Arrived at the Town

"Sir. Are you all right, sir?"

Hearing Camellia's worried voice in his ear, Azel snapped out of his daydream. He turned to the beautiful girl and smiled mysteriously.

"It's okay, Camellia. I'm just happy that I got a territory that's several times 'richer' than the previous one."

As a slave and servant who takes care of Azel's daily life, Camellia knows when her master is angry. Due to his master's frequent errands, he also knew that the place they were going to was dangerous. The girl looked at Azel with a serious expression.

"I will protect you, Sir!"

Hearing Camellia's promise, Azel's cold smile softened. He put his hand on the girl's head and stroked her hair.

"Then I'll be counting on you, Camellia."

"Yes sir!"

Despite saying that, Azel himself didn't really care about that. As a transmigrator, of course he had his own plans since childhood. To be honest, that young man had overshadowed his own talent.

Azel knows the level of power that exists in this world. Power levels are divided from level one to nine. Levels 1 and 2 are considered low level demons. Levels 3 and 4 are considered mid-level demons. Levels 5 and 6 are considered high level demons. Level 7 is called a King class Demon. Level 8 is called an Emperor class Demon. As for level 9, its called 'Demi God'.

Each level are also divided into three stages, named the initial, intermediate and final stages. Besides, from what Azel knew, it was difficult for a demon to break through the level barrier. Like from low level to mid level demons, from mid level to high level, and so on. However… breaking through from a high level to the King level was said to be extremely difficult. some demon nobles are stuck in that level.

Why did Azel say some nobles, of course, because most ordinary demons even find it difficult to advance from middle to high level. Besides requiring lots of nutrition, exercise, and such. There are things that demons consider very important. It is an innate talent and ability.

An innate ability is an ability one that is born with a demon. The one who knows the innate ability best is the demon himself. Many kinds of innate abilities from the very strong, to the very strange, to the useless.

For example there is an innate ability called 'Shadow Control', that innate ability increases the possessor's affinity for shadow and dark magic. There are also innate abilities such as 'Marsh Smeel', an ability that makes the owner emit a foul scent to annoy the opponent. An ability that was deemed useless.

According to Azel himself, there are no useless innate abilities. It depends on the user. He once read a book about demon knights which was extraordinary. The book was lent by the 5th prince to encourage him.

In the book, it is told about a demon who has the innate ability 'Hardening'. As the name implies, this ability can be used to harden the skin. Of course, only slightly harden. But in his hands, after a long struggle and practice, that trivial ability became extremely terrifying.

Parrying weapons, repelling magic, that person became so strong that it was as if he had transformed into a walking weapon. Amazing is probably the right word to describe it.

In the Demon race, apart from various innate abilities, there are also occasional strange cases. If a demon's usually have one innate ability, there are also those who have two. Of course, that's very rare. As for three or more, that only exists in legends. Incidentally, Azel also has one. More precisely, three innate abilities.

The first innate ability is called 'Eye of The Lord'. In legend, it has been compared to be on par to the eye of a God. Its function is to see the opponent's innate abilities, statistics, and various kinds of information about almost anything .

The second innate ability is called 'Arcana Lord'. It is said that Azel's ancestor from the Black Sun Kingdom was a 'Fallen Angel', Lucifer. As the incarnation of one of the seven deadly sins 'Pride', Arcana Lord has the ability to use all kinds of magic. Meaning, the user has all the elemental affinities of magic.

The third or last innate ability is called 'Devour'. Ciel's mother was a descendant of another Empire. Their ancestor is known as Beelzebub. As the incarnation of one of the seven deadly sins 'Gluttony', Devour has the ability to absorb almost all kinds of living things and turn them into energy to strengthen the body. In other words, an extremely strong body surpassed even the 'Hardening' in stories.

Possessing three legendary abilities from his ancestors, Lucifer and Beelzebub, Azazel is anything but stupid. Moreover, he is a reincarnator. The young man knew that he had the potential to be on top of this world. Yes... only potential.

His reason for hiding himself as a 'useless prince' was also because of this. What would happen if the Emperor found out that he had such extraordinary talent? Of course he would be proud and appointed him as Crown Prince! It's just… is it good for Azel?

The answer is an obvious no. As a child who is very talented, the stepmother must have been jealous and tried various ways to finish him off. After he died, the Emperor would definitely be furious, but would also forgive his wife because the corpse of a genius could no longer be considered the genius or future of the Black Sun Empire.

That's only the first possibility. Even if the stepmothers didn't hate him, what about the other Empires or Kingdoms? Seeing a potential enemy, they would be hunting him down even to the ends of the world. Not allowing him to grow. He must have died young!

The only way is to cover up and act as a useless person so that people will not be aware of him. Of course, Azel still took advantage of various opportunities. He is considered a spendthrift because he is picky about food and he often spends money on delicious food.

a delicious food is of course made from precious materials such as Demonic Beast meat as well as various rare herbs. Such a thing was extremely useful for strengthening his body. Especially because of the Devour effect, you could say Azel leveled up just by eating.

As for magic training, he would do it in his room when he was alone. With the Eye of the Lord, the young man made sure that no one was watching him. Only then did he start practicing mana control and also practicing magic.

For his own magic books, Azel often went to the Imperial library and took many books at once. Since most demons had one or two magic affinities, no one suspected anything when he took out a magic book of various types of elemental magic. Maybe in other people's eyes he just wants to find a book to read when relaxing. At best, they would feel sorry for the book that might have been used for Azel's teacup base.

What's more, Azel borrowed the book in just one night. People think that it is impossible for him to memorize everything. Of course they were wrong, because with the Eye of The Lord he almost has a image memory. Memorizes almost everything at one glance.

The reason Azel was acting discreetly other than being afraid of being wiped out, he realized something important. There was nothing in this world that could be relied on except for his own strength. It wasn't that he didn't believe his father, mother, and the people who were seen showing him affection and love. It's just that he wants to feel safe anywhere and anytime.

Of course, Azel really didn't care about the Emperor's throne. But who will believe him?

Like now, even after acting as a useless Prince who didn't want the throne, there were people who didn't like him. He really was sent to die!

It's just that they didn't know that what Azel had done during his fifteen years of life was not in vain.

Thinking of the complicated situation in the palace, Azel secretly took a deep breath. He was grateful to be out of that place. But he was also somewhat worried because he would encounter various unknown dangers.

"Life sure is hard," muttered Azel, shaking his head lightly.

The young man could only prepare himself for the various possibilities in front of him. Without noticing, time just flew by. Four days went smoothly, Azel finally arrived at Black Lily City.

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