1 Chapter 1

Darkness. That is all that he has known since he was born. Being born into a clan of gangsters and the like, he was exposed to the darkness ever since he could see. He was born from a woman his father forced himself on due to her strength, which resulted in him being born at the cost of her life.

His father didn't care about him until he was 6 years old, which is when he was to be trained in the clan's skills. From being tortured for resistance to pain, poisoned to be immune to many poisons, martial arts, marksmanship, torturing and much more.

At first it wasn't that bad, just typical martial arts and marksmanship training, but when he was 8 his father found out about his genius in training the clan's skills, so it got much more worse from then on. While he wasn't the best, he was still a prodigy above many others.

His first kill was when he was 10, his father tying up a man who attacked one of their group members when drunk. He didn't know what to do until a knife was placed in his hand and he was told to slit the throat of the man in front of him. Due to his training, he didn't hesitate longer than a few seconds before stabbing the knife into the man's throat and pulling it out after twisting it. Normally, someone would feel sick after their first kill, but it just felt... natural to him.

From then on, he killed hundreds and thousands of people throughout 15 more years, everybody eventually giving him the nickname Demon, for how unaffected he was after killing so many people. Eventually, he got much too strong to control, at least his father and the clan assumed so, but he didn't even think of rebelling as he has no idea how to do anything but listen to orders and kill, but the clan didn't understand that.

Finally, when he was 31, his now 53 year old father ended the life of his own creation with his own hands. He didn't even care that he was dying, as he felt it was something natural. After all, he killed thousands of people, so why couldn't he die as well? It just makes sense when he thought about it, so he didn't struggle one bit, just embracing the death that was coming to him, before the last bit of light in his eyes disappeared, and he was embraced by the endless darkness.

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In a completely ruined forest, full of rotting and decay, a human body was slowly being formed from the surrounding darkness of the forest. The body slowly took the form of a 20 year old human male, but it had dark grey skin instead of the normal human skin colour. The body finished forming itself and just idly floated there in the air a few inches from the ground, before it twitched suddenly and slowly fell onto the ground, it's eyes opening to reveal completely silver eyes, matching with it's silver hair.

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'Wasn't I killed by my father? Where am I...' He thought idly, staring at the black sky and dead forest around him, wondering where he was.

He was sure that he died after his father killed him with the assistance of the clan, but he didn't know why he was so... alive at the moment. He could tell he wasn't in a dream, as he never dreams. Looking at his hands, he noticed that his skin colour is no longer white, but a dark grey colour. His hands and fingers also had weird triangle markings on them, but he ignored that for a second as he looked at what appeared in front of him first.

[Congratulations on being born, Demon! I am the System that every being with a mind and thoughts of their own can obtain. I can allow you to get stronger, but you need to work hard! The System, I, will allow fill you in on information now!

This world is called Xenith, a world of many races! It has Humans, Demons like you, Devils which are evolved forms of Demons, Dragons, Elves, Beastfolk, Merfolk, Demon and Spirit Beasts and Gods! The world has 10 continents where each race lives, but they are all connected somehow. You are currently in the Demon Realm, which is the continent where Demon's live! That's all about the world I will tell you.

Next is what I, this System, can do for you! I will allow you to level up and get stronger by killing anything living! It doesn't matter what it is as long as it has it's own access to the System, if you kill it you will absorb that System essence and obtain experience from it, which is what levels you up. The stronger the enemy you kill, the more System essence you obtain! Your level and skills among other things can be seen in your Status, which is accessible by thinking Status in your mind! Any more information is already preset for you to look at in the Status, so good luck on surviving, little Demon!]

'New world.... Makes some sense. I figured I wasn't human from my skin colour and everything, but I guess I was reborn as a Demon in a new world... How ironic considering my nickname for 20 years was Demon... Oh well, let's look at this Status this System has, I wonder what it can let me do.' He thought of his Status, it appearing in his face just like the message from the System earlier.

[Name: None(Please choose your name and it was ask if you wish it to be that!)

Gender: Male

Race: Lesser Demon

Age: Ageless(Demon's do not age, so having no age is normal.)

Level: 1/25{0/50}(Every time you hit max level you are able to evolve your race to one higher than your current one!. The numbers beside it are the experience needed to level up!)

Class: None(You will obtain this once you hit level 10!)

Title: None

Health: 250/250{25/m}(If this hits 0, you will die!)

Mana: 250/250{25/m}[Locked](Demon's normally cannot use magic, so mana is normally useless to them, it's just there to taunt them! Only some mutated Demon's are capable of using magic!)

Strength: 25

Agility: 25

Endurance: 25

Vitality: 25

Intelligence: 25

Wisdom: 25

Stat Points: 0(These are obtained each time you level up, and are used to manually increase your stats, even though they all increase from each level up!)

Skills: Lesser Demon Regeneration{1/100}{0/10}]

[Lesser Demon Regeneration{1/100}: This skill allows you to heal a bonus 10 health every 30 seconds. Every use of it will give 1 experience. Currently need 10 experience for next level.]

'Hm, I oddly forgot what my name was in my last life, but I suppose that is fine. I suppose I will name myself Xie Shen, meaning Evil God since that is what I will inevitably be if I live long enough.

[AN: I think Xie means Evil and Shen means God, but I might be wrong. I just hope I am right and it doesn't make me look like an idiot :/]

[Do you wish to set your name as Xie Shen? Yes/No {Warning: This cannot be changed afterwards!}]

'Yes, I do.' He thought while mentally pressing the yes option.

[Your name has been set as Xie Shen! Congratulations on obtaining a name!]