Tales of Astora: Legacy

Chapter 37: Confession and Turmoils

Chapter 37: Confession and Turmoils

The demon lord was among the first to receive the news from Caelum and since then it has been in an uproar. For everyone knew who went there a few days ago. The sound of a loud voice together with decorations being shattered resounded in the castle.

"Calm down Ikarus!" Maria caught a flying vase of flowers.

"He went on killing thousands of people and you tell me to calm down?" and another decoration flew on the air. This time it was a chair.

"I am sure he has his reasons!" Maria quickly dodged the chair.

"What reason pushed him to destroy a city?" the celestial shouted.

"We don't even know for certain if it was him. For all we know, it was the undead legion who did that." Maria conveyed. What she spoke was the truth, at least from their point of view. All they knew was Alastor went to Caelum and a few days later, the city was almost obliterated. There were also talks of giants but that wasn't their main concern.

"Of course it was him. Why would he go there in the first place? You know he has been....different ever since that girl died! Alastor, you idiot! What have you done?" Ikarus may seem to have overreacted compared to the others in the room but that was because she was the only one with no relation with demons aside from Alastor.

"Well I call for a celebration!" Amelia joined the conversation.

"Celebration for what?" asked Noroeth.

"We just got ourselves an official demon lord. It would be weird for Alastor to not become one after this!" Amelia explained, sipping her cup of tea.

"Ohohoho! Nice! I will gather everyone!" Azureus jumped up and down continuously.

"What's wrong with all of you? We are not talking about one or two people here. It's thousands. Now how are we supposed to have peace between all races?" the celestial mumbled.

But instead of an answer, everyone looked at her with weird eyes before they suddenly busted out in laughter.

"Hahahaha! Nice one Ikarus! I didn't know you have a talent for humour!" the beastman laughed out loud.

"Great! We found our comedian for the party!" clamored the slime.

"I am NOT JOKING!" screamed Ikarus, making everyone silent. This time the atmosphere in the room turned somber. Having stayed silent since the beginning, Mephisto stood up and walked up to Ikarus.

"Then we have a problem, celestial! If peace is what you are seeking then you are in the wrong place my dear!" he gave a stern look at Ikarus.

His tall figure combined with his imposing aura could strike fear into the heart of anyone and Ikarus was no exception. But still the celestial managed to find whatever was left of her courage to throw back at him.

"I won't let you turn him into a demon lord! Just how many have been sacrificed already because of this endless war?"

"You ask the right question, celestial! How many demons were killed because of you? Remember that the Primes were the one who dealt the first strike! Do you think we are going to sit around and take it? Do you think we will just forgive each other, shake our hands and happily forever after? This isn't some fairy tales where everything would just magically solve itself in the end!

To all of you primes, the only peace you will know is when all of you are dead."

"Hold on just a minute, Mephisto! That's a little too excessive don't you think? Why are we arguing about this? Let's just wait for Alastor to come back and then we can discuss and talk calmly...." Maria tried her best to keep the peace but it didn't work. Mephisto had a problem with Ikarus right since the beginning when he first heard about it but he chose to remain silent as he didn't want to displease the boy. But now he was not around and Ikarus was spouting, to his view, some dangerous idea. The celestial Ikarus also had her reasons. If she could convince Alastor to abandon the idea of becoming the next demon lord, it would at the very least avoid the war in a large scale as the demons would not have a leader. But her intentions were still, if possible, to gain a truce between the two sides and most importantly to keep Alastor out of the conflict.