A little while later, when Veronica regained consciousness again, she asked Lucifer with great surprise…
"Lucifer, how do you know all this…? Alright, let's say for once that I accept Jasper told you about my meeting with him and whatever happened to me in the Royal Palace."
"I can also accept that you might have learned about my family from Jasper… but how on earth did you find out my exact date and time of birth?"
"I have never told that to anyone—not Jasper, not Tristan, not Daisy, not even Triny… So how did you come to know that when I was officially appointed as Queen, Peter and his friends had sex with me and got me pregnant?"
"How, Lucifer?"
"Tell me."
"How?"
Veronica kept firing question after question at Lucifer, while he simply looked at her with a teasing smile.
Seeing this behaviour made Veronica angry—he wasn't telling her anything—but what frustrated her even more was that mischievous, teasing smile of his.
And so, while she continued throwing questions at him and demanding answers, the four of them reached Serendity Town, the capital of Westirifer, where Lucifer's ducal palace was located.
When Veronica and Lucifer arrived at the ducal palace, Lucifer gentlemanly offered to help her step down from the chariot, but she started acting coy and sulky, pretending to be very upset with him.
Seeing her antics, Lucifer said,
"Your Highness… are you going to get down from the chariot or do you plan to set up house inside it?"
Hearing this, Veronica immediately put on another fake angry face.
Lucifer's lips curved into a faint smile as he said,
"Oh, I see… throwing tantrums now, are we?"
With that, he climbed back into the chariot. Without another word, he suddenly scooped Veronica up in his arms.
One hand supported her under her shoulders while the other slid beneath her knees.
When Lucifer lifted her like that, Veronica gave a small start and a soft "Lucifer~" slipped from her lips.
As he carried her, Veronica just kept staring at him.
After lifting her comfortably, Lucifer stepped down from the chariot with ease, gently set her on the ground, and then asked,
"Still angry, Princess?"
Veronica pouted and replied,
"Just picking me up once won't make the anger go away. First tell me how you found out about my birthday. Only then will I forgive you… Otherwise, Luci… I won't talk to you."
Hearing her dramatic little threat, Lucifer leaned in, placed a kiss on her cheek, and said,
"Princess, if I tell you everything… then what will you do?"
"Find out some things on your own too…"
"Come on, let's do this… Hmm… I say you're my wife… my darling… So look—I found out everything about you."
"But you also keep saying I'm your husband… the one you like… So have you ever tried to find out anything about me? Except for my past?"
"Look, I will honestly tell you how I learned everything about you… but before that, you have to find out and tell me something about me that only I know."
"Yes, I have shared a few things with my elder sister Amelia… but whether she remembers them or not, I can't say."
"For example, I never asked the Nyalsia family your details, and it's possible they might remember your birthdate… but I have never spoken to them, nor have I asked anyone else to."
"So, what do you say? Deal, madam?"
At Lucifer's proposal, Veronica replied,
"Fine, Lucifer… Just watch how I drag all your truths out into the open."
Lucifer grinned and said,
"Alright then… Since this is the first time you're playing a game with me, I'll give you a handicap. You can take help from elder sister Amelia… though, as I said earlier, I don't know whether she remembers the things I told her."
Hearing this, Veronica pointed her index finger at his forehead and said,
"Young man… Even though you're my husband… you're still just a kid. My own son is older than you. Just wait and see how I uncover every single one of your secrets."
Lucifer burst out laughing and teased her back,
"Darling, even if you're the same age as my mommy… you're still this kid's wife. On top of that, this kid's child is also growing inside your womb. Let's see just how clever my Veronica really is."
Hearing his words, Veronica scoffed and pointed at him, saying,
"Not yours alone, Lucifer—it's our child… our daughter growing in my womb."
Lucifer nodded with a soft smile.
"True words."
"Come on, let's go inside the house now… I have to explain the plan to the ministers and everyone else. Because starting tomorrow, we take the first step toward advancing on the Purefields."
Saying this, Lucifer and Veronica walked into the ducal palace.
As for Cesar and Aleric—they had already gone inside earlier while Lucifer was teasing Veronica. The two of them didn't want to interrupt the personal moment between Lucifer and Veronica by staying in the middle.
Meanwhile, on one side in Westirifer, Lucifer was explaining his plan to Artemis, Mara, and Almyth, and briefing the ministers on how to pacify the rebellion that would arise from the coup—while ensuring the lives of ordinary people remained as unaffected as possible.
