Chapter 226: Lair of the Demon Lord's Consort - I
The leader, Adolf, rushed to complete their quest in order to compete with an up-and-coming rookie who garnered a lot of dislike from the male adventurers because they always saw him with different women who were all SSS-Rank beauties!
"Hurry Chad, Brian if we are late the boss might have to deal with that handsome prick and end up punishing us for it!"
\'The quest seemed simple, to eliminate some bandits. Although that new handsome bastard who prances around also took the quest. I am confident we can clear this one, because my party know the bandits responsible! Haha, we just need to ask them to hide in the secret tunnels for a short time, and the guild will pay us the reward, as always!\'
"Boss, are you sure that the leader won\'t kill them both? Didn\'t we want to trap that woman and enjoy a taste first before selling her off?" Chad, the ranger, spoke with a foreign accent; it seemed to come from the western kingdom of Franberg, on the other side of a mountain range from the kingdom of Grigor.
A place known for mercenaries and its thriving spice trade, Franberg didn\'t have good relations with Grigor due to them rejecting their prince\'s proposal for the second princess.
"Chad, don\'t be so eager. The boss always samples the women first you know that." The bald mage gave a sinister grin before patting the ranger on the back with his huge hands. Brian, a former slave who fought in the arena of Franberg, learned of his divine powers after meeting a wealthy merchant named Dorothy, who freed him.
Sadly, he tricked the young lady and abused her before he used the skills gained from the arena to beat her to death. Afterwards, Brian took most of her wealth and fled to Grigor, where he met Chad and Adolf.
"Tsk, stop speaking! Look, there\'s some goblins, hurry it means the boss is in the back!"
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The three vagabonds rushed across the plains and began to tread the secret path through the sharp underbrush and narrow path to the hideout.
As they grew closer, the path became a small ravine leading towards the mouth of a cave.
"This is where the boss is hidden this time, look the mark above the cave. I will go and see if they are in the back room, stay here and wait for the signal." Adolf, the leader, ordered and approached the mouth of the cave.
Because the boss of the bandits was very cautious, he killed any of the people who returned from outside, \'outside\' being the term used for their hidden adventurer parties. So only the leaders were given the correct method of bypassing the traps until they reached the hideout and disabled them.
Any who broke this code was killed on the spot, or the traps would be reactivated to ensure swift death.
However, the mouth of the cave was a good place to hide loot and goods. Because the traps were easy to bypass, and only the main path was trapped.
"Boss, Boss, it\'s me!" Adolf called out as he entered the dark cave. A goblin with a rusty knife immediately attacked him, and without hesitation, he used his sword and slit its throat, killing the monster.
Adolf approached the box of money and opened it while he searched for the hidden switch behind it. Once his hand landed on the cold brick, he pressed it down twice before revealing a secret passage, the stone and cave shaking as the sound of rolling stones and metal sounded.
"See, told you I knew the boss was here." Adolf sneered and made a rude gesture towards the two men waiting outside.
"Cunning bastard..." Brian cursed and watched Adolf leave the cave, leaving the box of goods for later.
Once inside the tunnels, he passed many rooms filled with sleeping areas where the bandits would normally rest after drinking; there were a few female bandits who weren\'t permitted to leave, still sleeping in the beds, the foul smell of men and women lingering in the small caves used to sleep.
\'One of these days, I will join the main force and enjoy sex with these babes; even after dozens of men, they are still prime beauties... Unlike those women far beyond our reach... damn, that redhead is the one I want so bad.\'
"Will the boss let me have a try since we gave the information..." Adolf thought aloud as he moved through the winding tunnels.
After a few minutes, he reached the large open room filled with food and a roaring fire. However, it felt strange because the food seemed cold, and the fire was almost dead.
This area was the main room for the main group who followed the leader, yet despite all the food there was nobody in the room as Adolf reached out and tore a juicy, succulent piece of chicken leg from the untouched body. "Where is everyone?"
"By chance are they farming the goblins to grow stronger? That leader... fuck, he\'s so strong because he can keep fighting them constantly using us a little lapdogs!"
"That\'s it, he\'s probably training. I have to find them. Or it\'s my head that will roll!"
Adolf kept chewing the chicken leg and moved through the cave, eventually entering the short tunnel that led to an enormous pair of doors. The doors led to the final room, and normally, as he stood beside the sealing crystal that kept the monster cave alive, its dark red hue and the light glow made him want to crush it.
He was a little excited because this was the first time he was coming here—to the main room, as he thought to himself. \'Maybe I can leech some of gods blessing and grow stronger!\' That\'s what people native to the world called the existence of experience. It was a blessing the gods gave that allowed anything you killed to help you grow stronger.
