Special Quest

It's been about 3 years since I visited the Albedo Mansion.

When I turned 14, Teacher Dayron told me to show my status and what racial abilities are available to me now. When we went to the mage tower to check my status, Yui was also preparing to use the illusion to deceive.

During this time, I was able to get a level 6 illusion scroll from Milim. What it cost me to get for this scroll back then, words cannot convey. After the "forest of horror", I begin to understand what monsters are different and disgusting.

When I activate the status ball, Teacher Dayron asked, "what is available?". And then it dawned on me that he can't seem to see my status (there are no eyes). But I activated the scroll anyway, as I could sense a couple of living beings in this area. Still, echolocation [ur1] is a useful thing. Thanks to her, I was able to feel the presence of observers behind me. Although the radius is small, but if you give a lot of mana to this ability, you can, although not exactly, but understand that there is someone nearby. No wonder my paranoia told me to be careful.

So when I spoke about my racial abilities, and Teacher Dayron apparently knew about the observers, he nodded to me and we continued our training. Although he may have noticed Yui too, but I hope he thought that she only came out of curiosity, and not for other dark matters.

That's when 1 year passed and I was already able to achieve level 7 fencing, and the Kang-ji sword style is level 3. As Dairon told me, when I reach the 10th level of swordsmanship, my skill can evolve into a "Sword Master". As he said, without a sword style, fencing will develop very slowly, and before the evolution into a "Sword Master" the chances are zero. As I understand it, there are rare conditions for the evolution of certain skills and abilities. The teacher also said that even mana control can evolve if you reach level 10. This means that even the usual principle of controlling my dark matter can evolve.

Yui has also made tremendous progress in magic and can already use enough level 5 spells, and a couple of level 6 spells. As for level 6 magic, she has enough knowledge. Still, magic is a difficult thing and requires a lot of knowledge and understanding of the principle of magic from you. Yui will definitely be a strong magician in the future, although she may develop even as a melee-style warrior in the future, but this will require her to delay in the field of magic.

Although I have heard that there are magicians of the melee style of combat. They can cast magic on themselves and use it during a fight, although it is very difficult to do. My mother can be said to be almost the same, because she uses magic directly in close combat, but thanks to the magic sword that becomes the conductor of her magic, she can easily solve the problem with a weak body, if compared with the body of a real warrior.

In general, Yui decided to achieve level 10 magic in the elements of wind and lightning for now, and then study other ways to make herself stronger. Although it is understandable why she chose only two elements, because there are many elements and to study all of them at least up to level 5 is considered a feat.

The maximum who could study more than 4 elements and reach all of them, at least, level 9, was the magician "Elminster Zarander", who was the Highest of the elves. It is said that Elminster became a hermit and left his native lands for the sake of new knowledge. So few people were able to surpass his feat. Although he probably already knows more, because it happened about 2 centuries ago.

And Yui continues to sneak into my bed at night, and still naked. No matter how hard I try to convince her not to sneak into my bedroom, it's a lost cause. So I had to put up with it and wait for the day when I could satisfy her thirst for me.

I also sometimes met Milim and we sometimes went for a walk to different places like the same forest of horror, but now we still go to the mountains, all sorts of caves with monsters, swamps, ruins. I am glad that few people will want to follow the Archdemon knowing her quick temper. So my relatives don't know about my adventures in such places, but it seems to me that teacher Dayron understood that when we fight with him, I sometimes act on reflexes attacking him as with a monster.

I also went to play with a little Greyfia, it's even hard for me not to touch her cheeks, sometimes. Mom, of course, also plays with Grayfia, just like I do when I find free time. But one day, one fine day, the first word of Greifia was not "Mom" or "Dad", namely "Brother", from such a harsh treatment, I could not resist and shed tears of happiness. After all, since childhood I have dreamed of having brothers and sisters who love and support you. After that, I go to play with Grayfia more often.

Also after my 13th birthday there was an event that surprised me very much.

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(Flashback)

When I was calmly walking through the corridors of the castle, I noticed that the servants began to run around the castle. In order to calm my curiosity, I decided to ask one of the servants. I came across a maid with a beautiful appearance, bright green hair. She was running past me, so it wasn't hard to catch her, and I ask her:

- What happened? Why are all the servants running around the castle? I asked in a curious tone.

- Oh, I'm sorry, Young Mr. Meliodas Diablo, I'm very sorry. It has just become known that Queen Amy Diablo is pregnant! The servants were also looking for you to tell this news. We were also told to notify important personalities about this event. The maid said in an apologetic tone.

