Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil

For all this time, Pablo believed that Malvador's surprise would be the king of the Dragons, El'Dorado.

He would summon the Dragon King.

But for the first time, Pablo's guess came out wrong and he hated it.

Because instead of the King of the Dragons, Malvador's surprise turned out to be…

"You are the King of the Demons, Sire."

After hearing that, everyone's eyes went wide, even Pablo was shocked to the core.

Now he knew why the two thick long horns on the Demon's head sat like a crown. The bastard was the King of the Demons of all things.

Now Andrezj's and Cupid's fear made sense.

And when Pablo thought about it, he understood. It only made sense for the Demon king to appear.

After all, the ritual had taken more than a billion corpses and thousands of hearts. At that amount of sacrifice, it was only natural for a King to be summoned.

"Yes. I am the Demon King. Obliveaux Dravakos. The Ruler of Hell. The Emperor Of Eternal Forgetting."

The Demon shared his name along with the titles and no one doubted it.

He had hundreds of eyes, he had hundreds of ears and everyone felt that if they even breathe wrong, they would die by the hands of the Ruler of hell.

Pablo was no different as he might be the Epitome Of Evil but he had the instincts of a human and he dared not to try his luck.

"Why did you summon me, Vampire? And what is this place? This place reeks of resentment and vengeance." Dravakos said. He had felt something just upon entering the Crucible. That only showed how much of a deal this Ashen Crucible was that even the Demon King found it reeking.

Malvador kept his head low.

"I summoned you to make us win this war, Sire."

"Armies are supposed to be in a war. I see none."

"I know their number appears to be less but I want them dead. All of them. And if you like, you can destroy their whole Kingdom as well." Malvador proposed.

The Elves showed some kind of reaction as they were promised that they would get the Forza kingdom if they helped Malvador in the war and in the Demon summoning. And now he was telling the Demon to destroy Forza? They would have retorted but they didn't have the guts for that at the moment. And they might never have.

The Demon king heard the proposal. All of his hundred eyes danced as their pupils roamed around as if they were locating the Forza Kingdom.

"What will get I in return, Vampire?"

Malvador gulped. "Didn't we give you hearts and dead bodies, sire? I am requesting this in return for all of that."

"I am not your regular Demon, Vampire. I the King. I do what I want. The things given by you, is the price to summon me. That was not the price for making me do work. To make me do something, offer me my want. Or else… I will take over this world. Hell bored me lot."

Sweat formed on Malvador's forehead as it didn't go as he expected. He had never done something like that and he believed that the Demons would do anything his summoner tells them to do. But it appeared to only apply to regular demons. The Demon king worked differently and now Malvador had to think about something that would entice this ruler enough to do his work.

Malvador still had his head bowed as he thought about what to do.

He looked over his shoulder with his head still low and his gaze landed on Pablo.

For Pablo, he could lose anything.

He could have easily killed the whole little army of Pablo if he wanted now with the help of the elves, but he summoned a Demon king anyway. Why did he do that? The reason was simple. He wanted Pablo to cry in pain. He wanted to bestow pain upon Pablo like God bestows misfortune to the poor.

Staring at Pablo, Malvador came to a decision.

He averted his eyes and focused back on Dravakos.

"Sire," He said. "If you did what I requested, then you shall have all the Kingdoms of this world. You can rule this whole world. You can rule my kingdom as well. You can do as you please."

Brows were raised, mouths went agape.

The Elves really wanted to raise their voice now and the common people watching from Jasper were taken aback as well. They felt someone punched them in their chest. Just imagining being ruled over by the Demon king, the ruler of hell, they all found death as the easiest and merciful decision.

But all of these people's worries were for nothing as Pablo knew what would be the response of the Demon king.

And he was right.

"This nothing, Vampire. You are no one to allow me to rule over this world. I can start ruling right now. I kill all of you, all who stand against me, I kill and rule. I no need your offer. Try again. This, your last chance."

Malvador shivered as the phrase last chance suggested that even he wasn't safe from what he bestowed upon the world.

While Malvador raced his mind for anything that could make the Demon agree to do his bidding, Pablo raced his mind as well.

He told all of his soldiers to take slow back steps.

He told everyone to keep your head low as kings don't like heads too high in their presence.

Also, he told all of them this through Andrezj.

If Pablo had used his mouth to speak, the Demon King with all those ears would have also heard it and such Beings were the most unexpected of them all.

And since Cupid was not herself right now, Pablo's only hope was Andrezj.

First, he asked Andrezj through his mind to tell Sera to go inside Draxus' shadow. She would be safe there. And Pablo can't have Sera dead as he might need her Ego, now more than ever.

Andrezj relayed that to Sera and when Sera heard that Pablo wanted it, she listened and went inside Draxus' shadow.

Pablo then used Andrezj to make Hena go inside the shadow as well, as he would also need her to make imagination come true.

The reason, no matter how they see it, the Demon king in front of him was straight out of fiction and Hena's Ego was needed because…

She dealt only in fiction.