《Tale of the Devil》


 Prologue Part 1

    A long time ago,On a certain night.When the sun went to rest and the moon came to play.


    The moon was not giving a silvery glow like usual but was covered in a red glow.Like the surface of the moon was spilled with blood and the light from also gave a red glow.The light from the full moon was covering the earth and nothing was spared from it.


    The big mountain peaks that could tear the sky,the plains that stretched as long the eye could see,the deseret which were cold due to night and the forest that spread across the land,red light of the moon covered them all.It had not even spared the cities.


    Cities had become quiet.The night people which roamed the city at night were nowhere to be seen. Wild dogs which used to bark at night had gone mute.


    In the forest,the animals which used to come out of their dens and run and hunt through the forest like they were king of were also not coming out of their places tonight.The owls which used to hoot at night were wuiet as if they had been killed.


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    In this dead night,there was soung of screaming coming from the deep of the forest.The screams were coming from a rundown hut in the deep forest.Animals were scared out of the sounds and there no animals around 5 km of the hut.


    The owner of the screams were a women who age were in mid-twenties.By looking at her you could tell that she was pregnant and was in the middle of the birth.The Strange was that there was no one around to help the women who was giving birth to a baby.Her breath was ragged and she was screaming at top of her lungs.


    As time passed the women scream grew louder by the second and the moon redlight bcame more red and red.


    After who knows how much time had passed that the sound of women screams stopped.She had died due to extreme pain of giving birth.


    But there was sound coming from her stomach,as if something was moving inside it.The movement became larger and larger.


    Her stomach burst open from inside and a child came from it.If one were look inside the stomach,they would find that the stomach of the women was empty.


    All of her insides were eaten.The child which just came out of the stomach,intstead of crying ,looked at his mother and started eating her.


    The child which was just born was having his first meal and his first meal was not the milk of his mother but the blood and meat of his own mother.


    At that night,the child - Devil came in the form of a human and brought destruction to the world.


    The Devil with white hair and red eyes.

 Prologue Part 2

    It is said that every living thing will taste death someday.So,as someone who has tasted it two times and now in the middle of tasting the third time.Let me tell you something.Death doesnot taste very good.I can go on and on about it''s taste but i will keep it simple.it is very disgusting.


    My name is Arbaz Irshad and i belong to family of noble in the Esteria Kingdom.I am the sole heir of the duke family.Now you might ask me how did a noble like me tasted death 2 times and is in the middle of the third.Well,The Answer is


    I dont''t know!!!!!.


    In my First life,i was killed in the name of the revenge.It was also mostly my fault too.The child of the maid who tried to assassinate me brought her boyfriend and some other friends to kill me.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    I was driven into a corner and her boyfriend sword pierced my heart.At that time, I was very happy to have escaped from the excruciatingly lonely life and was very happy.Only to relive the same life all over again.


    In my second life,when the maid tried to assassinate me,i had her child also punished by death.So,that she cannot bring her future boyfriend to kill me.


    I thought that i had escaped death but it turned out that I was always in death reach.There was a rebellion in our dukedom and the people of our fief killed my family in front of my eyes.In the end they brought me toguillotine.


    They threw stones at me and called me devil over and over again.When they got bored,they beheaded me.But instead of dying,I was reborn again.It was like having the knowledge of the future from the moment I was born.


    In the third life,I executed both maid and her daughter.So that, she cannot harm me in the future.I also stopped the rebellion from happeing by taking care of the cause of the rebellion.I had succeeded in escaping death.


    I thought I had succeeded.


    Now in my thrid time,The world is destroying.Now this time please be the last.

 Chapter 1

    [Young Master,Master is inviting you to dinner.]


    The young maid was standing in the library and was informing a young boy in front of her.The young maid had her head lowered and was not looking at the boy.It was not out of respect or anything.It was because she was scared of the boy as she had heared the rumors about the young master.


    There were many kinds of rumors circulating about the young master.A boy born on the cursed night with cursed hairs and eyes,There is a rumor that a devil is possessing him.There is also a rumor about him being a devil itself.It is also told that if you look into his eyes he will eat your soul.


    The young master to whom she just delivered the message,was reading a book.When he heard the message he took his eyes away from the book.


    The young master looked to be around the age of nine.Despite his young age,he had a head full of white hairs and he had mercury red-eyes which gleamed in the dark.The young master face was void of any expression.He looked at her and said


    [Ok.I have heared the message.You can go now.]


    [Y-yes, Young Master.]


