《Devil Cultivator in an Ability User World》


 (Rewritten/Edit) Chapter 1 - Where am I? And why is my mom using Magic?!

    As Lu Shu woke up from some sort of unconsciousness, he looked about- well he tried to anyway, before realizing that he couldn''t exactly control his body as well as he knew he could.


    ''Why is this happening? Did something go wrong with the tribula-''


    And that''s when he realized, he died, him the strongest in Artronia had died even before the last bolt of the tribulation he''d been enduring had struck him. Suddenly remembering this, his feelings went a bit out of control as immense rage and annoyance funneled through him and came out his mouth in a mighty roar.


    "Aiiiboo!!"


    ...or at least he thought it would. As he tilted his head with what little body control he had, he saw something that quite literally shocked him into shitting himself.


    He was a child, not in the sense that he was being too emotional about dying during a tribulation, but a literal child, his body looked like it had just crossed the 12-week old border, and this shocked even him, a Devil Cultivator, who had lived for hundreds of years.


    ''How is this possible? Didn''t I die-Well, of course you died, you idiot, calm down and think Lu Shu!''


    As he was busy calming himself down, he didn''t sense the incoming doom approaching and by the time he did, it was already far too late...


    "Hello, Sweetie! How''s my big boy doing?"


    Shocked, Lu Why looked at the woman picking him up and was once again shocked at what he saw. Long red hair flowed down from the bottom of her head all the way down to just below her chin, which contrasted well with her bright blue eyes which you could lose yourself in, the rest of her face could only be described as stunning, everything was in proportion and suited everything else on the face and it all came together to make a beautiful picture.


    When Lu Shu looked her up and down, he estimated that she should be about 5''5" unless this world he had been born on has weirdly tall or small people living on it.


    If this woman was his Mother like he was suspecting, he had won the Genetic Lottery and should be just as handsome as he was in his last life.


    To not look suspicious he put on his best baby impression which consisted of-


    "Aiii!"


    To which his Mother''s eyes suddenly had a scary light go past them for a split second before she started smiling extremely gently saying


    "Aww look at how clever my boy is! Knowing when his Mommy is asking questions and he even answers them as well! You''re so cute I could just eat you up!"The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    ''Please don''t, I''ve only just reincarnated, I don''t wanna die just yet...''


    Lu Shu helplessly said this in his mind when he heard her, but he still kept up the baby impression


    "Aii! Aii! Brr!"


    "Hmm? What do you want Damien?"


    ''Oh, it seems I have a new name, while I''m quite fond of my old name, seeing as I''ve reincarnated I ought to take on my new name as my only name from now on, even though I was a bastard in my last life, I didn''t have parents, they abandoned me, so if these two get it right, I will at least show them the level of respect they deserve.''


    While he was thinking his Mother took it as him not replying as, to be fair he didn''t nor really could he, he was a child, and she started guessing as what he wanted


    "Let''s think, what could my angel Damien want...food? No, I just fed him..Hm? What''s that smell-Ah this is what you wanted? To have Mommy change you? Okay come with me Damien, I''ll change you!"


    After 5 minutes of the most painfully awkward experience Damien had ever been through in both his lives, he had been cleaned and changed and no longer felt like he was carrying a brick in his pants.


    ''Oh wow, I suddenly feel really tired, what the hell?''


    This troubling thought went around his head for a while before he came to a realization that made him feel like an idiot.


    ''Oh yeah, I''m a baby now, I guess I need to sleep a lot, guess I''ll just go to sleep in my Mother''s warm embrace..I''m kinda glad I died and reincarnated because these past few moments with my mother are better than any more lifespan I''d have after passing that tribulation. It''s good not to be constantly at war with the rest of the world; it''s so relaxing.''


    But before Damien finally closed his eyes, they shot open as he saw his Mother point her finger at a chair in the way of where she was walking and the chair moved. Damien couldn''t really shrug this off as he couldn''t feel any Qi coming from her, so he was clueless to why she could move it


    ''Wait, what? WHAT!? How did she do that?! And I can''t ask her to explain either!''


    Thinking about this for a while, Damien let out an angry grunt which sounded more like a choked cough and plopped his head down on his mother''s body, using it as an alternative to a wooden pole to bang his head against in annoyance.


    ''I take back what I said earlier, being a baby is surprisingly annoying, I guess my lack of communication skills will be a bother until I grow older, I guess I''ll have to look around to see if I can find any books about this and see if either my mom''s special or if everyone has powers/abilities like her.''


    Seeing his head resting against her body and hearing the weird noises coming from his mouth, Damien''s mother stroked his back while cutely speaking to him.


    "Oh? Is my Damien sleepy? Well let me put you to bed, my little angel"


    At her complete misunderstanding of any of Damien''s surprise/annoyance, Damien couldn''t help but become even more surprised/annoyed.


    ''Mother did you not see the utter surprise on my face? Couldn''t you at least explain to your child how you did it?! Couldn''t you at least brag about it?! Well, guess as soon as I can crawl, I''m looking for books. Yay.''


    And with that annoying goal made, Damien fell asleep, thinking about the wonders of this new world and how it would probably be fun to start over and enjoy his life to the fullest this time instead of constantly being focused on training and cultivating, whether he could actually enjoy this life to the fullest remained unknown but Damien at least liked to think he, the person who was named the Devil King in his last life, would know how to live an entertaining life.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 2 - Information, Choosing a Technique and Foundation Building

    1 year later~


    A small child that looked to be just over a year old was looking at a book with a look of concentration no child that age should own, this could be none other than Damien who is reading books for new information on the world he''s been reincarnated/thrown into.


    ''Ever since I''ve been able to crawl, about 4 months ago, I''ve been reading whenever my Mother isn''t trying to crush me with her freakish adult strength and what I''ve discovered is honestly quite shocking. It seems that the world I''m now in, Terra, is a world of Ability Users and from what I''ve read it''s quite close to a Cultivation world like mine but at the same time it''s incredibly different, one thing would be that not everyone gets an ability like how everyone no matter their talent could have a shot at Cultivating back in my old world.''


    This caused a wave of worry to rock through Damien''s body when he first found out, he couldn''t help but think about what if he doesn''t get an ability and becomes in his opinion, trash.


    This may not seem like much of a big deal to other people because about 65% of the world''s population (World''s population is around 20 billion) don''t have abilities and they get on just fine but when you''re like Damien and you were the Strongest Devil King in your old world, it would be quite hard to readjust to being a normal civilian no matter what he did.


    But soon Damien calmed down, at the time he remembered the experiment he did 2 months ago prior to reading the book regarding Devil Cultivation, to see if he could cultivate or sense any Devil energy and to his utter surprise and delight, he could!


    ''YES! Who needs am ability, hmm?! With my Devil Cultivating techniques I''ll just become the Devil King like how I did in my last life and then I''d like to see who would dare step up to me with their puny abilities?''


    He remembered the arrogance and disdain on his face back then and he could only shake his head now at how far ahead of himself he had gotten.


    ''These ability users, or Metahumans as they''re called, are all freaks!''


    As Damien breathed out a helpless sigh, he felt the cold sweat on his back as he thought about how he was in a world of freaks, as he shook his head to get rid of those thoughts about what he could only refer to as monsters he looked down at the book he was reading, it had a plain and simple title but Damien still read it fervently, it was titled "Types of Metahumans and Awakening".


    As he read through it he discovered that there were two different paths that a Metahuman would be set upon when they awakened, one was the "Warrior Path" which as you might have guessed, focused on the body and would give you abilities to do with physical aspects such as Superhuman Strength or Speed or it would give you the ability to Manipulate your bones so you could either grow bone armor over your skin or make bone spikes for weapons or even just make your bones harder to resists hits better or to make your hits stronger.


    ''Hmm, these "Warrior" Metahumans seem to be like Cultivators in a sense as they focus on their body and try to make it stronger through training! I had to sit in cultivation for a decade before I had the strength to attempt the Death Tribulation and all these "Warrior" Metahumans have to do is train their enhanced physical Attribute until they break through their limits and even though it will eventually reach a plateau and not be able to break through anymore, they still manage to have stronger bodies than cultivators and all they do is lift heavy things or run about with heavy things? That''s it....? It''s easy for some, huh?''


    Damien shook his head with a weird smile on his face, feeling aggravated over the easy time these Metahumans got but also happy over how many new challenges he could face in this new world.


    ''It''s not fun if it''s easy, right?''


    Damien asked no one in particular but quickly brought his attention back in line, away from his battle lust and excitement over challenges.


    "Ahem"


    Damien coughed to disguise the fact that he just had a temper tantrum, even if it was a mental one.


    Looking at how he just reacted, like a child, he remembered something else he discovered a few months ago, it is that even though he''s a hundred of years old Devil he now is in the body of a baby and that immature body is making his mind and personality a bit immature and he has outbursts like that and they embarrass him to the same level as having his Mother change his diaper.


    Damien''s immature face darkened slightly...


    ...As he was starting to remember those dark times he decided to keep reading the book to distract himself from those dark memories.


    As he read past the "Warrior" path he reached the only other Type that you can become, the "Mage" type, these were much scarier than the "Warrior" type when it came to pure destructive potential, even if it was a lower ranked ability such as Terrakinesis (Earth Manipulation) if they trained it to a high enough level they could manipulate all the Earth around them and use it however they want, other examples would be such as Hydrokinesis or Pyrokinesis which held similar destructive potential to Terrakinesis, in that if they were trained to a high enough level that they would have amazing destructive potential


    ''Although this would take an enormous amount of energy according to the book, someone out there must be able to do it, otherwise, it wouldn''t be referenced in the book...''


    Damien couldn''t help a shiver go down his back, that single shiver, snapped something in Damien, he felt like something was stepping on his pride, even though he knew nothing was, he felt like something was mocking him, even though nothing was and it all comes to a boiling point and then he felt like something was calling him weak and even though he knew that no one was, he snapped.


    It must be taken into account that you don''t become someone called the Devil King by an entire world if you don''t already have some screws loose in your head. Damien''s current mental thoughts were more than enough to prove this--


    ''They think they''re so powerful with their abilities that my Devil Arts can''t compare? They think that I am weak? They think they can mock me...? Haha..haha..hahaHAhaHAHAHAHA!''The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    As he was laughing like a maniac, smiling with such Bloodlust and Excitement that it would cause even the most veteran of Cultivators to shit themselves.


    ''How exciting, new challenges, more battles to improve and temper myself in! How could I have been scared of these people? They''re fitting opponents, opponents worthy for me, The Devil King! This seems like the first time in decades that anyone has had the guts to ever be stronger than me! Hahahahaha!''


    --As Damien lost himself in his maniac-like laughing and immense battle lust, stupidly thinking that he was the only person who deserved to be strong, he heard a door open behind him


    "Damien, my son, are you okay?"


    Damien instantly wiped the excitement and bloodlust that should never be on a 1-year-old''s face and turned to face a man, his Father.


    As he looked at his Father''s tall figure of about 6''1" he thought about how it''s quite a dynamic between his parents and how his Mother is over half a foot shorter than his Father, then he looked at his unkempt Raven Black hair which laid freely and without much of a style on his head all the way down to his shoulders, then he looked at his Father''s piercing Green eyes, that looks like a hawk''s eyes, along with his well- built and toned body, he looked quite imposing but all that imposing aura was washed away when Damien looked at the carefree grin he kept on his face constantly, even when he was scolding my Mother for being, well quite frankly, stupid.


    As Damien nods towards his Father to show he''s okay and to seal the deal even further he smiled the cutest smile he could put together and well it seemed to work


    "Hahaha! My son Damien seems to be a genius, you really shocked your Mother and I when you suddenly started reading, Damien, but it''s to be expected you''re my, Charles Nether''s, son! You''re part of the Nether''s Noble Family my boy and it''s a noble family of ability users, so you must live up to these expectations, okay?"


    Damien nodded with so much enthusiasm and confidence that his Father was shocked further and he began laughing again


    "Hahaha good, good! My Son will become the strongest on all three continents, whether it be Tyra, Krux or Esbras, well I shall leave you, Damien, have fun reading!"


    And thus my Father left while madly laughing and mumbling about how his son will be a genius that will shock the world after Damien couldn''t hear his Father''s mad chuckling anymore, he thought back to the knowledge about the continents in the world.


    ''There are 3 continents, each called Tyra, Krux and Esbras, like what my Father said, but sorry to disappoint you Dad; I think I have to become strong in the country we''re in first before thinking about the world~''


    The continent he was on now was the Tyra, and there were 13 countries in this continent, he''s in the Tanra Kingdom the second most prosperous on the continent, only behind the Latres Kingdom, Krux has 11 countries in it, while Esbras also has 11 countries in it, as Damien thought his knowledge about the continents was good enough for now he decided to keep reading the book he was reading before his episode of mania and his Dad entering the room.


    ''Now, onto Awakening...Hm? You go through the awakening procedure when you turn 10? That''s good, I''ve got plenty of time to make sure my Devil Arts foundation is strong and stable enough to carry me through this world even if I don''t awaken an ability, although I''m quite sure I will awaken one, it doesn''t mean I''ll get a good one......Should I do that?''


    As if Damien had a very sinister idea, he started chuckling in his baby-like and immature way but even though it sounded like a baby, if any else heard it, they''d be sure that it came from a monster...


    ''If I implant a Devil Seed into my Heart now, by the time I''m 5, wouldn''t my Talent for Devil Arts be immeasurable? Hahaha! I''m such a genius! Well no matter if I''m a genius or not, I should wait until I''m 2 years old until I plant the Devil Seed, until then I should try to nourish my body with Devil Qi, see what effects it has, it should make my body stronger but it most likely will strengthen even more than usual seeing as I''m a child and I''m growing still.''


    As Damien was concentrating to get in the right set of mind for cultivating he discovered that a thin Red and Black piece of Qi had made its way into his body


    ''This is Devil Qi! Hmm, why does all the Devil Qi in the area seem so rich?''


    It didn''t take Damien long to work this out.


    ''Ah! It must be that because there are no other Devil Cultivators on this world and as Devil Qi is made through strong emotions being given form as Qi through a big enough build-up of these emotions and of course there will be a lot of strong emotions in any world! So I''m pretty much the only guy at an all you can eat Buffet? How lucky~''


    As he now had the Devil Qi, he had to think about what Devil Art to use, he thought about using the one he used in his Last life but after living for Centuries he obviously picked up more and more better-graded Arts and now that he can start over he wants to use the one most suited for him, and as he was searching through his Memory, he came across one that stood out, he skimmed through it and it was definitely the strongest one he had but it seemed like the kind of Devil Art that was a bit extreme and when he kept reading, he was shown that he was right.


    ''WHAT!? Remove your Human Body Limiters and replace them with Devil Body Limiters, this will cast out all Useless, Weak and Redundant Human DNA and replace it with Devil DNA and depending on your talent depends on the purity and strength of the DNA given?! Hold up a minute! Doesn''t this sound very dangerous? And how did I forget about having this?...But looking at the benefits this would bring me, I''m incredibly tempted to practice it, what''s it called again?''


    Damien looked at the Title and Description of the Devil Art and was a bit shocked by how Tyrannical and Domineering it sounded


    Immortal Devil King Technique


    Cast off your weak Human Limiters and give up all your Weak, Useless and Redundant Human DNA and replace them with Stronger, Better Devil Limiters, fill in your empty Genes with Devil DNA and become the perfect fusion between the strengths of a Human and the strengths of a Devil, Become a Half-Devil and then, then you can become the Immortal Devil King!


    ''Woah, Removing your Human Body Limiters is possible? and not only that you can replace them with Devil Body Limiters? If I could do that, plus taking away all my useless and weak DNA and only leaving the Strong Human DNA and then mixing in the Strong Devil DNA, I wonder how strong I''d become?''


    The weak DNA Damien was talking about was the recessive genes in his body which held genetic diseases and even some dominant DNA which held weakness and imperfections. What the technique wanted to do was make sure the more beneficial DNA survived.


    Well, Damien decided to wait until he was either 5 or 6 to start practicing the main cultivation technique, just to make sure his body was ready and until then all he''ll do is basic body strengthening with Devil Qi with doesn''t require a technique and just keep learning information until he reaches a suitable level.


    While Damien was thinking, using a method from "The Immortal Devil King" Technique he started absorbing more and more Devil Qi and started bringing it towards his heart where he condensed it further and further until it looked like a seed.


    This was his Devil Seed and despite what he thought earlier, he decided it would be better to plant it now because the more time he wastes the less chance he has to fully excavate his maximum potential towards Devil Cultivation and as soon as the Devil Seed is completed it would start pumping Devil Qi into his blood and this would, over a period of time make his body stronger and increase his aptitude towards Devil Cultivation as well.


    As he was thinking about his future as the Devil King of Terra, he heard a clock signaling that it was 12:00 pm and time for lunch and thus, Damien, walked to the dining room while continuing to think about how dangerous and exciting his future path to be the First Devil King of Terra will be.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 3 - Addition to the Family, Birthday and Start of Training (Part 1)

    3 years and 9 months~


    Over the years Damien had been collecting information and letting the Devil Seed in his heart temper his body and improving both his strength and his aptitude towards Devil Cultivation, all for this moment, his 5th Birthday, when he can finally start training and cultivating Devil Qi.


    A brief rundown of the last 3 nearly 4 years would be that he has been absorbing information like a sponge and because of this, he''s been constantly praised by his parents and the servants his family employ to the point that even though he slightly enjoyed it at first, now all it does is annoy him


    ''It''s always "Genius that" or "Genius this" can they not at least change up their compliments and flattery? There''s only so many times a person can be called a genius before it really starts to lose its kick, oh well, I better get ready for my party that my Mother and Father have been putting, what seems to be, their life essence into...''


    As Damien walked out of the Bathroom and into his room he caught his look in the reflection of the mirror he kept in his room, what looked back at him and met his gaze was a 5 year old youth who was quite a bit taller than other people his age, so much so that he looked at at least 8/9, he had tanned skin and a clear complexion, he looked up towards his face and saw a handsome yet immature face with strands of midnight black hair falling over his face, with the rest of it either going to the left of his head or to the right or back of his head, but the place where his concentration was mainly placed on was his eyes


    ''These eyes are incredibly weird. Even though I know a lot of people in this world don''t have "traditional" colored eyes, with some people having Purple eyes and some have Red eyes but after looking on something my parents called the Internet, I haven''t seen anyone else like me who has Bright Yellow Eyes.''


    As Damien looked at his Yellow Eyes, he couldn''t help but compare them to the Ferocious beasts he''d encountered in his last life, they gave off a beast-like feeling, like they were the eyes of a predator and most people Damien had asked what they thought of them, only his Father gave him a proper answer without tiptoeing around what he really thought


    "Son, you''re eyes give me a sense of fear even though I know I have nothing to fear, the only thing I could compare it to is having an Apex Predator looking at you through some trees in a dark forest"


    Damien looking back on what his Father said thought his eyes were pretty cool. As he admired his new body that admittedly was much better looking than his last body, he realized he was wasting time and that if he didn''t hurry up soon, he''d have to face the wrath of his whole family-


    *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*


    "Big Bro! Are you ready? Mommy said she''ll come and dress you herself if you''re not done within the next 5 minutes and I''m not afraid of getting her a few minutes early if you don''t do it now!" a high-pitch voice nearly screeched through his wooden door.


    Damien''s face darkened as he remembered a dark day when a demon was born. About 2 and a half years ago his Mother and Father had another child, a girl, they named her Sara.


    ''Speak of the Devil and she shall appear...''


    Damien sighed before suddenly starting to throw his clothes on as he realized the weight of the situation. His clothes for today''s event was a custom black suit and tie that looked particularly dashing on him.


    Realizing how quickly he was putting his clothes on after that threat from his little sister, Damien came to a grave understanding.


    ''...It seems I''m scared of my mother and not because I think she''ll kill me if I''m not ready within 5 minutes but because I think she wants me to get dressed late so she can come to help her "Cute Little Angel", as she calls me, get ready...she''s scary in her own weird way sometimes...''


    "I''m getting ready Sara, don''t get Mom, please! I''m pretty much ready!"


    ''Sadly, my little sister is way more mature than she should be for age, like what 2 year old knows how to blackmail someone?! My parents must be proud, they''ve birthed 2 mature prodigies!''


    As Damien had just finished his tie, his little sister burst through the door, with her Red hair done in two ponytails and her green eyes curiously looking around the room, she gave off an innocent and cute air, although if you asked Damien, it''s the air of a demon looking to cause trouble


    "What''s taking you so long Big Bro?"


    Damien glared at her for charging in like that but as she''s his sister, he dropped the glare pretty quickly, and smiled at her and said while reaching out his hand to hold his little sister''s


    "I''m finished now, let''s go, before Mom gets here, okay?"


    Sara quickly smiled and nodded before latching onto Damien''s hand and arm like she was afraid he was gonna run away without her. Damien smiled while looking at her doing this, although they had their arguments and she always seemed to be looking for ways to annoy him, they were still siblings and Damien would always look after this Sister of his as the relationship they held between them was something he''d never experienced before and something he''d come to enjoy, even if she did annoy the living hell out of him.


    After a short walk they soon arrived at the dance hall of the mansion they lived in and inside there were, of course, his Mother and Father and also the servants the Nether''s house employ, but other than these people, there were plenty of people dressed in fancy dresses and suits filling the hall.


    As Damien and Sara walked over to their Mother and Father, who were next to this extravagant group, they caught the attention of all the people in the Hall and as they were walking everyone started clapping and cheering, as per the proper etiquette taught by his Mother, he smiled in an amicable manner and did a slight bow of thanks towards them before carrying on towards his Mother and Father and when he got there, before he could say anything, his Mother spokeSupport the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    "Ah, you''re finally here! If you took any longer, I''d have to make a trip to come help you quicken things up!" his Mother teased him and surprisingly he blushed, Damien sighed cursing his young body for effecting his mind and making him susceptible to teasing.


    Not seeming to care that her teasing had made her son embarrassed, his Mother carried on speaking "Damien, we''re about to go see some friends we haven''t seen in a while and we want you to come along because we want to show off our excellent son!" His Father also added in an attempt to convince him to come "They also have a daughter, maybe you''ll both like each other and become friends~"


    Damien felt helpless, he was going to go even before what his Father said and now he has to agree anyway and it''s gonna look like he only did it because his Father mentioned a girl, oh well, he was the Devil King of his past world, he can just block out his embarrassment for his parents just this once.


    "Okay, I''ll come, lead the way, Mother, Father"


    Damien smiled a charming smile and said to his parents in a serene and calm way


    As they started walking over his sister suddenly tightened her hold on him, afraid the girl he was about to meet would take her Big Bro away, as she did this, Damien sighed and shook his head with a helpless smile and he carried on walking with his little sister practically hanging off his arm


    POV Change - Selena


    ''Hmph, why did I have to come here? I could have been at home relaxing and reading my story books but I''m here, standing about at some boy''s party who I don''t even know, even if Mama and Papa know his parents, why did they have to drag me along?''


    Selena was standing with her arms listlessly hanging at her sides, not having any enthusiasm about this party she was at whatsoever, she occasionally brought one of her hands up to brush away the strand of her Light Green hair that fell onto her face but that was the only real movement you''d see from her, it was clear to anyone that she wanted to be at home instead of this party.


    As she was doing this her Father and Mother came up to her and told her to at least show some enthusiasm because the boy was coming over with his parents


    "Selena, make yourself look at least a little bit happy if you can, okay honey?" Her Father asked with pleading eyes before carrying on "We need to show Lara and Charles how good our daughter is, can you at least try for that? If you do, I''ll get you plenty of storybooks on the way back home!"


    Hearing this, Selena''s eyes lit up with excitement and in an instant, everything about her changed, her listlessness became enthusiasm and joy while her indifferent face had a small smile upon it which gave her an innocent and lovable atmosphere, she seemed to exude cuteness


    Her Father and Mother both looked pleased when they regarded their daughter, her Mother let out a happy sigh


    "Truly, you are such a beautiful girl Selena, I hear that Lara and Charles have a son called Damien, I bet he''ll be enthralled by your beauty!"


    Her Mother and Father both laughed when they realized that Selena was embarrassed and before she could retort that she doesn''t care if that boy likes her or not, she heard a deep and soothing voice call out from behind her


    "Thomas, Charlotte! It''s great to see you"


    She turned round to see a family of 4 walking towards them, she looked at the person she suspected to be the person who just called out and saw a tall, well-toned man with long black hair that reached his shoulders, he had green piercing eyes, he had tan colored skin.


    Next to him was a beautiful woman with Red hair that reached her chin and Blue eyes, her skin was pale and spotless like it was blanket of snow, Selena looked down and saw a little girl who looked to be around 2 or 3 with Red hair like her Mother and Green eyes like her Father, she looked like the perfect mix between her parents, she looked very cute and lovable, even though Selena wasn''t enjoying this party, she had to resist the urge to run up and hug the cute little thing before her


    ''Isn''t it foul play to be that cute?! Hm? Who''s that she''s hanging off of though...''


    And that''s when she looked at the last person of the 4, the one the little girl was hanging off of, he was tall, much taller than someone his age should be, he looked older than her even though she was a year older than him, his tan coloured skin was just like his Fathers and looked spotless, he also had dark black hair just like his Father and when she thought he was just a smaller version of his Father, her eyes met with his.


    She was shocked, for a short amount of time she thought she was looking into a beast''s eyes and the beasts were looking back into her''s, the Bright Yellow color made them look slightly inhuman, more like a predator than anything else.


    But other than that, she thought that overall, this boy, the boy who''s party she didn''t want to be at, the boy she blamed for taking her away from her books, this boy was quite handsome and gave off a wild aura that despite his young age gave him a unique sense of Handsomeness


    "Haha! Lara, Charles how are you two doing?"


    "Ahh we''re fine, we''re fine! Better to ask, how''s the North of Tyra treating you?"


    As they kept on speaking between each other Selena moved towards the tall boy and introduced herself


    "Hello, my names Selena Estrom, it''s a pleasure to meet you. Also Happy 5th Birthday!"


    Selena put on the kindest smile she could and was confused at her actions which were quite out of the norm for her usual disinterested behavior.


    ''Why am I trying to be so nice to him?''


    While Selena was thinking, the boy smiled kindly at the nice gesture from her and returned the greeting


    "Hello, my name is Damien Nether, the pleasures all mine. And this is my little sister, Sara Nether, say Hi Sara"


    He said while lifting his arm effortlessly to put the little girl, named Sara, on eye level with Selena


    "Hi, Selena."


    Sara replied shyly but she seemed to be defensive of her brother for some reason, something in her eyes seemed determined on defending him


    ''What''s she trying to defend him from? Could she think I''m going to take away her brother from her? Haha, what a cute little girl!''


    "Hello Sara, let''s get along, okay?"


    "Mhm"


    Sara nodded shyly with the same determined look


    "Why don''t you meet my son, Thomas, he''s quite amazing if I do say so myself!"


    Said the Woman, who if Selena remembered right, was called Lara, towards her Father


    "Hoho look at him, what a tall lad, he seems quite well built as well, surprisingly so for a 5-year-old!"


    This is what her Father said while staring at the boy like he was looking at his soul, all Selena''s Mother had to say is


    "Ufufu what a handsome child, he''ll take the hearts of many women when he''s grown up."


    After that, the boy seemed to blush and he smiled while scratching the back of his head and he said


    "Thank you for your compliments Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Thomas"


    ''Hmm Mother and Father were both right with what they said, I kinda wanna be friends with Damien, he seems like a nice boy...''


    As Selena was looking at the boys face while thinking this, she didn''t realize that her parents and his were looking at her with humor in their eyes, thinking that they''ll be related through marriage one day.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 3 - Addition to the Family, Birthday and Start of Training (Part 2)

    POV Change - Damien Nether


    After all the greetings were given and he had received all the presents they had brought for him, he had to see off his guests and when they got to the last family, Selena''s family, his Mother and Father hugged Selena''s while Damien simply said goodbye while flashing a smile at the green-haired pink-eyed girl who returned the smile and said goodbye and at that, the Estrom family had left and had started upon their journey back to the north of Tyra.


    After the event, Damien wondered back to his room. But not before a long and drawn out hug from his father and (especially) his mother.


    Standing in his room, Damien let out a tired sigh.


    ''That was tiring, speaking to all those guests and making sure I was performing the proper etiquette really drained me, this younger body just keeps showing the disadvantages it has to offer...Oh well, onto the reason I was looking so forward to this day!''


    As Damien thought this, he sat down in the proper position for Devil Cultivating and looked at the Devil Seed in his heart and thought that compared to 4 years ago, the Seed was much more robust and concentrated with Devil Qi than before.


    If before it was like a match, then now it was like a big bonfire, it continuously gave out nourishing Devil Qi and put it into the blood pumped through the heart to strengthen the body.


    This was the first step in Devil Cultivation.


    It''s where you make your foundation for your future cultivation and the more stable and deep it is, the better and the further the distance you could travel down the path of Devil Cultivation. The main thing that Devil Cultivators focus on is the strength of the body, the stronger the body, the more Devil Qi it can hold and the more Devil Arts you can use, also a stronger body is essential when a Devil Cultivator wishes to survive Heavenly Tribulations that aim to them at every major Breakthrough.


