Prologue

"Marriage..."

It is the ultimate demonstration of love between a man and a woman, after all it is the union and commitment made by people who wish to spend eternity together or at least as long as their lives last, a ceremony that completes the cycle of love between such people, until death do them part.

In this world this is not something that one can take lightly, since once the contract (commitment) is made, their souls will be bound for eternity and there are even occasions when the souls cling so much to each other that they are taken together with her to the other side in case of a premature death, in other words, if one dies, the spouse dies too.

Although this happens on rare occasions, it still causes one to reconsider and be careful about marrying anyone you have known for a short time or that through a simple carelessness in a bar, you end up with someone you don't really love.

And that brings me to my current situation...

The woman in front of me is Princess Cecilia Corenarva III, the third daughter of the late King Tadeus Corenarva.

As I watched her, I noticed that she is breathing very heavily and with a lustful expression on her face, as she tried to hide her flushed cheeks with both hands, something very uncharacteristic of someone belonging to royalty.

Maybe I'm just imagining it, right? I hope with all my heart I'm imagining it.

Cecilia has long blond hair with scarlet red tips that reach a little lower than the center of her back.

Her facial features were perfect, her face was slightly rounded but firm, she had an elegant button nose and blue and green heterochromatic eyes.

Cecilia measured approximately 170 centimeters without the high-heeled glass shoes she was wearing, so she was not too short or too tall, compared to the rest of the women of the continent.

Her wedding dress was white with a slight shade of blue, it was an extremely expensive garment, with a very fine fabric that rested elegantly on the long red carpet in front of the altar, and just by looking at it you could see that you couldn't afford it even in three lifetimes, being a royal guard and much less being a simple construction worker.

Besides, if you looked closely, he had some diamonds embedded in the coarse of the wedding dress, which made me think that royalty... does know how to squander money.

While some of its citizens are starving, they invest such a large amount of money in something like a wedding dress, this is simply disappointing.

And finally she wore beautiful white gloves a little longer than her elbow, which completed her perfect outfit.

I wonder how much I would get if I sold it for parts or even the whole thing, more to the point, because damn it I'm in this situation, damn you Mairen, for your fucking lazy mouth I ended up in this horrible event...

I mean, what the hell is going on with all of this, because of some circumstances in my history, I was given the right and moral obligation to kill the king of this kingdom.

Everything went well at first, but while one of my colleagues was celebrating prematurely in a bar, he told one of his drunk friends everything I did, which of course reached the ears of the kingdom's military corps.

After some time they finally managed to capture me with dozens of magical barriers created by the most powerful sorcerers of the kingdom and I was later sentenced to death.

Of course I could have escaped at any time, even with the anti-magic handcuffs on my wrists and ankles, but perhaps that was a good opportunity to fake my death and have the church stop chasing me.

That's what I thought, that should have happened, but...

Princess Cecilia appeared and destroyed my plans.

For some reason, she fell in love with me, some months ago, I think it was because I rescued her during a battle against the church, where for some reason she ended up in the crossfire.

When I saw her for the first time, I knew she was a powerful magician, because her heterochromatic eyes gave her away, in other words, she didn't need even a little bit of my help.

Her eyes indicated to me that she could use elemental and light magic, plus it is very rare to see someone who has a great affinity with two elements.

But from that moment on she began to declare her love for me and also to harass me.

On the outside she looked like an angel fallen from heaven, but inside she was an absolute psychopath.

On one occasion she even tried to murder Mirina, my other traveling companion because she thought she was my lover.

She is a complete lunatic.

As I was thinking about it, I looked around and saw Mairen sitting in the second row of seats in the church, next to my other companions.

The idiot is crying and whispering words of congratulations and jealousy towards me, it is very likely that I will leave him on the brink of death when he comes out of this situation, after all he must take responsibility for his actions.

Mairen is a rather handsome man, although it pains me to say so, he has short blond hair, just like the rest of my companions he was wearing a gala suit for the occasion, although normally he always wore armor and light clothes underneath it.

He is a swordsman from the kingdom of the dwarves, one of the best on the continent actually, although he is only half dwarf and half human, so he doesn't look like one, in fact the only thing he inherited from the dwarf race was his great skills in blacksmithing.

But despite being a quite useful comrade, he is just a womanizer, who is ashamed to talk to a woman and a drunkard who for some reason is useful to get information, making friends in bars.

I don't know whether to call him a misunderstood genius, or a lucky idiot.

Next to him was sitting Mirina who for some reason was looking at me with hate, towards the altar, which made me look away.

Mirina is an elemental magic wizard, but unlike many wizards and magicians who only focus on mastering one or two elements, the lady here can master the 5 elements, fire, water, earth, air and lightning, and can even combine and mold them as she prefers.

Her very existence represents a danger to all countries and cities due to her uncontrollable power, so she is sought in several cities with a million-dollar reward for her dead body.

Her appearance is that of a teenager with a beautiful rounded face and green eyes that are so bright that it gives the impression of falling into a huge and leafy forest when you look at them.

Her hair is black and long up to her shoulders with two white and purple locks covering her right eye.

She is approximately 160 centimeters long, so she is a little short, yet she has two great attributes that are perfect with her size, finally as for her personality, she is usually impatient and happy, but when something angers her, one must prepare to receive a divine punishment.

Even though I don't know why she is so angry now, I think she should know why everything ended up this way

Next to her, with a great difference in height of approximately 196 centimeters, was Surine, an Amazon and one of my dear companions.

