Chapter 674: The Daily Life of A Demon Empress – Velvet, Vinea, Erika

Since the Arbiters appeared, the entire empire became desperate to grow stronger. When Asmodeus fought desperately, using his body to protect them all. The women supporting him made a secret promise.

“Vinea, your strikes are too weak!”

Velvet’s low voice reverberated through the icy white mountains. Her sharp purple glare sends chills through the thousand demon knights below. She hovered with four beautiful grey wings, watching Vinea duelling against one hundred demon knights who reached the level just below Demigod.

‘She can do better, we must all do better.’

Since the day she met Asmodeus, Velvet’s emotions have always been intense, from when he was just a handsome trainee following her commands to the man who rocked her world and rammed himself into her heart.

“Hah!”

Meanwhile, Vinea’s blade sliced in a beautiful arc for two intersecting moons, the aura blasting away three of the demon knights while cutting the arms of another four. Inside her abdomen, the divine shard gifted by her husband hummed with energy as she condensed and limited her strength to the same level as the demon knights.

The wives of the demon god weren’t strong enough; this was their consensus.

So for the battle-focused wives, they would gather like this when not working, and use it to train the demon knights, orcs and knights of Grigor.

While fighting, they limited their mana, aura and strength to half, because Alice, who observed their training, discovered that the more they limited themselves, the more condensed and refined their aura and mana became after a day of training.

‘Of course it’s only a tiny increase… like 0.1% growth.’

But when they did it several times a day, the growth soon became clearer, as Velvet now stepped into Rank 1 of godhood, becoming a Demigod. Erika also reached this stage soon after the wedding, and her desire to become more important to Asmodeus.

The issue for Erika and Vinea wasn’t power, but their skills and magic.

Neither of them developed their magic powers or skills after becoming demons due to how strong they were; most enemies would die in seconds.

“Phew…”

Blades clashed like black meteors, aiming to strike down Erika and Vinea, the two women fighting more and more. For every Demon knight that fell, two took her place.

Erika’s dual swordsmanship excelled in speed and rapid momentum building.

Vinea’s spearmanship excelled in control, zone defence.

“Come on!”

The former princess, who used to defend Grigor with her knights completely transformed as she relentlessly pushed the demon knights to their limits.

An hour later.

“You look unsatisfied, Vinea.”

“Well, this training is mainly for the knights.”

Velvet understood what she meant because the demon knights couldn’t push the wives enough to reach their limits. To do that, the wives needed to fight each other or Asmodeus himself.

“Shall we fight then?”

Erika, Velvet and Vinea all sat in their training outfits, enjoying the afternoon sunlight as it hit the frozen mountain. Below them, the Demon knights in their full winter plate armour all lay in silence, panting.

“You’re really that determined, Erika?”

“Of course, Commander.”

When acting with the knights, Velvet was the commander, Vinea the first captain and Erika the vice-captain.

“If we do that, Vice captain… we’d need to push ourselves to the limit.”

“Do you mean using our awakenings, Commander?”

The special ability that each wife gained after Asmodeus became a demon emperor, to gather divine force to enter an empowered form. At first, when borrowing Serena’s power, each wife could only enter the form to perform a special attack.

However, since they now owned a divine shard, their empress form changed completely.

Velvet was different, though, like Serena and Lumina, she’d reached the next stage.

“Well if you both want to fight me, I can show you my newly developed power.” Velvet chuckled, her tanned skin and beautiful smile making the two women a little jealous.

“Commander, just because you’ve developed a Divine Core… I won’t lose to you!”

Vinea’s sense of competition with her distant relative, something akin to a second Aunt, grew the moment that Velvet was the first non-divine wife to reach the next stage. Because of the battle that almost caused Asmodeus to die. The Arbiters… Velvet became desperate.

And through that desperation, she managed to surpass her limit and create a divine core.

“Do you both want to eat first, or fight me?”

Snap!

With the click of her fingers, her body wrapped in black armour that glowed purple at the joints, where a softer, more flexible leather, something from the abyss, covered the weak spots of her plated body.

