Demon Lord: Erotic Adventure in Another World

When Asmodeus first imagined the enemy, he never expected their journey to be easy. His mind pictured grand battles with tremendous forces and magic that could swallow a mountain. Yet, this wasn't the case.

Bang!

Another massive boulder smashed against the ground, splintering where Asmodeus and the demon knights stood.

Not long after sending scouts to report to Alan, and to prepare a force to overtake the mining village, they prepared the small village and headed north.

However, once they reached a fork in the river, a castle appeared that seemed abandoned.

"These annoying orcs!" Asmodea complained while stomping on the dirt.

The issue wasn't the enemy troops, but a special runic defence created in the castle that could dissipate all demonic energies. At first, the demon knights and the confident women rushed to attack the castle, as they had done many times before.

Only for them to struggle after the rune activated, it became like a weight placed on their shoulders, forcing them to take their human forms and stopping all transformation that used demonic mana.

Asmodeus placed his palm towards the castle, dozens of magic circles forming from his palm, each one smaller and more intricate than the last, with a black ray shooting from his palm.@@novelbin@@

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When the energy struck the wall, a blue barrier appeared, nullifying the spell like nothing happened.

The beam shattered and became small particles of light, which the barrier absorbed… becoming stronger than before.

'Even magic is no good…'

While the orcs bombarded them with arrows and loaded the trebuchets with rocks, Erika, Alice, and Velvet tried to devise a plan to resist the enemy.

Meanwhile, Ciela and the demon knights equipped their bows and whittled down the enemy the old-fashioned way.

"Damn it!"

After being separated from Alan, this was the most significant threat that had made itself known.

Asmodeus touched his chin, wondering how dangerous it could be if someone could recreate this rune.

To him, it was a bigger threat than the demon queen herself. He almost wondered if she left this castle alone for the same reason.

He thought it stupid that a demon emperor would be subject to such strange laws, but Serena convinced him that this wasn't possible for a long time, and the longer the barrier tried to resist his power.

The sooner it would break.

"Phew…"

There were other options, like poisoning the river to kill the orcs, but that river was also their future livelihood to help build the mining and commerce hub, so Asmodeus tossed that idea away.

However, he didn't wish to wait for Alan's reinforcements here. That would be quite the embarrassment, especially with all the women watching him.

A dark smile formed on his face when another idea came to mind.

'I can simply destroy the source of the runes…'

Bang!

Another boulder smashed against the ground, causing a few demon knights to cry out as they scattered. Then, a volley of arrows returned, killing a few of the goblin archers, forced to fight by the orcs.

'What to do…'

While Asmodeus struggled, Lumina skittered around her gaze, focused on his back, observing his worried face.

She became silent for a moment, before looking at the castle in the distance, flickering in the darkness with several torch fires.

The next moment she vanished, a flicker of her webbing floating in the air.

Two hours passed, and both sides stopped, realising that further action would be futile.

"Ahh~ without magic, this is so damned annoying." Asmodea slammed a rock against the ground using magic, her body crackling with blood magic. Meanwhile, the other women nodded while watching her explode.

"We don't have half our strength because of that barrier, what even is that, do they have more of these runes?" Velvet muttered while watching Alice, who seemed more energetic.

"It doesn't affect me as much, but still… it's like I'm constantly carrying several tonnes of steel on my shoulders!" Alice complained to herself, while drinking a mug of ale.

She couldn't get drunk while drinking ale, so it didn't matter, but the feeling of a stalemate made the women feel a little imbalanced and restless.

"It seems you're all upset, sorry girls." Asmodeus looked down solemnly.

"Not your fault, Asmodeus." Erika stroked his hands softly, trying to ease him as she hugged his right arm.

"Huh? When did Erika start fighting us for his affection?" Vinea pointed a claw finger towards the demon knight commander.

"I'm just supporting him, since we're disadvantaged because of the damned orcs!"

Asmodeus trailed his gaze over all the women, ensuring none of them suffered injuries, when his eyes suddenly flickered and his lips twitched.

