Chapter 1 – The backward summoning spell

In a magical world lived a demon lord named Raenef (actually Raenef V, but since the four first are back numbers we don't need to care about them). Demon lords are terrible creatures; they possess powerful dark magic, like to plunder villages and then burn them to the ground, and are simply extremely evil. At least, they are supposed to be like that. However, Raenef – who had been dedicated the title rather recently – was an exception; he had a hard time learning black magic due to his grave concentration difficulties, he was not very fond of plundering, and was not very evil at all. Actually, there were few who were kinder than Raenef.

The lack of evilness in the young demon lord was a constant source to concern for the servant of Raenef, the powerful demon Eclipse. He was doing his best in trying to turn his young master more… demon-lord-like, all in vain. After several weeks of training, all young master had managed to do was 1) not calling Eclipse "sir", 2) not apologizing for every stupid thing he did and 3) learned one simple spell called "dark arrow".

Eclipse did not think that the poor progresses his young master had done compensated for that he had 1) spared a knight who had tried to kill him, 2) let the knight in question become his page (=playmate), 3) had run away from their residence in order to become a better demon lord, and, due to that, 4) almost had died when a the coming chief cleric had tried to murder him. Luckily Eclipse had come to his rescue. Less luckily, Eclipse had been convinced by the cleric's master to take the young cleric with them, so now he lived in the demon castle as well.

Gah, I have to make him train harder on acting like a true demon lord, thought Eclipse as he observed Raenef playing tag with knight Erutis and priest Chris.

"Lord Raenef, it is not fitting for a demon lord to play tag. I suggest that we continue to practice on the "death drill"…"

"B-b-but Eclipse, I don't think I'm ready to kill anything!" the demon lord sobbed, "Can't we take a day free? Pleasepleaseplease?"

"…"

"Thanks, Eclipse! 3 You sure you don't wanna play with us?"

"… No. Thanks."

A few hours later Eclipse had managed to convince Raenef to have a lesson in demonic behavior. Meanwhile Erutis was exercising while Chris was trying to create a new spell.

"Everyone! Come here, quickly! I, Chris the Supergenius, may have invented a totally new discover!"

The others gathered around him, vaguely curious of what the so-called genius had to show them.

"Behold! This is a BACKWARD SUMMONING SPELL!" Chris gestured eagerly at the mystical drawing on the ground.

"… I go getting dinner", Eclipse said and withdrew.

"Boring, I go take a shower", Erutis said, bored to death already.

"What's a backward summoning spell, Chris?" Raenef asked curiously.

"D'you remember when I summoned you to the sacred temple of god Rased? Well, this is like the opposite. If this works, I'll be able to summon away demons and demon lords to… somewhere else! And then, I'll be known as the Supergenious Chief Cleric Chris the Great! Muhahahaha!"

"Where exactly is that somewhere else place?"

"Well…" Chris scratched his head, "I dunno, d'you wanna find out?"

"Er… It seems kind scary…" Raenef glanced at the anti-summon circle with fear in his cute puppy eyes.

"Come on, it'll be fun! I can summon you back later!"

"Okay!" Forgetting all about fear Raenef placed himself in the middle of the circle, jumping with exaggeration. "Do it! Do it! Tihihi!"

"Yeah, have fun! I un-summon thee!"

The picture begun to shine with a white light, and Raenef's silhouette begun to fade. Suddenly, everything went white, and when the light disappeared, Raenef was gone with it.

"Cool! It really, actually worked!" Chris cheered, "I really am a genius!"