The feeling of floating came and went quickly, I opened my eyes and saw the color red, everywhere was red.
A flat field with ankle-deep blood drowning the ground. The sun shone reddish rays that brought a bloody and sacred atmosphere as the celebration of the demon's birth began.
The sounds of splashing water, war cries, triumphant roars, pitiful moans, clashing objects, laughter of madness and explosions entered into my ears.
As I watched many abyssal demons kill each other around me, some throwing various elements, and some fighting each other with claws and fists.
"What a celebration," I muttered as I looked at the dance of death displayed in front of me.
I started looking around to find a place that could help me in this celebration, as well as see how the other demons were fighting, since this would be my first battle.
It was then that I realized that there was no cave behind me, the same scenery surrounded me.
Was the cave in a different space? If each demon's birthplace is a different space then it makes perfect sense.
If not, then the demons that had been born could easily evolve by feeding on the various demon eggs that had yet to hatch.
I looked around and gave up on finding the ideal place, as all I could see was a flat place with no landscape.
I also realized that no one was using magic, because no magic circle appeared in the demon battles around me, if magic had to use a magic circle, then the elements cast by other demons would be a skill.
It seems that most demons have skills related to elements such as earth, water, fire, air. There are also special elements such as ice and lightning. I've never seen other demons use skills other than those related to the elements.
And why they kill each other is to evolve, the way to evolve where there is no mana is by absorbing the other person's mana, the abyssal demons will kill each other to obtain the demon core where the source of the demon's life essence resides.
By absorbing the demon core is the same as absorbing mana, even better because the demon core also contains vitality so that mana and physique will increase to the limit that a demon can bear. the limit of each demon is different, the higher the limit, the stronger the demon is compared to other demons.
This will create a bigger gap because demons continue to evolve so that geniuses and trash are formed. maybe trash demons can evolve faster because of their low limit but their strength will be below genius demons.
There was even a demon who could defeat demons ranked higher than him, a true genius who earned him the title of "Prince" by the abyss.
Splash... Splash... I turned my head to see a demon running towards me, the demon was a normal abyss demon in my opinion, there was nothing strange about its appearance.
I prepared to start my first battle, I calmly waited for the demon to get closer while preparing to use [Body Enhancement] magic.
As the demon got closer to me, suddenly the demon's speed increased drastically.
"Looks like you're the new demon here."
The demon said as it came right in front of me and clawed at me with its sharp claws.
Seeing that I couldn't dodge anymore, I used [Body Enhancement] on my arm and crossed my arms to block the incoming claws.
"Ahhh... damn you!"
Blood flew as a deep wound appeared before me, enduring the stinging pain, I used <Creation> to create life energy to heal my wound and quickly hit the demon with all my might.
"Looks like today is my lucky day to find easy prey like you, hehehe"
The demon laughed as it dodged my punch and returned to attacking me without giving me any room to attack.
"Don't underestimate me, bastard!"
I defended as best I could with occasional dodges as I began to adapt to the enemy's movements.
I can't go on like this. Changing my way of fighting, I used <Destrction> in my hand and threw it at the demon in between its movements.
Unable to dodge the demon holding the destructive energy with its arm, my eyes lit up as the arm holding the destructive energy disappeared, leaving behind an armless body.
"aaaaaaaaa... what is this?!" the demon shouted as a confused yet painful expression appeared in its eyes.
"Die!!!"
I, who had anticipated this, quickly advanced and thrust my claws into the demon's chest.
"Damn it..."
with a reluctant expression, the demon died with its chest pierced.
"hah... hah.... that's really dangerous" I gasped as my adrenaline started to drop, given my current state I frantically looked around to see if there were any other demons about to attack me.
I was relieved to see that the other demon was focused on its own battle, I stared intently at the demon's corpse.
This was my first time killing but I didn't feel anything, was it because it wasn't human or was I not human?
I began to dissect the chest of my enemy's corpse and save the demon core as I began to move away from the corpse and the crowd to analyze my first battle.
In the inheritance, it is mentioned that the space inside the soul can be used as storage, but this has risks because the demon child's soul is still weak, if something happens to the stored object, the soul may be destroyed by it.
It seems that the demon has a skill that can increase speed, this is getting hard. I can't underestimate anyone here if I want to get out safely.
