The Demon Realm
The mansion stage actions were not the only strange happening that caught Sora's attention. This was because his eyes and ears in many places were suddenly disappearing.
The mansion strange happened the was closest thing to Sora, and the fact a B-tier Mage suddenly disappeared along with so many people caught Sora's interest, so he came to take a look.
"so you are like the leader of the underworld?" Lisa asked while floating next to Sora who was drinking some while standing at the edge of a ship moving through the clouds
"no, I'm more of the 2nd strongest power in the underworld. What my people are most skilled in is their connection with many nobles around the world, the information we have, and our numbers." Sora said lightly,
"that's still impressive." She said softly while looking at the ship, she had never seen anything like this and it left with great interest about the whole thing.
"Bob disappeared somewhere around here, I don't like being in the dark," Sora said calmly while using his telekinesis to move the clouds, revealing the city below, but the sight below left him in shock
There a camp was, but it was no normal camp, it was a demon camp.
"no wonder... The invasion of the demon realm has begun." Sora said softly, his eyes locking with a demon.
Wing exploded from the demon's back, along with other demons which shot toward Sora. Sora looked at them with calm and indifferent eyes, they were simply C-tier-level shoulders
'their number would prove troublesome for the humans to handle.' Sora thought as his telekinesis slammed all of them down along with their attacks
The barrier around the camp which blocked Sora's senses exploded, allowing for Sora's sharp eyes to see everything, Sora could see sound, see sound, and so on
But that was just his eyes, within his mind, a map of the whole camp formed. From the main camp, an explosion suddenly went off, followed by a young man shooting out, flying toward Sora
The young man was covered in blood he had been tortured for information.
"look at that, karma exists," Sora said softly, while Lisa's eyes turned demonic seeing this young man. But the young man didn't see her and instead, let out a cry.
"don't look down upon us noble, I will not betray the human race." He roared, leaving Sora stunned for a moment, Sora, of course, could easily see this was no act, this guy who destroys Lisa's life, kidnap her only to enjoy himself before killing her was so heroic
Lisa on the other hand didn't care, grabbing Bob and slamming him against the wall. She had to make him feel fear and regret before he devoured his soul.
"i-its you." Bob was horrified to see Lisa, he ran away from home because he thought he was seeing this woman, and not she was before him.
"you took everything from me, you shall pay," Lisa said in a demonic tone, a caring Bob
"you want to make him feel the worst pain?" Sora asked calmly while drinking from his wine glass. Lisa with her control slowly slipping away turned to look at Sora, wanting to know what he was saying.
"the human mind is powerful, just look at you. After becoming a spirit and losing your brain, the chains your brain placed on your mind disappeared... More than 99% of the information that you take in is filtered out. I'm about to shut down the brain's ability to filter things out." Sora said calmly, confusing Lisa
But Sora next actions caused her to snap out of her berserk-like state. Sora removed Bob brains ability to limit the pain he could withstand, he even caused Bob's senses to only take in pain
"you want to make a person regret? And for someone with a will like him, you have to so him what true pain is." Sora said calmly before lightly tapping Bob's head, causing Bob to let out a scream that came from deep within his soul.
Bob moved, but the wind hitting his flesh, the dust which landed on him, and even the sunlight, it caused him great pain,
Lisa could sense Bob's spirit and she could sense the suffering he was going through.
"go ahead, I will hold his mind together, you have 24 hours before his mind break apart to a point where I can't do anything about it," Sora said calmly, leaving Lisa standing there not knowing if she wanted to go through with this.
