In the next few days Boe was hunting down all beasts of low rank 1 power level and got used to all his new techniques. Boe managed to kill adult Fire Tiger with one sneak attack using his Claws of Enthriil. Then he started hunting down Three Talon Hawk and killed it with one hit from his Dark Elf King’s bow with Shadow Arrow. Bow was definitely his most deadly weapon as of this moment, but to use it in battle Boe had to be some distance away from his target and he needed time to properly aim. Boe didn’t train in using bows yet, so his aim was pretty bad and his first one hit kill was just a pure luck. He decided to properly train in archery when he would go back to his school since this kind of stealth killing was very fitting to his shadow attribute techniques.
For all his next opponents Boe was using his bow to shoot once and if he missed, he was just using his Claws of Enthriil in close combat. In just ten next days Boe managed to kill twenty-five low rank 1 beasts, he didn’t get seriously injured in any of battles, but light injuries were a very common thing. All his injuries were instantly healed by Alfred, so Boe was always in top condition to fight.
Alfred started noticing that after each kill Boe’s eyes were getting more and more red and his desire to fight was growing as well. Boe was still very dissatisfied though, even after killing so many beasts stronger than him, he didn’t breakthrough to rank 1 and couldn’t even feel awakening of demon inside of him.
‘What’s the problem with this technique? Am I supposed to kill human beings or do I have to massacre even more beasts?’ Boe was very frustrated already and wanted an advice from his master, but he never answered no matter how Boe called him.
“Alfred, find me a beast with middle level rank 1 power, but make sure it’s weak side is defense.” For some reason Boe stopped adding “elder” to Alfred’s name.
“Young master, even though you can now easily kill low level rank 1 beasts, I wouldn’t recommend you to fight beasts of middle level rank 1 beasts. You definitely can kill most of middle level rank 1 beasts, but if you will meet adult experienced beast, it can kill you with a single hit.”
“Alfred, heed my orders and just be prepared to save me if something will go wrong.” Boe became very rude to Alfred past few days, but Alfred didn’t change his attitude toward his young master even after that.
“My apologies, young master. There are only two beasts of middle level rank 1 power close to us, that match your requirements. One of them is a Fiery Monkey and second one is a Saber-toothed Hog, both of them have weak defense compared to attack. Fiery Monkey has same weight and height as ordinary human, it’s attack pattern is unpredictable and it has one special ability. “Scorching Palm” is a powerful attack technique, which concentrates fire attribute battle aura on monkey’s palms for as long as monkey is fighting. Saber-toothed Hog is a lot more predictable in fight, but it has two special abilities. First one is called “Fury Charge”, which is basically just a charge in straight line, but with higher speed and might than hog’s normal attacks. Second ability is “Wind Slash”, which allows hog to send a slash filled with wind attribute battle aura, from any of it’s four legs.”
“Bring me to Fiery Monkey, unpredictability is a good training for me.” Boe’s mouth curved in a very sinister smile as he said that.
In a few minutes Alfred stopped near one of the trees and pointed at monkey in twenty meters. Boe was hidden in shadow of a tree in his Shadow Step technique. He slowly took out his Dark Elf King’s bow and charged it with Shadow Arrow, “what is this monkey’s weak spot on body?” it was his first time fighting Fiery Monkey, so Boe had to get that information from Alfred.
“Front side of neck and eyes.” Alfred was very concerned with his young master’s current behavior. Boe was very timid and respectful when they first met, but right now he seemed like some kind of savage to Alfred.
“Kyolyokyo jebe” Boe whispered his Shadow Arrow technique chant and shot it in monkey’s direction.
*SWISH*
Fiery Monkey easily dodged arrow, turned to look at Boe and immediately got enraged.
*ROAR*
Monkey activated Scorching Palm, jumped at Boe and crashed his head.
