“Yeah but when you woke up you gained incredible magical talent which you lacked severely before just like this kid and all your capabilities jumped to a minimum of level 15.” Night said and his grip grew firmer on the red pearl that was beginning to pull harder.
“Night, don’t make me order you because when I do I will also be forced to punish you.” He said extremely coldly.
“Heh, I just want to help another demon release the power it has.” He said and put his other hand on top and held it by the sides with both hands.
“That's it! Let go of that that demon core and let it return to it’s seal!” Ernest said.
Night froze upon hearing the order and suddenly grinned showing pearly white teeth. “As you command.” He said and suddenly pressed extremely hard. Cracks instantly appeared on the core and before anyone could react it suddenly blew up and he then threw the red dust and shards into the air. It all forms a vortex and was sucked into the seal.
“Why did you do that?!” Ernest shouted at the grinning demon angel.
“You said, “Let go and return to the seal, you never said let it go 'Intact’.” He replied and watched.
As the last grain of the demon core was sucked into the familiar seal, it suddenly began to glow a bloody red. An array of glowing red tattoos began to leave it and crawl up Xero’s body.
“W-what’s happening?!” He asked desperately.
BANG!
Instantly the area was suddenly smashed by a shockwave. Ernest who was a step away was throw away spitting out blood and smashed into the ground. Night who was several steps away was hit as well and spread his wings and let the shockwave to throw him into the air several dozen meters away. The nearby tents had protective magic but even then they all shook violently.
“ARAAHHHHH!” Xero shouted in pain as his body was rapidly covered in glowing red tattoos.
BANG!
A second shock wave came and made a crater under Xero and shook the tents again and at this time all the teachers suddenly rushed out.
“ARAAH!!” Xero’s shout become even more desperate as the tattoos glow brighter.
“What is this?!” Miss Gilbody asked.
“This is the demon empowerment!” Cress Snide said coldly. “Quickly, place high level barrier spells, someone crushed the demon core of the boys familiar and the backlash of the energy is being released and reabsorbed.” He said and pulled a wand. His familiar seal shined and behind him a massive white scaled serpent appeared.
“Restricto!” He said.
“SHHHH!” The snake hissed and its eyes shined a green light.
Ten pillars of twisting snakes appeared and from them a green barrier appeared.
Miss Gilbody summoned Merlin and she cast five high level barrier just in time for a third shockwave to smash into them.
It withstood the impact but the wind pressure that followed blew a cloud of dust up. Each successive shockwave did the same.
Countless shockwaves smash out from the glowing boy and eventually it stopped and he fell to his knees, his eyes were open and glazed over. He saw a red light come out of his seal and it was the complete demon pearl.
It was 15 cm like before and he looked up. It slowly began to grow to a full 20 cm before it stopped.
The dense mana that was released into the surroundings were sucked back into Xero’s body that felt excruciating pain. Then it was released from the tattoos, with it the mana pumped through every mana channel and all snags were instantly destroyed. The pain he felt was like being buried in lava but not dying. One after another the obstructions in his mana channels were destroyed and soon the mana flowed completely free through his body and exited and entered the demon core. After a while the 20 cm core suddenly compressed to half a centimeter and slowly a red light began to cover it and formed a shiny layer making it look like a red pearl made of surface blood that you normally see when you get small scratches.
After this Xero felt extremely weak, he felt all his energy was sucked out of him.
As he watched through hazy eyes the core began to shine a black light that quickly expanded and took the form of a child. It started as a featureless doll but slowly fingers formed, then body curves, a pair of wings appeared on the back and soon a small tail with a heart shaped barb. Black hair began to appear and drop down to the shoulders and small white horns appeared at the edge of the hair line and were as big as an adult thumb. Big white eyes opened up and two large blue eyes with a pure white slit pupil looked at him. The nose formed a delicate shape and a small mouth parted cutely to show a short row of small white fangs.
The black light slowly dulled and a completely naked girl with dark blue skin showed with back wings and tail exposed.
She looked at Xero and she looked back at him grinning.
“Master~! My beautiful master! I was finally able to build a form fitting of master! Kya~! Now I can do some many things with you! Kya~!” She suddenly said with a cute high pitched voice.
Xero who was weak just looked at her.
“Who…” he muttered.
“Who am I? Of course, I'm Ash!” She said grinning as she bent over and looked at him closely.
In Xero’s head an image of the little girl that looked around 12 years old appeared followed by the previous form that looked like a 20 year old male body builder. The contrast was to different.
“B-but… Ash…is… a… boy.” He said and his vision darkened as he fell unconscious finally exhausting any remaining mental power.
All around the others watched the little girl. “Master~!” She shouted and began to shake him.
“AHAHAHAH!! THIS! THIS IS RICH!! THAT MACHO BECAME A LITTLE GIRL!” Night’s sudden voice woke everyone up and they looked at him flying and rolling around in the air.
All the teachers were here and didn’t understand what was going on.
“This boy! He has a demon as well!” Silvia suddenly muttered and frowned.