Sora ignored her and went on to make a call, so looking at his crystal ball, an old man slowly appeared within
"Sora, you missed me already?" Merlin asked with a smile, only for Sora to point the crystal ball below him shocking Merlin
"Impossible, the invasion should have taken place 8 years from now," Merlin yelled in shock seeing the demons, a flash appeared before Sors, as Merlin appeared looking down below with a serious look
"they got a new demon lord who wants to conquer Earth land the celestial spirit realm, and the other realms before ending with the realm of the gods," Sora said calmly, he had read the minds of the demons
Merlin's face darkened at Sora's words, she looked down below for some time before she bit her finger and using her blood as a sacrifice, she went on to form a link to speak to someone
"Ankhseram, the demon realm invasion has begun, they even have a new demon lord who is most likely stronger than the last one," Merlin said to a shadow that formed from her blood
"that's impossible... We foresaw the future. Unless they did too and changed, or something outside of time stepped in." Ankhseram said his voice filled with shock for a moment
"go to the celestial spirit realm and see if they can do something to help your realm. I will go speak to the other goods about this matter, avoid the demon realm knowing about this matter for as long as you cold." He said in a hurry before disappearing, leaving Merlin to turn around and give Sora a complex look
"That was the god of Life and Death. He is one of the few Gods who view humans in a good light." Merlin said softly, to which Sora nodded in slight understanding
He had heard of the many gods, Ankhseram is a god who took his job seriously, being the god of life and death, he looked over the underworld, so if someone enrage him by taking life too lately or trying to bring back the dead, his punishment was harsh and ruthless
He was one of the main reasons healing magic was a rare form of magic, development within this form of magic was tricky as everyone was scared of engaging him and getting punished.
"Can you look after things while I leave for the celestial realm? If I can agree with the celestial king, then humans would be able to survive this war." Merlin said with a slight bow, to which Sora nodded slightly.
The former plan was to create a party of heroes, by the time the invasion began 8 years from now, they would be strong enough to face the demon lord, while everyone else helps by taking out the army.
This was honestly the only way Merlin could see humans surviving the upcoming war. But now they were running low on time, which was just going to make that little hope of victory lower
"... Is that wine?" Merlin who was about to think Sora froze while looking at the glass of wine in Sora's hands.
"what about it." Sora calmly as he drinks the wine, Merlin opened and closed her mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"just because your body ages after doesn't mean to start getting into bad habits," Merlin said seriously, to which Sora ignored
"I will be going to the demon realm, and try and build an underground force there," Sora said calmly, annoying Merlin slightly before he froze, she wanted to reject Sora's words, but Sora was no normal human
"don't make me regret allowing you to go." She said seriously, to which Sora shrugged,
"It's just the demon realm," Sora said calmly, Merlin looked around at the ship, her eyes landing on Bob for some time before Lisa. She shook her head for a moment before disappearing
"Are you ready to pass on?" Sora asked Lisa, who had a complex look, she didn't answer for some time, but soon she took a deep breath and spoke.
"I don't want to pass on... I thought seeing him regret everything would be enough, but I only ended up taking pity on him. I can't even touch the guy." Lisa said softly
"... I want to help you, I'm a noble at the end of the day, I want to come with you to the demon realm and help my people," Lisa said softly, Sora looked at her for a moment before nodding and jumping off the ship
Lisa followed, and they quickly arrived on the ground, where every demon was on the ground, pin down and unable to move. Sora didn't bother to say anything, holding a finger, a beam shot into every demon's mind, and like that Sora went on to make some changes to their memories before the bean disappeared
all of the demons suddenly fell to their knees, respectfully forming a path before Sora leading to their leader who was a B-tier mage. Sora had this demon leader open the passageway into the demon realm, the passageway was within a cave, hidden from the outside world.
Before Sora entered, he informed his subordinate to look after everything, those places where they lost their eyes and ears were to have at least an A-tier mage to go make sure everything was alright. if by chance there were demons, they were to not alert the enemy.
With all that done, Sora entered the demon realm, leaving the demons behind to do the missions they were tasked to do. the demons had yet to truly start the invasion, instead, they were coming out of the demon realm to build camps and to see if they could draw a few humans to their sides. of course, information gathering was important as well,
though their memory, Sora understood that the demon realm was its dimensions, which had its flow of time. one day in the demon realm is equal to 3 days in the Earth Land, but the time flow would slowly become equal the closer the demon realm to Earth Land.
Sora stepped out of a passageway and appeared on what seemed to be an altar, as soon as he appeared, many demons' eyes landed on him and were stunned. sadly for them, Sora reacted quickly and all of their eyes went blank as their memory was at Sora's palms.
