Demon Ranking

Luis managed to regain his consciousness a few minutes after they had jumped out of the building, he turned to the school building, which was still covered in flames, then a stream of water flew up towards the building.

The firefighters had arrived but their water wasn't doing anything against the fire, they needed something that could cover the whole building with water at once, their normal hose couldn't do that and the fire would just return to the same place after the water stopped coming.

The firefighters continued fighting the fire but they weren't able to do anything, as the fire would just return afterward.

"Call Mr. Thompson!" A man shouted.

As they continued fighting the fire, the flames became wilder and if they didn't do anything quick, it may soon spread to other buildings nearby.

Luis was lucky to have landed in the grass where the flames didn't follow him, his vision was a little blurry and when he tried to get up, his legs felt like jelly.

[ 1/7 HP ]

[ You are in a critical condition ]

Luis didn't have time to look at the screen as he remembered those who had jumped out of the building with him.

"Greg, Tammy." Even the person closest to him wouldn't have heard, his voice had become so faint that trying to speak felt like taking his life force away.

Luis searched around with his eyes but he couldn't find anything, there was nobody close. Luis didn't want to believe what he was thinking as he activated his aura vision.

He looked backward but he couldn't find any aura belonging to a living person, he bit his lips and turned to his front, he still couldn't find anything, then he decided to stretch it a little more and that was when he could see it, two yellow auras lying on the flow, their auras had become a little dim.

Luis without hesitation began to crawl his way to the two, when he got there he could see that the two were unconscious and they were lying on the hard floor.

'No wonder they passed out.'

Tammy's white uniform was now stained with the smoke from the fire and her face didn't seem to look any better either, but fortunately, she was breathing peacefully as if she has just fallen asleep. The same couldn't be said for Greg whose clothes had been reduced to rags and Luis couldn't even hear his breath.

Luis heard a splashing sound and quickly turned his gaze to the building, he was in awe of what he was seeing now.

Piles of water in the form of a serpent as tall as the building was now twirling in front of the building, Luis tried to find the person responsible for this and that was when he could see a man standing close to the building with his hands held out.

'I wonder what level he is." Luis thought.

The man controlled the water and gently dropped it on the building, quenching all the fire in the process.

The fire was gone now and a man had done what, about twenty people couldn't.

The fire was gone, but it had taken the beautiful building with it as pieces of the building from the highest floor came crumbling down.

Luis was just glad that the fire had been stopped, all he needed to do now was find a way to take these two to the hospital.

Luis knelt close to the two trying to think of a solution, he tried to call the firefighter's attention, but his voice wouldn't even reach a distance of two meters.

'What do I do now?' Luis dug his fingers into the hard ground, he was frustrated and his sight was becoming distorted by the second, he would have long passed out if he hadn't been so keen on looking for a way to help these two.

Luis activated his aura vision to see if he could see anyone close by and he was happy when he saw five yellow auras coming toward them.

'Thank goodness.' He wanted to collapse on the floor when he heard something.

"Capture the boy." A man ordered, he was clearly the one in charge.

'Capture me, why? What did I do?.' Luis wanted to say, but the words just wouldn't come out.

One of the men quickly came forward and tried to grab Luis, but his hands stopped midway, his hands had been stopped by someone.

Greg!

"Mr. Phillips." The soldier gasped.

"Leave the boy, just take us to the hospital." Immediately after Greg finished saying those words he passed out.

[ Task completed ]

[ Instant level up granted ]

[ You are now level 3 ]

The message had appeared immediately Greg had said those words, but Luis couldn't read it because he too had passed out.

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Luis woke up to see a completely white ceiling, the first time he had seen such a white ceiling was the first he came into this world and got knocked down by Greg's car.

He was in the same room as he was put that day because there was no other hospital bed there, just this one that seemed to be a little bit large for an ordinary hospital bed.

The pain in his body was all gone but his head was still aching slightly.

"What happened.?"

"You are awake." He heard someone say before opening the door, it was Greg and he was wearing his white coat.

"Yeah," Luis said.

"You've slept for twenty-four hours now."

"Twenty-four what?"

[ You have slept for twenty-four hours ]

[ Daily quest completed ]

[ Get eight hours of sleep ×3 ]

[ 30 EXP Gained ]

[ 180/300 EXP ]

The system responded as if trying to clarify his doubt.

"Are you okay?" Greg asked, noticing that he had been sitting straight on his bed for a while.

"Yeah, what about Tammy?"

"Tammy is okay, fortunately, she didn't sustain any injury."

"Ok."

Luis had a lot of things going on in his mind, like why did the soldiers try to capture him.

"Don't the military won't disturb you, I explained everything to them," Greg said as if reading his mind.

Luis felt a little relieved to hear that but he still had other things bugging him like, why was Raph after him? What did he mean by he had a gift? And how could he have burnt down the whole school?

Greg knew Luis had a lot of questions in his mind and decided to go sit with him.

"Raph," Luis said. "Is he the most powerful demon?"

Greg chuckled before answering his question.

"He is not even close to becoming an ultimate demon."

"Ultimate demon?"

"Yes, they are known as the strongest demons, but…." Greg now had a worried look on his face.

"There is someone beyond an ultimate demon."

"Who?"

"Lucifer, the king of demons."Greg said."He was the one that started the war on earth."

"How do you beat him when you can't beat someone like Raph." Luis stopped to see if he had offended Greg with his word, but gestured for him to continue."What is even Raph's demon rank."

"Master demon, the weakest out of the top ranks."

'Weakest, but he was still able to do that.' Luis couldn't help but imagine what would have happened to them and that building if Raph had been an ultimate demon.

"How many ranks are they?"

"In the low ranks, you have an ordinary demon, a demon noble, and a growing demon," Greg explained. "In the top ranks, you have a master demon, a demon Lord and an ultimate and finally someone beyond an ultimate demon."

Luis was shocked, how could the human race possibly fight these things? If a master demon could burn down a house, then what could an ultimate demon or Lucifer himself do?

In the middle of his thoughts, Greg placed his hands on his shoulders and said.

"I know Luis, they look and sound too strong, but that's why we should all keep trying to get strong, and luckily we will all pull through." After saying that he stood up and left Luis to recover well.

Luis thought about Greg's words.

'Get strong, when that damn machine said I have no potential for growth.'

Luis was starting to believe he couldn't grow strong until he remembered something.

[ Task completed ]

[ Instant level up granted ]

[ You are now level three ]

[ Three stat points granted ]

'It would be nice if I could get stronger.'

The system responded to his thoughts.

[ Stat points have been added to strength ]

[ Physical status ]

[ Strength: 8 ]

[ Stamina: 5 ]

[ Agility: 5 ]

Luis looked at the screen and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

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