Soon the other teachers left as well and Ernest and Grunt were left,
“Wow I never expected to find a demon with an even more unique race then Night.” Ernest said.
“The coming days are going to be fun.” Grunt grinned and the boy looked confused.
“Why?” He asked.
Grunt grinned mischievously, “You should have seen his Imp’s form before and he called the imp ‘he’ as in male right?”
Slowly it dawned on Ernest and he covered his mouth and chuckled. “Don’t go overboard sir.” He said.
“Hehehe, bah! If I don’t take this chance then I will never get another one in my life.” He said and turned before leaving.
Ernest remained and after several minutes the men around Xero withdrew their familiars and stood up before walking to the boy.
“The boy is cleansed of corruption, take him to his tent and let him rest, any other instruction the Identification Expert gave should be followed to the letter.” One of the older men said.
Ernest bowed, “Of course, I shall see to it.” He said. The men all left and he walked over and looked down at Xero. All of his body was completely covered in black tattoos. He looked at his own right hand and pulled the sleeve up to his elbow and saw similar tattoos.
“Even a holy type demon is still a demon, can’t change their true nature I guess.” He muttered and lowered his shirt and picked up Xero and left the tent and asked around for where Xeros tent was.
Inside he found the rather poor looking tent, just a blanket with some hides. His mouth twitched as he saw this utterly poor background and he frowned. He put the boy the bed of furs and covered him and exited where he found a little halfling.
“Um… is Xero alright?” Meldie asked.
“You are?” he asked.
“I’m Meldie Dominia, I'm his friend and classmate. I'm a bit worried about what happened.” She said.
“Can you do me a favor?” Ernest asked.
“W-what?”
“Look after him for a bit, I need to gather up some things.” he said.
Meldie looked worried but nodded and entered the tent. Ernest turned and quickly ran out of the camp and into the forest and flashed a white sword. “Let's make some proper furniture.” He muttered and several booms came from crashing trees.
The following days flew quickly, Ernest used only a few hours to cut apart some trees and skillfully cut them into boards that fit together and formed a bed. Using wooden pegs he nailed them and built it all up inside the tent of the boy and made him a proper bed which he was laid down on.
The following day the teachers arrived with a small box of common mana stones. One was placed each hand and it had the expected effect that the expert had explained. One fed the seal mana and the other hand the mana move through the body but still ended at the seal but it was slowly healing the body.
With twenty mana stones the satisfied the Devil’s mana needs and so the extra mana began to fill his body and gather in the mana pool near his heart. With Miss Gilbody’s help she helped flow his mana through his body slowly reaching the further corners of the body and filling the mana channels while flowing back and forth.
The expert remained and at the end of the first week he finally stirred. Slowly his eyes opened. His arms were laid outside of the covers with a mana stone in each hand and slowly under the watchful eyes of Meldie and Ernest his eyes opened.
“Ah! Xero! He’s awake!” Meldie exclaimed.
Xero was still in a daze and slowly his head turned and he saw the inside of a tent.
“Where… am I? What… happened?” He asked.
“Don’t force it, you just woke up after a week.” Ernest said walking over.
The tent they were in closet and some tables and seats. On the ground were pelts of large beasts covering it separating the hard ground from the occupants feet making it nice to stand on.
“What… happened?” He asked and tightened his hand and felt the mana stones. Slowly he lifted his arm and found the common rank stone and then noticed all the tattoos.
“What?!” He exclaimed and suddenly tried to sit up but was hit by a wave of dizziness.
“Don’t try to sit up, your extremely exhausted.” Ernest said and pushed him down.
“Explain!” Xero said looking at him.
The boy sighed and pulled a bench over and explained what happened the week before. Xero listened attentively and when he heard it all he went into shock as he learned that such a thing happened. He tried to remember what happened but everything was hazy.
Suddenly the Familiar seal shined and a tiny red pearl jumped out and shined as a blue skinned little demon appeared over Xero’s bed and dropped on him.
“Master~! You're awake!” she shouted and landed right on him.
“Bah!” He said as the air was pushed out of him with the little girls landing. Then she moved over his chest and mounted him and grinned down.
“Ah~! Master is finally awake so now I can finally hug and show master my love!” She said.
Xero looked up and remembered the hazy image from before he fell unconscious but this time he clearly saw the demon.
“Kya!” Meldie exclaimed and her face was extremely red.
Xero soon realized why, it was because the girl had a human form, from hands to feet it was 100% human. Only the black wings on her back and the black leathery tail and the little horns and blue skin gave it away she wasn’t human but her body was human and she was completely naked and wasn’t feeling shame of it.
Seeing her mounting him Xero blushed.
“Get off of him, he is still exhausted and tired.” Ernest said.
“Is that all?” She asked and moved a bit before pulling his arms out from under her and held the hand with his familiar seal. “Hmm… ah here.” She said made her right index finger a little black but extremely sharp claw and she poked a spot on the seal.
Instantly the tattoos began to glow and an intense mana washed over Xero for a full 10 seconds and it went back to normal.
