Trail of Candidates

When the demon girl Fell down to the ground unconscious, all blackened out yet again.

The next thing I see, the same girl, by the name of Krásue, is walking with a group of other female and male demons of all kinds.

The interesting thing about Krásue right now was that her weren't so lifeless as before, her eyes looked as if she had a goal ahead of her and was marching towards that goal with determination.

Everybody, including her, wore expensive looking clothes as if some kind of royalty. Every single outfit was different and unique, but none were better or worse than others.

The group was going through some kind of Giant hallway, that even though looked nothing what humans would build, still looked somewhat posh or even Royal.

There was a woman going in front of all of them that had a powerful aura around her. She was also, of course, a demon with her own special demonic features.

"What kind of Trial do you think we will have to go through now? Hm? Krásue ?" A female demon came up to Krásue and asked her with. Even though she was a demon, you could feel the innocence in her.

Though she looked like that, she had actually already killed a lot of different beings to go up to where she currently was. She had a horn growing out of the middle of her forehead, but her most stunning feature was that everything, including her outfit was white in colour, her skin, her eyes, her hair, her nails, her lips and even her tongue that could be seen while she talked, were all white in colour.

"I have no idea, Naga" Krásue replied with an emotionless expression, but a friendly look in her eyes betrayed her, "What do you think the trail will be?" Krásue was wearing a black coloured dress that tightly pressed her body, showing all the curves that were in the right places, but for every present males disappointment though, her body was hidden by her giant black feather wings.

"I am not sure, but if its as exciting as the last one, I am all up for it" Naga's excited smile was nothing else but demonic.

"hm, .. I guess" Krásue then murmured under her breath.

"Why don't you ever show any emotion? I understand others... but even to your bestest of the best friend? really?" Naga pouted a little.

"I guess its just in my nature" Krásue replied.

Naga wanted to say something else but the woman who was leading the group stopped in front of a huge door and turned around, "The Third Trial of Candidates will consist of a full bloodline check. In this Trail, the only thing you will have to do is to pour a couple of drops of your blood onto a stone, it will show us any of your possible bloodlines from weakest to strongest. The only way to fail here, is if you performed poorly and only barely passed to the next trail last two times. Of course if your bloodline is of strong Origin then you will pass the trail, but if it's of low and weak origin, then you can leave and be happy you got out alive trying, you then can try to somehow go into the ranks of the army, but I will tell you about that later" The woman then looked at the group with a smile and continued:

"The ones who performed with excellence in the last two trails, don't need to worry too much. even if your bloodline is not so... impressive you will still pass. The ones with more powerful bloodline will pass with extra points and more chances to be the number one candidate for the throne of the Hell realm."

Indeed, even though it was also a mortal world, it was in an entirely different realm, The Realm of Hell, where only demons and the like resided. The very top of the hierarchy was the demon king or queen, who ruled all the worlds in the realm of hell. They were elected every 1000 years by trails of strength, where candidates from different worlds came to compete against each other for the highest position.

The past demon kings either ascended to godhood over time, which was a rarity, or died out, unable to take off the shackles of a mortal.

Krásue was currently in the trails to become the demon queen.

"A simple trail this time, right? Any questions?" The overseer of the trails, who had unknown strength, asked. Seeing that nobody had any questions she continued, "Very well, let's begin" she then opened the giant doors, where a giant stone layed at the end of the room.

The group, that seemed to be about 14 in total, then poured their blood onto the stone one after the other finished and was assessed. Two of the group had failed. Why? because their bloodline was just too weak and their performed poorly before, so now they had to quit for good.

A lot of them had powerful bloodlines of a higher demon or a strong demonic creature. Some even had two or more.

The last two in line were the white demoness Naga and Krásue still hiding her curvy body behind her black wings.

When Naga poured a couple drops of blood, The stone went see through for a few seconds before showing a demon, that had one horn in the middle of his forehead, and he had some words flying above his head, which said «Average demon bloodline».

Naga sighed, but everyone had expected it, because lower demons have no horns, higher demons have two horns and an average demon has two. Naga had one, so it was logical, but she had some clear special features that showed that her bloodline is one way or another special.

And everyone was correct, the next moment the one horned demon in the stone disappeared and a Giant White Spider was shown, and above its head there were also words that read «Demonic Flower Crab Spider». A creature capable of Camouflage which was its main ability. The creature had many different abilities. It even had the ability to shape shift.

Nagas shape shifting though came to a whole other level. For something simple, she could change her fingers into knives or even make her whole hand transform into a double axe. She could shape shift any body part into whatever she wanted. Including her transforming into a white spider which makes her way stronger than in her humanoid form. But she had never shown that transformation because she never really had any need for that. She could defeat nearly anyone just as is.