DEMON'S VIRTUE

"Wait, what's going on? Dad?" Rudy walked up behind Eiro, not sure what exactly was happening right now, and the Demon slowly turned around toward the children, "I don't have a bane anymore. I'm unaffected by holy energy." He explained, and everyone looked at each other confused, as he embraced Avalin even more. Even she was weirded out by how clingy Eiro was being right now, despite the fact that she wanted to cuddle with him any chance that she was given.

Eiro took a deep breath, as he slowly stood up, still holding onto Avalin's hand as he was doing so.

"What do you mean you don't have a bane anymore?" Arc asked, "How is that even possible?"

"I... don't know. But I don't. I'm still a demon, but I'm a different kind... I'm not an Imp anymore." Eiro explained, "I'm a new race of demon. And apparently, that makes me some soort of Demon nobility, since I apparently will be given a throne in hell... It's complicated. I'll look into it."

Sammy stared at Eiro in disbelief, "How does that even make sense? How could you be an Imp one day, and something different the next? That's like... if I turned into and elf all of a sudden, right? Right?"

"Well, not directly." Eiro pointed out, "It's more like... if Rudy suddenly wasn't part of the Goliath clan anymore, but just a human outside of a clan. It's that kind of thing. Clans and such are based off of physical features and abilities, mostly, and a legendary evolution certainly has enough power to influence that level of things." Eiro explained, "For example, the structure of my heart changed just so slightly. The muscles are stronger and can pump more... more blood..."

Eiro slowly pressed his hand onto his chest, noticing something inside of his body all of a sudden rthat wasn't there before. Things that took the place of the hollow areas that had formed in his chest. There were two complex crystal formations inside of his chest close to to his heart. But the weirdest thing was that they were made of pure mana.

"Mana crystalisation..." Eiro muttered, "I achieved mana crystalisation..." Immediately, Eiro looked forward and opened up his status, looking at the top of the page that appeared to him.

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[Name – Eiro (Jura Daemonherz)][Race – Lesser Arcanus][Level – 1]

[Health – 750.867][Mana – 2.424.657]

[Strength - 206][Constitution - 201][Resistance – 200]

[Agility - 302][Evasion –200][Dexterity - 208]

[Intelligence - 401][Wisdom - 400]

[Perception – 300][Willpower - 201][Charisma - 121]

[100 Stat Points Available]

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Eiro looked at the window in disbelief, and his children looked at him concerned, "Is something wrong?" They asked, and Eiro slowly shook his head, "Nothing is wrong, no... rather... I have an incredible amount of mana within my body now... to the point where I achieved mana crystalisation twice."

"Wait, what's mana crystalisation?" Arc asked with a wry smile, and someone else replied for Eiro. Koperia half stepped into the room and said, "Mana crysalisation is a phenomenon where a soul holds so much mana that it affects the physical body, creating crystals-like growths of mana near the mana source, which is usually in the heart. Sometimes, the crystal grows inside of the heart and straight up kills the one who achieved this stage. But really... even I'm not at that stage yet. You really have an ocean of mana inside of you."

"You can say that again. It's at 2.4 million right now." Eiro explained, and the necromancer took a moment to process this information, "T-Two... excuse me for a second, did you just say two and a half million?"

"Well, no, I'm still missing 78 thousand mana to get to two and a half million. Oh, and also, I need you to help me out. How much do you know about the history of demons?"

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Eiro waved his hand around with a light whistle, and a dozen books were pulled out of the shelves of the library by some mage hands in an instant. They were all held open in front of Eiro, who glanced at the pages of all twelve books at once before they flipped to the next page. All in all, it took Eiro five minutes to finish the shorter books, and ten to finish the longer ones. Whenever he finished one of the books, he grabbed a new one from the shelf.

Right now he was in the bestiary section trying to find any and all information on demons that he could. And in the process, Eiro had become quite a spectacle. After all, it wasn't every day that one of the teachers seems to have made it his goal to read every single book in the academy's libary in a single day.

