Chapter 13: The Room You Can't Leave Without Doing It
As the words fell, Asmodeus poured his majestic mana into the rock wall, and a dull roar soon echoed through the air.
The stone wall, originally covered in moss, began to vibrate violently, followed by the appearance of glowing cracks.
Countless fragments peeled away, and the once indestructible wall collapsed like building blocks, revealing a hidden space behind it.
It was a room crafted entirely from high-purity Black Crystal Stone, its four walls smooth as mirrors, reflecting a cold, eerie luster in the gloom.
"It's open! It really opened!"
Seeing this, Lilith was so happy she almost jumped up.
「Technology changes lives! The divine tool truly didn't deceive me!」
「Goddess sister, the item you gave is actually quite useful~」
Thinking she had found the exit, Lilith couldn't wait to walk in, her heart-tipped tail wagging cheerfully behind her.
Asmodeus followed closely. Though he remained vigilant, he also looked around curiously, observing this secret room that had never been discovered since his awakening.
However...
At the very moment both of them stepped fully into the room—
Click—Boom!
Without any warning.
Behind them, at the position of the collapsed stone wall, a heavy Black Crystal Portcullis suddenly dropped!
It fell as fast as lightning, sealing the only way out with a loud bang.
"Eek!!"
Lilith shivered in fright and instinctively scurried behind Asmodeus in a flash, her hands tightly clutching his cloak as she poked her small head out:
"Wha... what's going on? Are we trapped like rats in a hole?"
「Trapped in a... crack?」
Asmodeus pondered the idiom in his mind, ignoring Lilith's 'nonsense'... or rather, her idioms.
He first fixed his gaze on the surroundings, and after confirming there were no traps or mechanisms, he reached out to rub Lilith's head to comfort her.
Then, he calmly walked to the center of the room, where a waist-high stone pedestal stood, its surface engraved with a line of inscriptions emitting a faint purple light.
The inscriptions were ancient and obscure, but they were not indecipherable to the eyes of a Demon Lord.
"This is..."
Asmodeus narrowed his eyes, and Lilith also looked up curiously.
On the stone pedestal, a line of small characters was clearly written.
—[This is a room you cannot leave without doing XXXX]
"Hmm?"
Asmodeus frowned, his fingertips tracing the blurred inscriptions:
"The part with the key condition is worn out and illegible... You can't leave without 'doing what'?"
"It seems this is some kind of ritual trial left by the sealer. Only by completing a specific action will the door to the upper floor open."
As he spoke, he looked toward the other end of the room.
There was indeed a tightly closed crystal door, clearly the exit leading to the upper level of the labyrinth.
"You... you can't leave without doing what?!"
The moment she heard those words, Lilith suddenly remembered something.
As a modern soul who had watched countless videos, this line was all too familiar to her! Isn't this that famous setting that only appears in doujinshi?!
「Holy crap... holy crap, holy crap!」
「Why would such a shameful setting appear in a serious Western fantasy world? If that's the case, then doesn't it mean...?!」
Her gaze wavered... her pupils shook... cold sweat poured from her forehead like a waterfall... Lilith panicked instantly!
「It's over... it's completely over...」
「We can't leave without doing 'that,' but if we do... won't I... won't I really become the Demon Lord's woman!」
「No... no way!」
「I finally made it to another world, and I haven't even found a beautiful elf catgirl to be my wife yet, but I'm going to become a wife myself? Who could accept this!」
「I don't want to be Asmodeus's wife!」
With such thoughts, the Lilith in her inner world was incredibly conflicted!
But the current situation was a dead end either way; if she couldn't leave, she would have to stay in this small room with the Demon Lord forever.
However, just as she was on the verge of collapsing and didn't know what to do... Asmodeus, standing beside her, slightly raised an eyebrow, keenly noticing Lilith's abnormality.
"You?"
He turned his head and looked at the pale, trembling Lilith, his eyes narrowing slightly:
"Do you know what those characters are?"
"Ah? Me? I..."
Hearing this, Lilith was so scared she couldn't even speak properly, her head shaking like a rattle:
"I... I don't know! I don't know anything! I'm illiterate! I can't read!"
"Liar."
Asmodeus coldly spat out those two words.