Adolf and most of the outside group were, in fact, previous victims or people who surrendered to the bandit leader. That\'s why they weren\'t trusted easily, and thus, jealousy and envy ran rampant.
\'But if I can gain some power and return to that city of women... maybe, just maybe, I might get my hands on one... Just one would be enough... and then I could enjoy their bodies all night and day...while they begged and cried for that damn man with tears in their eyes, hehehehe.\'
"Damn, I am getting hard now." Adolf tried to calm his raging boner, but a small patch of blood on the ground appeared as his thoughts of defiling those pure women and their dignity grew.
"Maybe I can have one before we sell her? Right?" Before clearing his throat, he took a deep breath and placed a hand on the door. He didn\'t call for his two allies; instead wanted to be selfish like a bandit would.
However, the moment he touched the door... terror, fear, death, and danger, many emotions surged through him, and the bloody patch seemed to come from the other side of the door.
\'What is this feeling...? Ah! This room is death; I have to run! But why... my body won\'t listen to me... what is this aura?\'
"Gaaaaaaa!" As his mind began to fight back against the desire to flee, his heart lurched forward, and his blood felt like it was being burned alive.
His soul was fighting for life, but his instincts were telling him to flee!
Adolf\'s body pushed open the door as if the entire world had become a firepit; the heat, like a blacksmith\'s furnace, enveloped him as his face began to ache. As if he stood in the summer sun for hours, he felt a burning, tingling pain before falling into the room, slipping on something slimy... "Eh?!"
Blood...
Not a small amount.
It was like a river of blood.
Something like hell entered his eyes.
"W-What.... W-Who...?! Why...."
"Oh? We seem to have guests, my lovely little consort."
A male\'s voice, deep and filled with power. Yet, with a soft, gentle charm that sounded like an angel\'s song entered his ears.
"Fufu~ My King, you are right. It seems a little goblin entered our chamber of love."
\'This is dangerous. I have to flee... run, Adolf! Run! This place is no chamber of love!\'
Blood, entrails and flesh covered the cavern walls, bones and skeletons all hanging from the ceiling, distorted and bent into bizarre shapes, and an enormous river of blood flowed, black and red like a mixed soup of sticky blood from goblins and humans, forming a moat around the centre of the room where two \'things\' sat entwined together.
There was little light, only a small set of crimson flames that billowed and flickered around the two \'things\' that looked at the man with dark eyes... a dark pair of purple and ocean blue orbs watched like monsters in the dark.
"It seems the goblin cannot talk, he\'s quite stupid, My lovely Witch."
Once again, the angel\'s voice came from the monster\'s lips. Only a pair of long horns and silver hair appeared while the female\'s scarlet hair shone like fresh blood oozing from a wound, her horns smaller yet glowing with eerie darkness.
"A...ah....aah....AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
\'Demons! They are demons, actual demons! I have to move, body... move!\'
"Oh my love, it seems he is terrified of you, handsome figure~ what should we do? I feel a little jealous..."
"Why should you be my dear? You know your appearance is the one I favour. So, why worry about something so simple?"
"You flatter me, my King."
\'King? Demon King? I-Impossible, a Demon King and Queen cannot be in a monster cave in the kingdom of Grigor!\'
"Hey~ little doggy, why are you so loud? Is my husband too beautiful? Or maybe... you have filthy thoughts about me?"
\'I\'m no dog... no dog... don\'t speak with such a tempting and devilish voice....!\'
The sound of a woman\'s voice entered his mind, and his lust grew, a beastly instinct that overwhelmed him.
"W-Who... are... you....?" The man finally found the strength to speak and glared at the demonic pair.
"Oh my? It seems I was right, this filthy mutt!"
Adolf suddenly felt a dull pain in his right side—the next moment, a sound of flesh colliding with rock echoed as he looked down. Something tore apart the right side of his body like a pair of invisible hands. His arm and leg were missing before he began to fall forward into the river of blood.
"Gyaaaaaaaaaa!"
"I don\'t want to die; I don\'t want.... to...Help....help....hhe....lp!"
Like a dog, he desperately tried to climb out of the deep, sticky river, his wounds burning from the demonic blood and heat of the bubbling river. Adolf\'s terror caused him to become crazed, yet while he suffered, the two in the centre began to kiss each other and ignore him.
With eyes of desperation and utter horror, he watched those \'things\' make love while his body started dissolving in the poisonous blood.
He once loved red hair... from the moment he saw that beautiful princess who appeared in Baltimore.
However, in his dying moments, only terror remained because of the red-haired monster, which sang such a beautiful song of pleasure while he could only die in agonising pain.
This was the first sighting of the most feared demon queen, the consort of blood.