A week later and I was standing amongst a burning city laughing at the top of my lungs while Sonya stood next to me watching on as troll soldiers burned to a crisp while cursing me. The way this came about was because of their witch doctor troll sage.

The witch doctor was the Troll kings advisor and confidant, which should have warned me that they were a bunch of superstitious and stubborn idiots. I had shown up and told them that I was conquering their country and that anyone who stood in my way would get killed. The stupid bastards decided to hold a meeting and wait for the stars to tell them if they should fight me or surrender to me.

I of course decided to be nice to the bunch of crazy crackpots and just let them do their thing while I went to the centaur tribes on the plains. It worked for Ainz after all.

It took me about a month to conquer them and the Equestrian king finally met with me instead of avoiding me and made a deal that if I would help to get revenge on the City state alliance he would happily join under my banner. I of course accepted and told him that I would be back to help with his revenge once I had dealt with the trolls.

So I go back to the trolls and go back into their palace only to find the place empty. I of course am completely confused as to why in the hell a bunch of trolls would abandon their capital city and decide to track them down. Here I find out that the stars apparently told them that the capital city was built wrong and they decided to move to a new place. Oh, and they also had read in the stars that they should send a group of troops to attack my capital city while I was away and take my children hostage. They apparently read the stars wrong because it should have read that if they so much as tried to have touched any of my children that I would light their bullshit city on fire with them still inside while slaughtering them in the most gruesome fashion I could possibly think of.

I'll give one guess as to what happened. The trolls they sent were brought before Dee and Lupusregina who was visiting Dee so that their children could play and they attacked them. Dee went to protect our child while Lupu started killing them and one of the bastards managed to hit Dee in the back and into the kids. That was the last straw for me and my patience with the trolls.

Now we go back to the insane laughter as I stand on the wall as their city burns.

"I thought you were planning to conquer them honey?" Sonya asks softly while throwing a lightning javelin at another troll while smiling at his screams.

"I was planning to, but they decided that they wanted to go after the kids. Nobody, and I do mean nobody touches my children without having me show them the true meaning of hell."

"Demiurge would be very delighted to know that another of the supreme beings other than his creator enjoys making these hellish vistas."

"I would have invited him to come and have some fun with these fools, but he is busy helping Ainz with all of his round about plans. I really wish Ainz wouldn't use such complicated schemes when it could be solved with just some simple bloodshed and a nice head pat." I told her as I shoved one of the trolls spines into another trolls skull through his eye socket before kicking him off the wall into a burning pit while shouting. "This is Romeus."

The troll witch doctor and the king came up onto the wall and quickly went to me before bowing down. "We are sorry for our foolish actions, we beg of you, please stop the slaughter of our people before there is no trolls left." The Troll king begged me.

"You guys told me that you wanted to read the stars to make a decision just like you had always done, and then you betrayed the trust I put in you by using the time I had given you to come to a decision to harm my family. You should have known that I would be less then merciful to you lot after that stunt. So give me one good reason why I should stop killing trolls instead of letting you lot die to send a very clear message to those who would try this crap again."

"We will give you all of our information on our mystical arts including our divination arts." The witch doctor said as if he was in pain.

"How can I trust that you are telling me the truth and not just going to give me bits and pieces while saying the rest was lost in the fires or some crap like that?" I asked as I glared down at them.

"We swear upon our ancestors." They both yelled out as they put their hands on the floor of the wall and stabbed a dagger into their right hands. A pentagram formed under the both of them before spreading out and converging on me. I could feel the connection between them and me and knew they would keep their word.

I just shrugged and caused a massive downpour to happen using a rain dragon skill to summon rain. It was really useful when I needed to escape, but this was the first time I had ever used it to fight a fire. It took a few minutes, but I managed to kill the majority of flames and a number of trolls were lying in the mud puddles looking like they had just escaped hell.

I walked to the edge of the wall and yelled loud enough for everyone to hear. "This happened to you because your leaders decided to fight against my rule and attacked my family, let this be a warning to anyone who might try to go against me in the future and know that the next time this happens I will not stop no matter what you offer me or how you beg me. I am a kind ruler to those who serve me faithfully and the most fearsome demon from the pits of your darkest nightmares to those who are my enemies. Decide here and now whether you will fight me and die or serve me and live."

The trolls all had ridiculous healing capabilities and were thus able to move around. They all gathered in front of me and looked around at the scenes of death and destruction surrounding them and they all as one bowed down to me while yelling out. "We serve the emperor."

I just nodded before turning back to the troll king and the troll witch doctor. "You two will give what you have promised to my wife Sonya here and will then get started bringing all the other trolls in this country under my rule. If any fight against my rule they can die as they so obviously wish to. I have a city state alliance to crush."

I then had Sonya open a gate to the centaur plains to go meet with the Equestrian king to talk about what his revenge entailed. It wouldn't be very good if I wiped out everyone in the city state since I'm pretty sure most of them are innocent.

I met with the Equestrian king, which was funnily enough named Phil. He told me his story and what he wanted for revenge.

Apparently a group of young men went out to the plains to go do some hunting one day and decided that the normal animals weren't exotic enough for them. They decided to hunt down some centaurs to prove themselves. Centaurs are very powerful warriors on the plains and are known to be unstoppable if they move in a charging formation. They are the ultimate cavalry soldiers. They are also generally nomadic and move around a lot while only having one place that they can call a capital city on the plains. They had apparently built it a long time ago to have meetings between the tribes once a year.