    Although Damien was smaller than the Average man, he still had more strength than them, this was the result of 3 years of slow foundation building and body strengthening, if you measured his body strength it was at 200kg, which made him quite strong when compared to normal people but compared to strength-focused Metahumans, it was like a fly''s strength compared to an Elephants.


    As he was searched through his head to look for the training method for the "Immortal Devil King Technique" he found it and read through it


    ''Hmm seems like there are 5 Human Limiters that I have to remove and there''s a specific order to it as well, the order and limiters are: Muscle Limiter, Bone Limiter, Organ Limiter, Brain Limiter and Finally the Heart Limiter.''


    Damien looked further into the details on the limiter he could currently unlock before reading it to himself mentally.


    ''The first stage takes away the limiters on the muscles, allowing you to use 100% of your muscles and their strength, this would effectively increase my strength up to 650kg, which is a big increase...okay, let''s try to remove the Limiter! It says to imagine a chain wrapped around each of your muscles and you need to move all your muscles with as much power as you can until the chain snaps, if you stop at any time, the chain will go back to the state it was in at the start, well then, let''s give it a go...''


    "Ahh!"


    As Damien yanked on the chains attached to his muscles, he was assaulted by horrendous pain which felt like someone had started to flay his muscles apart. But he grit his teeth and ignored it, knowing from the information in his head that this was normal.


    "Ahhhh!"


    In response to the pain Damien tried even hard, he steeled his resolve knowing the oncoming pain will be even more terrifying and maddening than the previous times.


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    "Ahhh! Urgh!"


    As Damien heard the chains limiting his muscles starting to creak and deform from the pressure he was exerting, he tried even harder, pushing his muscles to their very limits but at the price of causing his blood to spurt out of his nose like a tiny geyser and even a thin layer of blood was covering his body.


    While he was doing this he was circulating his Devil Qi in the way that the "Immortal Devil King Technique" showed him.


    This helped increase the pressure on the chains and increase the effects of his own struggles and as he thought about how he was getting closer, he circulated the Devil Qi faster and faster while trying even harder with his muscles to break the chains limiting him.


    While he thought about something limiting him, he was incensed. His arrogance and unruly nature from his previous life pulling through once again and pushing him into a manic state.


    ''How dare mere limiters chain me down! I''ll show it that it cannot hold down a Devil King! On my path to becoming the Immortal Devil King, nothing stands in front of me, not even something placed on my by the Heavens! If the Heavens stand in my way, I''ll crush them just like anything else that feels like it can stand between me, a Devil King, and whatever I want!''


    As he was roaring this in his head, as if it could understand his intent, the Devil Seed and the "Immortal Devil King Technique" Devil Qi Circulating method merged together, to make something only the "Immortal Devil King Technique" could make, the True Devil Heart, this ''Heart'' was like an upgraded Devil Seed and it let him better use his Devil Qi and to hold more Devil Qi in his heart, it would also let him exert more power with his Devil Qi and this allowed Damien to exert more pressure on the chains limiting him


    "Break" *Creak*


    "I said, BREAK!"


    *Creak Crack*


    "Did you not hear me? I said BREAK!"


    *Crack*


    *SNAP*


    Like a roar from a Primordial Beast, Damien roared out while tilting his head up towards the Heavens, while Covered in Blood and his eyes completely bloodshot red along with those Beast-like Eyes, he looked exactly like an Ancient Devil that was out for blood and would get it no matter what.


    ( Author note: Kinda lucky that his room is pretty much soundproof~ )


    Then as he was about to pass out, a warm wave of energy washed through him.


    Specifically through his muscles.


    The energy healed all the rips and tears in them and even strengthened them to a level higher than his previous muscles by leaps and bounds. If his previous muscles were akin to a rope made from scrap metal wires, then his new muscles were like powerful steel cables that wrapped around his body to create a perfect musculature.


    This was the realm where he''d taken off his Muscle Limiters and it signified that he had just started on the path of the Immortal Devil King.


    The layer of blood on his body was absorbed back into his skin where his muscles greedily gobbled it up to give themselves the energy their new evolutions had taken from them. This was an effect of the "Immortal Devil King Technique".


    It was a sub-art of the "Immortal Devil King Technique" called "Blood Devil Body" it''s quite tedious to train as it needs the blood of strong beasts/people with a lot of life energy or vitality to actually temper the body, so it''ll take a long time for him to start practicing it because he has to reach the necessary strength to kill the Mutant Beasts that have the blood that can help his training.


    After thinking about this, he got up off ground and went to have a bath because although his body has healed after breaking the limiter, his mind is completely drained of all energy, so he was having a bath, to relax and let his mind unwind. As soon as he was done, he came out of the bathroom and dried himself off, he put on some underwear and got on his bed and passed out.


    POV Change - ???


    "Haha he''s doing it, he''s going against the Heavens and their infernal designs!"


    A mad voice filled with all kinds of weird emotions said, followed by more shrill laughter, it was hard to tell whether it was either a male or a female


    "Shut up you mad prick! I''d be surprised if the rest of the Galaxy couldn''t hear you. Although I too am surprised he''s practicing that technique, how amusing"


    Said another voice that was deep, calm and majestic, like all those who heard it must obey, the emotions it conveyed were at first anger for the previous voices loudness and shrill laughter but then it faded away into conveying its amusement at the way things were playing out on their little project


    "Let''s just hope he doesn''t let us down, we''ve been waiting for a few centuries for something this exciting to happen"


    This time it was a completely different voice from the other two. If the first one sounds Erratic and Annoying, and the second voice sounded Aloof and Majestic, then this voice sounded like the perfect balance between the two, in fact, it sounded quite normal but as soon as it spoke, the other two voices stopped their bickering and laughing and kept quiet, as if the third voice was something they would never dare anger.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 4 - Becoming Something More Than Human and a Shocking Realisation (Part 1)

    Just under 5 years later~


    A tall boy was in a courtyard doing basic body exercises with small weights attached to his wrists and ankles, with a small vest on his upper body that had small slots for slab weights, there were ten weights currently in the vest, while each weight on the boy''s wrists and ankles had 2 slabs in them.


    While the boy wasn''t doing these exercises effortlessly, he wasn''t exerting himself too drastically, which would come as a surprise to anyone who saw the letters and numbers on each of the weights, which was a small "90kg", this meant that this boy was training with 1620kg on his body, which while his body looked older and stronger than most people his age and could quite easily pass for the body of an early teen.


    The weight being hefted around was a monumental amount even for the body of an adult to carry let alone a child''s, but alas, to think of this boy as a simple youth would be a grave mistake, for he is the reincarnated Devil King, Damien.


    As Damien came to the end of his exercises, he picked up a towel and wiped off all the sweat on his body, as he was doing this he pondered about how long it would be until he could remove the Heart Limiter in his body.


    As just under 5 years have passed he continued to tear off the limiters on his body and with each additional one that he removed he was becoming arguably more inhuman but in fact he was more human than ever.


    To explain it, it was like before the limiters were taken off it was like he was constantly covered and filled to the brim with tar, it affected everything he did, making it more effort to do even the most basic of tasks and most importantly, it affected how great he could be. Human talent is just a sign of the limiters being looser on some people than they are on others.


    So, now with 4 out of the 5 limiters removed, Damien was edging towards Human Perfection, whether it be in Appearance or in his Physical and Mental Faculties, but thinking this, Damien had a scowl of slight disdain on his handsome face.


    ''Who cares about Human perfection? A perfect Human is still a human but with the Immortal Devil King Technique, I''ll become something better, something more.''


    As Damien pondered this, he thought about what his family would think of him if they knew their son had cast off his Humanity and became a Half-Devil and while he had an insatiable thirst for power, he had also come to respect and, in his own way, love his family.


    In these 9 or so years he''s spent time with them, lived with them and been loved by them, he''d slowly but surely started to return and respond to the unrequited feelings of his new family. Because of this, he''d slowly started to care what they thought about him, not to a massive amount such as wanting to give up his Devil Cultivation but simply thinking about if they would accept a Devil into their family.


    Damien shook his head as he rid himself of those thoughts and steeled his resolve to cultivate his Devil Qi in preparation for the removal of his Heart Limiter.


    As he looked into himself, he saw a mass of red and black gas in and surrounding his heart that gave off a tyrannical and majestic aura, as he looked at it he couldn''t help but think in wonder.


    ''I still can''t believe it. This True Devil Heart that the Immortal Devil King Technique made is truly a gift that keeps on giving''


    The True Devil Heart that was made when he first broke through his Muscle Limiters was the main reason that he could complete most of the limit breaking in just under 5 years, it would usually take 10 years but the True Devil Heart refined better and purer Devil Qi.


    This trait helped pressure the chains on his body even more than what his Devil Seed could achieve and this helped immensely.


    It not only pressured the chains but helped fuel his muscles with more energy and let them release more power when he struggled against the chains. As he stopped thinking about the True Devil Heart and started to clear his mind, he started cultivating to prepare for the time in which he''ll attempt to break the last chain that limits his body.


    He''d been planning this breakthrough for about the last few weeks and finally be free of his Human limitations and once he was, he could start properly training in the Immortal Devil King Technique, which will push him into something that transcends limits for fun.


    A Few Days Pass~


    These past few days Damien has been cultivating non-stop, preparing himself for the biggest challenge so far in his new life, he only stopped when he had to eat with his family and when he needed to sleep, which he did very little of.


    The reason he was so nervous and tried his best to prepare for this trial was that the Heart Limiter was not only the hardest to remove, it was also the deadliest one to remove as any wrong move could cause the heart to give way and stop beating killing the practitioner in the process.


    So Damien, someone who valued his life, was quite anxious about failing but the more he thought about it, the more he realized he should just get it over and done with.


    ''Ha! Why am I so scared of dying? I was scared in my last life and I still died, so instead of worrying it''s better to just push forward, not recklessly, but fearlessly, if I want to be an Immortal Devil King, I must never fear that what does not deserve it and when I do fear something, I will strive to overcome that fear, only that way, can I become strong!''


    As he yelled this mentally, a light flashed through his eyes, his intent and will to fight manifested and he was determined to either pass over this hurdle or die trying, no matter whether it was the highest parts of the Heavens or the deepest parts of Hell, he would overcome anything in his way.


    As he decided that today will be the day he tries to completely break his limits, he thought that it would be best if he spent a few hours meditating and calming himself so he can go up against this hurdle with a calm but unyielding mind.


    A few hours passed quite quickly and Damien prepared himself, taking off the thin shirt he had on to avoid getting any sweat or blood on it and then he sat down in his usually cultivating space and clicked a remote that made sure his door was locked.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    ''Don''t want any of my family to come in here while I''m pretty busy turning myself into a Devil. That''d be one awkward situation to explain.''


    Damien chuckled at his humor, thinking that he might be a bit mad because he''s about to risk his life and he''s still making jokes like that.


    As he tried, he felt a painful pang in his heart as he tugged at the chain with his Devil Qi, but he just grit his teeth and kept tugging while his heart, as if seeing that he was trying to free it, became ''excited''. It started beating faster and faster and stronger and stronger, until it got to the point where if a person was in the room with Damien at the moment they would hear his heartbeat, like a fast-paced war drum, beating like the sign of an army of Devils advancing toward an unlucky destination.


    *Badump! Badump!*


    "Ahhh! Grrraahh! Fucking Chain!"


    Damien kept on growling and howling like a beast in pain as he continued to pull on the chain that only continued to cause him more pain, pain that kept increasing with every heartbeat. Despite the pain, the heartbeat kept picking up a faster and faster pace each time while it continued to struggle, as if it knew that if it helps get rid of this chain, it will become stronger and go through some sort of evolution and while Damien appreciated it''s eagerness to help, he was not very fond of the immense pain it brought.


    *Badump! Badump!*


    *Creak*


    ''Why is my heart doing this? None of the other things with limiters did what my heart is doing, seemingly wanting to break out of the limits on itself and in turn helping me, why is that?''


    As Damien thought this, it suddenly struck him.


    ''The True Devil Heart! It''s helping me by making my heart beat faster and harder to combat against the chain holding it back from it''s potential. Wait a minute! Isn''t the True Devil Heart gaining some kind of sentience to help the body it''s in a sign of it nearing Initial Success?! Hahahaha! Those who suffer misfortune are soon to be blessed with fortune, despite this pain and danger, it''s the perfect thing to push my True Devil Heart to excavate some of it''s potential and let it get to Initial Success!''


    As Damien thought this he started tugging on the chain with even more gusto than before and while it caused him monumental amounts of pain, it also caused his Devil heart to start to go through a change, the change is that instead of it continuing to collect towards the middle of his heart, it starting spreading out towards the walls, valves and atrium''s of the heart and started coating them in pure, concentrated Devil Qi.


    As Damien saw this, he was ecstatic even though he was in an astounding amount of pain.


    ''Well looks like I''ll have to try even harder if I want it to fuse and complete the transformation into an Initial Success True Devil Heart''


    As Damien thought this, he winced but pulled even harder than before and--


    *Badump! BADUMP!*


    *Creak!*


    "Grrrahhh! Fucking Christ that hurts! Come on just break you impudent chain!!"


    Damien spat this through gritted teeth, with a fire in his eyes that showed that he was severely incensed over the fact that he was trying much harder than he was when he tried to break the other limiters but to no avail, he still had yet to break the chain.


    *BADUMP! BADUMP!*


    As a result of his anger, his heartbeat kept increasing in speed and his heart kept beating harder, this finally showed some results


    *BADUMP!*


    *Creak! Crack!*


    The sound of chains being strained and slowly cracking entered Damien''s ears and he was then encouraged to further his efforts thinking.


    ''Hmph! I''ll see how long you can hold out for, you piece of shit chain, I will break my limits, so get ready to be snapped!''


    As he thought this, he let out a roar and started pulling at the chain with all his might, every part of his body was stressing as much as it could, making as much energy as it could, just to break the chain.


    *Crack! Crack!*


    But still, even though there were more cracks, the chain hadn''t broken yet


    "GrrrRRAHHHHH!"


    Damien was completely infuriated, so much so that he threw caution to the wind and pushed himself past his limits and a soon as he did blood started coming out of his pores, out of his eyes, nose, mouth and ears, the rate at which his heart was beating was so fast and hard that it was putting an ungodly amount of stress on his veins and arteries that some of them had even started to tear


    *Badump!badump!badump!badump!*


    *Drip drip*


    As his heart still stubbornly beat faster and faster, the blood coming out of his body also came out faster, so much so that it had started dripping down his body and onto the floor and was forming a puddle around him.


    But at this time, instead of a grimace of pain on his face Damien had a manic smile threatening to split his face in two because of the pain pushing himself past his limits, his incredibly white teeth contrasted with the blood covering his body and along with his eyes that seemed as if they were two yellow fires, he gave off a terrifying aura and if anyone were to see him, they would say that he is not a 10-year-old child, he''s a 10-year-old monster, nothing more and nothing less.


    The reason he''s smiling in an insane manner is because of the chains and their current condition--


    *Crack! CRACK!*


    --The motions of them breaking were in full swing now.


    Damien''s efforts were paying off and the chains were shaking because of the strain and as if they''re scared of the young boy trying to break them and this filled Damien with intense happiness as he was ever so closer to becoming something better, something more powerful!


    "Hahaha! Break! Come on, Break! Haha!" as Damien was hysterically laughing at how he''s finally beating the chain, a sudden sound, which wasn''t too loud but was heard by Damien instantly, came from the chains--


    *CRACK!*


    *SNAP!*


    Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the chain snapped but before Damien could feel happy or cheer because he''d finally broken the chain, his body was drained of all energy and froze as still as a statue.


    ''Hm? What''s happening, why can''t I move!? And I can''t speak, Why?''


    As Damien was wondering this, the True Devil Heart completely fused with his heart and it looked like his Heart was encased in Devil Qi.


    This was advantageous because while Righteous Cultivators focus on the Dantian, Devil Cultivator focus on the Heart, it''s where they store their energy, and that''s not to say that they don''t use their Dantian to store energy, they do, but they focus more on refining their heart and body to be stronger to hold more Devil Qi instead of storing Qi in the Dantian.


    So in conclusion, if the heart is encased in Devil Qi and strengthened by a Devil Heart, it''s better protected against physical impacts, lessening the chances of the Devil Cultivator''s cultivation getting crippled.


    As Damien was laying there, he felt his blood crawling up from the floor back onto his body and then the blood in his body started leaving his body and joining with the blood outside of the body and then forming a cocoon around him, he was alarmed at this process and anxiously started thinking.


    ''Why is this happening? Did I do something wrong?!''


    But as he was thinking this, he suddenly passed out - like his body knew what was about to happen and allowed it, putting him to sleep so he wouldn''t mess with the process.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 4 - Becoming Something More Than Human and a Shocking Realisation (Part 2)

    As Damien lay there little did he know that this was what happened when someone under the age of 10, who had an incredibly high aptitude for Devil Cultivation, completed the Limit Breaker Stage of the Immortal Devil King Technique.


    It was called the "Blood Cocoon" it was the only way to get Royal-Ranked Devil Genes and Limiters because the other way was through making the genes and limiters out of Devil Qi which you couldn''t guarantee the quality you''d get.


    Inside the cocoon, Damien was peacefully asleep, while the Blood Cocoon got to work and started inserting the Royal Grade Genes and Limiters, first it conjured up a few drops of blood out of Devil Qi, they were a mixture of Red and Black and gave off a domineering pressure but despite this the droplets still looked beautiful in their own way, like a unique gem that is much more precious compared to any other gem in the world.


    Suddenly, the 5 droplets spilt off and went to 5 different places, not very surprisingly they went to the place where the main chains were on the Muscles, Bones, Organs, Brain, and Heart, they then merged with this places.


    When the blood reached the muscles the blood began to spread throughout all the muscles in the body, seemingly endless as it drenched them all in the red and black blood making them stronger, denser and also more durable while also boosting their potential to immeasurable heights.


    Next the blood that reached the bones started doing its job, the same thing that happened with the muscles, happened to the bones, they got stronger, more durable and denser, leaving them with a red and black sheen, it then delved deeper into the bones, reaching the marrow and increasing the bone marrow''s ability and efficiency when it came to making better red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, increasing Damien''s immune system, recovery ability, and overall regeneration.


    With the organs it washed and quenched them of all the impurities that even taking off the Human limiter couldn''t get rid of, this made them much more vibrant and lively looking and it even sent them into overdrive after overdrive until they worked leaps and bounds beyond what they could once do prior to the upgrade.


    It did all this while also increasing the lifeforce and vitality they gave off to immense proportions.


    The Brain was drenched in the blood and started producing more and better neurons and the synapses between each neuron were made more efficient and better at delivering information between them, this increased thinking speed and reflexes in general, as the blood started to spread from the Brain to the rest of the nervous system, it boosted Damien''s innate reflexes to incredible levels.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    And finally, when it reached the Heart, it made the Heart go through a qualitative change along with the blood and all of the circulatory system.


    It made the Heart much stronger than before, allow it to pump more blood around the body at a quicker pace, the blood was changed so it carries more energy around the body in a more efficient way, it would nourish the muscles and the body more.


    It would now carry more oxygen to the rest of the body and by working hand in hand with the enhanced Lungs the changes had given Damien, the blood could now carry an amazing amount of oxygen, giving Damien incredibly high stamina and finally the circulatory system was made more durable to put up with the large amounts of blood and pressure that it''s going to have to withstand from the Heart being upgraded and it''s new output.


    As these changes are happening, something else happened in Damien''s body, a green fluid that gave off a weak aura was slowly working it''s way out from the inner parts of Damien, if he was awake and saw this, he''d know what it was instantly- It was the lesser parts of his Human DNA.


    As the DNA came out of Damien''s body, it was instantly torn to shreds by the Blood Cocoon and used as an energy source for the creation of a red and black liquid.


    The liquid being made gave off an aura of slaughter and a weird feeling of ravenous hunger, this was the Royal-Grade Devil DNA and as the DNA was finished, it slowly seeped into Damien''s skin and into his body and started to improve his genetics and make his body growth rate and potential even stronger than it already was before.


    As he was in the Blood Cocoon, his whole body was remolded, this was the second part of the Immortal Devil King Technique, the Body Remolding Stage, nothing major had happened yet, but over the next few years, mainly when he''s in puberty, his body will grow stronger and stronger and more like a Devil to a certain extent but not to the point where he looks like a Devil, just that he has the internal workings of one.


    2 Hours Pass~


    The Blood Cocoon that had dried started to crack and fall apart, leaving only Damien lying there, as soon as the last piece of the cocoon fell off, Damien''s eyes shot open as he tried to stand up as quick as he could--


    *Crash*


    --Unluckily for him, during the past 2 hours his strength has increased incredibly, so he used too much power and hit the ceiling when he pushed off the ground


    "Ah! Shit, why''d that happen?" As Damien cursed he got up and noticed something was a little different.


    ''Wait...am I taller?''


    In a hurried and anxious manner he went over to the mirror next to him and was shocked at what he saw, seeing the person he saw in the mirror and the power that he could now clearly feel pulsing through his body every time his heart beat, he was sure about what happened when he passed out and what it meant--


    He''d become something more than Human.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 5 - New Appearance, Awakening Near and picking a Battle Academy

    As Damien continued to look into the mirror, he was continuously stunned by what he saw--


    He still had the same black hair, his skin was still a tan color and his eyes were still yellow, but his eyes kept being drawn to the changes in his body.


    First, he was about 10cm taller than he was before, so he went from 155cm (5"1) to around 165cm (5"4), which made him even more freakishly tall for someone his age, but even this was one of the more normal of the changes to his body.


    Then he looked at his eyes and noticed that the pupils that were normally round were replaced with reptilian slits, making the already beast-like eyes look even further inhuman, then he looked next to his pupils at his sclera which had turned black and saw how it only seemed to boost how bright and dangerous his eyes looked, as he looked down from his black sclera, he saw two black lines coming down from the bottom of his eyes, one for each eye, they start at the edge of his eyes and curved down and outwards towards his cheek and then curved back towards the middle of his face, but only slightly and they then stopped when they were parallel to his mouth.


    Speaking of his mouth he opened it and looked at his teeth, mainly his canines on both his lower and upper jaw. The teeth were longer, sharper and more pointed, with the top ones being slightly longer, nonetheless both the sets of canines being something far from normal for a normal human being. Apart from that, everything further back behind his canines was the same; sharper and more pointed than they should be.


    Overall when looking at his mouth and teeth, Damien couldn''t help but laughingly think.


    ''Isn''t this just like the mouth of a beast? I saw many of these in my past life while fighting against Demon Beasts but I never thought I''d be seeing it while I look in the mirror.''


    As he thought this, he sighed shaking his head with a wry smile on his face.


    ''It''s not the worst thing that could happen, at least I don''t have claws--Wait! I haven''t seen my hands yet!''


    As soon as this revelation came to Damien''s head he started to slowly look down at his hands with a nervous look on his face and when his eyes met his hands--!


    --They were fine and this quite frankly surprised Damien.


    ''Hm? I thought I was gonna get kicked while I was down but looks like my luck''s looking up!''


    When he thought this he flexed his fingers just to check, and well, he wished he hadn''t, he wished he''d never flexed his fingers ever again after knowing they were ''''fine''''.


    In short, when he flexed his fingers, 2 inch long black claws came out of his fingers, they looked incredibly sharp, looking at them, Damien mentally hit himself.


    ''Me and my big mouth...''


    He puffed out a breath of annoyance before looking through his memories for the technique from the Immortal Devil King Technique for something that would allow him to hide his devil features and as he revolved his Devil Qi in the circuit required by the technique, his claws went back into his fingers, he sclera went back to the original white color, the slit pupil went back to a slightly vertically stretched pupil that wasn''t quite noticeable and the two markings on his face faded away.


    And his teeth went back to normal apart from his canines on his top and lower jaw which were still longer, sharper and more pointed than usual but you''d have to be looking for them to stand out.


    As Damien sighed, he wiped some cold sweat off of his brow and wondered how much time had past since he had passed out and gone through the initiation for the Remolding Stage, he looked at the clock in his room shocked by the time that was shown.


    "Huh?! 2 hours? Oh wow, I''ve really been out for a while, lucky for me that I attempted this when it was about 8 pm so I had time to burn. Would''ve been trouble if my mom burst in and saw a Blood Cocoon in the middle of her son''s room." Damien shivered while thinking about how much his Mom would''ve freaked out.


    After thinking this, he trudged over to his bed and went to sleep feeling utterly exhausted from the chain breaking and the mysterious cocoon that changed him.


    Hours later he heard a knock at his door. He groggily got up and went to answer it, but not before checking his appearance in the mirror.


    "Yes? Who''s there?" Damien groggily asked.


    "It''s your loving mother, Damien. Now, open the door." His mother''s sweet voice was what replied to him and Damien slowly put his hand on the door handle before speaking up again.


    "Now, mom. Don''t get angry but..." Damien slowly opened the door to show his new height "...I had another growth spurt..." Damien cast a helpless smile at his mother who had to deal with his constant growth spurts due to devil cultivation.


    Damien could almost see and hear the internal screaming inside his mother''s head, her loving and sweet mask cracking a bit at the revelation of Damien''s new height.


    ''It''s not my fault Devil Cultivation causes the body to grow quickly, don''t look like you''re gonna kill me, jeez!''


    Slowly, his mother calmed down and seemed to want to distract herself, so she spoke to him.


    "Sooo Damien, are you looking forward to tomorrow?"


    As soon as he heard this, Damien showed a confused look on his face while he asked in a curious manner "What are you on about, Mother?"


    At his answer, his mother looked at him in shock and said "Have you forgot about the fact it''s your awakening procedure tomorrow?" his little sister saw an opportunity to annoy him and chimed in with "Yeah big bro, have you forgotten about that? Hehehe you''re so forgetful Big Bro!" even though they were incredibly close as siblings, she still kept her base instincts as a little sister and always tried to annoy her older brother whenever the chance arose.


    As Damien looked down at his little sister, he smiled mischievously and said "Hm? What did you say? I don''t speak idiot and quite frankly I''m not planning on learning it either, sorry Sara." he smile with an ''apologetic'' expression on his face as he patted his sister on the head, seeing as her attempt to annoy her brother had backfired and instead she''d been called an idiot instead and she was now being ''pitied'' with her brother patting her head, her face flushed red with embarrassment and she mumbled "You''re the only idiot here, idiot brother".Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    As he was teasing his sister, he could see his mom eyeing up his new change in height with a happy expression on her face, it looked prideful...even a little smug...


    ''Wait! Is it because she has bragging rights now?!''


    Damien questioned this in his head for a few seconds before finally coming to an answer as he looked at his mother''s smug smile.


    ''...Yep, it''s probably that, for some reasons most parents I''ve met in this world have been unnaturally proud of any achievement their child has, I guess it has something to do with the fact that if their child is strong they can elevate their families'' standing among the other major families of this world''


    "Anyway, are you ready for tomorrow? It''s your awakening and it''s recommended that the day beforehand you rest properly and don''t do anything too stressful so you''re in tip-top condition."


    As Damien listened to his Mom worrying about him he went over what the Awakening procedure was in his head.


    ''First, you take a substance called Metzlit orally, this was to rouse the ability in your DNA and to get it ready for the main awakening. Once the ability starts to awaken, you enter a metal sphere and there you are injected with liquid Mezlit, this is what causes the main awakening and once it starts to take effect the sphere closes up and a special type of radiation is released into the spherical chamber that acts as a support to the Metzlit. Once the Ability reaches a certain level of awakening it will manifest, if it''s a Warrior type the body will show changes or glow and if it''s a Mage type the type of magic it grants will be manifested in a small sphere around the user, for example a fire ability will manifest in either Fire on the body for a Warrior type or Fire in a sphere around the person awakening for a Mage type.''


    A slightly startling thought came to his head after this.


    ''Hm, I wonder, what will happen to me, a Half-Devil during this awakening procedure?''


    But before he could delve any further, he noticed his mother impatiently looking at him.


    "Come on Damien, let''s go to the living room where we can discuss which academy you wish to go to after you awaken." she said this in a voice that showed little room for leniency, only because she knew that he was incredibly indecisive when it came to picking which academy he was going to go to.


    To prove her point Damien replied with a grimace on his face "But Mom, I don''t need to pick yet, right? I don''t need to go until I''m 11 and I''ve only just turned 10!"


    Usually, this is when she would let it go and ask him a few weeks later but today she had a reason to push the issue "Damien Nether! You will be picking the academy you will be going to today! The academies require an enrollment of a year in advance to get a guaranteed spot if you have the necessary talent" she said this with the sternest look Damien had seen on his Mother''s face in all his 10 years of this life and he could only look away and say an indignant "Okay..."


    As they reached the living room, Damien saw and greeted his Father "Hi Dad..." his voice clearly showing how much he didn''t want to pick an academy and would rather be doing anything else.


