This is a How not to summon a demon lord fanfiction only.

I decided to walk towards the very building where this so-called Lord lived and worked from, just happens that Shera and Rem saw me and apparently decided to go with me, either they noticed that every single person that came near me decided to walk away in the opposite direction or that right now I am so angry that if someone as much as tried to cop a feel of either one of them, I would make a pile of ashes out of the fool.

As we began to walk I had to slow down because Sylvie was having a hard time catching up with us, yes, her breathing was that loud that I actually knew she was trying to follow me and failed to do so without me noticing.

"Diablo, I told my aides to tell the members of our guild your kind warning, all except the claim of basically being a god, because let's face it, they would not listen to the warning if I did. Now please tell me you are not going to kill the representative and Lord appointed by the King of this nation."

I didn't stop she walked up to me and grabbed my arm trying to stop me, I turned and looked at her, "I may be harsh but I am also fair, all depends on his actions. Make no mistake, if someone is under my protection and that person is harmed, there will be a heavy price to pay, and no amount of money will buy my forgiveness."

We began to walk as soon as she stopped grabbing and pressing herself on my arm. I walked over to the reception desk and looked at the woman that was standing behind the desk. "We are here to see General Galford. Now I know he doesn't know we are here, so please announce us, cause this could very well end up reducing this city's population to one third, and that is not a threat that is a promise."

"You were never one to give warnings or make threatening promises Diablo. I guess we both have changed much, don't worry, General Galford was expecting you please step right in, once you are done with this current crisis I may wish to discuss something with you in private I will very much like that when you have the time."

Well that is not something I was expecting, now that she is standing near the door to the meeting room we are going, I noticed something almost familiar, her tall figure, her long wavy red hair, with several parts braided, her deep crimson eyes, and for some reason her attire changed from the things she was wearing to a form-fitting suit, with a generous view of her cleavage showing an ample bosom.

I decided to play a park on her since she clearly is using magic to change her appearance. This sort of thing almost seems so familiar, it is like something I saw every day a long time ago. I decided to treat her as I once did the goddess that betrayed me, at least treated her before she cut me up into pieces. "I am not the only one that changed, I will keep in mind that meeting but you need to send me your address, till we meet again Shiriza."

That is when she began to blush and sort of look nervous for some strange reason, she just kept blushing and trembling for some reason. I walked in and the meeting room was pretty much something typical for such a high-end meeting. The conference table could sit several dozen diplomats, the cabinets, table, and chairs where made from high-quality wood, cloth, and other materials, and every piece had gold trim.

The General had this smug look on his face that had I still been a god, I would have loved to take this fool through the planes where his obvious personality flaws could be dealt with. As a God, I would show this brat the meaning of humility, respect, and the desire for mercy. "I been expecting you, you must be the adventurer that is rumored to call himself a demon lord, not a wise choice in titles, I am Lieutenant General Chester Ray Galford, appointed by the King as lord of the city of Faltra and you are?"

I don't like the tone in his voice, but no matter, "I am Diablo the Demon Lord of Destruction, you are too young to be able to think yourself, my equal boy. Show your elders respect, I do not claim to be a Demon Lord, I am something much, much worse, try to test me, and I shall show you by burning this entire city to ashes with a snap of my fingers."

He walked towards me, and I could see the hate in his eyes, "Very well, now that introductions are over, why are you here? Usually, when I request something from the guild, people only show up when the request has been done, and only to receive their payment, so why are you here?"

I looked at him and still think his bloated ego will cause us a lot of trouble. " I know what you requested and what I need to do, but I need to make certain of a few things before I even consider accepting this request. I want you to promise me you will not interfere in this, I want you to stop your citizens from ever trying to capture Shera, and I want you to understand that I am not one of your sheep."

He looked at me and then at Shera, "Princess Shera why would you go this far to basically abandon your home, your country, and your family? What could possibly motivate you to abandon your life of luxury, privilege, and comfort?"

She looked at him, and I know the answer to that but telling him that she was trying to escape from a deranged brother that wanted to rape her would be embarrassing to anyone. " I do love my family, my home and my people, but I left to find someone with whom I would like to spend the rest of my life with, someone I can not only love, but trust and even motivate me to be even better than I ever been."

Hey, why is she looking at me after she said that? "As for what would happen, I believe I told Sylvie what I would do, if one of these bounty hunters tries to do anything to Shera, I will exterminate them, completely, so unless you want your precious city to be reduced to being your precious village, I would listen and do as I asked."

