It took quite some time to reach the capital from Leviathan’s lair. On the way, Rune started to teach Rena how to kill something quickly and demonstrated it on five Majin bandits. He snapped three of their necks with a simple twist after getting around them and he decapitated the last two with just his hands.

Rena tried to copy what he did and she ended up getting the skill [Quick Step] to move quickly. The three of them finally made it to the capital sometime during noon and reached a large gate and a wall.

“Halt! Are you with lucifer or are you with Satan?”

Rune didn’t turn to Hecate, but used telepathy to talk to only her.

Hecate slightly nodded enough so that only Rune noticed. Then Rune thought for a moment to answer the Majin guards.

“Then you will DIE!!! Glory to Lucifer!!”

As the Majin reached for their swords, they seemed to disappear and reappear in the walls. Their bodies were crushed into the walls and leaking blood from every wound that they just received in their body.

Rune walked up to the gate and used [Frozen Touch] to freeze it and he punched it once it was frozen. It shattered into millions of fragments and fell into the moat.

He turned to Hecate and Rena and handed them necklaces and placed one on himself. They were necklaces that bent the light using Light magic crystals. No one could see them, but they could see each other.

“Why do you have everything for every situation? Why would you even have an exploding scythe, a trident, an executioner’s axe, and even an invisibility amulet?”

“Why does everything include murder?!”

The three of them got onto Rune’s floating platform and moved towards Lucifer’s castle. While they were flying, Hecate and Rena were asking him what else he had in his storage.

“Do you have a crossbow or bow that never misses?”

“How about a blade that can cut someone from far away.”

“Really? What about a…”

The questions felt endless as they pestered him persistently. They asked about 80 questions before they were hovering over Lucifer’s castle. Hela was telling Rune that Lucifer was in the top floor again, but Beelzebub was likely by Lucifer’s side.

Rune did not want to wait any longer to get back home. Deciding to end this quickly, he jumped from the platform for the second time.

Lucifer’s candidate was a female Majin who turned into a being with black bird wings. Her name was Ena and she had gathered over 1,000,000 followers. She was a special Majin who had even more magical power than regular Majin warlocks.

People both feared and admired her and decided that it was better to not get in her way. At her side was the Beelzebub candidate who was a fat blob of a Majin. He decided that it would be best to give Lucifer’s candidate his gem and stay by her side than be wiped out and lose the gem anyway.

It was the first time an “alliance” was formed between the parties and there were some problems. Mainly that Beelzebub’s candidate was mooching off of Lucifer’s Candidate’s glory and wealth.

At the moment, the two of them were in a meeting with four other Majin to decide how to get rid of Satan’s candidate who had as much power as her. They sat in a small oval table with ten elite guards watching over them.

Suddenly, something fell through the ceiling and crashed into three of the guards who died immediately. The other 13 Majins turned towards the sound and looked as something got up.

Rune was covered in blood after landing and had one of his hands inside the left lung of an elite guard. He pulled his hand free to find the lung still stuck on him and he crushed it.

Then he got up and looked towards the other and nonchalantly rolled some cylindrical devices within the cover of the dust. When the dust dispersed, Ena could see Rune and was staring at hi closely.

“Who are you? One of Satan’s spies?”

“...And what is your job?”

“Ha! You think you can take mine?! Go kill the others first and we’ll see if you’re worthy enough to fight me.”

“No. Kill Leviathan, Belphegor, Mammon, and Asmodeus before coming back.”

“What?!”

Rune detonated his grenades that he dropped and 11 Majin died in the explosions. Their internal organs flew everywhere as they stopped living.

“Beelzebub!! Go kill him!!”

The candidate of Beelzebub rushed at Rune, but he was slow. Far too slow for Rune and was obliterated with an open palm thrust. His remains were painted all over the nearby wall and his bones were crushed into dust.

“H-hey!! Y-you can’t!! I still have yet to unite the people!! Satan will just ruin them!!”

“...”

Ena had to think about this. She wanted to help the people under her and didn’t want to die, but she wanted to get all the gems. She turned to look at the 14 other dead Majin around her.

“Ok. Deal. Here are Lucifer and Beelzebub’s gems. Just let me live, ok?”

He held out his hand and Ena timidly shook it. She did not want to make an enemy out of this man who was standing in front of her.

“I-I understand. Thank you for your generosity.”

Rune put on his invisibility amulet again and teleported to Rena who was sitting on the floating platform.

