Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World-Chapter 469: Vel’Ashera - The City Reborn From Ruin

After the battle, the village began to take shape. Each person became more focused and a sense of companionship formed between the demon knights and warriors. Some would visit the monolith and quietly pray, and others became fixated on their tasks. The mood was solemn but also full of purpose. It was an interesting thing that Asmodeus hadn't seen in his long life.

Normally, after a battle, people would drown themselves in pleasures, or the mood would be depressing and sad, but this was something different, like all of them had become focused.

"It's amazing, what we can do with a little push."

Asmodeus gazed at the city from beside the monolith.

Sometimes, he would sit on the edge of the cliff while gathering the surrounding mana and cultivating his strength. At this height, the air was pure and unpolluted, with an abundant essence that made his progress faster than normal.

However, the main reason was it cleared his mind and allowed him to calmly watch the horizon, and his future goal.

[I agree, it's amazing how much progress they've made in a single week.]

"Well demons don't need the same sleep a human does, so it's more like a month, if we were to compare their efforts."

[True.]

Serena covered her lips and chuckled before lowering herself and sitting beside him at the edge of the cliff. It was a long drop that she would almost class as a mountain, but demons again didn't find it hard to reach this height in a few hours. A human might complain, though, she thought.

"You're going back soon, right?"

There was an awkward silence before she nodded and leaned against his arm, resting her head on his shoulder.

[It looks like even bearing your child and helping you break the rules of the world wasn't enough for them to dismiss me just yet.]

Asmodeus shook his head lightly before leaning on Serena.

"Or you are their hostage to keep me in line."

[Mhm... I thought of that too.]

A gust of wind passed the clifftop with a low howl, making her hair flutter and cover her face as she pulled it back into shape and looked at the view. As always, it was magnificent, but after experiencing such an exciting adventure with the love of her life.

Serena didn't want to return or remain being a goddess... but she couldn't stop now.

'Until we deal with Mephisto, I cannot lose my position.'

In reality, she told a white lie to Asmodeus. In order to keep her position, she willingly offered to return as a hostage, and this caused the gods above her and the ones who truly created this world to accept the transgression.

Otherwise, they planned to smite him.

[Will you be all right alone? Can you take care of those girls without my help?]

Serena's daily teatime became a habit for the women, and not each night. The women not sleeping with him would gather and discuss many topics. It got to a point where they called it the Harem Council.

'Honestly, without you everything feels different...'

Words he felt too embarrassed to say echoed in Serena's mind. She peeked at his face and noticed the slight, awkward expression and the slight blush on his cheeks. He was adorable even when acting tough.

Asmodeus knew this goodbye wouldn't be forever, but saying goodbye wasn't something he dealt with well. He wasn't able to see his mother again after that day. Now the knights he trained and saw running around having water fights in the southern city of Baltimore were also gone.

"Maybe I am getting old." He muttered, despite being twenty.

Serena giggled as she leaned into him, and they sat there in silence while watching the village below.

One part was a massive fortress with multiple towers in construction, while the village was also expanding, with new houses and buildings for the community. It wasn't a village in size, because this place was larger than the capital of Grigor. The number of people reached several thousand too, so it would be closer to a town in reality.

[By the way, what did you choose for the name?]

This question was something all the women carried, but they tasked Serena to ask him, curious about what he might choose.

Asmodeus just smiled at the thought.

"Vel'Ashera"

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[Hmm?]

Serena observed Asmodeus and noticed his faint smile when muttering the name.

His gaze fixated on the place where the battle had taken place a week ago; now, thousands of small seedlings started growing with strange flowers that Sariel had collected on their travels. "I never thought that's what she did in her free time, collecting seeds and other things from the places we visited."

There were plants from the Beast Empire, Grigor, Baltimore and even the elven forest... and the world tree included.

[I don't understand how she got THAT seed...]

In the centre of the huge field that was levelled and turned into Sariel's flower garden, she planted hundreds of plants, trees and, at the centre, with a circle of open space around it, a seed she received from the world tree... from that pesky elven goddess.

"It's amazing how fast they grow, thanks to the mana infused river... even the farmers became shocked, because it defied their knowledge."

[Well, that's true, but your idea to throw the demon cores of those who died into the river was also a smart idea... to keep the mana pure and flowing through the river. It's an environmental solution, I suppose.]

In Asmodeus' memories, he remembered the effects of pollution and overfishing in his past world; thus, when he started wondering if the mana lake could be finite and might lose its magical effects, that's when he came up with this notion. Not only giving their cores upon death to give back to the planet, but when training to improve themselves, most new warriors and knights would pour their mana into the soil directly daily.

"I didn't think it would have an effect. I mean if it did... why do the other races not do such a thing?"

[True, but their mana isn't comparable to a demon's, especially demons you make...]

"Haha, well you wouldn't have become my lover if I were just a run of the mill guy, right?"

Serena turned to him and remained silent for a moment, her eyes examining his face before a sly smirk formed on her lips.

"I don't know... you're kind of my type."

"What?"

Because she spoke in her voice, his mind almost melted, the air trembled with her divine voice, causing his heart to throb, the affectionate tone, the slight giggle that followed and then her hands on his chest as she pushed him to the ground with a lustful look in her eyes...

'I guess there is another reason she came here.'

Asmodeus wanted to sigh, but Serena's lips covered his, devouring his breath as she sucked on them, her soft body pressed on his, with their tongues intertwining as if reluctant to part even for oxygen.

Her eyes fluttered, and they parted for breath.

The saliva linking their lips made him want to take her now, but he held back...

[This is so you think of me every single night... don't forget this kiss.]

Serena's fingertip brushed against his lips, squishing them as she winked at him before pecking his lips again.

'God damnit...'

[You mean, Goddess damnit.]

With a stupid joke, she roughly bit his lower lip, sinking her teeth into his soft flesh, before pulling back and letting them go.

[I have to leave now. Don't get yourself into trouble and behave.]

With that final note, she vanished in a cloud of dark mist, seeping into the air as if she never existed in the first place, and Asmodeus reached out as if to grab the air.

"...I will come back to you soon."

Gazing at the space where Serena had been kissing him moments before, he smiled.

"You'll always be here."

He touched his chest, but he shook it off as he rose to his feet and wiped the grass and dirt off his pants before his wings unfurled, and he stepped off the cliff with a hop and headed to the village for a meeting about something silly... but necessary.

***

The moment Serena returned, she touched her lips, reminded of his warmth and closed her eyes thinking about how much she wished to remain beside him... but then a solemn voice echoed throughout her realm and her expression froze.

"You finally returned as agreed we shall seal your realm."

Serena bit her lips, regretful and wondering if she should have slept with him; even a quickie would have been enough.

So she could endure the cold and loneliness of being isolated.

"Because your spouse has broken the world order, he shall face judgement of a fitting nature."

'What?!'

"That isn't what you—"

"Silence!"

"The criminal has no say or input. You will face your sins and watch from your realm as he faces his atonement for breaking the order of the world!"

A cold, almost mechanical voice scolded Serena—this voice was the messenger of the creation gods who looked down upon the others like vermin.

"Should he survive this trial - all sins shall be vindicated and forgotten."

However, she regretted accepting their deal...

'Did I play into their hands?'

She closed her eyes and took a step back, nodding.

"I accept the terms of the contract."

The seal activated, with thousands of magical chains wrapping around her divine realm, turning her paradise into an icy prison. Though it would be a paradise, the fact she couldn't contact or speak with Asmodeus until after he faced whatever trail they prepared made her anxious.

She worried about him... but no matter how hard she tried.

Her voice wouldn't reach him.