With a tug, he easily pulled Lilith to his side, then leaned forward, his powerful pressure instantly enveloping her:
"Your heart is racing, your eyes are dodging, and your mana is unstable—you definitely know something! I command you! Tell me!"
He paused, his tone becoming chillingly cold:
"Or is it that you won't even listen to your master's words? You claim to adore me and want to be my fiancée, yet your heart is still trying to resist?"
"For a servant who is disobedient and lies, according to the rules of the Demon Realm..."
Asmodeus hadn't finished his sentence, but his terrifying aura already made Lilith's legs tighten and her hair stand on end.
"Eek!!!"
As a Succubus;
As a female Succubus;
As a pure-hearted female Succubus who possessed extraordinary combat power while remaining a virgin!
Her body was instinctively craving powerful genes, all for the sake of birthing perfect offspring! And the man before her was not only domineering and incredibly strong but also the King of the Demon Race with a noble bloodline!
As the Demon Lord, he only needed to be slightly angry for Lilith to become entranced and develop the thought that she 'must obey'.
Shame, fear, despair... various complex emotions intertwined.
After a moment, Lilith's brain was a complete mess. Finally, she could only close her eyes, her face flushed red, and shout in desperation:
"It's... it's making babies!"
"What it means is... for us to do... do that thing for making babies! If we don't, we can't get out! Ugh..."
After shouting this, Lilith covered her face in shame and indignation, squatting on the ground, wishing she could just die.
「I said it...」
「It's so embarrassing!!」
「Now I'm really going to be dealt with on the spot!」
「My dignity... my bottom line as a man... my dignity as a tough guy...」
「Is it all going to be gone forever today...」
"Oh? Is that all?"
Before the lament in her heart could finish, Asmodeus's puzzled voice came from above.
"Huh?"
Lilith looked up blankly.
Asmodeus had a "that's it?" expression on his face. Then, he naturally reached out and grabbed Lilith's small hand—fingers interlaced, holding tightly. The warm, powerful, and yet very gentle touch provided a full sense of security just by holding it.
"If that's the case, it's quite simple."
The Demon Lord said with an air of righteousness:
"We just need to hold hands, right? For one minute?"
"Uh..."
Looking at their tightly clasped hands, the corner of Lilith's eye twitched slightly.
「I forgot he's a pure-hearted virgin...」
「So I have to be the one to explain it...?」
Thus, Lilith slumped her shoulders powerlessly. Though she was incredibly conflicted, she said with a look of despair:
"No... it's not like that... Lord Demon Lord... what's required here is something more intimate, more deep than holding hands... just... just holding hands won't work..."
"More intimate?"
Hearing this, Asmodeus blinked, then nodded thoughtfully:
"I see."
Saying so, he approached Lilith once again.
Seeing this, Lilith's heart stopped! She hurriedly covered her mouth in terror, only then realizing she might have said the wrong thing!
「Damn! Why did I remind him!」
「Oh no... if this continues...」
「Bad... this is very bad!」
Looking at the man gradually approaching her, his tall and terrifying figure could completely cover her with his shadow just by standing there, as if she were a little kitten to be toyed with at will!
A chill ran up her spine. Anxiety and panic made Lilith's breathing rapid and her consciousness blurred, and she could only close her eyes in despair.
Unexpectedly, in the next second...
Whoosh—
Her petite body was suddenly lifted into the air!
She wasn't pinned to the ground and rubbed repeatedly; instead, she was steadily picked up by a pair of strong arms—a standard princess carry.
"Eh? Eh?"
Realizing something was wrong, Lilith opened her eyes again.
What appeared before her was the serious and strikingly handsome Asmodeus, looking down at her calmly and asking with a serious face:
"Then it's like this, right? An action more intimate than holding hands... must be a hug."
"If holding hands for a minute would result in an offspring as you said before, then if I hold you like this... how long will it take? Half a minute?"
"Well? Answer me."
「...」
For a moment, Lilith's pupils gradually lost their luster, and she was completely speechless.
Looking at this handsome face so close at hand, she was expressionless, but four words were frantically flashing in her mind:
「PURE! HEARTED! IDIOT!」
She cursed fiercely in her heart!
Her small pink fists were tightly clenched, and her teeth were gritted.
