Demon Metamorphosis II

"Oh, something changed in you… I see, that bastard gave you a part of himself, unlike the darkness from before, you're now as bright as a star itself."

The voice spoke just as ominously, but the maid in front wasn't the same individual that once entered this trial. Her maid outfit was no longer blue and white, it was polished gold, her laces her golden and there was something else different in her.

Several strands of her silver hair were now golden as well.

Even then, her eyes were lifeless.

"Don't insult my master again..."

"Is he really your master? even after you devoured him?~"

"SHUT UP!"

Not even the sickest of insults she would allow, her sin was her own to carry.

"Hoho~ very well, then show me what the power of a young Primordial can achieve~!"

Silhouettes began to appear, she could see all of them now... her body shone with enough brilliance to light up the dark room. It was then that she realised who it had been all along. The 'monsters' that had been attacking her and causing her despair with words of doom.

The Lucifuge Clan. Her cousins, uncles, aunts... mother, father...

The Anti-satan Faction. Sirzechs, Serafall, Ajuka, Falbium... every single devil that she had slaughtered... all of them stood around her in a circle, approaching with menacing expressions and weapons, ready to slaughter her.

Even then, Grayfia's gaze was imperturbable and lifeless.

Behind those individuals, several more appeared in different shapes and forms, like a nightmare. Skeletons, salamanders, monsters... all of them she recognised from the underworld.

*BOOM!!*

Four giants appeared in the distance, rumbling the ground with their steps, she lifted up her gaze to look at them.

Lucifer, Beelzebub, Leviathan and Asmodeous.

The four silhouettes that she once worshipped.

She extended her slender hand forward; creating a single block of ice and immediately noticing that there wasn't only Ice the element she was a master in; but there were mixtures of gold sparkles in it, making it remarkably beautiful and delightful to look at.

It only made her stomach twist, thinking about what she had to do to obtain that power.

Launching that ice-golden spear towards those monsters only resulted in a massacre that she wasn't expecting, it impaled her mother first followed by twenty of those monsters in one go, the spear directly obliterated Lucifer's head in the distance, increasing in size until it reached the end of that dimension.

*BOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!*

Eventually, the spear exploded in a spectacle of frost and gold, freezing and petrifying everything around with gold corrosion.

'W-What?' her lips shivered in disbelief.

'W-What…' The voice said, with equal disbelief, 'W-What's that...? a ridiculous amount of faith!?'

Grayfia looked at her hands which were still shining with ice and gold, 'Was that my power just now?'

It produced a mixture of relief and thrill in her heart to be able to perceive visually how strong she had become, but even then, regardless of this thrill, the image of herself eating that golden ball and also... the taste... wouldn't leave her head and stop producing endless disgust.

Disgust with herself.

She needed relief.

Producing another one of those spears she launched it towards her father, twisting her hand in the air, the spear changed directions in midair, penetrating and impaling everything as if it was slicing wet paper and crushing a pile of fragile wooden sticks.

In front of this strength and might, everything was so... fragile.

*BOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!*

*BOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!*

*BOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!*

The spear sliced through the head of the Demon King Leviathan, a figure she once thought exalted.

Leviathan pointed his palm in her direction and a burst of blue flames came crashing down devastatingly, this is the true strength of the Demon King!

However, the moment she was engulfed in those flames... it was as if she felt the warmest of embraces. The golden maid attire didn't even flutter before the flames dissipated, having burned some of the creatures in the way.

She was uninjured.

Her lips curled up in self-mockery before she opened her arms widely, producing a magic circle. Ice wasn't her only proficiency, a magic circle appeared in the skies, releasing a golden hue and a devastating lightning strike fell on the land.

*BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!*

Whatever the golden lightning touched, got immediately obliterated... The Demon King Asmodeous died within a minute followed by Leviathan, she felt her energy draining massively, but kept the lightning storm going, striking every single one of those creatures regardless of face. She didn't care who they were.

Grayfia relieved all of her stress with those monsters, freezing them, burning them and then turning them into dust. Unbeknownst to me, the more she massacred the more my body changed.

Her eight wings turned into two gigantic golden ones resembling a demon's, frozen ice formed in the edges producing a hazy frosty fog. A pair of horns formed the shape of a crown on her head, golden in colour, also frozen. Her arms and legs produced golden icy scales.

That was no longer a devil or even a demon. It was something else.

'She... she has the highest potential I have seen so far!' The voice yelled in disconcert, looking at how the whole battlefield switched into an apocalyptic frosty hell.

Like a frosty haze, she flickered to her last enemy with a frozen spear in hand, a demon she recognised.

'Selodus'.

She swung her hand, but this was no easy opponent. Selodus smiled wickedly like the demon he was, swinging a sword!

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!*

Her ice spear got obliterated with the mere contact but Grayfia didn't back up, expecting this... her scale of power had been dwarfed and if Selodus was known as her master as a Demon God, she couldn't possibly underestimate him.

Using the momentum of her blown weapon she spun and kicked the demon right on his face.