But then, all of a sudden, Eiro stopped. He finished reading through the books currently floating in front of him, put all the books back into the shelves, and then stood up. He looked around at all the people that had gathered around him, and slightly tilted his head to the side, "Do I have something on my face?"

"N-No, of course not... erm, but what were you reading?" One of the library workers asked, as if trying to help him find what he was looking for, "I was reading up on demonology. For now I read everything that I need to. If you have any other books on demons, do let me know, please."

"Demonology? Could I ask, why do you want to learn about demons..?"

"You can, but I won't answer. It's just private curiousity, no need to concern yourself with it." Eiro explained, before he continued walking through the library, not minding anyone. Once Eiro was outside, he immediately fused his aura with his surrounding to make himself practically disappear from onlookers, before stretching out his wings and jumping into the sky. Soon, Eiro reached the royal castle's training ground, and sat down on a ledge while pulling his wings back into his body.

Eiro crossed his legs as he played around and created some more water and fire by pulling it out of the elemental gateways in his soul. He was happy that he was able to do this again. The Demon took a deep breath as he waited for the royal guards to finally enter the training ground. Luckily, Solomon agreed to setting up a large scale special training session today, so that Eiro could properly test out one of his new abilities.

"Uurgh, this feels weird! Can we like split up for a moment? It feels like you're robbing me of my slime..." Bavet complained, and Eiro rolled his eyes, "I know, that's because I technically am. Sorry, I still can't control the ability that well, but I at least know how to push things I absorb out again. I'll give you your slime back later."

"...Fine. But at least try to slow it down a bit, alright? Before you suddenly end up absorbing my core as well..."

"That shouldn't happen. I hope. Anyway, don't worry about it, I've got it under control for now." Eiro said, "Trust me."

For now, Eiro simply waited and chose to analyse the information that he had taken in at the library properly. It took him a while to do, but that was only the case in his mental library, which had changed to quite some extent anyway at a fundamental level, but Eiro didn't want to look into that yet. He wanted to go step by step and figure things out slowly. He wanted to know about his new abilities before figuring out the changes to his old abilities caused by his legendary skill.

Once Eiro had analysed the information related to demonology, piecing together the small parts of the puzzle that had been scattered amongst numerous books, he had figured out the story, at least partially.

Millennia ago, before demons came to exist, and when the gods still didn't have their own realm and instead called this world their own, the gods practically enslaved all living beings on this world. In the hierarchy, it was the one god above all, the greater gods, the lesser gods, the different tiers of angels, and then everything else. But there existed something else that many don't know about. They were similar to angels, but still a whole other category of being between angels and gods. Nearly demigods, but not even quite that.

While angels could be called footmen and generic servants to the gods, these beings were closer to advisors, or private servants to the gods. Something to more easily speak to the angels, like a messenger of sorts. Well, one of these beings, whose name Eiro still couldn't figure out, was the 'leader' of them all. Someone that served all the gods instead just a single one.

And that being committed a crime. The 'first sin'. It seemed to have been so grave that not only this leader was punished, but all other beings of this sort as well, causing them to go extinct in that moment. As a punishment for the leader himself, he was cast away from the gods, and was forced to fall from the highest point of the world, a punishment later repeated for angels, turning them into 'fallen angels'.

Meanwhile, this being was instead turned into a demon. The first demon. His impact with the ground ripped apart everything, creating hell in the process. Somehow, this first demon found was to create offspring, all of which had received the same punishment as him.

To never be allowed to come in contact with anything holy ever again. And that was how the bane of the Demons came to be.

But... Eiro wasn't that demon's offspring. He was created by the monster king. But even so, he was technically still an Imp, and as such counted as his offspring anyway.. And now that Eiro was a whole new sort of demon, the system could properly acknowledge that Eiro was not that first demon's offspring anymore, and he was freed from the bane.