“Madrid?! Quickly administer healing magic to recover his body and a spell to aide him in regenerating mana. I shall call some others who know purification magic to come and see if the boy was corrupted by demon magic.” Cress Snide ordered.
“Yes!” Madrid said seriously and summoned her familiar and quickly cast a spell.
“Get away!” Ash suddenly said but Grunt appeared grabbed her.
“Shut it shrimp!” He said and tossed her up punched her head causing it to be crushed and her body returned to the familiar seal. With all the power released there was no reaction from the seal and everyone was left in a daze.
The one most affected was Univa who watched this from the side. She had been close enough to get a front row to this and saw the Imp become… something.
“I… he… he evolved again.” She muttered.
Taking a big hit she returned to her tent and lay down in a daze while the camp was in chaos because of the event.
Chapter 13
After the events where Ash evolved, Cress Snide summoned his huge snake and had it transport him at the fastest speed to Niska. This creature goes by the name of Basil and it is known as an Orochimaru Basilisk. It’s speed could rival the Ice Phoenix that he had come on but it was a land mover so it could be seen how powerful its agility was.
When he arrived at Niska it took no time at all for news of Xero’s accident to spread. In a short 10 minutes several teachers with high levels of purification magic presented themselves and Cress also called for an expert in identification magic.
Identification magic isn’t used simply to see race or level. An expert is capable of seeing every last bit of information from a being's body, even things like hormone levels and other such things. The reason he called them is to identify Ash, her level, her abilities and do the same for Xero and see if he had suffered demon corruption.
Its an extremely dangerous thing, this is the biggest backdraw of the Familiar binding, for those with different kinds of monsters it's easily avoidable. Monsters aren’t like Demons. Monsters store
mana in the muscles and bones which is why the meat and bones are the most valuable but demons store their power in the core and it makes it impossible for them to access it without crushing it.
The danger of this to the human body is huge. The Familiar binding is a spell developed from the study of demon spawning pools. It essentially turns the human body into a spawning pool. The more powerful the demons spawned in the pool the more corruption the pools spreads to its surroundings. It is why the spawning pools deactivated after several years within the holy aura the imps were constantly killed and kept weak and the corruption was cleansed so the pools power decreased.
It is this side effect of empowering that aids the masters of familiars to grow so incredibly powerful even when the human themselves don’t have talent. This is also how the Holy Institute is #2 in power since people with no talent in magic are given talent by their familiar while those with no talent physically have their familiar trained in a way to improve that aspect.
But as said, a sudden surge of power is dangerous to the human body because of corruption. Corruption is a term used for when a human is injected with demon magic. Their body could mutate and become demonic or they can become psychopathic with mental disorders. The tattoos on the body of the master of a demon familiar works as a gauge of how far much more powerful the familiar is compared to its master. The best condition is for there to be no tattoo but it is impossible with demons. One evolution can be the difference between changing a demon into a demon lord. That one level contains such a huge difference that it is a kin to gaining divinity and become a god.
When Cress saw the boy's entire body glowing he wanted to quickly assess if it was corruption level of it was just the gauge of power.
With all the people gathered they made their way back and quickly had the teachers aid them in keeping the children away.
Rapidly building a strange tent that possessed innumerous runes and strange symbols the placed him in the center and the priests with purification magic summoned their familiars.
The Tent was even larger inside, it was double the size of the other tents around it but inside it was almost 50 times larger and was like a small playing field. The glyphs and runes all shined as the men sat down and the Identification expert walked up. His familiar was a strange goblin with its original eyes blindfolded but on its hands, on its forehead and several other spots there were eyes. The being stuck its hands forward and the eyes around its body shined and eerie light and around Xero a dome appeared circling light from the top rotated along the dome and after a minute it vanished and in the expert's eye he saw a huge degree of information flood over a transparent screen. This information entered his brain and formed an image of Xero and then from inside the familiar seal the red demon core appeared 1 cm big and then formed into Ash’s current form.
The tattoo information, power levels, skill levels, Innate spell, bloodline abilities, everything kept flashing before his eyes all this seemed to pass for several minutes but only a few seconds passed.
“The boy has minor corruption, 2% only just around the familiar seal, this is due to the mana eruptions, that tattoos are simply symbol of his familiars power.” The man said.
Everyone sighed.
“Thank you for the analysis, men please begin the cleansing, no corruption should be left around in the body but don’t destroy the familiar.” Cress said giving the order.
“Yes sir!” The said in unison and each began to chant a spell as the familiars each raised their hands. Rays of light fell on Xero as a black smoke raised from his hands and just a few small specks around his body.
Grunt and the teachers were standing several meters away but calmed down when they saw he wasn’t in danger, Cress lead the expert to them and then he turned to Ernest who was looking down.
“Boy, explain this moment what caused this to happen!” Cress said in an angry tone.
“Alright, it's like this…” Ernest said and explained the entire situation from start to finish and when they were done, all the eyes fell on the Dark Cherub that was taking a few steps back.
