Geneine escorts me to what is barely called an armoury, rusty, bent, and dull weapons line the walls or in barrels and dented rusty armour stacked haphazardly in a pile.

"Not very encouraging seeing our equipment in poor condition... some of these look like they'll snap or bend with the first hit," I comment picking up a longsword with a chipped and slightly bent blade.

"We would have made new ones but the mines are still overrun with worms and kobolds. Jidaan could've cleared it himself but he didn't care," my harpy secretary replies.

"I know, and once I've gotten used to my powers I'll go and clear it out, but right now we need to deal with this raiding party. Are there any scythes in here?" I ask while rummaging through the pile of weapons.

"There should be a few, but no demon really uses them anymore," she replies and starts helping me look through them.

Other demons start coming in and begin arming themselves with the poor equipment before heading back out to face the oncoming raiding force.

After ten minutes of sifting through the junk I find three scythes, two were too bent and not even worth using, but the third while dull, has at least got a straight blade and a good enough point to it for piercing. A bit shorter than Thanatos, but it'll do.

I ignore the armour as I doubt any of it will fit me and I seem to have rapid regeneration anyway. I then step out of the armoury to see my forces gathered and ready for battle... which doesn't look like much I'll admit.

"Right then... Well, I'm sure you know what's happening. An armed force of lesser demons is approaching our town, we're going to fight them off and then find out where they came from. As I see it, if they want to raid us then we should do the same!" I say to my gathered troops.

They cheer out in different ways and raise their weapons of choice.

"Now then, let's get into position and prepare for battle!" I shout out getting another chorus of cheers.

After just over an hour of setting up our defences including crude barricades and cover, we're ready for the advancing forces... I hope.

"Are the harpies and goblins ready!?" I call out and see ten harpies all ready to carry thirty jars of worm oil over to the approaching demons.

"We're ready!" One of the goblins yells back and pats one of the jars gently.

"Good! The rest of you harpies not carrying the jars protect the ones that are!" I tell them getting affirmatives in return.

"Are you sure you should do this without knowing how your power works?" Desire asks beside me with her red energy whip out and ready.

"Not really... but I have to do something and hope for the best... besides, maybe I'll learn something during the battle," I reply and grip my scythe tightly. 'Come on video game skills, don't let me down,' I think to myself with a nervous chuckle, hopefully that bloodlust I felt while fighting Jidaan kicks in and helps me again.

The imps start to climb onto the boarus’ who are holding large rusted tower shields with crude spikes on the front and wearing scrap metal armour, some imps also climb onto the shoulders of the harpies to throw their fireballs from high up and to shoot down any enemy harpies.

Also to tell our forces apart, I've had all of my troops wear a black bandanna around their necks so we -mostly me- don't kill the wrong guys.

The sounds of feet, claws, and hooves marching begins to echo throughout the wastes and reaches our ears. I take a deep breath and face my troops. "Alright, it's almost time! Imps, remember to set the oil on fire and shoot down any of their harpies! Incuponies and succuponies! You're job is to stop them from getting around the boarus! Goblins! Keep the jars going and then join the others in attacking the enemy when you’ve ran out!" I tell them.

Everyone gets to their positions and now we wait. After thirty minutes, the enemy force is easy to see now. They have the same demons we do but also what appears to be a pony spider hybrid. "Desire, what are they?" I ask her pointing out the new demon.

"They're arachniponies, they mostly hide underground and keep to themselves, it looks like some deamon or greater has subjugated a queen and is getting her to lay soldiers for them," she replies with a frown.

"And what can they do?" I ask her, the archniponies have six legs and two arms, their top half looks just like the succuponies but have black fur, no horns, and eight spider like eyes while the lower spider half has black carapace with what looks like a black widow marking on the back of their abdomen.

"They have paralysing venom in their fangs, can spit globs of sticky webbing at you to restrict your movement and with their spinnerets encase their victim, but they're also the best at making clothes with the silk they spin with their webbing," she tells me.

"Hmmm, any weaknesses?" I then ask her.

"Their webbing is highly flammable until it's turned into embersilk, so if you get hit by their webbing you can just burn it off," she replies.

"Good to know..." I say and sigh. 'I couldn't have just gone to heaven or be reborn again... noooo, I get dragged to a literal hell for some demon's personal vendetta...' I grumble to myself and ready my rusty scythe.

The approaching demons stop and a single one is sent out towards us, seems they want words first.

"That's rare, seems they want to discuss terms for our surrender..." Desire says confused.

"Well let’s see what it is and then refuse them, I want to know why they're here exactly... besides taking our shit," I reply and fly out with Desire beside me. I land a few metres away from a harpy dressed in decent blue clothing, probably from the arachniponies... I wonder if I can get a few to join us?

"Are you the leader of this town?" she asks me.

"Yeah... why are you here?" I ask her.

"We're here to claim Jidaan's wealth and strip the town for its resources, I'm here to offer you a chance to leave without bloodshed before we overrun the town," she tells me.

I raise an eyebrow at her and sigh. "And who sent you here? Surely you have a master as well correct?" I ask her.

