How to become a demon lord (Revised) – Rising Up Arc (5)

The next day:

I am waiting for when Sia can tell me all about being a demon lord and what we must do to achieve that goal.

After we woke up Hana and I checked to see if Fumiko had woken up. We couldn't find her in the hallway or downstairs, so we went to her room door to look for her.

"Fumiko, are you awake?"- Hana knocked on her door.

"Yeah, wait a bit, I will get changed"- Her voice can be heard from the other room. She sounds sleepy like she couldn't sleep at night.

"We will wait for you downstairs!"- Hana and I descended the stairs and looked at the inn that we are staying at, we didn't get a good look yesterday so I hope I can get a good look at it today instead.

The interior is decorated with all sorts of flowers, most of which I don't recognize aside from a few species that I saw in my original world, I don't even remember what they are called. The scent in the room is pleasant but not overwhelming.

There are 3 receptionists in total working at 1 time and a few butlers and maids taking care of the rooms that people sleep in.

"Sorry to keep you 2 waiting."- Fumiko is standing right behind us, she is wearing a long blue dress.

"No problem, you look so cute in that outfit Fumiko!"- Hana looked at Fumiko and hugged her then carried her in her arms.

"Well, I don't mind"- We walked outside to see a carriage waiting for us alongside the Lord of the Ikrel domain.

"Hope you 2 got a good sleep. It's going to be a long journey back"- Fumiko embarked in the carriage with Hana. Seems like her mind still hasn't fully matured yet, but soon, the effects of the mana-reducing skill should be visible.

"Hana, keep him occupied while I talk with Sia, you will hear what she has to say as well"- I told her over the telepathic link, she gave me a nod, Lord Ikrel looked at us, a little bit suspicious of us if I can assume.

"Of course"- I said out loud and got into the carriage.

"Oh, I see, you are a little bit slow, aren't you?"- He scratched his head in confusion.

"Yeah, sorry. The ladies were so fast and got ahead of me. I wanted to help them get up there, but seems like they can handle themselves"- I let out a small chuckle while speaking with Lord Ikrel

"A gentleman at heart, I like that. What was your name again?"- Lord Ikrel asked us, he asked us this before

"These 2 are the children of Mister and Miss Tomura"- Fumiko spoke before any of us could get the chance.

"I see. I didn't think Mr Iwara Tomura had such good children. I am not surprised. I suppose your mother did a lot of magical experiments on you 2, their mana is quite strange"

After getting into the carriage, Hana began talking to Lord Ikrel, to cover for me

"Sia, now"

!The process to become a demon lord here is a little complicated. You need to meet the next requirements: 1. Fully evolved, you need to gain all the possible exp and be 1 evolution away from demon lord!

"Sorry to interrupt Sia, but this seems hard enough as it is right now"- How am I going to get that much exp? I need a few hundreds of levels.

!There is a process known as forced/multi or super evolution where you can evolve multiple times at once. I will teach you how to access it only if the situation is dire enough!

"Got it, next point please"

!The 2 one is to have gathered 10000 souls from humans or other humanoid living beings. The 3rd is to have several named subordinates, but it's more of an optional requirement. The 4th requirement is to have a safe place where you can evolve, you will be put into another long evolutionary sleep that will last about 2-4 hours and you won't be able to feel, hear, or attack during that time. And the 5th requirement is to have something called a Demon Lord Sproutling, this sprouting will offer you the chance to become a demon lord, but, it's hard to find all. That is it for the demon lord evolution!

"Getting the sprouting seems like the hard part"

!It indeed is, you will need 2 of them and 20000 souls to complete the evolution, plus you will need to evolve to your maximum evolutionary level before that.!

"Indeed. Sia, but now answer me, where do I get the sprouting?"- Why is she dodging the question?

!You get them from defeating a monster that can cause a calamity on this planet. Monsters such as The Fenrir or Mentei-Mentei!.

"What are those? I know about Fenrirs, but what about Mentei-Mentei"

!That is a monster that represents a large feline species, it spawns every 500 years or so. It is very rare but these 2 monsters have a 100% chance to drop a demon lord sprouting!

"Hikaru, this seems complicated, I don't know if I can defeat one of those monsters on my own"- Hana interrupted my conversation with Sia.

"I know you can do it, you are strong as well Hana, you have more skill than me with a sword, I may have more skills than you but you have more experience than I do" - I tried to reassure her, don't know what to do about this, she has fewer skills than me but her skills need to useful to do something at least.

"Sia, what can her skills do?"

!Her Primordial skill Lord of Beauty Aphrodite can make people fall in love with her in an instant, her other Primordial skill Lord of Compassion Afriel can calm people and have a mind manipulation effect on both monsters and humans.!

"I didn't know that my skills could do that, I mean, I did for a bit, but I wasn't so sure if they were that effective"- I can hear Hana's tone getting more lively when she heard her skills explained by Sia.

"Well, those are useful. I have an idea of how you will use those skills"

"How? I mean I do have an idea, we might get some discounted prices at shops."

"No, you are going to mind-control some monsters and then kill them. We need to increase our level individually at some point."

"But one thing Hikaru, how are we going to get souls?"- Hana asked, her tone of voice stern. I dread the answer

!You can get souls by killing humans and humanoid creatures, all of them possess a soul. You will need to sacrifice a lot of lives for you 2 to become demon lords. I suggest you kill bandits or other undesirable people to reduce the emotional trauma suffered by the 2 of you!- Sia stopped

"That's why the king said that he will offer up 200000 of his troops to goddess Ifrit so that we can become demon lords once we defeat them and kill Ifrit. That old man!"- I am getting angry, justifiably, but I don't think that we have any other way to deal with it.

It's already been a day, 1 more day until we reach Welcia again. I will skip over our trip back.

We reached Welcia, everything is tense, I don't know how to explain it but we are putting our plan into action, we are going to kill both lords and make it look like a murder-suicide. What are we going to do now? I came to care for Fumiko, I don't know what her reaction will be to seeing her father dead. What should I do? Hikaru, you are such an idiot.