Rise of the Demon King: Luke Hellwalker's Revenge

Chapter 6: Returning Back to Life

After hearing her cuss him out for the last several minutes with words even the demon king didn't know, he was beginning to regret making her his servant. No, she wasn't his servant. The system had designated her as his slave, allowing him full control of all her stats.

[Slave Information]

[Judith]

[Species: Angel]

[Hair: Blonde]

[Eye: Blue]

[Strength: 82]

[Intelligence: 78]

[Stamina: 80]

[Endurance: 99]

[Dexterity: 88]

[Mana: 100]

[As her owner, you can adjust any of her stats at any given time.]

"This wasn't exactly what I had in mind when the system said subjugate," he said as he paused looking at her impressive stats.

Her lowest stat was in the higher range of Legendary. In the party, the highest stat belonged to Grace with a Mana stat of 72. Everyone else had only managed to raise their stats into the epic range before they faced the demon king. The more he looked at it, the more outrageous it was for him to survive thus far.

[You're a demon king now. What did you expect?]

He grimaced. "Making her a slave feels dirty."

[Didn't you want revenge against her?]

"I might have lived her for four years, but where I come from, slavery is wrong." he said. "Besides, I find it disturbing that I can change things like species and eye color. That's something I don't want to have anything to do with."

[It is a disturbing feature. That's why I almost never used it. The only use I could think of the feature is to make slaves more appealing in appearance.]

That was a can of worms he wasn't willing to come within a continent over. The system was really out to make him into the demon king that the angels made them out to be. At least Judith didn't seem to have heard what they were talking about, or she would be even more annoying than she currently was.

"This system interface looks like the angel's so it should work exactly the same. Where are the other features?" he asked.

[You're currently dead. Of course, you can't access all the features. Once you return back to life, you'll have full access to the system.]

"You never did mention how you'll bring me back to life. Does it involve a bunch of human sacrifices?" he asked.

[Would it matter if it did?]

He didn't answer right away. "No, I supposed it doesn't."

[Fortunately for you, it doesn't involve other people. It's a special ability given to every demon king.]

This seemed to draw the angel's attention. "You can't mean—"

She suddenly cut herself off and stared at him with wide eyes. What had made her so panicked? She seemed to know what the demon king was talking about. In fact, he wondered how she even knew what the demon king was saying. He had assumed that since the two systems were different that she couldn't listen in on their conversation.

[Since she's your slave, she is essentially your property, so she is able to perceive me. If she ever lost her status as a slave, she would lose the ability to follow our conversation.]

"Why is your system so talkative?" she demanded. "The system doesn't have a will or personality of its own.

"I don't see why I have to explain anything to you," he said before turning his attention back to the demon king. "So, what is this special ability?"

"Don't you dare tell him anything," she ordered.

[You can turn back time exactly once.]

For a moment, everything seemed to stand still. He was vaguely aware of Judith screaming at the demon king in the background, but his mind was stuck on the bomb the demon king had dropped on him.

Turn back time. It was such an unbelievable tale. If the demon kings could turn back time, why didn't they use it to ensure they weren't defeated? Even if it was only once, they should have been able to use it to their advantage.

"If you can turn back time, why didn't you use it?" he asked when he finally recovered, earning Judith's confusion.

[I already did. A long time ago.]

"Wait. You're the demon king!" she screamed as she pointed at the system message.

They ignored her as Luke's mind swam with possibilities. If he could turn back time, was it possible for him to go back to before he was summoned? No, it wouldn't do him any good. Even if it did work which he doubted, he didn't know how to stop himself from being summoned. He couldn't recall any incident that caused him to end up in this new world.

If he couldn't use it to go home, then he needed to find the right time to go back to. The question was actually how far back he was allowed to go. He would have preferred to go back to the day he was summoned so he could have time to get revenge.

The problem was the demon king would still be alive. Since there were only ever thirteen demon kings, he doubted the system would allow him to go back that far. If that was the case, then the earliest he could go back to was the day he killed the demon king which was a year ago.

A year wasn't enough time for him to become strong enough to survive against the world. Everyone would be coming after him as soon as the demon king was dead. The news of the demon king's death had somehow reached everyone's ears before he returned. He could only assume the angel's had been watching and announced this information to the world to kill him off.

"Demon king, how did you manage to rise into power? From what I know, all the other demon kings slowly grew into their power, but if the angels know when a demon king dies, then I can't see how that's possible," he said.

[I didn't talk with any of the other demon kings about their rise, but I'll let you know it happened for me. I went back to right before I killed the previous demon king.]