Unrivaled Demon's Odyssey

"Master… Zeus…"

After that, Arnold passed out.

"...." Nero raised his brows and walked to Arnold.

"Is he dead?" he wondered.

He nudged Arnold with his leg and sighed in relief upon seeing him breathing.

"Still, his injuries are fatal; He will die soon."

Nero threw Boris' head on the ground and crushed it under his feet as Boris' eyeballs popped out of his eye sockets.

Nero picked up Arnold's body in his arms and walked out of the throne room.

Nero had powers to heal any being using his blood or magic, but he couldn't heal a person who didn't have any magic inside their body.

There was once a time when every human could use magic, but as time passed, generation after generation, they stopped using magic as the world was at peace.

Hence, no one bothered to use or learn magic, and it became a rare thing.

However, there were still people who had magic in their bodies but couldn't use it as it was in dormant form.

Laira was one of them, and that was the reason Nero was able to heal her body— even when only a few of her bones were left.

Arnold, on the other hand, had no magic, and that abnormality was linked with his soul.

'Only an angel's powers can heal him,' Nero thought.

"And I happen to have two of them in my harem," he added.

Nero flew out of the balcony, but he was stopped by thousands of guards surrounding the palace from all the sides; from the baileys, towers, gates, barbicans. Each and everyone one of them holding their weapons and pointing them at Nero.

"Surrender yourself!" They yelled.

Nero took a deep breath and slowly exhaled as he changed his form to his real appearance.

"It's a monster!"

"Demon!"

"It's an evil being!"

"Now, now." Nero sneered. "Don't praise me that much."

"Fire the crossbows!"

The guards from lower bailey fired crossbows. It was still nighttime, and the only lights were coming from the torches the soldiers were carrying. Nero's eyes and hair were shining with his pale skin, so they could easily see Nero; however, all of them missed, but one didn't. It went straight to Nero's head and pierced his skull, or so one would have thought. 

But, the bow broke into pieces as soon as it hit Nero.

"Foolish mortals," Nero muttered with a sigh.

Nero looked at the guards and raised his hand in the air: 'They are from the enemy faction anyways, so it doesn't matter even if I kill them all.'

He was about to snap, but Arnold's fading breaths stopped him.

'He is dying…!'

Nero flew higher in the air and disappeared within the clouds.

"I don't have time to fool around," He rushed to Sophia and reached there within a minute.

"Where did the demon go!"

"The monster ran away!"

"We did it! We scared the demon!"

"We are invincible!"

"We are the strongest!"

All the guards rejoiced and celebrated their victory.

"Demons are not scary!"

"Demons are weak!"

"Monsters are—"

Suddenly, the cloud thundered, and an enormous lightning bolt pulverized thousands of soldiers in one hit.

Not even their bones were left, and the entire palace was obliterated.

Nero glanced in the direction of the palace and murmured, "I needed to get out of its area of effect before casting it."

"Arnold!" Rosemary yelled as Nero landed beside the carriage.

Sophia was standing outside the carriage, seemingly waiting for Nero to come back. Emilia and Asteria, however, were fast asleep in the carriage.

Sophia hurried over to Nero and shouted, "What happened to him?!"

Pavel and Rhea rushed to Arnold and looked at him in concern.

"Sophi, can you heal him?" Nero asked.

"I will try!" Sophia began to heal Arnold, but his wound wasn't healing.

She glanced at Rosemary with an anxious look on her face and uttered, "Rosie, go find a new body just in case."

"But where?! We are in the middle of nowhere."

SIGH!

Nero sighed and uttered, "If he dies, it would be his fault anyway. He shouldn't have mixed sleeping drugs in our food and leave alone to fight like that."

Rosemary gritted her teeth and grabbed Nero's collar: "How can you say that?!"

"But it's the truth. Why did he mixed sleeping drugs in the food and did such a stupid thing? He should have known that he couldn't stand a chance against the entire kingdom."

"You…!" Rosemary pushed Nero away and yelled, "You are heartless!"

"I am a demon," Nero sneered. "So, what do you expect?"

"You are evil!"

"I indeed am," Nero laughed aloud. "Did you forget I am the one who killed your mother? She was begging for her life; she asked for mercy and rubbed her head on the ground in front of me. Did you forget how I plunged my sword in her mouth and burned her to ashes?"

"I thought we all were friends!"

"Friends, you say?" Nero snorted. "I only consider you four as strangers who just happened to be traveling together, nothing else!"

Rosemary clenched her fists and muttered, "I wish you were dead."

"Heh!" Nero smirked and asserted with a smug look on his face: "That's right. Hate me more. Loathe me. Despise me. Detest me. Abhor me!"

Rhea placed her hand on Rosemary's shoulder and said, "Calm down, Rosie. You know he is lying, and he is simply trying to make you angry. Just like he did when he killed that woman."

Rhea referred to their mother as 'that' woman because they promised Nero not to bear any of her sins and live a normal life.

"It's easy for you to say! You are not going to lose—" 

Rosemary stopped when she remembered that Pavel was about to disappear within a few hours.

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Date- 30 August. | Author's Note:- There was a storm here. Hence, power outage, no electricity, no network coverage, no wifi. But I uploaded it as soon as I got a chance.

It would have been absolutely disheartening if I had lost win-win on the last day :(