"Yhness, they are the st surviving humans of this vilge."
Joshua was a little dazed as he only heard someone calling him by his side. It was a rumbling voice ced with .
"Yhness?"
Joshua's mind cleared somewhat as a menag moht o him. The voice of had e from the monster's mouth.
It was the Sin Demoh.
The monster's name rushed into Joshua's memory, and oddly enough, he did not find himself fearful of the monster's terrifying visage.
"Surviving humans…"
Joshua looked in the dire that the monster ointing. It was a sea of fire with bodies piled up on the ground. The stench of blood and char permeated the air.
The vilge had just witnessed a sughter, while the surviving vilgers were all tied up by some kind of bramble pnt and gathered around. Their clothes were not of the usual modern style Joshua was familiar with. Rather, they looked like something right out of the European middle ages.
"Yhness! As you have ordered, we have sin all of the bandits who had raided this vilge. Should we sughter the vilgers as well?"
Zenarth the Sin Demon spoke again. He was almost two meters tall and looked like a chimeric beast that was a fusion of a lion and a lizard. Emerald fmes roiled in his mouth between words.
In his scaly hands was a massive double-edged spear with va-like liquid flowing on the surface of the bde.
All of the subdued vilgers saw the menag demon approached, and looked at him fearfully.
"No need, just take them away."
Joshua had yet to make sense of what was happening. A few seds ago, he was still in his office, sving away oime as a game designer. A moment ter, he had arrived in this mysterious world, ao him was a… demon at his bed call.
The crossing of worlds happened all too suddenly.
Thankfully, Joshua's ability to adapt was no different than a slug's. Plus, his body's inal spirit was still around, so Joshua did not dispy any oddities and simply went with the flow.
"As you and, Yhness."
The Sin Demoh obeyed Joshua's orders. With a wave of his scaly hands, a portal of green light appeared right in front of Joshua and a dozen tiny imps came leaping out of the portal. They then dragged the bramble-bound vilgers into the portal despite their futile resistand cries of despair.
Joshua ran through his memories. The demons were a group prised of many demonic races, and those imps were one of the bottom dwellers in the demonic hierarchy. With limited intelligend physical strength er than a normal human, their only strong point was their retively quick breeding cycle.
Zenarth, oher hand, was a high demon, a Sin Demon that served as his Lifeward. The Sin Demon's strength was evident just from his imposing appearance.
Most demons were vastly different from humans in appearance. What made Joshua gd was the fact that while his kind was at the apex of demonkind, his appearance was no different than a human, except for the two additional horns on his forehead.
Joshua could accept the fact that he had been thrown into an Isekai, but what he could not accept was that he had turned into a non-human being.
A noble Chaos Demon instead? That did not sound half-bad.
"Let's go back, Zenarth," Joshua said.
"Yhness, do you not io ihe nearby cities?"
"Ihe cities?"
Joshua looked around again, and going through his memories once more, Joshua found out the reason he was there.
The na?ve demon prince had visited the Human Realm out of curiosity. After he traveled through the portal, a human mert carava up with him. While they were resting in a vilge, however, a group of bandits desded upon them.
The vilge was ransacked and its denizens sin. In the end, the demon prince had enough and summoned his Lifeward to sughter all of the bandits.
While he may have saved the vilge from total annihition, in their eyes, being taken captive by demons was a fate far worse than being killed by bandits.
"Nah, not ied."
Joshua, of course, did not care about the prince's child-like curiosity, and he had no pns to strike against humans anyway.
"Right, Zenarth, someone is still alive over there."
Joshua caught a figure trying to escape from the pile of corpses just right before he ehe portal.
That bandit was smart and mao fool everyone by pying dead, yet he was too hasty.
"As you and."
Joshua did not have to verbalize what he meant for Zenarth to uand his orders.
Following a bone-chilling scream and the sound of flesh being torn apart, Joshua walked into the portal.
The Demonic Realm was not as bad as Joshua had imagined. At least the skies were still blue, and the surrounding temperature was mild as well as pleasant.
The typical moderion of demonic realms with votile voloes, flowing va, and skies darkened by thick volic smog were ent there.
The portal led to a garden, and an unknown flower bloomed on the ground, emanating blue particles.
If not for the terrifying demon by Joshua's side, he would not have believed that he was in the Demonic Realm.
"Yhness, should I send the humans into the dungeons?" Zenarth asked.
"Yes, lock them up first. And give them some food. Don't let them starve, I still have use for them."
After he gave his Lifeward that order, Joshua headed deep into the castle.
Based on his memories, the pce was the royal capital of the Demonic Realm, Annerude. The city's name iongue meant the "Edge of the Abyss". As for what it actually entailed, Joshua had no idea, but where he stood was the heart of the capital city.
He was in the pace where the ruler of the Demonic Realm and his kin lived.
Joshua navigated through the city's plex alleys using his memory auro the area that the demon prince lived in.
"This pce is a bloody mess."
Joshua ehe castle and discovered that the prince was a far… tardier person thahought.
An inally extravagant room was littered with all kinds of objects all over the ground. It was so messy that even a person like Joshua, who was not a -freak frowned when caught sight of it.
Joshua manize some books and crystals, which were scattered all across the floor. The rest were oddities of all shapes and sizes.
Was there no servant to the room? Joshua once again ran through his memory.
Only then did he realize that all of the items on the ground were products of the prince's "research".
Joshua Annerude, the third son of the Demon King, Nordlein was a different kind of demon prince. pared with his extremely talented elder brother and sister, Joshua had simply been a tad divergent since birth.
Even at seventeen, he would i in all kinds of weird items, and every other moment, he would be causing chaos across the city. Basically every demon iy had resorted to a pejorative term to describe the prince.
"A lowly human!" they said.
However, in trast to humans, Joshua was more like a gnome or a dwarf. That aside, the third prialent and aptitude in meical engineering, as well as are engineering, could be described as absolutely nuts. That was still an uatement.
All of the objects in his room were inplete products of his research.
"Are silhouette preservation orb and shadow imagining stone."
Joshua went through the introdus and funs of the two objects in his mind. He was more than willing to call them a "camera" and "memory card".
"Iing."
Joshua had yet to think about what he should do after he crossed over into this world. Not everyone was ied in fighting or being the stro, and Joshua athetic toower.
The objects left behind by the third prince gave him ahough.
Perhaps he could shoot a movie iher world, or if that was not possible, perhaps he could create a card game like Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone or something, then pen a few novels and mangas?
As a person who worked in the field of arts, Joshua felt that it was important for Earth's cultures to be spread across this world... No… a cultural invasion would be more accurate.