......................’Albuss’............... where have i heard that before?
“Pleased to meet you, Princess. My name is Albuss and i’m your personal servant. I guarantee a top knotch service for you so please, use me to your delight.” Says the boy.
I could swear i have seen this scene a couple of time but still failed to remember it. Oh well, not like it will matter in anyway. For now i order him to do Athuma’s work for the next seven day.
Unbeknown to me, this person is the one who saves my future and keeping me alive until today. But thats will be another story.
<27 years later>
“My Queen, the preparation for ‘Hero Summoning’ has been establish. What’s your order now?” Says a Darck-Bishop to me. Currently we are in the state of war and we are actually losing. It’s actually no suprise as the ‘Human Alliance’ recruite most race apart from Seadwellers (mermaidman) and Dragons. The Mermans probally being pacifist while the Dragon simply did’t care. We already persuade both race but to no avail. It’s only a matter of time the Human will invade the kingdom and destroying everything on sight. Right now, I was forced to do a so called ‘Hero Summoning’, a ritual to summon a person from the other world, a person with a potential to become stronger and expected to protect the kingdom if not saving the world.
The problems are this is actually the first time in history a demon race to summon a hero so we practically don’t know what we expecting…… Furthermore, a hero summoning typically are used to summon a demon slayer, not a demon savior. Even I don’t know what to expect but we’re already screwed so what the heck, just wing it I say……
The ritual is done by having a number of priests and mages chanting a very long aria, 7 pair of them is the minimum requirement to summon a level 1 hero. But because we need a savior pronto, we decide with 200 pair of them. With this we are sure to get at least level 50 Hero if not more. One thing that confused me is the fact I need to dress accordingly to please the summoned hero. There are cases of ‘Hero Summoning’ gone wrong because the hero get annoyed by the summoner appearance. Most of them demand a beautiful maiden to summon them instead of some old geezer. Good grief, this so called Hero must be worth it or I’m going to regret doing this even if it save the kingdom.
For this occasion, I required to wear revealing clothing that only cover my private spot. It could be called a string bikini with stickers, but instead of sticker it’s a nearly transparent cloth that almost show my private. Many of the priests and some priestesses look embarrassed, there even one that manage to get hard on which somehow boost my self esteem so I don’t really mind that much.
Because only wearing a bikini seems too dull to show my status as a queen (I already look like a slut, adding more would make me look like a hentai queen so give it a rest already), I was requested to wear a beautiful long white gloves up to 5 cm from my armpit, a long socks that reach up to 5 cm above my knee. I wore a red slippers, my mother’s last gift to me before she passed away from illness. Most of the royal clothing are enchanted to match the size of the wearer including this slipper. I have many other shoes that I could choose, but for this ritual I insist to wear this shoes for a good luck charm. To complete it, I wore a long red enchanted cape that reach a centimeter above the ground and a golden enchanted crown. The enchantments are consisted of protection and charisma, for obvious reason.
Right now everyone already finish the required aria to activate the summoning circle and now it’s my turn to chant a prayer to summon the hero. “We, the Demon race, call upon thee to save the kingdom. We demand a strong Hero to save us from the wicked Humans and we shall reward thee with anything you desired…………..”
<7 minute later>
“………..HERO SUMMONING!” after chanting a vey long prayer, I proceed to supply the summoning circle with my enormous amount of mana. I was confident that I have enough mana to summon the Hero, but after seeing my mana pool depleted at a fast rate I begin to worry. What if I exhaust all of my mana before the hero summoned. Will the summoning failed? Will it still going, but instead of mana it takes health? My worries are vanished when a shape of person appear on the circle, only to be replaced with another worries.
The hero….. I mean HEROES we summon are consist of children no older than 18 years old, 2 boys and one girl. We didn’t worry of having a youth as a hero, but what we asked is a single level 50 HERO. If there are 3 person that are summoned, that’s mean at most they’ve a third of the intended hero’s strength. Suddenly, one of the boy open his eyes, standing with his left leg behind him and his right leg in front of him. He momentarily turn his torso to his left side and quickly facing toward me with a pose similar to Kujo Jotarou with having his finger mimic the shapes of gun. Then, he says “-dary…….”
“………………………………….” In all honesty, I began to worry of their future with this guy around……….
Author’s note:
Not an actual chapter. This is basically the queen’s background which I planned to write after 20 chapters. But because I’m an impatient man, I decide to write her story early. About her name, I still can’t decide it so if anyone have an idea, I’ll be glad for it.
Also, I didn’t show her status because;
1: I still don’t know how I should design the table.
2: She didn’t need have a name yet.
Lastly, special thanks to alkanyseus for giving me a link to table maker. I’ll be sure to make the table the next time I post a new chapter.
See you next time