Happy Demon

Waking up with a start in an unknown backwater alley, the Demon, Rakshasa opened his dark deep utter black eyes,

they flashed with an unknown malice for a moment before it calmed and his body relaxed,

falling unconscious in an unknown alley was not on his plans, that was just unexpected.

this whole situation was unexpected, he didn't expect to receive such a powerful boost on his devouring from the unknown golden ball mark either.

and knowing the dangers present in the darkness of the seemingly peaceful Demon society, he was kinda afraid, but luckily, nothing had happened while he was unconscious.

and looking at the sky, he could deduce that only around 2 hours had passed since he fell unconscious

Heaving a sigh of relief, he stood up and dusted his dirty black pants, he was wearing some cheap clothes but, it was clean atleast, now he had to get another one, since the current one reeked

Yes it reeked like something straight out of a garbage gutter

why?, it was now filled with the black fluid that oozed out of his body pores after he did his first soul Devouring.

first Soul Devouring was a special ritual to every demon, not due to some ritualistic beleifs, but because it gave them their limit cap and also their body will recieve a perfect cleansing of impurities in the process,

even though his current host body got cleansed when he possesed it, that was different and just allowed his soul and body to coexist, whereas the current him?

breathing out, he moved to the south through the alleyways without any other contact with demons, and soon he reached a wall, moving near a crack in the wall, he punched, and with a defeaning *BOOM* that part of the wall got completely obliterated and a path to move ahead was revealed, it was a bushy area

and without much thought, he kept running,

through the bushes, through the muddy water, soon he reached a cliff end, and jumped...

falling through the air, screaming in happiness at the top of his lungs and laughing while with tears on his eyes, he fell into the river beneath the cliff...

as for the sound that was made when destroying the wall and the reason he did all this?

he just wanted a sense of freedom and he knew that the current him could afford it, so, why not?

it's not like someone will care about that almost broken, flimsy wall either, that was just there to avoid snakes from entering the town through that place, but he didn't care about that, it's not like mere mortal snakes can kill demons, not even a small demkn kid will die to a snake's venom, and ranked snakes can't be blocked with that wall either

as for the feeling?

it was all worth it, the water was cool to boot...

and soon, a figure could be seen swimming naked in the river with happiness brimming on its handsome face,

no normal female could have resisted the current him, How unfortunate...

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soon he was pretty clean from head to toe and he had a very refreshed mind, with that, he swam to a boulder sticking out of the water and sat in the lotus position above it, and calmly started examining himself,

the instinct that people recieve after going through Race Annihilic Rebirth was a very scary ability in its own right,

they will be able to know and understand every part of their body and soul instinctively.

even if they caught a sneaky desease, they will know it immediately, same with poison and similar things

it was even stronger than cultivated abilities like 'divine sense' of old humans, in regards to knowing their own body, and using that instinct,

Rakshasa inspected himself and couldn't help but beam in happiness again

How does devouring souls make you stronger?

simple, it's by distribution of energy throughout all the cells of your body, it makes all your cells hold the energy devoured from souls and slowly reach an evolution of strength forcefully

it in a sense charges you!

that's how you get strength equal to people who had gone through evolution without having an evolution yourself by achieving that strength by eating souls alone,

there are a total of atleast 60 trillion cells in an average demon, unlike 40 trillion in an average human,

and Rakshasa had more than 70 trillion cells in himself due to being a half human and half demon

not that there aren't any demons with more cells than him, or that more is better, of course more made your potential better....but not much difference in strength department .

how you achieve evolution through Soul Devouring is by making all your cells charged and sublimated with pure soul energy, and the more cells you sublimated, the closer you are to the breakthrough,

and due to your body being the least resistant to soul energy the first time and having the best ability to absorb, the first time gives you the best benefit

and as he had ate an unprecedented amount of 160 souls, he unlike anyone before,

sublimated a whole of 8 trillion cells in his body with just that

of course it was a one time thing, it wouldn't increase this much every day

and these cells weren't focused on a single part of his body like the arms, but rather they were spread around his body

and these 8 trillion alone gave him strength equal to grizzly bears but condensed into his perfect demon body, giving even better control over that strength

which allowed him to break through that flimsy wall easily,

and if he ate 160 a day for only a bit more than half a year, he should be able to achieve evolution.

but getting 160 souls a day, everyday?

that will be too expensive for the current him,

even though mortal's were abundant in nature, things like ordinary sheep and even small rabbits counted as a mortal soul and are easy to kill, extracting their souls are anything but easy, you needed an expert for that.

and he wasn't an expert in this field, thus the thing was so expensive, no wonder it cost him 13 gold coins plus 3 as a total of 16 demon gold coins the last time he purchased 160 souls,

10 gold coins was the salary of a successful mortal rich man every month, this was quite some amount

so to continue eating souls in abundance daily, he will have to be one of the most successful mortals...

shaking his head out of all those thoughts, he exhaled turbid air and opened his mouth and inhaled good air in again

he still had no inspiration regarding his cultivation path, so this soul devouring method atleast gave him a way to strength, every other thing like money could be had if you have enough strength, infront of it, everything else was meaningless...