Ch.13 The cursed demon lord

In our world exists many magical beings sometimes called monsters by the uncivilized (the biggest part) people. Some of these magical beings have higher magic capacity then others, but there are only three races considered Supreme with their bodies made purely from magic.

Said beings are Angels, Devils and Spirits. To make it easier to understand, the Angels are usually considered the good natured magicians, the devils are considered evil and Spirits are considered neutral or balanced. Coincidentally, their relationship is also a three way tie. Angels are stronger then Devils, devils are stronger then Spirits and spirits are stronger then Angels.

Interestingly enough, Spirits are only loyal to their summoners. While in the spirit realm they follow their highest ranked elemental spirit always called Grandmaster.

Also, Demon lords, are directly created by the goddess of demons so Devils wish to be summoned from Hell by Demon lords. In their eyes, they are apostoles of their goddess. The difference between demon and devil is that devils are low ranked and Demons are high rank of same type of being, ultimately all devils can became demons by evolving. While summoning, if used same amount of mana (and sacrifices), a horde of devils can be summoned, but with same requirements only one demon can appear as well.

When Arana suddenly fell to the ground with searing pain in her chest, the gray-ish light turned to pure white flames seeping from her body, especially her abdomen.

This was a curse with holy element in it.

"Impossible. Holy magic cannot be used for curses, it's the complete oposite of demonic magic after all," Lizzie suplemented her magic knowledge.

"Is there really no way?"

"There is, but…"

"I…I killed a hero. That's my job as a demon lord. He was from Cambion race, a white demon, accompanied by angel. The hero... challanged me with his entire party of sixteen woman behind his back, but lost all exept for that angel... I killed the hero and took the angels wings, but..." Arana spoke to us as the white flames died down.

"The angel didn't died, right?"

"She turned into Fallen… and used the hero's blood to activate the curse of Soul weakening… I can no longer use demonic magic becouse of it…"

"Is there any way we could erase it Lizzie?" I turned to our magic genius who was sitting on an armrest of my throne.

"Hm… there is no way to destroy the curse without use of holy magic, and we can't use it becouse holy magic is deadly to demon lords."

"Curse of soul weakening, what a nasty curse you have on yourself, dear," Hestia patted Arana on her head, ignoring painful screams of the bug torso, on whom she was standing on.

"That foolish angel… Saraquiel was her name I think? If they took my hand back then, they could be still alive right now…"

"Naturaly."

Truth is that the Demon fruit, I ate before becoming Demon lord, have power to corrupt everything, even angels and heroes.

"Um, how long is the curse in place?" Skaly asked, while seating herself on opposite armrest to Lizzie.

"For about fifty years."

"But, that angel… it must've felt a lot of pain for a curse to activate. Too bad for her, she will never be able to gain blessing from Goddess of angels, or get replacement from any other gods," Hestia said with her hands crossed under her breasts which made them jiggle. Resultin in cold glare from three other women in the room

"Thanks teach."

"You're welcomed. But call me Hestia already."

"Not sure I can."

"You meanie," Hestia pouted as her breasts jiggled when she turned her head away once more.

"Hm… as I think about it, I realize that if we can't take it of, we have to reverse it," Lizzie pondered.

"Y-you can do that?!" Arana practically jumped at Lizzie.

"Y-yeah. I used to be called Great mage of Justice way back in the Quenet elvish kingdom. Reverse magic is my forte, you could say," she looked really smugly.

"Quenet huh?" Arana got a little nostalgic.

There's only few legends that mention birth of Arana the Queen of nightmares (the Lustful demon spider). Many legends talks about Arana who destroyed everything in her way as she murdered man, woman and children alike. She could't be stoped by anyone, she slay fifteen heroes in less then three hundread years and three other demon lords.

Only person who did something even more horifying is one of the Sinful seven, Valvonor the demon lord of Greed. When second generation heroes were introduced to the world, he attacked their gathering under the Holy mountain of the time (the current one is actually sixth Holy mountain and all the previous ones are ruled by demon lords) and slaughtered all angels and heroes present there. Back then, it was called 'the start of the Dark age.'

Currently, Valvonor rules the entire continent to north from ours, the Aelisia continent.

"Well, people there still hates you, but becouse you are friend of my husband I will cast a spell on you. But, I need to prepare for it. Darling, do you have magic stones?"

"I should have quite a stash in my magic bag, why?"

Lizzie smiled at my words and placed a finger on her lips, "I will need to draw a magic circle."

"Oh, crap..." a chill run down my spine when I heard her words.

To the greatest magic casters, like Lizzie, magic circles are nothing more then unneccesary obstacle. But there are rare instances when even the greatest of all magic casters, the Ten Grand Sages, use magic circles to boost their power. They draw magic circle of sustainance and fill it to a brim with their mana and after repleneshing their own power, they use both the circle and their own mana to cast a grand spell.

"What kind of stones do you need?"

"Light, Null, Darkness and Water," Lizzie smiled at me.

"That's all?"

"It's suprisingly easy to make this circle," Lizzie shrugged and turned to Arana, "Of course, you will owe us a favor for it."

"Yes, I understand," Arana nodded, "I will recognize you as an equal standing dungeon and open a trade with you. We have quite a lot of items you might like. What do you say, will you accept my offer?"

"To become a demon lord on same footing as legendary Arana the Arachne? That seems intriguing," I smiled to myself, "But don't you dare tell Albea about this."

"I guess I should wait at least until you have two kids right?" Arana smiled as she placed a finger on corner of her lips, trying to act cute. "Tsk, no reaction."

I just smiled to myself and had Haba prepare a room for both Arana and her bug warrior.

Later that day, I decided to rummage through my Magic bag. I made sure all statues inside were in as pristine condition as always and stored them back very carefuly. I took out all materials I collected, which allowed me to summon new types of golems, and undead and prepared a new batch of all purpose potions and basic cure-alls.

'Although they are called cure-all, they can't cure complete petrification... what a joke.'

As I went through the bags with diverse food items, I recalled faces of humans (and demi-humans) I helped on my way from Mutasa Kingdom.

"Those were some happy faces... good times too."

My mind went over my meeting with the guildmaster Tongu on borders of Moon rabit kingdom and coming to Astenna kingdom afterwards. 'I went on solo missions, joined party during raid on undead lair... meeting the Black leaf... meeting those guys...'

"If I ever meet those guys again... I will show no mercy at all. Let's make them suffer twice as much as I did. My pain will be your pain, that I swear."