“There done! Now get up master!” She said and she began to fly and she pulled him out.
“Stop!” Xero said but when she dropped him, he landed firmly on his feet but suddenly…
“KYA!” Meldie shouted and ran out and he saw why. He was naked and he looked at Ernest.
“The teachers removed it since you were sweating a lot.” He said.
Suddenly the demon girl hugged him from behind and hooked her legs round his back and kept rubbing her cheeks on his back.
“Master is so strong.” She muttered.
He finally loses it, “Get off and don’t hug me.” He ordered and the girl releases him.
“Ah~! Master you meanie!” She complained.
“Where are my clothing?” Xero asked.
"I made closet and cabinets for you, I removed most of your things. This is your tent after all. It was lacking when I arrived so I made some basic things.” He said.
“Thanks.” Xero said and walked around and found his clothing, underwear and put them on and dressed himself while the girl was always within a 1 meter radius of him.
“Now how do I get her to stop?” Xero asked.
Ernest shrugged and smiled wryly and Xero rubbed his head.
“First off, what did you do to the seal?” Xero asked.
“Oh that, I just pinched the side and make a small bit of my gathered mana enter master's body. Since master can’t handle all my mana I just released a tiny bit and made it energize master's body and heal masters body that was in pain.” She said cheerfully and looking at Ernest he shrugged.
“How do you know how to do that?” Xero asked.
“Eh? But… every familiar can do that.” She explained making them freeze and they suddenly realized, none of them have affection on her level to release their own power for the benefit of the master.
“Please return to the seal while I organize my thoughts.” Xero asked her.
“But what about my Innate spells
? I kept them backed up until now!” She complained and pouted.
At this time the seal began to glow and Xero looked.
His jaw dropped when he saw three innate spells partially formed.
“Come on master make them, they’re really good, one is called Sword inventory, the other is called Cleave and the last one is Great sword summon, I don’t get what the last one is for thought.” She said.
Xero’s mouth twitched and he walked to his bed and rubbed his head.
“Don’t let it get to you, when Night evolved the first time I had to deal with 5 spells ranging from holy magic to water magic.” Ernest said.
“Alright, let me deal with this then.” Xero sighed and closed his eyes. “Release the first one, I'll deal with them in order.” Xero said.
As he said that the first Innate spell began to grow and the mana in the seal began to flow out into Ash.
Xero quickly read the spell, “A type of space spell that somehow holds a few swords. I wonder what she is for her to get this spell.” Xero thought.
Since he wanted to best spell possible he began to change some part that could should be changed and slowly the spell evolved in a rather strange way. No matter what he changed it would end the same and when he finished Ash complained. “Boo~! Master you made the spell weird!” She shouted.
“What happened?” Ernest asked.
“The Sword Inventory she said, it evolved into an Innate Spell called Sword Artillery. The strange part of this spell is that for her to store a sword she must eat a sword. She can store 1 of every type of weapon and she only stores the strongest sword she has eaten. After eaten she can summon the sword at will with mana.” Xero explained.
“Why do I have to eat them!” She complained like a child throwing a tantrum.
“That probably has to do with her race.” Ernest said.
“What is her race anyway?” Xero asked and looked at the strange demon.
“Its a completely new race, its called a Lesser Sword Devil Infant, she is a peak level 20 in every aspect because you can’t handle any more.” He said.
Xero looked at the devil and agreed with the infant part. “Calm down Ash, release the second spell.” Xero asked.
She pouts and does that and more mana comes from the seal and begins to form the next spell.
Unlike the previous spell, this one was worlds simpler. The name Cleave was the most flashy name it could get, if it was called mana slash it would fit just as well. The strength wasn’t good and it charged too much mana with to much lost.
Forget allowing the spell to pass as is Xero would never let a sword magic be so pathetic. In his heart, he wanted to be a powerful knight and swordsman. With his commoner background being a knight would elevate his family's conditions to lower noble. He wanted his family to live a happy less work stressful one and the best way was getting rank by being strong.
Starting from the beginning even before the empty element section showed up he already began to alter several spots. It caused the entire spell to be crushed and caused Ash to utter an “Eh?”.
Slowly moving on he soon reached the element and thought a while before he added a special rune known as ‘Elemental’. This rune is unique because it allows the spell to access all elements except holy magic but there are obvious restrictions to it.
The grey magical formula shined like the rainbow everything after the element was destroyed and not just a few sections.
He followed the formula as it formed and waited a bit after each section was made to see how they worked and slowly changed some sections but returned to the start after a while and redid several spots several times from start to finish he kept going over and over until the spell finally finished.
“Master… you really went overboard.” Ash said.
Xero just smiled at that.
“So what did it result?” Ernest asked curious.
“My dream is to be a swordsman so when I saw how bad the Cleave spell was I kind of lost it.” He said.
“What happened?” He asked.
"I ended up creating the spell, Elemental Grand Cleave. It's a spell that can be pure mana or any of the basic elements. When slashing, the blade is covered in some kind of elemental mana and when swung it would send the mana flying as a slash carrying the mana. I worked so long on it that it would only lose about 1% of the mana ever 20 meters.” Xero said smiling wryly.