“Kyolyokyo Kylon” Monkey’s palm passed through Boe’s shadow clone, but monkey didn’t seem surprised as it jumped few meter to the left. Boe’s Claws of Enthriil slashed through the space where monkey stood just a moment ago, but Boe didn’t look too shocked as well as it wasn't the first time a beast managed to avoid his surprise attack after usage of a shadow clone technique.
“Eles Kyochyu” Boe instantly used his Phantom Translocation technique and moved behind his opponent. Monkey was shocked when Boe suddenly disappeared and started looking around it.
“Kyolyokyo Kol” Boe used his Shadow Hand technique right when he appeared behind monkey, it worked very fast since Boe was very close to monkey. Boe targeted monkey’s liver and ruthlessly slashed at it, he managed to pierce through monkey’s fur and even damaged monkey slightly, but he didn’t reach internal organs.
*ROAR*
Monkey’s eyes became red with blood from anger as she attacked Boe with left palm, Boe barely dodged it to the side, but his clothes got burned.
“Kaigyruu Kalkan” Boe didn’t have time to run away or dodge monkey’s next attack so he had no other way than to activate his Shield of Regret.
*BANG* *BOOM*
Monkey’s right palm landed on Boe’s shoulder and he was sent flying ten meters before he slammed into the tree and fell to the ground. Monkey cried in pain, her hand was broken and a lot of fire was burning on it. Monkey extinguished fire on her right palm and looked in Boe’s direction with fear In her eyes. She wasn’t afraid of Boe’s Shield of Regret, nor was she afraid because of her injury, she was trembling in fear as Boe’s aura completely changed and now she felt as if that little boy transformed into a devil.
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When Boe fell to the ground, he didn’t feel any pain from his shoulder even though it was broken and his right hand wasn’t moving at all. Boe only felt deep hatred, anger and thirst for blood right now. He successfully awakened the demon inside of him and the demon was now demanding blood of that monkey. When Boe stood up, his appearance didn’t change in any way, only his pupils became deep red in color. The main change in Boe was his aura, he gave off a feeling of a dreadful demon. Even an air around him was slightly trembling as if Boe was an entity that could threaten the existence of the whole world.
‘His aura… Why does it resemble demons and devils? What kind of battle technique does he train in to have that kind of aura?’ Alfred was absolutely shocked with Boe’s current appearance and aura.
“Monkey, I am very grateful to you for my awakening, so I will grant you a quick death.” Boe lost both his claws when he was sent flying and his right hand wasn’t working at the moment, but he moved slowly in monkey’s direction nevertheless.
Fiery Monkey was trembling from head to toe, she wanted to run away from Boe, but she couldn’t move her body. Boe walked right next to her, slowly grabbed monkey by her neck and just squeezed his hand. Monkey’s front side of the neck was her weak point, so Boe easily pierced through her fur and the blood sprayed all over Boe.
“Alfred, protect me from beasts from now on, I have to start training in here right now.” Before monkey’s body even fell to the ground, Boe talked to Alfred without even turning his head toward Alfred.
“Will do my best, young master.” Alfred now understood that all this killing was not for gaining experience, but to awaken this sinister power of his young master. He created some kind of barrier over their current location and sat down to watch over his young master’s training.
Boe already knew twenty-six moves of rank 1 training of his battle technique and was able to easily use them so he started using them in his demonification form without a delay.
*POW* *SWISH* *POW* *BANG*…
When Boe used these moves previously they were just simple fighting moves as if he was just training in some kind of martial art, but in his demonification form each move was releasing a little bit of shadow attribute battle aura. Some moves were simple punches, but they were sending waves of battle aura now. Some moves were just his palm making slashes, but now they were able to slash through rocks and trees. Some moves were powerful punches and kicks, but now each of them were creating little explosions of battle aura. Boe now understood that all these moves were powerful battle moves, that he could use during the battle without even need of weapons or attack techniques.
