Filming in the Demon Realm

"Your Highness, they are the last surviving humans in this village."

Joshua's mind was still hazy. He only heard someone calling out beside him, a dull yet concerned voice.

"Your Highness?"

Joshua's memories finally cleared a little. A grotesque monster stood beside him, and that concerned greeting had come from the monster's mouth.

Sin Demon Zennas.

The monster's name surged into Joshua's memories. Strangely, Joshua did not feel afraid because of the creature's terrifying appearance.

"Surviving humans..."

Joshua instinctively looked in the direction the monster pointed. Flames engulfed the area, corpses piled across the ground, and the air was thick with an indescribable stench of blood and charred flesh.

This village had just suffered a massacre.

The surviving villagers had been bound together by thorn-covered vines. Their clothing was not the modern attire Joshua knew, but instead resembled the clothes worn in medieval Europe.

"Your Highness! As you commanded, the bandits who raided this village have all been killed. Should these villagers be killed as well?"

Sin Demon Zennas spoke again. He stood nearly two meters tall and looked like a hybrid of a lion and a lizard. As he spoke, ghostly green flames spilled from his mouth.

His scale-covered hands gripped a Double-edged Spear, its surface flowing with a liquid resembling magma.

When the villagers bound by thorns saw the hideous demon approach, they all looked at him with terrified, uncertain eyes.

"No. Tie them up and take them away first."

Joshua still had not figured out what was going on. Seconds ago, he had been a game designer working late in his office on a draft for a game proposal. Seconds later, he had arrived in this strange world, with a demon at his side that obeyed his every word.

This transmigration had come far too suddenly. There had not been the slightest warning.

Fortunately, Joshua's adaptability was about on par with a slug's. Combined with the fact that the original soul in this body had not yet dissipated, he did not display anything unusual and simply accepted his current situation.

"As you command, Your Highness."

Sin Demon Zennas obeyed Joshua's order. He swept his scaled hand through the air, and a Teleportation Portal formed from ghostly green light appeared before Joshua.

More than a dozen small Lesser Devils leaped out of the portal. They seized the villagers tangled in thorny vines and dragged them into the portal despite their feeble resistance and wails.

Joshua sorted through his memories. Demons were a group made up of many races living together. Lesser Devils occupied the lowest rung of demon society. They were unintelligent, physically no stronger than humans, and their only advantage was their relatively fast breeding rate.

Zennas, on the other hand, was a high-ranking Sin Demon and Joshua's personal guard. Just from his imposing appearance, one could tell how powerful the Sin Demon race was.

Most demons looked vastly different from humans. Joshua was grateful that although his race stood at the highest level of demon society, his appearance was surprisingly no different from a human's, aside from the two horns on his forehead.

Joshua could accept transmigration. What he could not accept was being transmigrated into something other than a human.

A noble Chaos Demon? That did not sound too bad.

"Let's go back, Zennas," Joshua said.

"Your Highness, do you not intend to use this opportunity to invade the surrounding city-states?"

"Invade the city-states?"

Joshua surveyed the surroundings again. Based on the memories he had sorted out, he understood why he was here.

This naïve Demon Prince had slipped into the human world out of curiosity.

After coming through the Teleportation Portal, he had been taken in by a human merchant caravan. But when the caravan stopped to rest in a village, it was attacked by a band of bandits.

The village had naturally been slaughtered from end to end. In the end, the Demon Prince could not stand watching any longer, so he summoned his guard from the Demon Realm and wiped out the bandits.

He had saved the village from annihilation, but judging from the fear in the villagers' eyes, being kidnapped by demons was far more despairing than being raided by bandits.

"Not interested."

Joshua naturally had no intention of indulging this Demon Prince's childish and pitiful curiosity. Besides, he had no desire to attack humans right now.

"Oh, right. Zennas, there's still someone alive over there."

Before entering the Teleportation Portal, Joshua pointed at a figure in the distant pile of corpses that was trying to escape.

The bandit had been clever. He had pretended to be dead and fooled everyone, but he had been too impatient.

"As you command."

Joshua did not need to state his meaning outright. Zennas already understood perfectly.

Amid horrifying screams and the sound of flesh being torn apart, Joshua stepped into the Teleportation Portal.

The Demon Realm was not as terrible as Joshua had imagined. At the very least, the sky was azure, and the temperature was pleasantly warm.

Volcanoes that could erupt at any moment, lava flowing across the ground, skies heavily blanketed by volcanic ash—none of the scenes that modern people typically associated with hell could be found here.

The Teleportation Portal led to a garden. Unknown flowers bloomed across the ground, giving off pale blue particles of light.

If not for the hideous demon standing beside him, Joshua would have found it hard to believe this was the Demon Realm.

"Your Highness, should these humans be locked in cages?" Zennas asked.

"Lock them up for now. Feed them something and don't let them starve to death. I still have a use for them."

After giving this order to his guard, Joshua headed deeper into the castle.

According to his memories, this was Anoroth, the Royal Capital of the Demon Realm. The city's name meant "Abyssal Frontier" in the demon language. Joshua did not know its precise significance, but in any case, he was currently in the heart of the Main City.

It was the palace where the Rulers of the Demon Realm and their children lived.

Following his memories, Joshua navigated around the Main City's complicated pathways and returned to the area where the Demon Prince had originally lived.

"This place is really a mess."

Joshua entered the castle. The Demon Prince's lifestyle was far more... filthy than Joshua had imagined.

What had originally seemed like a lavishly decorated room was covered with piles of unknown objects. Even Joshua, who was not much of a neat freak, frowned at the sheer mess.

Joshua could barely identify the open books and several crystals scattered across the floor. The rest were all bizarre little trinkets.

Were there no servants here to clean the room? Joshua searched through his memory backup again.

He finally figured out that all the clutter covering the room was the Demon Prince's "research results."

Joshua Anoroth, the third son of Notlein, Ruler of the Demon Realm. Unlike his extraordinarily gifted eldest brother and second sister, this Demon Prince had been a little different from birth.

Even at the age of seventeen, he was always inventing strange things. Every so often, he would throw the entire city into chaos. By now, demons throughout the city used a vivid derogatory term to describe this Demon Prince.

"Despicable human!"

Compared to humans, Joshua thought he was more like a goblin or gnome.

Still, the Third Prince's displayed talent in fields such as mechanical engineering, magical engineering, and crystal construction could only be described as insane.

The assorted junk crammed into his room consisted of unfinished products from his past research.

"Magic Power Projector" and "Image Recording Stone."

After reviewing the descriptions and functions of these two little devices in his memories, Joshua preferred to call them—

"Camera" and "Memory Card."

"Interesting."

Joshua had not originally decided what to do after transmigrating into this world.

Not everyone enjoyed treating battle, becoming stronger, and similar things as the ultimate ideal of their lives. Joshua was not particularly interested in power.

The legacy left behind by the Third Prince gave Joshua an idea.

Perhaps he could make movies in another world. If that did not work, he could create some card games, like Magic: The Gathering or Hearthstone. Then he could write some novels and draw some comics. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

As an artist, Joshua felt it was necessary to spread Earth's culture to this world. No... it should be called invading this world.