    His Father turned to look at him and smiled at his son''s reluctance and nodded towards him in greeting.


    As he, his sister and his parents all sat down, his parents pointed towards the table between the two sofas they were sitting on, on the table, there were 3 pieces of paper with 3 different names on them and brief descriptions about the academy, they were:


    Apex Ability Academy


    Only the best of either Warrior or Mage''s go to this academy, it''s very deserving of its name as the best academy in Tyra. It specializes in giving the best education in both battle and things like Strategy, History, Science etc. The goal of this academy is to make an outstanding student that excels in both studies and fighting.


    Mutant Hunter Academy


    This is an academy that focuses on making the best Mutant Beast Hunters/Metahuman Hunters, it specializes in putting students into groups of 3 or 4 and training them to work together and focuses on making them have near impeccable team work together.


    The aim of the academy is to make it that through the teamwork students can cover for each other''s weaknesses and enhance each other''s strengths. Also trained to be good at taking other people or people''s teams down. Pretty much a glorified assassin academy.


    Divine Titan Academy


    This is an academy focused on Battle, in any form, all its classes are about how to battle and being able to use your ability you''ve awakened to it''s fullest potential and excavating it to highest level. Most people who enter this academy go in with good battle prowess and graduate with monstrous battle prowess.


    So much so that they''re usually worth a whole team of Mutant Hunter Academy hunter''s in a battle and can even easily fight against students from Apex Ability Academy one on one. Sadly, however, they''re ranked 3rd out of these 3 academies. Mainly because all they focus on is strength and their battle prowess, while the others completely outdo Divine Titan Academy in terms of other subjects such as Strategy, History, Science, Technology Studies etc


    Without waiting for his parents to speak, he pointed at the third option, Divine Titan Academy and said "I wish to go here, it fits what I want."


    To further clarify, he continued speaking "Which is get stronger and focus on improving my battle prowess."


    His mother and father both wryly smiled as they looked at their son who thought of nothing but getting stronger. They both knew he''d pick this option but still decided he should think it over. Meanwhile, Damien was steeling his resolve.


    ''All so I can protect this happiness and relaxation I''ve gained from my family. It''s the least I could do to pay them back for what they''ve given me.''


    His parents, not shocked by his decisiveness, asked with faux-worried expressions on their faces "Are you sure, Damien?" was what his Father said with his Mother following closely behind with "Why don''t you think a bit more about it?" but Damien softly shook his head with a determined expression on his face.


    Usually Damien would play the part of an obedient son as his respect for his parents dictated so but when it came to strength and opportunities to get said strength; he would take them without a second thought.


    "No, I''ve decided, I don''t need to be taught anything else, all I''ll need to be taught is how to get stronger, how to use my ability to its maximum potential and the equipment to aid me in getting stronger."


    As his parents saw Damien''s determination and the savage excitement in his eyes, they conceded and his Mother simply said "Okay, just go and rest. Sleep early, we''re going to go early tomorrow to the Awakening Facility, okay Damien?" she said in a stern but gentle and caring voice.


    Whenever he heard that voice he simply couldn''t think of any reason to disagree with it, so just like usual, he nodded his head to his Mother, walked up to her and kissed her on the cheek and then said goodbye to his family as he walked back to his room to get some rest as he had a big day tomorrow.


    ''Hmm I''m really stuck between feeling excited and nervous for tomorrow''s awakening because of me being a Half-Devil, could something go wrong?''


    He thought about it for a few seconds before a wry smile came upon his face.


    ''Well I guess so, it''s pretty much a 50/50 chance whether me undergoing the awakening procedure as a Half-Devil is a blessing or a curse...Ahh oh well, what will happen, will happen.''


    As he just about finished this thought, he''d arrived at his room and as he placed his hand over a scanner and it flashed with a green light the door opened and he pretty much flung himself onto his bed, he thought that he''d get some meditation in before going to sleep early.


    As he meditated for about 7 or so hours, he finally stopped, his mind calm and stable but also wild with excitement about tomorrow, as he laid down his head, he fell asleep, not knowing that tomorrow was gonna be quite an eventful one.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 6 - Awakening Procedure and Induction Day at the Academy Nearing (Part 1)

    KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*


    "DAMIEN! Get up, you need to get ready for the awakening procedure!"


    As Damien rubbed the sides of his head from being exposed to such loud noises this early in the morning, he looked over at the digital clock on his bedside table and saw that it was 6 in the morning.


    He sighed as he reluctantly got up and replied in a sleepy tone to his Mother "Okay Mom, I get it, I''m up..."


    As he got up, he got dressed in a simple white t-shirt, some black track pants and put on some white trainers he usually wore. Luckily, as he had loads of growth spurts, his mother, as a precaution, had it so most of his clothes could either stretch a lot or she just had multiple sizes of each different item.


    So even after the changes in the size of his body from the recent change, his clothes still more or less fit him.


    He walked to his door and opened it to see his nervous Mother and his sleepy sister, as he and his sister shared a look of mutual suffering, he looked towards his Mother and asked in a slightly annoyed voice "When are we actually go then, Mom?" to which she innocently replied with a smile on her face "We''re setting out at 7:30 am sweetie" she quickly turned around and started to lead Sara and Damien downstairs towards the dining room, completely missing the siblings eyes twitching in annoyance.


    ''Hmm, so I''ll be awakening soon, huh? Well, let''s hope it all goes to plan...''


    Damien winced as he thought this.


    ''...I should probably stop jinxing myself shouldn''t I?''


    As he nodded his head at his own question, they had arrived at the kitchen where a healthy breakfast was placed on the table.


    Suddenly a question came to Damien''s mind "Mom, why''d you wake Sara up? Is she coming or something?" he asked this with a questioning expression.


    His Mother, who was talking to his Father, turned towards Damien and said "Yup, she''s coming with us, I want to show her what to expect from an awakening procedure and what better one to watch than her beloved brother''s?" she smiled while giggling like she was the child in the family. As soon as she heard the last part of what her Mother said, Sara got embarrassed but did nothing to refute what her Mother had said.


    ''You''re not going to say anything Sara? That''s not like you, how odd...''


    He thought about something for a while before his face paled at his thoughts.


    ''Wait. I just thought, while I''ve been here on Terra I''ve been using the Internet quite a lot when I''ve been resting from training, to gather information at first but then I started to find it fun and I remember that there was a term for what Sara has been acting like recently, oh god no, please--''


    "Well yeah, Big Bro is my favorite person, after all, I don''t want to see any else''s awakenings." said Sara with a bashful expression while looking in Damien''s direction.


    This ended in Damien to nearly choking on the Orange juice he was drinking, clearly not ready for what she said.


    ''Oh god, isn''t this a budding Bro-con? Oh please fade with age, please fade with age, please fade with age.''


    As Damien was chanting what seemed like his new mantra, his Father looked over to him "Damien, Son, are you excited?" he asked with a carefree and loving look on his face, as Damien was snapped out of his mantra, he turned to look at his Dad saying "Of course I am Dad! I''m gonna awaken the best ability in the world obviously" he joked towards the end because he knew his parents were worried about him being too nervous, so he dropped a joke to show that he was fine and it wasn''t really affecting him.


    Like he intended his Dad laughingly replied "Of course, you''re my son after all, you wouldn''t be fearful of a small awakening procedure haha!"


    Damien finished his breakfast and orange juice before he standing up and looking at the clock on the wall of the room and saw that the time was around 6:13 am.


    Seeing he had some time to burn, Damien went to his room to look on the internet for facts about awakenings, just to make sure that he''s ready for it and everything.


    ''Hm, there''s a 5% death rate for the procedure? Ohhh it''s from people who took too much Metzlit, makes sense, from what I''ve read, it''s quite a tyrannical substance, too little and nothing will happen even as you feel the pain from the Metzlit going around your body and too much and even though you''ll most likely awaken your ability, you''ll probably die from the pain of the medicine going through you''re body.''If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Damien lay back in his chair and looked at his ceiling while pondering about the information he''d found.


    ''What a thin line. Well, I''m 99% sure that my body could handle it, not many kids who are 10 years old can lift over 5 tons, so it makes sense their bodies can''t handle it while mine can.''


    As he jokingly thought, Damien started to start researching a new topic - [Technomancers] - they seem incredibly dangerous in this world ruled by technology, proven by their S+ Rank, so Damien thought that he should do some research on technology so he knows how to combat them.


    ''Technology in Terra puts the formations in my old world to shame, they have weapons of destruction that normal people can use, they have guns that can kill Warrior-Type Metahumans and they also have things that can incapacitate a Mage Type''s abilities and the user themselves. Shame the technology is so expensive.''


    Damien thought about it all for a moment while leaning back into his chair.


    ''What an adaptable world, on my old world ability users would have ruled with an iron fist but on this world, the normal people came up with ways to use technology to subdue them and stay on the same level as them. Obviously there are incredibly strong Metahumans who can get past these things but still, the majority of Metahumans can''t, so technology seems like something I should learn about. As a wise man once said "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not to fear the result of a hundred battles" ''


    As he thought this he kept reading about Technology and time flew by and it was already 7:10 am, so his Mother came to drag him away from his computer and they set out to the Awakening Facility.


    About 20 minutes later~


    Once they arrived here, Damien looked at the Tall White dome building and thought about how weird the architecture of Terra''s buildings are. As he shook his head to get rid of any useless thoughts he walked into the building with his Mother and Sara following after him, they went to the receptionist and before his Mother could speak, the 20-something-year-old man sitting there looked up and flashed a charismatic smile.


    "You must be Mrs. Nether, you''re right on time for your son''s appointment, follow me and I''ll take you to the private Awakening room you booked."


    As he got up and motioned them to follow him as all 4 of them walked to a staircase and walked up one floor to a pure white corridor where the receptionist just walked while still leading them, when they reached a black door with the word ''Private'' written in white on it, as the receptionist knocked on the door someone answered it at the same time, this didn''t seem to faze the receptionist as he smiled and told the female doctor that Mrs.Nether was here to have her son awakened.


    "Ah okay, come on in Mrs.Nether, you can call me Dr. Yuka" The doctor greeted his mother, as Damien, his Mother, and Sara each sat down. His Mother nodded with a smile on her face in a sign of greeting.


    "So how are we getting started Doc?" said Damien with a grin on his face, to which he Dr. Yuka smiled back at him and gave him two small blue pills and a glass of water and told him to take the pills, Damien complied and ate the pills and drank some water to wash it down.


    As soon as the pills entered his stomach, a warm flow of energy started passing through his body which came as a surprise to him, mainly because he didn''t expect it to be energy so similar to Qi going around his body.


    As soon as she saw the surprised expression on his face she smiled slightly and said "Can you already feel the energy from the pills? Looks like you''re quite talented Damien."


    Damien answered with a soft nod of his head. Hearing that her son was even more talented than she knew before, his Mother''s smile beamed even brighter than before, while Sara nodded her head like she expected her brother to be talented.


    ''Can you two stop having such blind confidence in me?! One of these days it''s gonna get me into huge trouble...''


    Damien couldn''t help but mentally react to his sister and Mother''s confidence like this, the amount of familial love and pride being thrown at him being something he wasn''t used to.


    Dr. Yuka stood up and took all three of them to where the metal sphere he has to enter was and told Damien''s mother and sister to go behind a big screen that seemed pretty durable and hard to see through from the side that Damien was on.


    But alas with Damien''s incredibly strong senses that he got from the Blood Cocoon, he could see that it had screens with live footage of what was inside the metal pod.


    ''Well, at least they''ll know if something goes wrong, gotta look on the bright side of things, right?''


    He nervously chuckled mentally as Dr. Yuka told him to sit down on a chair and administered the liquid Metzlit in 7 separate places; His chest, his lower spine, both his legs, both his arms and finally one to the back of his head.


    By now Damien felt a bit dizzy because of how much Metzlit was in his body, as she saw that it was already taking effect, Dr. Yuka spoke out.


    "Damien, go sit in the pod now and get comfortable"


    Damien simply nodded and walked into the pod and sat down as a door slid down and covered the only entry for the pod.


    As Damien was getting comfortable he heard a low buzz start, most people wouldn''t hear it but he could, it started low than when higher, than lower again and it kept switching between the two, it was quite annoying to Damien''s now-sensitive hearing.


    When the buzzing was switching between both low and high pitched sounds, he felt a wave of weird energy hit him. Damien guessed this was the radiation used to spur on the awakening.


    As soon as this energy hit Damien, he felt a change in his Brain, like something just unlocked and entered his brain but at the same time, he felt something leave as well. Whatever left, it''s absence made Damien''s head feel incredibly empty.


    Somewhere else deep in his body, a chain snapped, it didn''t change anything with his body but it let something in, an ability, an ability that most mortals will never have.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 6 - Awakening Procedure and Induction Day at the Academy Nearing (Part 2)

    POV Change - Dr. Yuka


    As Dr. Yuka watched the tall boy in the pod about to undergo his awakening, she had a feeling that something big was about to happen, she couldn''t place it but it felt like she was witnessing the birth of something incredible.


    Realizing she was letting her focus slip, she scolded herself mentally.


    ''Focus Yuka, think about stuff like this when he''s awakened and not at risk due to a mistake you could make while daydreaming.''


    As soon as she thought this, there was a beeping sound to her right and she looked at it and spoke "Hm? Seems like Damien is about to awaken Mrs.Nether."


    Lara, the boy''s Mother hurried over with his Sister, Sara, and they both watched the monitor with her and this was when the boy lifted his arm and squeezed his fist with force beyond that of most humans and it seemed to push the air away from it with the force, this was accompanied by a flash of text on a monitor next to the one playing the live footage of the pod


    [Physical Augmentation and Concentration] Rank S+


    The user of this ability has access to anear inexhaustable pool of energy in their body, the energy can never run out but there is a limit to how much energy you can use at any given time. They can use said energy to augment their strength and/or concentrate it into a single body part to perform a multitude of impressive feats.


    However, no matter how powerful this ability is, it''s near unusable unless the person has a particularly durable body.*


    Sub-ability: Enhanced Structure - The body''s materials are upgradedin Durability to withstand the power and energy of the Ability held within it.


    ( *Author Note: This is his new ability. It merges with his Devil Arts way better and allows him to focus 100% on being a warrior. If you don''t get what the ability is, it''s One For All from My Hero Academia~ )


    All three of the people looking at the screen were shocked, while Yuka thought he''d be strong, she didn''t expect a Rank S+ Ability.


    ''A Rank S+?! Oh my, what a talented kid, looks like I actually have witnessed the birth of someone strong. And he even has such a good sub-ability. Wow.''


    It was at this time that she heard the mother and daughter laughing in a creepy and manic way.


    "Haha this is what I expect from my little angel Damien!" his mother nearly squealed with joy.


    "You''re right Mother, Big Bro was bound to be talented and the best hahaha!" as the mother and daughter pair kept talking about how the boy was amazing, Dr. Yuka couldn''t help but feel sorry for the boy when she looked at this obvious Son-con and Bro-con.


    ''Does this poor kid experience this all the time? I kinda wanna adopt him away from this suspicious family~''


    As she joked in her head, there was another flash of text on the screen after the previous text, Dr. Yuka looked at it quickly with a surprised but curious expression that quickly turned into a shocked one


    [Limitless Body and Mind] (Passive) Rank ??


    Most people collapse and give up when they exert themselves to an unimaginable degree or when they experience an ungodly amount of pain, but the user of this ability can keep pushing and with even more fervor than before, this allows them to break past their limits whether they be physical or mental when placed under great pressure, this makes them Limitless. (Takes a massive amount of pressure/training to break past limits but it''s possible with this ability unlike other people who will always hit a plateau no matter how hard they train)


    Even his biggest fans, his Mother and Sister, were shocked into silence with their mouths agape. As Dr. Yuka let out a cold breath through her teeth, as she wiped some none existent cold sweat off of her brow and while doing so she could only mutter a few words about that boy and they were--


    "What a monstrous freak..."


    POV Change - Damien, a few minutes later


    As Damien walked out of the pod, he was met with 3 faces looking at him like he was some sort of monster, Damien looked down at his body and felt his face because he thought he might have entered his Devil Form but he hadn''t.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    "Why are you all looking at me like that? Did I do something wrong or something?" he innocently asked.


    To which the doctors face twitched and smiled a smile that may have looked like one but it definitely didn''t feel like one with the dead look in her eyes.


    "No no no, you little monster, you haven''t done anything wrong, you''ve just shown us normal people what a genius is kekeke"


    ''Why does she sound dead inside? And what''s up with that laugh?''


    Instantly, Damien went deadpan, feeling that his doctor was a weird person. He also started to feel he attracted all the weird people in this new life of his.


    Damien decided to put this in the pile of things he''d ponder on later, along with Girls and Technology. "Uhh..okay I guess. Well can I see what my abilities are?" he asked with a low voice, to which the smiling doctor twitched again.


    "Of course you can." Her smile looking slightly strained as she looked at Damien''s indifference and mistook it for him not understanding his own talent.


    As Damien looked over his powers he was incredibly excited. His first ability would allow him to control and use energy to improve his already herculean strength while also concentrating it to produce even more devastating attacks.


    While looking at his second ability he was equally as excited because he had been contemplating on how to make it so he could repeatedly push past his limits and now that he has this ability, that question had been answered.


    To clarify, these limits were different limits compared to the Human Body Limits he had removed. These limits were to do with the amount of strength he could train, whereas the Human Body Limiters stopped him from using his full strength. One limits his potential strength and the other limits his current strength, or at least they used to.


    "Wow, I really have some strong abilities, don''t I?" as soon as he said this, he regretted doing so as he was being glared at by the Doctor who he''d worked out that she seemed jealous of him.


    ''I didn''t pick my abilities, why are you glaring at me?! Glare at God if you want to blame anyone!''


    He yelled mentally at the Doctor and before he could say anything else his sister came into his view. She had adoration in her eyes like she was looking at something worthy of worship.


    ''...Having strong abilities is good and all but I think me awakening strong abilities has accelerated my sisters bro-con disease...please fade with age, please fade with age...''


    He started to chant his mantra in his head, he felt a strong force pull him into what he would only ever refer to as a choke hold before a happy and joyful voice entered his ears.


    "Hahaha my baby boy a genius, I''m so proud of you! We better get back to tell your Father and get you prepared for your academy induction day!"


    Dropping her ''loving'' mother face, Damien''s mom put on a serious but thankful look as she let go of Damien and looked toward Dr. Yuka''s direction.


    "Thank you, Dr. Yuka, we''ll be going now, goodbye" she did a slight curtsy before leaving.


    As they left the room, Damien heard the doctor quietly speak.


    "I''m definitely quitting my job, maybe I''ll go join an academy as school doctor or something..."


    After that they traveled back home to his Father to tell him the good news, as they told him he jumped up from the chair he was on, laughing with a smile that exuded happiness, he walked over to Damien and clasped his hands on his shoulders and joyfully spoke.


    "That''s my boy, we always knew you were gonna be a genius haha!" as his Father said that his Father''s phone went off, he looked at the screen and his smile stiffened, it was only slightly but Damien saw it and he wondered what could make his Father do that.


    As Damien thought about this, his Father spoke.


    "I''ve got to go somewhere, got some business to do, see you three later, okay?" Everyone said goodbye to him and went to sit down in the living room.


    To start a conversation Damien asked his Mother "So what was that induction day you were talking about?"


    He asked this because he hadn''t been told anything about it and he hadn''t seen anything about it on the Internet either. To his questions, his Mother replied "Ah, yes, thank you for reminding me, sweetie. It''s in about a week and you''ll be going to the academy you chose for a few days to get used to academy life and see how the academy is and how life there will be."


    But before he could reply to his mother, Sara interrupted the conversation.


    "Big Bro''s going away for a few days? Why? Does he have to?" she asked with a worried expression on her face, to calm her down Damien brought her closer to him and put her on his leg and patted her head.


    "Sara I can''t always be around here, I have to go to that induction day if I want to get accepted by the Academy, right Mom?"


    "Yep, if he doesn''t go Sara you''re brother will get in big trouble. You don''t want to get him in trouble do you?"


    Hearing this and after being placated with head pats she replied with "No..I''m just gonna miss Big Bro a lot" hearing this Damien patted her head again and said "It''s only a few days, when I get back I''ll play with you for a whole day okay?"


    When she heard this, Sara quickly nodded her head in fear that the offer would be taken back "Okay okay, I''ll wait for you to come back Big Bro, but you better keep your promise!"


    After this Sara went to her room to go do whatever a 7-year-old girl does and before they knew it, it was just Damien and his Mother in the room. All his mother did was look at him with a loving gaze before speaking to him.


    "Go get used to your abilities so you can make sure to show that the scion of the Nether Family is strong and talented when you''re at your induction day, okay?"


    Seeing her expectations, for some reason, Damien couldn''t help but think he didn''t want to let her down. Sort of like her expectations was bigger than his own needs. Nonetheless, he mentally shook himself out of it and looked up at his mom with his trademark confident smile.


    "Okay Mom, I won''t let you down".


    Then he turned around to head to the back courtyard to practice with his power for the induction day next week.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 7 - Testing out the New Abilities

    Damien was walking to where he was going to practice but before he made it there he turned around and made a quick trip to his room.


    As Damien entered his room he lay down on his bed and thought of ways he could use his Physical Augmentation and Concentration ability, or PAC ability for short.


    It didn''t take long to think of a few ideas and he sat up before opening the bedside drawer beside him and brought out a black tablet and turned it on showing a logo with the words "Meta Corporation" on the tablet''s screen.


    As the logo disappeared the device showed the home screen for the tablet, Damien clicked on a box that opened up an empty folder which he then named "Physical Energy Combat"before he started putting down the ideas he''d been thinking about just. Once he''d finished that he thought about how he should go about testing them, so he looked for the easier one to test, and his eyes were instantly drawn to ''Concentrated Step'', looking at it he decided to go test it out.


    Picking up his tablet, he went out of his room and got on his way toward the back courtyard again.


    On the way there he thought he might as well test his thing, something he''d called ''Concentrated Step'' he theorized that if he used the Physical Energy in his body and directed it into one of his legs and through his foot, he would be able to put his whole body''s strength behind each of his steps.


    So he tried it. Damien closed his eyes and let his instincts lead him to the energy from his ability.


    It took a bit of time to find as the energy wasn''t in one set place, it seemed to be distributed throughout the body''s cells evenly, like some kind of cell power.


    Nonetheless as he''d found it, he casually drew it out and was surprised by what he felt; Pain. A lot of it.


    Damien stopped drawing out the energy almost instantly and looked at the damage caused. The muscles surrounding his bones looked as if they''d been burned by something and the bones themselves had tiny cracks running throughout them.


    ''I didn''t even draw out 2% of the energy and it did this to my body? This energy is...interesting, completely different from Qi.''


    If Qi felt like water or gas traveling through his body, then this energy felt like electricity or fire traveling through his body; explosive and volatile.


    From the feel of it, however, it seemed to be much better at temporarily enhancing the body than Qi. Qi was a Jack-of-all Trades kind of energy, it could reinforce the body, weapons, it could power formations, it was used to activate martial skills but because of this versatility it was weaker one-on-one compared to any kind energy focused on one of those things.


    Clearing his head, Damien stopped thinking about this and concentrated on the situation at hand.


    After letting himself heal from the damage, Damien tried once again to draw the energy out but used his expert energy control and drew around 1% of the energy out. His bones were shaking and his muscles hurt but they kept intact and didn''t tear, burn or crack like the first time.


    A smirk stretched across one side of Damien''s face.


    ''Let''s try this then...''


    Damien thought about the risks but shook his head, preferring to go head-in first and sort his problems out as they appeared.


    ''Sometimes you gotta run before you can learn to walk, right?''


    With this, Damien moved the energy toward his leg and feet muscles before merging the energy into them. Damien''s leg muscles bulged and his veins bulged like tiny snakes under his skin. The power Damien was feeling in his legs was phenomenal.


    Usually, when Damien ran, he could only use his leg muscles, like most people, but right now it felt like he was using every muscle and bone in his body in tandem with the muscles and bones in his legs. It was a peculiar feeling.


    Damien leaned forward onto his toes, feeling the power collecting there, like each of his toes was a leg of its own.


    He shook his head one last time before pushing off.


    *Whoosh!*


    The wind rushed passed Damien''s ears as he was thrust forward down the hallway, the speed miles better than if he pushed off on his own. An excited smile spread on Damien''s lips as he pushed another foot down to carry on the run.Stolen story; please report.


    *Whoosh!*


    Every footstep was full of power, brimming with an explosive force which shook, even slightly cracking, the wooden floorboards under his feet. Damien looked ahead and saw the corner for the hallway but he didn''t slow down, no, on the contrary, he sped up.


    The corner was approaching at faster and faster speeds but Damien''s smile never left his face and just as he entered the corner he jumped and maneuvered his body to be perpendicular with the wall to his left. He thrust his feet toward the wall and pushed off of it with enough strength to crack the reinforced stone wall slightly.


    *WHOOOSH!*


    Damien shot toward the courtyard doorway at the end of the hall. Unfortunately, Damien hadn''t thought up a "slow-down" plan and with the glass pane door getting closer and closer in Damien''s vision, he did what he had to do.


    He slammed his feet into the ground to stop himself. And surprisingly, it worked but not after a horrendous screech and nearly ripping a rug in two.


    Still feeling the power in his legs, Damien brought the energy from his legs and released the empowerment on his leg muscles. As soon as he did so, he felt the cold floor under the skin of his feet causing him to look down at his feet in confusion.


    Looking at his shoes, or more accurately, what''s left of them, Damien guessed that the power of his steps must have been too much for the shoes. He didn''t know what he was expecting from them, looking at the shredded shoes he felt he might have wanted to take his shoes off before testing such an ability.


    Damien sighed with a helpless smile on his face, he took off both his shoes and just went outside in his socks.


    When he was outside he found the trees towards the back of the garden, they were massive things. So big, that even if two grown men wrapped their arms around it, they would barely wrap around it.


    Damien walked up to one of the trees, got into a fighting stance and threw a casual punch at the thick tree.


    *Bang!*


    A deep indentation was imprinted into the tree''s bark with half of Damien''s fist was buried inside the tree. Damien nodded at this and summoned the energy again and this time he directed it toward his entire right arm.


    Letting out a deep breath, Damien drew back his empowered arm and threw a solid punch straight at the center of the tree.


    *CRACK! CRUMBLE!*


    The tree broke in half with a massive boom of sound, Damien looked up at the feeling half of the tree and sent another punch up toward the falling half of the tree but with an idea in mind.


    *BOOM!*


    As his fist came into contact with the tree, he dispersed the energy in his arm through his fist and into the tree. As soon as the energy entered the tree, it shattered apart and the wood chips sprayed all over Damien''s smiling face.


    "Hm, seems that by controlling the physical energy and forcing it into an object can have devastating effects...but it takes a lot of concentration to do it quickly and making sure I don''t do it wrong is already killing my head." as he spoke to himself softly he rubbed his forehead while he wondered what would happen if he dispersed the physical energy in a controlled manner, instead of just forcing it into the tree.


    Figuring there was no harm in trying, he walked up to a tree that was right next to the one he punched and made a knife hand and enforced his hand with physical energy before thrusting it at the tree--


    *SLICE!*


    --As soon as Damien thrust his hand into the tree and released the energy in a focused way, no noise was made other than the slicing of the wind around the tree and the tree itself being torn apart.


    The tree was in one piece but Damien''s hand had traveled all the way through the tree and was fully embedded in it.


    ''So I can either fully obliterate something or pierce it? It''s a start. I''m fully confident I can expand on this to be a powerful ability.''


    As Damien thought this with a smile on his face, he couldn''t help but feel oddly tired, it was less of a physical fatigue and more of the mental variant. He wondered about it for a while before figuring he pushed his concentration a bit far with that last strike before he went back to his room where he went to meditate and see how his Devil Cultivation was coming along.


    Sitting down, Damien calmed his mind.


    As he looked inside himself he saw a strand of unbelievably pure Devil Qi leave his heart and travel around his body seemingly looking for something. Then when it was at a random point on his body, it stopped and started to spin like a drill before it started excavating a node of some sort.


    This is what the Body Remolding Realm was all about, those nodes were called Devil Nodes, during the Body Remolding Realm your goal was to make strands of Devil Qi as pure as you could and then send them to look for Devil nodes to light, these nodes increase everything about a Devil Cultivators body, each node increases the cultivators body strength by 1000kg.


    He''d already lit 2 nodes back when he was in the Blood Cocoon and his original strength was 2500kg before the change to his body from the DNA injected into it. After he got the Devil Limiters and DNA his body strength was increased to 3500kg and with the leftover energy his True Devil Heart, which gained a small amount of sentience from reaching Initial Success, Damien lit two nodes up giving his body the strength of 5500kg.


    As the Devil Qi strand fully excavated the node it lit up with a red and black flame that gave off energy that spread from the point of the node to the rest of the body strengthening it and remolding it to be better, and after a few seconds of strengthening and then remolding, he has an extra 1000kg in strength making his overall body strength 6500kg.


