1 Betrayal and Revival

On the Hills of Darn'n'uku, their was once stood the fortress of the 11th Great Demon King. The area had little value except for one fact, it had been placed on the 7th nexus of time and space. It was knownthst beingwithin even a milr of would to fill those areound it with dread.

Threre it stood for untold centuries, with demons and mad monsters roaming the land around it for many years praying on the innocent. Until one day, the Lady Hero and her adventure company valiantly destoyed the Demon Lord Geas and his army of horrendous spirits and monsters. Sadly the Hero's form ber corupt du to dark magicks, causing the hero and drmon lord to slay each othrer, with the hero falling to thr corruption. That is why on this day, the day of our Freedom and Saalvation, where we celebrate the hero's sacrifice.

"What the hell, stop lying!!! You were the f***ing ones that killed me.", I scream, but as as a ghost no could hear me.

"And remember, don't forget to donate to the church . Bye now children. Bring your parents with you to the festical later.", My former friend and companion, the Great Priestess of Yolarcha, or Cammile, finished the tale to the leaving children. Every year she and the other companions of mine, put on this big show of how I sacrificed myself to save every one and that we should be thankful to them. Really, it was just an excuse for them to get some extra dough. In the past, we had traveled on the Kings orders to kill the demon king. Along the way we became close as friends and eventually I thought of them as family. Turns out it was all an act.

Thirteen years ago

The fight with the demon king had been tough but at the end I had prevailed. I was thankful for my companions assistance, but oddly that had been adamant about not interfering. Sure they healed me from the side and made things difficult for the demon king, but they hadn't done a single poi nt of damage. I would soon learn why.

"Come on guys what are you standing there for, please just heal me. ", I had begged them once I had been poisoned by the demon king's miasma. As such i had slowly begun to be unable to move. Fortunately, i was able to slay him in time before I had been almost completely paralyzed. But here these guys were just sitting back and watching me spasm from the paralysis wearing off.

Sorry, But what was the story again, Camille said to Jarvis, our swordsman, totally ignoring me.

"What?" i was confused what we're they talking about.

"The Lady Hero Valeria fell to the Demon Kings corruption and we were forced to watch in horror as her body slowly spasmed and bled from her wounds.", he began.

What are you saying Jarvis, Camille....

"-No matter how hard we tried the bleeding wouldn't stop and every time the wounds were healed they immediately reopened and became ten times worse.", she finished for him.

"Oh I remember now thank Jarve~ . Camille said and continued with , "and we were forced to put her out of her misery." Just then Hank, our tank I know an original name right, raised his shield and started lowering the pointed end towards my neck.

"Hank, Jarvis, Camille you can't be serious.", I managed to whisper, "I thought were friends."

"Thats right 'you thought'.", Camille pointed out.

"You see" she said, "when we got this quest, we were told that whoever slays the demon king would in turn revive them should they die a natural death."

"What! When.", I don't remember that.

"Oh right, after Tom here accidentally knocked you out with a sleep spell.", pointing to our mage who was standing off in in a corner.

Oh yeah, I had chewed him out for that when I had woken up.

"Since you were out, we decided then that you would be the sacrifice. So as to ensure the Demon King didn't resurrect after you died. So sorry, but we'll try not to make this painful.

Tom looked at me sadly, Jarvis just smiled, Cammile laughed, and Hank... cut my head off.

After looting my corpse, they each went there seperate ways. Hank became a castle guard, Jarvis owns the guild pub, and Camille is the head of the church i was currently in. Tom disappeared soon after, and from what I heard he couldn't handle the guilt. As the story goes, he went into the woods one day and nver ce back. At least someone wasn't a complete a**hole.

<Sigh> Well, due the circumstances of my death I was forced to watch over the church Camille presided over until I could move on. Unfortunately, due to a certain someone I couldn't.

"Come now dear", the Demon Lord Geas spoke softly from my shoulder, "would you prefer not to get vengeance on those who wronged you."

"Please,", I grumbled, "whose dumb enough to except a deal from the Devil himself."

"Oh come on it's a good deal,", he cooed, "my minions revive you, you enact your revenge, some blood sacrifices later, yada yada, fifty years of life, yada, and then puting you back into the afterlife." Laughing, "Not a bad plan, gehehe. "

"Yeah, but few small tinsiey, weinie problems with your plan their, bub.", I re,minded him.

"Oh. and pray tell what are they.", he questions me.

