Chapter 103: VIP Ride To Hell

Nero entered the palace and walked through the hallways. He crushed the corpses under his feet and kept walking.

'I am sure there are still many soldiers left in the inner palace— hiding and protecting the king.'

Nero activated his God's eyes and glanced around the palace. "Hmm?"

He saw something he never expected to see. 

There were still two females in the palace.

'Why didn't they run?' Nero wondered to himself.

"Are they maybe chained or trapped?" 

Nero thought he would help them after he dealt with the king, but something caught his attention. His eyes widened as he realized what he was looking at. 

Without wasting even a second, he rushed to the location.

He jumped over the walls and climbed the window to enter a room where he saw two females with a semi-transparent veil covering their faces.

They both had golden hair and hazel eyes, but as soon as they looked into Nero's eyes, their eyes shined red with a star-like design in them— just like Nero.

'So this is the sister and the daughter of the king.'

Nero furrowed his brows and asked, "Why are you still here? My barrier is around you, so you must have heard my voice."

Nero glanced back and forth between the mother and the daughter, and waited patiently for their reply.

The mother stepped forward and removed the veil from her face, "My name is Leto."

She pointed at her daughter and said, "This is my daughter, Asteria."

Nero's eyes widened as he heard that name and spoke, "Princess Astrea?"

"That's the name of our ancestor, I believe. Although, yes. I named Asteria after Astrea."

Asteria removed the veil from her head and revealed her face.

'She looks similar to Princess Astrea!' Nero exclaimed inwardly.

He looked at Leto and asked, "I asked why didn't you leave?"

"We can't leave unless we see that man die," Leto answered.

Asteria held Leto's hand and added, "We have been waiting for this day. The day you come and free us from this hell."

They both fell to their knees and started crying, "Please, save us."

Nero walked past them and patted on Asteria's head.

"You truly do resemble her."

Nero was now even more furious than before. It reminded him of something he never wanted to remember again.

He left the room and walked into the hallways. Soldiers came to him and died; more came, and more died.

"You are weak; you are sinners, then why must you approach me— a demon. To die?"

Nero grabbed one soldier and hung him on the pillar, "Where is the king?"

Before the soldier could get a chance to speak, he died from lack of breath.

Nero walked further and asked each and every soldier the same thing before killing them mercilessly.

"Where is that bastard?!"

The dying soldier pointed his finger at the wall and died.

Nero threw the body down the balcony and walked to the wall. He activated his God's eyes and looked at the wall.

"Where is he? Why my God's eye is not detecting him?" Nero groaned in annoyance and punched the wall.

The wall rumbled and stopped after a while. Nero frowned his brows and punched again, but the same thing happened again.

"This wall is made of a material that is indestructible, and it is invulnerable to my God's eyes."

This reminded Nero of the prison realm.

'There ain't no way this shitty king has the gall to do anything. Someone else must have been  pulling strings and using him as a puppet.'

Nero frowned his face and placed his hand on the wall, then said, "But that doesn't mean his crimes would be forgiven."

Nero penetrated his finger in the wall and made the hole big enough to penetrate his other fingers. He clutched the wall with both hands and broke it.

"There is nothing I can't do," Nero uttered as he jerked his hands.

It was dark in the room, and even Nero couldn't see anything. It was almost as if the room was covered by a shadow.

Nero activated his God's eyes and snapped his finger. 

The shadow disappeared and left an empty room with all types of weapons.

"Can you save me the trouble of finding you and come out yourself?" Nero said in a demonic voice.

He was trying to act intimidating, but he had no idea his current appearance itself was more than intimidating.

Up until now, Nero's normal appearance was of a man with white hair and long mullets on the sides. Red eyes and pointy ears with sharp fangs. But that appearance could be of any other race.

It didn't differentiate or classify what race Nero belonged to or if he was a demon or not. However, every one of them who saw him called him a demon.

However, his current appearance was far more than that of a demon. His marks and scar-like stripes trailed down his chin. His crimson eyes with a star-like design rotating inside and his newly sprouted tail made him look like a true demon.

"I can see you. So save me the trouble and come out. I might show you mercy and give you a less painful death."

Suddenly, a bolt of a crossbow was fired at Nero from the left side of the room. The bolt hit Nero and broke into pieces.

"So you chose the VIP torture package, huh?" Nero dashed to the left and grabbed the man— who was king Norox.

"I told you that I could see you. Then why would you try to attack me?"

Norox swung his sword erratically as if he had ever held a sword before. Then, he stabbed the sword at the barrels on the side.

"Hehehe!" he laughed out loud.

A liquid came out of the barrel and spilled on Nero.

"This is the holy water! Die, you filthy demon!"

Nero shook his head in disbelief and sighed, "If you believe in the holy water, then you must believe in the gods too. And if you believe in gods, then you must believe in heaven and your last destination— hell."