Chapter 50: The Puppet Master
After finishing her discussion with Amara, Ruby did as she planned and used the Dark Veins scattered across Vale to find a portal to a hell dimension to hunt some devils.
Walking to the green swirling portal in front of her, Ruby jumped into it without a moment’s hesitation.
After jumping in, Ruby appeared in a desolate desert full of sand and spewing magma.
The Adventurers Guild often sends adventurers to these Hell Plains to suppress the devils inside and keep them from escaping.
But most of the time, the devils will not wander out of the Hell Plains because they do not want to stray too far from the Devil Lord that rules each of these Hell Plains.
This is precisely Ruby’s target. Controlling the Devil Lord will make it a lot easier for Ruby to squeeze this place dry of every resource that it has to offer.
Walking in the heat, Ruby saw devils flee from her presence at every chance they could get.
The devils could tell that this woman in human skin was far more of a demon than any of them could ever be. Because of this, they were terrified of Ruby. At least the low-level devils were.
Unfortunately, the mid-level and higher devils were stupid and arrogant like a certain prince. So they constantly tried to capture Ruby and use her as a pleasure slave.
Ruby smiled when the first mid-level devil came up to her.
He had his classic devil pitchfork and triangle-pointed tail. Mid-level devils are around six feet in height with a strong, buff upper body and an absurdly small lower body.
They are covered in only a loincloth because the entire race has only males in it.
The devil race is one of many that make up the Demon Races in the world of Eryndor.
The mid-level demon looked at Ruby with a lustful gaze in his small, beady black eyes, as his long tail kept slapping the ground behind him.
*Slap*
*Slap*
With his gaze on Ruby, the devil said to her, "A lowly human dares to wander into this hellscape. You must require some companionship if you dare to travel alone."
With a smile on her face, Ruby said to the devil, "Well, well, it looks like you have saved me the trouble of wandering around this hot and smelly suffer pit. So go ahead and lead the way to your Devil Lord; he and I have an appointment for a beatdown." freёwebnovel.com
The devil laughed and responded to Ruby, saying, "Ha ha, you want to meet Senior Devil Lord. Not just any human can meet our lord. You do not seem qualified to me; not only are you dressed as a maid, but you are not even armed with a weapon, while I have my fire magic and pitchfork."
Ruby was growing bored with this devil; he only wanted to talk about playing with her body. So while the devil was talking, Ruby used the Dark Veins to summon her horde of spiders. Ruby loves to use these guys to deal with large groups of enemies if she is too bored to kill them herself.
The devil heard the distinctive sound of thousands of legs moving on the ground. He was well aware of the sounds spiders make while moving. So, with a vigilant look in his eyes, the devil looked around to find them but did not see any spiders.
So he relaxed and decided to make a move on this human female. He tightened his grip on the pitchfork in his hand, then leaning back, he threw it at Ruby’s left leg.
The devil figured that as long as he impaled Ruby’s foot, she would not be able to flee. Then he could take his time tormenting her.
It’s too bad that the devil got rid of his only weapon because he thought he would be fine with his fire magic.
Except, just like Ruby, her spiders are immune to fire magic of any kind.
When the pitchfork was about to impact Ruby’s left leg, she suddenly stretched out her gloved hand and caught the pitchfork in mid-air.
The devil was so stunned he said, "Huh."
Ruby looked at the pitchfork she caught and twirled it in her hand in a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, then sent it flying back at its master.
*Boom*
*Aaaa Hell’s Bells!*
The devil’s right leg was now attached to the ground five feet behind him.
Suddenly, Ruby burst into laughter when she heard,
*Plop*
The sound of the devil as he fell on his ass, writhing in pain. By this point, Ruby’s spiders made an appearance and began to crawl into the devil’s body through his torn-off leg.
The mid-level devil could feel himself losing control of his body movements. His leg stopped bleeding as light left his eyes; then he became an emotionless puppet.
After this, the devil started crawling towards his leg. When he finally reached it, he reattached his leg to his body.
The wound began to heal like a bunch of squiggly worms knitting together, a symptom of being controlled by Ruby’s spiders. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
The devil got up onto his feet and grabbed his pitchfork. Then he looked at Ruby, awaiting orders.
Ruby nodded and said to her new puppet, "Now, my little darlings, lead the way to the Devil Lord."
The mid-level devil simply nodded his head and began to head south. Ruby walked for several hours until she was interrupted by several more mid-level devils being led by one very tall and hairy high-level devil.
This high-level devil looked at Ruby and his kin, then smiled, saying, "I will take this human off of your hands. We have more need of her than you do. After all, it’s been a few decades since I enjoyed such a top-quality woman."
Ruby smirked and waved her puppet away. He began to walk towards the high-level devil and simply joined the other mid-level devils following behind him.
The high-level devil smiled and said to his kin, "I’m glad you made the right choice. So don’t worry; you can have the leftovers after I’m done with this woman."
The high-level devil stopped paying attention to Ruby’s puppet. Then he looked at Ruby, saying, "Well, little human, you sure have some nice plump thighs and large breasts. It will be good to taste heaven again. Ha ha."
With a smile on his face, the high-level devil failed to notice the other devils behind him seemed to have stopped making noise. When he did notice this, the devil turned around and said to his subordinates, "Why are all of you so quiet?"
*Pierce*
*Splitch*
"Ahh!"
Only now did this high-level devil notice a field of dismembered devils behind him being eaten up by thousands of spiders.
His eyes fell on the kin who stabbed him in the gut.
"You’re a puppet!"