The Demon Lord Reborn
Chapter 08: Village Shelter

“Oh, so, yes... All right, I get it. Then, Astaroth, let's continue our journey to the shelter village. But I will kill you, Astaroth! To get the throne as king. Ha ha ha... Not funny, huh?” Peace said with a disappointed face.

“...What kind of joke is that? Even a fallen bread is funnier than your joke, Peace.” Astaroth said with a astonished face. His hurtful speech, made Peace even more disappointed and felt that he would never pull out the joke again.

“Mr Peace, why didn't you mention my name just now? Don't you need me to be a shield on the way? But if you put that aside, your joke just now was so funny, that I found it hard to hold back the laughter... Ha ha ha!” Gram said while rolling on the ground like a child.

“You're mocking me or what? In the world of Vanaheim, no one will laugh when they hear that joke.” Peace said with a sour face.

“Astaroth, I can't stand this place, let's get out of here.” Peace with a flat face. Then, Astaroth directly walked forward to continue on the journey, followed by Peace and Gram.

Suddenly, in the middle of a quiet and silent journey, a normal-sized Zombie appeared by jumping from the bushes startling Astaroth. Calmly and casually, Gram throws his ice shuriken into the Zombie's body which makes the Zombie freeze in the sky, then, the Zombie falls which makes its body shatter into pieces. Because it is frozen, the zombie cannot regenerate or even move at all on the ground.

At that moment, Gram let out a sudden move, creating a fiery scythe clutched in his right hand. Then, Gram swung the Fiery Scythe onto one of the Zombie body parts, even so, the flames from the Fiery Scythe spread to the other body parts which made the Zombie instantly annihilate.

[Congratulations! Level increased to 84. Congrats! Fragment increased to 7. Congrats! Skill level B, Adaptation, successfully obtained. Congrats! A B-level skill, Eternal, was successfully obtained. Congrats! B-level skill, Grow, successfully obtained.] Gram's servant told him.

“Alright, Diamond. By the way, my style just came from the Ashes Skill, and the flames from the Fiery Scythe alone could annihilate their bodies, souls and history, more or less similar to the Heitari moves that Bile usually wore, he said, fire-headed monster 3.” Gram said with a friendly smile and then removed his Fiery Scythe.

“Yes, as expected of you, Gram. Then let's continue our journey.” Peace. Then, Astaroth again led the way, followed by Peace behind him.

“Alright, I'll follow you later, after upping the stats. Status!” Said Gram, after saying so, a hologram of Status appeared before him.

...[.Status]...

...Name : ...Grams...

...Age: 92 years...

...Race : Demons...

...Skill: Fly, Ashes, Poison King, Destiny, Causal Control, Blue, Adaptation, Eternal, Grow...

...Weapon : None...

...Level :84...

...‹ ›...

...Inventory Statistics...

...[.Exit]...

Then, Gram pressed the Stats button and decided to increase her Strength.

...[.Statistic]...

...Fragment :0...

...AGI :21 [+]...

...VIT :21 [+]...

...MP :210 [+]...

...HP 310...

...« ‹...

...Status Inventory...

...[.Exit]...

It turned out that from behind the bushes, Peace and Astaroth peeked over to see Gram's Status and Statistics. Then, Astaroth said, “Honey once, we can't see Gram's first name because it's covered by her body.”

“Strength... 21, Agility... 21, Vitality... 21, Mana Point... 210, Health Point. 310, this guy is really amazing. Astaroth, I think it's enough to keep an eye on him, let's get the hell out of here, before he knows where we are, though I'm sure, that he knows where we are here.” Peace said in awe of Gram's figure and left the bushes to continue the journey.

“They suspected me, huh? To the point of peeking out of the bushes. Hm... How, yes... But, it is not the time for me to think about it, I must immediately follow them, otherwise, I can miss.” Gram said softly and then walked in the footsteps of Peace and Astaroth printed on the ground.

On the way, Peace asked Gram, “Gram, what are the uses of Destiny and Causality Control? Judging from the name, they look very strong.”

“Destiny is a Skill that allows its user to manipulate destiny, however, once the Destiny Skill is activated and used, the Destiny Skill will not be usable anymore and must be waited for 5 years to reuse it, this also happens to the Causality Control Skill, which allows its users to manipulate the cause-and-effect system.” Gram replied as he turned his face towards Peace.

“Skill is amazingly strong, although after use, it takes 5 years to reuse it. But is there no way to shorten it? If you absolutely have to wait 5 years, long too, anyway.” Ask Peace.

“Of course there are, although it takes a long time. If we continue to use a Skill that has time to reuse, the longer it takes, the Skill will issue its original awakening commonly called Awakening. The benefit is, negating the time to reuse and strengthening the Skill in an assortment way.” Answer Gram.

“Oh, so, yes. By the way, where did you get the Destiny Skill and the Causal Control Skill? It should be from a very powerful monster, right?” Ask Peace.

“Skill Destiny and Causality Control I got from a monster level 20, his name is Wizard, he I found on Whiteland Island, an island located quite close to the island we are on, Simba island. By the way, I saw there is a village from the front, besides, the sun also seems to start to set, before dark, we better settle there first.” Gram Say.

“Yes, you're right, there's a village from the front. Of course, that village was a shelter village. By the way, I'll go there first, I'll wait for you there.” Said Astaroth who immediately ran towards the gate of the shelter village.

Meanwhile, the snakes guarding outside the gate were confused and said, “Who is he? Why is his body covered with a snake with a protruding long nose...? J-Don't say?! D-He is... Mr Astaroth!” Said one of the snake-shaped gatekeepers while approaching Astaroth longingly.

“Yes! You're right, he's Lord Astaroth! King of the Smart Snakes and is the king of the kingdom of the Smart Snakes!” Said the gatekeeper next to him while approaching Astaroth with an unbearable longing.

They met after all this time. With both hands, Astaroth hugged the bodies of the two snake-shaped gatekeepers, meanwhile, the two gatekeepers perched on Astaroth's shoulders.

“Mr Astaroth! Long time no see! I even forgot about your great body shape! However, who are the two of them, why are they walking here with you? What don't-don't?! You were taken prisoner by them?!” Asked one of the gatekeepers perched on Astaroth's right shoulder excitedly.

“Which, don't say that to my two friends, they came here as an alliance, an alliance to tear down the defensive wall of that damn player! Chronus!” Answer Astaroth.

Seriate...