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Chapter 10: Chatting With a Demon

Back in the misty red realm.

Edol watched Ugly warily. The pain in his head had finally diminished, but now he was faced with just as big of a problem.

What had his enemy done to him to cause this pain?

A gravelly voice emanated from his counterpart, the language felt both familiar and unheard at the same time.

"Magicless goblin. Where are we?"

'Goblin? What? Is Ugly here calling me a goblin?'

"Hey Ugly, what did you just call me? Check yourself before you try insulting me, demon."

Edol spoke in his native English, and it seemed the demon could understand him as well. It recoiled from his words, horrified.

"D-Did you just call me an ugly demon?!? I'm the most handsome Suvian alive!"

Ugly charged at Edol, attempting to skewer him for his words, but Edol wasn't nearly as slow as he had been weeks ago.

Edol sidestepped the demon's charge, backing away from his foe and grabbing an earthen spike from the ground.

"What else could you be? This place is probably hell, so you must be a demon!"

The demon stopped, shocked at his words.

"Hell…? But... I'm dead?"

A look of desolation and despair surfaced in the demon's eyes as its head slumped.

"What's up, Ugly? Giving up already? I think it's pretty obvious you're dead, I already killed you a few times!" Edol's opponent was now slumped on the ground as if it had lost his soul.

The demon's voice sounded again, its voice breaking off as if it was about to cry.

"If I'm dead… then all of my brothers too…"

The demon turned to Edol, tears shining on its face as it clenched its sword in rage.

"YOU GOBLINS! Your kind are the scummiest creatures on Suvia! Everyone is dead because of you filthy goblins!"

'Suvia? What is this demon talking about?'

"What, did you lose to humans in your last life too? Ha! You really are weak!"

Edol dodged the demon's wild charge once again, wincing as its sword cut against his arm.

"You're all the same! You would probably do the same as the goblins back on Suvia! My whole family! Your kind killed my whole family, just for your greed!"

Tears streamed from the demon's eyes, clouding its vision.

"Yea, they probably deserved it! You killed me the second I came here, for no reason at all! If your family was anything similar to you, then they deserved painful deaths!"

"YOU BASTARD!!!"

The demon ran at Edol, completely disregarding its defenses. It wanted nothing more than to rip this filthy trash in front of it to pieces.

A smile covered Edol's face as he watched his foe charge recklessly.

"Ha. Just keep coming at me, Ugly. Just a little closer…"

Once the demon was just a few steps away, Edol attempted another side-step, revealing a particularly large earth spike angled towards the charging demon.

"Idiot demon! You're just going to ki- AHHH!!"

The demon's arms wrapped around Edol, preventing him from dodging away from its charge. The demon's remaining energy carried both of their bodies onto the spike, and moments later, the duo respawned.

"Damn, I almost got you! This would be so much easier if I could use magic too!"

The demon's eyes shined with fury as a cruel thought formed in its mind.

The greatest difference between humans and demons was their magical abilities.

Demons were known as the jack-of-all-trades race. On the planet of Suvia, magic was commonly known as "Legacy". Passed down through families or from teachers, anyone with enough luck could acquire useful abilities.

The so-called "demons" held an advantage in terms of inheritance- Initially, their magical abilities were the same as any other humans, until a great genius was born nearly a thousand years ago.

He developed a formation that could allow one to practice using multiple legacies. It could've been a great boon for all, but even at that time, there was still conflict ongoing between the so-called "Western Demons" and humans in the East, so the genius added countless traps within the formation.

If anyone not of the demon race tried to use the formation, they would quickly perish. Despite the formation being common knowledge, no one had managed to unravel all of the traps hidden within the formation, and the race limit of the spell held on to the present.

As a result, if a demon was given multiple legacies, they would be able to use each of them. On the side of the unlucky eastern humans, they were locked into using just the first legacy they acquired.

As such, demons typically held the advantage in one-on-one fights. Their superior arsenal of magic gave them much more flexibility.

If demons held the advantage in every fight, humans wouldn't be tough opponents for them. The problem came in group fights. Magic… didn't hold nearly as much sway as one might expect.

The range of magic was quite short, much shorter than the range of even a simple crossbow. As a result, most wars centered around equipment rather than magical ability.

The amount of magic one could wield was largely determined when one received a legacy, but control over mana was only learned through practice.

Seeing as how Edol had never touched magic before, if he made it to Suvia, he would be able to acquire any element of magic with enough luck.

'Heh, ugly goblin. You wanted magic… don't forget to thank me!'

The demon charged at Edol, covering the distance between the two quickly.

The demon's plan was simple: Use a modified version of legacy bestowal to gift trash-level earth magic to Edol. Soon the boy would be able to cast giant earth spikes, just like the demon!

Earthen spikes ripped out from the ground under Edol, spearing through his knees and securing him in place.

The boy didn't even have a chance to scream as the demon slammed its hand into his chest.

"Iduol isna olka muon!"

A strange, distorted language rang out from the demon's mouth, sweat dripping down its face as a small brown orb of magic formed around its hand.

After spending the last few hours in agony after the demon's last experiment, Edol wanted nothing to do with whatever his foe was doing now.

"AAAAGH! Get away, demon!"

Edol flailed his hands at the demon, one of his hands passing through the ball of magic that had formed in its hand.

The brown orb's energy began spinning around wildly, drawing a confused look from the demon's face.

'How did the goblin's hand interact with the legacy core?!'

