“A ‘friend’ of mine is a prince of the kingdom; I will tell him to take care of you when I’m not around. He will be your target to charm, hmmm, I will later give you a list of all the things he likes and the best approach to win him over.

Of course, you do that with the body of my cousin, not stepmother. I will prepare a ritual to fasten the assimilation, it will inevitably lock away part of your abilities till you assimilate fully, but that’ll be good, because you can use it to your advantage. Your passive influence of the mind seems to be difficult to contain before you assimilate, so take it as help.

Let’s say… I will leave in three days or so, by then the ritual should be finished. I will also make a talisman as a safety measure. I don’t have the materials to do a great one, but if you use a bit of blood essence, it should work as intended. As a demon you have a natural affinity to pierce through space, so I will give you one that instantly teleports you a thousand kilometres away, more than outside the city.

This will probably lead you to one of the surrounding woods, so it should be enough to escape whatever predicament you find yourself in. Afterwards, you can just do whatever you want, while you will also be able to reach me through the Silent Travellers Emporium, I will open a shop under the name ‘Night Lily’. Those would be my arrangements; do you have any other idea you want to take? I am open to suggestions.”

Onaia was overtaken by the extensive plan for her, she bowed slightly as she replied “I thank the benefactor for his considerations. I will follow your plan.”

Happy that the demon wasn’t one with much pride but willingness to accept an expert’s opinion, Alaric nodded and wished her well as he did a small prayer for show “Shall the Origin Devil bless the Seer Tribe, wishes to be fulfilled and ambitions bearing fruits.”

Onaia held one hand to the middle of her chest and one flat on her head, stretching her fingers into the air, they would be the places for the demon heart and their horns, a symbol of prayer. The Origin Devil was the first devil and the overlord of the Demon Realm, though I never saw him or even read about him in more than a small mention, it’s still interesting knowledge.

Having nearly forgotten it, I ask Onaia “You know the common tongue of this world, right?” He had spoken in demon tongue, rather harsh for his voice cords, only now remembering because it hurt slightly. Additionally, it would be bad if she didn’t know it, but it was a useless worry.

“I have been trained to speak the common language” she says in said language “Demon tongue in this body seems to be a burden, benefactor must also be a Master of Tongues. Common tongue in comparison is easier with this body than my demon one.”

“Yes, and don’t worry about the assimilation. Tongues are mainly difficult because it is vastly different from your Origin, but since you are assimilating your soul with one born in this world, your Origin should expand and allow you to speak it better. The only issue would be your vocal cords, but it shouldn’t be difficult keeping some of them while you add new ones later, right?”

“Oh right, before I forget it. Kendrick, come here. This is Onaia, Child of Oianon, and in the future, if she wants to, she will be Onaia van Violet, Child of Oianon. Officially, she is the niece of stepmother, for the next few days she will act like she is still stepmother. Stepmother will have died in an accident in the less-cultivated districts while she was on her way to bring the remaining sister.

They had died together with her, unfortunately, so Onaia will be adopted as one of us. She will be third in command of House Violet.

Onaia, you can think about tying your Origin with House Violet on a later date, when you have seen our situation a bit and know more about your chances of staying. If that happens, then all your descendants will be of House Violet’s Lineage, so you should think carefully about it. House Violet will still have me as first head and my husband as second, we might add more lineages to our House, but you will be the third head if you wish so.

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Do mark that House Violet’s Heads only control their branch of the lineage, the first head is part of any of the lineages and act as a sole entity leading the family, while the second head is nominated by the first head and acts as his representant.

The first head acts as the overseer of the Violet Council, where the different heads of all branches gather to discuss the family. After all, every branch is tied to the fate and karma of the House, so communication regarding everything is needed. The first head also has the right to veto any decision made by the council, while none can be made if neither the first nor second head sign it off, the second hands approval only lasts temporarily till the first head signs.

The second head can be any random person the first head choses, and they don’t serve for a lifetime but only as long as the first head thinks they should be second head. Yes, someone from the family, anyone regardless of lineage, might also be the second head. Not that that matters, because my husband will be the second head if there is nothing needing a switch.

We don’t have many other rules, and I might have big plans for House Violet, but that will come later on, currently, there are only two heads, and us two won’t even be present on the southern continent, oh yeah that’s where we are by the way. This little corner of the world, in the Laya Kingdom, which is barely known and that only because the royal family has an affinity for light magic, should serve as the best place for you to hide your growth.

Kendrick, you’ll help her find her way with the things here and answer any of their questions. Also, gather around a hundred thugs or so from the lesser regions, they should be really evil people, best if they have demonic affinity. I will need to make a ritual, also get me a ruby with a high quality, I’ll make a talisman too. For the ink… get mercury, that’s a good conduit, father doesn’t have any brushes thin enough for that, so get one too.”

I am quite rushy, huh… well, I will have to leave soon, look at me, going around in a robe that might as well be half-naked. But no one cares anyways, Kendrick probably still hangs over his past wife, Onaia heard I got a husband… soon-to-be husband, and Keen… well, he’s busy cleaning and didn’t even realise it. Yeah, I really should get him a good girl, or he might be alone forever, from the workload I will give him in the future, he won’t have time to find one himself.

I soon find myself back in my room, the butlers and my new cousin discussing how they would go on with their way. Dressing myself up in a blue-gold robe, it’s not really the style of the kingdom, and I am thankful for that, cuz I like the robes that come from the western part of the southern continent a lot more. They are a mix of renaissance colours and grandeur mixed with ancient Chinese silk-art.

Turning to the mirror, I see how I look. Long silver hair flowing to my shoulders, purple eyes with a light blue glint, sharp eyebrows and chin… ughhhh, this beauty! And now matter how I turn or smile, I just seem like a villain. I’m probably so beautiful because I’m evil! All those nice-guys always look like a prince-charming type of guy… ewww.

I try to make myself look even better as time ticks by, soon the three people from before are in my room, all dressed and ready to go out. I tell Keen and Kendrick to go prepare the horses while I make a few final touches on Onaia’s outfit, then I take her arm and go down.

Whispering a bit to her, I try to loosen her up. She is very obviously a young demon, probably around twenty, but that is barely puberty for them. This is one of the reasons she was chosen, as the older one was, the harder it was to assimilate, while the stronger one was before traversing worlds, the harder it will be to become a full Demonkin and not just an assimilated demon.

The carriage soon arrives in front of us, and we enter. I think a bit about it before I tell her “You saw that I used all the servants as sacrifices, in truth, even keeping them alive would be useless. Before I go ahead and make the rituals which seals your powers, tell Kendrick your requirements for servants and let him gather them, you can plant a mind seed into them, it will be fine as long as no one deeply inspects them.

After you assimilated your body fully, which shouldn’t take too long, you can go ahead and summon a few demonkin into the bodies of the servants. I doubt there will be any other with the Vessel-Affinity around, so it will most likely be impossible for those demons to assimilate too, meaning you don’t have to hold back and can just summon a stronger one.

Don’t forget to be careful though, too many summons and an experienced demon hunter or someone with light affinity, which isn’t lacking in this kingdom, will be able to detect your existence and might come to kill you.”