"You don't need to know that, weakling. All you need to know is leave or die," she replies with a glare.

Desire then laughs at the harpy. "And what do you think you'll be able to do to my Master? Who by the way, is a demonlord," she tells her.

I decide to play along and narrow my eyes at the harpy and appear to be as imposing as much as possible.

"A demonlord? Why would a demonlord be this far out from the Soul Basin?" she asks clearly not buying it.

"I got sent through a portal and ended up here, so I'm building from the ground up before returning," I tell her, it's not exactly a lie.

"You're bluffing, you're probably just barely a deamon at best... I've said my piece, you either leave or die," she replies and goes to spread her wings, oh well.

I quickly swing my scythe at her and impale her through the side of her head. She has an expression of shock before going limp.

"You need to destroy her heart before she recovers!" Desire warns me so I pull out my scythe and bring it down on her heart. Her body then looks like it's cracking before bursting into flames and turning into ash.

'Jesus Christ!' I think as I watch the painful display, but a part of me revelled in taking her life... just like back with Sugar and Jidaan.

The opposing demons all cry out in rage and start to charge at us. I frown as Desire and I both fly back to our defences.

"Well, here they come... Imps! Get ready to fire and harpies get ready to fly!" I call out getting affirmatives in reply. It appears the enemy has twice as many demons than we do...

It seems they're now in range as my imps begin to throw fireballs at the hostile demons and my harpies take off to begin their bombing runs. Their imps are also throwing fireballs back which my demons take cover behind their metal sheet barricades or behind the boarus’.

I take cover along with Desire as the fireballs disperse against the metal sheets leaving only a small scorch mark. Huh, I was expecting more from them.

The harpies begin dropping the oil while the imps on their shoulders set them alight on the way down. I watch as the jars shatter and splash the oil over a large group of demons as they burst into flames. The boarus then brace themselves as incuponies, succuponies, felhounds, and other lesser demons try to get past but the imps on the boarus' backs toss fireballs into the enemy demons leaving burns and charred flesh on impact.

I break away from my cover and swing my scythe over the Boarus and impale an incupony in the head who's being blocked by the boarus. Desire starts throwing what looks like small double ended blades made from her energy over the boarus which hit some of the demons on the other side.

Our Incuponies and succuponies are holding them off at the sides but are suffering some losses as well as the harpies fighting in the air. If we don't start pushing back… if I don't start pushing back, we'll be overrun and I'll never get out of this hellhole!

As if responding to my plea, I feel a pulse in my chest and again my senses sharpen as that familiar bloodlust and urge to kill flares up again. Instead of fearing it this time, I embrace it and toss my rusty weapon aside as I feel energy gathering in my hand. My scythe, Thanatos forms and I grin widely showing off my fangs.

I barely notice Desire grinning at me but I ignore her and lick my lips before leaping over the boarus and swing my scythe into the group of demons in front of them, decapitating three of them and leaving deep facial gashes in two others. The three that I decapitated have their souls sucked out into my scythe which look like I did in the void, transparent dark grey version of themselves, I can just feel my weapon sing in delight.

I then feel energy build within me before bursting out with a roar sending the demons back a few metres. Again I feel so alive! "COME! SHOW ME THE BEST YOU'VE GOT AS THANATOS CRAVES FOR YOUR SOULS!" I shout out with glee before swinging again and slicing three demons in half by the waist, their souls being ripped out and absorbed into my weapon.

The demons falter for a second before charging right at me. My vision turns red as all I care about right now is to tear these weaklings apart. My scythe bathes in their blood as it steals their souls.

After slaughtering many more I take a hit from a fireball which burns off my coat's left forearm sleeve, but doesn't even burn my skin. I turn to the imp responsible and charge at him. He panics and tries to flee but I reach him and swing my scythe in an uppercut motion slicing him in half up the middle. His blood covers me and I have a sadistic grin on my face.

I turn to the rest of the attacking demons and I notice I've killed at least a third of them, they're so weak, so fragile... I want to face something with more power than these ants.

My grin seems to unsettle them and a thought comes to mind. "Tell me..." I start and walk over to a dark purple succupony with dark green hair, purple eyes with black freckles on her face who looks like she wants nothing more than to run. "Who sent you here to my town and take what is mine?" I ask her as I now stand a full foot over her as she shivers.

"M-M-Master Kigorian s-sent us..." she says as a strong bitter scent hits the air, I glance down and see her pissing herself in fear.

I then stroke my scythe's blood covered blade and then lick the blood off my fingers. "I see, and which direction may I find this... Kigorian?" I ask her as I then stroke her cheek gently.

The gesture seems to calm her down slightly. "T-Ten miles s-s-south west..." she replies as an incupony takes a chance to stab me in the back.

I turn around and grab the rusty blade which cuts slightly into my hand. "Thank you for your co-operation, my dear," I tell her as I then cut the incupony's head off and steal his soul before turning back to the succupony. "As a reward I, demonlord Damien Jackson, offer you a chance to join my demons, what say you?" I offer her with a warm smile and hold my hand out to her. "Better yet, I offer all of you a chance to join me and forsake your current master," I then shout out and gesture to all of them.

