1 Chapter 1: Waking up

In the Underworld near the south edge of the Gremory a young child slept in his room. A bloodied bandage covered his forest dark green hair contrasting with his almost livid skin. The room was small but furnished with everything a 2 year old child needed, toys arranged in a box in the right corner at the entrance a dressing right next to it. At the opposite side of the room stood a large low height bed exposed to the light provided by the jade green sky from the window in the back of it.

The black wooden door opened, a man with grass green hair arranged in a military style entered with a plate of steaming vegetables soup and slowly walked to the unconscious child. His grey eyes examining the boy's state when he noticed the child's fluttering eyelids revealing his peridot green eyes. After waiting for 5 minutes, the boy's eyes finally stayed open expressing a mix of pain and confusion.

"How are you? Can you speak? " asked the man with a hint of worry in his tone.

"Who are you? " the green eyed boy mumbled.

"It hurt to hear that my own son don't recognise his father but I am glad you are still alive after that fall. I started to think you would not wake up anymore, it has already been 2 full days that you were unconscious. " said his father half jokingly and relieved at the same time.

The boy's mind searched through his memories but aside from his vocabulary who was too extensive to belong to a 2 year old, he didn't find any information about himself nor his parents. Aside from his fruitless endeavour, the pain at the back of his head was still flaring every now and then.

"Sorry, ... father. It seems I lost my memories but putting it aside I would like to relearn what is known as common knowledge. If there are important matters that involve me in the near future, I would like to be informed. "

"Well, starting from the beginning your name is Vahn Alehen Tihyn Flauros of the Flauros family one of the now extinct pure blooded devil family. My mother was the last pure blood born from the Flauros family and died two hundred years ago, my name is Alastor Elehar Flauros and I am a half devil, the child of a human and a devil. Your mother who was a half fallen angel died giving birth to you, making you something unknown an hybrid which couldn't be born in the past. Do you still follow until now, son? " explained his father.

"You can continue, father. I think I will need lessons to understand the etiquette in the devil society and my place in it. " Vahn replied a little distraught of his future perspective.

"Might makes right in the Devil society but you will indeed need to be tutored to obtain the proper manners of a noble devil. I am a middle class devil and have been expelled from my family since birth but my mother went against the patriarch orders and taught me the Flauros family inherited magic Adaptation. I never tried to reach the high class rank because I am not fit to lead a peerage nor am I fond of combat but it doesn't mean I am weak. Strength wise I probably could win against any high class devil on a 1 versus 1 situation. " Alastor bragged and stopped talking awaiting a reaction from his son that never came "huh hum, let's continue. The devil live in the Underworld, our house is built in the land governed by the Gremory house, the human are living on Earth and the Angels in Heaven other smaller realms exist and around all of it there is the Dimensional Gap a hostile environment for most living organisms. Any questions yet? "

"To be honest only 3, what is the peerage you mentioned? How to progress in the devil rank and what exactly does our inherited magic? "

"Son, a peerage is a team of at most 16 members based on the pieces of chess led by a King who needs to at least be a high class devil. It is constituted of 8 Pawn capable of promotion into other pieces in a designed enemy territory, 2 Rook with enhanced strength and defence, 2 Bishop with enhanced magical power, 2 Knight with enhanced speed and agility and a Queen with all the previous enhancements.

There are 3 way to attain the threshold for ranking up, the first and slowest method is by contracting humans providing them various services for a compensation, the second method is merit in other word killing or capturing strays from all factions and the last method is Rating Games a confrontation between 2 Peerages in a relatively safe games.

As for our family ability Adaptation it amplifies our metabolism improving our regeneration and resistance against harmful elements like poison and light energy. An Ancestor of ours survived being stabbed 8 times by a holy sword and losing an arm but he still died a few years after that fight. In the domain of self healing we are only second after the Phenex house but we're far more resilient than those frail fire chickens.

Let's end this conversation here for today, you still need rest and eat the soup. Do you want it reheated before eating it? "

"Thank you, father. The soup is warm enough, no need to heat it again. Goodnight. "

After finishing his dinner Vahn reflected on his conversation and concluded that he would need to be much stronger than his father to be respected in the devil society. His pain that greatly subsided during his talk started to make his return when he began to relax. An hour later he finally fell asleep.