The moment I said that I agreed to get into a mutual cooperation with these guys and accepted their conditions, while confirming my own guess from before, the Demon Emperor did actually made those guys sign a Binding Contract and from how those guys are reacting to the mention of this sore spot for them .
I don't exactly understand what the condition were but I can still make some wild guesses, those conditions must have put quite the restrictions on those guys freedom, they also might have forced them to comply to the person who the Demon Emperor assigned for them to obey .
After I watched the scene from earlier, where they were forced to kneel and not a single one of them able to say anything in protest, I was 90 percent certain that this was indeed the case, to think that the Demon Emperor would even went and do such a thing just to make sure the mission is a success .
Not to mention continue to get support from the Monster Race, after all those guys are still interested in acquiring that Shard, so of course they would need some guarantee and now I believe that this arrangement of the Demon Emperor was one of those guarantee he gave .
But from that guy Luton's bitter tone when he took about being able to challenge the King and it being a race right for them, but even after they tried to challenge him, they all got beaten to a varying degrees, but that was also a display of how strong was the King Devo .
The Demon Emperor must have given him something to increase his strength in secret, there was also the possibility that this guy was already this strong back then, at least was stronger than all of those guys here, this could imply another arrangement made by the Demon Emperor .
He put a guy this strong as the King and gave all the other Demons the right to challenge him, knowing fully that this guy would still be able to beat this bunch of guys with ease, but it was something that gave him hope of becoming the King one day .
A carful plan through and through, the Demon Emperor put that guy on top of the food chain as both a chance to those family head and he also acted as the strongest rock out there to crush those dreams and hopes, but I guess he never saw me coming, or he did saw me coming .
After all, he was the main reason I had even been summoned here together with the others, but it's more accurate to say that even though he saw it coming, he hadn't anticipated it to be coming in such a way .
Enough of that tedious contemplation, I instead looked at Luton after I finished saying what I had to say and saw that his complexion was a bit ugly and his expression was filled with indignation, seeing me looking at him still waiting for an answer, the guy seemed to be at loss of what exactly could he say .
I once again repeated the question and after I did that, the guy sitting opposite to me finally reacted, but his expression was still as unsightly as before, he said :
Are you still aiming to exterminate the Levern Family, I thought that you were trying to provoke the King and that was all .
I can see how he came to that conclusion, after all I really didn't let any chance to provoke the King slip by me, in response to him, I shook my head first and said :
" If before I kill the heir of the Levern Family and severely injure its elder, I might have reconsidered this and have not continued to pursue this matter any further, but after hearing the words of King Devo about how vengeful their family head was and how angry would he be after finding out about what happened here .
" I decided that I will take the threats made by that elder to the heart and go solve everything there myself and I also need to correct you Luton, I won't be exterminating anyone, I would go to their family's mansion and beat all there higher-ups and then will force them to submit .
" If they didn't agree to submit, then if a massacre were to start there, then it won't be My fault, after all, I already offered them a chance to survive, but their response was to actually throw it directly at me, they only have themselves to blame .
" But currently this was all hypothetical, if they will refuse to bow their heads to our Dorell family and leave the King's faction then that would be very much good for and for them as well, after all those guys were Demons, so they should be aligning themselves with their own race, instead of siding with a monster .
" But if they didn't, well my original plan won't change much at that time, beating all of them into submission, wasn't that difficult, so do you have any problem with accepting this Luton .
I said this and looked at the guy still meddling in my affairs noisily intently, he seeing me looking at him shock his head and said :
Looking at you like this, I can already sense your determination and I believed you had already set up your mind on doing this, but I still want to advice you against it, the reason was simple, the Levern Family had some strong ties with the Monster Race .
Not only that, but those guys in that family, had some strong backer back the Real World, for now at least I would still hope that you postpone doing this unless you didn't want to return to the Real World in your lifetime .
Hearing him say this, I was already able to see the full picture now, not only was he trying to just dissuade me, but he was also trying to warn me of that strong backer that he spoke of, I looked at him and sized him up and down before saying :
" So who was this backer that you are trying to warn me about, it isn't the Monster Race in the Real World, I don't think that the Monster Race Emperor will decalre war on me for doing this .
" As for the Demon Emperor, well this was much more easier, I would tell the Demon Emperor that I had witnessed them betraying their tasks and they even tried to attack me, that was in the sole case of them refusing to accept my gracious offer of course, so I had already wasted more time than I would like to here .
" I had already agreed to have a mutual cooperation relationship with all of you and you had had still wanted to discuss for more time and that too I approved and agreed upon with you, so you do your things, while I will go ahead and do mine .
" Where is the address of the Levern Family mansion ? .
Seeing that I was determined to find out, he couldn't help but cunningly shift his focus to the Dorell family head Dorax, presumably wanting to aske him about how he feel about this, seeing him do this and understanding his intention .
I once again sat up from my seat and chuckled a little then with a cold smile on my face, I said :
" So I will ask one last time, but this time my question is for all the people who is present here and willing to lend me a hand, I won't ask you to help me for nothing, my offer is like this, anyone of you who will help me and guide me to towards the Levern Family mansion, I here offer him my unconditional help for one time and my promise to give him some of what I loot from the Levern Family .