Every demon has stopped fighting as the succupony then speaks up. "B-But we'll be killed i-if we forsake K-Kigorian," she replies with wide eyes.

"Then I shall kill him myself. If he wants to raid me, then he can't complain if I raid him in turn," I tell her with a grin.

Desire then walks over to me as my demons surround the remaining raiders. "You know, unless her master is a demonlord, you just need to bite her and the others to overpower another demon's mark on a lesser demon," she tells me with a half lidded gaze and smirk.

"Is that so?" I reply and look to the succupony. "What is your name?" I ask her.

"S-Sinful Envy," she replies trying not to make any sudden movements.

"Well, miss Envy. Would you like to be mine?" I ask her and brush her long dark green hair away from her neck, there's a mark like an demonic octopus with eight tentacles on her fur. I then smell a more sweeter scent coming from her this time as she trembles and nodded rapidly as she blushes. "Then so be it," I say before biting down on her neck over her current mark, she screams out in bliss as her blood floods my mouth which tastes like lime and I gulp down a few mouthfuls before letting go where my mark has now replaced the old one. "You are now mine, Envy," I tell her as she seems to be shaking before her legs give out.

"Buck that was hot," Desire mutters with a quiet moan.

"Who else would like to join me!?" I call out, some more succuponies along with some incuponies, imps, arachniponies, and harpies step forward dropping their weapons and kneel before me. The others cry out in defiance and attack me, my demons, and the demons who wish to join me.

They're quickly put down as my scythe takes most of their souls.

I walk over to an arachnipony and examine her as I stroke one of her legs. "What is your name?" I ask her. Unlike a normal spider, she has no hair or fur on the insect part of her body but smooth shiny black carapace which feels soft under my touch.

"Sitharis," she replies as all eight eyes follow my movement.

"And do you have a queen, Sitharis?" I ask her.

"Y-Yes, she's being h-held in an underground room a-and being used to breed m-more soldiers..." she tells me as I walk around to her front.

"Would she join me if I freed her?" I ask next.

"I-If you don't c-cage her again then most l-likely yes," she replies with a nod.

"Good," I say and without warning I bite her neck. She hisses in pain and her blood tastes bitter as I sink my teeth into her soft flesh. I then let go and look her in the eyes. "Then I shall go and retrieve her and bring her here," I tell her and she nodded as the two puncture marks scar over with my mark on top, though it looks white to contrast her black fur.

I bite the rest of the demons, the females on the neck and the males on their forearms. Once I've claimed them all, my scythe fades away as the bloodlust and urge to kill also fades as well. I then shake my head and frown. 'It seems my personality changes when I have my scythe out... is it due to my demon half, bloodlust, or is it the scythe's influence?' I wonder to myself as Desire pulls me into an unexpected kiss and then grins at me.

"That was great! I knew you were the right demon to follow!" she says and keeps grinning.

"Okay then... Geneine!" I call out and ignore Desire's lustful expression at me.

"Yes, Damien?" she asks me when she lands beside me.

"Get these demons into Town and find them places to stay. Once I've rested, I'm going with a small force to attack this Kigorian prick and raid his town instead. Also, get the aracniponies to start spinning some silk so they can start making better clothing and other things like sheets and blankets that they can sell," I tell her and she nodded.

"As you wish, my lord," she replies and along with my demons, they escort my newly claimed ones into Town.

"Desire, head back to the manor and get a bath for me ready, I'm just gonna stay out here for a few minutes to calm down and clear my head," I tell her and she smiles.

"Sure, don't take too long though," she replies seductively and flies off leaving me here alone with the ashes of the fallen demons from the battle.

I look around and sigh as I look at my right hand. 'Am I losing myself the more I stay here? Will I end up a selfish bloodthirsty tyrant enslaving others to my will?' I think to myself as I flex my fingers. 'I'll just have to keep myself in check and learn to control these powers and urges,' I think with a frown and head back to my manor.

The demons that didn't or couldn't fight greet me with cheers and I nodded back to them as I enter my home... home, I guess this is my home for as long as I'm stuck here. I head into my chambers and then to the over sized tub where I see Desire drawing a bath for me, except she's naked and wiggling her hips at me.

"Oh, welcome back, Master. I've finished drawing your bath as you ordered," she tells me in a husky tone and then sucks on her right middle and index fingers.

At the sight of her voluptuous body along with all the stress and frustration from the last two months of running the Town, arousal from all of her teasing and flirting, and the recent raid pushes me over the edge as I walk over to her, grab her by her waist and throw her onto the bed making her yelp in surprise.

A strong sweet scent fills the air as I strip down and make my way over to her. I lean over her body and glare at her in the eyes. "So, you thought it was funny teasing me over the last two months did you? And don't think I didn't notice you trying to molest me in my sleep a couple nights ago, Desire," I tell her and grip the back of her head making her yelp with wide eyes. "Fine, I'll give you want you want so badly and I'm going to take out all my frustration on your body in the process!" I tell her and kiss her roughly.

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