I will be a demon in this life!-Chapter 243

A month passed, and in the kingdom of Presial, messengers arrived from some neighboring kingdoms that had received requests for support from the kingdom of Presial.

However, the messengers belonged to neighboring kingdoms that had refused to provide support, and now, after hearing not only about the defeat but also about the annihilation of the imperial army that had confronted the kingdom of Presial, the kings who had previously refused to support them now sent gifts of congratulations.

King Sition Brooks, with Prince Absab at his side, accepted the offerings and said to the messengers:

"Inform your lords that we need allies for the coming wars, not enemies."

Most of the messengers understood the message: if their kings refused to help, they would become enemies of the Presial kingdom, but if their kings supported the Presial kingdom, they would end up losing their titles as kings and becoming mere lords.

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After the formalities and meetings befitting the circumstances and status of a king, Absab and his father walked through the corridors of their castle.

"It won’t be easy to get everyone’s support," said the King.

"Mephistopheles told me he will support our kingdom as long as we do not bow down to the Empire," said Absab calmly.

"Demons are deceitful," said the King, unable to hide his concern.

"Mephistopheles knows this, and to guarantee our position, he made a demonic oath to support me as long as I do not betray him and as long as we do not bow down to the Empire," Absab tried to reassure his father.

"What does that demon want?" was the question that King Sition did not ask and for which he could find no answer.

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Mephistopheles was staying in a mansion near the main castle of the Presial kingdom.

It was nighttime, and a beautiful maid brought some exquisite dishes from the kingdom to the mansion’s dining room.

Roast turkey fillets, fresh vegetable salad, slices of bread, and wine.

"Eliana, why are you so scared? Hehehe. You’ve never seen a demon before," Mephistopheles cut the steak with a silver knife and used a fork to bring a piece of the juicy meat to his mouth.

The maid, with black wavy hair, white skin, and dark blue eyes, looked down, not daring to answer.

She did not know if one of her words could offend the demon in front of her. A demon who had given Prince Absab the power to annihilate an entire army.

Eliana was the daughter of a count, and since King Sition offered a great reward to a young noblewoman who knew etiquette and had varied knowledge to work as a servant for a high-ranking noble, all the middle-ranking nobles in the kingdom, in their ambitions to gain influence, offered their daughters for the job, which was guaranteed not to dishonor them. In the end, Eliana passed the screening process.

She thought she would be in charge of a princess or one of the king’s children, but now she was facing a demon, and a very powerful one at that.

"Tomorrow I want a different dish. Tell the chef that dinner was delicious," Mephistopheles finished drinking the wine in his crystal glass.

"As... as you wish, Your Excellency," said Eliana.

Mephistopheles got up and, after walking through the corridors of the mansion, went out to stroll through the garden as he did every night. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

He remained vigilant to ensure that no one entered the territory where King Sition and Prince Absab lived.

The possibility of assassins being sent or a surprise attack was something he would not overlook, especially now that the Presial kingdom was once again on the verge of going to war against the Empire, a war in which Mephistopheles hoped to wear down the Empire and divide human territory in the same way in which demonic territory was divided due to so many conspiracies.

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A few days later.

In the garden of the main mansion of the Sevec marquisate, little Persec, only a few months old, possessed a pure and intuitive talent.

His mother, the beautiful Isirid Merliano, wearing a red veil over her face and her hair dyed black with magic spells, watched her beautiful son crawl happily.

Little Persec caused the grass he walked on to rot at will, and from that rot a few fierce locusts formed, flying alongside the baby who smiled happily.

"I’ll have to write a letter to my grandfather or create an exclusive garden for little Persec. We can’t keep replacing the grass every time he goes out to crawl around," thought Isirid, watching little Persec with a loving mother’s gaze.

Persec Sevec sat tenderly on the rotten grass and made the fierce locusts fly in circles around him as he laughed.

Then, what happened next was not worthy of a tender baby.

Persec Sevec almost intuitively ordered his locusts to devour some scarlet butterflies flying near the flowers in the garden.

The ferocious locusts, formed from the cursed energy Persec Sevec obtained by rotting the grass, devoured the butterflies’ heads with their fierce jaws and then their abdomens.

In the end, only the scarlet wings remained, without a body, on the lawn of the garden.

Although the sight of locusts devouring butterflies was not particularly grotesque or striking from the perspective of a powerful demon, seeing a baby demon perform such an act was indeed striking.

Persec Sevec applauded with laughter, and after the ferocious locusts had fulfilled their purpose, they exploded and disappeared like dark dust in the air.

"You little rascal, it’s time to eat," Isirid levitated her son into her delicate arms, where she carried him with great care and love.

The little boy looked happy in his mother’s arms as he babbled, trying to talk.

"Soon, my little one, if you keep at it, it won’t be long before you’re saying your first words."

The little boy continued to babble happily.

"Tell the gardeners to replace the lawn in the garden," said Isirid in an almost cold tone.

"As you wish, my lady," said Isirid’s personal maid, a demon woman with dark green hair, dark eyes, and black horns, one on each side of her forehead.

Despite how peaceful the surroundings appeared, on Balac Sevec’s orders, several demon soldiers were always protecting the areas near where the heir Persec Sevec was located.

Mart Sevec’s other children also had protection, but the demons spared no expense to protect their heirs, especially when it came to someone as talented and of such high lineage as Persec Sevec.