I am Elxur II Demon Lord, the only demon lord to never having attacked the land of humans, elves and other creatures. My father, the ruler before me, was called the Hero slayer. Every time demons tried to destroy earth, heroes, people blessed with a god's power, would protect and eliminate the threat. Since the gods gave away a large chunk of their power when making the heroes they became powerless to create more. The gods in the universe were never able to ascend down to worlds, so they couldn't eliminate the demons themselves either. This lead to heroes slowly shrinking in number from every new attack from my people, until there was only one left. My father defeated her while losing his right arm, after that he gave the throne to me.

I was hesitant the first centuries, I didn't really have any reason to attack earth like every other demon. Unlike them I had been struck by fear when I was young, an emotion normally absent in the demon race. I don't know when it had begun but every time my father was out of my sight I feared I would not meet him again, I feared that he would abandon the living in exchange for the dead. That fear ran even deeper than before after my father passed away, I would spend weeks within my mothers presence. She of course decided I needed a wife then, since I was so clingy.

The fear residing inside of me made me incapable of entering a war.

After my mothers passing I decided that I would not get too close to someone again. I cut myself off from my wife and son, drowning in the work as a Lord and freezing my heart to a dry cold organ. I became cold hearted because of my fear, a fear I wasn't supposed to have.

It took little to no time before my people started to demand me to once and for all destroy earth. "You have the perfect opportunity!"  "There's no heroes to stop you!" "Rejoice and kill them my Lord!"

It took more time for my people to notice I wasn't doing anything. "Kill them already!"  "Are you incapable of understanding what situation we are in?!" "Your son would be a better Lord than you!!"

And after another scope of time my distant son, Ulxer I, began to notice the difference in popularity between us. He took advantage of that, starting a riot to get me to give the throne up to him already, it didn't work. Their screams, threats and actions were nothing compared to the fear I remembered.

Three millennia after I became the Lord of demons my son decided to finally kill me.

I woke up like a normal day, walking to my office to go through letters and documents. Unlike a normal day though, Ulxer and my wife were waiting outside of my beloved office. I greeted them with a nod, going for the door behind them and then- I stopped. A necklace of immobility had been placed around my neck by my wife. She leaned against my back, her breath tickling my pointy ear. "Now now," she began in a hushed voice, "no need to leave so quickly.."

I mostly remember hot burning pain in my midsection after that, Ulxer had stabbed me with his new longsword.

My body was burning, the foul taste of blood was pooling out of my mouth. It hurt, it Hurt ithurtithurt IT HURT! Spitting out the blood I gasped for air, Ulxer twisted the sword then. I started to see black spots in my vision, my hands helplessly holding onto my office door.

"Everyone's gonna be happy now, you know why father? Because we're going to war!"

"No, nononono…" I didn't want war, I didn't. But, all the other demons wanted it.

Ulxer pulled out the sword swiftly, only then did I notice that it had been poison on the sharp blade. My regeneration started to patch up the wound but it couldn't do anything about the deadly substance in my body.

My wife gracefully removed the immobility necklace and my son took the fallen crown necklace that placed me as the lord. It was a blue grey choker with a golden plate on it. Designed by my great grandmother millions of years ago, we demons grow really old.

I fell down to my knees, gasping in pain. Cold sweat on my face. My vision finally gave away, leaving me in darkness, the pain following slowly.

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The Gods started to shake their heads, murmuring their defeat. They had been lucky that Elxur hadn't attacked earth, if he had lived out his whole life then maybe the gods could have made a new hero by then. Their power was still too little to first separate their power from their minds and inserting it into someone else's mind. Though, the highest ranked god thought. They did have enough power to insert a mind and power into a soulless body. The thing that took away most of their Mana was the whole separation process.

But now, when such a powerful being as the tenth demon lord Elxur II had died they could create a new kind of hero.

Throughout Elxur's whole life he had never attacked anything, even though he had the best opportunity and the most power.

The power of a demon was decided from how many horns they had, the Lord family often had 7-8 horns. Elxur had 10, the first demon in history since the god of chaos had changed race.

The high ranked god's thoughts were shared through the minds of the other gods. One after another they agreed, using a little of their power to summon the soul of Elxur to their domain.