Alfred was watching all of this happening with wide opened eyes, he never before saw anything like this training of his young master. All battle techniques he knew of were just instructions of how to gather, circulate and release battle aura. Even his battle technique, which was considered to be high level one, was far too inferior. It was possible to get couple of attack, defense or movement technique from top level battle technique, but Alfred never heard of battle technique that can actually let user to gain so many attack techniques. Even though attack techniques his young master was using right now all were considered to be weak, there were twenty-six of them and they didn’t require Boe to chant anything or use a lot of his battle aura to unleash them.
After two hours of training his battle moves in demonification form, Boe was exhausted and starving, so he stopped his training. Right after he stopped moving his body, he felt his whole body go numb and fell to the ground.
When Boe opened his eyes again, he was in his living room in mansion. He now felt a lot more powerful than he has ever been, even his eyesight got a lot better. ‘It seems like I finally broke through to rank 1.’ Boe was very happy with his progress and tried to gather battle aura into his body, he was shocked how fast battle aura was gathering inside of him now. It appears that after Boe became rank 1 wizard, his ability to gather battle aura increased tenfold.
‘Should I stay in mansion for a bit longer and train myself or should I find an exit, which won’t send me to Tsude and leave as fast as I can?’ Boe wanted to train in here as long as he could, but there was always possibility that Alfred will find out Boe was lying to him this whole time, so he needed to leave as soon as possible.
“Good morning, young master. How do you feel?” Alfred was now smiling with even kinder smile than before, his respect for young master now was on level close to his old master.
“I’m fine, elder Alfred, thank you for getting me out of there. How much did I sleep?”
“You slept for only three days.”
“Ha-ha, no wonder I’m so hungry, can we have a breakfast now?”
“Everything is already prepared in dining room, young master. I shall wait for you there.” Alfred vanished as usual. Boe stood up, got dressed and decided to try to use his demonification. After only one try he succeeded, his pupils became red and his aura became terrifying and bloodthirsty.
‘So I didn’t need to be angry, sad or mad to use demonification, I just needed a desire to fight, kill and destroy…’ Boe now understood why he couldn’t succeed when he was training in mansion, he only wanted to become stronger back then and it was not what he needed to feel in order to become Demon Emperor.
After he finished eating and talking to Alfred about his battle moves, Boe asked Alfred to get him all attack, defense and movement techniques suitable for shadow attribute wizards of rank 1, 2 and 3. He also asked resources needed for alchemy, few rare books about path of sacrifices, spirits control, magic arrays, companions nurturing and cultivation of physical strength. Boe wasn’t planning to return here before he would reach at least level 4 or 5 so he wouldn’t be afraid of Alfred, but when he would return he would definitely take everything he is interested in from here.
When Alfred got back he didn’t bring a lot of items with him, he only tossed one ring to Boe. “It is storage magical equipment, even though level of that ring isn’t very high, you have to be careful with it, because it is very expensive and a lot of even rank 2 and 3 wizards won’t be able to get it for themselves.”
Boe tried to put ring on his finger, but it was too big for him, he was 14 years old after all. When Alfred saw what happened, he took out simple thin silver chain and gave it to Boe. Boe hanged ring on chain and then put on chain on his neck.
“You just need to put a little of your battle aura inside of ring and you will be able to feel what is inside and take out anything you need.” Boe tried doing as Alfred said and was shocked to find that inside of ring was a room 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 5 meters in height. In the corner of a room were bunch of books, a lot of plants, test-tubes and a few glass boxes.
“This junior thanks elder Alfred for all generosity and kindness,” Boe slightly bowed to Alfred, he was really grateful for everything Alfred done for him so far.
“By the way, elder Alfred, can you please tell me if there is any other exit from mansion, because the cave I came from was packed with Giant Huntsman Spiders and there might be other dangerous beasts.” Boe couldn’t kill Tsude yet, so he needed to find another way out of mansion for now.
“Yes, of course there is, follow me, young master.” Alfred started walking deeper into living part of mansion. When they reached Boe’s living room, Alfred stopped and smiled to Boe. “There is an emergency evacuation route and every living room has a secret door that leads to it.”