I examined the new gear on my body forged from my now fallen enemy. 'Just how the hell did I do that? One minute, I was fighting a losing battle. The next, I used its own energy against it…' I thought, though the fact remained… I really was a cambion. Humans couldn't harness demonic energy. The fact that I was literally wearing A-class demon armor and used the energy from it- without being affected in any negative way- proved that.
I looked at the greatsword in my hand before suddenly willing it to disappear. As if disintegrating, black flames slowly burned a trail over the sword, slowly turning it to nothing. Even if it was gone from my hands now, I could still feel its presence inside my body. I turned my attention to the A-class demon's disintegrating body, revealing a sphere of black energy even more pitch black than it's own armor. Its core, I was guessing, or to be more precise, its soul. It had nowhere to go and it was currently dormant, meaning it would stay until the soul either rotted away, was absorbed, or brought back to hell.
I had never gotten the chance to examine a demon soul up close before, despite the many demons I killed. Demons would usually harvest the souls and deliver them back to hell before I had the chance. Yet, here I was now, alone, with the chance to see one up close. I carefully walked toward the ball of energy and leaned my head toward it, looking at it so close up it made me feel as if I was staring into a void.
I decided to try something risky, and poked at the sphere. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt me. It simply wobbled from the touch. I grabbed the sphere, now curious about it, holding it in my hand, then squeezed the ball-like core. It was like a rubber bouncing ball, or that's what it felt like. Black energy sparked around it before it suddenly started to form, interest storming in my mind at how flexibly it began to shape. I squeezed on it harder as it started to make a pole shape.
I grabbed the other end of the pole, stretched it, the length of it increasing and pulled downwards at the end of it, making a curved shape. The energy around it suddenly ripped violently from the shape, leaving a pitch black battleaxe in its place. The pole of the battleaxe was a dark grey with crimson lettering across it in a language I could not understand, and the blade was simply pitch black with a shadow-like energy blade at the bottom. As I looked at the grey lettering on the pole, it suddenly began to slowly change into english lettering. When the lettering was fully translated, it all spelled this name, Kagrasia. This was apparently the name of the demon I had slain. I didn't understand. First, I absorb energy and turn it into armor, and the next, I have turned a demon's soul… into a soul weapon. I remembered the soul weapon Karrian, the story of how a man defeated the extremely evil being it once was, and formed it into that weapon. It was just like what I did just now, wasn't it?
I suddenly couldn't help but smile as my arms trembled with Kagrasia still in my hands. Not with fear, but with happiness. Being a cambion was starting to feel more like a blessing than a curse. If I could do this, I might just have a chance of destroying the group that destroyed my life. It was today that I had decided I would travel to the nearest village, train myself, kill more demons and collect more soul weapons… but most of all, I would do everything in my power to annihilate the group that forever ruined my life.
It had been a few hours since I set my goal, and I was now headed to Kagura village. It was one of the villages closest to mine, and, also, the most trustworthy considering old man Kaira was friends with the chief of the village. As I walked, a horde of demons suddenly appeared all around me. All were B through C-classes. Most of them were B-ranks, however; the usual kind I'd face throughout the village. I smirked a little. After converting the soul of the demon I faced earlier, I had begun to train in: physical power, magic power, speed; there was not one thing I dared to leave out of place in my training.
During that time, I'm sure I had become much stronger. Now was the time to test my theory, and maybe gain another one of those soul weapons if I could. I planned on even converting the soul of a C-class demon. It was obvious that it wouldn't be as useful as a B or an A-class would be, but simply using only those types would just make me grow complacent, and that was one thing I wanted to avoid.
I summoned a katana made out of flames as one of the C-classes charged at me right on schedule. With a swift, hard slash, I easily cut through their body, slicing it in half. Unfortunately, this in turn caused the core to disappear. I cursed myself, realizing I would have to try and not go overkill on these freaks. More C-classes charged at me once again. I teleported into the middle of the group, then with a fast rotation of my body, I cut every demon around me, the demon bodies disintegrating as each one was skewered by my blade.
Luckily, one of the souls of the C-class demons had survived; on the other hand, a B-class had snuck up behind me, brandishing a dark red long sword, slashing at me hard with it. I easily blocked, then knocked it back with a horizontal slash. I gritted my teeth as I watched a squadron of C-classes go to collect one the souls of the other C-classes I had disposed of. Almost possessively, I appeared instantly above them with bloodlust in my eyes, pointing my sword of hellfire at them before firing off an inferno of green flames forth from it. The blast burned them all to a crisp when it crashed into them. The C-class soul had surprisingly survived the blast, despite being in such close range of my hellfire. I could definitely tell this C-class weapon might be more useful than I thought.
As I landed to the ground gracefully, I gripped the C-class demon core, forming the hilt before pressing my fingers on a part of it and stretching it out into a blade shape. As the energy ripped away from the now shapen core, a chartreuse yellow uchigatana blade mixed with silvery designs on it was shown, sparking with yellow electricity around it.
The expression of the B-class that had attacked me earlier twisted with rage, red energy exploding around it's body, and it rushed towards me angrily. I met the slash with the C-class weapon in my hand, the air rippling from the force. The name of it, Rados. I then knocked the demon back again, teleporting, appearing behind it and slashed downward with my blade, releasing a gigantic ark of yellow energy at it, completely destroying its body.
I began to walk toward the rest of the group, electricity dancing around me. My clothes, eye color and even my hair become yellow, as well as gauntlets and greaves with small Citrine colored gems embedded in them. They were Soul Gems, similar to the kind Karrian had, and only a unique soul could actually have soul gems. I had definitely made the right choice when picking this C-class weapon.
I suddenly disappeared in a flash of energy. The demons looked around frantically before I suddenly rushed at them from a random spot. One of the other B-class demons quickly teleported to my area and parried my strike, but not for long. With extreme speed, my sword covered with fierce electricity, I slashed at the demon in various parts of their body, blood gushing out of multiple areas of them as they fell to a knee.
I pointed my sword right in the demon's face and fired off a lightning bolt at it at point blank, instantly sending it flying and crashing through a large multitude of trees. The remaining C-classes pointed their weapons at me, firing flames, water and other hellish versions of the elements toward me. I deflected the flames with Rados and cut through the water, then ran up a large wall of earth as it tried to block my way, leaping in the air, only for multiple B-classes to appear in the air, their wings drawn. They rushed down towards me with their weapons.
I spun in the air at high speed, appearing as a spinning wheel of lightning, slicing through each demon I rushed at. One of the last demons was a C-class; however, this one had power overflowing its body, the energy beginning to engulf its body as it thrashed around. Admiral blue flames suddenly exploded from it, completely obscuring its body from view and exploded around it, rising into the air fiercely.
I smirked. This was just the B-class I needed, but the scene before me also shocked me. I had never seen a demon ascend before, and none of the others ever showed this much raw power. I could tell it was easily above them in power now. A blade shape suddenly had vaguely appeared through the flames and slashed at them, tearing through them.
The demon, now having a humanoid appearance, appeared, its skin a dark grey. It had cold, icy blue eyes, sleek cobalt blue armor with black fur laced over it and its royal blue mantle. As for the weapon, it was a large tsurugi sword. The blue of the blade was so dark that it almost could be seen as black, and the hilt had white stripes around it. I grinned as I entered my battle stance, before, I would've been more cautious and hesitant to enter a battle like this, but now, with my newfound strength, this should be fun.