Chapter 2
“Is there anything you want princess?”
“I want books.” I’m currently talking with my father in my room. He visits me every day despite of his busy schedule and I’ve been seeing Alexa’s enraged form every day. It’s actually funny.
“Is there anything you want aside from books?” Actually I had been requesting for books so half of my room is full of books already. Surprisingly, I can understand the writings in the books in this world. Lately, I’ve been reading books about magic. There are demons in this world so magic must exist. So far I found some basic spells which I can perform easily. Sharle and Chloe know how to do some of the spells in the book so I asked them to teach me. Mana is needed to use magic but at the same time, depleting your mana is also bad. A few days ago, I tried to use a spell which is not recommended for me. My mana was burned out and I was out for almost two days. According to Sharle, father was panicking when the news of me fainting reached him.
“Aside from books?” I think father is scared of me doing things from the books I read. I can’t blame him because when you run out of mana, you will either die or you will be in a coma. In my case, I was lucky that I didn’t die or fall into a coma. Hmmm, aside from books? I think I want a sword. Yeah definitely a sword.
“I want a sword.” Sweat started to cover father’s face. He looked away and I heard him mumble ‘a sword? Why does my princess want dangerous things?’
“Uhm, anything els-“Before he could even finish what he’s saying, I immediately cut him off.
“No. I want a sword and that’s final.” I looked away with a ‘hmmp!’
“Ok! Ok! Daddy will buy you one! I’ll buy you one ok?” Yes! If I remember, I have a book here about sword techniques. Maybe I’ll start reading that one.
“She’s coming.” My father looked at the door. I heard heavy footsteps approaching here. I guess Alexa’s here to get my father who ran from work again.
“Princess, daddy will come back later. For now I need to escape from the demon that’s going to take me.” He gave me a kiss on my forehead and he jumped out of the window in my room. I’m not surprised that he jumped out of the window. He always does that when he feels Alexa’s coming. In fact he does that every day.
“A-Alexa?! How did you know? Hiiiii! Someone help me! Hel-“ *Sigh* My father is an idiot. Of course Alexa will know if you keep doing it. The ground shook for a moment and after that, I looked at the window only to see my unconscious father being dragged away by Alexa. Now back to business. I grabbed a book and started reading it.
According to the books I’ve read previously, there are eight elements. Water, earth, fire, wind, thunder, light, darkness and void magic. Void magic is the most rare of all the elements because beings who has this magic are considered as ‘Gods’ because void magic is the most powerful of all. Void magic has the power to erase someone’s existence or kill someone without leaving any injury; In other words, targeting someone’s soul. I wonder what element my father has. I haven’t seen him fight or use a spell. I’m sure he’s strong because he’s a demon king.
A human can normally have one element but they can have two to three elements if they’re gifted. Lower class demons have one to two elements while mid-class demons can have three to four elements and lastly, demon kings have five to six elements. There’s even a hero among the humans who had seven elements but that was long ago. I also read how a demon becomes a demon king. Some are born as demon kings but some are not. For those who are not a demon king, they need to kill over one hundred thousand demons or humans. After reading the book, I grabbed another one.
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“True demon king?” A rank higher than a demon king or is it the same? A demon king who have killed five demon kings will obtain one of the seven deadly sins and will ascend as a true demon king.
“Sharle, father is not the only demon king is he?”
“Yes. There are currently twenty four demon kings.” Twenty four? One can easily become a true demon king with that number. Nevermind that. If there are other demon kings, then this means I’m not safe. The other demon kings may use me to kill my father. I’m not even a demon or am I? I don’t even know my age.
“How will you know if someone is a demon?”
“You can’t really know that. We demons are a professional when it comes to deceiving. Milady, do I look like a demon?” Hmmm, sharle looks like a human to be honest.
“No.” Even chloe looks like a human.
“But if I do this” Black aura suddenly appeared around Sharle and she started to transform. Two horns came out of her head, her gray eyes became black, a silver gauntlet appeared on both of her hands, and her feet also changed more like it grew. Her boobs didn’t change- wait why am I saying this? The maid name Sharle changed to a badass demon.
“I look like a demon now right? This is called demonification. Demonification lets a demon release all of their power but demonification consumes a lot of mana so demons only activate it when in combat. Turning off demonification decreases a lot of your power but it also saves mana.” Sharle turned back to her human form. So you can’t know if someone’s a demon. Now I’m back to square one.
“One more thing milady, demons start as a human. After reaching ten years old, one will undergo their first demonification to know what rank of demon they are. I think that’s the information you wanted to know.” Ten years old? So I still have a chance? Being human is not bad but I’m the daughter of a demon king so I need to be a demon. Well I have to wait since I don’t know my age.
“Thank you Sharle.” I continued reading the book. I need to know things about this world as much as possible.
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Sharle’s POV
“Hey chloe. Mordred is really a smart kid. When I was at her age I would play around and I wouldn’t even touch books.” She even casted a tier 2 fire magic a few days ago. She learns too fast.
“I know. Besides, you felt it right?” Chloe replied.
“Yeah if she’s a demon, she will be ranked higher than a mid-class demon. Her mana pool is too large. The tier 2 fire magic [Firestorm] she casted was more powerful than it was supposed to be. She didn’t faint because her mana is not enough. The spell was too powerful that it knocked her out. That’s why we have to stop her from casting spells again.” Chloe nodded.
“That’s our job. We don’t want to see our lord crying again do we? He hasn’t been this energetic but when he found her, our lord has started smiling a lot.” Yeah. We need to protect our lord and her daughter like how he protected us.
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My father didn’t visit me today. Maybe Alexa did something to make him do his work. Sharle went out because she was tasked to buy something so Chloe is the only one with me. I’ve read almost half of the books father gave me so maybe I’ll ask for more later. I’ll read later. Right now I want to go out.
“Uhm, Chloe can I go out of the castle?” I want to see and explore outside.
“I’ll ask your father about it. Please wait here milady.” Chloe went out. I guess I have to wait. I don’t want to cause trouble after all. While waiting, I grabbed some books.
“Princess~!” I heard my father and my door suddenly flew. What the hell?! The door was only centimetres away from me. I felt my chair getting wet.
“Daddy is here~ Chloe said you want to go out? Daddy will come with you.” That’s good but I think I need a change of clothes first. After changing my dress, we went out. I’m riding again on my father’s shoulder. First, we went to the garden. I saw some familiar plants like the rose and I saw some horrifying plants. Some plants here are alive. Not just alive, they freaking eat meat. After exploring the garden, we went to the training area.
“How rare of milord to come here.” A man wearing a full black armor suddenly spoke. He looks so cool.
“Hey pladios. I’m just taking a stroll with my daughter.” So his name is Pladios. I need to memorize that. Pladios looked at me.
“Hi there cutie!” He took off his helmet and this guy is freaking handsome. Black hair and crimson eyes. Why are people here born with handsome faces? In my previous life I wasn’t even good looking but I’m not ugly either. I’m in the middle of handsome and ugly but these guys are completely different.
“Uhm, hello.” My father and Pladios talked for a while and then we proceeded in our journey. We ate a lot of things, I met a lot of good people, and I learned a lot of things.
“Let’s go home princess. Daddy has a surprise for you.” Surprise? Hell yeah! I already know what it is! My sword!
“Yay!”
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“Surprise! I bought you a sword!”
What is this? Are you kidding me? Why am I holding a wooden sword? Moreover, it’s pink.