Chapter 168: Nixis Mother, Unlike The Others (1/2)

Every project turned out the same, and while at Mex's Keep in the hills of the state of Deslanitia, Kieta had fallen deeper into her sadness. Even though Mex didn't care if she created anything, Kieta cared and knew Mex was constantly criticized for keeping her around.

Mex had noticed this but was not sure what to do about it. At the time, not even his wife or anyone had respected him, so he had no one to turn to for help.

Then the ruling Rank C Demon Queen, Deslantia, forced Dao out of his Castle and Gardania.

After discovering Doa's demon farms, the state's ruler was told by the Scourge himself to remove him. The farms would restrict the number of higher-ranked Demons the ruling King could produce to fill his own ranks.

The Demon King, Scourge, was constantly under siege from other high Ranking Demon Kings, but this was normal. The battle rage the demons fed off was literally how they survived and trained the best fighters.

Anyone that died wasn't worthy in the Scourge's eyes, and he would recycle Demons until he had the perfect army. Everything was in preparation for the day that a real hero would come, and it would happen; Scourge knew this.

The last words had been the same, but the ruler of this Demonscaper Army had almost lost to the first real hero he had met. Mark had almost beaten him, but the Scourge had defeated him, yet Zero had forced him to spare the man and then had taken him.

Needless to say, a minor Demon Lord like Doa of the lowest rank plugging up the reentry for new Demons. On top of them not being under the ruling King's control, the lower-ranked Demon rebirths very rarely ever produced even a single rank higher.

This was not good for business, so to speak, and Queen Deslantia was told to kill him and all of the followers. While the Queen would have no problem killing Doa and his overconfident son Neft, but Mex was one of her many grandsons.

Deslantia had forced them all onto boats in the middle of the night after thoroughly obliterating each of the three Lord's settlements. After saying goodbye to her Daughter Nixi and the rest of her family, Deslantia sent them away and told them to never come back.

They had made many stops during the trip across the sea, and Mex had picked up passengers along the way. Kieta had remained held up in her room at the start of the journey, but Mex made her go out with him on his stops.

While on the boat, Kieta had not been able to work on any of her projects for fear of them getting wet or ruined. At first, she had not been happy about going to talk with random people, and Mex almost had to tie her up the first time they had left the ships.