Without knowing what skills the opponent has, I have to dodge as many enemy attacks as possible while figuring out what skills the enemy has.
It's a good thing that the demon parried my attack, if he had avoided my attack and was wary of my <Destruction> skill, I probably would have lost.
<Destruction> is my trump card. I should hide it as much as possible, I should use it when I'm sure a single attack can kill the enemy.
Perhaps I should coat my claws or fists when attacking so that the enemy doesn't notice my movements rather than innocently throwing destruction energy directly at the enemy.
I saw a demon covered in wounds all over its body and a demon corpse near its feet.
This was my chance, I used [Body Enhancement] magic and ran with all my might towards the demon.
The demon turned its head and noticed my presence, but with a body full of wounds, it couldn't run away from me.
I quickly arrived in front of it and used <Destruction> to coat my fist.
I punched its head as the demon held on with its arm, without a fight the demon's arm shattered and blood splattered, my fist didn't stop and punched the demon's head.
Blood and brain fragments flew as the demon's head shattered, without speaking a word the headless body fell beside the other demon's corpse.
I quickly took out the demon cores on the two corpses and fled. I looked at the three demon cores I had obtained in my soul space.
"Should I absorb them now?" I shook my head in denial.
I didn't know what reaction my body would have when I absorbed these demon cores, with this uncontrollable situation, doing the unknown was foolish.
If my body can't move as I absorb the demon core then I'll be a delicious meal in this celebration.
"Maybe I should start avoiding battles and observe other demon battles," I muttered as I felt my manu remaining only half after two battles.
I looked around and skulked around to minimize my presence.
Time passed as the sun began to set. I had done two more fights while trying to avoid combat.
I won both fights by using the element of surprise as my <Destruction> skill destroyed my enemy's vital points.
With 5 demon cores in hand, I watched the day darken as a cave mouth with a thin layer of protection appeared behind me.
"wow so at night there will be a resting place, good for you abyss" I entered the mouth of the cave as the field of celebration was submerged by the darkness of night.
The feeling of drifting back, I looked back to see that the cave's visor wasn't glowing reddish anymore, was this what signaled night time?.
With an exhausted body I walked into the cave while carrying the five demon cores from my battle today.
My body was still as healthy as before due to the use of <Creation> to heal all the wounds I suffered during the battle, but my mana had entered critical territory with only 20% mana left.
It made my head hurt and my eyes feel heavy. This started happening when I had 30% mana left, maybe when I ran out of mana I would faint.
I made a note to minimize my mana usage, "If I faint in the middle of the celebration, maybe the next day I will reincarnate into another being."
I said as my body and mind were exhausted, it was a hard day, reincarnating into a demon, gaining foreign powers, fighting to the death, and the first kill.
At the end of the cave I sat down and leaned against the cave wall and closed my eyes, let's end my first day in the abyss with a deep sleep.
I don't know how much time had passed when I opened my eyes, a familiar scene appeared before my eyes. A dimly lit cave with a reddish glowing cave mouth, a sign that morning has come and the time of celebration begins again.
"Good morning Myself"
I yawned and relaxed my stiff body as hunger and thirst filled my body.
My mana was full again after sleeping all night, I used <Creation> to make water to quench my thirst while turning my head to look at the five demon cores beside me.
I picked up one of them and looked carefully, it was just a blue crystal the size of a chicken egg with a round shape.
"So this thing can make me stronger?"
I began to sense the mana and vitality in the demon core with my perception magic and began to draw it in using my mana.
The flow of mana and vitality enters my body as it goes to my demon core, my demon core will assimilate the foreign mana and vitality into my body before it is released to the rest of my body, this takes time depending on the individual demon's talent.
I felt a sense of freshness as the flow of mana and vitality was released from my demon core, my hunger diminished replaced with satiety, after 1 hour had passed the demon core in my hand crumbled into dust indicating the energy it contained had been depleted.
"1 hour has passed huh" I felt the time pass quickly, when absorbing the demon core I had to focus all my concentration to draw the mana and energy in the demon core and then purify it into my own mana and energy, this process is very complicated and requires concentration.
"I can't absorb it in such a dangerous place." Only when I was in the cave, I felt a sense of security without any threat from anyone, I could focus on absorbing the demon core.
I felt my body filled with energy after absorbing 1 demon core, I felt no other difference in my body.
"Am I really getting stronger?"
