W- Wait, What the heck?

[Peoples have names, and names are the most effective way to distinguish individuals. But sometimes names aren't enough to completely describe an individual, and nicknames were created for that purpose. Nicknames gave mankind another cultural exchange, and they sometimes show the true essence of an individual.]- Humanities scholar.

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At the center of the Kingdom of Ingrassia where the Capital stood tall and strong. Within the said city, inside the royal castle, an important discussion was taking place.

"The news arrived." The king spoke in a grave tone, his expression heavy. "Four more demon Lords have made their apparitions." He informed all the nobles sitting around the round table.

"So the rumors were true after all..." One of the nobles spoke, they already heard rumors about four beings that declared themselves as Demon Lords, but nothing concrete... it was just some rumors after all.

"Wait, let's not get ahead of ourselves, those might just as well only be rumors. There's no saying it's true." Tristin said. He was tall with blonde hair and a mustache of the same color. His body was that of a trained soldier. He was certainly one that trained in Art.

"This can no longer be considered as mere rumors." The king, Aedor shook his head. His well-defined but aged face was laced with worry, as his blue eyes had an int of coldness in them.

"The news, from my sources came from the Frozen continent." The old king closed his eyes for a moment.

"You mean that..." Another noble spoke but he didn't want to speak further, what the king insinuated was explicit enough.

"Yes, they came from the Lord of Darkness himself... Demon Lord Guy Crimson." The kind opened his eyes as he sighed, he was getting far too old for this.

The silence reigned. None spoke for a while, they were too occupied trying to digest this news. It was not every day that a Demon Lord made his debut, even less four for that matter. It was truly an unprecedented event, one that would change the world... and probably for the worst.

"Do we know who they are?" Tristin asked what was on everyone's mind, he was one of the leading figures of the nobles, and his voice was the voice of many.

"Gunther." The King called by shaping a finger, and a butled stepped forward, in his hand a projection crystal, as the name suggested, it could project Image and sound priorly recorded.

From the projection, every Demon Lords' profile was showcased. Their appearance, names, epithets, and territories. Those pieces of information will soon be made public, and accessible for all to see.

"It seems like similar projection crystals have been sent to all kingdoms in the world." The King explained.

"So what should we do?" A rather cowardly noble asked, he was already trying to imagine how the future would be.

"We?" The King asked shooting an intrigued gaze at the noble before following. "There is nothing to do, we should and will not do anything." The King said, looking at every noble present.

"Offending a Demon Lord is synonymous with a death wish." They had to know that, most of those noble were young that recently succeded to the past generation. They know not of how terrifying Demon Lords were.

"Listen carefully, Demon Lords are... pure destruction given form." He ordered, he more than anybody knew that. He was there when an entire country was erased from the map by the "Destroyer." in one of her... moody moments.

"Put them at the same level of danger as the True Dragons and if you, unfortunately, meet one, do whatever it takes to not displease them." Those were instructions he wanted them to follow to the letter.

"Be mindful of how you interact with them, they are all... eccentric in a certain way. One wrong move and we could all die."

"Your highness... are they that terrifying for you to speak of them in such high regard? Wouldn't it be possible to defend ourselves with all our knights and mercenaries?" One noble who remained silent till now decided to ask, he couldn't understand why the Old man was making such a big deal out of this.

"My personal knight, sir Jason is an Enligshned one, if they dared to set foot in our kingdom. They would certainly regret it." Young but naive obese chubby nobble, took courage to speak due to the previous noble words. Arrogance and confidence could be felt in his tone.

"Haa..." The king sighed once again, he was doing this more and more recently, he was getting tired of it, but there is one this he was not yet tired of and that's life. "Turned out I wasn't clear enough."

"This is an order, do not necessarily.. no, do not antagonize them at all, even if you have to dance and sing for them to be happy do it." His eyes turned cold, and unconsciously all nobles' mannerisms were back as they straightened themself immediately.

"My first kid is dead and the second is still a child... I have no desire to see him pass away... so just shut up and do as I say. Understood?" He asked, his long white hair to the wind, and visage impassive.

"Yes, your Highness!" They all answered.