I put my hand on the table and punched it hard enough to make the sound be heard outside the room. "I defeated an army of Fallen by myself at Ulag, something that you should have taken care off, so I think you at the very least own me for doing your job while you were here sitting and drinking wine."

He got closer to me and I was ready to stop his attack, "I wish I could do that, but sadly the King has sent a representative to help you in this difficult task, she probably heard you smacking my table, she is an imperial knight of some renown. The King believes she is perfect to aid you in this endeavor. I will, however, promise that as long as Shera is within Falta I shall do everything I can to prevent anyone from attacking her."

"You might not know this, but having my people, my citizens, my soldiers die under my watch there is nothing in this world I hate more than that. You want to protect the princess, and she obviously doesn't want to be away from you, I can understand wanting to defend that which you consider precious, so you do not need to worry Diablo. I will stop the bounty hunters."

As he said that a loud knock was heard, "Excuse me, sir, may I enter?"

He walked over to the door and opened it, "Perfect, I just finished explaining to Diablo here, the reason why you will work with him why don't you introduce yourself."

She was rather impressive in her armor, it hugged her figure rather tightly and did present an impressive image, Imperial Knights were usually people who were the children or were Nobles themselves, the level of dedication required of them was well known to me. She did have this sort of familiar aura around her.

"My name is Alicia Crystella, I was sent by the royal court to assist you in this coming crisis, and to ensure that this situation is taken care off. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I have heard a lot about Rem, she is a well-known summoner, and Shera don't dread, I will be on your side, I will not let anything happen to you."

She walked over to me and held my hand, she looked into my eyes, I could see something hiding behind her gaze. "Mister Diablo, please rest assured that I am completely at your disposal. I will protect Shera at the best of my abilities." I can feel that she is plotting something and the feeling I am getting from what I can sense due to her touching me tell me it is something she is trying very hard to keep hidden.

"First off, remember that I am a Demon Lord, so Lord Diablo would have been more appropriate but since you are a mortal I shall forgive you for this trespass. Secondly remember that I am not a subject of your King, Third, if you expect mercy from those that earn my wrath, you will be sadly disappointing. I have informed exactly what would happen if anyone attacks anyone under my protection to the General."

I let go of her hand and looked hard at her, "As long as you understand this, we shall have no problems, but make no mistake, your King's benefit does not matter, your desire to ascend rank does not matter, Justice will be done, and I shall punish wrongs severely and by severely I mean fatally." For some reason, she almost seemed to smile as I said that.

"I gather we do not need to discuss anything else, remember General, this is my endeavor do not interfere or I shall make you regret it." I didn't wait to hear him say anything I simply began to walk towards the exit and as we left Sylvie seemed to be looking at me in awe for some reason. As we walked in town Alicia began to really almost sing for some reason.

"So Lord Diablo, mind if I ask you what are our current plans?" I guess Alicia wants to know if I have planned anything right now to deal with our situation, color me impressed, I thought I was the only one that felt the presences of several people following and stalking us. These idiots have no idea who they are messing with, and I got to say I am not surprised that they didn't that the warning of their guild master seriously, not with the amount of money Keera is willing to pay.

The second one of them tried to capture Shera several men appeared out of nowhere, it seems camouflage magic is a thing that Galford's soldiers can use. They captured all the bounty hunters and gave them such a severe beating that honestly me killing them would me merciful by comparison. I never seen a bunch of men enjoy their work as much as these knight looking men beating on the idiot bounty hunters.

"Well for one Galford actually kept his promise, and he will stop people from trying to capture Shera, guess he does have a few redeeming character traits after all. As for my plans, go buy some ingredients and things I need to make more healing potions, take Shera and Rem back to the Inn so they can have lunch, and see if Celeste has arranged my meeting with the person who will teach me how to break those slave collars."

Shera seem to relax and she leaned closer to my body, "Honestly I would really like to have them removed, but to tell you the truth, I think would sort of miss it after it was gone, it has so many good memories, feelings and I don't even mind them as much, since I know you would never abuse the power to make me do anything against my will."

As we bought different herbs and vials I could not help but notice a level of disappointment from Alicia, for some odd reason I get this feeling that she was actually waiting for me to make good on my threat and end up turning Falta City into the Town or Village of Faltra. I really need to see if I can write some of the revival potion formulae I used to know and maybe a Revival Spell.

After the damage Gregore did, and all these people that died defending Celeste from him, I really should have been more aware of the need for these things, but somehow I still worry, that bringing someone back from death would sort of cheapening the very value that life has, that situations could become even more brutal if people knew that with a potion people could be basically resurrected and be brought back to life.