I started absorbing another demon core I had, 2 hours had passed by the time I finished absorbing the third demon core.
"I feel like if I absorb any more, my body will explode" There seems to be a limit to how much I can absorb demon cores, my body needs to adapt to become stronger.
I feel like my body is getting lighter and my mana has slightly increased by about 3%.
"Do I have to absorb 97 more demon cores to evolve when my mana increases by 100%? If so, I will need more than a month to absorb all the demon cores I need" I began to feel how difficult it was to evolve "It seems like it will be a very long journey to become a god"
Without being able to reabsorb the 2 demon cores I had, I put them in the cave to free up my soul space, after all no one can enter the cave other than me so there was no way anyone could take my demon cores.
"I have to think of a way to minimize mana usage and find a way to make <Creation> more useful in battle".
Without rushing out of the cave, I thought of ways to maximize the way I fight.
"Maybe I should minimize the use of [Body Enhancement] magic even though this non-magic magic only requires a little mana but with the way I fought yesterday always using it when fighting will consume a lot of mana as well"
I should use it only when it's important, it can also create an element of surprise for my enemies.
"For <Creation> I should make a bag to store the demon core to make it safer when I store it in my soul space, if there is an anomaly at least it won't affect my soul directly. As for making weapons with my current state, I doubt I can make weapons stronger than my fists and claws"
I thought of the various anime battle scenes I had seen in my previous life as inspiration.
"Hooo I can make a flash of light to blind my enemy to create the element of surprise, that way I can kill the enemy without having to always rely on my trump card"
My eyes lit up when I came up with that idea and began to recall the battle scenes I knew more seriously.
"Poison! Yes, I can make poison to coat my claws that way I can poison my enemy while waiting quietly until my enemy is helpless, it can save a lot of energy."
I'm glad I came up with the idea of how to use <Creation> to make it more useful in battle.
I started making a simple bag while thinking again about what I should prepare, a golden light appeared in my hand as a simple bag formed in my hand, I kept the bag in my soul space so as not to hinder my battle.
"Oh yeah yesterday I saw a demon hovering using its wings at the celebration." recalling yesterday's battle scene, I remembered the winged demon that hovered and threw a fireball at its enemy below.
Looking at my wings curiously I flowed mana into my wings, previously I had tried flapping my wings and the result was just a waste of energy without me floating at all.
Mana began to envelop my wings as I flapped my wings, a feeling of lightness appeared as I began to float slowly off the ground. moving slowly I began to fly slowly towards the mouth of the cave and back into the cave.
"woww wowww" a feeling of excitement filled me as I felt one of the human dreams of flying.
Humans did create airplanes to fly, but it can't compare to the feeling of flying alone like a bird flying freely in the sky.
"ahahahaha but unfortunately for now flying can't be included in my strategy"
I started to land slowly and felt that I only had 60% mana left, I frowned at how wasteful it was to use mana to fly.
"Damn, what a waste of mana" a feeling of disappointment came over me as I looked at my small wings.
"If wings can make me fly and claws can be used as weapons, then what good are my horns and tail?"
I touched my horns while looking at my tail, in battle I had never used my tail to attack or take cover, because as a former human without a tail, using a tail in battle was foreign to me, while I never knew what the use of horns was.
"Should I attack with horns like a bull?" I laughed, imagining myself attacking the enemy with my horns.
I sat down and rested while waiting for my mana to replenish.
"If I absorb the mana in the demon core, will I be able to recover my mana?" I realized and picked up one of the demon cores I had. I started absorbing it as my mana started to recover quickly. After 10 minutes, my mana was replenished.
"So the demon core can recover my mana and strength and then strengthen it when it's full until my body reaches its daily limit?"
I came to my senses and various ideas came to my mind.
"I need more demon cores"
I walked towards the mouth of the cave feeling excited.
"Alright, let's rejoin the celebration," I grinned as I passed through the cave barrier.
Hello Riudhan here,
I reduced the increase given to [Body Enhancement] magic from three times to only 30%, for my next storyline if the increase on [Body Enhancement] is three times it will destroy my story, so I changed it.
Punctuation,
"" : Someone's dialog
Italics : Someone's inner monologue
<> : Skills
[] : Magic
{} : Art
Thank you James_Bell_6276 for the power stone.
Have some idea about my story? Comment it and let me know.
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