And I fell into a stupor from such news. And while I was thinking, the maid quickly ran on. When I got ready, I quickly ran to my Mother.

When I arrived at her room, her Father was already there. I quickly run up to my Mother and ask:

- Mom, is it true that you're pregnant? I asked, because it is necessary to personally verify such important information. Mom smiled at me and said:

- Yes, Meliodas, I am pregnant, although experts can't figure out exactly who exactly will be with us, but they say I will have twins. Mom said.

- When will the birth be? I asked.

- According to experts, it will take 6 months. My Father replied.

- I see. Mom, congratulations to you. I said with a smile.

- Thank you, Meliodas. Mom said with the same smile.

- Meliodas, I'm glad you decided to visit your mother. I personally cannot make preparations for this day, as I will soon be leaving for negotiations with other Kingdoms, so all the affairs of this event will be handled by the Gremory and Sitri family. Don't worry, they are one of my most trusted people. - Said the Father.

- I hope the negotiations will be successful. After all, this union is very important for everyone. Mother said, and there was a note of excitement in her voice.

- Don't worry, I will achieve an alliance by any means for the sake of the future of the demons. - Said the Father and went out the door.

"I hope so too," I said very quietly to myself.

(End of Flashback)

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That's when I started training harder. My skills also grew not by the day, but by the hour. Teacher Dayron is also increasing the pressure of his attacks on me. I also went to Purgatory a couple of times to harden my body and skills there. I learned new forms using the dark mother. My status now looks like this:

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{Status.}

[First and Last Name - Meliodas Diablo]

[Level - 35]

[Warrior Class]

[Age - 13 ]

[Gender - male]

[Race - Supreme Demon 110%]

[Racial Abilities - Dark Matter, Hellfire, High Physical Strength, High Regeneration, Demonic transformation, Demonic aura of dominance, Destruction mode, Soul extraction/absorption, Soul domain.]

[Abilities - Assessment [ur7], dark mark[ur6], echolocation[ur3], .]

[Skills - fencing[ur7], hand-to-hand combat[ur7], spear possession[ur5], mana control[ur6], dark matter control[ur7], hellfire control[ur6], paws[ur7], blade[ur7], wings[ur5], spikes[ur3], hell hedgehog[ur3], tentacles[ur3], hands of dark matter[ur4], clot of darkness[ur3], sphere of darkness[ur6], cocoon of darkness[ur6], shield of darkness[ur6], pillar of darkness[ur6], dark snow[ur5], chains of darkness[ur4], hellfire explosion[ur4], Kang-ji sword style[ur3], five senses[ur1].]

{Characteristics}

[Strength - 326]

[Dexterity - 239]

[Endurance - 16600/16600]

[Protection - 255 ]

[Mana - 13930/13930]

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When "Berserk" evolved into "Destruction Mode". I tried using the "Destruction Mode", I did this experiment in Purgatory. I woke up in the middle of a field of corpses of red demons and blue demons, there were even corpses of 2 gray demons. Niva said that I was out of control and killed everything that moves and did it very effectively.

Now, in case of anything, I can turn on this mode, but it's still difficult for me to control it. As I remember, Meliodas had such a regime, in which he completely lost all emotions, and was as focused and strong as possible. It looks like those "creatures" decided to give me this feature so that I would be more like Meliodas.

Also, Teacher Dayron took me for practical training. The teacher said that I need to learn how to fight in real combat with real opponents who can think like me. So I'm with Teacher Dayron, let's go look for bandits. Although there are arenas for this, but because of the future war, all the arenas were closed.

Now I was watching a bandit camp in the mountains, there are about 23 men, there are only about 5 women hostages here. Also, from all races, there are 5 bandit demons, 18 people present here. Seeing how demons command people, I realized that demons are the main ones here. Their status shows that they are in levels 31-39. People are weaker and are in levels 22-24.

The teacher seems to be watching me from afar. Although I don't feel it, but my paranoia screams about it, so the teacher is definitely watching me.

I also received a message about the quest:

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[Quest: I'm not justice, I'm an executioner.]

[Description: Kill the bandits who commit crimes.]

[Requirement: Kill Bandits [0/23]. Kill everyone in 1 hour.]

[Award: Book on alchemy[ur8].]

[Penalty for refusal: Dayron will beat you for 24 hours without a break]

[Penalty for failure: Dayron will beat you for 72 hours without a break]

[Timer: 1 hour]

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Well, anyway, I wanted to test my skills on more human opponents, so the opportunity appeared. A book on alchemy, useful to me for my experiments on the blood of demons.