“I’ve heard that he is a tricky fellow to find. He is always on the move and usually goes to bars and clubs. He likes to party and to start fights. People are only under him for fear of death.”

“He usually goes to The Towering Well and Betelgeuse's Circle. I suggest going to The Towering Well first since he goes there more often.”

Hecate had already done some research on each of the Demon King Candidates, but knew very little about each one.

They reached the bar and Rune walked in with Rena. Hecate was going to stay on the roof to tell them if anything happened around them. The two others were given a magic tool to communicate using telepathy that Rune called “Comms”.

They were small devices that one would put in either ear. They had a good range of 300 ft and any distance from 300-1000 ft would be broken and harder to communicate.

While developing these, Rune thought about how long it would take this world to create guns and computers. He knew that at least two people in his class, Jared and Kelly, were computer people who liked to build their own machines. They would likely be the ones introducing this technology, even if it wasn’t perfect.

Rune pushed open the wooden double doors and was confronted with a terrible smell. The smell of alcohol entered his senses as the two of them entered and Rena started to clamp her nose.

In the bar, there were table and an actual bar with three people manning the single bar. There were two waitress that brought out ale and mead to the customers and the drank and talked loudly. It was the kind of place Rune would not want to be in.

In fact, to him alcohol ruined his senses and he would use other drinks instead of alcohol. On Earth, he already had lined up several sodas and energy drinks, but here he just didn’t have to drink anything at all. He could if he wanted to and he could taste it too, but he didn’t feel hunger or thirst. His new body made his three human necessities into wants with eating, sleeping, and oxygen.

“Hey, missy! You don’t like drinks, eh?”

A large Majin with a huge, bushy beard turned his head to look at Rena who was clamping her nose. In his hand was a huge cup that could fit a gallon and there was just mead filled to the brim. Then he took a huge swig and downed over half of it in a single gulp.

“Hey, boyo! Let me have your woman for a bit!”

“I-I’m not his woman!”

Wrong answer. If you say you aren’t with me, you will likely be attacked. Probably in more ways than one. I can’t believe this. If they start a fight now, I gotta kill them. I don’t want to get blood that smells of alcohol on my armor.

The man with a large beard sighed and snapped his fingers. Everyone at the bar stood up and pulled out knives. The Majin turned to Rena and talked with lust filling his eyes.

“Tis a bit sad to have the woman you are with be ravaged by us. Well, we have to kill you now. Then we can present her to Satan’s candidate.”

Ten Majin jumped at Rune and plunged their blades into every single vital area on a person. They hit the brain, neck, heart, liver, intestines, and other places. Rune fell to the floor with the knives sticking out of him like an insect on display with pins inside of it.

“Look what we did to your man, missy! Now it is time to mess you up!”

“Nooooooo!!”

“Hahaha-”

The fifteen Majin steadily walked towards Rena as she screamed in terror. She saw her instructor fall and she felt like she lost hope. The men drew nearer and nearer, but never came.

Instead, Rune came to them and stabbed each and every one of their faces with their own knives and, as for the other five, he ripped out the spinal columns of some Majin and stabbed it through them like he was spearing fish.

The Majin with a bushy beard looked in disbelief and Rena looked in awe as Rune stood up. Fifteen people died in a flash and now it was the Majin with a beard’s turn to die.

“W-wait!!! I-I can do anything you ask!! Please, just let me live!!”

In his mind, he was thinking that he would bring Satan’s candidate over to kill him once he left, but Rune’s response made him confused.

“Y-yes!!”

Quickly, the Majin opened up his jacket to reveal an orb. He grasped it and closed his eyes.

“There. I did it. Now you will let me leave, right?”

The Majin had a look of fear covering his face and he shook all over. Rune stretched out his hand to his face and the last thing he saw was the dark armor of Rune crushing his skull.

“This better be it. I heard Oleg say that there was a strong person in The Towering Well and that they were looking for me. I want to see him before I kill him.”

It was Satan’s candidate who was now walking up to the bar. As he got closer, he could see the windows that used to be clear were now a reddish color. It was as if someone was painting windows with blood.

Satan’s candidate was by far the strongest candidate there was if deciding on raw strength alone. In fact, he was more powerful than all the other candidates except Lucifer’s combined. His name was More and was a muscly Majin with elongated horns and black, leathery wings sprouting from his back. He wore adamantite gauntlets with sharp fingers at the end of them.

He walked up to the door and kicked it open yakuza style. The door split open and part of the wall exploded in splinters and there was bent metal shrapnel everywhere. Inside, he saw Rune and Rena who were readying their weapons. Rune rushed at More and stabbed him in the heart.

