A Light to Return

Within a split second, I was in complete control of my former minion's body. I flexed the powerful muscles worthy of a A ranked monster. I thrash my tail against a sewer wall. A hole the size of a large cardboard box was smashed into the solid concrete walls. But now I have two paths to take. I could keep this powerful body, which is much better anything I can get around these sewers. But, at the same time, I could completely compress the snake's body to expand my mist size, so I can use some of my old skills and spells. There is a specific skill I need badly though...

After a good ten minutes of thinking, I've decided to compress the body. I could return to my realm under my authority and regain my original power after a good hundred years anyways.

I poisoned the body I had with the strongest poison skill i could use for now {Scarlet Death Level 8}. A skill that had little to no effect for ten minutes, but attacks the victim's organs within the next five, and achieving total organ failure at the twenty minute mark. Great for negations. I sacrificed 1/10 of my mist mass, turned it into the {Scarlet Death}, then injected it into the snake's heart, with the parts of the poison spreading everywhere within the cobra's body.

I waited for 18 minutes and then disengaged from the body. The scariest part of my parasitic powers is that the victims are fully conscious the entire time.

The Cobra looked dazed, but a within a minute he realized he could move his body again. He knew what've happened to him. He started panicking and opened his mouth.

"Please! Have mercy!" Having seen this attack first hand many times in the past, he was aware of the amounts of deaths occurred to have made me the Demon King of the 3064th Realm. He also became king after his former King died from this exact attack.

"There is no mercy for treason", I replied in a ice cold tone.

"Pl-please! I was unaware of Your majesty's grandiose!" The Cobra started coughing out crimson red blood, as his head plummeted to the cold stone floor. It seems like he couldn't control his body anymore. He slowly raised his face and looked at me with a pitiful face. He realized it was too late, and accepted his fate.

"I... apologize my king. I wish to serve you again in my next life." And with that, his last minute of life was up. His eyes closed and his head rolled to the side.

I felt remorseful, but this is just life within the rifts. I should know, with my three thousand years of life. I covered his body with my mist, absorbing every part of his body. I can only do this to organisms that just died. I absorbed every ounce of his skills, power and mana, making it my own.

With this, I can use the skill I wanted to but couldn't before. I activated {Inventory}. {Inventory} was a skill only available to A ranked monsters, but sadly not parasitic ones controlling someone else's body. I looked at my choices before I decided on a more humanoid figure. Out came a pale muscle bound demon, with hair as dark as the night sky with blood red horns and wings behind his back, and completely black clothes to match. Also belts. Lots and lots of belts. Because they look cool. I made a collection of mannequin bodies that I can choose and mimic at will. A demon king needs style, you know. I surveyed the body. I need more to blend into this world. {Mimicry Level 9} and morphed into the exact same body of the mannequin on the ground. I took it back into my inventory and began editing my new body.

First, I got rid of the most obvious parts, the horns and the wings. After a few minutes of thinking, I painstaking took away the belts, as they looked too out of place in the human society. Lastly, my jet black cloths. They won't fit in, I'll be caught within a split second. I thought of the salaryman, and decided to copy his clothes. I was in the standard salaryman cloths, with a traditional black suit, white collar, and red tie. I buttoned up the black suit and straighten my tie. Hoh? This actually looks quite nice.

For now, I'll have to power back up as a S rank demon in the human world before I could use my demon king powers to return...

I rubbed my new neck and muttered, "what a pain..."