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Chapter 12 - The Demon Lord of Gluttony and Bugs

*After they had a brief talk, Rowan took the 6 of them while using the dungeon's traps, monsters and maze like paths leaving the arrogant nobels kids behind, they reached the Boss's chamber. A door to an enclosed room with the boss inside. To prevent the boss monster from leaving, the academy had pinned it inside it's chambers and changed the dungeon metal doors with human sided metal doors, a stone wall and barriers on both sides.

By now Aaron and Armia has started to trust him, while the rest stayed on high alert specially Samantha and Cain. Cain being an retired well seasoned assassin didn't wanted to trust nobels could we kind and Samantha who was mistreated from the day she came to the royal academy didn't wanted to trust a human can be kind before testing him completely. Both Cain and Samantha were neutral but mild hostile. The reason for Aaron's trust was how Rowan helped him, while knowing he was an nobel he didn't how any mistakes while doing Aaron's first aid which couldn't be done by anyone except someone who had done so several times before. While Armia who was of the Starlight family which were gifted with 2 special abilities being Spirit Reading and Twilight Guide. Spirit Reading allowed it's user to read memories, minds, techniques and even stats of they are able to stay in contact with their target for more the 10 minutes may that be physically, mentally or vocally before use every time. Using the ability on Rowan showed her a void of darkness, something she had never seen in her life. She had used her ability on the Hero and knew his truth and except the void she could see Rowan's plans to take down the Hero for good. Knowing the person in front of her wished well for the world and held a power that could even block the Starlight Bloodline's unique skill which not even the strongest Demon Lord of history could do was saying something, not to mention her second ability which acted as a guide giving her gestures and feelings towards the correct path without making it obvious made her give it's strongest response to follow Rowan.

Rowan noticed that whoever sabotaged the exam had placed the chaos gem that needed to be broken to end the monster rampage was right by the boss monster. If they wanted to stop casualties then they had to fight the boss monster and Rowan decided not to. Waiting outside the Boss monster's chamber for the teachers to arrive knowing that everyone even mildly skilled wouldn't be seriously hurt while all the nobels who got in through connections and were doing nothing but bothering others specially the talented students of their classes would be expelled. Just before the Academy's professors decided to come in Rowan entered the Boss's chamber and waited. The other were scared at first but reluctantly entered to wait by Rowan. The academy's professors here quite skeptical that only 7 students made it, but hearing Rowan's explanation that the Monsters were breaking through their own maze dungeon made the professors spring into action. Soon all students were rescued and the Chaos gem was destroyed, but investigation was being done to find the culprits and many students got expelled because of being badly injured. The academy's expansion was that "All situation are not the same and for students aiming for becoming soldiers against the Demon Lord's army need to be much more prepared for tough situations and at least survive to share information collected by them". The expansion was just a way to hide the fact that the academy couldn't act in time and students had dropped significantly in comparison to the previous year and to keep their image as the greatest academy in the world. Some questioned Rowan's calmness and suspected him to be the culprit, but Rowan's answers were just light enough to be thought as speculations and many students testified that the monsters were aggressive from the start which pointed fingers at a member of the academy to be the culprit. The culprit wasn't found, but the academy's security was increased twofold. Increased security made everyone feel safe, but nervous at the same time.

Rowan wanted to ask the Demon Lord about mining going on in the Demon Realm as the Chaos gems can only be found deep underground in the Demon Realm. Mining Chaos gems is illegal in the Demon Realm because monsters and demons can go berserk when coming in contact with a Chaos gem. There was a problem in contacting the Demon Lord and that was he didn't know how he could contact the Demon Lord not to mention he needed to be secret enough or he would be executed by the Royal Order which even a Duke couldn't fight against. Rowan was circling his room thinking what to do when a weird bug came thought his open window. Rowan was a not surprised because bugs we not really uncommon creatures but it looked oddly familiar. Suddenly one by one those bugs which looked similar to a beetle with an prominent horn that was surprisingly sharpened. The swarm of beetles started to pull together into a humanoid figure, from that Rowan was reminded of Kuwanami or the second Demonic General of the Demon Lord's army. She was also known as the Demon General of Gluttony and Bugs, with the ability to command demonic insects and even create a replica of herself using special her special Demonic Beetles called Cyrus which are one of the only passive species of Demon Bugs. She was able to gain the title of both Gluttony and Bugs because of being one of the only Demon Lord to be able to handle both powers at the same time. Her unique power to use both the authority of Gluttony and Bugs allowed her to inflect Gluttony on her Bugs making them into an force the even the Hero couldn't fight against. Even if her personal strength isn't something of notice her control over insects and her excellent mind couldn't turn the flow of any war. If it wasn't for her getting sealed by the Grand Mages of all the Magic Towers, the Demon Lord wouldn't have had ment his end. She loyalty to the Demon Lord was so strong that she killed herself to release Demonic Bugs off all Kinds onto the world as her last revenge.

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