Neo Demon King, Part 1

Just another day on the tavern, men drunk way too early, wanderers, bards and spies gathering intel, some shady business going on all the way on the back, but what can you do? Since the demon forces have started to slow down, everyone wants a piece of whatever they can find before it ends.
 

War seems to get to an end, but many things don't make sense, hell if I care but still. Some half-blood said that the Demon King Za-Tann has disappeared and none of the five demon generals know why, when or where. Some other say that is all just a tactic or that the war was won already; the high ups just want some more profit, is at this time when I question if the demons are as bad as the soldiers say, what you say Zane?
 

The man he was talking to was an unbelievable strong monster hunter, who thought his answer for a second, but at last, he spoke.
 

“Personally, I believe that half-blood girl that Za-Tann did disappeared, she had marks of someone of rank among Demons after all, that’s why I believe her” a man with long dark-blue hair in lightweight dark-red armor answered in all honesty.
 

“Oh, I see but I still think that is not quite possible, why did he disappear just like that? What you say to that?” a Soldier of the city heard the owner behind the counter and Zane’s conversation and was quite mad.
 

After taking a sip of the pint the owner just brought him “Ha, well you see, I've fought my share of Higher Demons and some of them lost interest on weak preys, maybe Za-Tann is not that different from those”
 

“What?! You say he just lost interest in humans like that?! What about all the lives he took, the cities he burnt, the secrets he destroyed? Did they all meant nothing to him?!!!” the companions of this soldiers stood up as well to try and calm down their angry partner, they whispered something in his ear. “Get your hands off me” he shifted his eyes to Zane “Don’t think this is over, you have seen nothing of what the Demons are capable of!”
 

“(But I have...)” Zane didn’t say that out loud, this could give him more trouble than what he wants.
 

“Sorry for that, this one on the house”
 

“Don’t worry about it, so? any good target arrived?”
 

“Nah, the most dangerous one was tier 5, and An-Ne's team is already on the case”
 

“Damn, then I’m off after another round”
 

“Thanks for the patronage, but you even get drunk? In the four years you’ve been here I have never seen you even a little red once”
 

“Thanks for the compliment...? Anyway, when does Anne’s team returns?” for no reason Zane changed the topic.
 

“I think they were to return this morning, I already dispatched a scout, so no reason for you to go”
 

“Ah! come on, what I'm supposed to do until then?!”
 

“You say you'll be gone after this one so that ain’t my problem”
 

“I'll go anyway then” he rather angry took the pint and chugged down.
 

“Fine by me, even if the girls get angry, I've done my job in trying to stop you"
 

A Sudden wave of energy flow through the place, the tavern grew silent, the soldiers inside went out, Zane cough a little.
 

“What was that?!” the owner was scared.
 

“*cough**cough* haaa... a target” Zane looked dead serious and hold the grip of his sword as he also walked outside.
 

As he walked outside, he could see many people running, screaming and soldiers going in the opposite direction.
 

“Status!” Zane yelled at no one.
 

“A Tier 10 has appeared out of nowhere!” a shady boy no older than 12 yelled back at Zane from the chaotic streets. A clandestine informer, inn owners and such give food to these orphans in order to keep the information flowing.
 

“A big one you say” Zane positioned himself to jump.
 

And he jumped, across the street, over a cart and to the other side of the road where the young informant was now.
 

“Where is it?”
 

“On the main street, I thing he said his name was Lu-something”
 

“(Luzy-Fer? What is he doing this far from the Demon Castle?) good boy, now get behind the walls!” he told him as he threw the boy a couple of gold pieces. Far more than usual, this one specifically only got 2 silver each job, 100 silver is equal to 1 gold, so the boy just ran. 

Once again Zane got into jumping position. But instead of using it as a head start, he jumped from wall to wall through the alleys, slowly building speed and getting on the roofs, only then he saw him, Luzy-Fer: one of the five demon generals, he like all the others was a tier 10 demon or 3 stakes said those that specialized on demon hunting. When demons got serious a dark halo would appear on their back, this halo was surrounded by the “Stakes” the more a demon had, the more powerful it was. Za-Tann had 4 stakes, considered the most powerful Demon that ever existed.

He was in plain sight, flying over the fort city, but he was not alone Belhe-Gor was also with him, Belhe-Gor was another 3 Stakes, they both combined could fight and maybe win against Za-Tann. They were just there, over the city with their wings out, just one on Belhe-Gor's case. 