    The maid replied and hurriedly escaped from the silent room .The boy looked at the door with his red eyes for a while.Then he put his attention on the book.He marked the page that he was currently on.Got up from his seat and put the books back from where he picked it up.After putting the book in it''s original place.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    The boy got out of the library.He walked for a while and arrived at a door.The door was large and had intricate design on it.He stood in front of the door for a while and then opened the door.


    [Good Afternoon Father.Oh! Mother is also here too.Good Afternoon Mother.]


    The face which was previously without any expression was now displaying a smile.With a smile on his face ,the boy greeted his parents and went to his seat on the long table which was on the left side of his father and his mother was sitting opposite to him.


    [Hahahaha!!.Good Afternoon my boy.I have been busy these few days so was not able to talk to you.So,how have you been.]


    As the parent and child were talking among themselves.The door opened and servants with food for the dinner.They begin setting the food on the table.When the food was set,the servant retreated.


    This was the mansion of the duke of Irshad family,which belonged to Esteria Kingdom.This family existed from the dawn of the country.The duke terirtory had nothing special but was known for it''s military might.They were now one of the few noble who were known as pure blood.The current Master and his Wife were proud of their pure blood and thought of commoner as nothing but ants.So,they did not do anything for the people living in their territory but impose heavy taxes on them.


    The Master of the house had only one child.The child was born on the night with red moon and was said to be a devil by the servants in his mansion and the people living in their territory.This gained more attention due to his white hair and red eyes.But despite all that the head of the house loved his child very much.He loved him so much that even if were to kill someone.He will not rebuke or punish him but praise him on the act of killing.

 Chapter 2

    What if you had died three times and reborn to relive the same life again.What would you do?Look into the factors that resulted in your death previously and try to fix them or dispose of them.You also had knowledge of the future, the things that others didnot experience or know for now.You could also use these to your advantage.


    But first you had to had knowledge of your surroundings past and present,so that you could see the glimpse of the future and predict it.Taking all those things into account, Arbaz concluded that he should first increase his knowledge.So that it may help him in the future.


    As he was also a child and could not do much, he spent most of his time in library gaining knowledge.He tried to first increase his knowledge about the kingdom''s territories, geography and also about the people who were in power.He also had medical knowledge as well as mathematical knowlege.


    By the time he was nine in his fourth life, he had read almost all the books in the library and had vast amount of knowledge for his age.He had knowledge greater than a royal court scholar.


    As usual today as well he was in the library reading a book.He spent most of his time here to escape from the eyes full of fear and hatred looking at him.He liked to spent his time in silence.


    Today he was extremly nervous because it was the day where and assassination would be attempted on him by the maid.It was one of the reason for his death in one of his life.


    So, he had to take care of it appropriately.He had been preparing for this day and he had thought of multiple ways to fix the issue.


    It happened exactly like before.The attempt failed.She was not able to kill him and was brought in front of his father,the head of the family, Rysder Irshad.


    [You Slut,How dare you try to kill my son.]


    Rysder was screaming at the top of his lungs and he kicked the table with all his might.The table flew and crashed into the wall.


    [After I took pity on you and this is how you repay us.]


    [I am sorry Master.I am sorry Master.]Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    The maid keep saying the same thing over and over again while crying and her head hung low.


    [You think a simple sorry is going to be enough.I will kill you,you stupid bitch!!!.]


    Rysder unsheathed a sword and was going to kill her almost in her anger when.


    [Father Stop!!!.]


    Arbaz who was in a tight embrace of his mother said.His mother and father were both astonished.They both looked at him at the same time.


    [What is it,Arbaz?]


    [Father,Can you leave the execution of this women to me.]


    [To You?What do you plan to do?]


    [I just read something in a book.Why not let her become a guinea pig for my experiment.It''s better then her blood dirtying the room,isn''t it]


    [Houhou,that might also be amsuing.Untill then,throw this women will be placed into dungeon.]


    As soon he shouted, a person clad in military uniform arrives and drag the maid to the dungeon.


    [Filthy inferior species.Even though she was hired due to me taking pity on her and she repay me by trying to harm my son.]


    [Well she is and inferior specie after all.Arbaz wants to experiment on her,So she might be usefull.]said Arbaz Mother.


    The married couple talked between eachother as if they were talking about an animal not a human being.They talked to each other but Arbaz was not listening to them.He was formulating plans in his brain on how to solve this problem.


    When he came to from his thinking, he was in his room sitting on a sofa and staring into space.He got up from the sofa and went in front of the mirror.Which was present in the corner of the room and was greater than an average man''s height.