I hope that I am worried about nothing, but I also hope that since killing becomes a less effective means to resolve disputes this also means they will have to come up with better and more peaceful means to solve problems and disputes.

As we finished buying out supplies, the owner of the Apothecary that sold us almost all our ingredients and vials came closer to me, "You know, with how you handled all those Fallen at the Bridge of Ulag, I think I need to restock my potions faster than I am, I also heard that you are the Demon Lord that got the local Lord to provide security to your party, so that means you got to have some major skills."

"I was wondering if you had any potions to say revive someone from a state of near death or even recent death? I think after that incident stocking on those would lessen the grief felt by the people in our city, and of course, I would be willing to buy some of your healing potions as well, as soon as I can analyze your merchandise I can tell you how much I can pay for each vial."

I took two vials that I had in my belt pouch and handed them over. "The red is the revival potion can revive anyone if used within in twenty-five minutes since the last heartbeat of the patient, and the green is a healing potion. Go ahead, and analyze them, I will wait for you to tell me what you think of them."

He opened one and began to go through examining it, "So if you were to drop dead right now I have twenty-five minutes to actually save you by using the red potion, You know something, my family has been trying to create something like this red potion is supposed to be for generations, why don't we test it."

He took a large pin and threw it at a rat that was passing by the window sill frame, and sure enough, he got the rat dead on, it was kind of impressive how this guy has this sort of aim. He dragged the rat inside and he set a clock, waited for twenty-four minutes used the potion and sure enough, the rat became alive. Granted it was still bleeding pretty badly from the injury but nothing that would normally cause death if treated.

He poured a drop of the green potion and sure enough the rat was as healthy as ever, was looking pretty down perky, as the rat tried to run away again he hit it with another one of his pins killing it again, this time he simply sat there.

"I say that the green potion was pretty much a success, good for healing injuries, I guess it doesn't matter if it is rubbed or if you drink it." Alicia moved closer to me and began to sit right near where I was seated, leaning closer to me. "I say, that rat's injuries were gone in a matter of seconds, Diablo sure can make some wonderful things, I would even say the King might want to buy that one in extremely large quantities just for his own use or for the military."

We kept waiting, and I began to wonder how long has Alicia been standing so close to me, and why are Shera and Rem still looking at the nearby flowers on the building across from us. "Twenty-six minutes, let's try again the red potion." He tried another drop and nothing, that was one dead, skewered rat. He began to laugh and I swear that if I was just another plain human I would be scared right about now.

"So you are a man that has made the potion my family has spent generations in trying to develop, and you made a healing potion that makes mine seem like a water downed joke. The young lady called you Diablo, that is funny, my family once was a member of a faith that once worshiped a god named Diablo, the God of Destruction."

He looked at me and smiled, "If that god still existed or if it ever existed and decided to visit me with something like this I would call this a miracle, but jokes aside, You may call me Lazarus, So Diablo here is my proposal to you, teach me the formula for these two potions, and I swear on Diablo's name that I will share with you half of my profits. You will not have to worry about it, just come and collect each month. I will take care of the rest."

I could also think that he just wants the formula for both of them, and then simply take credit for it, turning the situation around and taking advantage of me, I guess there is nothing that can be done since he said his family was once people who used to worship me, well they must know how I once made contracts with mortals, I was a deity that had very strict contract rules after all.

I took a piece of paper and one of his pins, I dabbed the pin in the dead rat and began to write a blood contract. The contract was simple and straight forward, I would share with him the formula for the healing potion and revival potion, he was obligated to share half of the profits of each, he would have collected that amount and have it ready for my collection each month.

Should he lie on the profit amount or any other fact about how much was gained from the sale of the two potions, the contract would be declared in violation, and such all shared knowledge will be erased and the violator would lose all profits for one standard month.

I wrote his name and handed him a new clean pin, "The contract now just needs your blood seal." Lazarus took the pin and as tradition, he drew blood from his finger and signed it, and finally pressed his bleeding finger on the spot right next to his signature.

The second he did the contract was gone in flames, as it was being transported to my realm for safe keeping, and as the flames ended he began to be unable to focus, he simply sat there with this mouth open, Alicia, Rem, and Shera just looked at the man muttering something with this glazed look in his eyes. I knew what was happening the information on the two potions was being shared directly into his mind.

"I see, I see, so that is the secret to the two potions, today really is a miracle, my Lord, I thank you for sharing this information with a fool that once dared to question your existing, I hope you can forgive us for our lack of faith, who knew such a young man was our god, you do not need to worry I will have your profits each month, I swear on the holy name of the God of Destruction, Diablo or may I burn for all time as punishment."