"I think this is it," I remarked, as we reached the lowest level of the dungeon, a large doorway coming into sight.

"Yes, it does resemble the doors that I was locked behind while I was imprisoned. You captured that stubborn Queen, didn’t you? We cannot open these doors without her, but I doubt she would simply cooperate and open them, especially now that we’ve laid waste to her city," Pointed out Satan with a frown.

"Well, I could slip through the cracks at the bottom of the doors, put the Demon inside the room into my Pocket Dimension, then slip back out, take them out of my Pocket Dimension and get to work on breaking the control devices. But that sounds like a lot of work, so let’s see if we can’t make use of the Queen first," I replied, as I opened a portal into my Pocket Dimension and reached in, a slight cry echoing out as I yanked the Queen out of the portal and tossed her towards the doors, a thud ringing out as she hit the floor.

"Y-you damned monsters, how dare you-...!" She began to snap.

"Yeah, save it, I can guess the gist of what you’re gonna say. Trying to convince you to cooperate would be a waste of time, so I’ll just do this instead," I interrupted her, before turning my left arm to slime and rapidly extending it out, engulfing her entire body before she could react.

I left a small gap around her right ear so that she could hear me, before using the slime wrapped around her to raise her right arm and open up her palm, before moving her towards the door and pressing her palm onto the middle of the doors.

"Ah, I see, how useful," Mused Satan with a nod of approval.

"I can’t force her to use her Mana though, so whether this works will depend on her. Alright, your Majesty, go ahead and channel out some Mana, would ya? I’ll release you as soon as the doors open. And I’d be quick about it if I were you...suffocation isn’t a particularly pleasant way to die, so the sooner you open the doors, the sooner you’ll get to breathe again. Oh, and just so you know, we can still get in there even if you don’t open the doors, so all you’d be doing is delaying the inevitable if you refuse to open them yourself," I informed her, as she began struggling for air.

Since she’d started to yell before I engulfed her in my slime, she doesn’t have a whole lot of air in her lungs, so she isn’t going to be able to hold her breath for very long.

"She isn’t doing it...it would seem that she would rather die in vain than do what we say," Scoffed Satan, as she began writhing within my mass of slime as she suffocated, unable to breathe, but still refusing to run her Mana into the doors.

"Yeah, sure seems like it. It’s not exactly logical, all she’s doing is delaying us by a couple of minutes or so, nothing more. I can’t say I understand it, it makes no sense to value your pride over your life. Okay, then, guess I’ll kill her," I shrugged, turning most of the slime engulfing her body acidic, a violent shudder of pain erupting across her body as her skin melted away, her mouth opening as she tried to scream, but couldn’t even do that. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Within a matter of seconds, her body melted away into a mass of bloody sludge, only her head left intact.

"Why didn’t you melt her head as well?" Satan asked me curiously.

"I figured we could put it on a spike or something and leave it by the front of what’s left of the castle, maybe attach a message with something along the lines of ’mess with our nation and this’ll be what happens to you’ or whatever," I suggested, as I tossed her head into my Pocket Dimension and stepped towards the doorway.

"My, how devious. I must say, I like the way you think, you are quite the scoundrel," He chuckled in amusement, before I turned my entire body to slime and slipped through the narrow gap under the doors, opening a portal into my Pocket Dimension below myself to drop my clothes into.

As I emerged into the room, I opened a portal above me and let my clothes drop onto the mass of slime that my body had tranformed into, before I reverted to my original shape after spreading out the slimy mass throughout the clothes.

Hm, my shirt’s on backwards, guess I still need to work on that.

I then glanced up, to see a Demon shackled and chained to the back wall, with the control devices around their wrists, ankles, neck and torso.

’The Demon General of Fear, Pavorphobus...or just Vorph for short. I never thought I’d see this come to pass before I met you...all of us Demons who had been captured and imprisoned by the humans, free once again. You have my gratitude, Larrk,’ Remarked Azazel gratefully.

’Sure, man, don’t mention it,’ I replied, as I approached the Demon.

It was a woman, with light blue skin, a pair of twisted black horns on either side of her head, and medium-length silver hair that was matted and full of dirt. Her tail was long and slender, with an oval-shaped tip that was like an uneven net on the inside.

She was short with a petite build, and there was a metal rod pierced through her black-feathered wings, with small cubes of concrete around her claws.

I walked over towards her and opened a portal into my Pocket Dimension around her, before shutting it once her entire body was inside, the portal slicing through the chains restraining her to the wall.

Alright, that’s step one done...

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