The Useless 8th Prince

The Closed Door

Looking at the pile of gold and platinum coins, Ciel swallowed the saliva.

This is not the time to think about self-worth! With this ...making three special regiments in the shadows is not impossible! Although not thousands ... hundreds of people obviously still can!

Ciel doesn't want to be cocky and say words like ‘ don't need it’, ‘just take it back’, or something like that. According to the young man, only a fool would refuse money just because of a trivial matter.

If people want to buy lovers, bribes, or things like that. But to him, that stack of gold and platinum coins was his father's apology. As a child, he should be open-minded.

Aye! This is not dirty money! This is dad's request!

Ciel is self-hypnosis. For a farmer, dozens of gold coins mean comfortable homes and vast fields to manage. Refuse that pile of gold and platinum coins .. Mubazir!

By the time Ciel approached the stack of gold and platinum coins, Queen Lilith stopped him and shook her head lightly.

“Not finished.”

“Not finished???” Ciel tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

“True. There is still another gift,” said Queen Lilith who took a small black box from under her shirt.

When opening the black box, there were two jet-black rings. One had gold ornaments and was encrusted with small amethys stones. Others have silver ornaments and are encrusted with small sapphires. The two rings are beautiful, but not flashy. Simple enough, but so elegant.

“I-It ..” Ciel gets nervous.

“True. Both of these rings are dimensional.” rings Queen Lilith nodded with a complicated look.

“I ... can I take one of them?” ask Ciel.

“No.” Queen Lilith shook her head.

Then why are you showing it to me, Mom! Don't play with this pure heart!

Ciel grumbled inwardly, he looked dissatisfied.

“Everything for you.” Queen Lilith said briefly.

“Se-Everything ..” Ciel instantly excited and took a small box from his mother's hand.

“That's from Dad and Maria.”

“Ugh!” Hearing her mother's words, Ciel felt the small box in her hand become so heavy.

The person called ‘Dad’ by his mother was certainly Queen Lilith's in-law and Ciel's grandfather, the previous Emperor of the Black Sun Empire. Old monster ... level 8 demon who shut himself up in his residence. Since there was a rule, demons of that level should not interfere with world affairs except in special cases.

While the person named ‘Maria’ is the sister of Emperor Julius, the only woman of 3 children Ciel's grandfather. He had a terrible talent and was even more dangerous than his own father. But .. Ciel was very familiar with the woman.

“Tante .. I mean Sister Maria, did she not come to see me, Mom?”

As Ciel said, Maria was his father's sister and teacher. The woman forced Ciel to call her big sister, but had good teaching talent. The intelligent Ciel easily learned the concept of magic and found it interesting to read. The young man had been poisoned since childhood.

If other friends read the fairy tale princess and prince before going to bed. As a child, Ciel learned basic magic concepts that he thought were magical and cool. Unknowingly, it had become a habit.

Maria is also the only person outside of the soul contract who knows that Ciel is a very dangerous level 6 demon. Of course, Ciel still hid his three innate talents because it was his greatest secret.

Instead, Ciel said that he has the default skill ‘Elemental Lord’, ‘Gravity Magic’, and ‘Predator’.

Elemental Lord and Predator could be said to be extremely powerful innate skills, but it was still one or two levels below Ciel's original skill. The reason the young man said so was because .. Maria also had an Elemental Lord innate skill. The skill that made its owner have an affinity with all the elemental magic from fire, water, wind, earth, darkness, and so on.

Perhaps because they felt they were quite the same, Maria treated Ciel very well. Even better than both of his parents.

“Maria .. she is in closed-door training.” Queen Lilith said in a sour tone. She felt uncomfortable, sister-in-law who was several years younger had even gone too far.

“Kak Maria ... She really wants to break through level 7?” The corner of Ciel's lips twitched as he said it.

Damnit damnit! Master will soon catch up to maybe even pass the power of father! That woman is really terrible.

Ciel thought as he imagined a beautiful figure in his mind.

Beautiful, smart, and strong. An Abyssal Angel who became the dream of men. Unfortunately, he refused to marry.

Actually many princes from other kingdoms or empires tried to apply, but were rejected outright. Mary always said, not wanting to have a man weaker than her and not wanting to marry an older one.

Instead, he would accept a challenge from a man his age. If she wins, she can take her home as a wife. If it lost, there was already a contract stating that it was a death duel. In other words .. killed.

Of course, since there was a dueling contract, a kingdom or empire could not interfere in such a sacred match.

Although many were afraid, there were still some people who tried to challenge him by making a determination. The result is very clear. Nine challengers .. the nine demons were sent into nothingness.

From that day on Maria started to get new nicknames .. ‘The Princess of Nine Hell’.

“True. Sooner or later he'll surpass your father.”

Hearing her mother's honest words, Ciel felt danger. In the vast demon world, he did not dare to be arrogant. Despite having a strong innate talent, in this world, it was not only her who had a strong innate talent.

Even if it did not have such absurd innate talent, many old foxes had already cultivated years of experience earlier compared to him. Ciel still felt too small to walk around with his head raised as if he was the strongest in the world.

“Maria is indeed an amazing talent. But I am also sure, you will not lose to him.” Queen Lilith cheered on Ciel.

That's not convincing!

Ciel exclaimed inwardly. She secretly felt lucky because Maria was not the enemy and was even very good at taking care of her since childhood. He then looked at the two rings and felt certain that the black ring with gold ornaments encrusted with tiny amethys was from Mary. After all, the two colors were similar to the color of his eyes.

Forget about that! It can't be an empty ring, right?

Let's see the contents!

Thought Ciel with an excited expression.

>> Connect.