    As Damien clenched his hand, he felt the power coursing through him and smiled, loving the feeling of getting stronger.


    ''I should probably cultivate at night while I train my abilities during the day, gotta make sure I''m in a suitable condition to meet my classmates for the next few years to come~''


    As he decided this he got to stabilizing the node that was just lit, making sure his foundation for cultivation was steady and stable as a mountain, after he did that he got onto going through the long process of lighting a Devil Node.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 8 - The Classroom of Freaks

    A week later, the Induction Day~


    Damien entered the school grounds with a look of indifference on his face. The Academy was made up of multiple buildings with one massive building in the middle which looked like a modern cathedral.


    Not one to feel nervous, Damien continued to walk further into the academy grounds before realizing he didn''t know where he was.


    He looked around the area before finding what seemed to be a big map on a board and walked up to it. It detailed which building was which and what they were all called.


    After a while of looking and memorizing the map, Damien looked through his pocket for a piece of paper his mom had given him and once he got a hold of it he read what it said ''Building Block 4, Floor 2, Class 1''.


    He nodded his head and walked off to that building.


    It wasn''t too far away from the center of the big cathedral in the middle, so it was hard to miss. Speaking of the building itself, it looked like an office building being covered in glass panes, tall and looking quite bland.


    Damien didn''t care much for how it looked, so he walked to the entrance of the building and entered it before walking to the stairs.


    As he was walking up the stairs he heard someone running behind him and when he turned around he saw a short boy with white hair and blue eyes. The boy seemed to be somewhere else mentally as even though Damien was standing right in front of him, the boy ran right into him and stumble backward thinking he''d hit a brick wall or something.


    But when he looked and saw what he hit wasn''t a wall but instead a person, he went pale and started apologizing.


    "I-I-I''m sorry I didn''t mean to run into you like that!" the boy''s voice was stuttering and all over the place.


    At first, Damien was a bit annoyed with the kid for running and hitting him but seeing the boy''s sincerely apologetic look, he decided to clear up the air between them.


    "Hey, you don''t need to say sorry, you didn''t hurt me and besides, it was an accident, right?"


    The boy seemed surprised and released a breath of relief before he quickly spoke again.


    "Ah! Yeah, it was an a-accident! Thanks for not making a big deal out of it."


    POV Change - Michael


    Michael looked up at the tall youth in front of him and still felt some of the fear he felt when he first lay eyes on him.


    The boy, who was apparently the same age as him, easily towered over him by about 20cm''s or more. This wasn''t hard as Michael was quite a short boy for his age but Michael had never seen someone who was so tall despite not even being a teenager.


    On the way up, he found out the boy''s name was Damien and returned the greeting by telling Damien his own name. After the greetings, Damien seemed particularly talkative and they both learned they were in the same class.


    Michael was surprised by how easy it was to talk to Damien. Usually, Michael limited his speech in case he said something stupid and someone would have a go at him like his family always did.


    But with Damien it was like no matter what Michael said, he''d just take it in stride and try to look at it from his perspective before replying.


    At least from this experience, Michael seemed to have something akin to an acquaintance in his class, he just hoped his family would let him stay friends with Damien.


    POV Change - Damien


    Damien enjoyed his short chat with the young boy he now knew as Michael. Something about the kid drew him in, the innocence in the boy was something Damien felt was quite endearing and Damien wouldn''t mind at least acting his age and having friends like Michael who he could relax around.


    Before they knew it, the two boys arrived at the second-floor hallway and started walking to their classroom. It didn''t take long as it was one of the closer classrooms in the hallway.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    As they both reached the class 1 door, Michael seemed to hesitate while Damien just pushed the door open and walked him, Michael seeing that Damien was about to leave him in the corridor alone, he rushed after him.


    When Damien entered he saw that there were about 4 people already sitting down, 1 boy and 3 girls and they were all staring at him.


    Damien thought it was probably because of how tall he is or his eyes. But when he saw the biggest of the 4 children looked like he just ate a pile of shit as his face twisted into an irritated visage, Damien figured that it was to do with his height.


    ''Why does he look like he''s probably gonna start something?''


    He saw he injured pride in the boy''s eyes and couldn''t help but roll his eyes at the affirmation of his question.


    ''Urgh. What an annoyance.''


    As Damien let out a sigh he walked over to a free seat next to two girls who seemed to be twins.


    The only difference being that one of them had black hair and red eyes and the other had black hair and blue eyes. As he sat down, Michael followed him and sat down next to him in the only other free seat in the room.


    As soon as Damien sat down, the red-eyed twin suddenly looked at him and he just stared back at her, she seemed to be thinking about something and then she asked a few questions.


    "How old are you? You don''t look like our age! What''s your name anyway? Oooo what''s your power as well?" Her voice was energetic and she shot questions our like some kind of gun but Damien didn''t miss a beat as he answered back.


    "I''m 10, like you guys. My name''s Damien, nice to meet you and well, you don''t need to know my power, do you?"


    The girl seemed a bit shocked at his answer to the first question.


    "You''re 10 and you''re so tall? Wooow." Damien could already feel a headache beginning to form behind his eyes as he listened to her fast-paced speaking. Luckily, she seemed to slow down a bit as she introduced herself.


    "Hello, Damien! My name''s Helen and this is my sister--" She pointed at the other twin "--as you might have already guessed. Her name''s Beth and she''s not much of a speaker so don''t feel offended if she doesn''t speak!" as Helen said this, Beth nodded in greeting to Damien and he returned the curt nod before looking back at Helen.


    "It''s nice to meet you, Helen. So you do the speaking for both of you? That''s why you talk so much?" Helen nodded as she said "Yup".


    As she was about to say more, the door opened and saved Damien ears from their torment.


    A beautiful lady walked into the classroom and walked over to the front of the blackboard in the class before writing what seemed like her name on the board in chalk.


    As she was writing, Damien looked at her appearance in more detail. She had olive color skin and long black hair which cascaded down her back but the most striking thing about her was her soft brown eyes which were both fiery and calm, somehow.


    Like mentioned before, she was beautiful with an average height, shapely curves in all the right places, a round face and full lips which looked incredibly soft. Damien felt she was quite the beauty and if the dangerous feeling he was currently feeling was right; she was one hell of a dangerous and powerful beauty.


    Damien looked at the fancy handwriting.


    ''Mrs. Quila''


    As she turned around she smiled and addressed the class.


    "Hello everyone, my name''s Mrs.Quila and I''ll be your teacher for when you join next year. Now as an ice-breaking exercise I''d like each of you to stand up, say your name and what your ability is, okay?"


    In reply, everyone nodded and sat up straight in their chairs before Mrs. Quila pointed at a redhead and told her to start, "My name is Scarlet Jaeger and my ability is Rank S+ [Elemental Channeling]."


    Next up was the boy who kept glaring at Damien. He was tall, second only to Damien in the class, with golden blond hair and emerald green eyes. He was quite a handsome kid but his scowl really took away from it.


    "My name''s Troy Davin and my ability is Rank S+ [Electricity Manipulation]."


    After him, it was the twins and he found out their last name was Asler and the quiet one, ironically, had the power of Rank S+ [Sound Manipulation] while Helen had Rank S+ [Umbrakinetic Constructs] which contrasted weirdly with her bright personality.


    Finally, however, it was Damien''s turn.


    "Hello my name is Damien Nether and my ability is Rank S+ [Physical Augmentation and Concentration]." Damien''s voice was calm and steady as he told his future classmates his power but he was unsettled to see their looks of surprise at his ability.


    "What?" he looked over at the teacher who had a smirk on her face. Mrs. Quila heard his question and thought she at least owed him an answer.


    "The fact you have a Warrior-Type Ability in S+ Rank is incredibly shocking to them. Most abilities at or above A-Rank are Mage-Type abilities and they--" She motioned to the other children before continuing "--probably expected you to have a Mage-Type Ability like them."


    Realization hit Damien but he couldn''t help but question it in his head why he''d never seen anything on the internet about Warrior-Types being capped off at A-Rank. But nonetheless, he shrugged his shoulder and leaned back in his chair, waiting for Michael to say his part.


    The pale boy seemed incredibly nervous but eventually got out what he wanted to say.


    "H-h-hello my name is Michael Vladimir and my ability is S+ Ranked [Cryokinesis]."


    As soon as he was finished speaking Mrs. Quila brought everyone''s attention to her.


    "Okay kids, now that we all know each other let''s go to the training grounds so I can see what you can do with your Abilities!"


    And thus, the infamous Class 1 was born, as other people called it ''The Classroom Full of Monsters''.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 9 - Freak among Freaks and Getting to Know the Classmate

    As Damien and the rest of class 1 left the classroom they headed downstairs to a floor below the ground floor and once there, they went towards some big, heavy looking black doors.


    As Mrs. Quila pushed them open with surprising ease she led the class through the doors. There were a few gasps of surprise and even Damien couldn''t help but raise his eyebrows at what they saw. What was revealed as they walked through the doorway was a large, grey tiled room, that must have been 200m in length and width and about 50m in height.


    ''Wow, and here I thought the school grounds were too small for something like an arena~''


    "Come on now, you can gawk at it later, get onto the platform" Mrs. Quila called out to her students with an impatient look on her face and motioned for them to walk with her onto a platform in front of the doors.


    Hearing her reprimanding them, the students followed her orders and got on the platform with Mrs. Quila. Once they were all on, handrails came from under the platform and it slowly started to descend.


    While it was descending, Mrs.Quila started explaining about the big gray room.


    "This here, is the Training Ground, you may be wondering why it''s so big, so let me answer your question, in your year there are 5 classes and every year there is a fight between all the classes and this, this is where that fight happens." Seeing the confusion on her student''s faces'', she elaborated.


    "Don''t let its appearance fool you. It may look just like a big grey room now but after we bring in the necessary materials the room will build an environment of our choice and then we stage the battles in that environment. It helps keep the students on their toes and striving to be better. Oh and before you think you can cheat by knowing the map, don''t - We randomly pick the environment each time we make the classes fight. It helps show us teachers who has the best on-the-fly kind of thinking process which is quite important to a fighter, no matter their type, whether it''s a Warrior or a Mage."


    As she was speaking the platform had reached the ground of the training ground and the handrails went into the floor and presumably under the platform. After this happened Mrs. Quila walked off the platform and the students joined her. They followed her until Mrs. Quila stopped and a console came out of the ground, as she was messing around with the console she continued explaining.


    "Now that we''re here, I want people who consider themselves physical fighters on the right, while I want ranged/magic users on the left, you''ll have different tests depending on which grouping you''re in."


    Damien and 2 others went to the right, while the other 3 went to the left.


    In front of Damien and the others, metal dummies came out of the floor, there were 3 of them in total, while on the left, about 15 meters from where the ranged group were standing targets came out of the ground after this happened Mrs. Quila turned towards the physical fighters and told them to hit the dummies as hard as they could and they''ll get their results through the console when she reads it out.


    "Okay, we''ll be doing it one at a time and you need to hit the dummies as hard, quick and precise as you possibly can, the objective is to at least try to dish out a killing blow, okay we''ll start with you, Troy."


    Mrs. Quila told them what to do, she pointed at Troy and told him to hit the dummy, as Troy walked past Damien he shot him a glare that seemed to say ''I''ll show you that I''m stronger than you''. As Damien shook his head helplessly he could only think.


    ''I really don''t care that you have it out for me, I''ll let that pass, but please stop being so annoying...''


    As Troy reached about 2 meters away from the dummy in front of him, his body was slowly covered in arcs of electricity which flickered around his body going in and out of it.


    After he seemed to charge himself up like a battery he charged forward with considerable speed and hit the dummy right where its heart should be causing a dull thud to sound out when Troy''s fist hit.


    His fist lingered there for a short time as he channeled his electricity into the dummy.


    When he finally pulled back his hand there was a 3-inch deep indentation of a fist on the dummy and the dummy looked slightly burned. He turned around expecting Damien to have a shocked expression on his face but was sorely disappointed as he saw Damien''s impassive face. But even this did little to stop his happiness and joy as he saw that the rest of the students were looking at him in awe.


    Mrs. Quila looked at the console and smiled.


    "Good job Troy, you exerted a force of about 3500kg and easily pulled off a killing blow with the added Electricity. Well done." as she said this, Troy smiled even more and looked even more insufferable.


    Now it was a short girl with blood red hair who stepped up for her turn, as Damien looked at her he recalled her name ''Scarlet Jaeger''.


    She walked up to the dummy and closed her eyes, as if she was meditating and slowly a green and brown aura started to permeate out of her body, as soon as this happened she opened her eyes and threw an incredibly quick hand chop at the dummy''s head, once it hit it, like what happened with Troy, a dull thud sounded out when it hit and the metal creaked as her knife shaped hand sunk in about 4 inches deep.


    Troy looked stunned as someone beat him and was even more stunned after what he heard Mrs. Quila said next.


    "Oh well done Scarlet, you exerted 6300kg and delivered a killing blow, for a little girl you''re quite strong aren''t you?~" Scarlet walked back to Damien and Troy, she showed an indifferent face to all the attention she was giving as if she didn''t care about it.


    Finally, it was Damien''s turn, as everyone looked at the tall youth. Damien slowly walked forward while gathering physical energy and moving it to his arms and shoulders and strengthened them with the energy, even sending some to his feet.


    When he was about 5 meters away he concentrated the strength of his body into his feet with the energy and pushed off, using the "Concentrated Step" Technique he''d made last week.


    He shot forward leaving a few cracks on the grey tiles, seeing this Mrs. Quila slightly raised her eyebrows in surprise before smiling. Thinking that she had found a decent student that she could teach.


    But before she could continue her train of thought, Damien appeared just in front of the dummy, he pressed his feet firmly into the ground and using his momentum he flung a strong punch at the dummies chest. The force from his feet pressing into the ground completely cracked the ground surrounding his feet. The even more stunning thing was the speed of the punch; it was a blur and it gave off the feeling of immeasurable and unending momentum.


    And as soon as it hit the dummy, there was a boom and the sound of metal bending and twisting under something of great weight.


    As everyone, including Mrs. Quila, looked at the dummy, they were shocked Damien''s fist had rammed its way 7 inches deep and stretched the metal on the back of the dummy a small amount, all the metal around where Damien''s fist had hit was stretched, cracked and twisted. Mrs. Quila was shocked not just because of the sight of the dummy but because she could see how much strength he had exerted in that punch, as she looked at it, she spoke out to Damien.


    "W-well done Damien, you exerted 7200kg and you, um, definitely delivered a killing blow." as she said this the entire class was shocked even further than before.


    Damien pulled his fist out of the dummy causing the metal to groan again, he wasn''t very surprised with the result but was thankful for the information it gave him.


    ''Seems that when I charge my attacks with the amount I just did, it increases my strength and therefore the strength of my attack by 700kg, making it go from 6500kg to the score I just got. And I didn''t even use 1% of the Power Pool from the ability. Interesting, I''ll need to test it more when I''m here at the academy.''Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    As he finished with his inner monologue, Damien walked back over to where the other physical fighters were standing. Ignoring the shocked looks of admiration from the students and especially trying his best to ignore the glare that Troy was throwing at him, Damien sat down on the floor before something caught his attention.


    That certain thing that caught him off guard was the usually indifferent Scarlet looked at him with curiosity--no, it wasn''t curiosity it was more like she was looking at a worthy opponent. So, to be ''polite'' Damien returned the look, fighting intent filling his eyes.


    As if sensing their intentions Mrs. Quila came over to them before intervening.


    "Now now you two, save it for tomorrow where you''ll all be sparring so I can see your battle prowess~" to which both Damien and Scarlet looked at each other and nodded while Damien started to think.


    ''Ahh~ at least there''s one kid here that won''t be annoying to put up with.''


    After the two of them regained their composure, Mrs. Quila went onto the tests that the Ranged Attackers had to do. As she looked at the 3 ranged attackers, Mrs. Quila spoke and briefly went over what the ranged attackers had to do.


    "Okay kids, your goal is to accurately hit the middle of that target and I''ll be measuring if the blow caused by your attack is lethal or not, does everyone understand?" as everyone nodded, she pointed towards Beth, the quiet twin and told her to start, Beth softly nodded and walked to where she''d be aligned with a target.


    When she was in front of a target, she lifted her hand and clicked her fingers, the sound from it collected into a small bullet shaped ball and shot towards the target and hit it right in the middle and even further than that it caused an indentation to appear and a few cracks. As Beth looked at this she nodded, as if proud and happy at her efforts, as she walking back to her sister''s side, a voice spoke out.


    "Well done Beth, you hit the middle but you were a little off to the left so I''m giving you a 97% hit accuracy but your blow was lethal so again, well done" it was Mrs.Quila who spoke with a smile on her face.


    Next up was Helen, the loud twin and as she got in place, her shadow seemed to twist and turn and turned much darker than possible as the room was very well lit.


    Her shadow was twisting and turning very aggressively by now like it was alive and as she lifted her hand the darkness from her shadow, seemingly to heed her call, gathered above her hand and soon it morphed into a spike. Quite quickly after it was made, it shot off towards the target and pieced into the target.


    Sadly, however, it was in the second smallest circle. Despite this Helen didn''t seem very affected by it as she just shrugged her shoulders and walked back over to her sister as Mrs. Quila spoke out again.


    "Well done Helen, you got 90% hit accuracy and the blow was more than lethal." she said this with a slight bit of annoyance at how Helen shrugged off her failure earlier but soon Mrs. Quila did some shrugging herself thinking about how Helen''s only a kid and probably doesn''t care about her strength just yet.


    Next was the short white haired boy who Damien knew as Michael. Damien watched Michael bring his hand up, he wondered how powerful Michael''s [Cryokinesis] is, well he soon got his answer.


    As soon as all of Michael''s fingers were fully outstretched, the temperature of the room seemed to drop severely, everyone shivered at the sudden drop. Even Damien with his inhuman resistance to temperature felt that the sudden drop in temperature was slightly uncomfortable.


    As he continued to watch, Damien saw a spike of ice forming in front of where Michael''s hand was pointed. The spike formed quite quickly and was dark blue in color.


    After the spike was fully formed Michael started to aim and soon after that, he flung the ice spike toward the target with a flick of his hand. Once it hit his target the spike went through the third smallest circle but as the 5 others felt a tad disappointed with his accuracy everyone was shocked to see that the target started freezing from where the spike had hit it.


    Michael looked happy at the fact he''d even hit the target and was practically skipping back to where he was and when he got back Mrs. Quila''s voice sounded out again


    "Well done Michael, while you have 80% hit accuracy, the fact your spikes freeze whatever they touch makes any of your blows lethal, so once again, well done."


    Seeing as the tests were finished Mrs. Quila spoke to her 6 students.


    "Okay everyone, follow me I''m going to take you to the dorms you''ll be staying in, two of you will have to share a room with someone else, decide amongst yourselves who will have it."


    As Damien was about to say he''ll have the single room, he felt someone tap him on the arm. He turned around to see Michael who spoke to in a, what seemed like constant, nervous tone.


    "Um...Damien, do you wanna be dormmates with me? It''s okay if you don''t want to but I don''t really know anyone else...And Troy doesn''t seem like such a nice guy..." As Damien heard this, he couldn''t help but look at Troy.


    Looking at the glaring, arrogant and seemingly constantly angry 10-year-old, Damien could see where Michael was coming from. So in the end, Damien let out a sigh and nodded his ''Yes'' to the timid youth.


    Michael seemed exceptionally happy at this and looked like he''d been injected with adrenaline. Looking at this sight, Damien couldn''t help but smirk.


    ''Man, I think being on this world has made me a little soft~''


    He let out a quiet chuckle as he walked with Michael towards the platform they came down to the training grounds on.


    Once they were back in the school building Mrs. Quila took them out of the office-like building which housed the classes and took them to the outer part of the Academy Grounds where there were multiple big apartment blocks.


    Mrs. Quila took them to an apartment block on the outer edges of the apartment cluster and entered it. Obviously, Damien and the others followed her in.


    As they entered the building they saw that there were 6 bags there, each with a name on it.


    Damien, not one to be timid about things like this, walked up to the one with his name on it and looked inside. Inside the bag, he found 3 white uniforms that were all the exact same and they seemed to be custom made for him from what seemed like a stretchy material. They were the perfect size for him with a pair of black formal shoes to go along with the uniforms.


    Seeing the contents, Damien picked up his bag and Michael''s bag before walking over to where Michael was standing and handing him his. Seeing this Mrs. Quila spoke to the two boys.


    "You two seem to want to be dormmates so you can go to room 1, it''s right there, but be back here in an hour so I can take you to the cafeteria." Saying this she pointed to a room that was the first room in the corridor in front of where they were standing.


    Damien and Michael nodded and walked towards that room after they took two sets of keys for the door from Mrs. Quila.


    Then they entered the room. What greeted them was two single beds with bedside tables next to them, next to them was their bathroom and they had two wardrobes opposite their beds.


    As Michael looked about the room, Damien chose the bed closest to their window and put his bag beside it as he sat on the bed.


    Thinking for a moment before shrugging, Damien called Michael over and he decided to chat with him to pass the time.


    As Damien continued to chat with Michael he started to see him more and more as a friend as he saw a genuine determination in him to get stronger. In Michael''s own words he was sick of being seen as weak by his family and his older siblings so he decided to join Divine Titan Academy so he could get stronger than his family to show them that if he was weak, what were they?


    Damien felt genuine admiration for Michael as he revealed this as it takes a lot of courage for a 10-year-old to share their dreams with other people and all while showing a determination to get stronger that is well beyond a normal child''s capacity.


    As they came to the end of their chat, they decided to go to the lobby of the dorms to see if they could find the twins and because they had about 10 minutes until they had to go back to the lobby anyway they thought it was better to be early than late.


    As they arrived they saw the twins sitting next to each other talking to Scarlet Jaeger, surprised Damien thought about how Helen could get anyone to talk no matter their usual quietness. As he and Michael walked over Helen saw them and enthusiastically waved at them and called them over, when they arrived they sat down on the sofa opposite where the girls were sitting and greeted them.


    Damien spent the remaining minutes talking to the girls and Michael about all sorts of things when they just started talking about where Scarlet came from, Mrs. Quila came and took them to the cafeteria and they had food. Well, everyone had food but Damien had a buffet.


    Due to being in the Body Remolding Realm, he needed an immense amount of nutrients and energy, so he decided to shamelessly make use of the free food they offered him and ordered a lot of food. Most shocking of all, he finished eating before the girls and Michael which caused them to feel shocked at how monstrous Damien could be, no matter what he did.


    After eating they were free to do what they wanted as Mrs. Quila stated that they would be doing the majority of their school stuff in the coming days.


    So they decided to go back to the lobby so they could speak for a while and in the end, they ended up looking around the Academy Grounds because they were curious. They spent most of their day like this and despite being a few hundred years old, mentally anyway, Damien enjoyed it, he enjoyed acting like his physical age and just letting go and having fun, it was very relaxing.


    Once it hit about 7 pm or 8 pm, the girls decided to go to sleep because they knew they had to be up early, Damien and Michael decided to do the same thing, so they said goodbye to the girls and went back to their room.


    As soon as they entered their room, Damien and Michael brushed their teeth and washed their faces and went to bed, well, Michael did anyway. Damien, however, decided to try and light up another Devil Node and he succeeded, making his Devil Node count go from 3 to 4 and making his overall body strength 7500kg.


    After stabilizing his foundation he lay down on his bed, excited for the next day where he''d get to spar against people, especially Scarlet, she seemed like she could give him a good fight.


    Excitedly thinking about finally fighting someone in this life, Damien finally fell asleep.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 10 - Sparring and Troys Big Mistake

    As Damien was sleeping he was shaken awake by someone.


    Opening his eyes he saw Michael and Damien was briefly surprised before he remembered where he was. Standing up, Damien was shown a parcel by Michael. According to Michael, it was left in front of their door with his name on it, he then informed Damien that he got one as well and he was waiting for Damien to get up to open it with him.


    Opening up the parcel and looking inside, they both saw black skin-tight body suits that seemed to be extremely elastic, probably to fit all sizes. There was a note stuck on it, presumably from their teacher, which said that they should put this on and meet her in the lobby at 7:30. As Damien and Michael had finished reading the note, they looked at the clock in the room and it read 7:25 am, their faces both paled instantly but for different reasons.


    Damien''s face paled for the fact that he might have missed out on sparring if he was late and Michael''s because he didn''t want Mrs. Quila to shout at him.


    Both the young boys quickly put on the black body suits and ran towards the lobby where pretty much everyone was waiting, along with an impatient looking Mrs. Quila.


    "What took both of you so long?" she spoke in a stern voice and her face had little to no leniency on it. As he heard her say this, Michael was about to step forward when Damien put his hand on his shoulder and stepped forward himself.


    "Sorry Miss, it was my fault, Michael was held back by me because I didn''t get up early enough haha..." speaking with an embarrassed smile on his face, he scratched the back of his head, while nervously laughing. Mrs. Quila seemed surprised by the fact that Damien would own up to it being his mistake, it was quite an unusual trait for a young child to have but a good one nonetheless.


    "Nevermind, as long as you know what you did is wrong and don''t do it again, it''s okay. Anyway, now that everyone is here, let''s go!" Damien looked up at her in surprise, he was quite sure she''d have a massive go at him to make an example but it seems she''s more interested in if the person can admit their own wrongdoings. After thinking that he shrugged his shoulders thinking it was her job to teach but it wasn''t his job to judge the way she teaches.


    As they were all walking, Damien and Michael moved over to where Scarlet, Helen, and Beth were.


    When the girls saw them, Helen waved and greeted them, while Beth simply smiled and nodded at them and Scarlet just nodded at them. They waved back at Helen and greeted all 3 of the girls with smiles.


    After the greeting, Damien started to think about the impending fights.


    This seemed to change Damien a little bit, the change was small but it was like a sleeping beast had awoken. Damien usually had a carefree attitude and smile on his face but now, that was gone, replacing it was an expression of seriousness, eyes filled with fighting intent and excitement. His attitude had turned from carefree to vigilant and seemed like the attitude a predator would have when on a hunt.


    All the others didn''t really see this change and those who did chalked it up to Damien being nervous and him just putting on a hard face to seem cool or something. But Scarlet saw this change and she was slightly terrified by it.


    This is the change that her usually loving Father would go through whenever they trained together or when he was about to fight and when he did either of those two things, he was brutal, relentless and he was indifferent to the damage he caused. But most importantly, indifferent to the pain he caused her and indifferent to the effects his actions had, he just did what had to be done.


    And to see this in one of her classmates unsettled her but more than anything, it excited her because she may have found an opponent that she can strive to be like and an opponent that can push her past her limits.


    As she was thinking this, Damien was like a ball of excitement and he was struggling to control it, he could only hope that he could fight soon before it all broke out and he did something stupid.


    Damien couldn''t quite understand why he was so excitable. He''d have thousands upon thousands of fights in his past life, so to be excited about a simple fight between kids seemed a bit odd. He couldn''t help but think his Devil Genes and young body were affecting him quite heavily.


    ''Hmm...Devils were known to be maniacs when it came to battle and in this childish body their instincts may be more...prevalent.''


    After thinking about this for a while, Damien shrugged it off, feeling that it was an unneeded worry. So what if he enjoyed battle more? He''d find a way to deal with it if it became a problem.


    As they went to the same platform that led down to the training grounds, Damien''s pondering had given way for excitement which had turned his serious looking face into a smile that contained a hunger and while it was not the usual hunger a person would feel, it was as if it were more voracious than a starving man''s hunger. It was a smile that told any who saw it, that the person who had this smile was hungry for battle.


    As soon as they reached the platform and got to the training grounds, Mrs. Quila walked up to a console that appeared out of nowhere and typed some things in and then a single 40m by 40m fighting ring came up from the grey tiles.


    "Okay, now I''m going to pick the matches that I want to see. I want to see Damien vs Helen first, Scarlet vs Beth, Helen vs Scarlet, Beth vs Helen, Michael vs Troy and Damien vs Troy. If I need to see anymore we''ll do them after those 6 matches."


    Damien clenched his fists, happy that he gets to fight first but also excited because he gets to use his ability in a battle for the first time in this life.


    Shaking his head to clear up his mind, he and the rest of the group walk over to the arena before Damien and Helen both step up onto it, as they did Helen, as usual, spoke up.


    "Well well well Damien, looks like we''ve got to fight and I''ve got a reputation as the older twin to keep, so I''m gonna have to win~" she spoke in a jovial manner but her eyes were vigilant, as she''d seen Damien''s strength.


    "Well, you can try, Helen, you can try..."


    As soon as he spoke this he shot off from where he was standing with a Concentrated Step and he appeared in front of her. He was twisting his body to deliver a kick to her stomach but she brought all the darkness from her shadows and made a compact shield and stopped Damien''s kick. But what she didn''t expect was that her barrier was starting cracking when Damien continued to push.


    "It''s gonna take more to stop me than that Helen, come on, I''m hurt you''d think a flimsy barrier could stop me~" as he smilingly teased her, he pushed with his leg even further and completely broke the barrier.