*BAAAANGGG!!*

A gigantic shockwave was produced, blowing several corpses away as the demon god kept his ground, however, half of his face had turned into gold-ish ice, Grayfia kept going, delivering another kick that blasted away the aforementioned ice, leaving behind only half of the demon's head.

But even then, Selodus didn't fall.

<Demonic Reign!>

His voice spoke with wickedness, conjuring a technique that Grayfia detected as darkness. She created a barrier of golden ice around herself protecting herself from the darkness only to see how the ice began to melt as if it was being corroded.

*FIIUSSSHH!!!*

Not wasting time she rocked forward with her wings faster than sound, arriving in front of Selodus who was still conjuring his darkness; the demon switched target, having her in his gaze at all times, but when he kicked forward, what he met was an afterimage.

*BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!*

A spear impaled him from behind, blasting his chest into a bloody splendour.

"HAAA!!!" Grayfia knew this wasn't going to be enough, she wouldn't stop until her enemy was either turned into dust or sealed. The maid outfit protected her against the darkness but even it started to melt eventually, the moment it melted completely, she'd be exposed to this corrosive darkness.

What followed was a barrage of slices and punches that Selodus took like a champ, each impact would either freeze him or petrify him in gold. Grayfia was efficient; she blasted the pieces of ice with her mere hands, effectively taking chunks of flesh out of the demon.

When she saw him lose his footing, she growled, taking his head with her claws and planting it on the ground to the point it literally crushed like a watermelon.

*BOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!*

A cloud of blood and ice covered a few dozen metres around her as she panted, wondering if all that had been enough to kill the demon.

'He died the moment you impaled him with the spear you know? there was no need for all that useless blood' the voice stated, a little amused and thrilled.

Grayfia didn't trust that voice one bit and remained on guard until she saw the remaining body of Selodus begin turning into dust.

If she could see herself in a mirror, she'd marvel at her glorious appearance. Grayfia had indeed turned into a Golden Maid. Adopting even her master's features. Her aura flowed with power having mixtures of darkness, gold and ice wrapped into it, defining her identity.

Looking around, she found there was a frozen world brimming with more than a thousand destroyed corpses, all of them of people 'important' to her. She didn't know how it happened… it just happened.

'So this is a hybrid had, that reckless bastard… does he know what kind of monster he created?' The voice spoke again, darkness claimed the corpses before they disappeared.

'What are you talking about? I told you to stop calling my master in an insulting manner!'

Several layers of ice appeared around her, portraying her anger. It felt upsetting and utterly unpleasant to hear someone insult her master. She had more than just fallen in love, her loyalty couldn't be higher.

"Your master? I see how it is, however… I'm afraid you're unqualified to teach me how I should address that brat, Primordial Dragon or not he's still a greenhorn in front of me, the True Demon, compared to me, Legion… he is still a brat and you can't do anything to change that".

She refused to answer the petty comments of an entity that had been stored in her master's treasury for thousands of years. His words couldn't be any more delusional.

'What a pity… with this experiment of his you could -without a doubt- become the strongest Demon Goddess… the element of ice has never been predominant in our race. It is always elements of destruction; either fire or darkness… only a single Demon God ever managed to master nothingness, but Ice… you're also the first with the capacity to drift the universe stagnant… wonderful~ Not only that but your netherfrost Ice is also stained and corroded with his primordial gold. What a gorgeous demon goddess you will become, perhaps one in a counted amount of creatures capable of ending a primordial's endless lifecycle~"

They sounded like pleasantries, but she knew better… it is not her who will become the Demon Goddess if she fails the second phase.

"Since you have passed the first trial, it is time for the second trial. Good Luck, Demon Goddess Lucifuge~"

Grayfia was transported to a different place. Once again a darkened world in which she had the capacity to look only a limited distance around her.

Silhouettes began appearing in the distance.

'This time there won't be a second chance'.

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[Grayfia's POV]

The voice said and I realised with gritted teeth that I wouldn't ever go back to that room where I spent months or even years with my master.

The first silhouette was that of a woman, she was ravishing and gorgeous.

Her aura flared me and for the first time in Helius, I was able to read a person's aura, before I was too weak to do so.

[Demon Empress of the First Order, Chambria]

She was dressed in an attire that resembled an Egyptian queen, a pair of gigantic demon wings on her back, holding a staff, her eyes regarded me as if I was the lowliest of beings.

Right beside her two more silhouettes walked towards me.

[Destruction Incarnate, Demon Emperor Rangha of the Thousand Lineages]

[Epitaph of Silence, Demon God Shin the Authentic]

I understand now, those are their backgrounds... the process of gaining an aura ingrained into the whole identity of an individual. A strong aura without a title is like comparing the purring of a cat with the growling of a lion.

These are all the Demon Emperors and Empresses… Gods and Goddesses… that Heart Lineage has belonged to.

'D-Do I have to fight… all of them?'

"It seems we do. What a bothersome trial, I want to sleep..."

!!!

The tears poured out of my eyes faster than I could turn my head, there he was, standing lazily with his hands on the pockets of his trousers, looking at the Demon Empress that approached as he whistled.

The Golden Dragon God is here.