More was faster though and blocked it. Rune’s knife snapped and he took a step back.

“Are you the ones who killed my subordinates? This will disgrace my name if this incident is leaked to the public. I will kill you!!!”

Flames started to erupt around Rune and they started to heat his armor until they became white. It started to melt and he tried to escape, but he was locked in place. More was holding him down with his bare hands as Rune’s armor melted.

Rena watched in horror as her mentor melted into a puddle of metal in an instant. More turned to Rena and laughed at her despair.

“HA!!! He was so WEAK!! Look at him now! Just a puddle in the floor!!!”

Rena moved to the wall and was sliding down it with a cold feeling moving down her spine. More moved up to her and grasped her lower jaw and forced her to look up at him. He grinned an evil grin as wide as a crescent moon.

That person!!! He will die!!! He melted my armor in an instant!! That heck!!

Rune had lost his cold steel armor and was in the middle of being transported to his back up plan. Suddenly, his blood red wispy form appeared in his lab where his project was located. He felt a strong pull and was shoved into the new project.

He had kept all his skills, magic, titles, stuff, and his stats, but lost his main body. His new body was very similar to his old one, but was made of a new metal that he had developed. He made it by liquefying magic stones, cold steel, and mana infused orichalcum metal and fusing them all together. It gave him a boost in magic abilities and the power to use every element with just his hands.

He chose to only give the armor one pair of ram horns as well as smooth pauldrons. It was also more slender, but the same height so that he could more faster and execute his attacks more efficiently.

He was also extremely pissed at Satan’s candidate for killing him. In his lab, he made it so that one second outside was one hour inside the lab. He originally used this make his projects faster, but now he was using it to absorb all the bodies in his inventory.

He started consuming them like crazy and, as some point, he was able to absorb organic material as well as absorb them on touch. He consumed his Ice Devils, Imps, Horned Devils, Pit Fiend corpse, Tanarukks, Shoosuvas, Maw Demons, and sea monsters. Now it was the main event.

He took out Leviathan, Mammon, two orbs, and the Dragolich bones. Then he started to absorb them.

“Where is your savior now!? I will kill all of you!! Ha ha ha!! I defeated your friend sooooooo easily!!”

More was chuckling to himself while talking to Rena. She was now bound in rope and he was in the middle of hanging her from the ceiling of the porch with a hook on her ropes. He was going to use her as a punching bag to take out his anger. Of course, she likely wouldn’t survive the first attack.

He was drawing his hand back and was about to punch. Rena closed her eyes, but the punch never came. Instead, there was a loud roar.

Rena peaked open her eyes to see a huge dragon flying towards them. It was a black color and was rushing at them with immense speed. More just grinned and started to speak.

“Here is my ride, fool. I will let him eat you instead of me punching you. Hahaha-”

He stopped laughing for the black dragon was hit by something in midair. It was like a huge, white bullet as flesh flew around the surrounding area. Then a new dragon took its place. This time, it was three time the size of the black dragon and was white.

“What the-”

The dragon let out a streak of cold air as it flew at More with a speed faster than he could dodge. It struck him and he literally froze in place. Then the dragon landed and Rena started to expect her doom and Hecate, who was hiding on the roof, was holding herself and rocking back and forth.

The candidate paled as it realized who the dragon was. It was Rune who was extremely pissed at the Majin. Rune drew closer to him and opened his maw and promptly at the Majin’s head followed by the rest of its body.

Rune roared in a loud, audible roar and Rena could now see the white dragon’s body in more detail. She was still unaware that it was Rune for he only used telepathy on More.

Its scales were not actually scales, but shining metal that was linked closely and was in the shape of scales. It had an eye that was not normal with a glowing, blood red pupil and, instead of the whites of the eyes being white, it was black. It claws were serrated and seemed to be glowing with Light and Dark magic surrounding it.

It did have wings, but they were made of ice that seemed to have melted when it landed. Its teeth seemed to be made of cold steel and its tongue was just darkness.

It seemed to morph and change into a humanoid figure and what came out was Rune, except the armor had one pair of ram horns and the color of the armor was a night black. It had two glowing dots where its eyes would be.

“Rune!!!???”

“What? Rune!!!”

Rena and Hecate were looking at the figure as it was getting Rena down.

“How did you survive?! I saw you turn into a puddle!!”

Rena was shocked and amazed as her previously thought to be dead mentor unbound her.