"Has anyone seen Sariel or Lumina? They haven't been around since the afternoon."

It had already been an hour since the sun disappeared behind the mountains.

Sariel's absence caused him great concern.

Meanwhile, in the basement of the orc castle, a stone wall suddenly cracked and collapsed, revealing a dirt tunnel and two women. The pair started digging through the stone and dirt hours ago, and now they had completed their task.

"Can you really sense where the rune is being kept, Lumi?"

Lumina rubbed her fingers while tapping the floor with her eight legs. Then she nodded and pointed towards the rune, stepping towards it and lowering her back so Sariel could sit on her.

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"Let's go and destroy it, for Asmodeus."

The two continued through the castle, sneaking past a group of drunken orcs and entering a large circular room.

"Haha, did you see those stupid females?"

"Gyhahahaha yesh! How weak were those humans and those pointy-eared bastards?!" One orc grinned while slamming down a jug of alcohol.

Lumina's eight eyes flickered with anger, but she continued walking along the ceiling with Sariel on her back, she used her sticky webbing to keep the succubus safe, even though she could fly, it might attract attention.

"Well, some of them were gorgeous; it's a shame," one goblin, smaller than the others, muttered, but before he could speak another word, the orc grabbed him by the neck and squeezed.

"Do you think your pathetic goblin body could satisfy them, actual demons?

"No sir." He cried out after the orc dropped him from his grip, turning and grabbing an axe from the table and handing it to him.

Though the orcs didn't have respect for enemies, their race endured thousands of years under the rulership of various demon queens, and thus became loyal to a strong female power, whether they liked it or not.

So when the demons could not break through their barriers, the orcs found it extremely pleasing, yet confusing, to see them struggling so hard.

"They say that stone was the treasure of our ancestor… I never believed it worked, until now."

Lumina listened to the conversation while following the traces of divine power, curious to know how a relic from the upper realm had brought her to this desolate plain.

However, nothing interesting was around, so she skittered through the window and followed the traces of divine power, her mind constantly focused on the target.

"Lumi, what should I do?"

Sariel asked, her tone more mature than in the past. However, she still lacked the combat experience the others had. In fact, Lumina brought her to help her grow.

"Prepare for danger, spread wings and take off, then tell darling it's okay to attack."

Lumina rarely used a pet name for Asmodeus.

Her past actions made her reluctant to be so clingy to him, so she would only wait for his gaze to turn her way. Then, she would greet him with a smile and hope he returned to her soon, no matter how busy he was with the other women.

"I can fly silently, but are you going to be okay, Lumi?"

"You should only fly after we find the rune." The quiet tapping of her legs echoed as she walked across the stone building before she noticed the wave of divinity suddenly increase explosively.

'There!'

She stopped on the side of a watchtower, which loomed above the rest of the structure and covered a quarter of the castle courtyard.

Inside the room, there were four guards, with three of them playing a card game while drinking. It seemed the orcs treated today as an enormous victory, despite killing no troops. Yet, they only stopped Asmodeus and nothing else.

"Hm, what will they do now?" One goblin asked curiously while picking up his cards and sipping from the wine bottle.

"Why do you care about that? We need to worry about what the boss is doing."

"Do you think the orcs will try to capture them? Gyhaha, it will be a good time for the boss to use those girls instead of us."

"Don't be stupid. We cannot win, and neither can the enemy. Those demons will avoid us, just like the current Demon Queen has for centuries," another said while rolling the dice. Afterward, they placed chips on the table before another orc spoke up.

The goblins didn't realise that above them, hidden in the darkness, an apex predator watched them with her eerie crimson eyes, waiting for the moment to strike.

Lumina's spinnerets released a potent and sticky thread that slowly filled the room.

The thread created a den above their sight and several strands that dripped with a paralytic poison to numb the goblins if they tried to escape. She could kill them outright, but her prey would die too quickly for her liking, and so Lumina played with them.

'The rune is beyond that door, I must get the key and hurry back to Asmodeus!'