Chapter 7: Back to Life

"First, let's change your clothes, you're a dream girl for every lolicon out there."

Alex teleported inside his own room with Ophis. She was standing on his bed, looking around the room with a look of intrigued.

She soon turned to look at Alex after hearing his words. She was looking at Alex in confusion, finding it incomprehensible as to why does she have to change the way she dress.

After all, she wore this gothic dress for a long time and none seem to care, though she did receive some "odd" looks from time to time.

"Here, change into this." Alex took out a purple trimmed, black sundress just around Ophis' size before giving it to her.

Ophis looked at the dress in Alex's hands before snapping her fingers. The dress disappeared from Alex's hands and is now worn by Ophis.

"Good, now let's—?"

Knock.

Knock.

Alex raised an eyebrow, he just arrived inside his room quietly, how could anyone know that he is inside?

Nevertheless, he went and open the door, and his questions were already answered. There, standing in front of him is none other than Cerberus herself.

This girl has just this keen sense of smell when it comes to him.

"Milord." She gave a light bow. "Every Demons in Demon World has now gathered outside the castle like you have ordered."

Alex nodded, he didn't question why they were so fast, arriving from all over the world to here. They have magic after all.

"Good, tell them to wait, and I will bring their dead comrades and family back to life. Also tell my council to make a list of 72 tribes who made the greatest contribution in this war with Youkais and when I came to conquer Ente Isla, I will reward them personally. Also, please bring Alice to me."

"As you wish milord." With that, she disappeared.

Alex smiled. Yes, he is planning to make the 72 noble houses named after the 72 Demons, and give them their own territories.

Managing an entire world is too much especially since he won't always be here in the Demon World, so he will have nobles to manage parts of it, but they will still answer to him.

As for the Gremory, well to avoid confusing it to his own last name, he'll just change it into Gamori, or Gaeneron, or Gemon, or Gemyem, whichever sounds better.

Not his name of course, but the one whom he'll give it to. Demons doesn't really have last name, and he is an oddity, since technically his name should be Jacob, but after Lailah gave him the name Satan, he change it into his last name.

As for corruption and whatnot, Alex—no, Judecca has literally "hacked" into world and can control its rules and laws. If he wanted to, he can turn this world into an all-game world like in a certain anime.

He can just forbid corruption as easy as flipping his hands.

Though since demons are creatures of violence, conflicts, blood and gore, he plan to make a massive Colosseum where they can just fight out their conflicts, like a Kengan Match from that certain anime.

God, there's so many things to do! He should have returned here much sooner!

"Come on Ophis, let's revive this world."

Ophis nodded and followed after him as they went to his courtyard, where the Tree of Nihility can be seen.

Alex felt his generals returning but he didn't bother with them for now, because he has a very important thing to do.

He wondered though, if he can fuse the "Hell" of Earth to this world, make it a continent or something. Since he can pretty much play god in this world, he maybe able to do that.

The demon world isn't big, its only as big as the moon of Earth, with population of around a hundred million. With Space Magic and Tree of Nihility, he can cast a World Wide Magic that would be able to expand this world despite still looking as big as the moon.

So, even though the demon world appears to be just as big as the moon, its actually bigger than several planets combined. He planned to fuse several world and turn them into continents, the Demon World should at least be as big as the Sun—no, even bigger!

"Milord, I have brought the princess as you command." Cerberus appeared, carrying Alice on her shoulders.

"Papa~!" Alice waved her hand as she smiled at her papa.

Alex turned around and smiled as he walked towards Cerberus and picked up his daughter.

He smiled at Cerberus and patted her head, "Thanks Cerberus."

"A-Anytime Milord!" Cerberus replied with a flushed cheeks. Alex smiled and retrieve his hand, causing Cerberus to whine in disappointment.

Though she still stood there, curious about what her king is planning to do.

Alice felt a familiar presence and she looked down, where she saw Ophis looking at her with a stoic look.

"Hod! Hi~!" Alice smiled and waved her hand as she immediately knew who this little girl was.

Ophis looked surprise as she look around, not knowing what to do, and in the end, she ended up copying Alice and waved her hand as well.

"Hi..." She said with a monotone voice.

Alex smiled and caressed Ophis's head, before looking at his daughter, "You should call her Ophis-neechan okay Alice? Since she's a little older than you."

Well, Ophis did look like a ten years old girl, while Alice look like a two years old toddler.

"Phis-neecha?" Alice tilted her head before smiling and nodded. She looked at Ophis and smiled, "Phis-neecha!"

Ophis actually looked shy and averted her gaze, her cheeks turning red from embarrassment.

'Glad to know she isn't emotionless.' Alex snorted in amusement, "Anyway, Alice, Papa needs your help a little, can you help me?"

"Un!" Alice didn't even think about it and immediately nodded. She was always willing to help her Papa after all!

Alex smiled as his Judecca in her pendant form glowed before transforming into her human form.

Cerberus who was standing at the back just raised an eyebrow seeing a woman suddenly appearing.

But she kept quiet and lowered her head, because the moment this woman appeared, every single hair in her body stood up in fear, as her instincts screamed at her to run.

"Jude-neecha!" Alice smiled and greeted the woman who is as close to her as much as her Mama.

Judecca actually showed a rare trace of smile as she caresses the cheeks of the little Sephira, causing the girl to giggle.

"Anyway, Ophis, Cerberus, I want you to meet Judecca, she's my closest partner. You could even go as far as saying that she's half of my life." Alex smiled and introduced Judecca to the two girls.