For some reason I did not include Mairen as a partner, maybe I am unconsciously dismissing him because of his ability to attract so much trouble, but for now I will just ignore him.

Surine is an expert in reinforcement magic, she is the most powerful fighter I have ever seen, she does not use other magic because she is simply not capable of using it, as her body does not possess any magical energy, that is why since she was a child she focused on reinforcement.

The magic of reinforcement is not really magic as such, since it is obtained through the ki, influenced by the energy of the soul and nature that become pure physical force and corporal resistance.

To say that after the intense training he had, he is now capable of blowing up a mountain with one punch, is not an exaggeration.

Her short black hair was a little fuzzy as usual, her skin is brown and she looks pretty well taken care of, she looks pretty uncomfortable in those fancy clothes, because daily she only occupied light clothes that would help her move freely during a combat.

Her personality is that of a tomboy, she almost never opened up to others, unless it was during a battle, to put it another way, she was obsessed with fighting.

For some reason when I observe her, I immediately look away as she swells her cheeks, as if she were a spoiled child who is not given what she wants.

And then I looked up to my last companion, Kimino, who was sitting in the front row in front of the altar, this was evident as there is no one in this world more important than "The Supreme Witch of the North, Kimino".

In this world there are 4 types of beings that can use magic:

Wizards, who are born with a great deal of magical power and can use it with their own spiritual energy, which will naturally recover over time, their affinity with magic is determined by the color of their eyes, although this does not mean that they cannot use other magic, it only means that they will be able to master one or two specific types more easily and strongly.

Secondly there are the sorcerers, they can only use magic by external means, either through spells or incantations and even curses through magical energy, however in order to obtain this type of energy, it is necessary to make a contract with some medium or high level spirit, meaning that not everyone can be a sorcerer, unless you have an affinity with the spirits.

Following the hierarchical order of power the demons like me are the ones that follow, in this case the demons can use only one type of magic that is inherited, of course even without magic we are much stronger than humans, so with magic we can subdue even large armies, however, Our knowledge in the control of magic is very limited, so almost nobody uses it frequently so as not to cause harm to others by getting out of control or by bad manipulation, that is the reason why we demons mainly train our bodies and create weapons and armor.

And the last ones are the witches and wizards, they can dominate all the magic without restrictions beyond their knowledge and power, they also have affinity to the spirits so their horizons are unlimited, even so, there are magic that even they can't use since they depend on the natural or innate ability on the magic control, that not all of them possess, even the supreme witch of the north, Kimino, is only able to dominate four of the five existing magic.

Unlike the rest of my companions, Kimino had a mischievous smile on his face, as if he had expected this kind of outcome, and then he let out a mischievous laugh.

Kimino wore his usual clothes which consisted of a short black skirt with dark green vertical lines and lighter green ruffles, on top he wore a kind of white blouse with exotic embroideries around the buttons and on top of it a short black jacket made of what seemed to be leather, according to Kimino it was made of dragon scales, which was incredible since dragons are extremely rare and according to legends, no one who has seen a black dragon has survived.

He also wore black pantyhose that highlighted his long, shapely legs, black gloves without fingers, also made of dragon scales, and to complete his outfit, quite elegant low heels.

As for her appearance, she didn't look much older than 25, her face was beautiful and her features were perfect, many said she was the goddess of beauty.

On top of her long and healthy black hair, there was a big black witches' hat, the typical cliché hat.

And next to it, there was a huge cane with the upper end curled up and in the central circle formed by the curl, there was a black magic jewel and a white dot in the center.

When I asked her what that jewel was, she simply said that fate would give me the answer I was looking for when the time was right.

She has a very enigmatic and joyful personality, and at the same time she is also very serious and prudent, I do not believe that there is anyone who can defeat her, her strength and power is beyond imagination, even I, who am the most powerful demon today, am completely sublimated before her enormous power.

I would not like to face her in a fight to the death, I would definitely die on the spot without even a chance to escape.

That aside, she was sitting with one leg over the other, with her back completely straight, looking similar to a goddess sitting on her throne.

She usually wore a black robe that reached down to her heels, but since I don't see her, I guess she left it at the inn where she was staying.

Since her arms were on her lap, her staff was completely exposed to be stolen, although that would not matter since the staff is only a catalyst for her power, probably without her staff her power would be uncontrollable.

I laughed to myself at the thought of that possibility.

Besides, with his power, I would only have to raise his arm to bring him back.

But going back to the main issue, seriously, this whole situation is too strange and fortuitous, after all, I murdered the father of the person in front of me, because hell she would marry me after that incident, she should seek revenge or enjoy from the first row my execution, and by marrying her, I would become the king, because Cecilia is the one with the greatest political and military authority in the kingdom.

The first in the line of succession to the throne was Selina Corenarva, but as I understand it, she possesses only military power, because she is the most powerful knight of the Corenarva kingdom, with time she ascended rapidly until she became the general of the army, and this logically kept her too busy to govern the whole kingdom.

The second princess Alexa Corenarva, is more of a liberal style, so despite being qualified for the administrative position, she is not really interested and only wants to travel and see the places she wants.

Which leaves us only with the only logical option, huh?

«Seriously, what did I do to deserve this?»

I asked myself as I looked at the beautifully decorated stained glass window on the church ceiling and remembered my experiences so far.

Imagining that it has only been a year since I started my journey, actually with all the events that have occurred, makes me feel as if it has been decades.