How To Be A Demon lord: The Former Hero's Journey As A Demon Lord!

The home of the Undead was a mystery to many races because of how separated they were from the rest of the world. As the rulers of the dead, they lived in the underworld, a dimension filled with red clouds and a starless sky. The air in the underworld was thick with the smell of death and the land was separated into nine concentric circles spread out from the center. Each circle was a different level of the underworld and as you go closer to the center of the circle, the stronger you have to be to survive. Outside these circles, there was a large, foggy body of water that no one has ever seen the end of. The body of water was the only path to come into or leave the underworld.

All of the undead living in the underworld were categorized using levels. From levels one through to level nine. The higher your level, the higher your position is in the underworld.

At the center of the underworld was a large castle where the leader of the undead ruled from. The castle was large enough to house more than a thousand people! This was the castle where the council of the Dead ruled from. The council was made up of five people that belonged to the ninth rank. They were all from prominent families and they were chosen specially by the upper class of the undead to rule over the underworld. The council was not meant to be the rulers of the undead, they were created after the king of the underworld (Rosavellt's father), Yahma, fell into a coma after his fight with the demon lord. They were led by the king's brother, Kronos, and even though he was only in the EPIC rank, he was still respected enough by the cabinet since he was one of the strongest here.

Today, the cabinet was having a meeting regarding their missing prince. They have waited for a long time to get any news from Reginald and since they still didn't have any news from him, they finally decided to have a meeting and decide how they would retrieve him. A lone woman stood in the hallway that would lead to their meeting room. She was not one of the cabinet members but she had been called to the meeting along with others since it also involved her.

This is Dulla, Reginald's Fiancee and the princess concubine of the underworld.

She was the undead that Reginald has been engaged to for the last five years and they were supposed to get married anytime soon. Dulla was a very strong-spirited person. Even though she was a woman, she never bothered to wear the dresses and jewelry that most other women wore. Instead, she wore leather pants and a shirt that was fitted for fighting. Her posture was rigid and she looked like she was ready to spring into action at any moment if there was ever a threat. There was an intense look in her eyes that showed her fighting spirit as she looked outside the window in the hall. Anyone that saw her at that moment would never realize just how worried she was.

Today would mark three months since her fiance left for the demon world and she couldn't stop herself from worrying about him. She still remembered how he snuck out of the underworld to go to the demon world and even back then she wasn't in support of all this. She told him to let her come with him but he was adamant that he could handle himself without her help. Dulla squeezed her gloved hands tightly. Is Reginald okay? She regrets allowing him to go alone! She should have insisted more so that she would come with him!

"Dulla, so this is where you have been hiding? I was starting to worry,"

A voice spoke up from behind her and Dulla looked back to see Reginald's uncle, Kronos, walking towards her with two people flanking him from the side. Kronos was a gentle-looking person who didn't look a day above thirty. He had a clean-cut goatee and long black hair. Dulla immediately bowed to him. He was currently acting as the leader of the underworld and she has to show him his respect.

"Lord Kronos, I apologize for making you worry. I was just thinking,"

Kronos hummed as he told her to stand. He looked to the two people standing behind him and told them to go into the meeting room and wait there. The two of them nodded as they left. One of them was a man wearing full body armor, he was Kronos' bodyguard. The other person was a woman dressed in a red gown. She was Kronos' secretary and she gave Dulla an irritated glance as she left. Her name was Rose and she was one of many people that never liked Dulla because Dulla didn't act in the proper way a lady should behave. Rose always wondered why Reginald fell in love with Dulla.

Dulla didn't notice what Rose did and she just stood and waited for Kronos to say what he wanted.

Kronos spoke once the two of them were alone.

"Have you heard anything from my nephew? I know we came here today to discuss that, but maybe there's something more you wish to tell me. I'm still not happy that you didn't tell me before he left, I thought that he trusted me more than that. But we can still salvage things if you have anything else to tell me."

Dulla shook her head. Why would she hold back information about Reginald's whereabouts? If Reginald contacted her then she would have told him!

"I do not know anything. I would have told you already if there was any news. I fear my fiance might have run into a serious problem in the demon world. I... I'm worried,"

Dulla was not the sort of person to show emotions openly, but she was able to show this much emotion in front of Kronos because she trusted him. Kronos was the one that introduced her to Reginald in the first place and it was because of him that the two of them became engaged. She knew that Kronos would understand how worried she was. Dulla didn't like how silent things have been from Reginald. She didn't want to think that he could be dead by now, but there was a possibility, wasn't there? What would she do if he died? She didn't even care that she was marrying the prince. She just didn't want Reginald to die. She loved him.

Kronos gained a glint in his eyes as he saw the raw emotions in Dulla. Kronos never thought that Dulla and Reginald would fall this deeply in love with each other. How interesting.

Kronos spoke as he looked out the window to see the servants moving across the castle grounds.

"Well, be that as it may. I will do everything in my power to bring him back. Let us go in and start the meeting. If we can't come to a decision soon, then the meeting might go on till morning. Dulla, when we go in there, try not to speak. I am not Reginald and I can't protect you every time you make a mistake like he used to."

Dulla frowned and looked away and Kronos sighed because he knew that Dulla wouldn't listen to him. Everyone knew just how rash she was. She was never afraid to speak her mind and she had run into a lot of trouble with people that were higher than her because of her lack of tact. Reginald has protected her from most of the problems because he loved her, but now that Reginald was not here she wouldn't have the freedom to do whatever she wanted. Kronos knew that there were a lot of people that would love to attack Dulla now that she didn't have Reginald to protect her. Kronos knew that she has to be careful.