A Crimson red Apocalypse is nearing


    |We could but wouldn''t that be more of an inconvenience ta us since we would have ta watch over her. That''d be a nuisance more than anything.|(Apocalypse)


    |It is either that or we kill her and I assume that like me we all aren''t very thrilled by the idea of killing a civilian when our goal can be achieved without casuality on both side.|(Kirego)


    He has a point, even though it would be annoying to watch over that woman while we are on an opperation that require stealth, I''d prefer if I didn''t had to kill civilians. Up until now I only killed soldiers, guards or murderers, they were never people that hadn''t signed for danger or hadn''t at least taken another person''s life. Not that it gave me any peace of mind but at least I know they weren''t people who didn''t know how to fight back .... well for humans there isn''t a fighting back with me but you know what I mean.


    |Just a sec, hey little lady could ya kindly stop biting my hand ? Not that it hurts but it is getting kindda annoying ta hear yar teeth grinding my flesh.|(Apocalypse)


    |She''s a feasty one huh ?|(Lara)


    |Got any idea on how ta calm her down ? t''is getting annoying.|(Apocalypse)


    Yup, the demon woman is biting my hand so hard that blood is spilling but to be honest since I regenerate so fast it doesn''t hurt a bit but it is quite irritating. This woman doesn''t help herself on stayng alive, had it been anyone else her corpse would''ve already been found in the garbage.


    |Well madam just has to calm down and we won''t do anything bad to her, or would she prefer if we let this idiot loose on her ?|(Kirego)


    He said, pointing Memurien with his finger, she surprisingly stopped biting my hand. I looked at Memurien with eyes filled with pity, people hate him so much that he can be used as a threat, poor him. I slowly let go of her and she gasped for air once she took her breath back she wiped her mouth with her sleeve, okay now you hurt my feelings.


    |What are humans doing here ?|(Remira)


    She said in a low threatening voice to which I answered by raising an eyebrow. It seems this woman hasn''t understood the situation she was in yet. I slowly approached my face to her''s and made it so my teeth grow sharper and my eyes become red. I then said in a low tone.


    |But are ya really sure that we''re humans ?|(Apocalypse)


    |Whaa ...|(Remira)


    Before she could ask anymore question I put my finger on her mouth to tell her to kindly shut the fuck up.


    |Shhhhh, no questions, since ya spied on us we''re left with two choices ya see so I let ya decide. Either ya die or ya follow us, choose wisely and be aware that any stupid action could kill everyone in tha village.|(Apocalypse)


    She quietly nodded so I took back my finger. Since we couldn''t just keep her in the room for obvious reasons we allowed her to go away but we made sure to tell her that if she told anyone about us then the village would be set ablaze. Of course we had to monitore her a little by spying on her, our size did not helped us on that one.


    We stayed a week or so at the village to gather rumors and a bit of money. Itt seems that the ''powerful human warrior'' was shown to the capital citizen once every week to make the people remember that one should not rebel against or attack the kingdom. While I do agree with this method as long as it isn''t extensive and is done to every little criminal out there I must also say thatit will only make the hate towards the human and some people arrogance grow.


    Plus the fact that it may be an apostle that is showed like that to the countryman makes my blood boil and I can''t find a good reason to explain why. Is it a magic bound between all of the apostle that makes them feel close or something else ? Every time I think of how one of us mght be suffering out there, my heart twist and hurt and when I think of the person who could have hurt them my blood boils. It''s strange, I only know Imperion out of all of them but even though I haven''t met them I feel great empathy towards them.


    We left the village with Remira, we made her used the excuses that she wanted to see that ''powerful human warrior'' in her pitiful state. We learned that the demon-kin like to used tamed dungeon as prisons since they didn''t have to hire guards to look after the prisonner since the monsters spawwned by the dungeon would di it by themselves. I admit the the demon-kin are rather ingenious with how they use magic in their daily life, instead of using fire wood powered oven they use a magic tool that looks like a oven from the 21st century, it is something a human kingdom like Guarmille doesn''t have.


    The trip to the capital was a two month long one, nothing much happened on the way since our disguise wasn''t a bad one but we still avoided towns and city as much as we could. We also learned why Remira was spying on us at the inn, turns out that she was intrigued by my horns since they weren''t the usual bram horns that demons usualy have and that people with horns like I have tends to be from a specific noble family that fell not too long ago so she got curious.


    As for the capital it was clear that we couldn''t enter from the front gate and no black organizations would help us either given the fact that we didn''t had any connection with influencial people in the country so we''ll have to sneak up by ourselves and wait until the ''powerful human warrior'' makes her appearance. The wall surounding the city are tall, 25 meters at least and they are made of an ominous black stone, we could see the palace from where we stood, it had that ominous feeling you expect from the castle of a certain vampire count ... even though it belonged to a Queen and that Queen was a demon.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    We sneaked close to the wall, it was really painful to see Remira sneak her way to us since she never had any experience with that, Memurien had to go back and carry her to us at the end. We waited for the night to come and we jumped above the wall when the guards were patrolling, we had to knock some of them out and we jumped down in the city. It was clean but evil looking ... well if I took a demon to a human country they would see the architecture as an evil looking one, all''s about the one who see it.


