Diligence POV


    Nine years, we have to wait nine years before we can finally get rid of the abominations that are my grand-daughter and grandson, the goddess forbad us from killing them or else we''ll lose our divinity and become nothing better than a lesser dragon but them killing each other isn''t a problem, that is why I kidnapped one of the two during the Vermillion''s extermination, I raised her as so she''ll be able to kill him and then die because of the guilt of killing a family member, the inate love they have for their family is one of their biggest weakness.


    I don''t care if they are this world''s saviors or the harbingers of doom, my pride as the third generation of Diligence cannot accept the existence of such unnatural being. It is even more shameful that the one who committed that sin was my own daughter, I had to lock her up and never let her out for the last five hundred years. But once those kids have died I''ll finally set her free to get her help in the eradication of the remaining child of the earth, they''ll be able to rejoin with the god they love so much.


    As I was planning how I will organize the new world she appeared, a blond-haired woman with golden dragons wing, she radiated with divinity as she walked up to me. Our dragon goddess stood before me in her most gracious form, one she hasn''t shown anyone but me, one she used when she asked me to eliminate all the Vermillion in her name millions of years ago. I kneeled and did not dared look up in order not to anger her if her eyes met mine.


    |It seems one of the two black lambs slaughtered the land of my children, I will not take back the order I gave you at his birth but ..|(Dragon goddess)


    She grabbed my head with her pearless white hands and lifted violently my head, locking her crazed red eyes with mine.


    |But once the time is up, I WANT HIM TO PAY !!!|(Dragon goddess)


    And before I could say a thing she disappeared in a blood red tornado. I am proud that she has shown this appearance of her to but only me but every time she does she seems much more violent than usual, the few time she contacted me in this form was to ask for me to slaughter in her name or get rid of some nuisance. I wonder why she can''t just ask us normally ... maybe it is a god thing, as a lower god, I cannot even fathom to understand how the creators work.


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    Apocalypse POV


    Several weeks have passed since I returned to the Stardust mansion, I was greeted back by tears, anger and a lot of pain, I even lost an arm to Lara''s anger but in the end, we all collapsed in each other''s arms. The Elves assassins were still in the jail, being watched over by the guards and never seeing the sunlight. The princess I brought back with me was traumatized and would start to shiver as soon as she heard my name or caught a glimpse of my shadow, my wives didn''t want to let Julia get near her because of the collar that had been put on her but after sometimes Yualina decided otherwise because she remembered that Alice used to have them enslaved but now they are friends.


    At first, the princess would not talk to Julia and would just stare at the wall while rocking back and forth but after sometimes she started to hug her to calm herself and she showed something I did not expect for a Human, she admitted that Julia wasn''t at fault and started to talk to her again. As for me, well I don''t get near her because otherwise, I don''t think I''ll be able to prevent myself from breaking her neck.


    This incident also made me realize some of my little foolishness of mine, like how I viewed strength or even how I thought cohabitation with normal Humans was possible. They are far too weak compared to us for them to be able to live alongside us, they would simply end up exterminated if of us threw a little tantrum. For that reason, I think it is best for us to have our own kingdom and as far away from Humans as possible. Of course, I don''t want to completely exclude the other races entirely but only strong enough individuals would be chosen to live with us.


    But before doing that I must find all the remaining sins, get some territory management skills, decide what kind of regime it is going to be, organize that shit and finally find somewhere to set up the foundations. What I can do right now is make the soldiers corps since I just have to assign trusted people to train people they trust and support me. In order to do it right we forcefully awoken Sloth using some magic, and in order to get the other sins .... I roared and urged them to get over here, which they did after a few days, words of who I was from the tournament had reached them.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    Greed, Gluttony, and Envy had joined us. Greed is light-brown skinned and had long straight hair going down to his knees, two large bull''s horns coming out of his forehead, his hair and eyes are also brown, he had some nice muscles and smelled like iron and other metals. Gluttony is a slightly chubby man with black hair and eyes and looks like he has Asian descent, he smelled oddly sweet. As for Envy ... Well, I should say Envies since they are twins, they are slightly smaller than us, the boy is blond-haired and the girl is red-haired, they both have yellow eyes and they smell like ... strawberries ?