    To Damien''s surprise, Helen didn''t answer to his teasing and she simply swiped her hand and suddenly Damien''s sense of danger went through the roof. So instead of pushing forward, he jumped backward and when he saw what she''d been planning to do to him, he smiled. She''d summoned a wall of darkness with spikes covering it and tried to hit him with it.


    Seeing that she could probably take it, he enhanced his entire body with 0.5% of the Power Pool and charged at her again this time with an even stronger Concentrated Step that cracked the floor he''d pressed off of.


    As she saw Damien shoot towards her again she lifted her hands and summoned spikes of darkness from the floor in front of Damien''s charge, thinking that Damien couldn''t turn direction when he did that sudden increase in speed.


    Seeing this Damien smiled and using his superior control over his physical energy and body he swerved to the side and out of the way of those spikes.


    As she saw Damien do this, Helen finally panicked because she couldn''t think of any ways to stop him. It was like he could control every bit of physical energy in his body and redirect it at what whim came to mind.


    Despite her panic, Helen wasn''t useless, she quickly summoned two snake-like entities which were her last resort when it came to battle and she controlled them to attack Damien.


    As the 2 shadow snakes came at him, Damien felt alive.


    His instincts screamed for battle and with the 2 snakes about to hit him, he couldn''t ask for anything more.


    One going for his neck while the other trying to wrap around his legs and even as it wrapped around his legs, it couldn''t stop him. This utterly surprised all those who were watching but Damien didn''t care because the snake that was going for his neck was incredibly close to biting him.


    Keeping his calm, Damien simply pushed his hand towards it and released the physical energy in his finger in a flicking motion at the snake.


    *Boom!*


    As the finger touched the snake it blew apart like it was made of tissue paper. When the snake tangling its way around his legs tried to bite him, Damien reached down and simply ripped it off his legs and crushed it.


    As all this was happening Helen stared dumbly at Damien.


    She couldn''t help feeling annoyed that she had to fight such a monster. She''d tested her shadow snakes before and they could easily rip a tree apart but here her friend was, taking them apart like they were made of wet paper.


    After he''d disposed of the snakes he gathered his strength and directed it into his feet before he leaped at Helen, putting a knife hand at her throat.


    "You lose, Helen~" Damien''s voice had an odd twist to it but Helen could tell he was joking about with her and didn''t mean to be malicious about it. But Mrs. Quila, on the other hand, was a bit worried about it.


    The person she was looking at looked like a berserker who had finally awakened after not fighting in decades, he had a manic expression and eyes that seemed to scream ''Fight me''. This only served to make his yellow eyes look even more bright and menacing.


    But when he saw he had beaten Helen he drew in his mania, much to the relief of Mrs. Quila, and walked off the arena and sported an apologetic smile towards Helen.


    "Sorry, it''s just been so long since I last had a fight. I got a bit overexcited..." Damien spoke with an apologetic expression as he helplessly explained how he loves to fight but hasn''t done so in a ''while''. To his surprise, Helen just smiled at him and said it was okay and that she wasn''t really hurt anywhere so it doesn''t matter. She also mentioned that he opened her eyes up to some of the weaknesses in her Umbrakinetic Constructs.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    As they both walked back to the rest of the group, the next people started walking up to the stage.


    Beth and Scarlet both went to opposite sides of the stage and simply nodded at each other, unlike Helen and Damien''s bantering before their fight.


    As soon as this was done Beth got into a stance that would allow her to dodge left or right if need be, as Scarlet closed her eyes for less than a second as she summoned her green and brown aura.


    As soon as that was finished her eyes shot open as she charged forward at an amazing speed. But Beth seemed like she could still follow her movement, although barely, and as she was watching Scarlet charge at her she swiped her hand and in the middle of the motion she clicked her fingers.


    *Screech!*


    The sound made shot towards Scarlet in a crescent shape. Seeing this attack Scarlet evaded but she let her guard down in the process so when Beth turned the ball of sound downward Scarlet was caught by it even as she moved to the side.


    Beth angled the blade to catch Scarlet''s left upper arm and as it hit Scarlet let out a grunt.


    Beth gave Scarlet no time to rest as she continued to click her fingers and send sound blades at her. In response, Scarlet changed the green in her aura to a blue and then ran at the sound blades with a lot less speed but a greater amount of control and coordination and as the blades reached her she started dodging them with unnatural grace and precision while she slowly edged her way towards where Beth was standing.


    Beth didn''t seem to panic at all, she looked as calm as always and then she spoke.


    It was inaudible but a visible ripple came from her mouth and the sound from her surroundings was drawn in front of her and was flung as a net of sound towards Scarlet to stop her advance. Once the net was near her, Scarlet''s aura changed again, the blue was replaced with a fiery red and along with the brown she looked at the net and pulled back a punch and threw it.


    *SHATTER!*


    Scarlet''s punch tore through the net and then her aura switched back to a green and she charged forward at Beth once again with amazing speed.


    When she got close she was prepared to throw Beth off the stage but then she saw Beth smile. It was the kind of smile that you''d pull when you knew you''d won a game and seeing this smile Scarlet instantly felt danger and she tried to retreat but she was already too close. Beth opened her mouth and spoke, again it was barely audible but Damien could read her lips this time and found that she''s said ''Punch this''.


    Damien chuckled as he thought about how Beth secretly pretty competitive.


    Once she spoke a wave of sound pushed out from her mouth and threw Scarlet backward and finally off the stage.


    The next two matches were quite normal compared to the first two, Helen lost against Scarlet and kept mumbling about how she''d had to fight two monsters in a row and then she proceeded to win against her sister, but only barely.


    Now it was Michael vs Troy and from the way Troy looked at Damien, Damien could feel that he was about to do something troubling. As Troy looked at Michael he smirked.


    "Oi trash, you think by hanging out with Damien you''ll be able to get an easy ride through the academy? And you, Mr. Big Man Damien, don''t think you''re any different, you''re still trash no matter what." by the end of his sentence his smirk had turned into an unnaturally dark smile.


    Seeing this Michael flinched but he looked towards the group and saw Damien watching from the sidelines with a frown on his face. Thinking about how he finally got a friend and how this person in front of him was trying to get to his friend through him, for the first time in his life, Michael stood up for himself. He was furious that someone would try to insult his friend and before he knew his face lost his usual nervous demeanor and he shot an angry look at Troy


    "You''re pretty much only saying that because you''re jealous of Damien, go bug someone else, he doesn''t care, neither do I!" Michael shouted this, his face full of anger and his eyes ablaze with it as well. Damien who heard this realized that Michael was sticking up for him and smiled thinking that he was glad that he had been nice to his shy dorm mate.


    But Troy, when he heard this, seemed to snap under the anger that Michael''s reply caused in him.


    Arcs of electricity suffused throughout his body and he charged towards Michael.


    In response, Michael summoned an Ice Shield before he summoned multiple Ice Spikes and fired them at Troy. The spikes shot at Troy with unbelievable speed but Troy simple dodged them or deflected them with his surprisingly high technique. Before long he got nearer to the Ice Shield that Michael had made and the electricity surrounding Troy centered around his legs and his speed increased even further.


    Once Troy was near the shield he pulled back his fist and smashed through the shield like it was made out of dry mud, Michael didn''t panic, he seemed to have a plan.


    When Troy walked through the remnants of the shield he had a disdainful smirk on his face but Michael looked at him with calm eyes and motioned Troy to come at him, taunting him.


    It worked and Troy ran at Michael with enough force to crack the ground and speed up even further. Seeing the speed, it was at this point that Michael knew he''d underestimated Troy. He''d put a sheet of ice on the floor behind the shield and he''d originally planned for Troy to run over it and then he''d freeze his feet with the ice, then Michael would incapacitate him once he was covered in ice.


    But it seems that Troy''s steps seemed to just shatter the ice he stepped on and Michael couldn''t follow Troy''s legs to freeze them either, so his plan went completely out the window.


    Troy saw the ice he was crushing and started laughing as he neared where Michael was standing.


    "Hahahaha! You thought some little bit of ice on the ground would be able to stop me from beating the ever living shit out of you? You were so very, very wrong Michael." as he kept speaking his disdainful smile and laughter faded into a solemn and serious voice and visage.


    Michael stood his ground and tried to fire some Ice Spikes at him but before he could do that, Troy had planted a fist right into his Solar Plexus, knocking the breath out of him.


    As Michael fell over Troy planted a foot on his face and pushed his head against the ground.


    "You''re just trash, don''t think that you can go up against someone like me. Unlike a loser like you, I actually have plans for my life."


    He slowly bent over and picked Michael up by his collar before he started punching him. After a few punches, Mrs. Quila got involved.


    "Troy, you''ve won the spar, let Michael go." Her voice was firm and even had a slight coldness to it that sent shivers down Troy''s spine, so he did what was asked of him and threw the white-haired boy off the ring toward the group.


    He''d already punched him enough so that his nose was fully broken with blood pouring out of it along with tears pouring out of his eyes, so he''d fulfilled his goal.


    A shadow flashed and caught Michael, this shadow showed urgency and worry but most of all it radiated a fury that seemed like it would make the heavens kneel. It was Damien.


    Damien didn''t know why he was so angry. He was the Devil King in his past life, he watched thousands upon thousands of people die for him and he barely felt anything but seeing his roommate getting beat up like this, and for himself no doubt, it felt like Troy was stepping on his pride somehow. And Damien hated it when people stepped on his pride.


    He looked at his newly found friend''s face. This was a friend who just stood up to him, a friend who stood calmly in front of a stronger opponent for him. In his past life, people constantly tried to kill him and everyone hated him on some level. So to see someone willing to get beaten for him, not out of fear, but out of friendship, Damien felt ''slightly'' emotional. Damien couldn''t understand why anyone would take a beating like that for him, deep down he was an evil bastard who didn''t deserve anything from anyone.


    And as if he could see Damien''s confusion Michael spoke out in a choked and forced voice


    "I can''t...have people insulting me...and my friend...can I...?" he jokingly said this through arduous breathes but Damien could hear, hell, he could see the determination in what Michael just said. Then as if he knew that he could ruin a moment Troy spoke up.


    "Aww, are you angry and sad that I hurt your little friend? Hahaha!" Troy''s words were dripping with disdain as if he thought that having friends was a sign of being weak. To this, Damien lay Michael down carefully and stood up.


    Damien was usually tall but now something about him just made him feel taller.


    It was like an air about him that told everyone around him that he was something you didn''t want to mess with, it made those around him feel inferior and most of all felt like inhuman was walking among them and said thing wasn''t very happy, it wasn''t very happy at all.


    Damien''s eyes locked onto Troy''s and Troy flinched backward when he saw Damien''s eyes.


    "You realize hurting my friends is like stepping on my pride, right? Who gave you the fucking right to do that?" What came out of Damien''s mouth wasn''t his usual carefree and bright voice but an extremely cold voice and under that coldness was barely contained fury that was trying it''s hardest to break out and destroy everything around Damien.


    His voice issued such a pressure that Mrs. Quila was shocked and looked over at Damien as he was walking towards Troy, who was on the Arena. She knew what Troy did to Michael, and was quite angry about it herself, but she thought it''d be a lesson to Michael so he would wish to get stronger to defeat Troy, so she didn''t do anything to stop it from happening and only stopped it from getting too far.


    They have a Healer at the Academy so it could be sorted quickly. What she didn''t expect. however, was that Damien would react so aggressively to it.


    Without saying anymore Damien shot towards Troy from where he was and appeared in front of the boy. He stood there and said "Hit me." his voice was still cold and void of emotions but his anger was audibly getting more uncontained.


    Hearing what Damien said, Troy was confused but before he could say anything Damien spoke again "Hit.Me." and Troy did, he hit him hard, not his hardest but a solid 60% of his power.


    When it hit Damien''s chin, Damien''s head moved to the right but only barely and this terrified and shocked Troy and before he could back away, Damien spoke with even more fury in his voice.


    "Hit me again." and so Troy, once again did. Many times actually. He hit Damien on the face, on the chest, he kicked his legs and neck and he even hit his arms until he was breathing raggedly but all Damien did in reaction to the punches was barely moving when he was hit. The attacks did hurt but Damien didn''t care, he was going to humiliate Troy, no matter what it took.


    Damien spoke once more.


    "Oh, are you done? Alrighty then." as he spoke Damien gathered just under 2% of the energy from his ability and reinforce his entire body and planted his left hand on Troy''s shoulder, gripping it tightly before planting his right fist into Troy''s stomach with an audible boom that made all those watching wince in sympathy.


    "Urghhhlll!"


    Troy''s face paled of all blood as he vomited up all the food in his stomach along with quite a bit of blood. As if Damien was unaware of his actions his eyes were still cold and were indifferent to the pain he''d just caused Troy - as if what he''d just done wasn''t hurting Troy but actually just playing about with him, the same way some kids would pull an insects legs off.


    Without waiting for Troy to recover, Damien grabbed Troy''s arm and held it in a vice-like grip while speaking


    "You really made a big mistake, Troy, I wouldn''t mind if you beat him in a sparring contest and I''m not bothered you hit him, that''s how spars are. But, Troy, you went overboard on one of my friends and stepped on my pride and for that. You''ve got to pay." once he''d finished saying this--


    "Damien! Do not--!"


    *CRACK!*


    "ARGHHHH!"


    --he broke Troy''s arm with a simple twist shocking Mrs.Quila who tried to stop Damien. The rest of the class looked at Damien and the carnage he''d caused in fear.


    Damien had just completely dismantled Troy in a fight with only two half-assed moves, but what shocked Mrs.Quila more was how emotionlessly he did. He didn''t even blink his eyes when he completely destroyed Troy''s arm but it was most shocking to her because he was 10.


    Damien, a 10-year-old, had just emotionlessly broken someone''s arm and Mrs. Quila could only see it three ways; he''d done it before, he''s a psychopath or both.


    Back to the arena, Damien left the crying and shivering Troy on the stage and went back over to where he lay down Michael who looked at him with surprise and shock but with no fear unlike the other students but most of all, he looked at Damien with gratitude.


    Damien smiled at this, feeling thankful that his friend didn''t look at him with fear for what he just did, Damien thought what he just did was actually quite light, he believed that Troy deserved to be crippled but because of the laws of this world he could only settle for breaking one of his arms.


    At this point, all the fights had finished and Mrs. Quila called for a nurse to come to pick Troy and Michael up and take them to the infirmary, then she informed the students to come and make a circle round her.


    This day, everyone realized to never mess with Damien''s friends, and some people spread around that he''s a heartless devil when it comes to his enemies and in all honesty, they weren''t wrong, they weren''t wrong at all.


    After the circle was finished, Mrs. Quila called Damien over to speak with her before they left the Training Grounds.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 11 - Picking a Weapon and Awakening a Martial Art

    Hearing her call him over, Damien flinched a bit but walked over to her anyway.


    "Yes, Miss?" Damien looked up at Mrs. Quila''s stern eyes and indifferently spoke to her. Mrs. Quila looked at Damien for a while before she finally started speaking in a tired voice.


    "Why did you break Troy''s arm? Don''t you think that was a bit over the top?"


    "Um, not really. He dealt out pain to Michael so he should be prepared to get it in return." Damien''s indifferent voice shocked Mrs. Quila a bit and her earlier assumption of him being a psychopath seemed more accurate than ever.


    "But did you have to do that to him? He didn''t do any irreparable damage to Michael, you broke his arm and the psychological trauma imposed on him could affect him for the rest of his life." Mrs. Quila''s stern voice was showing how fed up she was with Damien''s indifferent attitude.


    Damien just shrugged, his indifferent face fading into an annoyed one.


    "What does it matter? He''ll survive won''t he?" hearing this, Mrs. Quila was stunned at the dismissal of his actions but from the annoyed look on his face, she knew she wouldn''t get anything more from him and simply motioned that she was done with him.


    Damien trudged off, annoyed. Not with Mrs. Quila but with himself and how he lost control.


    ''What am I, a child? I''m old enough to be the ancestor of someone''s family, I should act like it...''


    Even though he said this, Damien could feel something had been released in his body and it couldn''t be put away. Thinking about his overly emotional state, Damien knew he''d have to be more careful this time.


    Shaking the distractions out of his head, Damien and the rest of his group walked towards Mrs.Quila and sat down semi-circle in front of her. Seeing this, Mrs.Quila started speaking to the group.


    "Okay now that we''ve done the sparring contests, we have to move onto picking your individual weapons and martial art that you will practice in. If this Martial art can be applied to your weapon of choice, even better."


    Damien, hearing this, became incredibly excited, he couldn''t help but stand up well before the others and looked ready to run to wherever Mrs. Quila led them.


    Damien was so excited because in his past life he was mainly a jack of all trades when it came to weapons. He''d use whatever would get the job done, so he never really focused on any one weapon and this turned into a regret of his. Sure he could learn to master one of the many weapons he could use when he had reached the pinnacle of power in his old world, but where would the fun in that be?


    So in this life, he decided he should pick up a weapon and dedicate himself to it, taking it with him from when he''s weak all the way until he''s strong. This idea made Damien''s blood rush with excitement.


    As the rest of the class followed suit and stood up with the same excitement as Damien, Mrs. Quila quickly pressed some buttons on the console next to her and the arena went back into the tiles.


    In its place, multiple racks of weapons came up through the parted grey tiles. There were many different kinds from Spears, both Large and Small Swords, Gauntlets, to less traditional weapons such as Katars, Gladius, Tridents, and Nunchakus. While looking at all these weapons Damien and the other students face lit up like lights and Damien only got more excited when he saw the variety that he had to choose from.


    "Okay then, go and have a look at what weapon you want. But be warned once you pick one, while we don''t ban you from picking another weapon, you should focus on the one you pick today, it''ll stop you from falling behind on your weapons practice." Mrs. Quila spoke with a stern but caring voice, as to bite off more than one could chew would result in never mastering anything.


    Damien nodded his head at this as this was the exact same problem he had with weapons in his last life.


    As her students seemed eager, Mrs. Quila dismissed them so they could go and have a look at the weapons they could pick from. Damien started looking at the ones nearest to him, they were a normal sword, some gauntlets, and another sword but this one was much larger.


    As he looked at the normal sword he quickly dismissed it, he thought if he was gonna use a weapon, he ought to use an interesting one, one that would be hard to master. As he looked at the gauntlet he also quickly dismissed that as well because he already had his fists and they would become useless when his body becomes strong enough, then he looked at the Large sword and thought about it, then he also dismissed it because it was just a bigger sword.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.


    As he was looking at other weapons such as a spear or dual wielding daggers and none of them felt right, when he just about gave up, he saw it. A weapon that he felt was interesting, a weapon he felt would be fun to learn.


    It was a Bisento and it looked like something made to fight, made to kill.


    Damien was drawn to it like metal to a magnet. He couldn''t take his eyes off of it at all and when he was standing in front of it, he could finally take in its full beauty. A pole that was about 158cm long and was colored an abyssal black while the blade that came out at the top of the shaft was about 56cm long looked like it had been bathed in blood for millennia and as a result was permanently dyed a sanguine red. It looked like it was dripping with blood and it seemed to give off an aura of blood.


    Damien picked it up and looked at it excitedly, feeling the incredible weight of the weapon and knowing it would superbly compliment his enormous brute strength.


    But as he was admiring his new-found companion there was a sudden spike of intense pain at the back of his head. Coincidentally, it was where he kept all his information about the Immortal Devil King Technique. It seemed like there was something trying to come out of the technique and upon a closer look, Damien discovered it seemed like it was a...question?


    As Damien was dragged into his inner mind where he kept all his information on the techniques like the Immortal Devil King Technique, the first thing he noticed was that all his surroundings in his inner mind had changed from the normal white and blue color into a red and black mixture. This change startled him but he quickly calmed down when he saw that red images had appeared out of nowhere.


    They had different weapons on them from swords to spears and all other kinds of weapons. Damien looked about these red images until he found an image of a Bisento and some fists, he curiously walked up to it and touched it. When he did so, a massive influx of information flooded into his head.


    Blood Angel Style - A martial art made through and for killing, with this martial art you can bring your body, spirit, and mind into perfect alignment and be able to fully control your body''s muscles, blood and bones. With both this and the Martial Stances it has for both the Bisento and hand-to-hand combat, it results in the user becoming a killing machine of the highest calibre.


    This description was simple but it gave off the aura of countless killings and slaughters. So much so that it even shocked Damien, an ancient devil who had originally thought he''d seen countless killing.


    But pushing passed his momentary fear, he started thinking about the amount potential this martial art has. Damien couldn''t help but become incredibly excited and wished to practice it as soon as he could.


    When Damien was thinking this, he was forcibly removed from his altered inner mind and back into his body where he was simply standing with the Bisento he''d picked up and staring at it dumbly. He quickly wiped that dumb look off his face and placed the Bisento against his right shoulder before walking back over to where the ranged attackers who didn''t need weapons were, along with the others who had already picked weapons and also where Mrs. Quila was.


    When she saw the weapon he picked she was surprised but didn''t say anything, simply shaking her head as she thought about the history of that Bisento and how it fits a kid as brutal as Damien.


    Damien looked around before walking over to Michael and the others. First up, he looked at the weapon which Scarlet had picked. It was a long blue saber that seemed like the claw of some massive beast. As he was looking at her weapon, Scarlet was looking at his with a discerning eye.


    Eventually, she curiously looked at him.


    "Why''d you pick a Bisento, Damien?"


    "I don''t know but when I saw it, I found myself drawn to it and I felt that I had to have it. Plus, I felt like I could do a lot of damage with it." with a carefree smile on his face he replied to her question and then asked a question with an equally as curious face.


    "Why''d you pick that Saber anyway, Scarlet?" Hearing his question, Scarlet pondered deeply for a moment before she answered him.


    "I guess it''s the same as your reason, Damien, I felt drawn to it..." Scarlet seemed to stop herself before speaking too much, knowing she wouldn''t stop talking if she started to talk about weapons. This got a laugh from Damien and Helen.


    Once Mrs. Quila saw that everyone had finished picking their weapons, she finally spoke.


    "Okay everyone, once we get back to the top, you can all go and do what you want. You know the time you need to be in the cafeteria and the way there, so don''t get too distracted. I''d recommend that you spend your time training with your weapon." She finished speaking but seemed to instantly think of something as she pulled out a few flyers. "And here''s a map of where you can go pick up either a martial art, a weapon art or a mental refinement art of your choice."


    She started passing out small maps to Damien and the others. It had an easy to understand drawing on it which effectively showed whoever looked at it the way towards what it called the Multiple Arts Library.


    After she said this they all walked to the platform and went to the ground floor for the school building. Once there Damien and the others went their separate ways, with Damien saying goodbye to Helen, Beth, and Scarlet as they were heading to the Multiple Arts Library, while he was heading back to the dorm to practice his new martial art.


    The fist style, of course, he didn''t want to destroy his and Michael''s room with his Bisento after all, did he?

 (Rewritten) Chapter 12 - Practicing the Unusual Martial Art

    When Damien got back to his dorm he used the key that he had with him and went inside. When he entered he saw Michael asleep on his bed and decided to be quiet and slowly tiptoed over to the spacious part of their dorm room between the beds and the wardrobes and placed his Bisento against his wardrobe, causing the wood to creak under the weight of the weapon.


    Then he sat down and recalled the practicing method of the Blood Angel Style.


    As he was looking at the information he couldn''t help but think that this was a weird martial art. He''d practiced a countless number of martial arts but this one was by far the weirdest. There were few techniques and even though they were basic, the way you had to train them was incredibly odd, which Damien saw there were two ways of training the martial art.


    The first one was to keep training the basic techniques until you had a solid foundation on the techniques and could perform them as easily as breathing. It seemed quite normal but practicing these basic techniques seemed to have no effect on the body but Damien would still do it - just on the off chance that something special would happen.


    The other way to train was what made Damien think that this martial art was either very unique or just weird. The method was to sit on the ground and meditate while trying to align your body, mind, and spirit under a single goal. This goal can be anything but the martial art''s information says that ''Become better at killing" is a goal that shows wonderous effects.


    Damien shrugged his shoulders, thinking about no harm could be done if he just starts meditating on the idea, so he sat down and got into a lotus position like it said in the martial art manual and started to align his body, mind, and spirit through one goal.


    ''Become better at killing, to protect what I must and to destroy what I must.''


    Damien repeated this mantra while he was meditating and slowly he felt some things click into place, like some empty slots in a jigsaw puzzle had finally found the piece that fits.


    He opened his eyes and got up and immediately felt the change. His control over his body was much better, nothing too drastic but it was a definite improvement. Damien''s body coordination had always been good but now it was great and he hadn''t even fully aligned his body, mind, and spirit yet. Thinking this Damien sat down and started again, repeating the same mantra but with more fervor and more belief behind it. As if listening to his fervor the alignment started speeding up.


    When the alignment hit halfway Damien stopped meditating and started wondering why he was finding this so easy. A process like this should take a lot of time and a hell of a lot more energy than it was taking him currently.


    But as he was thinking about it, a realization hit him.


    ''The Royal Grade Devil DNA must have made my talent for anything from the Immortal Devil King Technique immensely higher than before. It''s the most likely reason to why I can align my body, mind, and spirit so easily and quickly. Doesn''t hurt that I''m an old devil with countless years of experience under my belt either...''


    Coming to this conclusion he moved onto the next part of his meditation. The part where he had to exercise his body while still chanting the mantra he had came up with and not breaking his concentration. The way he had to exercise only needed his hands, so he didn''t even need to move from where he was, he just had to lift his body up with his hands and slowly use fewer fingers until he was only using his 2 thumbs.


    This sounded easy to Damien but he was shown otherwise when he lifted his body up.


    As he lifted his body it was easy enough but as soon as he''d fully lifted his body up, it was like the gravity on his body had increased manifold. So much so that it even caused his body that could lift 7500kg to feel like it would collapse under the pressure.


    But Damien grit his teeth and pushed himself further. With his steeled resolve he kept his body off the ground and found the longer his kept his body off of the ground, the lighter he''d feel, the more in control he''d feel.


    This was his body adapting to the pressure and getting stronger as a result but also his body aligning with his mind and spirit.


    When the pressure of holding his body up with both hands had all but disappeared, he started removing his fingers from the equation.


    All while chanting his mantra vehemently as he went down to 3 fingers and a thumb on both hands, causing the pressure to increase greatly once again.


    Being used to the process now, Damien got on with it and after 10 minutes the pressure was gone again so he removed another finger. It didn''t take long before he removed another and then he another and before long all he was using to keep his body up were his thumbs.


    The pressure on Damien was immense. It felt like all the muscles in his body were being used and even muscles he didn''t even know he had were being used.


    It seemed like the training technique was forging his body into being the perfect vessel for the martial art, as it was making his already steel-like muscles and bones harder and stronger, it made his joints and tendons more durable and more flexible. It even made his tough skin harder, like a layer of rocks but somehow still letting it keep its supple texture.


    By now Damien had sweat dripping off of his body but he didn''t stop, instead, he smiled in the usual unhinged way he did whenever he was pushed past his limits. His eyes grew more bright like they were trying to light up the room and his teeth seemed to turn into sharp tools of killing as they were shown by the smile Damien had on his face.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.


    If you were to ask anyone who saw this who would be the perfect candidate for practicing a martial art made for killing, they''d point at this youth who had a strange aura of blood and slaughter surrounding him. No matter who else was next to him, they''d pale in comparison.


    As Damien felt inside his body for the progress he''d made after using his thumbs, he couldn''t help but feel a bit shocked.


    ''It''s only at 68% alignment? Much slower than the finger parts. Oh well, looks like this part will take some time. Better start setting up a foundation for the hand-to-hand combat moves.''


    He let his body go back to the floor and used his devil qi to speed up his body''s recovery for his fatigue and the slight tears in his muscles. In doing so he found that he had lit up another Devil Node through practicing the Martial Art, increasing his strength up to 8500kg.


    ''Makes sense, that exercise was pretty grueling~''


    As he joked about, Damien focused on washing away his fatigue with his Qi before finally deciding to stand up.


    When Damien did stand up he felt a rush of power and control. He could feel the power coursing through every cell in his body and wondered what this did for his Ability. Figuring he might as well test it out, Damien summoned 1% of the physical energy from his body and enhanced his body with it.


    Unlike the unsteady shaking his body usually went through when he augmented it with the energy, now his body barely even moved unless he wanted it to. His muscles were fine, thrumming slightly from the power and his bones stood strong and still as if they were pillars to hold up the heavens. Damien raised his eyebrows at this improvement, happy with it but also slightly confused by it.


    ''My durability wasn''t the main thing that the exercise improved, the exercise was focused on control, so why can I withstand the energy much better than before?''


    Damien stood there, pondering for a while before he thought of something.


    ''Could it be my body has a direct effect on the properties of the energy?''


    Thinking this, Damien felt it was plausible. It would explain why the energy was so volatile back when his control over his strength was much worse. But as he thought this, he couldn''t help but think whether this meant he could forgo durability and instead focus on control to gain more power at a quicker rate.


    He thought this because he didn''t have a technique or an ability that purely gave his body more durability, but he did have one for control.