    We waited and hid for another four day until people started to gather at one place of the city, we quietly followed behind them while hiding in the shadow. Remira had to stay behind with Memurien, we coudn''t afford to lose her in the crowd and even if one might say it isn''t safe to let her stay with Memurien .... it is because he won''t take his eyes off her that we decided that he will guard her.


    |It doesn''t look like a place where you show off something.|(Lara)


    |T''look like a screen.|(Apocalypse)


    |Are we sure they will show her today ? It coud be a simple event like a little speech or something like that. We don''t know the political situation of the demon''s country after all.|(Kirego)


    |Look.|(Monti)


    We both look back to the place where people had gathered, a big white board was in front of them, suddenly a red skinned woman with two ram horns on the side of her head and long smooth looking silver hair and silver eyes appeared on it, she looked like she was in her thirties and was absolutly stunning. She must be the Queen, from what we know she has a daughter that leads the army and the Queen''s husband got killed a few century ago in a war against the humans.


    |Citizens, today this Queen has an annoucement to make. In one week the human named Restria Vermillion will be executed at this very place under your very eyes.|(Queen)


    |Whell shit we''ve come at a good time.|(Apocalypse)


    |Talk about it, we have to hurry now.|(Lara)


    |First we have to find that dungeon.|(Kirego)


    We once again looked at the giant screen and instead of the Queen the face of an asian girl was shown, the picture must have been old since the girl looked just smaller than the Queen, something that would be extremely rare for a Vermillion for now since most of us were over 2 meters and 75 centimeters tall, so one of us only being two meters tall would be strange. The Queen doesnt seem to be that tall after all.


    We quickly retreated to where Memurien was and started to discuss a strategy.


    |So what did you see ?|(Memurien)


    |Not much, except for the fact that if we do nothing the one we''re searcing for will end up without a head on her shoulders.|(Lara)


    |Do we even now where is that dungeon ?|(Memurien)


    |Nope.|(Apocalypse)


    |Then we should start searching for it.|(Kirego)


    The ones most likely to know where it is are the soldiers and the guards, of course there are those above too but it would cause a commotion if we had contact with them so better start with the bottom than the top. .... So in short we kidnapped a soldier and interogated him, he didn''t knew much but we leaned that the dungeon was under the castle. We scared him shitless to make sure he don''t speak and we tied him up where we were staying, he was still a kid after, only fifteen years old, well here he is an adult but not for me.


    So we discussed a little on what to do and we decided to sneak in the castle, we would do it at night so it would be easier but we were sure to be discovered the very moment we step in the palace we weren''t thieves or assassins and except for Monti none of us were able of using spell that would help us sneaking in.


    Once night fell we sneaked to the castle, Monti quietly knocked out the nearing guard using a strange non-lethal poison. We were sparing them, not because we had good heart but because even the slightest death could lead to an open conflict, even if they didn''t from where we were there would be human casualty aftewards and that isn''t something we want.


    We entered the palace and an alarm immediatly went off like we had expected Monti had the duty to distract the guards that might come to us, he used Illusion magic to hide us from the guards and then diverted their attention to him before he started to run away. Doing our best to go unnoticed Lara, Kirego and me went to palace underground here the dungeons was situated. Sometimes we came across a guard so we knocked him out and hid him or her inside a closet or something alike.


    We stopped at a big metal door.


    |Is that the dungeon ?|(Kirego)


    |From my experiences in them I''ll tell you that''s one dungeon.|(Lara)


    |Then let''s dive in.|(Apocalypse)


    We opened the door and ran inside the said dungeon, since Lara worked 4 years as an adventurer I could trust her on this one. On our way we passed by several hideous monsters, one was a dog like creature with a crocodile face and two arms wielding two curved swords on its back. We passed without minding most of them but we had to stop three time, as one would expect those three time were in boss room. From what I know monsters in dungeon don''t have magic core since they are part of the dungeon so we just killed them and ran to the stirs that were behind them.


    |T''was easier than I thought it would be.|(Apocalypse)


    |Normal since we are just running without fighting, and given our strenght it is only normal that the difficulty is low.|(Lara)


    |It seems that we cn''t experience the joy of dungeon diving today.|(Kirego)


    We arrived at the bottom of the dungeon after defeating a minautor like creature, though instead of a bull head it was a snake one. We were in a big open room, people were chained to the wall and were screaming for help. My eyes set themselves on a girl at the far end of the room, she was the only one chained to this wall. I kicked the floor to go to her but stopped myself right next to her when I saw what she looked like.


    She was an asian girl like what was showed earlier, she was about 2 meters and 80 centimeters tall, her hair were a mess and dirtied with blood, they had scared her face to such an extent that her self-regeneration had stopped being fast enough and ruined her appearance. She was sleeping and I could see her scars slowly closing themselves but I could only guess her jailor would open the again soon.


    My blood boiled, how dare they !! My mind kept telling me that this girl was Sloth, maybe my ability to recognize a Vermillion was more effective on apostle. How dare they hurt someone like her, I did not know her but I was still outraged. Sensing that something was wrong Lara put her hand on my shoulder.


    |Apocalypse calm down... Oh my god what is happening with your face ?!|(Lara)


    I heard footstep coming from behind us, Monti should have rejoined with Memurien so it must be the demons .... let''s see between them an me who is the one who is the most angered in this situation.