Me doing this was like a loud slap in the face of Luton, but I didn't care in the slightest and didn't even look at his current ugly complexion, all I wad looking at were those greedy looks of the other people in the room, I waited for who would try to take advantage of this opportunity .
If I was even a little more familiar with the city, I might have been able to go there directly without needing to ask help from any of them, but not only did I not have a clue, but I also didn't know if someone from the common Demons or Monsters outside would dare to point me on where to go .
After waiting for a few more minutes, the words that Luton was about to say was swallowed by him, but I was still able to see that he was still using some of his influence on the people present, that guy's aura was flaring him, his aura was in the third place lagging behind me and only that King Devo .
It was the aura of the second person in command after King Devo, so no wonder that him flaring it up like this was enough to put some pressure on those weak guys here, even Phyricos had a dignified expression on his face as he flared his aura as well to protect himself .
Seeing him doing something like that, I couldn't help but find it slightly a bit funny and decided to join him as well, I flared up my aura as well and release it in the room completely, the Red Black Aura of mine covered the whole place in an instant and if the King forced them to kneel before using the terms written in the contract .
Then my aura forced all of them to kneel on the floor without needing to do so, they were forced to kneel out of the awe and fear they began to have towards me, strength is revered in the Demon society, especially with an impressive aura like mine .
I began to take a few steps forward towards the guy Luton and with each step I took towards that guy, he and all those that were present couldn't help but quiver and their minds were telling them to flee, but their bodies was stuck to the floor unable to muster any kind of resistance, the cover that he used to isolate this area before, directly collapsed after coming in contact with my aura, forcing him to spat black blood .
I reached Luton's side and the guy taller than me in my human form, so big and tall that even when he was kneeling down, he was still able to dwarf me a little, I wasn't forced to look up to meet his eyes, but I was staring forward just so that I can lock his eyes with mine, after one exchange of stares, I understood that the guy in front of me won't be talking .
Since that was the case I broke the eye contact with him and turned my back on him and said :
" Since this is the case, then I will tell you clearly how will I be managing all of you if I were to become your so-called King, my orders are absolute and they aren't up for discussion, if you have a problem with that, then we can part ways with that mutual cooperation right here and now .
" I'm telling you this, because I wanted to clear any misunderstanding that might happen in the future, I'm asking for the last time, is there anyone here other than this guy who is willing to lead the way for me, if there's you can raise your hand .
As I finished clearing this up, the guys who were kneeling down all snickered slightly, I began to rethink about how beneficial will aligning myself with these guys be, but just as I was beginning to do this, I sensed some movements behind me and saw that two hands were raised, those two hands that were shaking out of fright, were the hands of the two winged ladies .
Seeing them raising their hands, I recalled my Aura back to me and head towards the two and helped them up and said :
" I'm ready when you are .
The two took some deep breathes and they had that weird expression from before on their face as they said in unison with a rigid breathes and with quite wariness :
Is the offer from before still valid ? .
I nodded my head and the two fixed their clothes first, looked at each other then smiled, after that brief exchange between the two, the older one of the two said :
Well, we are ready to take you there, but I hope that you would honour your words after we do that, now, shall we go ?.
" You guys are sure, your breathing is still rigid, there is still some time that I can spare, I was the one who caused you to become like this, as for my promise from earlier, then this talk is to all of you, but this another thing about me that I doubt you have much knowledge of .
" If I promised any of you something, then be certain that whatever I did promise you, I will stick to my words and grant it, do discuss more among you and I will be waiting for your decision on whether you wanted to still carry on with that mutual cooperation, you spoke of earlier, but try not stand in my way, else you got treated as my enemy .
" I don't know how the previous Callen used to deal with his enemies, but the current Callen would exterminate their whole bloodline just to quench his thirst of destruction, I hope you all keep that in mind .
I was about to get out of the room first, but then I remembered something that I wanted to tell the family head, I looked over at him which almost made him collapse on the floor, that was how tense the current situation is, some of those guys were still kneeling after I had already called back my aura that was exerting pressure on them .
Seeing him reacting like this, I said :
" Family head Dorax, do tell Loger that I had no problem with him pursuing his love interest whatever he liked, but when I come back, I hope he and you would be able to find a good excuse on why I shouldn't be the new heir to the family, I hope you understand .
Without waiting for him to respond, not like he would have been able to anyway, I got out of the Hall, by kicking the door open, startling the two guards that were guarding outside, one of them seemed to be unfamiliar with me and was about to curse, but the other hold his mouth and forced him to bow down in front of me and he too did the same .
I saw the two girls appear from behind me even though I told them to take their time and couldn't help but shook my head and head towards the route I took before aiming to get out of here .
Just as passed by the gates in the entrance, I saw that the Chariot I came up to here in with nowhere to be seen, the servant responsible for keeping my ride came in a hurry and apologized, saying that he wasn't able to keep it and I saw that his face had a few bruises and cuts, I patted him on the shoulder and told him not to worry about it .
I was about to ask the two girls to offer me a ride in their vehicles, but instead I saw that they were holding my arms from each side, I asked what exactly was going on, the two response was :
WE WILL TRANSPORT YOU THERE .