    Deciding to try it, Damien tried to summon above 2% of the physical energy.


    More energy creeped out of his cells and joined the energy already augmenting his body. It slowly settled into his muscles and bones but when Damien thought his control was helping, the muscles and bones started to shake and pain wracked his system.


    He quickly discarded the enhancement and the energy returned to his cells. Damien let out a deep breath before shaking his head helplessly.


    ''I don''t really understand this but if I took a guess I''d say that control only supports my durability, my durability itself has to be high enough for me to use more energy...Oh well, I''m sure I''ll find something to increase my durability sometime soon. I could even go have a look at the martial arts in the Academy Library if I really need to.''


    Getting back to what he was originally planning, Damien started practicing the forms of the martial art''s fist variant.


    There were 2 forms with 9 basic moves each and each move had 9 variations. One form was for offense and the other defense, all the moves in each were incredibly basic but when Damien started practicing the offense form, he felt that they weren''t so simple.


    The moves were simple, yes, but they were also ruthless, efficient and brutal. Each move was a kill move or at least aimed to take the opponent out of the fight. Every move and their variations flowed smoothly into the next, where it would then, again, try to kill or incapacitate the opponent. The moves could endlessly loop and because of their variations, the user could switch up their fighting style constantly and easily catch their victim off guard.


    All of this made the form incredibly versatile at killing or fighting an opponent.


    After he practiced the 9 moves and their variations while also mixing up the order every now and again, Damien then moved onto the 2nd form.


    This form focused solely on defense and as he practiced it he found the same thing he found with the 1st form - the moves were simple but they seemed to be steady, unyielding and immovable when he practiced them. He also found that just like the 1st form it had 9 moves each with 9 variations of the said move and that after each defensive maneuver there was a small gap where if you were quick enough, and had a strong enough foundation in both forms, you could slip in an attack from the 1st form.


    This made Damien think about the hand-to-hand stances a little bit.


    ''Hmm...It seems like eventually these 2 forms will mix together and become a single form with both an incredible offense and killing power but also an outstanding defensive power with potential for some lethal counters. Seems like I judged this martial art much too quickly. It seems simple but looks like there''s more than what meets the eye to it and there seems to be a subtle intent coming from the moves...Maybe if I practice them to a certain extent I can gain this intent and it could boost this martial arts power...''


    After he thought this he tried even harder at practicing these 2 forms and soon reached the Initial Success stage where his progress all but stopped.


    "Well, the manual says that I''ve got to temper the martial art through battle and through life and death struggles. Probably won''t be too hard then" As he said this in a carefree voice with his usual lazy confidence in it but was slightly startled as he heard Michael speak out behind him.


    "Damien? What are you talking about and why is there a massive polearm leaning against your wardrobe?" Michael asked this in a curious and innocent voice and hearing his questions, Damien turned around and explained to him about how Mrs. Quila let all those who want a weapon to get one and that they can get a martial art, weapon art or mental refinement art of their choice. Hearing this Michael got oddly excited, to which Damien questioned him.


    "Why''re you getting excited, you''re a mage aren''t you, do you need a weapon?" Damien said this not in a rude way, but in a curious way, hearing Damien''s question Michael seemed to turn a bit shy and quickly said something about how he''ll show Damien when he can but first he needs to go to Mrs. Quila to ask her something.


    And before Damien could even say ''Eh?'' Michael ran out of the room.


    Seeing Michael run away, Damien simply shook his head helplessly and went to have a shower after removing the sweaty black body suit he''d been training in.


    After he got out of the shower, he realized he only had 10 minutes until the cafeteria opens, so he quickly put one of his uniforms on and started walking to the cafeteria as for some reason he had an even more ravenous and voracious appetite than usual.


    In the end Damien shrugged his shoulders and chalked it up to the intense training he had just done and continued walking to the cafeteria as he thought of all the delicious food he''s gonna be able to eat.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 13 - BMS Full Alignment and Michaels addition to his Fighting Style

    Damien reached the cafeteria just as it was opening. He started to stack food onto his plate until he had enough to serve three or four people.


    As soon as he was happy with the amount of food he had, he went to a bench, sat down and dug in. Before long Damien finished his food but he still felt hungry, so he went and picked up another four plates worth of food and started eating again.


    He finished it and yet he felt barely full, so decided to eat another plate of food and this time he just ate a normal portion and finally, he felt decently full.


    Looking at his empty plate, he felt a weird tingle on the back of his neck and decided to look around him.


    When Damien looked around he found that everyone around him was looking at him with wide eyes like they were looking at a gluttonous monster. Seeing their looks, Damien looked about with a bashful smile and let out a nervous laugh as he scratched the back of his head. He got up and took his plates to a place where they would be collected and then cleaned before he walked out of the cafeteria quickly and decided to go back to his dorm to finish his Alignment with his Martial arts training.


    Once he arrived back at the dorm he quickly entered his dorm room and found Michael sitting on his bed with a Bow on his lap, he was seemingly in meditation, probably using a mental refinement art which allows Mage type metahumans to use their abilities more effectively and with more efficiency. What surprised Damien though was that Michael had a bow, it made Damien wonder why. As Michael had a mage ability, not a ranged physical ability.


    Damien shrugged his shoulders, knowing that Michael would explain when he stopped meditating and went back over to where he practiced his martial art earlier and sat down. Sitting down he went through the method for the aligning his body, mind and spirit, or his BMS as he called it, and lifted his body with his hands again and slowly removed the number of fingers he used until was back where he was before - Only using his two thumbs.


    He then prepared himself and slowly removed one of his thumbs and as soon as he did this, the pressure immediately hit him.


    If the times when he removed fingers before felt like the gravity he was experiencing had been increased by many-folds, this time it felt like the gravity had increased by many-fold but there were also chains of considerable weight were hanging off of his body with people trying to pull him over with these chains.


    The added pressure instantly made Damien start sweating but despite the strain, he grit his teeth and willed all the muscles in his body to obey the commands of his mind and keep him in place.


    This resulted in his muscles feeling like they were tearing and being torn asunder, while his bones felt like they were being bent out of shape by the pressure they were experiencing. But despite this pain, he was feeling, he knew that if he gave up now he wouldn''t be able to go any further with this training as it required a persistent and unyielding spirit.


    But to Damien''s relief, as he kept persisting the pressure started fading, this caused Damien to let out a sigh but he still kept up the chanting of his mantra.


    ''Become better at killing, to protect what I must protect and to destroy what I must destroy!''


    While he was doing this he checked his BMS Alignment and saw that it was at 75% and wasn''t increasing anymore.


    He decided that he had to move onto the next way that was stated in the manual when trying to align your BMS and he put his other hand back down on the floor with only his thumb on the floor and then started doing a handstand while circulating his Devil Qi in a specific way.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    This way seemed to increase the pressure he felt even further and his BMS alignment started progressing once again and after 15 minutes past, Damien was covered in sweat.


    But despite his obvious fatigue he slowly started moving his left hand away from the ground and leaving only 1 thumb supporting all his body along with the pressure caused by practicing this part of the Blood Angel Style and with the special pressure from the special way of circulating his Devil Qi.


    He started the next phase of this training because after 15 minutes his BMS alignment reached 90% completion and his body went under a change, he grew a little taller, from 165cm to 167cm and his body''s muscles were even more defined then they were before.


    He knew that reaching 90% would cause this kind of change and he knew that at 95% his muscles would grow even more defined and would even bulk up a bit, he also delved in deeper into the information given to him about this way of practicing from the mental-manual he had and found that after reaching 100% BMS alignment the pressure would increase again and allow for the practitioner to do the training all over again to become stronger.


    While holding his body up with his thumb for another 15 minutes he finally reached 95% his muscles grew more defined and bulked up a little, as the manual said they would, after another 15 minutes he completed his body alignment and when he stood back up from his handstand he did a few stretches and he looked inside himself as he felt a few devil nodes had been lit by the intense training he had just done.


    As he looked at his devil node count, he found that he''d lit up 4 more during his training and this increased his body''s overall strength from 7.5 tonnes to 11.5 tonnes, his overall devil node count was now at 8.


    As he felt the incredibly high control and coordination his body had after completing the BMS training, Damien felt elated. Looking around the room he saw that Michael was still there but he looked incredibly sweaty from the strain the mental refinement art he was currently using caused him.


    Damien shook his head, hoping Michael would know when to stop and then walked towards the bathroom to have a shower to clean off all the sweat he''d accumulated from his training.


    Once he''d exited the shower he saw that Michael was awake and drawing his bow in a stance that looked somewhat professional. As Damien saw this he couldn''t help but have a curious look on his face as he looked at Michael, he decided to ask Michael what he was doing.


    "Michael, what are you doing?"


    Suddenly hearing Damien''s voice behind him, Michael jumped up a little bit into the air and spun around with his bow clumsily in his hands, leaving his stance from before. As he had just registered Damien''s answer he started stuttering his answer.


    "W-well after the fight with T-Troy I thought that I needed to be more creative with my power so I decided to try using a Bow and make my arrows out of ice so I have as many arrows as I can make and this should spice up my fighting style. So that''s why I ran off towards Mrs. Quila earlier. I went to ask her if I could pick a weapon and she said yes, so I picked the one I planned to use a Bow. Sorry about not telling you but I was a bit shy to tell you earlier because I didn''t know if I could get all the things I needed but now that I''ve got my bow, a basic technique to practice that bow in and a mental refinement art, I feel fine with telling you haha..."


    As Michael let off a nervous laugh, while sporting a bashful smile, Damien couldn''t help but weakly shake his head. What did Michael think would happen if he told Damien? That Damien wouldn''t want to be friends with him after he couldn''t get the necessary stuff? At this line of thought, Damien sighed as he let out a smile and spoke to Michael


    "Ahh, so that''s why you were in such a hurry? Well, in my opinion, as long as you put in the effort to making this a part of your fighting style, you should get stronger," as he said this he thought Damienthought Michael and he should take their new weapons and practice their techniques in the training grounds that were near the center of the school.


    After he proposed this idea to Michael, who readily agreed with a surprising amount of eagerness, Damien picked up his Bisento before he and Michael started walking towards the Training Grounds, both excited about practicing with their new weapons and while they couldn''t be any more different from one another with one being tall and fierce and the other being short and gentle, they both shared the same goal, a goal that they could bond on.


    Getting stronger.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 14 - Testing out Weapons and Meeting a Familiar Face

    Damien and Michael walked towards the outdoor Training Grounds and on the way there they found Scarlet, Beth, and Helen.


    "Where are you two guys going?" As usual, Helen was the first to ask a question or talk at all. Hearing the question, Damien looked towards Helen and answered.


    "Michael and I were just gonna go visit the Training Grounds to go test out our new weapons and martial arts, you guys wanna tag along?" He said this while mainly looking at Scarlet and her blue saber, he wanted to know how she was gonna fight with it.


    The feeling seemed to be mutual as she looked at Damien and his Bisento.


    "Uhh yeah, I''ll come, what about you two?" Helen quickly agreed and then looked questioningly at Beth and Scarlet who both silently nodded their assent.


    After the 3 girls agreed to come, the group of 5 carried on walking towards the training grounds. Damien and Michael were talking about how to sort out Damien''s clothing problem because of his recent "growth spurt". As she overheard Damien and Michael talking about it,Beth hurriedly tugged on Damien''s sleeve and pointed at herself.


    "Do you mean you can sort out my clothes? How?" Damien looked at her curiously as he asked her this question. Before long, Helen caught on to the conversation and explained in place of her quiet twin.


    "You''re having problems with clothes, right? Then yeah, Beth can help you, she does sewing and tailoring as a hobby. And while she''s not at the point where she can make clothes from scratch, she can easily lengthen your uniform''s trousers and sleeves," to what Helen just said, Damien was surprised and looked at Beth, only to see her bashfully nod her head.


    "Well then Beth, I''ll be having to trouble you. Probably more than a few times when we''re at this academy...haha..." As Damien said this he helplessly smiled and let out a nervous laugh.


    Looking at their curious faces, Damien decided to explain to them the "mysterious" growth spurts he''s been having since he was a kid as a way to pass the time as they walked to the outdoor training grounds. As he was explaining, they all simply nodded their heads and Helen and Michael even muttered "Hmm seems like Damien''s a monster at everything, even growing..." and "Wow, I wonder how tall Damien''s gonna be when he''s fully grown?" respectively.


    ''I''m right here you know? Can you try not to speak about me like I''m some monstrous myth or something?''


    He lamented mentally about how his friends seem to think he''s talented in everything.


    As Michael and Helen stopped talking about how abnormal Damien is and the person they were talking about had stopped lamenting about his freakish growth rates, they arrived at the outdoor training grounds.


    It was similar to the underground training ground they''d been to before but it was also very different. For one it was definitely bigger. It was probably because the whole academy''s student populace could come and train here and there were metal dummies spaced evenly about on the training ground and they seemed like they couldn''t be removed, unlike the underground training ground ones.


    Shrugging off the sight as quickly as he could, Damien ran up to one of the steel dummies and put his bisento down next to it, he then started practicing his fist art.


    As he started blasting the dummy with the offensive forms, he found out very quickly that the dummy started to hit back. Shocked but also excited that the dummy could do this, he started switching between the offensive forms when he saw an opening and the defensive forms when the dummy started attacking him.


    As the other 4 had only just got used to the sight of the massive training ground filled with dummies, they heard successive bangs and thuds, like metal hitting metal. As they looked over to the origin of the sound, they saw Damien throwing simple, but precise and ruthless punches one after another and blocking or dodging the punches the dummy was throwing back with ease.


    Even from where they were standing they could feel the power radiating from both Damien''s and the dummy''s punches, it caused all four of them, even the battle maniac Scarlet to gulp down whatever they had in their mouths out of awe and a tiny bit of fear.


    But they quickly stopped what they were doing and thought about how they already knew Damien was a monster, why were they surprised now? And so, thinking this Scarlet went three dummies to the left of Damien and started slashingat the dummy and performingcuttining motionswhenever the dummy showed an opening.


    Surprisingly a sword came out of the dummy''s body and it started to block and parry the thrusts and sweeps Scarlet performed with her saber.


    While she was doing this Michael walked three dummies to the right of Damien and nocked an arrow and shot it at the dummy, it hit, but only the dummy''s arm and it quickly bounced off.


    Again, the dummy had a weapon come out of its body but this time it was a bow, and it soon grabbed it and started shooting arrows at Michael. Luckily they were blunt but they still hurt like hell, as Michael was hit by one and was soon yelling out that he felt like it broke his rib. But although he did this, he continued shooting at the dummy.


    Looking at his shooting, Damien thought that he must have some really good talent for archery as he was getting better at each shot and had adapted to moving and shooting.


    As Damien thought this, he shook his head to get rid of useless thoughts so he could focus on the fight between him and the dummy. As he was using this as an opportunity to further his insights on the fist variant of the martial art, he wanted to see if he could integrate the offense and defensive forms into 1 perfectly balanced form of both attack and defense.


    Being able to switch between them to become the perfect martial arts form seemed like the goal of the fist form. Thinking of doing this he started to enter a state, a state where he didn''t think about anything other than perfecting the integration between the 2 forms. Integrating the 2 forms would allow him to go from the Initial Success Level to the Minor Success Level which would improve the fighting power of how Damien could use the Martial Art, making his battle prowess even more frightening.


    As he kept fighting, he kept looking for the small gaps in both the offensive forms and defensive forms and started filling the gaps in with the opposing form. And it worked. Just like that he had increased his level up to the Minor Success Level and those watching him could instantly tell.


    "Woah, look at Damien! He''s fighting the dummy with such ease, it''s like he''s fighting a child!" Helen excitedly kept yelling as she watched Damien, it may have sounded exaggerated.


    But she was right.


    Damien was switching between the forms and easily blocking or dodging whatever attacks the dummy threw at him and then countering with extremely brutal punches and then without giving the dummy any time to throw any more punches, Damien would go into a combo of punching the dummy with deadly and relentless combos.


    Soon after he stopped because the dummy wasn''t pushing him any further.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    ''I wonder if they have stronger dummies? Well, not if, more like where do they keep the stronger dummies?''


    As he thought this he picked up his bisento and got into the combat stance required by the Blood Angel Style and then he suddenly leaped up into the air and spun mid-air and when he was coming down towards the dummy he kept spinning like a spinning top and spun the bisento in his hands like a saw blade and slashed down at the dummy.


    He surprisingly left a long white gash on from the dummy''s right shoulder down to the opposite side on its waist.


    This surprised both Scarlet and Michael who looked at the dummy Damien was fighting because they both full well knew how hard to scatch these dummies were, it was like hitting a mountain.


    Ignoring their surprised gazes, Damien watched as the dummy drew a sword out of its body and immediately slashed at him as soon as it had fully drawn the sword.


    As its sword came towards Damien''s neck, he slid under it with surprising ease and although his body looked like a pole bent at an odd angle, the stretching barely put any strain on his body.


    This was a benefit of the BMS alignment, it gave him not just more strength and durability but amazing control, coordination, and flexibility. Making dodging like what Damien was doing now, incredibly easy.


    As he slid under the dummy''s slash, Damien spun once more like a spinning top and sliced at the dummy''s stomach area. The speed of Damien''s bisento was just stunning, it was like a blur in the eyes of those watching.


    And as soon as it hit, it caused another white gash to appear on the dummy. As he couldn''t use his bisento in the position it was in currently, he used the residue centrifugal force from the previous slash and torqued his right leg round and lashed a kick at the side of the dummy''s head. When it hit, the dummy''s head bent sideways from the 11.5 tons of force it had just taken, but it soon recovered.


    Damien, on the other hand, leaped back away from the dummy.


    Once it saw Damien had backed away, the dummy charged at him with its sword ready for a thrust and attacked him.


    In response to this, Damien deflected the thrust with the pole of the bisento and then slashed at the neck of the dummy and after it hit, he spun his bisento round and round and kept slashing the metallic opponent in smooth flowing motions.


    The Bisento-variant of the Blood Angel Style had the same number of moves and variant moves as the fist-variant forms; with 9 basics moves, 9 variations of each move and 2 forms. And Damien was currently going through each and every move.


    With his progress in the fist-variation, his progress in the bisento-variation was going smoothly.


    As the others looked at Damien in shock as they thought about how the dummy didn''t even have a chance against a battle freak like him. It couldn''t even counter-attack because Damien was so relentless in breaking down the dummy with his countless slashes.


    He slashed at the neck, it''s arms, it''s stomach, it''s legs and then he''d quickly get behind it and start cutting at it''s back. If it was a real person, it would have been sliced into bits by now.


    But the most peculiar thing abotu Damien''s attacks was that wherever Damien attacked, there was a weakness, whether it was on the neck where he cut the dummy or when he attacked the back, he aimed at the muscles used to properly stand up straight and when he attacked the shoulders he attacked the muscles that held the arms up.


    He was incredibly brutal in his attacks and the 4 others watching him felt lucky to call him their friend and not an enemy. As Damien was cutting up the dummy, he suddenly stopped and sat down with his Bisento on his lap and he immediately started meditating.


    This caused no little amount of confusion until Scarlet spoke.


    "He''s gotten an insight into the Martial Art he''s practicing and he''s meditating on it to get the maximum amount of gains from it as he can," she spoke in her usual indifferent voice but this time she spoke with a little awe in her voice, as Damien had truly shown her what a martial genius was. She then continued speaking "We should move a few more dummies away so we don''t disturb him," as she said this, everyone in their little group nodded and moved away while Damien was comprehending his insights on his martial art.


    ''So the main focus of the Blood Angel Style, Bisento Variant, is to be heavy, powerful and precise and to incapacitate or kill the opponent with crushing amounts of power and momentum. Hmmmm. It seems that what I''ve gained from this time of practicing is a good foundation for the martial art but it''s not at the Initial Success Level yet. Oh well, it''s nearly there, so I''ll gain it eventually if I practice enough. So all I''ve got to do and remember is to be heavy, powerful and precise and then I''ll get better at this martial art. Easy enough.''


    As he finished comprehending his insight he stood up and walked over to his friends who had politely moved away to avoid distracting him from his meditating. He smiled gratefully at them and said his thanks when he got over to them.


    When he was doing this, Damien and Co heard a bell go off and then suddenly a massive influx of students wearing white uniforms or black body suits started walking in corridors and started heading outside towards the training grounds.


    As they saw this, the group had different reactions, Helen was excited, Beth just looked as calm as she usually did, Scarlet looked indifferently, as usual, and Michael was fidgeting about with his hands and his eyes kept darting about, so as usual, he was nervous. While Damien was focused on looking curiously at someone near the front because they looked familiar to him


    ''...Wait...Light green hair..pink eyes...Isn''t that...what was her name again...Selena?''


    As if she felt someone gazing at her, she looked in Damien''s direction and met eyes with him, she seemed to jump in shock but quickly gathered her composure and walked over to him. When she arrived she smiled and looked up at Damien and said


    "Damien, is that you?" she said this a bit curiously because Damien had grown since the last time they''d met and he''d grown A LOT, so she was quite frankly unsure whether it was him or not.


    "Yep, it''s me. Hey, Selena, how''ve you been?" as Damien replied he put on a handsome smile which caused Selena to blush a small amount and she quickly replied.


    "Oh y-you know, I''ve been g-great. Sooo, anyway, you''re coming to Divine Titan Academy? Well, that makes me you Senior, so you better listen to me~" as she playfully talked to Damien, all the others in the group were shocked that Damien knew such a beautiful upperclassman.


    As puberty started when you were 9 if you were a girl, she was 2 years into puberty and she was already a budding beauty. Her skin was a white as snow and had absolutely no blemishes, her light green hair flowed beautifully down and past her shoulders and looked like a torrent of nature and her pink eyes seemed to exude youth and beauty and could draw any boy into them.


    Damien, not seeming to be affected by her beauty, casually replied playfully "Well I''ll only acknowledge you as my senior if you beat me in a fight~" as he replied he winked at her as a joke but she seemed to think he meant other things by that wink and she went bright red from blushing.


    But she soon calmed down and when she was about to ask Damien another question, an annoying voice came out of nowhere


    "Ohohoh is that our Goddess Selena? Hm? Is that a boy talking to her?"


    As an annoying voice noticed Damien, it shouted in disdain and shock "Who do you think you are to talk to our Goddess Selena?!"


    As Damien looked around he finally found the speaker of the annoying voice. It was an incredibly effeminate man who had long blue hair and soft brown eyes, he was quite good looking but more beautiful than handsome.


    He wasn''t short but he wasn''t exactly tall either, so as Damien looked down at him, he towered over the blue-haired boy. While Damien was doing this, Selena''s face darkened and said in a chilly voice seemingly embarrassed by the feminine boy''s creepiness.


    "Who''s your Goddess Selena, hm? Because if you''re speaking about me, I''m definitely not yours in any way, Ronan," as she spat this out venomously, she looked at the blue-haired boy, Ronan and if looks could kill, Ronan would have died many times over.


    "Haha, you always play so hard to get Goddess Selena! Well, no matter, I''m patient--" but before he could speak, Damien cut him off.


    "Please piss off. I was trying to talk to my friend who I haven''t seen in a while and quite frankly, your voice is possibly the most annoying thing I''ve ever heard and I can''t concentrate because of it. If you want to spout bullshit, do it in your own time and preferably away from me and my friends," Damien spoke in an incredibly cold and rude voice and it shocked all those around him but only one person was surprised but still started laughing and giggling anyway; It was Selena.


    "I second what he said, Ronan, please go away...Pffft..." she said this in between laughing but she still sounded incredibly cold even though before she said it, she was laughing joyfully.


    "You!" Ronan shouted this but because of his naturally shrill voice, it came off as more of a scream but what shocked people more was that he flew at Damien and tried to punch him. This shocked Selena as she didn''t think Ronan would do something this drastic, the only reason she was worried was that Ronan was ranked 10th out of the entire 1st year in strength.


    She tried to stop him but she couldn''t, she could only watch as he flew at Damien as a Holy glow was covering his entire body.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 15 - Showing the people a Real Monster and Selenas Odd Reaction

    Ronan continued to fly at Damien and pulled back his fist.


    Damien saw this and planted his Bisento into the ground and got into a combat stance. Slowly, on his face the corners of his lips were pulled upwards to an almost impossible degree and they ended up making quite the manic smile.


    The people who saw this felt that Damien at that moment was like an excited animal, fighting the challenges on its territory for fun.


    When Ronan got closer to Damien, Damien felt his blood start to boil and he also felt that his Devil Form was trying to come to the surface and destroy that holy glow and the person using it.


    His face twisted a little, his teeth grinding against one another in pure hatred.


    But Damien shook his head mentally and desperately suppressed that urge, he wanted to enjoy this fight. If he used Devil Form, the fight would be over too quickly, that''s why he''s gonna have a good ol'' strength only duel.


    Well, he''s the only one only using strength.


    When Ronan was close to Damien, he saw the smile of hysteria on Damien''s face and seemed to hesitate for a moment.


    But it was already far too late.


    *CRACK!*


    Damien had thrown a right hook after dodging under Ronan''s punch. Ronan''s head spun to the side because of the strength used by Damien but surprisingly he recovered almost instantly and the Holy Glow around him got stronger.


    "Hmph! You''ve got to hit harder than that!" Ronan shouted with disdain and contempt as he started throwing more punches at a faster speed than before.


    Damien at that moment knew he''d underestimated his opponent a little bit, so he decided that he''d use his full strength and concentrated it into his two legs with his ability before he got into a stance and threw a solid kick at Ronan''s midsection.


    It turned out to be a deadly combo.


    As soon as it hit Ronan, he was flung backward and into a big oak tree. Everyone looked at Damien as if he were a monster. To put it into their perspective, a kid who hadn''t even had a year of combat classes and training yet had just dodged the 10th strongest person in the 1st year, punches and then kicked him hard into a tree with surprising ease.


    "Come on, Ronan, come on and give me a proper fight!" he mad smile had never left Damien''s lips and, in fact, it had grown even more insane looking as the fight went on. In his excitement he kept shouting for Ronan to come and fight him; to fight him harder and to push him further.


    Everyone recoiled when they heard Damien''s tone of voice that was filled with battle lust. Only 5 people didn''t recoil, they were his friends in his class Michael, Beth, Helen, and Scarlet and also, surprisingly, Selena. She didn''t recoil, she was, in fact, blushing while watching Damien''s manic smile. For some reason whenever Selena saw this smile her heart seemed to speed up and start beating like it wanted to beat itself out of her chest.


    Damien was oblivious to all this as he was waiting for Ronan to come at him again.


    Ronan stood up from the ground by the tree and simply walked towards Damien and as he did so the Holy Glow got bigger and bigger, as if it was competing with the holy glow, the battle lust coming from Damien started getting more and more intense.


    When Ronan suddenly charged, Damien was surprised, not because he was surprised by Ronan''s power or because he was scared but because Ronan had charged at Selena who was to the side of them. This fully enraged Damien and he didn''t know why, whether it was because Selena was his friend, or because he''d been ignored in a fight or because of both.


    Damien''s body reacted on instinct and he used his full strength with a Concentrated Step and charged at Ronan to intersect him before he could hurt Selena. Luckily, all his strength funneled into his feet for a Concentrated Step resulted in amazing speed and he caught up to Ronan almost instantly and when he did, he grabbed Ronan by the neck and slammed him into the floor.


    He started slamming his fist into Ronan''s face and just didn''t stop. Ronan tried his best to stop Damien, he tried to punch back but they all either missed or had no effect on Damien''s raging figure. Finally, he tried to force Damien''s grip on him off of him but it felt like Damien''s hand was an iron vice around his neck and it wouldn''t be moved.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    One of Ronan''s punches was aiming for Damien''s crotch and this really pissed Damien off.


    ''You wanna turn me into an impotent bastard like you?! Good luck with that, you prick!'' he snorted in anger and grabbed Ronan''s arm with his punching arm and simply--


    *CRACK! TWIST!*


    "ARGHHHHH!"


    --Crushed it. As soon as Michael and the others saw this, they remembered what he did to Troy and they wondered if Damien had something for breaking peoples arms, but before they could think about that further, Damien finally lifted Ronan off of the ground, still holding his neck. Everyone winced as they saw Ronan''s face, it was a mixture of blue, red and black. When people looked towards his mouth, all they saw was a hole with no teeth and blood constantly pouring out of it.


    Damien looked at Ronan with a disdainful smirk before punching the poor boy in the stomach and digging into it.


    Ronan threw up some food and blood onto the floor and Damien simply dropped him into his own vomit.


    Everyone looked at Damien, one of the induction students, who had completely destroyed the 10th strongest first year, not even the 9th strongest could as easily manhandled Ronan as Damien did.


    Everyone felt like they were looking at a future monster, no, they were looking at a present monster. He was already so strong at the age of 10, what about in a few years after being at the academy?!


    Everyone recoiled in fear and slightly in disgust as well. They couldn''t help but see Damien as some kind of unhinged barbarian.


    Even his friends seemed a bit uneasy with the pain and suffering he''d inflicted on one of their upperclassmen.


