3 years later:
Leonidas POV: When me and my sister turned 5 she was declared to all of the kingdoms nobles as a prodigy because of her 3 blessings. I had one blessing in a unknown language so the church official who'd come to see if the gods had blessed our family or some crap like that declared me to be magically inept. That pissed me off so I hit him with a fireball. Ha! I love the look on his face when someone declared useless wiped out his mana barrier and burned his hair off. My parents were incredibly surprised and I got a "stern" talking to for daring to hurt one of the gods "chosen". Not like I care about priests they're to damn annoying. After one of our mages put out the fire and managed to save a little of his hair he handed me and my sister two fist sized rocks. While glaring at me he says. "These are status stones they allow us to see what skills you have and how strong you are. Please put a drop of blood on the stones so they can bond to you. They each have a fragment of the gods will to make sure they're as accurate as possible!"
As soon as he finished talking I created a thin blade of mana on my finger and cut the tip of my finger, the only problem was in these 5 years I had been modifying this weak human body as much as my mana pool allowed and in that I'd increased my bodies ability to heal from wounds at a much faster pace. So as soon as I cut my finger it healed almost instantly. luckily everyone seemed to be
waiting for my sister to go first since the church had said she had multiple blessings. When my sister put a drop of blood on the stone is started to glow gold and I could sense divinity in the stone going into my sisters body. A small screen popped up from the stone and everyone gasped. I took a look at her stats and I Honestly had nothing to go off of so I didn't know if they were good or bad but I did see some of her titles and blessings. They were:
Titles:
HERO'S ATTENDANT
Champion of light
Blessings:
Blessing of the goddess of war
Blessing of the god of stagnancy
Blessing of the goddess of life Arcturus
Seeing these titles I knew why the gods of this world decided to use levels. Levels where an easy way to quantify someone's strength and compare it to your own. It also made it easy to see who would be your enemy and snuff them out before they could challenge you. My guess is that The god or goddesses of this world was most likely a world class god around the gods age of 10. This is most likely their first world and they want to rule it with an iron fist. As such they don't allow technology to improve to a level were the people's dependence on the gods start to wane. The more believers a god has the stronger they are. The job of demon lords was normally to create fear and when the people of that world could not defeat the demon lord the gods would summon a hero from another world fight it off and gain more believers. As such They used levels so that it would be easy for them to empower their believers
by simply giving them littles bits of talent and starting with higher stats and making it easier to gain experience by killing other living beings like monsters. There were also dungeon cores who could create something from nothing and were trials to test the strong. So if I get lucky and if I played my cards right I could manipulate the system to give me the skills I need to take over this world, steal their gods power and use it as a stepping stone to return to my former glory. The main god of this world is most likely very immature and I can use that to my advantage to get even stronger!
After my sister had showed everyone her status they turned to me.
I'd already restricted my healing factor and
I was able to drip some of my blood into the stone with no issue. After I put my blood on the stone a prompt appeared in my head. "Would you like to display your stat chart for public viewing?"
I was going to hit yes but I decided to look at my stat chart in my head first. I was so scared of what it saw I "accidentally" crushed the stone! When the stone shattered the priest looked shocked and luckily wasn't paying to much attention to the light the tried to leave it before I grabbed and devoured it!
"Leonidas! What's wrong?! My mother said surprise written all over her face
"I'm alright mother. I was just a little surprised! It felt like something tried to enter
my body so I panicked."
The priest ran to me and grabbed me by the front part of my suit as he started screaming at me for breaking the stone, "Why and how did you break it? Those are expensive and we need them to ascertain how you should be trained as well as to make you an identification sheet!"
I calmly removed his hand from my suit and told him it was an accident. After dad calmed the priest down and walked him out the door mom sent me and Cassandra to our rooms to sleep while she and dad had a "talk". Once I was in my room I took out a identification sheet I had stolen from the priest and put a drop of blood on it. As I suspected he'd been lying about needing the stone to make the identification all it needed was the blood of
the user. As words and numbers started to come into focus I saw that I hadn't been wrong! This world needed balance to be established and I had been chosen by it to fix what the stupid gods of this world had caused in their pursuit for a "perfect" world. In other words I was to become the demon lord who will destroy the gods themselves not to leave the world in ruin but to save it. I was a natural born demon lord with the will and spirit of this world on my side. As such My stats were extraordinary!
