Its been 5 years since then
Our lovely MC has turned 15, the perfect age for academy
Now now, before we talk about academy, lets turn back time, and recount every important thing that has happen in the last 5 years.
We need to catch up with a lot of things
First, about the power of our beloved Altaris,
Back then, he can make a tendril, at the second step, to control the power.
But now, he can make construct, able to turn it into weapons and the like. And it seams our mc like to make chains, latch it to his weapon. Make him able to throw it, then retrieve it. Just like a certain character. Unique to be honest, at least to his world. Actually, the power itself, has more uses then become a support for certain weapon.
And now he needs to learn it. To make it dangerous, not just construct to support something, but to stand on its own.
And its connected to the elements, presumebly, air, water, fire, and earth
7 basic emotions connected to 7 different element
U can guess it, actually
Anger, of course, connected to fire. Their property, is heat, to burn something. To turn it to ash. Just like anger, raw power meant to destroy.
Sadness, connected to water. Ever changing. More mass then air, harder to control. And able to take shape. They usually hurting by drowning. Just like a deep sadness, they drown whatever wields, it. Especially grieve.
Then happiness, connected to air. Tricky to use, mainly for support. It can hurt, of course, like wind blade, but soo hard to control might as well not use it. Like imagine, you need to keep the construct exist, give it shape, but invisible enough your enemy can't see it, that means u also can't see it. Than, it needs to be fast. Cause we not supposed to slow down wind. After all, every element has their own law.
Surprise, with light. and can stem to lightning, according to the users will. Fast, come as they goes, very hard to control. Only 12 recorded demons who can use surprise as they main source of power, cause it's unpredictability. If u predict it, you can't be surprise by it.
For contempt, they connected with ground, or soil. Not sure why, maybe cause being contempt, is to disregard of something. Like soil, they don't care what mortals are doing on top of them. It also means disobedience, that's why wielding earth, require force.
Now disgust, connected to poison, or any substance that cause harm by touch. It's basically repulsiveness. Surprisingly easy to use. The catch, almost useless in combat, other then making the enemy sick, corrosion is an option, but need more control to truly make use of it. Mind you, making a cloud of poison, is not as easy as you think.
The last, fear, that of course, tide to darkness. According to fact, most demons first element, the one they summon at 4 years of age, their first magic, is darkness. I mean, a child, is basically fear of everything. Even their own father sometimes. The problem is, dark element, even if its the most powerful, always lose with age.
No one, i mean not even once, a demon can wield darkness after their 21st birthday.
One tried, very strong and promising demon, sadly, he killed himself out of fear of tomorrow.
Like they say.
The oldest strongest emotion is fear, and the oldest strongest fear is the fear of the unknown.
And do you know what happens tomorrow ?, no one knew, hence the reason of his suicide.
Brutal
So to make it clear, in order to wield their magic, the demons need to.
Spawn it > Make construct > Give them element > Use it
At least for most demon, and again, it's tide to race. Some species do it differently. We'll get in to that later.
Next, lets talk about Altaris love journey.
It's surprisingly well. Too fast even.
Altaris almost drown by it.
Contrary to his expection, Violet love is simply.... too heavy.
Even more after she awaken her primal power, and desire.
Poor guy never catch a break.
At first, she comes once a month. Small talk, over a tea. More playing on the field.
After a year, she want more, so two times a weak. She talk more, about everything, heck she even learn to cook, for him. Mind you, she is a noble, her place is not the kitchen.
3rd year, once a weak. She even stayed for 2 days. Her love is growing, his love is growing. They not yet married, but act like newly wed. They talk about a lot of things, some for joking, some teasing, and some business. At this point she knows Altair more then her own father.
The 4th years. The big year. The year of her ascension. Finally, she understand her origin. And finally, she understand everything.
Why she betrothed to Altaris, why her father and mother despise other noble, why he is stronger then kids his age, and why he have a power that she needs to keep a secret.
She is a demon, and a vampire at that.
Ok pause, lets talk about vampire,
They are.....not as similar as you think.
They don't need blood to live, they don't afraid the sun, They don't create ghouls by biting a non virgin human. And they don't fear either garlic or cross.
And no bats transformation.
I only called them vampire, because they have fangs yes. And also is easier to imagine.
Creating a whole new race with a whole new names and perks is too hard for my brain.
Soo lets just called them vampire.
By the way, Altaris race is pure demon, also known as emotion demon.
Back to Vampire
I Already said before, the power of emotion, is tide to their race, their species.
And the vampire, is kinda special.
Instead of channeling outwards, they channel it inwards.
What it meant ?
They change their physical condition according to their emotional mastery.
Anger make them stronger, Surprise make them faster, Happiness makes them more flexible, Sadness lower their presence, Disgust makes them more deadly, Contempt make them durable, and fear allowed them to enter ones shadow.
They basically build for combat and assassination.
The other perks, they have fangs, means they drink blood.
The blood, is not for substance, they don't need it to live. The blood, is mainly for connection.
To enhance the input of their buffs, a one way power up.
Every time the one they bit feels something, it transfer to them. Enhancing their buffs, they become stronger.
The burden, Heck they don't feel it. The host is the one who withstand it.
Kinda parasitic.
It has it's perks tho, the connection, while a burden, also forcibly enhance the host mental capacity, making them stronger to wield harder emotion, like disgust, or even surprise.
Every thing has it plus and its minus, balance, as all thing should be.