Sora easily went through their memory, he made some changes to all of them. from the information he got from them, he found out that a new demon lord had taken over the demon realm. at just the age of 4, she was raised to power, catching the attention of many demons and even the demon lord who took an interest in her.
at the age of 8, she killed the demon lord and took claim to the position of the demon lord, now she was 27 years old and was considered the strongest demon lord to have ever existed, and due to her might, she was pushing forward to conquer the whole universe, starting with the weakest realm,
{something is off about this demon lord, if I'm not wrong, she was born around the same time as you. growth is only something the likes of you and others like yourself could do, there is a chance she embodies a concept. as for which one, I can't say.} the system said stunning Sora who was going through the memories,
Sora thought for some time before he disappeared into the darkness, for the following 3 days, Sora began to understand the working of the demon realm, before he built an underground force of demons that spread out across the demon realm, being his eyes and ears.
Of course, to make things easy for himself, Sora took over an underground power that had already existed, and from there, Sora placed his foot within the demon realm. it took Sora a month before his force began catching everyone's attention by storm...
A little girl stood over the bodies of her parents, she looked at them, too stunned to even cry. she looked up to see the soldier who had just shot them looking at her with a dark and evil smile...
"Lord Demon." a Demon called out, causing a woman with long red hair which seemed to be made out of the fire to suddenly open her eyes, waking up from the dream she just happened. She looked down and saw one of the demons under her, kneeling before her,
"What is it?" She asked with an indifferent look, the demon took a deep breath before she spoke,
"Recently there has been an underground force that has raised to power, at the rate they are growing, they seem to have a powerful existence on their side, so to avoid any mistakes, I choice to alert you as soon as I got the news." He answered, making the demon lord frown slightly. this was the last thing she needed, how could she go to war when her people were unstable?
She asked a few questions and the more she knew the more her eyes grew cold, leading her to get off of the throne and to go get to the bottom of this. so she went to go see a prisoner who was captured and imprisoned
"kneel." She said her voice sounded like the voice of the god within the prisoner's mind, this voice had power over her mind, trying to forcefully dominate his whole being, but there was something off about this prisoner,
Boom
the prisoner's mind exploded, and from there, the demon lord's eyes narrowed as she saw a human will rising from the demon's head. She opened her mouth to speak, but she frowned as she felt something about this human
{Host... this human is most likely like you. instead, the concept he embodies is something you need heavily. the only one that comes to mind is war.} The Demon Lord's system said calmly, seemly not bothered by all of this, only caught off guard
"... which concept are you?" the demon lord asked calmly while looking at Sora's wills, he just looked at her calmly, before sighing.
"War... what do you want to invade Earth Land?" Sora asked calmly,
"If you must know, to get full access to the system, I must conquer this world. So, do you want to get in my way?" She asked calmly, making Sora frown slightly. now this was a tricky problem, he couldn't forcefully have a concept not return to its full glowy while every other concept did, that suppression of other concepts could lead to a huge effect on this world,
"Then I shall turn a blind eye," Sora said calmly before he disappeared, leaving the demon lord's eyes narrowing slightly.
{War is always thinking of both the pros and cons of his actions, I expect War would have chosen someone like him to follow. His actions of turning a blind eye are to be expected, but you should look to see if he has anyone he cares for in Earth Land as he might get in the way. and since he is War, I expect to fully unlock the system, he has to go to war or something of the like. there is a high chance of him taking part in this war just to unlock his system.} The demon lord system said calmly,
'thats gay, why do I have to conquer so much BS along with everything being in order before I can fully unlock you? Are you stronger than him or something?' She asked with an annoyed look,
{we are siblings with War being stronger than me thanks to his age, existing before the concept of time always gave him the upper hand. secondly, I'm conquest. once everything is under your rule, you would have everything... trust me, it's worth the plans I laid out. forget big brother's role as the peacekeeper among the concepts. you will dominate them all and rule over everything.} the system said with a laugh, to which her eyes glowed slightly while looking toward the sky
Sora sat down, in deep thought about the whole matter with the demon lord. after some thought, he got up and left. there were many other realms out there, he should go around killing many monsters to level up and catch up to the demon lord who seemed to be stronger than the current him
{Name: Sora
Age: 8
title: {Embodiment of War (Sealed)} {Dragon Slayer}
Race: Human
LVL: 20
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Vitality: 60
MP: 60
Strength: 60
Agility: 60
Stamina: 60
Durability: 60
Intelligence: 60
Endurance: 60
Charisma: 60
Luck: 60
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Unqiue abilities: {Perfect Physique} {Sharp Instincts (lvl 5)} {Master hand to hand combat (lvl 6)} {master of weapons (lvl 6) {Waring MInd (lvl 7} {Master Of Magic Power (lvl 6)} {Telekiniess (lvl 10)} {Telephty (lvl 9)} {Thought Projection (lvl 8)}
With Sora being at level 20, of course, many things had happened. such a huge level was thanks to him hunting and killing many monsters, some being dragons. it was not hard to kill Dragons, they simply had high magic resistance toward weaker magic, all Sora did was destroyed its mind.
