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[ A R18 for Catherine will come out this weekend, I wanted to get some other stuff done story-wise while it's fresh on my mind. ]

"So what are the preparations looking like?" I stand behind Shea as she takes deep breaths and looks to be readying herself. She hasn't shown any worry or even excitement, but I know how conflicted she feels.

"I am ready as I ever will be Nova. Let's get this done, this has been a long time coming, I will succeed and honor the promise with my father." We are going to teleport right into the throne room and she is going to challenge Obsidian, he is peak overlord and she is around mid-overlord.

But Shea has demonic energy and evil light while also having the Lucifer royal family bloodline abilities as well. Add on the Artifact and she has a big advantage and that's not counting the buffs from the Lamp spirits we are bringing with us. We are bringing a, sure enough, force to show some real power.

There is a total of five thousand Lamp spirits once they were built to max capacity, two hundred are in the gold tier or demon emperor. I am working on slowly upgrading them all but it's expensive and risky to the Lamps and may kill the Lamp spirit if it fails too many times. My Asmodeus probability and bullshit luck has been pulling good odds and making most a success. But the recourses are the bottleneck that is preventing making them all gold.

We lack the materials from the dead sea to make the giant crystal beasts who are in the overlord tier and we don't have any good pilots for the assemble puppets who can also make it to the overlord tier. But dropping into the throne room with two hundred demon emperors and two overlords will be enough to make the elder families hesitate. Especially when one of the overlords is me, the word is already spreading like wildfire to the far reaches of the demon world.

People are putting me in the top three with Catherine and Raizen, that's because they don't know about kingdom and beyond and hidden powerhouses like Zola. But it is still a useful feather in the cap as they say.

"Alright, well let's get this over with. I almost feel bad for Obsidian when I see you in those accessories I made you. You are going to wipe the floor with him, are you going to finish him off?" I hope she chooses to kill him, leaving annoying characters like him alive will only cause trouble.

"I told you about my secret brother that was raised to take the throne while I was a distraction, he was murdered by Obsidian. Even if the reason my father died was because of his weakness and depression, Obsidian directly killed my brother. I will end him and take the throne and put this whole chapter behind me and move on with my plans." She runs her fingers across the fallen angel sword as it floats next to her and gives a soft smile.

"Alright, I trust in your judgment." I power on the massive teleporting circle beneath us and the Lamp spirits and we are soon taken to the Fallen angel empire capital, right in the middle of the throne room.

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After we arrive I look toward Obsidian who is already sweating while looking at the fallen angel sword. The room has a total of five overlords, most are peak overlords as well, I can take the four of them while Shea kills Obsidian if it comes to it and the Lamp spirits will play support to both of us. There are formations that the natives of this world use to attack higher-level opponents, like the Lamps could use the formation to probably seal one of the overlords but I would rather have the buffs.

"Shea, what is the meaning of this!?" He straightens his back and looks away from the sword and to his niece. His eyes narrow when he notices she is wearing armor, a visual answer if there ever was one.

"It's time for me to put an end to your little game, you have been sitting on the throne that belongs to me for long enough, Regent." A few of the observing parties grimace when they hear her and begin to pull out weapons or summon their magic.

With a quick wave of my power I pull any metal weapons from their hands and put them in my inventory. Worthless dispels all their elementary magic, well elementary compared to what Zola can do. One overlord didn't catch the hint and launches an attack toward Shea, he is quickly slammed into the ground by the Lamp spirits group debuff, I teleport to his side and inject him with some venom to keep him paralyzed.

"I see... I don't guess your willing to discuss an alternative to whatever it is you are here to do?" He asks as he comes to realize he is truly screwed even without Shea using the sword flying next to herself. One of the elder families' overlord points out the sword having finally recognized it.

"Isn't that the empire's artifact, it's supposed to choose the most suitable wielder." The woman next to him nods and takes a step back after sending a pitying look toward Obsidian.

"It is, we best stay out of the way or else our family will be weakened by the coming conflict." All the others step back as well and Obsidian's teeth crack as he grits them hard and his face turns red in rage.

"Regent Obsidian, I offer you a quick execution for all you have done in ensuring the survival of the fallen angel empire. A lesser man might have caused it to completely collapse, but your stalling measures have crippled the economic growth of the empire. That and you are refusing to vacate the throne you usurped under the guise of doing your duty. I will hear out your request but do know I have no obligation to act on it." He stands up and his spirit power rushes in all directions as he tries to pressure everyone. My territory pushes it all back and slams him back into the throne, he drops onto his butt and stares blankly at Shea.

