In front of the Eternal Flame altar in Sun Village.
After hearing Kenichi's words, Minerva's face turned extremely ugly.
Minerva was naturally very clear about Kenichi's strength.
Now, her magic couldn't be cast again.
If Kenichi didn't let her leave, it would be very difficult for her to get away.
However, Minerva wasn't someone who gave up easily either.
"Don't look down on me!"
Minerva looked at Kenichi, snarled a rebuke, and then an incredibly powerful magical power erupted from around her.
Bzzzt-
At that moment, a violent wave of air swept out from Minerva.
Simultaneously, the ground beneath her feet, as if struck by a tremendous force, instantly caved in.
"Such powerful magical power!"
Carla looked at Minerva, covered in a pale purple light, and spoke with shock.
Although Minerva's Spatial Magic couldn't be used due to the influence of Kenichi's Rules of the Area, her immense magical power still remained.
After erupting with her magical power, Minerva moved her feet, and her body shot forward violently.
After reaching the highest point in her jump, her entire body, like a tilted spear, directly kicked down towards Kenichi below.
Watching Minerva's desperate counterattack, Kenichi stood still without moving.
However, before Minerva could get close to Kenichi, Doriate, who was being controlled by Kenichi, suddenly rushed over and blocked the way in front of Kenichi.
Then, he used his body to firmly take Minerva's kick.
Boom-
Accompanied by a loud impact sound, Minerva's kick landed on Doriate's body.
Under the impact of the powerful force, Doriate's body was pushed back several steps.
Minerva's figure, however, flipped 360 degrees in the air and finally landed steadily.
"Doriate, what are you doing?!"
Seeing Doriate actually helping Kenichi, Minerva shouted angrily.
"My body... is out of my control!"
Doriate said, struggling.
Although he tried very hard to control his body, no matter how he struggled, he couldn't move an inch.
Bzzzt-
Suddenly, the strange black energy rose around Doriate again.
"This is…"
Seeing this black energy on Doriate, Minerva's face abruptly changed.
She knew Doriate was about to use his curse.
Minerva didn't hesitate, immediately retreating away from Doriate.
But just as Minerva turned around, her body began to shrink rapidly at a visible rate.
Soon, Minerva, like Gray before her, turned into a child.
"Dammit!"
The child-sized Minerva looked at her small body and clicked her tongue gravely.
While Minerva turned into a child, the system's mechanical prompt also sounded in Kenichi's mind.
[Ding, congratulations Host, obtained Curse: Law of Retrogression attribute!]
Hearing this sudden system prompt, Kenichi remained calm.
The abilities of human mages are Magic.
The abilities of dragons are Dragon Force.
And the abilities of demons are Curses.
Back when Kenichi obtained Carla's Foresight Ability, he knew the system could drop all ability attributes.
Naturally, this included the Curse attributes of demons.
So now, the system dropping a Curse attribute didn't surprise him at all.
[Host, would you like to collect the Law of Retrogression attribute?]
'Collect!'
Kenichi didn't hesitate and immediately answered the system.
With Kenichi's command, the Law of Retrogression attribute near Doriate transformed into a golden tadpole rune and converged directly towards Kenichi.
After that golden attribute merged into Kenichi's body, a Curse attribute column was added to the virtual screen in front of Kenichi.
And on that Curse attribute column were the words [Law of Retrogression].
'This counts as the first Curse attribute, right?!'
Kenichi looked at the [Law of Retrogression] attribute and thought to himself.
Among the Nine Demon Gates of Tartaros, aside from Silver, each demon possesses one Curse.
Kyoka's Enhancement allows her to grow stronger every second.
Seilah's Macro can command all humans.
Of course, 'all humans' here actually refers to people much weaker than the caster.
In the original work, when the soldiers of the Alvarez Empire invaded Magnolia Town, Mirajane Seilah used Macro to put those soldiers to sleep.
Naturally, the Curses possessed by the other members of the Nine Demon Gates are also not weak.
But the ones that truly interest Kenichi are this Enhancement and Macro.
'Next time I go to Tartaros, I'll collect the attributes for these two Curses as well!'
Just as Kenichi was thinking this, Natsu over there, seeing Doriate turn Minerva into a child, said in surprise: "What's going on? Infighting?"
Hearing Natsu, Gray looked at Kenichi, who had his palm outstretched, and said: "Obviously not. Kenichi is controlling that guy."
"Huh? Magic that can even control people?"
Natsu looked at Kenichi.
"This guy isn't human!"
Kenichi said to Natsu, then slightly moved his hand. The controlled Doriate over there let out a roar towards the sky.
Then, under the watchful eyes of Natsu, Gray, and the others, Doriate's body began to swell.
Soon, Doriate transformed from his human form into a demon covered in fangs.
"This is... a demon!"
Looking at Doriate transformed into a demon, Erza, Wendy, and the others were all shocked.
Especially Gray, whose face was extremely grim.
"A human turned into a demon?!"
"What in the world is going on?"
Doriate, seeing that he had uncontrollably turned into a demon, looked at Kenichi, Erza, and the others with venom and roared: "This is the entrance to hell! The gates of the underworld have opened! All of you will..."
However, before Doriate could finish his sentence, a wisp of crimson-red flame swept out from Kenichi's palm and landed on Doriate's body.
Immediately, Doriate's massive body turned to ashes in an instant.
After Doriate's death, Minerva, who had been turned into a child by the Law of Retrogression, quickly recovered.
But before Minerva could make her next move, Kenichi activated the Human Subordination Magic attribute, directly took control of Minerva, and stored her in a different dimension.