On the other side, complete chaos reigned inside the Royal Palace of the kingdom.
To say the people in the Royal Palace were troubled by Lucifer would be an understatement—they were utterly fed up. Lucifer had become a constant thorn in the side of the Lustbound Heaven Kingdom's royals. Wherever he set foot, he pierced deep and drew far more than just a little blood—he drew enough to take lives.
In the beginning there had been no animosity between the kingdom and Lucifer; they didn't even know each other. But then the game began.
Driven by the fire of revenge to deliver justice for his mother and sister, Lucifer burned the entire Asher Duchy—the Asher family—to ashes and eradicated them completely. That matter had been strictly between the Asher family and Lucifer; the kingdom had no intention of interfering. But they missed one crucial detail.
The previous king Peter Lustbound's fourth wife—his fourth mother—belonged to the Asher family: Angelina Asher. So Lucifer made her his target as well and had her kidnapped from the kingdom.
Later, when King Ignis, Queen Veronica, and Head Minister Jasper (of the former Asher Duchy, now Westirifer) came to meet Lucifer, arguments broke out between King Ignis and Lucifer. Then, right in front of those three, Lucifer tortured Angelina all night long… and he didn't spare Ignis either.
In front of the entire Westirifer, Lucifer had Ignis mounted and violated by a stallion, whose thick, massive member ravaged Ignis's rear publicly.
When even that humiliation wasn't enough, something happened that shocked everyone: Veronica—the Queen of the Lustbound Heaven Kingdom—severed all ties with the kingdom and chose to stay with Lucifer as his wife. With the help of his shadow-wives, Lucifer brought Veronica's three children from the kingdom to Westirifer.
Then Head Minister Jasper also abandoned the kingdom. The reason? He had always been loyal only to Veronica. He was her true friend and had promised to stay by her side forever—so he left the kingdom too.
Wait—there's more.
While Ignis was being taken back to the kingdom from Westirifer, he said something about Lucifer that provoked Lucifer's wife Bellatrixa and their daughter Lovertia. Together they beat Ignis so badly it was indescribable, then paraded him naked all the way back to the kingdom.
Being naked wasn't the issue—most people preferred to remain nude anyway, as it made sex easier and anyone could couple with anyone without the hassle of removing clothes. The real humiliation was that Ignis was being transported like a bound prisoner… and on top of that, both his penis and testicles had been crushed.
That moment brought enormous disgrace to King Ignis and the entire kingdom. After that, Bellatrixa also took Jasper's family and friends with her when she left the kingdom.
Now someone might ask: With so many SS+ rank hunters, dragon knights, and mages in the kingdom, why didn't anyone try to stop Bellatrixa?
The answer is simple: How could they? Fighting inside the royal palace itself? And Bellatrixa's aura was on par with an SS+ rank hunter, accompanied by 30–40 guards each with S+ rank auras. The royal family couldn't risk a battle in the court itself.
And now, just when a new wave of happiness had begun in the royal family—after Veronica left, Felberta was made the new queen and Peter along with his friends gang-banged her continuously for ten days, treating her like a bitch in every possible way and impregnating her. While Ignis, grieving Veronica's departure, impregnated his own 180+-year-old mother Kaite with twins. His other 27 concubines were also impregnated by various ministers, guards, servants, and citizens. The kingdom was about to welcome 30 new royals—
—and at that very moment, an envoy from Westirifer arrived… along with the former queen Veronica, now Lucifer's wife. She took away the new head minister Bekelen and his family at her request. Then Lucifer himself arrived, argued with Ignis, and personally decapitated the previous king Peter Lustbound. One of Lucifer's servants also killed Peter's remaining friends.
People will ask again: Why didn't the kingdom do anything this time either?
The answer is very straightforward: The people who came with Veronica this time had auras of SSS-, SSS+, and SS+ ranks. In the last 500 years, not a single new SSS- rank hunter had appeared in the kingdom—let alone SSS+. And Lucifer himself was there, whose true power level no one even knew… but it was clear that the SSS+, SSS-, and SS+ individuals were his subordinates—or at the very least considered themselves beneath him.
What power did the kingdom have to stop any of them? And whoever tried… was no longer alive.
Finally, as he left, Lucifer had also declared that the day after tomorrow he would march his army toward the Purefield Duchy.
The royal family had already endured countless wounds inflicted by Lucifer and could bear no more. So the kingdom immediately forwarded his message to the Purefield Duchy—one of the thirteen pillars of the kingdom.