"Let's see, hmmm...., you revive, i spend the rest of eternity in hell, oh and did i mention the reviving part for you, cause lets face it I hate you. "Come now, who was that killed me unprovoked?", he chided.

"Your minions ate my family!!!", I reminded him.

"True, but was I the one who did that, did I slay you, and did I subsequenrltly sell your corpse?",

"Eh, well..."

"And need I remind you who was it that was trespassing on private property, terrorized many innocent demons and monster, not to mention home invading and wrecking, resulting in my almost immediate demise.", He grows larger and larger with each reminder of who killed who. He brings it up a lot.

"Ummm, well, you see... eh why am i glowing?!?," I was trying to come up with a good excuse or comeback when I noticed that I had begun to glow.

"Oh, it's started.", the Demon King said disappointed. "What has?!?!?", I yelled at him panicingkly. "Oh, just your ressurection.", he said nonchalantly.

"But what about the deal?"

"Yeah well, the thing is, I had already called ahead while you were napping, so really your welcome.", acting like thisn fixed everything.

"But I didn't accept, I know, but you were going to do it either way, why?", confused a sto why.

"Just wanted to munch on your soul while waiting for you to croak, oh well."

"What the heck man?". before being thrown into a mind numbing amount of pain.

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"Why does it hurt so much?", I manage while throttling him. I was dead, so how could I feel pain.

"Hmm, let me see. Ah appears they went with demon transformation.", he stated.

"Meaning?", I say with the pain turning into an awfully itchy sensation?

"Oh you'll just be reborn as some form of demon or other. Really its a fifty fifty of even succeeding and your soul not dissipating right away, so you should be glad.", he said almost gleefully.

"Wait What!?!?!?!", how did that even work?

"Well tododloo!", while pushing my face inwards and just like that...

host species has been set to human...

changing host species....

host species has been set to demon...

incarnation searching best species fit....

loading templates....

selecting legendary template B-51-C

template loading

Congratulations, host template now set to Melancholy demon.

"Well, could be worse. I could've been made into a succubus's plaything. But where I am?", I think to myself surrounded by nothing but darkness.

"Greetings child," an elderly voice calls to mefor somewhere.

I just had to ask.

I don't see them at first, but, suddenly there's a massive form of dark purple energy floating above. As it gets closer, I can see that it is holding what appears to be a crown suspended in its center.

"Who are you,", I asked, "and where am I?", I demanded.

"Greeting child first to answer your question, i am the mediator, my name is not that, but you will learn it later. As to where 'we' are , that is hard to say."

"What do you mean?"

"Well to best explain we are in your subconscious of your new body, took a lot of effort, but it's almost done."

"Oh I see so were really stuck in a limbo situation."

"Right on you kid good job.", they say a little too enthusiastically. Probably means they deal with people that make them have to beat around the bush a lot.

"Umm okay, so why are you here?"

"Alright, so you see it would be such a shame if were you to die right after being revived.", they said sounding annoyed by it.

"Well, I already get the revived part, but the dying as well? Why revive me, just to kill me afterwards? Aren't I supposed to live for the rest of my natural lifespan or whatever."

"Yeah, you were, but remember the prophecy that got you sent here? Well I have news for you, it still works. Since you will become a demon, the demon king's followers, who are reviving you, can literally suck the life out of you. Furthermore they can do it to where you are left with a second of life and then die from old age. Hence you die and mustache guy revives.", they finish explaining.

"Wow, he really thought this out didn't he.", I say bitterly.

"Yeah well that's just how it goes with devil's and demon's deals.", they say sadly.

They seem kind've down as the energy seems to slump, for a minute before perking back up.

"Fortunately for you, however, I've decided to make you a demon King. You shouldn't have to worry about the life drain now, since it only works on the lower class demons.

"Hold up, what?", and for the second time that day I was poked in the face and went inwards. This time I was poked with a crown though.

Next thing I know, I'm waking up scantily clothed on some sort of sacrificial altar with some guy in a whole creepy, cloaked, cult getup standing over me. I also happen to notice that in the background, I am surrounded by the bodies of hundreds of similarly clothed cultists. All the while with a sacrificial dagger begin held aloft above me.

Well this can't get any worse.

"For our master, for our future, for our people's brownies.", the lone cultist whispers solemnly above me

Uh, what....?

"Yoah, Sam hurry up down there.", a voice calls from somewhere. "We were supposed to finish hours ago, I can't keep a forest fire goin forver. Come on we have a bunch of bodies to burn."

"Well sh*t.", I groan.