1 Betrayal

The sound of hooves hitting the earth is heard throughout the forest. Leading the group is a young woman in silver armor adorned with jewels. They continue to ride until they reach a large cave opening. Getting off of their horses, they light torches and walk into the cave.

"Are you guys certain there is a netherworld portal in this cave? This isn't something that should be taken lightly." The young woman said slightly suspicious.

"Your highness, His Majesty himself told us of this portal. Are you doubting His Majesty's judgment?" A muscular man in red armor asked.

"No I don't dare question, my father it's just weird he only sent 50 men to subjugate a supposed demon." The young woman said in a defeated tone.

"Your highness I assure you, His Majesty sent his elites to help subjugate this demon. They are all at least 3-star magus'." The red armored knight said.

"Then let's pick up the pace, I don't want to be in this cave any longer than I have to." The young woman said as she started to jog.

The group jogged deep into the cave, finally finding a 3-meter tall, ominous red portal. The portal rippled and continued rippling violently until a large clawed hand broke through the portal. Following the hand was a 5-meter tall red demon. The demon looked down on the group of knights and roared with great vigor.

"ATTACK!!" The young woman yelled.

The demon seeing the knights move brought down its giant hand and instantly killed 10 knights. The red armored knight casted multiple spells on himself and his blade. Jumping into the air the red armored knight swung his blade down attempting to chop off the demon's arm.

"DIVINE STRIKE!"

A large yellow mana blade formed around his blade and made contact with the demon's arm, chopping it clean off and leaving the stump sizzling.

The demon roared out in great pain, now enraged it began to charge mana into its mouth. The large ball of black mana shot out and decimated the knights in the way. The young woman with her blade unsheathed ran towards the demon, dodging its continuous attacks. The demon swung its remaining arm down on the young woman expecting a hit but was blocked by the red armored man.

"GO!!"

The young woman charged blue mana on her blade, jumped into the air performing an overhead swing. The blue mana reached its peak as she swung down.

"ROARING THUNDER!"

The young woman swung her blade right through the demon, cutting it in half. As the demon's entrails spilled, the young woman looked over at the victory. Until she felt a hot sensation throughout her abdomen, looking down she sees the red armored knight's blade sticking out of her.

"W-Why!?" The young woman said as she spat up blood.

"Verona Crown Princess of the Reian Kingdom, did you really think you were sent by the king to subjugate a demon any 2-star magus could kill easily? Heh, they said you were naive but I didn't think to this extent." The red armored man said with a look of disgust and a great amount of disdain in his voice.

"W-Who really sent me here!?" Verona shouted.

"Stupid too huh, if you die who is the next in line?" The armored man spat out.

"GREGORY!!" Verona said with immense rage.

Verona attempted to cast a spell, but her mana felt like it was mud.

"HAHAHAHA!! You must not know the properties of my blade princess." The armored man said laughing in amusement at Verona's downfall.

"This blade works best when against humans, when struck one is struck by this blade, all of their mana is unusable to them. You can't even self-destruct princess, so you are at my mercy!" The armored man said with a lustful look.

He pulled the blade out of Verona's stomach, causing her to keel over and cough up mass amounts of blood. The armored man bent down and began taking Verona's armor off.

"N-No STOP!" Verona cried.

Ripping off Verona's clothes the man pulls down his pants and put his dick in front of Verona. Verona eyeing the phallic thing with a great amount of fear began to scream. The armored man holds her down and put the tip at her entrance, before he could penetrate he started to melt. His skin started to fall off like melted ice cream, his bones melted and touched the cave floor like hot metal, his muscles dripped like water on a stalactite. Before the man could yell he was already a puddle of human trash. Verona seeing her would-be rapist melt she laid in her own pool of blood and swore to the heavens.

"This kingdom and its citizens will fall! My name will be the nightmares of gods, mortals will cower in fear when they see my face, this world WILL BURN!"

As she accepted her death a clap resounded in the cave. A handsome man walked out of the netherworld portal. Red skin, black hair, and two large goat horns adorned on the side of his head, this man is the textbook definition of a devil.

"That was an amusing show, wasn't it little princess?" The devil said before waving his hand, melting all living things besides Verona in the cave.

"W-Who are y-you?" Verona said in a weak voice.

"I'm the man who can offer you a deal you cannot refuse." The man said amused.

"I-I meant y-your name." Verona said as her voice began growing weaker.

"In the netherworld, I have many aliases but you may call me...Astaroth."