I quickly use echolocation, and find out approximately the location of each creature. When I found out, I make a sharp dash out of the bushes.

-*In the past*-

-*Shh*-

With great speed, he deprived the heads of two bandits. Then I quickly change sides and make a sharp jerk again.

-*In the past*-

-*Shh*-

Beheaded again, but this time 3 bandits at once. When I was about to attack the next ones, arrows started flying at me. I dodge with quick jerks to the side. Then I make a leap into the sky and take out cans of Poison from the inventory. Then I throw them at the bandits.

-*Crackling*-

A jar of glass broke right under their feet, then a cloud of gray smoke begins to appear. I experimentally added demon blood from Purgatory to it. But seeing them writhing in pain and screaming:

- AAAAAAAAA!!! BolAAAAAA!!!! PomAAGrr!!!!!-

- Aaaaaaaaa!!! Goraaaaaa!!!-

- SpasiAAAAAAAAAA!!!! AAAAAAAAA -

The bandits shouted for a good 21 seconds. Approximately 8 bandits were killed. And I quickly inspect the bodies, and I see that the bodies are decomposing, this should not happen. So the demon blood affected the Poison more than I thought, and made it much more dangerous. Although some bodies on the contrary transformed into something, but it looked just awful, they just did not survive the process.

So we need to conduct a couple more experiments with demon blood, but this time without unnecessary additives.

I then quickly run to the last bandits who were on the outskirts of the camp. I was met by already armed demons and human bandits. Seeing me, they laugh and one of them says:

- Ahaha, some pathetic child made so much noise, I knew that people are weak, but to lose to a child. If these freaks are still alive, I will personally devour them all. - Said the Demon and apparently the most important.

He is wearing chain mail, leather armor, he has a short beard, and his hair color is brown.

- Are you in charge? I asked in my usual tone.

- Well, yes, brat, I'm the most important here, and you've caused me a lot of problems here. I'm going to personally kill you for this. The boss of the bandits said and quickly ran at me.

I don't waste time quickly getting into a stand and waiting for an attack. I need to practice the Kang-ji sword style.

-*Clang*-

Our swords collided and I defended myself from his blow. He's attacking again.

-*Clang*-

I defended myself from the blow again.

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

And so it went on until he realized that it was pointless, so he quickly breaks the distance from me, pulls out a crossbow, and prepares to shoot at me with it. I can defend myself from such an arrow, but it's time for me to change tactics. I quickly make a dash for it.

-*In the past*-

And I'm already near him and quickly cover the sword with mana, and then I make a quick swing right across his chest.

-*Shh*-

He did not have time to defend himself from the unexpected blow and is now bleeding from a wound on his chest. His characteristics are more pumped for strength and endurance, but there is no balance in his strength, and although he could hit, I blocked his blows and redirected the force a little in the other direction. So now he looks at me with an angry face and shouts:

- The bastard... Agrh... Yes, I'll kill you, you miserable maggot, do not wait for mercy!!!! - He shouted and ran at me.

And I activated the "five senses" and "echolocation" at the same time, then I closed my eyes and slowly began to release mana into the environment. All this together gave me a complete vision of everything within a radius of about 20 meters from me. Teacher Dayron said that if I use this combination more often, then soon I may have a "sword domain" in which I can perform the most difficult and fastest attacks in my zone.

-*Top*-

-*Top*-

-*Top*-

I can hear him running at me. His every step is clearly audible in my head, when he was already 2 steps away from me, I make a sharp swing and...

-*Chick*-

When I finished, I was standing with my sword outstretched, and the bandit leader suddenly froze halfway to me, and then...

-*Bam*-

The leader's head falls to the ground, and the body falls behind him.

-*Bam*- body falls.

Then I turn my head and look at the other bandits, and I say:

- Now it's your turn. I said with a smile.

- Let's attack him with the whole crowd! The bandit demon shouted.

I didn't defend myself anymore and went on the attack. I can repeat this trick a maximum of 2-3 times a day, since this technique requires a lot of mana, I have to go the old-fashioned way. I run at the bandits and attack them with quick attacks.

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

They also barely have time to defend themselves with shields and swords from blows, but suddenly one did not have time, and I quickly make a wave in his direction and...

-*Shh*-

I hit the demon bandit right in the heart and quickly pull the sword out of his chest, and then defend myself from the demon's sword strike from behind.

-*Ding*-

Having defended myself, I hold the defense with my right hand, and with my left hand I strike directly at the demon's chest...