{Perfect Physique} had improved a lot, when he reached level 10, Sora felt the quality of his Vitality improve. meaning to others, maybe just 1 of his Vitality was equal to 10 of a normal human. from the system, Sora understood that this was because his lifespan increased, and that he could live far longer than before, although he could still be killed.
His healing capability also improved, along with the work needed to injure him. This also had the side effect of making it hard for normal things to heal him, in a way, his resistance towards things affected even those that could benefit him.
Sora needed less food, water, and even speed. So long as he had his energy, he could go on without trouble, and the amount needed only lessen the more he leveled up,
when he reached level 20, his body went through another chance, again he felt his lifespan had increased, and he was sure he could live 10,000 or so years without trouble. which again had its drawback.
But Sora's capability was shocking, his resistances being all balanced and towards everything meant that even if your attack was strong enough to break through his durability, his resistance would ignore part of that attack. His resistance to things was far better than dragons, and was nearing a level of the gods or even the demon race which could fight evenly with the gods
{Sharp Instinct} was at level 6, Sora pretty much had the spider senses, and by now even before a fight has started, Sora could on instinct aim for your weaknesses without him knowing it.
{Master hand-to-hand combat} was at level 6, with this Sora had gone back to the basics of martial arts to perfect it. meaning, for a simple punch, he learned to throw one with less energy, but for it to lash out with greater strength and speed. in other words, Sora was learning to bring out the full capability of his body,
{Master Of Weapons} was at level 6, similar to {Master Hand to Hand Combat} Sora was going back to the basics here. for example, learning to cut a tree while slowly swinging a stick without any deadly force, along with a
{Waring Mind} was at level 7, for all of these 3 years, Sora had never gotten mad or upset once. instead, he had remained calm, spending most of his time trying to gain the full benefits of this ability. but for now, Waring Mind increased his stats by 15 times, and divided them by 15 times depending on his emotions,
{Master of Magic power} was at level 6, at which point Sora used 99.9% of his energy, leaving a shocking 0.01% wasted. at this point, strength stats could be increased by 50 times for a short burst of 0.5 seconds, which to him at his level of power wasn't short, as he could extend that time out with his speed by around 10 or so times.
{Telekineses} was at level 10, and with that Sora pretty much had 10 invisible arms, which with his full strength. each arm capable of stretching out to reach 25 km, any further and his arms would get weaker. By fusing all 10 hands, Sora could increase that range by more than 10 times, and reach 1,000 Km. At his current mastery, Sora can take hold of light, souls, and so on, he pretty much had countless abilities with his telekineses alone
{Telepathy} was at level 9, and with this Sora only needed a look to enter your mind, trapping you in an illusion and so on. he could do so much with {telepathy} that Sora was stuck on level 9, not knowing how to reach level 10
{Thought Projections} was at level 8, and with this, Sora could create 1,000 thought projections, each with his full strength. the drawback to this was that his intelligence would drop with every thought projection, but each thought protection would have his full ability, only not as smart.
now, with all of this said, how Strong was Sora? Sora's stats could reach a peak of 45,000, putting him far beyond the S tier. but Sora still believed that the demon lord was stronger than him, which was troublesome.