Chapter 6: Prologue Part 6

The Great Demon King Mammon, the strongest of them all. A legend, a myth. Every legend has a beginning, and he was no exception.

In his world, Humanity and Demonkin have always been at odds with each other. If humanity was water, Demonkin would be oil. Everything about the two races, from culture to the most trivial beliefs, were polar opposites of each other. And so, they were always at war. Since the demons were significantly stronger than humans, they won the war most of the time.

Tired of the consecutive defeat at the hands of the superior species, Humanity sent 100,000 soldiers to the battlefield. Even that was useless, they were simply massacred. With the defeat of humans, the demons have claimed 35,000 human slaves in that war, 5,000 of which are females.

All of those females were sent to the Demon King of Lust, and all those girls were violated by him for a year. After that time, out of the 5,000 sex slaves, only 5 came out alive after the tyrant got tired of them. And out of those five pregnant women, four died after labor.

The only slave that survived was Mammon's mother.

Was he lucky?

One could say he was lucky... if you weren't him. The moment Mammon's head popped out of her mother's womb, his fate was already set to be in shambles.

Bearing a deep grudge towards the Demon King of Lust, his mother could only divert her wrath and pain towards her own son, who greatly resembled the tyrant. Every day was hell for the demon child, who was subjected to all forms of torture in the mother's pursuit to kill him for good. Because of this, he has developed a great fear for his parent.

Since he was 4067th in line for the throne, there was virtually no reason for the other members of the Demon King's family to help him, even less reason for his father to spare him a glance, much less tend to him. He was left only with his mother and relied on her fully.

Despite the pain that he went through and his fear for his own parent, he was still a child, and deep inside he still loved and yearned for her. He would train himself to the fullest, defeat his brothers and sisters, and also topped many other strong demons in competitions, all just to impress his mother and maybe get the tiniest bit of affection, but each and every time he was shot down with her cold shoulder.

But... sometimes, he would see glimpses of her smile. That was enough to keep him going. Their odd relationship would continue for years, and he was content with it.

Until one day, something terrible has happened that changed his already messed up life.