“Sir, it is nice to talk with you again.” An old man with a traditional purple suit and a rigid facial structure kneeled before a boy, keeping his head down.
“you can look up, what is it?” A young teen who's maybe 14, height about average, fairly brawny, and had an unhealthy pale skin, gave a completely uninterested response.
“Sir, why the depressed expression?” The man questions the teen.
“What do you mean Vidar? isn't that obvious? I haven't done a thing since the day I gained my nobility.” The teen had a quiet yet disgruntled tone.
“Sir, it's only been a week since you've become our lord.”
“true, but I would like to live a little more luxuriously...” Their conversation lasted for a couple of minutes until they were interrupted by a knight in full silver plated armor.
“My lord David, I’m sorry to interrupt but King Gonfree has invited you to a party celebrating the announcement of whom his daughter will marry.” The knight kneeled and spoke seriously.
“Hmm, I had no idea he had a daughter.” The teen David looked to the old man Vidar with questioning tone.
“Sir, she is renowned as a failure because of her magic, it's black, the evil magic.” Vidar had a look of pity when he spoke of the failure princess.
“Oh well, sucks to be her. Anyway, I accept King Gonfree’s invitation, when will the party be?” David gets up from his seat and moves closer to the knight.
“The party is at the King's palace in 2 days.” The knight did not dare look directly at David, as he is just a normal messenger, while David is a lord.
“Two days, I'll leave tomorrow morning. Vidar will be my guest and Vidar, decide who’ll take care of my land when I'm away. please set up a carriage for my departure.” David walked passed Vidar and the messenger, exiting the room.
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“Yes sir, how many guards?” It is early morning and the carriage is set up. Vidic and the knight check off the travel goods, until they see a boy exiting the mansion gates.
“No need, we leave now.” David didn't even look at them, as he entered the carriage.
“I don't mean to be rude Lord, but you're scrawny, small, and just a little boy, there's no way you could even be an apprentice yet. If you are thinking I can help, I can't as I'm just a beginner master.” Vidar spoke in an impolite manner but he was speaking in good will so David didn't really care.
“*sigh*, do you guys know why the King gave me this position?” David sighed deeply.
“Forgive me if I’m wrong, aren't you a nobles bastard?” Vidar looked curious as to what that had to do with David being weak.
“firstly, I am not an aristocrat nor am I anything close to that. secondly, I earned my position as lord through deeds that the king saw as worthy to make me a lord.” David spoke a half truth, looking through the curtains, at the two to see their expressions.
“...” They were both a little taken back at what he said.
“You are dismissed.” David spoke to break the silence.
“Y-Yes.” They both regained their serious expression and set off for the castle.
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POV CHANGE: DAVID
I am David, David James. I am now the Lord of Xinhua, a small province of
Karrith, bordering the Demon Continent. also known as one of the humans territory. There are 37 territories in the world, mainly divided into; The beast territory, demon territory, and the human territory. People here revere strength above all. Just so you know the tiers of measuring strength are; Novice, Apprentice, Master, King, Legend, and God. Every tier is far stronger than the past one and guilds will register tests to decipher your tier.
I was a novice before, when I was in a neutral town between the demon and human territories. My town was one of the raided, we all became slaves for the demon race. We were tortured, training dummies, and so on. I was only 5 years old at that time with the people around me mutilated while I was being some demons “entertainment”.
About a year later we all tried to break out, sadly I was the only one that made it out of the demon's grasp. Sadly for me, my time for joy was for not, for I was in the middle of the hell’s pit, known as the place with the strongest magical beasts and the 4 greatest dungeons in the legends. I found no joy in life, but for the sake of revenge, I completed the four great dungeons after 8 years of grueling training. I became powerful, powerful enough to crush any demonic beast with their own skills, becoming the demon beast. After another year of repeated dungeon dives, I left to head back to fight the king of the hell’s pit, Whom I had met during my second year. I consumed it with great difficulty, together with all of its strongest children. Finally I left for the demon's who enslaved me, not really caring about revenge, as my bloodlust had died out, but to release my bindings to the past.
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After a short jog I had finally found what looked like a palace;
“this isn't the same place but there are demon guards surrounding it, I’ll just have fun with them instead.” David had a vicious grin as he walked up to the main gate.