    He knew that if he didnot take care of this correctly.This will grow and come to bite him like a snake.He thought about the deaths that he had expeienced and became pale.He held back the feeling of nausea which was welling up.


    He brought a hand to his face and thought that If only-At that moment there was a knock on the door.He thought about not responding but as he was deep in his thought he said


    [...come in.]


    He place himself on the sofa and thought that who was it at this time of the night.


    The door was opened by a man with greying hair, he bowed respectfully and stepped in the room.


    Andrew.


    That was the first name that came to his mind when he saw the figure who entered the room.He was the butler of the house.He was a famous mercenary in the past but had retired due to old age and was now working as the butler of the house.


    [Excuse me,Young Master.]


    [What do you want.?]


    [To be honest,I want to talk about today----]


    Andrew words trailed off in the middle of his sentence.Arbaz intently watched his face for him to continue but the word which followed bewildered him.


    [Are you perhaps feeling unwell?]


    [I am alright.]


    [But your face is ----- ]


    [I said I am alright.]


    Without any respect, he cut-ouff''s Andrew word''s filled with worry for him and discarded them.He asked with his eyes for him to continue but the next word surprised him greatly,


    [Can you please somehow be lenient with the maid?]

 Chapter 3

    [The Maid?You mean the one that tried to kill me?]


    Arbaz was surperised because in his previous lives Andrew had never came to him for the leniency of the maid


    [Yes, I know this may be asking too much for me but I think she is not someone who would do this.]


    [But she did.And According to the law of the kingdom, she is punishable by death.If you donot have solid proof then I cannot forgive her.]


    [But...]


    [Enough! If you have nothing else to say then get out.]


    Andrew withdrew from the room disappointment.Arbaz looked at him and thought of the reasons why he came to him.And it''s not like he didnot wanted to help the maid but she was one of the reasons of his death.She and her daughter had to die.It''s better to kill the snake before it grows and come to bite you.


    Arbaz throws himself on the bed,looking up the ceiling and begun to think.Why did she tried to kill him?He had never did anything to her.Why was she trying to kill him?Was she threatened by someone?If so, then who.Who was trying to kill him?


    Arbaz got up from his bed and exited the room.He called out to the soldier that was nearby.


    [Oi! You.]


    [Young Master!]


    The soldier saluted him by making a fist of his right hand brought it to near his heart.


    [Lead me to the dungeon.]


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    [What?You have something to say?]


    [N-no]


    [Then lead the way.]


    The soldier begun leading the way and Arbaz followed He was brought to the back of the mansion where a building made of stone was standing.


    He entered the building.He saw a guard inside the building who was sleeping and giving blatant proof of his idling.The other soldier hurriedly wake him up from his sleep.


    Arbaz moved toward the door which lead to the dungeon and tried to open it but the door was locked.He ordered the guard to give him the key.


    [Give me the key.]


    [Yes.Here, Young Master.]


    The guard hurriedly gave him the key which was dangling on the wall.Before entering, he warned the guard.


    [I am going down and nobody is to follow me.]


    Without waiting for the reply, he descended downstairs.The stairs leading downstairs were dark and gloomy.He could even see the steps clearly.After a 15 steps or so, he reached downstairs.There were six cells in the dungeon, three on each side, with a bed made out of straws and a simple toilet in the open.


    On one of the wall, there was a small window of about 30 cm width and 20 cm height, through which a small light was entering the prison.In one of the cells, on the left side, the maid was imprisoned.


    The maid was quietly sitting there with her head placed on her legs.She heared the sounds of footsteps and looked up to see who it was but due to the darkness.She couldnot see the person except for his tiny feet.From the darkness, there were two glimmering red eyes watching her.From that,she understood who it was.


    [...Y-young Master?]


    [I am going to ask you some questions and you should not even think about lying.]


    Without waiting for her reply, Arbaz continued asking.


    [Who was the one who ordered you to kill me?]


    [........]


    Arbaz question was answered with silence but he did not get angry and said.


    [I asked you something ]


    [....Some men came and they kidnapped my daughter and said to me that if I do not kill you then they will kill my daughter.I could do nothing.......I know what I did was wrong and I should be killed but please save my daughter She did nothing wrong.nothing wrong.]


    At the end of her sentence,she began crying and begging for her daughter life.Arbaz looked at her for a moment before asking.


    [Where were you to meet with them?]


    [...Near the enterance of the forest tonight.]