Luzy-Fer dark-purple feathers that covered his entire humanoid body were quite a sight, but it meant certain doom for humans. He had something resembling a human head with long black hair, but it was only a façade since he does not have a head.

Belhe-Gor's wing one was a dark-green bat-like wing with a bright green flame coming from the portal from which it emerged. He was more like an ogre, but far stronger and smarter, also had his head was full of small horns and his mouth with really sharp teeth, which are unusual on ogres.

“(This is bad)” Zane thought to himself as he saw other members of his team also running on the roof of the houses in the distance. Then he felt something, or rather, it’s absence, he stopped and went down one of the alleys. 

“Humans, fear this sight, the Demon King Luzy-Fer and his right hand Belhe-Gor” as usual he did presentations rather flashy by flapping his wings and letting a couple feather wall on purpose, which are deadly to humans if they are to touch them.
 

Only screams and orders directed to soldiers responded his presentation.
 

“There is a new King of the World, since that coward of Za-Tann is gone this world is mine for the taking, watch in despair as I destroy this city all by myself, miserable humans!!!” Luzy-Fer posed like he does, in a very pretentious and bratty manner as a Dark halo appeared on his back.
 

The one by one, a Stake emerged from the halo.
 

Then the second one, then a third one... then a fourth one.
 

“Behold, the power of the New Demon King!!!”
 

At this point even some soldiers started running.
 

Somewhere in the alleys near the main street.
 

“Where’s Zane?! We need him if there is any fighting” a grey-haired buffed old man said to a group of younger men and women.
 

“We saw him on the roof of the houses but suddenly disappeared” one of the young women of the group confirmed that Zane was nowhere to be found.
 

“Damn it, we got no choice but to hold our ground until he shows up, got it?!”
 

“Yes Sir” all of them shouted in unison.
 

Back in the air.
 

“And as proof of MY power, Bel” said to the other Demon by his side who had only 3 stakes and took out of some sort of pocked dimension a body and throw It to the human general on the main square, then another one and another one, and another and a last one.
 

This last body was far smaller than the others, it wasn’t quite one of a child, more like one of a teenager. The general recognized the bodies for they were famous around the city.
 

The Team White Roses, Monster Hunters, led by An-Ne a foreign half-demon warrior of great renown whose golden hair and scarlet armor were unmistakable, her twin servants Riz and Ozir, Brandon, the Spellcaster of the team and last but definitely no least, Tomoe, while only a rookie, she had incredible power both physical and magical at the age of 14.
 

This team, considered their last line of defense against Demons was now scattered in parts around the main square, there was even some on the armors of the few soldiers that decided to stay.
 

“That's Right humans, we now will proceed to destroy this city in a worse manner!!!” Luzy-Fer extended his wings and from nothing an army of demons materialized just outside the main gate filling the entire highway.
 

Minotaurs, imps, succubus, devils, cyclops and many more different were ready to raid the city. 

Luzy-Fer then raised his hand making a dark sphere the size of a baseball and launched it to the gate immediately destroying it and the demons started to flood the outer part of the city as Lucy-Fer laughed loudly.
 

There were already some people fighting the demons, but they were easily outnumbered, most of them died, but demons being demons they spared the youngest and human females.
 

It was a massacre orchestrated by Luzy-Fer laughter the entire time.
 

Then a flash of light that lasted not even a second made Belhe-Gor turn his head.
 

“(What the...?)”
 

The demons were not moving, except for the female ones.
 

“Move” was all Belhe-Gor said, it sounded really loud and like a whisper at the same time, but the demons did not move, astonished by this, a cornered warrior took a weapon and stabbed a demon with it. The Demon immediately turned to dust, not ash, Dust.
 

Confusion was everything there was among the female demons that were still alive, Belhe-Gor and the humans while Luzy-Fer was still laughing.
 

“Hey, Luzy-Fer, look”
 

He stopped laughing and looked towards were the clash took part and was now in silence and filled with dust.
 

“What’s the meaning of this?!” Lucy-Fer was confused.
 

From the roof of the main building, a beautiful cathedral on the main street a voice came, a human voice.
 

“Luzy-Fer!” it was Zane “What are you doing this far into human land?!”
 

“I have nothing to say to a mere human!”
 

“Then I take it Aba-Dón took the castle for himself!”
 