The demon watched the orb nervously.

Despite his hatred for the goblin in front of him, he didn't want to do something that would kill it for good. Neither of them knew how long they would be trapped in this hell, or if they would ever escape.

Even if they fought for an eternity, it was still better than being alone here, with nothing to interact with.

As the demon hesitated, the swirling orb's energy seemed to settle down a bit, forming a whirlpool. The energy moved around the core of the orb at a steady yet rapid pace, drawing in the eyes of any observers.

'Ah, whatever. Who cares if this ugly goblin dies from this.'

Having made up its mind, the demon shoved the swirling orb into Edol's chest.


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Chapter 11: Humanity's Mastery of Magic

After pushing the magic core into Edol's chest, the demon stepped back to observe his enemy.

Acquiring magic was… a bit anticlimactic.

There were no cinematic lightning bolts snaking around Edol, and there was no intense magical aura indicating the advent of a protagonist.

Edol hunched over, a simultaneously painful yet comfortable feeling spreading out from the slowly spinning magic core.

'This is… magic? Just like from those books back on earth? But why? Why would Ugly give me magic?'

A smile crept onto the demon's face as he observed the goblin in front of him.

"Ha! It worked! Serves you right for insulting my family, damn goblin! Now, you'll never be anyone important!"

'What… what is Ugly talking about?'

A deep, earthy feeling emanated from the orb, seemingly urging Edol to put its powers to use.

He instinctively felt that he could use the orb's energy to manipulate the ground, just as how the demon had been while fighting him.

'Isn't this awesome for me? I think this demon suffered brain damage from its last experiment...'

Edol glared at the demon, focusing on drawing the energy from his magic core, and directing it towards the ground.

"Ha! Prepare to feel pain! This is humanity's mastery of magic!"

Edol's control of the energy drained and disappeared as soon as it entered the ground, and he lost sight of the energy as soon as it left his feet.

The energy surged up, the first magic Edol had ever managed to cast! There was only one… no, two problems.

The earth spike summoned wasn't anything like what the demon had created. Despite having exhausted all the energy in his core, the spike made by Edol was only around twenty-five centimeters long.

The second problem-

"AAAGH! My foot!!!"

Edol had successfully impaled his own foot with the spike, not the demon's.

"Pfft! Karma's a bitch, ugly goblin! Grats on getting that 'mastery of magic,' now you can impale yourself in the foot! This is even better than I imagined!"

~~~

After watching Edol struggle to walk around with a hole in his foot, the demon eventually decided it was time to sleep again. With just the stomp of its foot, an earthen igloo rose from the ground.

Watching the demon flaunt its magic, Edol finally understood the demon's intentions.

Ugly had given him magic, sure, but it was too weak to be useful. Given how happy the demon was with the results of its experiment, there were probably more negatives than just having trash-level earth magic.

Seeing as how the demon was done fighting for the day, Edol made his way back to his makeshift hut- a pile of earthen spikes roughly collected into a dome shape.

Over the past few weeks, the demon had been relatively consistent in resting at regular intervals, giving Edol a rest from continuously dying to his nemesis.

Now, Edol had something more interesting to do than making a rough dirt hut.

Sprawled on the hard ground of the hut, Edol ran his hands over the dirt slowly.

The magic core within him felt connected to the ground, and his curiosity urged him to try using magic again.

Edol placed his index finger on the ground, slowly pulling some of the energy from his core. Despite never having any similar abilities in the past, Edol found it relatively easy to manipulate the energy in his body. Wherever he urged it, the energy would crawl through his body towards the desired location.

After roughly five seconds, the energy reached the tip of his finger, and Edol nervously pushed it into the ground.

'Ugly can make spikes and a dome shape, so there must be a way to control the ground more precisely.'

The energy seemed to act as an extension of his own body, even after entering the ground. There was a lot more resistance in moving in the ground as opposed to moving it around his body, and Edol's control of the energy seemed to deteriorate the further the energy got from him.

After moving it a quarter meter away, Edol felt the last bit of his control over the mana dissipating.

'Looks like this is as far as I can go… this really is… AMAZING! I HAVE MAGIC! Cool! This is so cool!'

Edol wasn't at all dispirited by the lack of power from his trash-level earth legacy. After living for the last nineteen years on magicless earth, the feeling of having any magic at all was incredible!

'Even if this isn't all that useful for fighting, I'll still be able to make some pretty cool stuff with this! Ooo! I'll make a cool little fox statue for Sophie! She'll love it…'

Sadness began to overtake Edol's face as he thought of his little sister. Back on earth, his family had always been extremely close. Every night of his childhood had been filled with joyful family dinners and game nights.

Two years ago Edol had moved to Bristol to go to university, but he still had his phone to chat with his family daily, along with coming home to visit them regularly.

Unfortunately, there were no phone calls back home in hell, nor were there holiday weekends to make a trip back home.

"Mom, Dad, Sophie… Will I ever get to see you again?"

A few tears began traveling down his cheeks as he thought of his family, but it didn't take long for him to pull himself together.

"Eh! No more being sad, I'll see them again after I find a way out of this place! Besides, I've only just learned this magic stuff! I have to be able to make perfect little sculptures for them before I get back home!"

Refocusing his will, Edol resumed his practice. The more he channeled his magic, the more natural it felt, and soon his quarter-meter control expanded to nearly a meter. It was still unfortunate that the amount of earth he could move didn't change, but he was still happy with the progress.


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