“Heh… i….” Before he could say anything his neck was in a vice grip and his body was lifted off the ground with one arm by Cress.
“You insolent little bug, the problems you cause are just too numerous, it seems a small scale punishment for you isn’t going to cut it anymore.” He said and pulled his wand and used mana to write something with mana and pushed it to Ernest. “Boy recite this order to him.” He said.
Ernest saw and he paled but gulped and took a breath to calm down, “For one year, you will feel unimaginable pain upon each death equal to 50 mortal beings and you will not draw pleasure from your own death. You will undergo punishment of dying slow death within Basil 50 times and you cannot resist being eaten, attack from inside or use mana to resist the acid of his stomach. After the 50 deaths are over you can only be summoned when training, fighting and eating and will return to the seal immediately and you cannot exit on your own will.” Saying the order Night’s eyes widen.
“NOOO! I don’t want to lose my pleasurable deaths!! NOOO!” He shouted
“Silence because of you, you endangered not only the boy but all the other students! Your own master was sent coughing blood due to the shockwave!” Cress spat the words out.
“Its releasing a demon’s power! Why wouldn’t I help such a powerful being come into the world?!” He shouted.
BANG!
He was slammed into the ground head first. “Stop spouting nonsense, you knew the boy couldn’t handle the power. Enough there is no use. Boy, you watch over the boy once his treatment is over, I shall be teaching your familiar his place.” Cress said and dragged the demon away.
He left the tent and the others just looked at him before turning to the expert.
Miss Gilbody walked up and showed a worried expression, “So how is he?” She asked.
“Don’t worry, besides just a small level of corruption along the familiar seal and some spots on his body that instantly burned away under the spells there is no worry but his body did suffer from overcharge of mana.” He said.
“How did that affect his body?” Grunt asked.
The familiar walked up and raised his hands and slowly a globe appeared and expanded until Xero’s body appeared.
“It will cause his body to feel extreme pain for several days but he will be unconscious during the time, as for true side effects you can all be happy. The overload of mana completely cleared out every last mana channel in his body except his mana pool. His body is empty of mana and doesn’t seem to be drawing it in and is all heading to the familiar seal, my suggestion is to place a mana stone on the seal to feed the familiar and then another on his other hand. It will allow clean mana to flow through his body. It will aide his recovering if he has mana.” He explained.
Everyone sighed before showing a wide smile, “So the boy unlocked his magical potential, a blessing in disguise!” Grunt said and laughed.
“Yes but tell him to be careful. His mana pool is still undeveloped due to his previous talent. It will take time and slow exercise of meditation to expand the pool, just have him fill it full and a little extra each time, he shouldn’t take much time to do that any more.” The expert explained.
“That is a good thing, I thank you for the advice. And what of the familiar, what in the god's name is it?” Miss Gilbody asked.
The image in the globe shook and changed to the blue skinned demon girl with white human like eyes and blue iris. “This demon is unique in all sense of the word. It is a new species named Lesser Sword Devil Infant. It is completely out of this world. It is completely blind in the normal sense but her vision is purely by mana vision. She ‘sees’ mana in everything and they take the form of would they truly are in front of her eyes.” He said.
“What does that mean?” Ernest asked.
“Illusion, magical invisibility, and magic in general, she can ‘see’ all of it, she will be unaffected by illusions, she can
see through invisibility and she can ‘see’ the core of a magical spell. Besides just her vision, her magical potential is equal to the boys now, it's a purely clean magical channel with no obstructions. Her body possess extremely high levels of magical resistance but due to her body condensing, her muscles are dense but she is only at her lowest level because the boy's body can’t handle her power. Her Innate spells are surprisingly stagnated, they are partially formed which means she is intelligent enough to stop their formation so that the boy can alter then to its most efficient state. As for her level, she has peaked every last aspect at level 20. She is a purest peak level 20 monster, this is because the boy can’t handle more. When he grows stronger her limite will slowly rise as well.” He explained.
Everyone was slack jawed by the completely strange event and learning of this strange being.
“What is the boy's level?” Grunt asked.
“Well a few aspects were altered, the magic I don’t need to say but physical strength was forcefully pushed to level 13, speed 14 and a few others all range between this so I say he is around level 13 but I am more certain to call him level 12 at this moment because when he recovers he won’t be able to do much at all at full power. For now I say have him focus on training, the best way for him to handle his own familiar is training, make sure she doesn’t evolve, only let it evolve when her level reaches its peak and she doesn’t grow anymore and the boy must be her equal in level and power. If not, this event will happen again.” He said and everyone nodded understanding.
“Well I shall remain here for a few days to watch over the boy, since I am here please tell the students that I will be doing a small service and can do an identification of their familiars and tell them levels, race and some weaknesses their familiar and they have.” He said and bowed.
The teachers of Everlight were elated and thanked him for his help and generosity.
"I shall go and calm the students.” Miss Gilbody said
“I’ll go with you.” Madrid said and the two women left.
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