“(How does he...)” Luzy-Fer grew even more confused. “So, there were spies on Za-Tann's ranks, no wonder why he ran, it doesn’t matter, you are all going to die here today” he was starting to lose it.
 

Zane took a look at the bodies on the middle of the city square and got closer to the smallest one.
 

“You fucking Vulture, I'll get you for this...” he whispered to himself.
 

“(When did he got there?)” Belhe-Gor got ready for an attack from this man.
 

Zane grabbed the handle of his sword “Venom of Venus”
 

Belhe-Gor stood ready and this time he saw him move but just barely as Zane disappeared in the direction of the rest of the Demon army which stopped moving and, most of the Forty Thousand demon army, became dust as well.
 

“Who are you?! How can you defeat this many demons by yourself?!” Belhe-Gor lose his composure, they both could as easily obliterate these many demons with the swing of their sword, but it was something impressive for a human.
 

“Then I’ll have to deal with this myself” Luzy-Fer said as he materialized “Nightmare”: the sword that Za-Tann wielded to conquer ¼ of the world. It could take many forms depending on the wielder and Luzy-Fer's ‘version’ was a giant sword with an eye on it.
 

“That’s a shitty fake Luzy...” Zane whispered to himself.
 

“Aaaarg, Insolent Human!” Luzy-Fer took a swing to the castle at the very center of the city but it did no damage.
 

“See, fake” Zane stood in the way of the swing wave blocking the shockwave from damaging the castle then he started to fall, he took a jump to reach that height, he was not flying.
 

“How does a human possess this kind of power?!!!” while they were holding back, they were both surprised of the strength of this single human.
 

“You answered yourself...” he sheathed his sable “I’m not a human, you pathetic excuse for a crow!”
 

Somewhere in his mind Luzy-Fer remembered the last time someone called him that, it was about 500 years ago when he lost a battle against some half-god bastard that Za-Tann killed in one strike.
 

“(Impossible...)”
 

Zane was now again on top of the main building and slowly began to rise up, this time he was flying.
 

Lucy-Fer had a smug smile on his face “So now you're going to face me yourself, then let's have fun” he completely ignored whatever warning his memories tried to give him just a moment ago. 

Dark flames engulfed Zane and a Dark Halo appeared on his back.
 

Then one stake appeared, Two, Three, Luzy-Fer still had that smug face.
 

Four, Luzy-Fer he got serious.

Five, “What?!” Belhe-Gor yelled.

Six, “What are you?!!!” Luzy-Fer finally lost it.

Seven
 

“WAIT, WAIT” even the survivors of the demon army and the humans were in awe at this sight, the self-proclaimed Neo Demon King was now practically begging for his life.
 

“You both are in no position for a deal, now learn your place” still covered by flames six portal appeared on Zane’s back just above the halo between the stakes, three on each side and from those portals, a giantic pitch-black feathered wings that had four fingered hands on the very end emerged.
 

Finally, the flames that engulfed him dissipated, he was Zane no more.
 

He was Za-Tann the former Demon King.
 

Humanoid, but with six fingers in each hand and feet, his skin looked like cold magma that still had some fire beneath it, two horns on his forehead that coiled backwards and two tusks that came from the back of his jaw all the way to the front.
 

His eyes were closed but you could tell that they were blazing red.
 

“Now we may begin”
 

“WAITWAITWAIT”
 

“No point on that now” a black mist with a red aura started to gather on Za-Tann's hand, he materialized the Real ‘Nightmare’, but its form was that of a dagger, a silver dagger with a crimson handle and deep red gems on its sides.
 

“WHYDIDYOULEFTUS?!!!” Luzy-Fer yelled that hopping for something.
 

“I realized, Humans do not need us do destroy them, they are doing a better work than we could ever do, all by themselves, that said, it does not include all of them, you see, I had a little bit of a relationship with one of those mercenaries you threw on the main square and I really, really want her back”
 

Lucy-Fer understood the meaning of those words. When a higher demon kills another one, the souls of all the ones it has killed, including its own, become part of the ‘winner’ and higher demons can do many things with souls, especially fresh ones.
 

“Belhe-Gor...” Za-Tann said in a serious tone.

“...” no response from Belhe-Gor.

“You are living, there is a message for Aba-Don and Lil-Lim”

“...” still no answer.

“Now for this chicken’s turn to pay fine”

“WAITWAITWAIT, WHEN DID YOU GET THIS STRONG?!!!” Luzy-Fer voiced his last words.