These group of young men wandered around for a little while before they happened upon a centaur child. Of course a centaur child just looks like a smaller version of an adult centaur and looks like a buff young man or woman to people who don't know the differences. These young men may as well have killed that centaur boy by torturing him and treating him even worse than an animal. It was very obvious from the wounds that they had been inflicted to cause as much pain and suffering as possible.

The centaur boy was in fact Phil's son and he found him lying on the ground with his hooves cut off. The boy was not going to die from the wounds, but he would never be able to use his legs again, which to a centaur was worse than any sort of death they could have had happen to them. Phil was forced to kill his own child to end his sons suffering. His wife ended up killing herself after she found out what had happened to her child.

Phil went mad from his grief and ended up spending months going around the plains killing anything that got in his way from finding whatever it was that he was seeking while in that state of mind. He still is unable to recall what it was that he had wanted at that time. Maybe he wanted to die, to join with his family. Maybe he simply wished for a place to grieve over his families deaths at the hands of some cruel and heartless people.

After his madness left him he tried to track down those young men and he did manage to find them. They were in fact the sons of the city states rulers who had been on good terms with one another.

Phil had told the city lords about the evils that their sons had done and even pointed out how the polished hooves their sons were carrying around so proudly were the hooves of his child. He demanded that he be given justice. He was instead attacked by their guards and would have lost his life if he had not been as quick and experienced as he was. Even so he was badly wounded by their assault.

Phil spent years after healing up training and challenging himself. He constantly grew stronger and stronger until eventually he found that he had killed all of the major monsters of the plains and had defeated all of the centaur tribes chieftains. He was given the title of Equestrian king which was only given to a centaur who was deemed the pinnacle of what centaurs viewed as a ruler. A being of unbelievable might who couldn't be defeated by any centaur in a one on one battle.

This of course meant that all of the centaurs had a powerful hatred of anyone from the city state alliance and would kill anyone they met from there in the worst possible ways so as to send the message to their leaders and people. Though the leaders were just telling people how the centaurs were barbaric beings who did that for fun so that the common citizens didn't know the truth.

Even with his title and all of the centaurs under his rule he still couldn't forget the pain and injustice done to him by those people. He still wanted justice and revenge for his son and his wife. He would not rest until he had achieved his only goal left in this life. Once that goal was met he would pledge the rest of his life and the lives of those who followed him to me as their ruler.

I agreed to get him his revenge and I could also understand his feelings. From one father to another I would make sure those evil bastards got killed, even if I had to destroy the entire country to do it. I thought of myself as evil and self centered, but I at least had principles and tried to do evil for the right reasons, these guys were the kind of evil that made even me feel disgusted, and I had seen the crap that Demiurge and Nueronist Painkill did to people.

I called up my troops and had everyone outfitted in armor and weapons. It took a week to get everyone ready, but once I did I had Sonya, Shaltear and myself opened gates leading to the centaur plains where Phil was waiting with his warriors. It was time for me to have a proper war.

I even had some of the troops from Nazarick join in. Not Ainz's death nights or soul eaters, he had those guys working on their image by acting as police and pack horses, but I did have a number of EEAs. Aura and Shaltear were coming with since they had missed the war Ainz had and felt like they had been left out. Though I think they were just bored. Aura brought along a good few of her pets which were all considered legendary beasts to the normal people. My military didn't seem to care though since they were used to all the random crap I pulled out of the air already. The centaurs, trolls, and the minotaurs were all rather shocked though.

Shaltear and Sonya had their vampires join together to create a vampire squad. I wasn't quite sure how I felt about that since I know that vampires all have the blood frenzy drawback. Though I guess if I want an entire area dead I can always send them in.

I had everyone camp just outside the borders of the city state alliance and sent a messenger to the closest city with a declaration of intent.

The declaration went something like this.

I, The emperor of the Romeus Empire, Alex Romeus, do hearby demand in the name of the Equestrian king Phil, Ruler of the centaur tribes of the great centaur plains, that the individuals who tortured and disfigured his son Rubeus to the point that he was forced to end his life and caused his wife Syba to commit suicide due to despair 20 years hence past as well as the individuals who protected these heinous criminals when he asked for justice previously be handed over to receive their just and proper judgement and punishment. If these individuals are not handed over within one weeks time I do hereby declare that the Romeus empire and the centaur tribes will declare the Karnassus city state alliance as enemies of our countries and will henceforth initiate war upon them. In order to determine that the individuals handed over by the city state alliance are in fact the perpetrators of these heinous and unethical acts they will have their memories and souls read publicly. Should the individuals handed over be innocent of the crimes mentioned above they will be shown leniency and only be judged based on the crimes that they have actually committed.

I do hereby declare as of the date that this declaration is delivered that it is the first day of the week waiting period and that any citizen from the city state alliance who wishes to surrender in order to avoid becoming collateral damage from the war will be treated as kindly as possible while they are detained for the period of the war, which will probably only last a week or two at most due to the weakness of your country compared to mine.

Both Phil and I had signed the declaration of war and used our seals to make the declaration official. My messenger would read the declaration in the city center and would set up a stake where it would be posted for everyone to see. He would then use a scroll to teleport back to the capital to avoid capture or assassination.

The next day a messenger from the city came to us and demanded to know what this was about. The messenger was from one of the lords who didn't know about the situation.

I explained what had happened to Phil back then and told him about how Phil had offered to have him and his people as well as his lands come under my rule if I helped him get justice for his family. I then told the messenger that I was willing to use all the forces at my command to raze the entirety of their country to the ground if need be since this request is one that any ruler, much less any father would feel is righteous in the extreme.

He didn't comment on his thoughts and left shortly afterwards with a bow.