-*Bam*-

The bandit flew into a tree, since I didn't hold back too much in this blow, maybe he's dead. And from such a sight, the other bandits stopped abruptly because of surprise. I didn 't waste any time and quickly swing my sword horizontally near their heads and ...

-*Shh*-

-*In the past*-

The heads of two bandits fall, there are 7 bandits left.

---

After 8 minutes.

When I killed everyone, I looked around the neighborhood, then I look at my hands in blood. Now I am absolutely sure that I am no longer a person, or rather not the one I was before rebirth. Killing people has become commonplace for me. I used to think that I would feel conflicted or overwhelmed by negative emotions during the murder, but instead I just don't feel anything.

When I got all my thoughts in order, I quickly started collecting souls in dead bodies. As I have noticed, souls do not immediately leave their bodies, but slowly leave them. After I ate the first human soul, I received a message about a "special quest".

[Special Quest: Hunger.]

[Description: You are a hungry demon who needs souls to quench his hunger and thirst.]

[Requirement: Eat Souls: Humans[1/90 000], Half-Humans[0/8 000], Elves/Higher/Dark[0/5 000], Water People[0/4 900], Vampires[0/4 800], Werewolves[0/4 800], Angels/Fallen[0/4 500], Demons[0/4 000], Youkai[0/3 900], Dwarves[0/2 000], Giants[0/1 000], Dragons[0/300], Spirits[0/200], Fairies[0/100], Demigods[0/3], Gods[0/1]. ]

[Reward: Access to the Store function.]

[Penalty for refusal: No]

[Penalty for failure: No.]

____________________________

[Quest: I'm not justice, I'm an executioner.]

[Description: Kill the bandits who commit crimes.]

[Requirement: Kill Bandits [0/23]. Kill everyone in 1 hour.]

[Award: Book on alchemy[ur8].]

[Penalty for refusal: Dayron will beat you for 24 hours without a break]

[Penalty for failure: Dayron will beat you for 72 hours without a break]

[Timer: 1 hour]

__________________

Well, anyway, I wanted to test my skills on more human opponents, so the opportunity appeared. A book on alchemy, useful to me for my experiments on the blood of demons.

I quickly use echolocation, and find out approximately the location of each creature. When I found out, I make a sharp dash out of the bushes.

-*In the past*-

-*Shh*-

With great speed, he deprived the heads of two bandits. Then I quickly change sides and make a sharp jerk again.

-*In the past*-

-*Shh*-

Beheaded again, but this time 3 bandits at once. When I was about to attack the next ones, arrows started flying at me. I dodge with quick jerks to the side. Then I make a leap into the sky and take out cans of Poison from the inventory. Then I throw them at the bandits.

-*Crackling*-

A jar of glass broke right under their feet, then a cloud of gray smoke begins to appear. I experimentally added demon blood from Purgatory to it. But seeing them writhing in pain and screaming:

- AAAAAAAAA!!! BolAAAAAA!!!! PomAAGrr!!!!!-

- Aaaaaaaaa!!! Goraaaaaa!!!-

- SpasiAAAAAAAAAA!!!! AAAAAAAAA -

The bandits shouted for a good 21 seconds. Approximately 8 bandits were killed. And I quickly inspect the bodies, and I see that the bodies are decomposing, this should not happen. So the demon blood affected the Poison more than I thought, and made it much more dangerous. Although some bodies on the contrary transformed into something, but it looked just awful, they just did not survive the process.

So we need to conduct a couple more experiments with demon blood, but this time without unnecessary additives.

I then quickly run to the last bandits who were on the outskirts of the camp. I was met by already armed demons and human bandits. Seeing me, they laugh and one of them says:

- Ahaha, some pathetic child made so much noise, I knew that people are weak, but to lose to a child. If these freaks are still alive, I will personally devour them all. - Said the Demon and apparently the most important.

He is wearing chain mail, leather armor, he has a short beard, and his hair color is brown.

- Are you in charge? I asked in my usual tone.

- Well, yes, brat, I'm the most important here, and you've caused me a lot of problems here. I'm going to personally kill you for this. The boss of the bandits said and quickly ran at me.

I don't waste time quickly getting into a stand and waiting for an attack. I need to practice the Kang-ji sword style.

-*Clang*-

Our swords collided and I defended myself from his blow. He's attacking again.

-*Clang*-

I defended myself from the blow again.

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

And so it went on until he realized that it was pointless, so he quickly breaks the distance from me, pulls out a crossbow, and prepares to shoot at me with it. I can defend myself from such an arrow, but it's time for me to change tactics. I quickly make a dash for it.