    Only one person was looking at Damien in a different light, unsurprisingly, it was Selena.


    She was looking at Damien with a weird light in her eyes, her face was red and her lips were spread in a captivatingly beautiful smile. When Damien looked at her smile, even he was lost in it for a little while.


    Soon after he snapped out of it and walked over to her.


    "Sorry I had to do that in front of you, Selena. I got a bit excited and surprisingly angry in that fight," as he apologized he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment and let off a nervous laugh. To his surprise, Selena smiled even further.


    "Angry? Why were you angry?"


    As she asked this, Damien went a little red and felt embarrassed but he still answered Selena''s question.


    "I was angry because...uhhh..he went to attack you, my friend and he also ignored me in a fight, there might be something else though, I''m not sure..." he said this in an uncharacteristically nervous voice.


    ''Why am I so nervous around Selena? Am I hurt somewhere? Is she really strong or something?''


    He was incredibly curious about why he felt so on edge currently.


    Then he looked more deeply at her face, it was red with a lovely blush that seemed to make her hair look even more green and it went well with her pink eyes. Thinking this, Damien stopped suddenly, thinking of something more terrifying than any number of battles.


    ''Wait. Why am I focusing on that stuff? Wooahwoahwoah, do I like her? Like, like like her? How? Why? When?!''


    "Hehe, you were angry that someone tried to attack me? You''re so cute Damien!" she said this with a weird tone, matching the weird look in her eyes.


    ''Her tone sounds incredibly like my mother''s--Wait. Oh god, please. Don''t. Please, God, why do keep sending weird women into my life?''


    When he was back in his old world, as Devil King Lu Shu, he never had any experience with women because he was always too busy training. So now that he was getting the attention of a pretty girl, while he could calm himself down and forcefully suppress the feelings, he oddly didn''t want to, something in his head made it so he liked the attention.


    When he realized he was reborn in a new world with a new life, he decided to live his life like a normal person (well, apart from the abilities and whatnot) and he wanted to experience things he didn''t before. When he was thinking this, Selena did something that shocked him and he''d gone through tribulations and that was nothing compared to what Selena did.


    "I think you deserve a reward for saving me, Damien~," she said this rather playfully and then she ran up to Damien and stood on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek.


    ''Did she just kiss my cheek?! It''s the first time anyone''s ever done that. Wow. Why am I completely stunned at the moment? Why do my legs feel like jelly? Did she poison me or something?''


    As he was thinking this he just stood there with a blank look on his face. Seeing this, Selena smiled and turned away before running away with incredible speed.


    "Woah!" "Did 6th ranked Goddess Selena just kiss that tall kid?" "What a scandal!" the audience clamored. The news would probably spread to the whole of the first years before tomorrow.


    But Damien didn''t care, he lifted his hand up to touch his cheek, he''d just finally experience what it was like to get a kiss from a girl and he was weirdly ecstatic about it like something was awakened in him. He let out a brilliant smile and picked up his Bisento and started walking back to his dorm, thinking about all the times he''ll be kissing girls in the future.


    Michael and the others were still stunned but they still followed Damien when he walked towards the dorm building.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 16 - Metahuman Growth Rates and Ranking

    After Damien had pretty much both mentally and physically traumatized Ronan and possibly ostracizing himself from the rest of the students in the academy, he returned to his room after saying goodbye to Scarlet, Beth, and Helen.


    When he returned to his room, he continued with the BMS alignment training, to his surprise it seemed that the pressure really had reset. He had to do the workout all over again and it would temper his body even further than before. After he got to 40% BMS alignment he stopped the training and went to sit on his bed to cultivate, as he looked inside himself he saw the 8 black and red flames in his body constantly nourishing his flesh and bones.


    He suddenly felt a sudden impulse to circulate his Devil Qi towards two certain points in his body, both of them on his spine with one at the upper end and one towards his tailbone. As he did so, the two spots started to heat up and after 10 minutes of ''digging'' in those spaces, they lit up and turned out to be nodes. This tempered his body further and increased his body''s strength from 11.5 tonnes to 13.5 tonnes.


    ''It seems that the BMS training tempers my body and helps show me where my Devil nodes are, what a helpful training exercise. Speaking of Devil Nodes, how many do I have? The most a normal Devil Cultivator can have is 70 and they''re termed as an S-Rank. Speaking of ranks, I''m 5 devil nodes off of becoming a D-Rank Devil, once I hit 15 my body will go through a qualitative change, I can''t wait.''


    As Damien finished thinking about his Devil Rank and his amount of Devil Nodes, he looked back at what happened today in terms of Selena and her...kissing him.


    When Damien thought about it, he blushed and felt embarrassed but also warm inside.


    ''Wait, this is what I mean. Why am I acting like a child? While I enjoy acting my body''s age, I shouldn''t let a girl going through puberty get me this flushed. It''s fine for me to feel happy about what Selena did but I should act a bit more like my actual age.''


    As he thought this he resolutely nodded his head as he steeled his resolve to deal with his biggest enemies; Girls.


    Damien spent the rest of the day either training his Fist forms and meditating on what he did wrong and correcting it, or speaking to Michael about random stuff. Until one thing in their conversation took Damien by surprise; Michael brought up girls.


    "Soo Damien, you and Selena had a thing, huh?"


    Slightly embarrassed by how Michael phrased it, Damien quickly answered.


    "What do you mean? We''re friends and she''s obviously grateful for me protecting her. Besides we''re between the ages of 10 and 11, we''re hardly a ''thing'' as say," despite him saying this, a slight blush crept across his face.


    Hearing how Damien replied, Michael laughed out with a surprising hearty chuckle as he replied "Oh Damien, Oh Damien, if Selena heard you say that she''d be quite annoyed at you, stop being dense~" as soon as he said this he stiffened as he realized he''d been a bit blunt towards the end but shrugged it off as Damien deserved a wake up call in his eyes.


    "Wha--! Shut up Michael, what do you know about women? Huh?!" Damien replied with a flushed face. To his brash reply, Michael looked Damien dead in the eye and spoke in a monotone voice.


    "I have 2 Older Sisters."Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    Seeing Michael answer his question with such a monotone and deadpan expression, Damien knew that Michael knew what he was talking about. As he realized this he simply nodded his head and then continued to talk to Michael about girls and then other stuff. Until it was later in the day, they then went to go get food after meeting up with their other friends and Damien once again showed everyone how much of a glutton he was and then soon ran back off to his dorm room after saying goodbye to the others.


    When he got back to his dorm room he continued to perfect his fist forms and then went to sleep.


    When he woke up in the morning, he got in the shower and after he got out he got dressed and woke Michael up as they had to go to class. As Michael got up and got ready, they headed towards their classroom and when they entered they realized they were a bit early as only Scarlet was in class.


    Seeing Scarlet sitting alone, Michael and Damien went and sat next to her and decided to speak to each other while they waited for the twins. After about 10 minutes the entered the room and sat down. Seeing that everyone was in the classroom and no one was absent.


    Mrs. Quila finally spoke to the class,"Good morning everyone, today we''re gonna be learning a little more about Metahumans and the ranks that they''re separated into," as she said this, all of the class perked up because of their curiosity and interest towards this subject.


    "To start off, we have to think about what metahumans are? They''re something akin to an altered human, certain genes shine when compared to others in Metahumans; These are what give them their abilities. That''s the only difference, truly. But then after that, they can rank up these genes through the constant use of their ability and it''ll cause more mutations in them. We class these as ''Rank-Ups'' and they start at D-Rank, for your information you guys are classed as unranked, and the highest rank is SS-Rank."


    Hearing from Mrs. Quila that they were all classed as unranked despite having ''S+ Ranked'' abilities all of the students, including Damien, were confused on what she meant. Seeing their confused expressions, Mrs. Quila smiled and answered in a calm voice.


    "Calm down, calm down students, your ''S+ Ranked'' abilities is less of the power they have but more of their growth potential that the ability has and the natural control you have over your ability. So, for example, any ranked ability user no matter their ability growth rate can become an SS Ranked ability user. But a user with a D-Rank growth rate will take an immeasurable time to reach SS Ranked while a user with an S+ Rank growth rate will reach it much much quicker than a D-Rank."


    As everyone heard this they were enlightened on what Mrs. Quila meant before by them being unranked as they truly hadn''t had any mutations to their ability genes yet.


    After Mrs.Quila explained this she simply carried on about the more specific details about how metahumans can rank up. Like how they can take special medicines to increase the genes'' strength and in this way, Rank-Up, but this leads to a shaky foundation where the gene could collapse on itself and the ability would either weaken or completely disappear. Because of this many people don''t overindulge in these medicines and only take them when their foundations are incredibly stable.


    Thinking about this Damien decided to stay away from these medicines because he didn''t know how it would affect his Devil DNA and because he didn''t want anything making his incredibly firm foundation shaky.


    After this, the lesson went on and they learned about basic ways to increase your intimacy with your ability; most of which Damien already knew. It was along the lines of constantly using your ability, refining your control over your ability and what you can do with it and do research on your ability to see if you can take inspiration from past Metahumans who either had the same ability or something similar in effect.


    Soon after this the lesson ended and headed to the cafeteria, mainly because he was hungry and totally not because of any other reason...


    As Damien continued to lie to himself, him, Michael and Scarlet walked to the cafeteria with him, Michael with a sly smile and even Scarlet had a bit of a smirk on her face. Beth and Helen wanted to go train their abilities and weren''t that hungry so they went back to their dorm room.


    Michael and Scarlet both shook their heads almost helplessly as they were both intelligent kids and could see through Damien''s intentions for going to the cafeteria. They could only follow along as they hoped they could stop Damien from doing something stupid...

 (Rewritten) Chapter 17 - Devil Types, 1st Year Competition and Class "Field Trip"

    As Damien, Michael and Scarlet entered the cafeteria, everyone looked at them. Well, they weren''t looking at all of them, they were all actually looking at Damien and this was because of two reasons 1. Because of what he did to Ronan, who was considered quite strong among the 1st years and 2. Because most of the people there saw him when he last came to eat at the cafeteria and had plate after plate of food and had labeled him as an absolute glutton.


    When Damien sensed their stares, he awkwardly scratched the back of his head while he helplessly smiled. Michael and Scarlet quickly caught on as they also knew what his voracious appetite was like and they were also there when he basically dismantled Ronan''s face.


    In an attempt to shake off his embarrassment, Damien walked towards the buffet.


    ''What''s there to be embarrassed about? I''m a growing boy, I need food!''


    As he tried to mentally justify his unnatural appetite, he, like before, kept piling piece after piece of food onto his plate. Once he had gotten enough food and Michael and Scarlet had gotten their own portions, he turned around to look for a table where he and the two others could sit.


    As he was looking around he saw Selena sitting next to a peculiar Blue haired girl with a pretty face and orange eyes. What struck Damien as weird about this girl was that her skin was incredibly pale and her orange eyes seemed to glow, also her pupils were vertically elongated, just like Damien''s when he enters his Devil Form.


    Just like how Damien spotted her, Selena saw him and instantly waved over at him, signaling him to come over and sit with her and her friend. As he, Michael and Scarlet walked over and sat down, the blue-haired girl looked at them and slightly smiled. She looked up at Damien and spoke in a teasing voice.


    Whether she was teasing Damien or Selena, neither of them were sure.


    "Oh my, you must be Damien, I''m Alice, Selena''s best friend. She told me about how unique you look, I thought she was exaggerating but obviously, she was not~" the blue-haired girl, Alice teasingly smiled as she spoke.


    As if to what her best friend had said, Selena blushed and averted her eyes from Damien''s.


    Damien laughed lightly and returned the greeting with a dashing smile on his face,"Haha yeah, my appearance and height are quite unusual for someone my age. It''s a pleasure to meet you, Alice, let''s get along."


    To his reply, Alice simply smiled and nodded her head towards Damien. After this, Damien introduced Scarlet and Michael to the two 1st year girls and soon they all started speaking while they were eating their food. As Selena and Alice both looked at Damien''s plate that had enough food for 4 or 5 people on it, they couldn''t help but be amazed.


    "I guess your appetite is what made you grow so tall, Damien. It''s like you''re a beast or something with how much you can eat!"


    As Selena said this she teasingly winked at Damien as everyone at the table laughed at her joke about Damien having the appetite of a beast. Hearing what she said, Damien also laughed and smiled back at her while replying.


    "You have no idea Selena, I''m always hungry. But I guess it has benefits like you said, it fuels my incredible body growth."


    As he jokingly said this, he thought about the real reason for his ever insatiable appetite.


    ''Ever since I started practicing that martial art style, it seems that I''ve awoken something in my devil genes. I guess it has something to do with what kind of devil I''m gonna be. But more importantly other than my hunger, I keep letting myself get angry, no, furious over the smallest things. Am I going to awaken two different sins?''


    Sins. The things that give Devil Cultivators an advantage over normal cultivators, other than their impeccable bodies.


    There are seven of them; Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Greed/Avarice, Lust, Gluttony, and Envy.


    Each has their own advantages and disadvantages but still, the disadvantages are small and the power they give is what makes most Devil Cultivators tyrants of their respective regions. In his past life, Damien awakened Pride, it gave him impeccable control over his body and mind along with a few mind control powers which proved incredibly helpful in his rise to power. The disadvantage, however, was that he was incredibly arrogant and this caused him trouble more times than he could count.


    ''So if that''s what''s causing my anger and my appetite, I''m going to be both a Gluttony Devil and a Wrath Devil? But that''s impossible!''


    And it was.


    A devil cultivator can only have one sin otherwise if there''s more than one the sins will clash and it will cause many problems for a Devil Cultivator. Thinking this, Damien used his enhanced brain and thinking speedto go through the Immortal Devil King Technique, looking for even the slightest mention of what was happening to him. While this may seem like it would take a long time, hisenhanced brain could think at such a speed this entire thought process didn''t even take a second.


    Awakening a sin is a strength that becoming a Devil can offer you. If you awaken one sin with this technique you will become incredibly powerful. But if you awaken two, you will become unstoppable, a Devil with such a pure and noble bloodline that those who stand in your way have only one thing they can do; Perish.


    Reading this, Damien was ecstatic as he realized that he hadn''t messed up in his Devil Cultivation but in fact, he had done so well in it that he was being awarded. As he thought about this he wondered what kind of traits he would get from his two sins. He only hoped he wouldn''t turn into a mindless beast that either kills because he''s angry or kills because he''s hungry.


    Either way, he has until he lights up 5 more devil nodes and become a D-Rank Devil before any of this happens, so he shouldn''t worry about it too much just yet.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    As he chuckled lightly to himself thinking that whatever it was, he would handle it, he came back to himself and looked up to see Selena and Alice looking at him.


    "What? Is there something on my face?" as he asked this, a flicker of annoyance passed over Alice''s eyes as she replied.


    "Hmph! We asked you a question, but you were daydreaming so I guess you didn''t hear it."


    As he heard this he got a little flushed that someone had called him out on the fact that he was just looking at his food not doing anything for about 2 seconds.


    He quickly answered while scratching his head,"Oh, sorry Alice, Selena. What did you ask then?"


    "We just wondered if you feel prepared for the tournament you''ll be doing when you come back to the academy next year. It''s the 1st year''s way of sorting out the pecking order."


    Hearing this Damien instantly perked up and showed a look of interest and curiosity towards what Alice just said.


    "There''s gonna be a tournament?"


    The other 4 at the table could practically hear the excitement and battle lust dripping off of Damien''s words.


    As they looked at his face, they saw that his eyes were slightly closed and his mouth was curved upwards to a near impossible degree.


    As if she didn''t see his insane look, Alice simply replied with a slight smile on her face,"Yep. You''ll have a year to prepare yourself and so will everyone who wants to take you down from the top of the induction students."


    Damien''s face instantly lost its manic appearance and it was replaced with a confused look, seeing that he didn''t get what he meant, Selena giggled and decided to chime in before her friend Alice could tease Damien further.


    "What she means is that after your little display with Ronan, all the stronger induction students have been raring to have a go at fighting you to see if they can take away your title. Oh and if you''re wondering what your title is, the 1st years have taken to calling you ''King of the Newbloods'' "


    Hearing his title, Damien''s faced stayed in its confused expression.


    "Newbloods? Is that what you call induction students?"


    Hearing his question they nodded, while Alice spoke up again,"Yep, it''s an old tradition started by the principal. And it seems that your two friends are among the stronger students who want to have a shot at fighting you when the tournament comes next year."


    As she said this, Damien looked over at his two friends only to see them already looking at him with the will to fight in their eyes. Well, Scarlet seemed to be more eager to fight him but Michael just seemed more determined to prove to Damien that he was worthy of being friends with him.


    ''Seems that I made quite the impression on these two, huh? Well, I better not let them down in a year!''


    As he thought about fighting these two, he thought that Helen and Beth would probably hold the same views as Michael and Scarlet and that they''d probably want to fight him. As he thought about this, he couldn''t help but let his usual smile creep up onto his lips, he couldn''t wait until they got stronger and came at him with everything they had. They had the same growth potential as him, if they work hard they could rival him in power, Damien only hoped that they would give him a proper challenge next year.


    "Oh, wow, what an exciting thing. Well, I hope you guys get as strong as you can in the next year!"


    Hearing what he said, Michael and Scarlet both nodded their heads resolutely. When she also heard what he said, Alice spoke up.


    "You really are a battle addict aren''t you? Seems like you really are the perfect fit for Selena..."


    As she said this in a quiet voice, only Damien, whose senses were inhuman and Selena who was sitting next to her, heard this. Selena blushed quite heavily at what she heard and Damien laughed at Alice''s semi-serious joke.


    Seeing that Damien was getting less easy to tease, Alice let out a sigh and pouted as she swept some hair behind her left ear. When he saw her ear, Damien was quite shocked.


    It was pointed, not like elves which were pointed and long but more like a demon''s. It looked like a human''s ear apart from that one part at the top where it can to an almost seemingly sharp point. Seeing his curiosity and shock at her ear, Alice laughed and spoke.


    "Hmmm seems you''re curious about my ear, huh Damien?"


    Seeing that he was caught staring, his mouth spread into a helpless smile and he asked a question.


    "Is that due to your ability or something else?"


    "Yep. You see, my ability is from the rare Physiology category from the warrior type. It''s S+ Ranked [Vampire Empress Physiology], it gives me my pointed ears and also my eyes that are orange and seem to glow in the dark and it has also given me a sub-ability called [Hemomancy] which is a glorified way of saying Blood Manipulation. And I must say, your blood is filled with such vitality Damien, why is that?"


    Hearing this, Michael and Scarlet were shocked because of the fact her ability was from the incredibly rare Physiology category.


    While Damien was shocked at her question he still replied quickly in a confident manner,"I constantly train my body, one of my abilities lets me push past my limits constantly meaning my body gets stronger and stronger and the other lets me augment my physique. So I''m not too surprised to hear that my vitality is so high that it''s tantalizing to a Vampire~"


    Hearing that he had such abilities, Alice showed a surprised expression but it soon returned to her usual calm smiling expression. She simply nodded at Damien''s answer and didn''t inquire anything more from him.


    As they continued to talk about random things such as their lives, the academy, and even fighting techniques, soon they all left the cafeteria to go back to their classrooms. Selena and Alice bid farewell to Damien and the two others and went off to their classroom and then Damien, Michael, and Scarlet half-ran and half-jogged towards their classroom as they were a bit late.


    As soon as they entered they quickly got to their seats and Mrs. Quila soon started to speak.


    "Hello kids, as you''re all here now, we can start the lesson."


    While speaking she didn''t forget to slightly glare at Damien, Michael, and Scarlet. But she soon carried on with the lesson.


    "As I''ve seen you fight, I know that most, if not all of you are ready for the live combat test. If you''re wondering what that entails, I''ll be taking you to the Arena in the school grounds and I''ll have you fight a Mutant Beast that I feel you can defeat and while you fight it, I''ll grade you. Depending on your grade, you''ll get more or less training resources and opportunities. Is everyone clear on what they''re going to be doing? Okay, go back to your dorm rooms and get dressed in your black combat suits and bring your weapons to the classroom once you''re ready."


    Hearing what she said, most of the people in the room were excited. Especially Damien, Troy and Scarlet who exuded an amazing amount of fighting will.


    Damien looked over at Troy who seemed to be recovered and with a renewed passion this time around. But unlike previous times where that passion was caked in arrogance, this time it felt purer like Michael''s determination to get stronger. Seeing this change, Damien was happy that Troy was losing his annoying traits.


    Soon after what she said everyone rushed back to their dorms, some nervous, others cautious but most of them were to some degree, excited while thinking about their first time fighting a mutant beast.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 18 - Mutant Beasts and the Tyrannical Devil Form

    As all the students ran back to their dorms, Damien shot ahead of all of them and got back to his dorm quite quickly. As soon as he reached his dorm room he practically tore off his uniform and threw it into his bed and quickly put his combat suit on, picked up his Bisento and ran back where he had to meet Mrs.Quila.


    As he was running, he started thinking about Alice. More specifically Alice''s ability.


    ''So she had a Physiology class ability? They exist? Well, looks like I''ve got an excuse for my devil form now and with the Mutant Beast Fights, I might have a chance to use it...''


    As he came to the end of this thought process, Damien was nearly at where he had to be.


    He continued running and ignored the rest of the kids in his class who were staring at him as they were only just on their way back to their dorms and Damien was already ready and running back to where Mrs. Quila was.


    Damien reached where he had to meet Mrs. Quila and to his surprise, he wasn''t the first one here.


    As he shook his head he headed over to the person who was here before him. It was Scarlet. As if she knew he was surprised at how she beat him back here, she did something that was extremely out of character for her, she smugly smiled in his direction. For some reason, Damien knew that she wasn''t trying to annoy him, but she was just proud that she beat him in something.


    ''You don''t have to try so hard to beat me, Scarlet...''


    When he reached Scarlet he started talking to her about if she were prepared to go up against Mutant beasts, she simply nodded and returned the question. Damien simply smiled and replied with a quiet yes.


    He replied quietly not because he was scared but because he was so excited he was worried that if he spoke any louder he''d end up shouting and if his expression was anything to go by he truly would end up shouting his excitement out.


    Said expression was slowly slipping into one of pure excitement.


    As soon as his short conversation with his quiet and indifferent friend ended, Damien heard 3 people running in their direction so he turned round to see who they were. It turned out it was Helen, Michael, and Troy.


    This made Damien wonder where Beth was, but soon after he this he saw her appear around the corner with a red face and she seemed to be breathing heavy.


    ''It seems that she isn''t the best when it comes to physical stuff, it''s to be expected though, she is a mage...but still, she should work on that, it''s a glaringly big weakness.''


    Soon after they appeared. Michael, Helen, and Beth were next to Damien and Scarlet, and when they were just starting to talk to Damien and Scarlet, Mrs. Quila started getting ready to speak.


    "Okay, before I start taking you to the Arena, if you don''t want to fight the beasts you can back out now. Anyone want to?"


    As no one said anything or stepped forward, she carried on speaking,"Okay, it''s good to know I don''t have any cowards this year at least...anyway, I''ll explain to you a little about Mutant beasts while we walk to the Arena," as she said this she started moving towards a corridor that had a card scanner on it.


    Mrs. Quila took out a red and purple card a swiped it across the scanner and with a beep, the door opened automatically and Mrs. Quila continued to walk while the class followed her.


    After she did this, she continued to speak,"Mutant beasts don''t have abilities like us Humans, they have incredibly strong bodies, most of them are even stronger than Warrior types in this category, the only people who can outdo them in Brute strength are people with Physiology class abilities," she informed her curious students with a gentle smile on her face before continuing.


    "But while they have strong bodies, they aren''t the brightest when they''re lower ranked, it''s their trade-off for such amazing close combat skills," she took a look at the students to see if they were still following before carrying on, "Speaking of ranks, Mutant Beasts are ranked with numbers, from 1 to 10. 1 to 5 are considered unranked beasts, they''re only at the strength of unranked Metahumans, like you guys. These unranked ones are what you''ll be going up against today but don''t think just because they''re considered unranked that they''re weak, even unranked beasts have a hierarchy of power. Rank 2 or maybe a rank 3 beast could be dispatched by you guys but each rank increase makes the beast even more dangerous. So don''t underestimate a rank 4 or a rank 5, they''re both just a small way away from being able to fight against a D-Rank Metahuman; Who, if I''m gonna be blunt, could wipe the floor with most of you in a battle."


    Hearing what she had to say most students started to get a little worried. But Damien simply nodded his head and thought that if they have strong bodies they will be incredibly useful to his training. He honestly couldn''t wait until he went up against the beasts.


    By the time Mrs. Quila had finished talking they arrived at a big black door that was at the end of the corridor they entered through the locked door at the start.


    She didn''t seem to care about how the students were getting cold feet over fighting Mutant beasts and opened the door with an indifferent expression on her face showing the students what the arena looked like.


    A massive colosseum was beyond the doors, as soon as the class entered, they heard them - The roars, the screeching, and all the hoarse howling.


    They heard these bone-chilling sounds and looked to where they were coming from only to see a cage full pitch black darkness. As humans, they had an instinctive fear towards the dark and as they heard these roars and all other sorts of noises coming out of the cage, they understood why they were instinctively scared of the dark.


    Of course, there were people who simply looked at the cage in interest or curiosity instead of fear. Damien was one of them and from what he felt from those roars, these mutant beasts would be quite a challenge.


    As he was thinking this, Mrs. Quila called out his name,"Damien, get in the arena, you''re going first."


    "Ah, okay Mrs. Quila!"


    In his excitement, he half-shouted his reply but soon he shook off his excitement and shot down from where they were and into the middle of the Colosseum.


    As soon as he got here, he turned around and saw Mrs. Quila with a smug smile on her face which made a shiver go down Damien''s back as he saw it. She started messing with a console and pressed some buttons, soon some gates opened up in the Colosseum. What came out, well, the many things that came out were enough to give Damien a shock.


    What came out were 3 beasts, one of them was a massive White Wolf, it had pure red eyes and seemed to be filled with rage and bloodlust. It stood at 1.9m tall and had a length of 3m, it was a behemoth. In it''s partially opened mouth Damien saw many dagger-shaped fangs and sharp teeth.


    Then Damien looked to it''s left and saw a massive Polar Bear with red stripes all over its body, unlike the wolf its eyes were black but they honestly looked more intimidating, they looked like black holes that nothing could escape. The bear was even bigger than the wolf, on it''s all fours it towered over both Damien and the wolf at 2.5m and had a length of about 4m. Its entire body was full of bulky muscle which was all tensed up as the bear was ready to kill.


    Then Damien looked to the right and saw what his real opponent was. It was a white tiger, it had black stripes in the traditional style of a tiger and its eyes were just like Damien''s; Bright yellow. Its height was the middle ground between the wolf and the bear as it stood at 2m tall but it was longer than the both of them at about 5m in length. Like the wolf, it had a body full of athletic muscle but weirdly enough it was by far the most intimidating one out of the 3.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.


    As he was looking at his three opponents he started joking about something.


    ''Why are they all white? Is this Mrs. Quila''s preference or something? Well, it''s either that or white-furred animals are the strongest in this world, who knows~''


    Mrs. Quila spoke to him, bringing him out of his mental joke fest,"Okay Damien, my disobedient student, you''re going up against a Rank 4 [Blood Ice Bear] known for there strength and defense, a peak Rank 4 [Alpha White Wolf] who are known for their ferocious attacks and speed, and finally the most dangerous of the bunch a Rank 5 [Tiger King]. I wish you good luck, Damien, don''t let me down!"


    ''I don''t know why but I think I somehow annoyed her. Ah, maybe it''s because I broke Troy''s arm even after she said not to...Yikes, women are scarily good at holding grudges...''


    As Damien got into his stance with his Bisento, the wolf shot at him with speed that even caught Damien off guard.


    Within about a second it had already reached where Damien was standing and went to bite his neck. Damien seeing this wildly smiled, his expression twisting with sadistic joy, and sidestepped out of the wolf and sent a kick at its neck. It seemed the wolf didn''t think that a human would dodge it and go for its own neck.


    ''Seems what Mrs. Quila said was true; Mutant beasts aren''t very bright at the lower ranks.''


    As soon as the kick connected the wolf let out a yelp as it''s head shot upwards from the force of the kick. Damien took control of the opening a swung his Bisento at the wolf''s body and knocked the wolf away, sending it into one of the Colosseum walls.


    Soon after this happened, Damien felt danger and jumped upwards and as he was in the air he saw the white bear charge through where he last was, seeing this Damien got a bit annoyed because he was having fun with the wolf, why''d you bear have to show up?


    As he thought about this he started dropping down towards where the bear had stopped its charge and as he was falling he started spinning his body and Bisento together, so the Bisento would pretty much act like a saw blade and cut through the bear with its heavyweight.


    As he was falling he started to add physical energy to his arms so his attack would pack more power once it finally hit the bear.


    But when it did hit the bear, something surprising happened.


    It barely cut the bear. The added physical energy had a big effect and nearly knocked the bear into the ground but the Bisento just couldn''t cut through its tough hide, most of the damage it did manage to do was the blunt force kind.


