Evolution was an act of heavenly defiance. It was not so simply achieved; it does not happen overnight nor does it happen without a warning.

It's a hard-fought process that can only be achieved by reaching one's limits.

The chances of evolution only appear when the Life Essence and level of a daemon reach their highest point. When it reaches that single point, the daemon in question would grow stronger and if met with some special circumstances, their path to evolution would be going to be much different than most.

However, what if the heavens themselves were besides a daemon, telling it to evolve and reach its peak potential. What if that was the case? Its fate was going to be at the top, and Lilith now sat in front of her current dwelling with her eyes closed.

She was mediating, and every single one of the LVL 40 Ogres, and Pixies of the village gathered to meditate under the moon with the Priestess.

The Ogres who have complete faith in their Priestess meditated like it was normal. The Pixies however were still skeptical, because unlike the Ogres, they had yet to see the mystical power of evolution the Priestess supposedly has.

But the proof was Killa so they believed what she claimed, to a point of course. The Pixies were currently holding blind fate on Lilith.

Lilith had her eyes closed and seemingly at peace without anything capable of disturbing her meditation. But not everything is as it seems.

'Alpha, have you completed the Evolutionary Tracing?'

[Yeah, I got it…pick your poison, I'll be modifying your body to match it.]

'Are you sure these are the strongest forms I can handle?'

[The ones in your matrix right now are one of the strongest daemons, and their bloodline is thick and strong so don't worry about it.]

—Two Horns—

Tri Horns

Tri Horn Apostle

Nature's Master

Elemental

Spirit Lord

—Thunder Clap Leopard—

Heavenly Lightning Treader

Tribulation Leopard

Demonic King Leopard

—Nightmare Salamander—

Cursed Purgatory Dragon

Lilith was ready to compliment Alpha for her work, but, something caught her attention.

'Cursed, really? You can't find anything that is not cursed? Didn't I want to avoid the Cursed Ancient Dragon before? How come there's something like this appearing out of nowhere?'

[Hey, that's not my fault. The Nightmare Dragonkin and the Cursed Ancient Dragonkin is the descendants of this one, so, in all truthfulness, this is what you'll get no matter what form you picked.]

Lilith sighed, she couldn't believe that Alpha was doing her like this, it was undesirable to have shit like this happen to her, but she can only accept it after cursing fate and herself for quite some time.

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She's getting more aggravated the more she retained her meditation pose. It was kind of ironic. But when Lilith looked at it in other angles, the Cursed form may just hold a power that may prove fatal in the future, so, why not?

'It will turn my attributes from Poison to [Heaven's Bane], and my Dark Attribute to [Night Ruler] so, why not? And it's not like I have a choice anyway.'

With these thoughts emerging one after the other, it began her pursuit of the strongest evolutionary form she could find.

Starting with the Two Horns, where a lot of choices were presented, a lot of good perks showed. From the Elemental side of things that promised to let her reach S-tier in elements, to Spirit Lord who will let her become a Spirit Emperor in the future.

All of these were good, but they have their drawbacks.

First, the Elemental was useless because S-tier was basically useless if she can evolve her elements. And Spirits is not what she wish to rule, Spirits are just considered as pseudo-daemon, a daemon will not follow a Spirit, an advisor maybe, but not an Empress.

So, she picked the Ogre Variant Tri Horn Apostle. The Tri Horn Apostle was a variant of Tri Horn which was also another variant for the Ogre race. She picked the most confusing evolution tree and she was satisfied with them.

[Tri Horn Apostle: The personification of Mana, only three times has it appeared in this Universe and three times it ruled with its mana manipulation abilities and superior intellect. The Tri Horn Apostle is the result of the Tri-Horn undergoing mutation because of its over abundance of Mana.]

And as for the perks of choosing Tri Horn Apostle, her elements would undergo a massive change as they will also evolve. She is still unsure what they will turn into, but, she is sure that they will come out stronger than before. Also, the MAG stat will have +200 and some more other perks.

'This is the first time I feel like actually have a cheat.'

Lilith has a cheat on evolution, yes, but it was too much of a miser and doesn't let her evolve to the strongest form in a single jump and even fail to make her stronger than her followers. The attributes of her followers were amazingly overpowered.

Sylva can control space, teleport around, her wind manipulation was top-notched and Dhampy's manipulation of the dead was something to behold. If those two tried, they could do almost anything.

Lilith could only sigh.

As for the Thunder Clap Leopard, she chose Tribulation Leopard for simple reasons of its Water and Lightning attributes gaining a new form. Lilith looked at her evolutions and thought one thing…

[Tribulation Leopard: It is said to be the envoy of Heaven's Wrath; when it moves Storm follows, and when it is angered the land is lacerated.]

[Cursed Purgatory Dragon: The spawn of the sealed Purgatory Emperor Dragon which had gone extinct several millions of years ago. The Cursed Purgatory Dragons are True Dragons that can only reach their highest potential in means lost in time. They were born after the Purgatory Emperor Dragon laid an egg and told them to propagate.]

'Everything is changing, an evolution to all, hehehe.'

With Lilith finishing her pick of evolution, Lilith finally opened the path to a higher state of being.

[Two Horns –> Tri Horn Apostle, Thunder Clap Leopard –> Tribulation Leopard, Nightmare Dragonkin –> Cursed Purgatory Dragon…initializing, confirmed…evolution shall now commence…you have three vouchers for quick evolution from the Goddess, do you want to use it? Use it, else it will turn useless.]

'Yes, use it.'

Thus, began her transformation. Lilith's body glowed a mysterious hue of blue to orange, and as Lilith's body was wrapped in these colors, those who had been meditating was astounded.

"It is starting!"

"What? The Priestess is Evolving?"

Many couldn't believe what they were seeing. Right in front of them was the miracle of the world. And as Lilith's body began to change, as the horns became three instead of two, as the yellow fur changed to azure, and as the Black Dragon stayed as the Black Dragon, Lilith's form changed quickly.

The light dissipated and Lilith appeared in front of everyone, she was no longer who she was before. She slowly stood up, starting from the Tri Horn Apostle everything about her had changed and that sight had the jaws of many turn slack.

Her head now bore three horns all glowing with an ethereal glimmer under the moon's luster. The kimono remained, yet its floral design changed to somewhat golden.

Her presence affected her surrounding, the mana around her became even more intimate than before. But what's more important was that her previously cut feature became even more emphasized after her skin became softer and smoother.

"Heh, this is quite good. Now, it is you guys' turn. But first, I must give you names, any problem with that?" she didn't mind showing them some rough side from time to time, especially when she's the one showing off.

"None, Priestess." of course no one complained else their wish for evolution gets stomped!

Other than that, Lilith just seemed like a smug child showing off to others so the other daemons found her grin endearing.

Everyone was drawn to Lilith and as she finished naming them and finished the process of evolution, the time was still only midnight.

And as midnight struck, Lilith stepped out of the village, their destination, the Section 5.

"It is time to hunt some humans."

An army of epic-tier daemons moved.