「He made me so nervous for nothing! Even after I said all that, this guy still doesn't understand at all! Then why did he kiss me before?」
「How did he even become a Demon Lord? Didn't he have even a single concubine around him three hundred years ago?!」
Lilith couldn't help but roll her eyes.
But she quickly calmed down and continued thinking:
「But... maybe it's for the best?」
「This way, the initiative is in my hands. At least I can decide for myself whether to offer myself up... Tsk, damn it, this is so troublesome!」
「If I don't offer myself, the seal definitely won't pass... and I won't be able to get out.」
「If I can't get out, I'll be trapped in this dark room with this pure-hearted Demon Lord for the rest of my life, being his maid forever...」
「But if I teach him that kind of thing...」
Thinking of this, Lilith imagined the scene after Asmodeus learned "how to truly make babies"—this super-strong Demon Lord with infinite stamina and vigorous energy, obsessed with his fiancée and unable to stop, spending every day in his palace after leaving the Abyss Labyrinth being all lovey-dovey with her, bullying her so much she couldn't get out of bed for three days and nights!
「Aaaaah, no way!」
Just imagining that picture made Lilith feel extremely ashamed and indignant!
「If that happens, I'll be broken by the time Old Song arrives! I don't want to become like that!」
「But! But what should I do if I can't get out! I can't stay in a dark room for the rest of my life!」
A huge conflict pulled at her heart; Lilith had never been this conflicted since she was born!
In her conflict, she peeked up at the man before her.
It had to be said, this guy was indeed very handsome—cold eyes, a high bridge of the nose, and that always serious gaze that carried a hint of dominance yet was unexpectedly pure, as if the whole world contained only the girl in his eyes.
Focused, calm, serious, and a bit cool.
And then, he was deadly handsome.
「Mmph?!」
For some reason, Lilith's cheeks actually turned red.
She gritted her teeth, as if she had made a major decision, and turned her head, her voice as faint as a mosquito's:
"Lord... Lord Demon Lord..."
"What? So how long do I need to hold you?"
Asmodeus was still curious about the question he had asked earlier.
So Lilith could only grit her teeth and, with a look of resignation, explain in a low voice:
"Actually... actually, making babies should be..."
BOOM—!!!
Before she could finish her sentence.
A familiar, scalp-numbing violent vibration suddenly occurred!
"Hmm?!"
Asmodeus's eyes sharpened. Without any hesitation, he flashed backward while holding Lilith, startling her into a scream.
"Aah!"
In the next second.
Bang!
A string of pitch-black corrosive energy waves blasted the spot where they had just been standing. The hard black crystal floor was actually corroded with cracks, emitting pungent white smoke.
"Hehehe... to actually... actually be able to find this place..."
"As expected of the Demon Lord!"
That lingering, sanity-dropping voice echoed in the room once again.
In the darkness, countless tentacles composed of dark energy slowly writhed, and that giant black sphere condensed into shape once more—it was the Abyssal Watcher!
It had indeed been resurrected.
And for some reason, it had become even larger and darker than last time! Eerie black mist filled the entire room, and the powerful pressure originating from the black sphere itself was almost suffocating!
"Asmodeus... Asmodeus... surely the spells of those ants weren't enough to trap you?"
The dark shadow let out a hoarse and venomous roar.
On the black sphere, a humanoid figure seemed to be gradually condensing, clutching its head frantically and roaring at the top of its lungs:
"In that case, I can't be joking around this time!"
"Lord Asmodeus! My most respected Demon Lord! My beloved master!"
"I won't let you leave, I will absolutely not let you leave! I want you to stay here for the rest of your life! Forever and ever... always stay by my side, merge with me! Become mine!"
"My Lord! Let us be together forever! Now, die!"
BOOM—
After speaking, the Abyssal Watcher suddenly attacked!
A majestic burst of energy fell from the air, striking directly at the two of them!
To this, Asmodeus's gaze was cold, clearly prepared for battle; on the other hand, Lilith, in his arms, gritted her teeth secretly and shouted in her heart with a face full of displeasure:
「You psycho! This is so annoying!」
「Of all times, you show up now to ruin my good thing! Kill it, Lord Demon Lord!」
「...」
「Wait? Is there something wrong with what I just said?」