    But the bear thought otherwise compared to Damien''s disappointment - it was furious that some flimsy metal could even cut a centimeter into its hide let alone the inch that it did cut.


    In its rage, it swung its massive paw at Damien and because his Bisento was thoroughly stuck in the tough hide, he was hit and the blow sent flying. Right into the wall of the arena where there was now a Damien shaped hole in the stone wall.


    ''Well, that didn''t work out well,'' Damien tried to move but winced in pain, ''Ouch, ouch. Ow, That really fucking hurt. Gonna have to sharpen the Bisento blade up to a suitable level later. Until then, let''s do this the old-fashioned way.''


    Everyone was looking at the hole where Damien was and they were shocked, this was the guy who was considered King of the Newbloods and he was hit into a wall by a single swipe? Suddenly everyone was uneasy about going up against beasts like these.


    But soon, they were all surprised, especially Mrs. Quila.


    She originally had Damien go up against Mutant Beasts because she was afraid he was gonna get arrogant because of his recent winning spree and because she wanted to instill some humility in him.


    But when she saw Damien pull himself out of the hole he made like nothing had happened, she was shocked. He was just slapped by a massive mutant beast and all that happened to him was a little trickle of blood coming out of his mouth? Is he even a Human?!


    Damien slammed his Bisento''s blade into the ground, cracked his knuckles and started walking towards the bear and the wolf who seemed to be walking together.


    The tiger seemed to not find him worthy of its attention as it just lay at the back of the arena licking its paws. Damien activated a Concentrated Step and shot forward towards the wolf, thinking that it''d be best if he takes out the faster and smarter of the two first.


    Seeing his charge at it, the White Wolf growled and started running towards Damien. Damien smirked as he took back the comment about the wolf being ''smart''.


    ''Truly, what a dumb beast~''


    When they reached each other, Damien collected physical energy into his arm and dodged out of the way of the bite aimed at his head. Following the dodge then he got into one of the forms of the Blood Angel Style and sent a ruthless punch at the wolf''s throat. When he hit the throat, the wolf didn''t even have a chance to make a sound as Damien''s fist went straight through its throat and broke its neck.


    ''Those concentrated punches are very lethal, they seem to let me ignore the defenses of my opponents if the defense is weak enough. Kinda like those bullets I''ve seen on the internet, all that power focused on one small point causes some pretty serious damage...''


    As soon as this thought crossed his mind, he shot towards the bear and started to throw brutal heavy punches at its head and body, while dodging it''s swiping paws. But his punches weren''t having the effect he wanted, even when he used physical energy and concentrated his strength into a small point on his fist, he was barely hurting the bear.


    It seemed to have incredible blunt damage resistance and also slash resistance.


    ''Looks like I have to use that, don''t I? Well let''s look on the bright side, it''s gonna be fun at least.''


    As soon as he thought this, he stopped circulating his Devil Qi and undid the art that restrains his Devil Form.


    As soon as he did, he felt all the lit Devil Nodes in his body start to go into overtime and they started spewing out energy and going berserk.


    He felt his muscles bulk up a little and he felt the claws pierce through the skin on his fingertips. He felt his teeth get longer, sharper and more pointed, and he felt his heart start pumping blood like there was no tomorrow and suddenly, looking at what he was about to fight and feeling the changes in his body, he felt free and unrestrained.


    To those looking at him, they saw black and red vapor coming out of his body and then his body''s muscles seemed to get a little bigger. But the bigger changes were that they saw the claws that came out of his fingers, they were black and looked like small daggers at the end of each of his fingers. Black markings were all over his body, they looked similar to tiger stripes and after they appeared, his veins started bulging to the surface of his skin.


    But instead of them looking blue, they were bright red and seemed to be glowing. When they looked at his eyes, they saw that the usual inhuman looking eyes were now even more so, the Sclera was black and his eyes seemed like they were glowing and his pupils changed into slits.


    Towards the end of these changes Damien looked at the bear and the bear flinched back in fear, even the tiger had stopped lazying about and was now intently looking at Damien, as if looking at one of its own kind; A Mutant Beast.


    When Damien made eye contact with the bear he smiled and they saw another change, his teeth were all sharp and pointed, especially his canines, they looked just like a beast''s teeth.


    And then suddenly, while sporting a mad smile, he shot towards the bear at an unbelievable speed, so much so that the place where he took off was cracked and broken. He appeared in front of the bear and the bear swung at him with everything it could.


    But Damien simply lifted his arm and grabbed the paw.


    "Hahaha! What? You''re surprised, aren''t you? Stupid bear, in this form, I''m much stronger than you~"


    As he saw the confusion on the bears face from its paw being stopped by a small human, he spoke up and mocked the bear but towards the end of his sentence, he started to sound like an animal himself, his voice becoming incredibly hoarse and deep. It sent shivers of instinctive fear down the backs of everyone in the arena, whether they were beast or human.


    After his sentence, he simply tugged at the bear and with a little bit of effort he lifted the bear and swung it into the ground with a sickening crunch.


    "Hmm? Are you still alive? What a hardy bear!"


    After he said this he kept slamming it into the ground like it was nothing more than a common sack of potatoes. He even ripped at it with his claws a few times, taking chunks of flesh off of its body, relishing in the sadistic feeling of his claws tearing the flesh from the bear''s body.


    The 5 other students watching had pale faces and Michael and Helen looked like they were close to throwing up because of the gore. Mrs. Quila, however, looked at Damien with an interested smile on his face.


    Despite his friends looking at him in horror, Damien didn''t stop and soon took the bear''s arm off when he swung it into the ground too hard and it died. Damien looked about and saw that the area around him was covered in blood and then he saw the looks of fear on his friends'' faces.


    ''Ahh looks like I may have got a little excited and gotten carried away, like a tiny bit, maybe...''


    But surprisingly when he looked at Mrs. Quila''s face, a face that seemed to scream ''You Monster! I''m definitely gonna train you into an absolute power in the future!'' this kind of face scared Damien a little bit but he soon shook his head as he heard a low roar from his side. The Tiger had gotten up and was slowly walking towards him.


    "Ohhh seems like the big kitty wants to play now. Come on then, I''ll entertain you! Or is it you that''s going to entertain me?"


    As if it understood that Damien was mocking it, the Tiger let out a defiant roar and starting charging at Damien. Damien saw this and his eyes flashed with battle lust and a small bit of bloodlust, and he soon started charging towards the tiger as well.


    ''Let''s see who''s stronger! Me or a Rank 5 beast like you!''

 (Rewritten) Chapter 19 - The Conclusion of the Fight

    While Damien was charging at the tiger, he was constantly roaring and growling towards the tiger and the tiger returned them just as much.


    The primitive part that seemed to have taken over Damien took these growls and roars as a challenge and it just angered him even further and he sped up his charge.


    Those watching were watching in shock, looking at him with a mixture of surprise and curiosity. None of them understood why he had changed like he had but they had all guessed that he had a Physiology Class Ability.


    Mrs. Quila looked down at Damien, wondering why it didn''t say he had a Physiology Class Ability in his files but she soon came to the conclusion he was a late bloomer, but she decided to ask him after the fight.


    As soon as Damien and the Tiger''s charges met, there was a loud bang as the ground surrounding the place they had collided started to crack and fall apart from the pressure created. Damien had grabbed the Tiger''s throat with his hand and the Tiger had started to slash at Damien''s stomach in a frenzy.


    This didn''t seem to bother Damien, he only had a slight grimace upon his twisted face but it was soon wiped away as Damien concentrated and tightened his grip on the Tiger''s throat and lifted it as high as he could and started to slam his free arm into the Tiger''s midsection with fervor evening tearing at it with his own claws.


    "How''s it feel, Mr. Big Bad Tiger? Huh?! How''s it feel to have someone slash their claws at your stomach, you impudent beast?! Hahaha!"


    As Damien was slashing the Tiger''s stomach, he continued to roar things like that at the Tiger and the Tiger kept roaring out its answer in pain.


    Suddenly as Damien was about to go for another slash, the Tiger''s tail came out of nowhere and slapped Damien back a few meters, he only stopped because he slammed his claws into the ground. He tried to use his physical energy and pushed it into the floor to counteract his momentum and stop himself but for some reason, he just couldn''t control it as well as he could usually do it.


    ''Must be that the energy in my body is going berserk so it''s harder for me to grasp at energyinside my body and to then control it. How annoying, I''ll have to work on a way to fix this. Urgh...''


    Letting out an annoyed growl, Damien thought about his current options.


    Right now Damien could only summon the physical energy in his body and augment himself, he couldn''t concentrate his strength or disperse it into his attacks either but the biggest downside was that he couldn''t use the same amount as he usually could because the physical energy mixed a little bit with his Devil Qi everytime it entered his body and it drove the energy a bit berserk, making it harder to control.


    ''But that''s all I''ll need, my brute strength and a little bit of physical energy to spice things up a bit. Let''s see what this Big Cat can withstand~''


    As soon as he fully stopped Damien pushed off the ground and shot towards the Tiger. Damien''s claws were fully extended and he was even baring his teeth as he flew at the Tiger. When he reached the Tiger he started to slash and rip and tear at everything he could get his hands on.


    As he did this the Tiger started biting and clawing at Damien''s body and in a few minutes both of them looked like they''d just been drenched in a pool of blood but Damien didn''t look unhappy, in fact, he looked in a frenzied happiness fueled by his battle-lust. Like he was at his own birthday party getting gift after gift but because he was covered in blood it was a very chilling and eerie sight for those who saw it.


    The Tiger on the other hand just looked both angered and a bit scared. It had never met a human that it felt was like it''s own kin in terms of temperament before. ''Such wildness and primal brutality, it belongs to us beasts, so why does this Human have it?'' is all that went through this Tigers mind on repeat as it watched Damien.


    "Wow, you''ve really given me a good work out. How about you stop holding back, Mr. Big Cat?"


    The Tiger didn''t understand human speech but it could understand that Damien was asking for a bigger challenge. And a bigger challenge it would give. The Tiger let out a roar that seemed much stronger than it''s previous ones.


    The black stripes on its body turned as red as blood and the muscles under the white fur seemed to bulk up a bit while its yellow eyes turned red. But the biggest change was its aura that seemed to radiate a majesty and a bloodlust like no other.


    When these changes happened, Damien got even more excited and his aura started to increase as well. The aura told of hunger so voracious it would devour the heavens as an appetizer and it told of wrath that burnt so ferociously it turned the earth and skies into nothing but cinders. But regardless of what it told, it was utterly terrifying.


    As everyone in the class looked at Damien and felt his aura, they felt he wasn''t human.


    The way he looked, the aura he gave off, none of it was human even in the slightest and all but Michael backed away in fear. Michael didn''t move but from his pale face, you could see that he was fearful and the only thing stopping him from backing away was the thought that Damien was his friend.


    The only one who didn''t show fear at all was Mrs. Quila, she looked like she was looking at a rarest of rare gems and that rare gem had just so happened to fall onto her lap.


    ''I was going to push you to the top before, Damien, but now? I''m going to push you further than that, ohohoh how many training plans I have in store for you~''


    Earlier, she had thought he was just a raving psychopath with a little bit of potential that went to his head but now, while she still thought that he was a raving psychopath, his potential was massively above and beyond her expectations and she wished desperately to mold that potential.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    While he was looking at the Tiger, Damien shivered a little bit and this made him pull a confused expression but he soon shook it off and concentrated on his opponent.


    Damien felt that his power was growing. His body was changing and it was a fantastic change. He could feel his entire body improving, whether it was muscle, bone, organs or just his bodily systems in general, it was all getting better.


    ''The manual did say something like this would happen if I was pushed enough in my Devil Form. And it would seem my Limitless Body ability is helping increase the changes that are happening immensely. I''ve probably lit a few other Devil Nodes during this. Well, let''s continue pushing and see if I can get a massive increase in power!''


    This though was soon finished and Damien shot off towards the berserk Tiger and soon appeared in front of it.


    Another round of brutality was carried out as he and the Tiger slammed their limbs into each other. There was no skill, no technique, just pure primal ferocity where they continued to hit each other and ignored the damage on their bodies as if it wasn''t there.


    As this carried on, Damien''s body was starting to look worse but the Tiger was looking much more terrible. It was missing an eye, it''s entire underbelly was ripped up like a worn out shirt and it''s front legs were also scratched up and were pouring with blood like a mini waterfall.


    Damien, on the other hand, had scratches all around his chest and stomach. His fists and arms were pretty torn up from constantly coming into contact with the Tigers steel-like body and limbs, hell, even it''s hair was sharp and hard. But he had something the Tiger didn''t really have; A Healing Factor.


    While Mutant Beasts heal quicker than humans, Damien''s whole body has been enhanced time after time and that includes his ability to heal and recover, plus his Devil Qi''s inherent ability at nourishing and healing it means one thing - Damien is monstrous when it comes to healing.


    To the point where he can even heal in battle and despite it only being a slight heal, it''s still an advantage over his opponents.


    But ignoring its injuries the Tiger didn''t let up, in fact, it got even more ferocious and it even got to the point where it slashed across Damien''s chest and left an incredibly deep gash.


    After this gash, Damien was flung backward so far that he hit the Arena''s wall again. Soon after he hit the wall he coughed up some blood but he still got up onto his feet and started walking towards the beast. Walking became running and running became sprinting and finally, he reached the beast.


    But after that slash, his head was cleared up a little and this time he decided to use his martial art and kept dodging in between the swipes and bites and then he''d throw a ruthless counter when the chance arose and after doing this for another 2 minutes, the Tiger was completely worn out.


    So was Damien, he''d lost an incredible amount of blood and thus after the Tiger had shown its weakness and was swaying from side to side he stepped back a bit and fell on his ass. But then something happened and Damien scolded himself for his foolishness.


    The Tiger had tricked him. After what Mrs. Quila had said about lower ranks being less intelligent, Damien had underestimated the Tiger''s intelligence and didn''t expect it to have set a trap like that.


    ''This world has made me a bit soft. Gonna have to fix that at some point if I don''t die now.''


    The Tiger pounced onto Damien and lunged at his neck and tried to rip it out with its razor-sharp teeth. Damien barely caught it''s jaws a few inches away from his neck and some cold sweat went down his back. And there they were, Damien pushing the tiger away and the Tiger trying to rip his throat out.


    He looked at Mrs. Quila who he knew could help him but her indifferent, almost interested face, looked at Damien as if to tell him he could, and would, get himself out of this situation. A flash of annoyance went past his face.


    Not just at Mrs. Quila but at the Tiger, himself and at his own weakness.


    So when the Tiger started ripping at Damien''s body again and he started to lose even more blood, he wasn''t incredibly happy. He heard a desperate shout behind, a few actually, but right now he was getting really drowsy and he couldn''t do anything to hear them or save himself.


    As his eyelids got progressively heavier, Damien felt a sudden spark in his mind which seemed to cause a surge in his Devil Qi.


    ''I can''t die. I don''t want to die. I don''t have to die. You do. You can die. You.Have.To.Die.''


    As Damien was losing more and more blood and getting dizzier, the spark in his mind and the surge in his Devil Qi started a change in him.


    Well, to be more specific it was 2 changes.


    In his heart there was a pure blood red flame in it, it gave his heart a red aura and made the blood passing through his heart to burn like molten metal. Then in his stomach, his intestines and all the things related to the digestive system an orange flame started appearing in them and coating the walls of the organs in a thin layer of orange flames.


    After these changes happened, Damien was hit by 2 things; A Violent and Ravenous need for Power.


    Feeling this need and knowing instinctively what to do, he bit into the Tigers neck with his now hardened and sharpened teeth.


    Thick, bright red blood rushed into Damien''s mouth and he started greedily drinking down the delicious nectar.


    Once it knew what Damien was doing, the Tiger started thrashing about but Damien''s gripped was suddenly like a vice, renewed by some weird force which the Tiger couldn''t escape. Soon it died, just like that. But Damien didn''t stop, it was like he was drinking a milkshake and he was adamant on drinking every last drop of it. Once the blood ran dry, he pointed his hand towards where the Tiger''s heart should be and pierced through the Tiger''s chest with surprising ease and he soon grabbed the heart and ripped it out.


    And although the students were all bright people, they never could have guessed what Damien, a human in their eyes, would''ve done next; He ate it. He ate the beast''s heart like was the most delicious thing he''d ever had the pleasure of eating.


    Soon after he finished the heart, he stood up and let out an earth-shaking roar and he collapsed soon after, leaving a group of shocked and fearful students and one curious but excited teacher just standing there.


    The students snapped out of it quickly and, other than Troy, they ran towards where Damien was. When they reached him they saw that the black markings that looked like tiger stripes were switching between red, orange and black and they were growing bigger, it seemed to them that some kind of change was happening to Damien.


    Mrs. Quila soon rushed over when she saw the worry on their faces. She took one look at Damien and called the infirmary staff to come to pick him up and once they had, Mrs. Quila told the students that they would carry on with the Mutant beast battles and after they could go see Damien if they wanted.


    In the Infirmary~


    While Damien was lying on the infirmary bed covered in bandages he looked peaceful as the changes continued to happen in his body.


    By coincidence or just overall luck, he just then had lit his 15th Devil Node and because of this, blood came out of his pores and covered his body in a cocoon; A Blood Cocoon. A change was about to happen and if Damien was awake, he''d probably nervously chuckle and think about how to explain this.

 (Rewritten) Chapter 20 - Changes, Sins and in the Need of New Clothes

    After the students had been snapped out of their shock by Mrs. Quila, they were pretty much forced to do their own beast battles. However, to their happiness, they were incredibly lackluster compared to Damien''s fight.


    Everyone had soon finished their fights and they were let out of the arena to go do what they wanted.


    Beth, Helen, Michael, and Scarlet all decided that they were gonna go see Damien in the infirmary after they had finished the lesson, so they were all walking towards the infirmary.


    While doing so, they were walking they were all talking about what happened.


    "Did you guys see how Damien looked? It honestly scared me when I saw how feral he looked..."Michael said this and he spoke with a helpless expression on his face mainly because he didn''t want to feel fear towards one of his only friends but he couldn''t help it, it was like every cell in his body told him that Damien was dangerous and to run away as soon as he could.


    He felt even more guilty when Scarlet scolded him,"You were scared of him? I don''t think you were scared of him, Michael, you were scared of his aura, not him. Don''t make that mistake again, I don''t think Damien would feeltoo great if he knew you were scared of him."


    When Scarlet said this she said it in an oddly defensive way, unlike her usual neutral way of talking where she''d take neither side in anything when they talked about anything other than fighting.


    Helen chipped in to smooth it all out,"Heyhey, calm down. You''re both right, Damien was a bit scary but like Scarlet said, Michael, it was his aura. So if we''re talking about his aura, it was terrifying. I might ask him how he got an aura like that actually--"


    Before Helen could carry on speaking about how many questions she had for Damien, they saw Selena and Alice walk around the corner. When Selena saw them her eyes lit up in excitement but when she looked over the entire group for something he shoulders drooped in disappointment.


    They walked up to the group and Alice spoke up,"Where''s Damien? Is he training or something?"


    Hearing her question, they all grimaced.


    Seeing their grimaces, Alice and especially Selena, had a terrible feeling in their stomachs as they heard what Scarlet said,"He''s...He''s in the infirmary..."


    Selena felt like she had been struck by lightning and instantly her face darkened as she asked in a stern voice. Anyone with even the slightest bit of intelligence could hear the worry in her voice.


    "What happened? Did one of the higher years hurt him!?" at the thought of this happening, Selena''s voice raised in volume and was slowly filling with anger. Seeing Selena getting the wrong end of the stick, Scarlet quickly cleared things up for her


    "We were fighting against Mutant Beasts today and Damien had to fight two ranked 4 beasts and one rank 5 and he was badly injured in the fight. But he''s still alive, so don''t worry yourself too much, Selena."


    As soon as Selena heard Scarlet her anger was flushed away but instead, it was replaced, once again, by wave after wave of worry.


    "Come, let''s go to the infirmary!"


    Before Selena could get her words out, Alice said that and her voice was, well, oddly worried.


    This made Selena a bit cautious, she was wondering why Alice would worry so much about Damien but it was soon washed away by her worry for Damien''s well being and she soon agreed just like the rest of the group and they all rushed towards the infirmary.


    They soon reached it and entered and went towards Damien''s room but when they entered, they were all shocked and Selena even let out a short scream.


    This was until Alice spoke up,"Hmm? So he was a Physiology Class Ability user, I knew my blood sense wouldn''t be wrong. You guys don''t need to worry, he''s only going through an evolution of his physique. It makes me want to ask what physique he has, it seems slightly like mine but at the same time it seems so different and much more ancient..."


    As Alice kept speaking, all the others looked at the cocoon made out of blood that covered Damien''s body. It kept slightly pulsating but each pulse was incredibly strong and sounded like a massive war drum being used.


    "What is that thumping?"


    This was a question asked by both Helen and Selena. Alice thought for a moment before a look of surprise came over her face as she answered.


    "It seems to be his heart. Just sensing his vitality tells me that after this change his body is gonna be much stronger than before. What a monstrous physique."


    "Well, how long is he gonna be in that cocoon, Alice?"


    Scarlet posed the question that was on everyone''s minds, after hearing her question Alice''s face shifted to one of pondering and after a few minutes of pondering, she shrugged her shoulders.


    "I don''t know," she shook her head in a helpless manner, "I went through one of these, it''s how my body looks slightly more like a vampire and that took 4 hours to complete. So he could take the same time or it could take longer or it could even take less time."


    Hearing what Alice said, everyone was disappointed because they all had questions but 2 people were just disappointed because they wanted to see if Damien was fine but they couldn''t because they didn''t know when he would be awake.


    Soon after this, they all sat down in different areas of the room but they all just kept looking at the cocoon Damien was in and they''d occasionally chat but for the most part, they were all too worried.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    Time passed by and they all sat there, none of them cared for their lessons because they could miss Damien waking up.


    Once the school day had ended, someone opened the door and walked in, it was Mrs. Quila. She looked at all the people in the room and smiled,"You should all go back to your dorm rooms and get some rest. I''ll send someone to inform you if Damien wakes up, okay?"


    Everyone reluctantly nodded their heads and exited the room and went back to their own rooms to sleep.


    This only left Mrs.Quila in the room with Damien and she simply sat down on the chair next to his bed and took out a book and started to read.


    It seemed like she didn''t sleep at all because 6 hours had gone by and she''d hardly move apart from when she turned the pages of her book. The book had a weird name and if Damien saw it, he''d honestly be shocked. It was called ''Information on Devils''.


    Inside the cocoon Damien was conscious and he knew what was happening, he''d finally reached D-Rank Devil and his physique and devil cultivation were undergoing a change because of his awakened sins.


    As you''d expect, everything was improving at an incredible rate.


    Especially his heart and his digestive system. His digestive system could now digest food much, much quicker than before and now gave Damien the full nutrients of anything he eats while also allowing him to digest just about anything and get nutrients from it. His heart had practically evolved and had given Damien an absurd amount of vitality which would give him an even more monstrous healing factor.


    There were also some hidden abilities that he hadn''t figured out yet but overall his body was getting closer and closer to being the perfect vessel for Devil Cultivation but more importantly, for fighting and killing.


    An hour later the Blood Cocoon started to liquify and was absorbed back into Damien''s body and did a final enhancement on his body. As soon as this was finished his eyes snapped open and he shot up from his bed and he got a sudden bad feeling. He looked at himself in the mirror and what he saw shocked him.


    "Noooo! I got taller again! And I just sorted out my uniforms!"


    Yes, he had grown once more and he was now around 173cm tall and his muscles had bulked up enough to fill out his frame. Luckily he hadn''t changed anywhere else in terms of appearance which was a plus for him.


    Suddenly someone spoke behind him,"Well if it''s that much of a problem, I can get you a new uniform, Mr. Nether~"


    Damien nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard the familiar voice and he slowly turned around and greeted the person who just spoke.


    "Hello, Mrs. Quila...About that cocoon I was in--"


    "Don''t worry about that, we know that you have a physiology class ability as well. We just didn''t expect that you''d undergo the Blood Cocoon so soon."


    Hearing her answer after she cut him off, Damien felt like a massive weight had been lifted off his shoulders but soon it was thrown straight back on.


    "So, what Sin did you awaken Damien?"


    "Wai--What are you on about?"


    "You don''t have to play dumb with me Damien, I know you have a Devil Physiology and I also know they awaken a sin after their first major blood cocoon. So which one did you awaken? Or are you a dual sin holder?"


    "Uhh...Mrs. Quila, I--Wait, dual sin holder? Those are things?"


    "Yes, they''re incredibly rare, to the point where you probably wouldn''t find one in the already small population of Devil Physique users"


    ''So they have Devils in this world as well? Well, I guess they do, I should have had this suspicion as soon as I knew Physiology Class abilities were a thing. Oh well, might as well tell her what my sins are, she wouldn''t gain anything from hurting me just because I have two sins...right?''


    "My sins are Wrath and Gluttony, Miss."


    "Oooo what a lovely combination. Wrath and Gluttony are both quite good sins for battle."


    Damien looked at Mrs. Quila as she seemed to get progressively more excited as time went on and he spoke more about his sins but before they spoke any further, Mrs. Quila suddenly laughed.


    "Damien, why don''t you put some clothes on? While you are a very handsome young man, I don''t like younger boys, how about you wait until you''re a bit older?~"


    After he heard this, Damien was a bit stunned and realized that when he looked in the mirror he saw a naked version of himself but at the time it was overrun by his despair at his height. But now that he had been told about it by his teacher and a member of the opposite sex nonetheless, he a bit flustered but he kept it under control as he grabbed some underwear that was on a table next to him and put it on.


    After he''d stopped being an exhibitionist and his teacher had stopped laughing at him fumbling around for his clothes, he finally sat down and Mrs. Quila spoke to him.


    "I have a proposition for you, Damien."


    "What is it, Miss?"


    "Do you want to become my personal student, like a master-disciple relationship? If you didn''t know, I''m the principle of this academy and I also teach the Class one of the first years to see if there''s anyone with enough potential to be my personal student"


    "I don''t know Miss, it''s not like I really need the help in my training and please don''t take this as me looking down on you but what could you offer me?"


    Mrs. Quila was caught off guard by Damien''s question but she soon smiled and replied to him.


    "That''s a good question and I''ll tell you what I can offer you. I, as the principal, can offer you any kind of training resource that you want, whether it be the gravity room or something even more advanced, I can get you it or let you train in it. I also have a Devil Physique as well, so I could help you excavate your abilities even more. It sounds good does it not?"


    ''She does have a point about the training resources and this Devil Physique seems to be a separate thing from Devil Cultivation so I could use the help in finding out the limits of it. Plus having the principle as my Personal Teacher/Master would give me a great amount of influence and would stop useless pests from annoying me and my friends...The pros outweigh the cons, so I might as well accept, I''ve already told her about my sins so why not make sure she won''t hurt me?''


    All a battle maniac who loves getting stronger like Damien needed to hear was ''training resources'' and he was pretty much in. Anything else was pretty much fluff add on top of what seemed to be a brilliant deal for him.


    "Okay Mrs. Quila, I accept your offer. Please teach me well."


    Damien said this with a dashing smile on his face and bowed slightly after saying it.


    "Ohohoh wonderful! You''re truly going to be a wonderful disciple. Now, have some rest here and tomorrow we''ll make a training plan for you and help you get used to the new changes in your body. Goodbye, my dear student~"


    As she left and started walking down the corridor, Damien could''ve sworn that she kept laughing maniacally about how she''d finally gotten a disciple, it made him shiver at what was to come.


    Quickly he shook his head and collected his thoughts, he felt the power coursing through his body and he felt the Devil Qi constantly nourishing and strengthening his body. He estimated his strength at around 20 tonnes after reaching 15 devil nodes.


    ''Hm? Seems that the Blood Cocoon up my strength from the 18.5 tonnes it should''ve been after getting 15 devil nodes. Well, it''s welcomed, any increase in power is a power that can be used against my enemies~''


    As soon as he finished that he sat down on the floor and started doing the BMS exercise to get used to his new body''s strength and to learn to control it better.


    After he got to 70% completion he went to the infirmary bed and lay down and went to sleep, little did he know of the troubles that were coming his way.

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    I''ll be frank with you guys; Recently, I have not been enjoying doing anything related to this novel. I''ve tried to rewrite stuff but it simply hurts my brain to do it when the chapters are so...generic.


    A dude (Grayshade. A chill dude, so please don''t witch hunt him or anything) who recently recently (Not that recent but he is the latest person to review the story) reviewed my story and he hit the nail right on the head.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    Every bit of the story is a cliche and they''re even interesting ones.


    So, feel free to call me a lazy twat, rate this story with a 0.5 star rating or just review incredibly badly, but I''m dropping the novel.


    I know I''m a twat, don''t worry about me thinking otherwise, but I''m not gonna carry on doing something I don''t personally like and I wish for all of you to respect that decision.


    Sorry for letting you all down.