Valena's story didn't sound strange to Nikolai.
In fact, he'd come from a world with thousands of similar fables, stories and tales where a supreme being would underestimate a human or another race. Then, once that creature found a weapon or item to force the supreme being from the seat.
Of course, it depended on the genre.
Sometimes that being would serve the human as a slave, or become his minion. Others would make them submit physically, as their woman or lover, with the stupid twist of falling in love with each other.
'Well, it seems the curse stopped her taking a human form.'
So Asmodeus believed that Grundig's revenge shouldn't have been for 'those' kinds of purposes, and he just wanted a cool dragon to fly around with.
"What do you want to do from here, Valena?"
Although he wanted to make her his mount like Grundig, forcing her also felt a little too much after listening to her story. Asmodeus planned to convince her slowly over time to become his mount.
