The guy looked very young, like a sixteen-year-old boy. After staring at him for just a second, I already began to admire his hair and everything about him, His perfect mana control, allowing him to manipulate the law of inertia itself.
However, this wasn't the time to while away.
"Please to meet you! I'm the Demon Lord Zeldris Regalia!"
"It's an honor to finally meet the legendary hero of Westrios."
'What does this guy want? I should better be careful. Even though he's a kid, he's still a Demon Lord.'
"Thank you. Now may I ask what you're doing here?"
'I have to find a way to get him to leave.'
"I've come to see your city." He replied.
'Bad! I can't just refuse him entry. That means New Westrios wouldn't remain an independent country like I had planned.'
"You may take a tour; however, I have two conditions for you."
"And what are those conditions?"
"From now on I'll call you your first name Zeldris."
"How preposterous. Apart from the other Demon Lords, everyone is supposed to address me as Demon Lord Zeldris. However, I'll make an exception for you since you're no ordinary person yourself. And what's the second?"
'What a goon, I feel like giving him a dirty slap on the cheek. But I can't do anything reckless'
"I can't have you rampaging around. Westrios is a peaceful city and I want it to remain as such."
"Agreed."
…...
"Wow! I wasn't expecting this. A city built by monsters."
"So now what do we do? How do we infiltrate?"
"I'm thinking…."
While the two were busy thinking of what to do, Lesley came up with an idea.
"Let's mix with them."
"That's a good idea. We'll disguise ourselves as one of them by controlling our outflow of mana. We just have to get valuable information for Demon Lord Miriam." Replied Gabi.
"..."
"Hey relax! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to gain our freedom."
"I am relaxed."
"Then what is bothering you? I can tell from your face."
"Hey Lesley, do you really think Demon Lord Miriam would really let us go as she had promised?"
"Hmmm…."
"Who knows. But one thing I do know is that I'm not letting this chance pass me by, so are you coming or what."
"Yeah, wait for me!"
Although she was a human, her magic had always been odd, therefore her village people called her a witch and almost stoned her to death. After discovering the various forms of magic, Lesley began to practice dark magic allowing her to discover the secret to eternal youth but at a great cost. And she hadn't realized this cost herself until she had already done it.
This cost was that she would lose her soul into madness due to her lack of control over this abominable power. Just a few more days and she would lose herself, she began to sob having giving up already, until Miriam showed up with a temporary cure which she freely gave out to her.
And since that moment, Lesley had always been the Demon Lord Miriam's lifelong slave. In exchange for her servitude, she was always given a little sip of the cure. All of Miriam's dirty work, she had done just so she could stay alive.
Gabi's story was also the same as Lesley.
As the day continued, I took Zeldris into the city showing him their possessions. Zeldris was like an excited little boy visiting the zoo for the first time.
"This is Clerk. He's our chief blacksmith."
Zeldris run into his workshop, examining all his work, especially his weapons. While going round, he stopped at an extremely eye catchy shield.
"Nice lad. You've got good eyes, isn't she a beauty?"
Zeldris nodded and we continued into the cafeteria while having several discussions.
Amusingly, Zeldris sat next to me. While Shuuna prepared our meal, Vince went ahead and asked.
"And who might this cute little one be?"
The hair on my body immediately stood up and I turned to Zeldris. Thankfully he only reacted a little to Vince.
'Careful of your words Vince, you might not know but we have a bomb right here in this cafeteria'
"I'm the Demon Lord Zeldris, nice to meet you."
"Yikes!"
"Hey Lucius! Why didn't you say there was a Demon Lord within our mist?"
I simply smiled at Vince revealing a smirk on my face.
"Nice meeting you too Demon Lord Zeldris. I can already tell that you're not as bad they say you are."
'He looks adorable, but let's not forget he's a cataclysmic bomb waiting to explode.'
Moments later, the meal began. His appetite was unimaginable.
'What a glutton'
Everyone kept staring at him as he swallowed several meals simultaneously. At this point, he didn't really look dangerous to me.
"Slow down Zeldris. Do you want to choke yourself?"
"I'm sorry. It's just that your meal is too delicious."
"I'm sorry to interrupt your meal my Lord but we have pretending spies in our midst."
Selnar was in charge of our sensory team. I personally placed Selnar in charge because of his high perception which was almost at pair with mine. Using mental connection, a special skill which allowed me to communicate with my subordinates, I added Criston, Ginny and Luna to our network.
"Who are they?"
"I have no idea, my Lord." Selnar replied "However they haven't made any move ever since they got in."
"My Lord considering the arrival time of Demon Lord Zeldris, don't you think this might be connected." Said Ginny
"Possibly" I replied.
"No, I have nothing to do with those spies."
Zeldris suddenly spoke out after immediately realizing and breaking into our network.
"Alright I've heard you, but what are you doing here."
"Come on. This is such a poor skill. It's almost as if you were begging me to break into your discussion."
"Let me see who they are?" Zeldris added.
Still connected with the rest of us, he began to trace the mana signature of the spies using his perception skill.
I was already in awe of what he was beginning to do. At my level, I could only sense the presence of powerful mana signatures around me.
"Found them!"
'Wow! That was fast.'
"Hm-mm? I know those two. Those two work for the Demon Lord Miriam."
'Another Demon Lord wandering around my city. What the hell do they want?'
"The Demon Lord Miriam? Is that someone we should be wary about?"
"Miriam is the most reasonable among all of us. However, she can be extremely dangerous if she means business. Even I try not to mess with her. Take my personal advice Hero. Just stay out of her way, if she ever contacts you, try not to make her angry."
'Miriam, she totally sounds like a trouble maker. And I'm supposed to stay out of her way no matter what?'
"My Lord in that case what do we do?" Asked Selnar.
"Keep an eye of them for now. If you sense anything suspicious, let me know right away."