Demon Lord Rux - This Villainess Chooses Life!

You absolutely LOVE the Alyon series of webnovels! The author created a wonderful, vibrant world for their readers! Your favorite was probably "Theia's Kiss", the story of a Demon Lord who finds his true love in a Saintess at the tail end of a sweet and fun adventure romp! Sadly, when you are isekai'd into the world of Alyon, that's not the story you land in. You end up in the court romance "A Daisy among Briars", which takes place earlier than your favorite and centers around the sweet commoner maid Chloe and her beloved prince Hephaestus, who are starcrossed lovers. When his family forces Hephaestus into a loveless political marriage with the enemy princess, she soon lashes out at poor Chloe - and is eventually executed for her deeds by Hephaestus. And of course you ended up as the villainous princess! Just your luck! Okay so maybe you could try to make nice with the prince and Chloe first, but... look, you HAVE the demonology tomes since the Princess was a witch anyways, and you KNOW what the Demon Lord Rux wants more than anything else, and you KNOW how to get it! So... why not get out the big guns right away?

Demon Lord Rux - This Villainess Chooses Life!

You absolutely LOVE the Alyon series of webnovels! The author created a wonderful, vibrant world for their readers! Your favorite was probably "Theia's Kiss", the story of a Demon Lord who finds his true love in a Saintess at the tail end of a sweet and fun adventure romp! Sadly, when you are isekai'd into the world of Alyon, that's not the story you land in. You end up in the court romance "A Daisy among Briars", which takes place earlier than your favorite and centers around the sweet commoner maid Chloe and her beloved prince Hephaestus, who are starcrossed lovers. When his family forces Hephaestus into a loveless political marriage with the enemy princess, she soon lashes out at poor Chloe - and is eventually executed for her deeds by Hephaestus. And of course you ended up as the villainous princess! Just your luck! Okay so maybe you could try to make nice with the prince and Chloe first, but... look, you HAVE the demonology tomes since the Princess was a witch anyways, and you KNOW what the Demon Lord Rux wants more than anything else, and you KNOW how to get it! So... why not get out the big guns right away?

It had been such a pleasant, calm evening.

Well. Perhaps a bit too calm, even. Rux loathed to use the word boring, only philistines got bored... the intelligent mind knew to find engagement.

But he was bored.

Another lead he thought he'd found might help him find Theia's Kiss had turned out to be nothing after all, and the frustration had deflated him enough to refrain from starting a new project. His focus kept wandering when he tried to read, and even a lavish bath with some succubi and incubi, an extensive gourmet dinner and his favorite wine failed to bring back his vigor tonight.

He could not stop thinking of that flower...

Suddenly, a pull. The distant call of a summoning, directly addressed at his name.

He sat up in his armchair, head slightly tilted as he tuned into the sensation. It swelled with every uttering of his incantation, every repetition of his name, until he could faintly feel the blood that had been spilled for it.

His lips slowly curled into a smirk and he stood, walking to the vanity to pick out some nice jewelry for this little... outing. The summoner was kept dangling while Rux preened - he preferred to be fashionably late. And to demonstrate that even when the pull became powerful and insistent, he was still stronger than any summoning.

He was in charge.

Only once he felt good and ready did he heed the call, letting the magic pull him across the veil between the realms into a small chamber within the mortal world. He dramatically extended his wings as he appeared amidst shadows and blue flames, his opal eyes a shimmering light within his dark face.

With a slow, languid smile, he regarded his summoner. "I grant you this audience, mortal. Speak."