"Lord Irk will you stay with us for dinner? We have just received some first-class human flesh from the inland farms. The were feed with the Callio kale their whole live and have really tender meat."

Callio kale is a blackish green vegatable from the Callio region which is famous for its high concentration of mana. The reason why this was important was that demons, in contrast to humans, can't regenerate their own mana reserves. They need to eat meat that has accumulated mana to regenerate their mana reserves. Most poor people would eat animals to do so, but beings without consciousness don't have alot of mana in their bodies. There was a theory that is has something to do with the weakness of animal souls. What would this mean for demon souls? He didn't know.

Humans that only eat Callio kale would accumulate a frightening amount of mana in their bodies. What demons feared the most was that the armies of the free roaming humans would liberate their human cattle stocks since it would manifold the war potential of the human race. That was the reason why the human farms were hundreds of miles inland. There was no danger of an uprising of their livestock since all humans older than five wore a collar that would suppress their consciousness leaving them only with very basic instincts.

"I'm sorry but I have to go home. I already missed the sixth birthday of my cute little daughter Tia today because of the stupid war conference. Well, I bought her a pet lizard so mabye she will forgive me."

He smiled.

"Oh, I see. But you shouldn't call the conference stupid. It is necessary to prepare for a possible human invasion."

"I can't believe that this lower life forms would dare to invade the demon continent. Do they have the technology to do so anyway?"

"Have you ever meet a free human?"

"No, aren't they just like our livestocks?"

"Oh, no. They can be quite dangerous without a collar to suppress their mind."

"Mmh, whatever. I'm an arch demon. I don't fear livestock. And now excuse me. If I leave now I might be able to reach Irk by tomorrow morning."

It was almost impossible for normal demons to become arch demons but about 5-10% of nobles managed to advance to a higher realm. Nobles could afford human meat since childhood. Therefore alot of mana has accumulated in their bodies.

"Have a save trip home!"

"Thanks, goodbye."

Irk was quite far away from the coast and a horse would need at least three days for this trip. But he was an arch demon. He coated his body in mana and began running. Body strengthening magic allowed him to be as fast as the wind.

Lord Irk saw smoke rise from his town the morning of the next day. He had a bad feeling about this and accelerated his speed. What he found was like a scene from hell. Bodies and burning houses everywhere.

"No ... how ... what happened?"

he mumbled. 'I have to find Anna and Tia.'

"Anna!!! Tia!!! Is anyone here?!"

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He wandered around the piles of bodies while yelling the names of his wife and daughter. Suddently he stopped and looked down at a dissected little girl. It was like time suddently came to a halt.

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After writing the rest of chapter one Luna collapsed in her bed. 'Stupid king. I hate writing.'

"General!!"

A soldier charged in Luna's tent and woke her up. But she only answered in a bored, sleepy tone. She was not really sleepy. Years on the battlefield and chased by demons teached her to be always wide awake immediately after waking up. Somtimes assassines suprise you in the middle of the night. And sometimes wild mosters or a night attack of enemy soldiers.

"Hey there. What's up."

Luna loved to ridicule worked up people. 'Why do they care so much about life and death? If you die you get reincarnated. Where's the problem?' she thought. 'But his panicked face is kinda cute ... mabye I should tell him that hundred thousand demons will arrive soon to kill us all ... lol ... I know I shouldn't but I want to.'

"General! An arch demon is walking to our camp!"

This was no joke. An arch demon was as strong as hundred normal demon soldiers. Luna streched her arms in the air.

"Sounds like fun. Let's go"

'This arch demon is probably the lord of Irk, the village I have destroyed yesterday.' That was actually one reason to destroy the village. The main reason was of course to lure the demon armies from the coastal cities into their trap. But killing the lord of Irk, a famous but secluded noble, would be her personal cherry on the cake that were the soon to be dead demon soldiers. She took her magical enhanced sword - one of the holy treasures of Namar and left her tent.

She walked to the exit of the military camp which was in the direction of Irk and waited outside of the barricade for the arch demon.

"How dare you, cattle!!! How dare you to kill a higher lifeform!!!"

'Here he comes' Luna thought with a bright smile. If anyone had seen her eyes at this moment, he would have only seen pure insanity. 'Higher lifeform? I really want to kill him. Kill! Kill!! Kill!!!'

He was still several miles away but Luna didn't care about something so trivial. She coated herself in mana, closed the distance to the arch demon in a second and swung down her sword intending to bisect him him but the lord of Irk was no pushover. He parried her attack and retaliated with a vertical sweep. Luna in turn used her unique special technique `short distance teleportation´ to get behind the demon trying to stab him in the back but he jumped forward spun around and released a wave of his supressed magical power which blew Luna away. She landed on her feeds hundred meters away while giggling like a madman.

"Wonderful. I will really enjoy to kill you."

The real fight would now begin.