-*In the past*-

And I'm already near him and quickly cover the sword with mana, and then I make a quick swing right across his chest.

-*Shh*-

He did not have time to defend himself from the unexpected blow and is now bleeding from a wound on his chest. His characteristics are more pumped for strength and endurance, but there is no balance in his strength, and although he could hit, I blocked his blows and redirected the force a little in the other direction. So now he looks at me with an angry face and shouts:

- The bastard... Agrh... Yes, I'll kill you, you miserable maggot, do not wait for mercy!!!! - He shouted and ran at me.

And I activated the "five senses" and "echolocation" at the same time, then I closed my eyes and slowly began to release mana into the environment. All this together gave me a complete vision of everything within a radius of about 20 meters from me. Teacher Dayron said that if I use this combination more often, then soon I may have a "sword domain" in which I can perform the most difficult and fastest attacks in my zone.

-*Top*-

-*Top*-

-*Top*-

I can hear him running at me. His every step is clearly audible in my head, when he was already 2 steps away from me, I make a sharp swing and...

-*Chick*-

When I finished, I was standing with my sword outstretched, and the bandit leader suddenly froze halfway to me, and then...

-*Bam*-

The leader's head falls to the ground, and the body falls behind him.

-*Bam*- body falls.

Then I turn my head and look at the other bandits, and I say:

- Now it's your turn. I said with a smile.

- Let's attack him with the whole crowd! The bandit demon shouted.

I didn't defend myself anymore and went on the attack. I can repeat this trick a maximum of 2-3 times a day, since this technique requires a lot of mana, I have to go the old-fashioned way. I run at the bandits and attack them with quick attacks.

-*Clang*-

-*Ding*-

They also barely have time to defend themselves with shields and swords from blows, but suddenly one did not have time, and I quickly make a wave in his direction and...

-*Shh*-

I hit the demon bandit right in the heart and quickly pull the sword out of his chest, and then defend myself from the demon's sword strike from behind.

-*Ding*-

Having defended myself, I hold the defense with my right hand, and with my left hand I strike directly at the demon's chest...

-*Bam*-

The bandit flew into a tree, since I didn't hold back too much in this blow, maybe he's dead. And from such a sight, the other bandits stopped abruptly because of surprise. I didn 't waste any time and quickly swing my sword horizontally near their heads and ...

-*Shh*-

-*In the past*-

The heads of two bandits fall, there are 7 bandits left.

---

After 8 minutes.

When I killed everyone, I looked around the neighborhood, then I look at my hands in blood. Now I am absolutely sure that I am no longer a person, or rather not the one I was before rebirth. Killing people has become commonplace for me. I used to think that I would feel conflicted or overwhelmed by negative emotions during the murder, but instead I just don't feel anything.

When I got all my thoughts in order, I quickly started collecting souls in dead bodies. As I have noticed, souls do not immediately leave their bodies, but slowly leave them. After I ate the first human soul, I received a message about a "special quest".

____________________________

[Special Quest: Hunger.]

[Description: You are a hungry demon who needs souls to quench his hunger and thirst.]

[Requirement: Eat Souls: Humans[1/90 000], Half-Humans[0/8 000], Elves/Higher/Dark[0/5 000], Water People[0/4 900], Vampires[0/4 800], Werewolves[0/4 800], Angels/Fallen[0/4 500], Demons[0/4 000], Youkai[0/3 900], Dwarves[0/2 000], Giants[0/1 000], Dragons[0/300], Spirits[0/200], Fairies[0/100], Demigods[0/3], Gods[0/1]. ]

[Reward: Access to the Store function.]

[Penalty for refusal: No]

[Penalty for failure: No.]

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From the written reward, I wanted to go to all the Kingdoms and places of races right now, and run to eat their souls, but then I realized that now the chances of success are small. Now I have a goal to devour souls even more.

I quickly calmed down and began to search for the captive women with a cool head. When I found them, I examined them and sat on the box, and then began to analyze:

- So, let's see their condition is not the best. Multiple fractures, knife wounds, moderate illnesses. The joints in the lower part of the body are also damaged. They are also raped in a very cruel way, but life has not left them yet. What to do with them? Finish it off? So that you wouldn't suffer anymore? I asked myself, thinking.

Nevertheless, I decided to finish off, and I decided to save the souls just in case of fire in the domain, they may be useful in the future. So I was returning with a clean job to the place where Teacher Dayron should have already been. I also received a message about completing the quest, but I decided to leave it for later.