Soon the guards noticed me, a human boy walking towards a demon's palace, and readied their weapons, even with the surprising sight
“who are you boy? If you come any closer I'll have to kill you, well either way I would kill you.” A guard judged the situation and charged up to me.
“Die.” I grinned ear to ear, then let out a little bit of killing intent towards all of the guards surrounding the palace and they all shriveled up.
“guess I'm a murderer now.” I pushed open the gate, with the look of the hungry beasts I trained with.
“Who goes there!” A couple hundred guards block the door into the building but I do the same thing as before and find myself the opening door to what looks like an execution. I immediately hide into the shadows to watch what was going on.
“I, the demon king will now execute the human ki-” The demon king was interrupted by the sight of 10000 demons shriveling on the marble floor.
“wha-what the hell is going on?” the 12 aristocrats and demon king looked around the room for an explanation.
“Hello, demon lord.” appearing towards them was David, clothed in magnificent gold rings, chains, armor, and a silver coat that glistened in the heavily lightened room.
“what… a boy?”
“No, I'm a grasshopper.” I smiled as I tried to use sarcasm.
“I'm not stupid, you're clearly human, wtf are you talking about!?” The demon king had drawn out his sword and pointed it at me, not understanding sarcasm.
“Boy, run for your life!” A middle aged man who was tied to the ground shouted in hopes of saving me.
“Who are you?” I was a bit curious as to why one human was such a big deal, to have the demon king personally kill him.
“You idiot, he is the human king who will be killed if you move a step closer.” the demon king had a grin while pointing his blade at the human king.
'Hmm, his power is supposed to be one of the best in the world.'
“haha haha…” My laugh rang throughout the hall.
“shut up or he dies!” A young aristocrat shouts in a worried voice.
“half a Millisecond.” I whisper.
“what did you say!?” The young aristocrat shouted back to David.
“I said it'll only take half a Millisecond to kill all of you.” I then pointed my hand towards them as if I was using the force.
“Vrrrrr!” the sound of gravity increasing above the demon's heads.
“Haha, you think this can take down the great de-ahhh!” In the middle of the demon lord’s bragging he suddenly fell to the floor.
“It'll increase by 100 times per second until it reaches 99999 times the normal gravity I'm a surtax area, good luck surviving.” I looked at them with a grin.
“what are you?” the demon king looked up to ask his final question.
“I am a human, well I used to be at least.” I probably looked tad bit depressed but shook it off and walked towards the exit, having fullfilled some of my bloodlust.
“Boy, aren't you forgetting someone!?” It was the human king still on his knees.
“what do you mean? I did not come to get you.” I did not stop walking.
“I’ll give you a high government position!” The king had a the look of a panicked chicken, when he saw me turnaround, quite amusing.
“I want luxury, nothing much, but know that if you disappoint me, I will devour you.” David threatened him, but the king looked as to have found gold.
I did not take the king's offer because of gold or pleasure, it was for the opportunity to govern, something I’ve wanted to do since I can remember. I'm also guessing that the king had ulterior motives at hand, to use me in his many wars. In the end I went along with the king and he showed me to my castle, when I flew us back to Karrith.
(Ugh, I have to go by carriage when I could just teleport there. Why'd that ungrateful king give me land so far from the capital?) I am currently riding towards the king's palace to see who his daughter's husband will be, the unlucky guy. To be honest, I don't care one bit about the attribute of magic someone posses, because you can just train in all of them anyway, like me. What really interests me is getting to meet the other lords and aristocrats.
“Sir, may I ask what your tier is?” Vidar was probably curious after I denied any guards to come with us.
“I'm Afraid you may not.” I was already feeling happy hide my power, so I wouldn't just blab about my Tier to someone I only knew for 7 days.
“Sorry for the rude question sir.” Vidar looks a bit sad, should I tell him?
“I’ll tell you after the party.” He’s gonna be with me for a long time so why not?
“I'll check how much more time there is until we get there sir.”
“we'll be there in around thirty minutes.” oops I just used my x-ray and long vision together.
“...”
“...”
“I'll just ask the carriage driver sir.” Vidar left after that awkward silence.
As I thought of proper etiquette along in the carriage, I noticed the presence of some men, all of them slowly encroaching upon our destination; The castle.
“Finally a good show.” I knew this would be very entertaining to watch, a battle between cockroaches.