My sheet showed the following:
Name: Leonidas Arbor
Species: reincarnated world traveler(human)
Level: 2
Evolution points: 0/1,000
Xp: 10/25
Affiliation: kingdom of centurion
Strength: 13
Dexterity: 14
Constitution:3
Wisdom: 412
Intelligence: 653
Mana recovery: 50 points per second
Mana pool: 20,000
Ki recovery: 60 points per second
Ki pool 50,000
Skills: flame arts lvl 5, water arts lvl 6, wind arts lvl 8, earth arts lvl 9, time magic lvl 1(beginner), lighting arts lvl 3 magma arts lvl 2, summoning magic lvl 3. Creation magic lvl 3(comprehension mastered) destruction magic lvl 3(comprehension mastered), space magic lvl 3, light magic lvl 6, life magic lvl 1(untrained), dark magic lvl 6, death magic lvl 10 (comprehension mastered), magic barrier lvl 3, ki barrier lvl 5, Mana manipulation lvl max, ki manipulation lvl max
Royal etiquette lvl 2, deceit lvl 3, acting lvl 2, hand to hand combat 8, melee weapon mastery lvl 5, assassination lvl 8, ranged weapon mastery lvl 2, golem creation magic lvl 5, mind element lvl 6, smithing lvl 2, gunsmithing lvl 3, robotics lvl 4
Locked skills: law of Chaos, law of order
Mana core rank: S
Titles:
The balancer
Chosen of the world
Sworn Enemy of the gods
Natural demon lord
Apostle of the god of death
Apostle of the god of technology
Apostle of the god of darkness
First born of duke Rio Arbor and duchess Christina
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Heir to the house of arbor
Skulker
Shadow stalker
Assassin of the gods
Golem master
He who hides in the shadows
Bane of all hero's
Shield of the world
Champion of the void
Champion of the demons
BLESSINGS:
ברכת הכאוס והסדר
(Blessing of chaos and order)
Even I was shocked a natural demon lord was a being that was a worlds last resort. A common misconception among mortals was that gods created worlds. Truthfully only incredibly powerful gods who have attained the rank of at least a true god even have the chance of creating a planet. Planets are normally formed from the wave of creation a pulse sent out by the oldest gods in existence lord chaos and lady order. The two of them had even long surpassed the level of a true primordial. They are the original creators who used most of their energy to create all known life in the universe. Afterwords falling into a deep slumber. The energy they used was so powerful it still exists to this day. It is ever expanding and creating evermore planets and even dimensions, the energy from this wave will create a "core" that slowly draws on the energy's of the void to surround its self in many layers before expending all its energy to create a single being that we classify as a world class god. This world class god then creates other lesser gods, angles and spirits. The lesser gods go on to create other life forms such as humans or what ever other species they fancy, they are each limited to a single species so that no god tries to take over the mortal world. Angles harvest the souls of the good and noble as well as help whatever god their assigned to with their domain. Spirits exist in nature to help the mortals settle down and get used to the world as well as act as the world cores personal attendants making sure the ley lines leading to the worlds core are kept clear and mana can get to it quickly. The more mana that gets to the world core the stronger it and the gods become which is why mortals pray. When they pray mana leaves their bodies and reinforces the barriers around the world that keep other planets from trying to invade to strengthen their own cores. In order to facilitate the mortals praying and to make them more dependent on the gods a species commonly known as demons is created by a entity classified as a demon god or the god of evil. It is their sole purpose to slowly grow in number and power until a demon lord is created. These artificial demon lords as they are called by us primordials are only given a very small amount of power by the darker sides of the gods. While I say a small amount it's still an unimaginable amount of power that is normally impossible for any mortal of that world to reach but it has a fixed limit to its strength. Because of its power it means the humans must pray to the gods to ask for them to summon a hero from another world. This otherworldler is given a lesser amount of power compared to the demon lord but is able to grow almost exponentially. These hero's are also given attendants from the world they were summoned to who are also able to grow exponentially but even they can't match the hero. On the other hand a natural demon lord is only ever used when a world feels that it's balance is tipping to one side or the other and only when the core feels it is irreversible. They are also able to grow exponentially but they can also tap into the almost limitless resources of the world core itself resulting in a being so powerful it can rip gods apart. The gods of this world favour the nobility as all royal families are given a right by them to rule over the weaker commoners and the gods themselves have ordered the suppression of demons who represent the darker side of the world. This can not be allowed because if all demons are killed the world will become unbalanced with the light side taking over and without a balance of light and dark energy the world won't be able to maintain the barrier around it. Leaving it defenceless before the wrath of the beasts of the void and the whims of other worlds who are looking to expand their power. Even though this world god is clearly a youngling by our standards he and all the other gods who are allowing the races of this world as well as the world itself to be oppressed by their own greed have to die. If they manage to destroy the balance between light and dark we all will die! As a true demon lord I vowed to my self I would never let that happen until I feel both I and the people of this world are ready to push the invaders back and take their territory. I will restore the fragile balance before taking over as the god of this world and beginning to reclaim my rightful position as the primordial of death! But before all that I need to get to bed the first princess Elizabeth's birthday is in a week and we leave for the capital tomorrow. I've already heard she has a little brother now who will become the crown prince. The fact she has a brother who is going to become the heir to the throne isn't good because it means now nobles and royals from other countries alike have a chance of convincing our king to strengthen ties between their countries by marrying her off to one of them. In the past three years we have used many secret methods to communicate and our plan calls for us to become close friends in the eyes of all the nobles of our kingdom and quickly build a reputation in the kingdom so that anyone who wants to force her into marriage will think they have to deal with me, the son of one of the most powerful dukes as a competitor for her hand. My father is also a close friend of the king so it shouldn't be to hard to make them think that's our goal. Truthfully it's but a farce meant to buy time for us to create a trading company as well as for me to build up the territory that my father said he'll give to me once I graduate school. We have to make it so powerful the king will be to scared to even try to force her to marry someone in fear that we'll spark a rebellion or pull our company away from trading with his kingdom and collapsing their economy. Now that she's no longer first in line for the throne I have to escort her around the dance floor while I try to keep her away from the old fat perverts who want to try to convince her they're wonderful people who can give her everything she wants, because if I don't the birthday party might just become a massacre. I haven't asked how her training was going but I'm pretty sure we've both reached the level of a head royal court magician and head royal knight respectively, especially me who is able to use the vast resources of this worlds core. If those fat pigs masquerading as nobles so Much as try and ask her to dance I fear for all of our lives. As my father once told me after he forgot mothers birthday."hell hath nothing on the wrath of a women" shortly after that mom tore him limb from limb and threw him in a black hole. It took him 6 of our months to fully regenerate and then another two weeks to find his way back to the royal castle. Now I need to sleep before the nightmares of that incident keep me from it,I can already feel dawn approaching!