"I offer to marry you and help deal with future threats to the empire, our children will be the strongest since lord midnight sun himself! They would also be able to wield the artifact and will be the perfect ruler, I can help set up for their future." Shea doesn't react and hears him out to completion even though she leaks a little wrath sin hearing his words.

"So you want to marry me when you have no other choice to stay on the throne, or is it that you fear death?" She grabs the handle of the artifact causing it to glow in response, her accessories I gave her also activate in a few glowing objects, and her power skyrockets.

"I have given my all to protect the empire from Catherine and Raizen! You wouldn't understand the plans I have in place to turn our situation around, your just a stupid girl from the decrepit dark moon who got lucky. You got lucky to get picked up by a powerful backer who even managed to seduce the empress of dark shadow! You are selling out our family's empire to the man you spread your whore legs to!" He looks to the elder families who are present. "We were just talking about the threat that Nova represents now that he is married to Catherine and look how fast she showed up with him at her heels! He is the one taking the empire, your family's past efforts to keep the empire in our control is about to be thrown away! Help me defeat them and reclaim the artifact and you won't have to bow to the whore!"

If he wasn't squirming on the throne from my hold on him he might be a bit more convincing. Shea looks over her shoulder at me and gives a slight nod and I catch her meaning and let him go.

"You are pathetic, your real self is showing." She walks toward the throne with the fallen angel sword at her side and ready to strike. "I haven't spread my legs for anyone and even if I was the biggest whore in the demon world I wouldn't marry you. You are a deceitful and traitorous snake that needs to be put down while there is still time to recover from your failures. Stand up and fight with some dignity and don't make me put you down like a dog." Secretly recording this was the best idea of my life, I glance back at the lamp spirit with the recording stone and she gives me a thumbs up.

"You can't do this, I won't give in just because the artifact picked you! I have years more experience on you and don't think I will lose to you!" Obsidian lunges forward while pulling out a blade and aims for her heart.

Shea's territory of evil light expands and instantly Obsidian's flesh begins to steam and dries up like a raisin. He roars and pushes through the pain but his blade is batted to the side with a casual swing from Shea.

Shea ducks under a fist and punches his chest with her own, A few blows are exchanged with Shea not taking any hit. I peek at the elder families and see their astonishment and debate if I went overboard with the buffs and accessories.

A dry croak pulls my attention back to the fight as Obsidian is impaled by a tiny spear of light in the leg. He grabs it and his hand starts smoking, when we practiced with this trait it never showed these results. Given I am not made of the same stuff as demons, they are fatally weak to light similar to devils. But they also have zero natural light element exposure in the demon world, most demons have never seen the light element let alone build an immunity to it.

Obsidian has most likely been exposed to it a few times by humans who have come to visit, but it doesn't seem like he actively tried to build up a tolerance to it.

Shea steps forward and swipes the sword at his neck, he leans back narrowly avoiding being beheaded. He licks his dry lips and pulls out a potion from his ring and downs it, his skin swells up and looks to be recovering from the damage.

"I will admit that you are powerful, but I will still be victorious." His monologue alerts me to the other potion he pulled from his ring, I can't imagine what it could be but it is some kind of trump card.

Shea picks up on the cue as well, lots of movie villains have shown her the cliché way people talk in this world. She shoots the arm holding the vial and it falls off from the light spear of immense size and power flying through it without slowing down.

"AHHH!" He grabs the cauterized stump and looks back at Shea in shock.

"You shouldn't have said anything if you didn't want me to pick up on it." She teleports Infront of him and plunges the blade into his chest. Obsidian grabs the hilt and tries to pull it out but it glows and stays in place, his soul is being torn apart and even used to heal any damage to Shea. Not that she took any damage, she just stands there and watches him flail around trying to remove the sword while his soul is destroyed.

His body drops to the floor and she turns to the throne before approaching it and sitting down on it. I walk toward her and pull out the crystal crown I made her and set it on her head.

The recording Lamp spirit puts away my private collection recording stone and pulls out the one for broadcasting and walks forward to begin the Livestream to the whole fallen angel empire.

The new empress needs to address her people.