    We''re in one of the meeting room of the Stardust mansion, sitting at a round table in rather luxurious chairs.


    |So you are the Crimson Duke that I heard so much about.|(Greed)


    |And ya .... I don''t know ya all except for which sins ya are so let''s introduce ourselves, shall we ? I am tha Crimson Duke, Apocalypse Satan Seraph Amael Vermillion, tha god of Wrath.|(Apocalypse)


    |My name is Imperion Lucifer Retoris Imael Vermillion, the god of Pride.|(Imperion)


    |My name is Sextria Asmodeus Silin Leiandra Vermillion, the god of Lust and Apocalypse''s wife.|(Sextria)


    |I am called Restria Belphegor Velentia Jumi Vermillion, the god of Sloth and I don''t where I am.|(Restria)


    |My parents must have called me Dinemaro Beelzebub Fermu Guliogu Vermillion, the god of Gluttony.|(Dinemaro)


    |I bear the name Mineferos Mammon Vero Naikola Vermillion, the god of Greed.|(Mineferos)


    ||We are Entos and Vytel Leviathan Furiu baela Vermillion, the gods of Envy.||(Entos&Vytel)


    |Great, now that we all know each other we can get ta business, as some of ya ma know we are not Humans and are basicaly a race of lower divinity, we were created ta battle against tha dragons and I kinda made a deal with them ta have a battle in nine years. Also we should get away from the Humans for their safety.|(Apocalypse)


    The newcomers looked at me with wary eyes, getting on guards and ready to battle if needed. They didn''t moved much, in fact only seasoned warriors would be able to tell and I guess I can understand them, to them it must sound like bullshit. Mineferos put his hands on the table and sighed as he started to talk.


    |You want us to fight with you ?|(Mineferos)


    |I understand ya''d refuse if I said it like that but what if I said that tha dragons are those who almost killed yar families while ya were all but tiny lil'' children.|(Apocalypse)


    |And why should we trust you ?|(Mineferos)


    I clapped my hands and the old generation came in, since we are tied by souls to our family we can tell if they are the real deal. That''s why for reasons they couldn''t explain why their heart got all flustered when they saw their parents which they had never seen but could still tell who they were to each other. After they finally accepted that I could be trusted I explained to them what I wanted to do. Since Mineferos turned out to be a blacksmith he agreed on making us weapons and armor for the war to come.


    I don''t plan of fighting fair since I am pretty sure they won''t either so we''re going to raise an army. We''ve decided on who was going to do what, Mineferos is going to forge our items, Dinemaro is useless since he''s only a cook and that won''t help in the training, Entos and Vytel are extremely good with daggers so I sent them to Monti to form a stealhy and deadly assassins corp. Restria is in fact very good at taming animals so I sent Barandian and her to go and tame some good monsters all over the continents.


    Imperion and Memurien were put in charge of training heavy warriors and Kirego was put in charge of training a light infantry that strikes fast and hard as for me I am in charge of a berzerker corp along with Lara. Sextria is going to work with Eali and Glymina to enchant the weapons and armors. We''re also going to travel a bit to train, get some ingredients for the homunculus and we''ll regroup in six years to go and form the kingdom before the war against the dragons.


    This night I went on my room''s balcony and looked at the moon. I felt the cold air blow through my hair, to me it was the wind of change, right now we are just a bunch of disorganized one man army but I do intended to make the most powerful Empire that exist, have a florishing society, an Empire that shows the might of our species. I smile lightly as I notice that my "wife" Lifera stands behind me. I slowly turn back to face her, that proud Demon queen who agreed to sacrifice her life for her daughter. She was wearing a beautiful Crimson dress and a small silvery tiara.


    |What gives me tha honor of yar visits yar majesty ?|(Apocalypse)


    |I learned you had returned, is it not according to Garmille''s custom that a woman welcome back her husband ?|(Lifera)


    |Do not force yarself for me lil'' girl, in a few years I''ll be gone and ya''ll get yar liberty back soon.|(Apocalypse)


    |So this is what you do, you marry women and once you are done with them you let them on the side of the road ?|(Lifera)


    |If it was only up ta me I''ll take ya with me, hey, who''s tha weirdo who wouldn''t want beautiful women ta be at his feet but unfortunately it isn''t only up ta me and I respect ya for what ya are so ya can go back to yar country and do whatever ya want to do. I swear I''ll go ta yar funeral in a few hundred years, this is tha only thing I can promise ya.|(Apocalypse)


    She walked up to me and grabbed my shirt to pull my face to hers and give me a kiss on the lips.


    |I spent more than two hundred years of my life alone, do you really think I let this opportunity pass and do nothing about it. I''m tired of having a cold bed SO YOU GOTTA MAKE ME GET IN LOVE WITH YOU RIGHT THE FUCK AWAY !!|(Lifera)


    I smiled and grabbed her by the waist to pull her in a deep kiss. All I have to say is that that night I''ve tasted one of the sacred fruit of Hell.