Suddenly someone barged in, leaving them all dumbfounded and outraged. This was no pub, they were having an important discussion, and such comportment was inadmissible.

"Who?"

"Who dare?'

"Are you out of your mind?"

Questions were sent flying at the man that came in, but they were all completely ignored, making them even angrier.

The new individual was a man. A muscular man of around thirty years old, he appeared to have a sunbathed dark face with noticeable wrinkles, short, trimmed, black hair, and black eyes that are as sharp as a sword. He hurried over to the King's side and Kneeled. "Your highness! There's an important matter at hand!"

"Gazef, Is it urgent enough that it couldn't wait until the end of this meeting?" The King addressed The leader of the Kingdom knight.

"Yes, your highness we are currently facing a potential Amida class situation!" Gazeth announced, just after Gulps of saliva being swallowed could be heard coming from the nobles. They all knew what an Amida class situation represented.

"A- Amidada...?" The king's voice was trembling as he got up from his seat, this was the first time in all his years of reign that he faced such a situation.

They had different ways of classifying danger or threat to the kingdom. They were divided into five cases scenario. Black, Vlam, Keneq, Ekhi, and finally Amida.

"Which color?" The King's mind started running at full speed trying to determine who it might be.

To put it into perspective, if Black represented the level of threat of a Group of thieves... Amida would be the classification of Global level threats. There aren't currently many beings that had such a level of power.

"Blue, sir."

"Ha damn, second worst-case scenario." The king said as he fall back on his seat. This particular one was just too peculiar. Cared about nothing and did anything it pleased. Yes, most powerful beings in this world were like that but this one was particularly hard to deal with.

"Yes, the Storm Dragon Veldora has been localized in the inhabited lands at the north of the kingdom." This information new piece of information made the king as well as the noble sigh of relief. At least the threat was not immediate, there was hope.

"Did he shows any sign that could be interpreted as interest toward our Kingdom?"

"Nothing particular your highness, he seems to have taken domicile there."

"Hopefully, we won't have any problem with him." The King was really getting tired. At the moment he just wished his kid would grow faster and succeed him so he wouldn't have to deal with all of this anymore.

"You heard him... Go take the disposition necessary to face an Amida-level threat and bear what I told you in mind." Although those dispositions would ultimately be useless in such cases, it was enough to make so the nobles wouldn't lose themselves in despair.

"This meeting is Dismissed!"

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While all of this was happening our new Demon Lord was testing an interesting idea that he had while traveling to The Ingrassia Kingdom. It resulted in him stopping dead in his track as he started searching around for something.

"Found it." He was overjoyed, after looking for them for so long he finally found some. "Who would have thought it would be so hard to find some slimes."

They were three in total, he slowly flew toward them, and with three rapid punches, he killed all of them. Although slimes have an intrinsic skill based on regeneration, it was useless against someone of his level.

"Now let's see what will happen." He said as he took hold of a dead viscous body and opened his mouth wide, ingesting it with some effort.

[Data are being collected... Enough data collected... adapting... successful]

As expected his skill didn't let him down.

[Confirmed, common skill Dissolve acquired successfully.]

[Confirmed, common Skill Absorbe acquired successfully.]

[Confirmed, common skill Self-regeneration acquired successfully.]

He successfully obtained those skills, but what he was wondering was what will now happen. Although he could imagine how Dissolve would work, his body was not that of slime so, he couldn't just absorb something and store it in his body. Could he?

[Desire detected... Skill Dissolve Inefficient, and Skill Absorb function undesirable ... adapting.]

'Although I knew it was possible, it's the first time I triggered [Selection] voluntarily. Most of the time I just passively use the skill since there was no need to me to actively do it.'

He was curious though, as to what would happen now.

[Enough data collected... high affinity detected... adapting... best course of action detected... Adapting.]

[Adaptative power insufficient... using the skill Transcendence to temporarily exceed the limit... successful.]

[Confirmed, Evolving Unique Skill Reactive Adapter to Unique SKill Nemesis.]

'W-what, what the fuck just happened?'

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Sorry, it's a little shorter than I planned but I got something else to do as I have been quite occupied recently. Anyway, see ya tomorrow for the next chapter.