How To Be A Demon lord: The Former Hero's Journey As A Demon Lord!

Pyra closed her eyes and waited for the sound of the vase breaking to echo, but it never did.

Floid put his hand out and caught the vase before it could break and Pyra slowly opened her eyes to see him giving her a coy smile. She blushed and fiddled with her gown as she bowed nervously along with Lilith!

"M-Master!"

Floid handed the vase back to Pyra and Lilith was surprised that he was giving her the vase again. Didn't he see what just happened!? This woman is a walking natural disaster just waiting to happen!

Floid then spoke.

"I said you could take the vase, but I think I also said you should be careful..."

Pyra blushed deeper and Lilith turned to the taller woman with a glare. See what I said! You should have just allowed me to take it! Pyra saw the glare and she gave a small huff in annoyance. IT was so silent that the only reason Floid heard it was because he was looking out for it.

Floid ignored the banter between the two women and then asked them an important question instead.

"How is the army coming along. Is Rosavellt still busy with them?"

Floid asked his battle maids to train some of the demons on how to fight properly. Rosavellt was training some lizard men, goblins, and imps on how to use the sword and shield. Pura was training the orcs and some of the giants on how to use maces and other blunt weapons and Lilith and Andromeda were in charge of tactics and strategy training. In terms of ability, this is where all of them excelled. Floid knew that he couldn't go to invade a kingdom with a subpar army so he needed them to be able to handle at least A-class knights before they go on the attack.

He was glad that some demons had higher strength and there were other demons, like the succubi and the incubi, that had a higher mana capacity. So they can strengthen their bodies faster and they will be able to cast spells faster than humans. Even if they only had two months to train, the demons would not fall behind.

Pyra immediately answered.

"The training is coming along well. Rosavellt is teaching them the important sword lessons and I will take the blunt force lessons in the next hour. Lilith and Andromeda are interchanging their schedules so they don't have a class on the same day. We left the lessons on magic to Dragonnel as you ordered, but I think he is more interested in having sex with the succubus instead..."

Floid felt his eye twitch. He knew that Dragonnel was a good teacher, but the dragon gets distracted easily. I'll have to warn him about that. Pyra continued.

"We all train for twelve hours a day and we allow the demons to rest for the other twelve. At this rate, even the worst of them should be at least A class at the end of two months. The best should enter the SS-class,"

Floid nodded his head and looked out the window at his side to see the humans clearing the fields. A lot more slaves were brought back by the demons and vampires that went on the town raids and they killed some of the former ones to make room for the new slaves. Floid didn't need too many humans in his castle. If their numbers increase, they will start to have stupid ideas about running away or even fighting and that would just become an annoyance. Knowing they will die if they even try to run with their low numbers makes them obedient so he doesn't have to worry about that.

He turned back to Pyra as he spoke.

"Alright, keep up the good work. Tell Rizi to see me this afternoon, I think it's about time she came out of that workshop for some air,"

Pyra and Lilith bowed before they watched the demon lord walk away. Once he was gone, Pyra's stoic look came back in full force and Lilith was shocked by how quickly she went from blushing to stoic! For some reason, I know that this will be interesting.

"Since you've heard it from the demon lord himself then I'll be taking the vase. You can bring the others,"

Pyra said this before she started to walk away calmly. Lilith grinned as she suddenly spoke.

"Hey, you're in love with the demon lord, aren't you,"

Pyra tripped!

Crash!!!

Lilith grimaced as she saw the fall! How in the world does this woman keep tripping on air! Lilith noticed a dangerous aura coming out from Pyra and she immediately took the other vase and started to run away before Pyra would stand up again! I'm so sorry, Pyra!!!

....

That afternoon, Floid and Dragonnel were in the training room again. Floid was sitting in the middle of the room absorbing Mana like he always does and Dragonnel was walking around him to make sure he was doing it properly! There could always be problems when absorbing Mana and Dragonnel was making sure that Floid didn't take in more than he could withstand for now. He needs to only take in the right amount of mana so that his core would expand.

Once Floid opened his eyes after a while he saw Dragonnel sitting in front of him. It was the first time that Dragonnel looked so serious so Floid asked him what is wrong. Dragonnel was having a small internal debate about whether or not he should tell Floid what was on his mind, but he finally decided that it would be best to tell Floid. Dragonnel waited to tell Floid about this for so long because Floid was not yet ready before. But he now knew that Floid was ready. Floid had about 800,000 MP now so he will soon need to learn about this.

"I think it's about time that you learned about Magic Resonance,"

Floid was immediately confused. Resonance? He never learned about that on the Rivalle Wiki. In fact, this is the first time that Floid was ever hearing about it! Was Dragonnel pulling his leg? No, he wouldn't do that. I'll smack him if he does something like that. I'm still pissed about him slacking off on his job to have sex so he wouldn't dare risk pissing me off even more. Floid asked Dragonnel to explain more and Dragonnel nodded as he started.

"When a magician or knight reaches a certain point in their training, they achieve what is known as Magic Resonance. I can only describe resonance as the next step in being a magic-user. Mages who are above the SSS-class rating or those that have more than a million mana points can reach resonance...

"When you get resonance, your mana becomes stronger and your reflexes become stronger as well. You will have a special spell that will be unique to you and this spell will be greater than anything that you can cast without Resonance. But it is also a handicap, when you are in resonance you can only cast that one spell. Your magic restricts you to only being able to that spell over and over again. For example, if you have a hundred skills when you are not in resonance, when you enter resonance you will only be able to use one. It will be the skill that best suits you, and it will be much stronger than anything else in your arsenal. Are you following?"

Floid nodded slowly. He has never heard about all this before so it was a bit hard to accept it. But if what Dragonnel is saying is true, then that means this resonance is a much stronger form of magic. How does the skill get chosen? Are we able to choose which skill we will use by ourselves? Is there some sort of test that you will have to pass to get the resonance? Floid wanted to know all of these things.