I soon felt my bare feet come into contact with a cold floor and myself back in the room wtih the summoning circle I immediately reach into my bag and pull out a mana-crystal. I'm not as angry as I was earlier, the conversation with Cadavron calmed me down somewhat. Deep down I'm still angry but I'm not at the point that I want to literally rip the succubus limb from limb any more.

Of course I still want to kill the silly bitch, but I'm not going to kill her as quick as I was going to earlier. Oh no. I'll make sure to savour this kill, It won't be the first time I've enjoyed a kill, that's reserved for people who've annoyed me, wronged me dearly and those I hate.

And I tell you now, I'm not too keen on demons at the moment. I mean I know nothing of this world but I'm pretty sure they can't be all bad? I'll just have to ask the next god I see. But for now I'll just kill every demon that comes close.

Once the mana-crystal is within my grasp I realise I'm outside of the summoing circle and looking in the wrong direction at a blood covered wall, so I whirl around just in time to see the succubus still chanting, about to plunge the dagger into Henrietta who has now taken my place within the middle.

I can't let her kill Henrietta, as Cadavron said she's my ticket off of this continent that is now as he also said infested with demons. I mean with the magic compass all I'd need to do is hijack a ship or steal one but then I'd need a willing crew, wouldn't want them killing me in my sleep now. But Henrietta must be a much more easier option to get off of the island than that, and should be safer aswell.

But I digress, as I've said I can't let her kill Henrietta! With the mana-crystal in hand I activate my mana-sense with just a thought, I then push my mana into the crystal mixing that mana with my own thus allowing me control over it.

Once my control was established over the crystal, I used my own mana that was mixed in to unravel the patterns of the object thus turning it back into mana with my own mana to keep it around me.

As I finish that, the succubus is just about to plunge the dagger down into Henrietta. I will the gathered mana into a 6 by 6 ft wall of condensed energy and I will it foward.

The Succubus get's hit full-on and I hear the sound of bones cracking and breaking and her scream of pain, her dagger goes flying and lands in a nearby wall far enough away from her still-living mangled body.

She lay on the floor with limbs bent at unnatural angles, bruises forming all over her body already and moans of pain. 'I'll enjoy this.' I thought with a grin forming on my face.

"Mistress!" I realise I've been too caught up in dealing with the succubus so I turn around to Henrietta who's now up and running for the dagger imbedded in the wall.

With my mana-sense I notice an incorporeal string of ink black mana originating from the now broken demon and connecting to Henrietta's head. 'This is probably the charm spell that the succubus is using to control her, I wonder...'

I will the wall of mana to disperse and gather around me once again, I seperate a small amount and send that to the string of what I'll refer to as infernal mana.

As my mane pentrates into the string and starts to mix with it I feel a resistance coming from it, but not enough to deter me. As Henrietta is about to reach the knife in the wall my mana finishes infecting the demons charm spell, I forcefully take control of the mana and will it all to disperse.

Bending to my will the mana does as I command and disperses, thus cancelling the spell in theory. As the spell dissipates Henrietta stumbles and stops just before she reaches the dagger. She turns around and instead charges at the now downed succubus. I can see that her eyes are no longer cloudy and her face warps into an expression of fury.

Once she reaches the down succubus she starts stomping on her head, the succubus screaming in pain all the whille. After bringing her foot down 3 times the screams of pain finally stop, after 6 more stomps she finally finishes turning the demons head into paste.

All the while Henrietta is faced away from me while she does this violent deed so I can't see what her expression is. A pity really, I wanted to give that succubus a much more slow and painful death.

After finishing her gruesome business Henrietta stood staring at the succubus's corpse panting. "Are you finished?" I ask.

She turns around to me, face flushed from her anger at the demon. "You freed me from her charm?" She asks hurriedly so I nod in response.

She kneels down, "Then for freeing me and allowing me to gain vengeance for my former liege's death and thus regaining my lost honour, I Henrietta Galligor of the Galligor Clan do so offer my fealty to you as my new Liege lord." Unexpected to say the least but not unwelcome.

As I am about to utter acceptence of the oath I realise something. I can't go by my old name of Duana Von Mannenheim because she won't believe me. What name can I go by? Hmmmm... Frederick Von Zarenstatt will do.

There are two great leaders that I remember have the name Frederick. Frederick Barbarossa the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and Frederick The Great, king of Prussia.

"I Frederick Von Zarenstatt do so accept your oath of fealty Henrietta Galligor of the Galligor Clan. Do you swear to serve me loyally?"

"I so swear." A expression of determination appears on her face when she utters her answer.

"Then I as your lord do so swear to protect and cherish my vassal to the best of my abilities, do you Henrietta accept my oath to you?"

A surprised expression appears on her face so I guess the Lords here take only fealty and give no oath such as the one I have just given. "I accept your oath to me my lord." A smile appears upon her face.

"My lord what do we do now?" She ask's.

"Henrietta we must gather sufficient supplies and flee!" I say with a neutral expression.