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"Wha, What?" The panting demon lord got out after appearing before the 35 gods of the universe, moments after his death. The golden eyes of the demon shone weakly, wide open as he took in the information before him. "I, I'm dead, right?" The shaking Elxur asked. The high rank god nodded.

"You're dead, for now. We wish to give you," Silence followed these words for a while, Elxur carefully listening. "A second chance, per see." Elxur frowned at that, oblivious to what the god meant.

"Second chance at what?"

"A second chance at life of course, but it will make you in debt to us. How about it?"

"I, I, what, What kind of life?"

The high gods laughed at that. "To keep it short, the life of a hero," one of them said. "In exchange for a new life you will protect earth from your son, Ulxer I demon lord, understood?"

Elxur placed a hand on his forehead, his frown digging deeper. "But I don't know much about earth, how am I supposed to protect it if I can't live on it?"

"We will go over the basic about Classes, Magic and Society Status. This will be enough information for you.

We'll start with Magic. There exists four different magic on earth, Void magic, Holy magic, Element magic and basic magic.

Void magic is used by demons and monsters, a human mind can't understand it or work with it. It's not effective against Holy and some Elemental magic.

Holy magic is used by Priests, healers plus rare warriors and Hunters. This kind of magic is best used as to heal and to purify. The purify can be added onto a sword, dagger or bow to make it more effective against demons.

Element magic is used by mages and again by rare warriors and hunters. Some of the most common elements are fire, water, air and earth. A warrior and hunter can again, like the holy magic, add for example fire onto their weapon to increase the effectivity against some monsters.

The last magic is basic magic. All humans, elves, dwarves and beastmen can use it. It consists of a small amount element magic. Again, fire, water, air and earth for example. Element magic is 20 times stronger than basic magic.

For Classes, there exists Five. Mage, warrior, healer, hunter and Entril.

Mages use element magic and basic magic, they often dress in robes and increases their MP with staffs. To become a mage you need to increase your INT so that your MP, mana, increase.

There are two different warriors, a Tank and a Solo.

The Tank increases their HP by increasing their VIT and work as a defence force in a group. While the Solo increases their STR and work as attack power.

Healers exists in three different groups. The Heal healer, that heals, the Purify healer, that Purify and the Priest that does both. All use Holy magic.

Hunters exists in four groups. A hunter that uses a bow becomes and Archer. A hunter that uses daggers is either a Thief or a Scout. Thiefs gain a Lockpicking skill and Scouts gain a Stealth skill. If a hunter uses both a bow and daggers they are called an Assassin. Hunter is though the name of their Class. Hunters increase their AGI, so that they move better.

The last class is the most common, Entril. Entril is a person who has all stats, INT STR AGI VIT under 40.

An Entril can become an adventurer, when all their stats go above 40 they continue to be an adventurer for half a year and then officially gains a class. After that they can continue to be an adventurer, join the military or go back to normal life with a better social status.

Lastly I'll tell you about the Social status system. From highest to lowest they go like this:

The King, Duke families, The court, Knights with Holy magic known as Holy knights, normal Knights, Merchants and Shopkeepers, adventurers, entrils and lastly slaves.

That should be enough information, Elxur? Do you accept being replanted into the body of a earth-living-person?"

The demon tried to sort through all the information he had gained, careful to not forget anything. He was still slightly panting because of the shock his body had gone through. He kept quiet and only nodded his shaking head as an answer at the question.

"Good! Then, do you have any preference for what kind of body you want?"

"N, no, I have no preferences, just take the first one that dies."

"You sure?"

"Yes."

As his answer came all the 35 gods stood up from their seats, raising their glowing hands towards Elxur. A gasp got stuck in the demons throat at the intense power flowing around him. The highest ranked god smiled at him.

"I'll have to warn you, trying to transfer your body and mind into a lowly human one might bring forth faults in your system magic. Oh! And be careful to not strain your human body with your Void magic, best case you'll pass out worst case you'll die a painful death."

"Wait what!?" Elxur got out before the space he stood on began glowing bright white. Soon for a second time, Elxur's vision was taken over by darkness