Judecca returned to her stoic look and gave Ophis and Cerberus a curt nod. The Hellhound returned it with a light bow, while Ophis decided to copy Alice.

"Jude-neechan." Ophis waved her hand at her, still with a stoic look.

Alex and Judecca blinks their eyes in surprise, but said nothing.

"Alright Alice, go with Jude and help her okay?"

"Okeh!"

Alex looked at Jude, "Can you also make a portal that connects this world to Earth?"

"Super easy." Judecca nodded with a serious look, as Alex just smiled and nodded.

Jude smiled and picked up the little girl from Alex's arms before she went towards the Tree of Nihility. The tree was so huge and thick that you can make a house inside it.

At the bottom of the trunk, there's a "∩" shape entrance which Judecca used to get inside.

Inside of the tree is a spacious dark room lit up only by the floating Hogyoku on the center. The orb was placed on an altar, floating and glowing while covered by roots.

Judecca took out a vial with a single drop of liquid in it before proceeding to walk towards the Hogyoku.

Alex and the others remained outside, just looking at the entrance of the tree patiently.

"My liege!"

Alex, Ophis, and Cerberus turned his gaze at the sky where his generals in their human form was flying towards them.

Cerberus scowled as she spit on the ground, causing it to released a smoke due to how hot her saliva is, it also mirrors her anger.

She was now much weaker than Asliel and Lucifer, whom she can beat up quite easily before. Suddenly being this weak just left bad taste in her mouth.

"What are you doing?" Emi landed beside Alex and looked at the tree. "I can feel Alice there, and Judecca too, what are they doing there Alex?"

"Its nothing, Jude just needed her help in this job. Don't worry, its nothing harmful or anything." Alex answered as he held her hand, trying to comfort her.

Emi frowned, but in the end she just sighed and nodded, "It better not be."

Ashiya was giving Cerberus a smug grin as said Hellhound just glared at him, her eyes blazing in anger.

"Well, I believe I have won, Miss Cerberus." Ashiya said with a mocking voice.

"Tch!" Cerberus clicked her tongue in annoyance, "Don't act so smug, even if you're stronger than me, you are still General Boner."

Nonko snap towards Cerberus with a wierd smile, "General boner? Are you insinuating something dirty?"

Ashiya's eyes widened in horror as Cerberus just smirk, "I sure am. You see, no matter where he is, this dickhead always had a boner, even in public, and he wasn't even trying to hide it."

"Oh my~" Nonko stared at Ashiya with wide eyes as she covered her mouth with her hands.

"Not cool bro." Genshiro shook his head in disapproval. Even he is not that shameless, and that's saying something.

Harribel just looked at him in disgust. She couldn't believe that this gentlemanly looking man actually have this disgusting side.

Starrk made a mental note to keep Lilynette as far away from Ashiya as possible. Who knew just how low can this guy go.

Lucifer just snickered. He knew that it was just a joke of Cerberus, but still, he always finds it amusing.

"I told you, I don't have boner, I'm just hard!" Ashiya retorted, trying to save his reputation.

"Oh my~" Nonko took a step back, looking at Ashiya warily. The person himself admitted it.

Cerberus rolled her eyes with a smirk, "Yeah, because that's totally better."

Ashiya realized what he said and tried to explain, but when he saw the look of other generals, he knew that it was already too late.

He looked at his king, who just looked away with a smile. He then looked at the former hero, and immediately averted his gaze.

Emi was glaring at him so hard that he hallucinated his own death a hundred times.

"Don't come near Alice, ever again." Emi's disgusted voice was heard.

Ashiya couldn't take it anymore and glared at Cerberus, "You...You..You..."

"I? I? I what?" Cerberus smirked, 'Don't mess with me Alsiel, even if you're stronger than me I have hundreds of ways to make you cry.'

"Damn it!" He run away. He'll probably blow up a mountain or two to relieve his frustration.

The generals and Cerberus snickered him. Alex looked at Emi who was smiling smugly and whispered, "You know they are joking right?"

Emi rolled her eyes, as she gave Alex a smirk, "Of course I do. Just treat that as a payback for him being annoying, dense, and for stealing my friend's heart. Seriously, Rika really likes him, so much so that her heart may as well get wrapped by a pretty bow and a tag with Ashiya's name on it."

Alex remained silent. Though he kind of agree with what Emi said.

"By the way, who's this girl?" Emi questioned, seeing the girl standing beside Alex.

"Well she's—"

He was about to answer when a beautiful northern lights, or aurora suddenly appeared above the castle, it was even slowly expanding without any signs of stopping.

"W-Wha?!"

"The hell is this?!"

Suddenly, the dried up and dead Tree of Nihility seems to come back to life. It was brimming with so much vitality as it also began to grow. This leafless tree also began to sprout a red leaves.

And then, a massive gate emerged beside the tree, with purple portal in it.

Outside the castle, the demons who were gathered there also witnessed the sight of the dead Tree of Nihility coming back to light.

And, a beat later, the fallen demons also began to open their eyes and stood up, staring at themselves with wide eyes.

They couldn't believe, they just came back to life! The Demons started to cheer as they chanted the name of their king.

But that's not all, the sands that covered the demon world was replaced by a rich soil with grasses, though not all of them, since there are still places you can call a desert.

And the dead trees also started coming back to life, causing forests to grow, but their leaves aren't green, but red, orange, and yellow.

Demon World is still Demon World after all, though a lot of places were already brimming with life and vitality, there are also some places that only dangerous demons would want to live.

Still, it doesn't change the fact, that this "dead world" suddenly came back to life.

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AN: "...a pic..."