activa-t Chapter 1305: Erebus Meet The King And Queen
Chapter 1305: Erebus Meet The King And Queen
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I tried to introduce Erebus myself, but the boy ended introducing himself in the most shocking way possible!
"The King and the Queen of Luminous, huh...." Erebus muttered, glaring at them with his sharp red eyes. "Nice to meet you. I’m the Demon King of Miasma, Erebus."
"EH?!"
The King and the Queen couldn’t quite react well to that, they didn’t even know how to respond to just being told the fairy in front of them was the Demon King.
"Is he your new friend? Why is he joking like that?" asked the King.
"The Demon King of Miasma died, I saw him die myself," said the Queen. "Is this boy joking around or something? He does look different than other fairies, with horns and black wings and hair, and those red eyes... And that third eye in his forehead, he’s quite unique looking. I’ve never seen one like him before."
"No, he’s not... Uh, he’s not joking," I explained. "I didn’t kill Erebus, I gave him a new chance, and I allowed him to reincarnate with my own powers. Using my Yggdrasil Body, I reincarnated him as a fairy."
The rulers blinked a bit in disbelief, without wanting to even recognize what I said for a couple of seconds, but then grew desperate.
"I don’t really like this joke..." the King said.
"Wow! Is he really a demon?" wondered Gustav.
It seemed that they couldn’t really believe me, and I can’t blame them, it’s normal not to believe something so insane without seeing him in motion.
"No, I am bound to Planta’s-"
"Don’t talk unless you’re told to," she glared at him. "Don’t you dare speak."
"..." Erebus eyes squinted a bit.
"No he’s not," I said. "As he said, he’s bound to me as a sort of Familiar. He is also bound to a Promise we made. That he will help and save as many people as he can, whenever he sees them in danger. And he will prioritize to save lives above all else."
"I see... So it’s like a curse, or a binding vow," said the Queen, nodding. "It’s very dangerous what you’re playing with, Planta... But I’ll trust you, you’ve done so much for us that it wouldn’t be nice for us to begin distrusting you, right honey?"
"I... I mean yeah but take this trust as a part of the repayment," the King sighed. "Before we owed you like five favors, so now... four."
"Hahah, it’s alright," I giggled. "I saw his past, his entire life. He became a vengeful Demon King because of many reasons, though one of them was because the Ancient Gods hated him. As the Son of the Gods who was deemed as a "failure", only Gaia loved him as her true son. The others abhorred him due to his Element of Chaos and Miasma, and his appearance. A group of unknown Gods set a Curse on him that made him go Rampage, attacking the Gods and making them retaliate, ultimately ending up with a big fight. The Yggdragon, who was their perfect creation in the past, had to fight him alongside the Gods. Ultimately, he ended being defeated and cut down into seven fragments which were sealed by the Yggdragon and the Gods. The Demon Kings appeared afterwards, born from each fragment."
"I see... You learned all of this from his memories?" wondered the King. "That’s very interesting..."
"Erebus here, is the Demon King of Miasma, the third fragment that took upon his original powers and also part of his memories. Unlike the ones that might come later, he didn’t develop a unique ego and remained as the same as before being sealed, in an endless maddening rampage. It seems that upon being finally defeated and having his body destroyed, with his bare Miasmic Soul left behind, this curse that turned him berserk was finally gone, and he was able to see reason."
"I... deeply regret everything I’ve done," Erebus muttered. "But I won’t blame it all to simply being part of the curse. A part of me... was malicious, and I’ll fight against that part, and destroy it. I will rewrite history as to what a Demon King truly is. Luminous, Titania, and Planta have taught me many things. I still remember him, yes, your hero."
"My ancestor?" the King gasped.
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