“Yeah… you overdid it. The power is all contained and I kind of fear the power she will have now.” Ernest said.
“Master, the last spell.” Ash said.
He nodded and looked. It was also element neutral but he could see it would summon a big sword but he didn’t know why. That was until it formed a bit more and a second element section formed holding ‘Metal’ and ‘Air’ runes which mean it floats.
He frowned and removed the ‘Metal’ from the second section and put it in the first causing a lot of breaking in several sections.
He changed a bit more and the ‘Air’ rune broke and reformed as ‘Metal’ and ‘Air’ again making him surprised. He worked more fixing problems in mana efficiency and cost to float, then summoning cost was reduced but created a unique option to change the size of the sword. Making mana efficiency good he reviewed everything and began to work on the actual sword body and began to improve mana flow, body durability but he had to keep going back to mana efficiency and since the new changes affected cost and vise versa and so he spent hours on it until he finished.
“Wow, i…” he was stunned.
“MASTER~!” Ash said and jumped at him hugging him. “That spell is amazing!”
Ernest had fallen asleep and woke up. “What? Oh you're done?” he rubbed his eyes
“Yep, master is amazing, he made a spell called ‘Divide Demon Lords Grand Greatsword’.” She said happily and Ernest began to sweat.
“Don’t give it such a stupid name, the real name is “Sword Devil’s Divine Greatsword. She can summon an unique greatsword that can grow to an amazing size. It’s combat potential is huge but surprisingly this spell is made for transportation.” Xero said.
“What?” Ernest said.
Xero smiled, “The spell was made for her to transport people and items on the big sword, it makes a small barrier that removes air resistance and its really fast.” He explained.
Ernest just shook his head, “You two are strange.” He said.
“Hey! Don’t call master strange!” Ash said.
“Ash return to the seal now.” Xero said and forced her to return and he sighed. “Finally free.” He muttered and stood up and tested his body. “She really did heal my body huh?” Xero said.
“We should go see the teachers, they will want to know about what she did.” Ernest said.
Xero nodded and got up and stretched causing his bones to crack from being still for so long and they left after that to look for the teachers.
Chapter 14
“Oi kid! Why are you up and awake! Better yet, how the hell are you even moving around!” Grunt shouted.
The two boys laughed awkwardly as they went over the events within the tent. Grunt was completely paralyzed when he heard that the energy gathered by familiars can be used to heal the master but the boys weren’t sure how they do it. They only said Ash poked a spot on the seal and that energy flowed through Xero’s body making him heal at an astonishing pace and reenergizing him.
Grunt became serious to this, “Summon the little devil.” he said.
Although reluctant Xero summoned her.
“Kya~! Master you meanie~! Trapping me in that dark damp place~!” She said as she jumped at him and hugged him and didn’t release him.
Grunt wasn’t sure if he should laugh or not because of what he just heard. His face kept twitching through but eventually he forced the laugh down.
“Girly, tell me how you released your energy into Xero?” Grunt was finally able to get the words out and Ash stopped and looked at him for a long moment.
“Oh I remember
who you are now, old bear why do you care?” she asked bluntly.
“...Old…” A vein appeared on his forehead, “I… want to know… because no one did it before.” He forced the words through his grinding teeth.
“Oh well yeah. Of course no one but a demon would dare do it, after all the energy is what they use to evolve.” She said after hearing that.
“Wait! What!?” Xero shouted.
“Oh don’t worry master, I have enough mana stored in the seal to make me reach level 30 with me doing nothing as long as master grows stronger. After that I can even evolve with the remaining energy before I actually have to do anything.” She said and laughed.
“Oh so that is why Night is so lazy!” Ernest suddenly realized.
“Night?...” Ash muttered and frowned before her mouth grew into a grin. “That bastard put master through so much pain! If I don’t at least cut off his balls and make him eat them I won’t be satisfied!” She said as she held her hands in front of her and seems to be thinking of grabbing something when suddenly her nails all grew several centimeters into sharp blades and she did a ‘Kukukuku’ laugh that sent a shiver down the three men's spine. After a moment her nails returned to normal and she turned and smiled at Xero happily. “At least now master has some incentive to grow stronger~!” She said.
“Don’t think you're getting off easy girly! Although your strength will naturally grow as the boys limits release your own that doesn’t mean that you will stop training. Now that you have real intelligence you will train with the sword and I will make sure to tell the academy to prepare our best swordsman instructor.” grunt said.
“Oh right Grunt, she has three new innate spells after I woke up.” Xero said and explained them all.
“Oh so she really is a skill type, a full blade master at that and not only that but she has that sword transport skill. Huh… Kid summon it.” Grunt said.
Xero was caught off guard but then nodded and pulled his sword out of his magic bag and pointed at Ash.
A moment later she held her hand together and a small bit of mana was used and a small pocket knife in the shape of a sword with a little hilt and guard and all. Still injecting mana three more formed before Xero stopped.
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