He gave this special armour to all his wives as a wedding gift.

“Well, our husband is amazing, he went to the effort to customise our armour completely.” Velvet hummed as she snapped both arms out like violent cannon shots, which cracked the air with faint shockwaves.

He customised each set of armour for its combat style. Velvet liked to fight close up, so it prioritised ranged and magic defence and flexibility.

Vinea liked to charge in and perform big movements, so it was extremely light, flexible and repaired faster. The beautiful silver plates and shimmering earth elemental mana granted a magical shield every thirty seconds.

“Well… you both look cool, but don’t you think mine is pretty?”

Erika’s armour was nothing like Vinea’s or Velvet’s; the amount of metal plating was minimal, protecting her vitals, while the rest was black leather, almost in a tribal fashion, with a fur skirt and other fixtures.

She fought with two blades and needed extreme speed and flexibility.

“It seems darling likes to look at the captains huge ass… and abs.” Vinea mumbled, while stepping off the ground and leaping into the air, her wings unfurling and driving her into the sky with a low crack.

“Well it’s true, he seems to have designed these armours not just for our skills but so he can enjoy the sight of our bodies…” Velvet’s cleavage shook with each movement. Yet thanks to the magical barrier, her exposed flesh on her chest, inner thighs and back wouldn’t be in danger.

“So, are you both going to come at me?”

Velvet closed her eyes, with a deep breath, she sucked the icy air into her lungs and focused the aura into her abdomen, as if stirring the cold winds around her womb, the divine core smaller than Asmodeus, but her black-violet glow was unique.

What made her armour special was the black, spiked gauntlets with clawed fingertips.

“Are we just fighting normally, or using everything?” Erika spun her elven blades in circles around her fingers, displaying her skills.

At first, her speciality lay in a single deadly attack, focusing on her shadow magic. But after training, Erika found her wind magic started to grow and evolve thanks to partnering with Ciela often, and now… she focused on attacking with slowly building momentum, like a squall building into a full-blown typhoon.

“You look confident”

Vinea gripped her spear. Although she liked swords, after fighting with Asmodeus, she learned spears suited her best.

“My lovely two sister-wives. I think you’ll need to go all out to fight me.” Velvet’s muscles tightened as she allowed her divine aura to seep into them like Asmodeus did against the two Arbiters she begged him to teach her.

And this was the method he told her through telepathy.

BOOM!

Her body swelled slightly, tight, defined and full of power.

A violent purple aura flared around her like a flame, which burned and crackled in the air.

“So, you’ve really become a Demigod like Sister Serena taught us?” Vinea closed her eyes and started pushing her demonic aura faster, protecting her organs and bones. The sheer force of Velvet caused a sense of dread to scream in the back of her mind.

“Can we do it, Vinea?”

Erika took a stance while fluttering her wings, but to their surprise, Velvet didn’t respond or attack, but snapped her fingertips.

Snap!

“Domain of the Dragon Empress.”

Before they could react, all three women dropped to the ground, slamming into the snow, before a huge sphere wrapped around them in the same black and purple colour as the blazing aura around Velvet.

“I’ll tell you now, inside this domain… all attacks I make create a deadly flame.” Velvet punched the air, and with a low growl as if a dragon roared. A burst of violet flames exploded in a small sphere around her fist.

“Anything else?” Vinea took her stance while glaring at Velvet.

“Yeah, my wings…”

Woosh!

“make me really fast.” Velvet’s figure vanished as she rushed forward and appeared beside Vinea’s face in less than half a second. Vinea’s pupils shrank as she turned in slow motion, the fist of Velvet almost connecting with her cheek as she vaulted away using the snowy ground.

BANG!

Despite avoiding the blow, her armour sizzled and smoke hissed from the magic barrier formed in the air. “Wha-!?” But she couldn’t even speak as Velvet’s leg cut through the air in a roundhouse kick at her face.

“Erika!” Vinea shouted as her heart thundered.

Was this the difference between a divine core and a divine shard?