    [You should worry about youself for now and not needlessly worry about your daughter.]


    After saying that, his already blurred figure dissappeared in the darkness.Coming out of the building he gave the key to the guard and said to him.


    [Go and wake up Andrew.Order him to come to my room.]

 Chapter 4

    Rysder Irshad.


    A name known throughout the Aferia Continent.There is no one in the continent who would not have heared this name.He is also known as God of War.


    About 20 years ago, When the continent was not in peace as it is today.Every country was waging war on other countries for their own motives.Some were doing it to increase their rule and other were doing it for the resources of other countries.The continent was filled with the blood of the soldiers and the innocents and the rulers were not satisfied with that and were sending more of them to their death in the name of justice and peace.


    At that time, every country had their own heroes that the civilian loved and believed in them.There was one name that shined the most among them.Rysder Irshad, The war god of Esteria Kingdom or the greatest general of the Aferia Continent.He is a living legend.The bards sing songs about his whole life.Even after his death, no one will be able to get the title of the War God.


    It is said that once he entered the battlefield, no matter how desperate the situation, victory was in his hand.He would always come back with the head of the enemy general.


    His love life is also famous in the continent.As he was famous general, he was very famous among young ladies and every lady was dreaming about marrying him but nobody was able to come in his eyes.Only one lady was able to win his heart and that was the princess of a enemy nation, Princess Anastasia, a powerful mage.


    To increase the friendly relation between both countries, Princess Anastasia was wed to Rysder.There is rumor that Rysder sent a letter to the enemy king, that if he did not give her the princess.He will destroy his country and take the princess as a price.Nobody know that if the rumor is true or not.


    It was late in the night and Rysder was still in his office doing paperwork.HIs wife was also present in the room and was sitting on the sofa and drinking tea.


    [Here Honey, You should be tired.Drink some tea.]


    As she said that, the teapot in front of her flew and filled a cup with an aromatic tea and returned to it''s place.After that the tea cup flew and placed itself on the side of the table on which Rysder was working.He sent a loving glance to his pretty wife and picked up the tea cup.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    [Thank you,Dear.]


    He enjoyed the sent of the tea and started drinking it.As he was drinking tea, his red eyes went towards the door.After a few second, there was a knock at the door.As if he was waiting for this, he immediately said


    [Come in.]


    The door opened and a man wearing butler clothes entered the room.He bowed respectively towards both of them.


    [So, Were you able to get any information?]asked Ryder.


    [No Sir,I am extremely sorry to dissappoint you.I found two men who entered the territory recently acting suspicoiusly,so I followed them.They had kidnapped the maid''s daughter.When I tried to capture them, one of them died and the other killed himself.It seems they were very careful to not leak any information.]


    [..........]


    [How is the girl?]


    Asked Anastasia as Rysder was thinking something deeply.


    [She is fine, Madam.She was just a little injured.I have handed her to the maid and they are treating her right now.]


    [.......Someone is clearly targeting us.Spreading rumor about us and ... Arbaz.]


    As Anastasia said that mana leaked out of her body as if her anger had reached her limit.The windows started shaking.Andrew face paled as he was not able to stand in the high density of mana.Rysder who was still in deep thought came out of it and looked at his wife.He was not affected by the mana.He said to her in a gentle voice and tried to sooth her.


    [It''s Alright, Dear.I will not let anything happen to Arbaz.]


    As she completely believed in him, She regained her composure and the mana disappeared from the room.


    [What should we do about the maid?]


    Andrew posed a question.


    [What does Arbaz want?]


    [I think he wants to forgive her.Before coming here, he told me about the kidnapping and ordered me to tell it to you.So, you can change your decision.]


    [Hmm...So release her.]


    [Okay Sir.]


    Andrew said with a somewhat happy expression as he didnot wanted the maid to be executed for this.


    [.......How old is her daughter?]


    Anastasia asked as she was listening to the two.Andrew hurried replied to her.


    [I think she is around young master age.]


    [Good!.Then let her become a maid for Arbaz so that she can serve her.This can be the maid punishment.]


    She smiled while saying this and continued drinking her tea.She did this so that Arbaz could have a playmate.As Arbaz was always alone and didnot have friends his age, he would spent most of his time in the library.This caused great worry to her.She wanted her son to spent a normal childhood like anyother child does.


    As Rysder guessed her thoughts, he said.


    [Okay.Then do this then.]


    [Yes Sir.]


    Andrew said and retreated the room, leaving the couple alone.