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The Crab was carefully observing the changes happening in the demon. The hours flew by as the Crab stayed stationary and for the most part, they were undisturbed as only a few monsters came by but they were quickly chased away by the imposing presence of the Crab. The night was practically over and a orange hue was already announcing the coming of a new day and the nocturnal predators were going back to their home.
The Crab suddenly turned its head towards the deep south as the demonic energy was disturbed, this time again, the voice came again and words were exchanged and a calculated expression appeared on the Crab's face and he once again looked towards the deep south before sighing. As if he was never there, he disappeared leaving no traces that could imply that someone was here.
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When Balthazar opened his eyes, it was as if he was discovering this world once again. Everything seemed new to him, like a blind man seeing the world for the first time. It's like seeing things through lenses as his eyes were able to capture the tiniest details and he found out that his line of sight was higher than what he was used to from the last week that he spent as a demon. He quickly tried to find the rive so he spent the next hour exploring till he found out that there was a lake not too fat from the goblin cave.
He has changed a lot,when he woke up and raised his body. The pain was almost gone. Rather, his body was light as a feather.
And he realized that his upper body was more developed than before. He has become taller standing at six feet and a pair of now fully developed horns were visible on his head, his muscles were now compact and he marveled at how quickly his body has healed. There in his chest, there was a dark orb like object that pulsed with energy that he instinctively knew was very important for him.He was now a demon through and through, but what puzzled him the most was the pair of bat like wings that were sprouting from his back more specifically his shoulder blade. He had no idea how to fly and when he became a demon this was something that also preoccupied him as from the common folklore of earth, demon were winged creatures. But it seemed that changes have changed now so wanting answers, he turned to his status window.
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Name:- Balthazar
Race:- Demon Baronet
Class: True Berserker
Titles:- ????,????,????,????,Noble
Level:- 51
Stats-
HP:- 260
MP:- 170
Strength:- 71
Defence:- 260
Agility:- 75
Magic:- 44
Endurance:- 152
Luck:- 500
Skills:- [Language Comprehension],[inspect],[Fire Magic Mastery],[Electro Magic Mastery],[Leap Attack],[Strike].
Unique skills:-
Inherent Skills:- [Lair Creation], [Locked], [Locked],[Locked]
After seeing his status window, he was delighted to see how quickly he could progress and he remembered the old Crab and he dreamed of being able to soon enough being his equal but right at this moment, even more questions floating in his mind, what is a Demon Baronet? What about this lair creation skill?. He tried to check on his memories and here they were. Informations and knowledge about his current state and other things came to him.
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Demon Nobilty, The true rulers of demon society. The ones with so much power and bloodline purity that no one could be their equal, they were the ones deciding of the course of the Demon world and currently Baaz became one of them. The demon Nobility like the demon world is a power based structure that focuses on power and bloodline. Every Demon Noble is superior compared to a normal Demon at the same level, they were on another plane of existence compared to others which is why they are usually designated as ArchDemon. But what really made them special is a skill that all Demon Noble share. The [ Lair Creation] skill.
The Demon Continent is a barren and desolate land, devoured by wars and conflicts, the constant use of demonic energy rendered the soil incapable of producing green vegetation. Added to that a rough climate and an environment always trying to kill you, you get what us from Earth would call Hell.
Using this skill, the Demon Nobility has the ability to create a pocket space where mystical things can happen but also it can be used as a home where the Demon Noble can live giving them the ability to take in other creatures. So for a long time, this skill was one of the reason that allowed the demons to thrive and when this skill evolve it give them to establish a Dungeon, a mystical place that a Lair can't compare to.
The Demon Nobility is divided according to ranks. At each rank, a Demon Noble find himself becoming way more powerful than it was at his last rank but even this process depends on the bloodline quality. The higher you go the more your opinion is valued and the more influence you get. There is a lot of criteria and boxes to check up before ones become able to rank up .
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Baaz sat on the ground, he needed some time to absorb all this information and plan from this. Right now he was confused, he remembered coming to this world as a common demon but after only one evolution he found himself in the highest state of being possible for a demon so he supposed something happened. He took a look at his status window and read all the things that he missed while he was evolving. That's how he saw something that he didn't know about. It reads like this
[ Ding.... you have absorbed ?????????, a Bloody and dangerous energy entered your being]
[ Ding... You are being changed]
[ Ding... too much energy ????????? is going berserk]
[ Ding ... ????????? is waking up and I'd resonating with something with another Shard of...]
[ Ding... A seal has been applied to ??????? It falls dormant, the destruction stops.]
[ Notifications, after creating your lair you will fall asleep for at least six months]
[ Your soul has been hurt, a considerable amount of energy will be needed for it to recover]
[ Alert!!!! if nothing is done you will die in the next ten days]
Baaz shuddered when he read the last messages but still couldn't understand the origin of such drastic changes. He was particularly baffled that even the system could not identify the origin of those things that provoked this changes.He was even more lost, so a clueless Baaz decided to do the best he could at the moment and this was to put this at the back of his mind and he decided to focus on the new skill that he obtained and try to find the best way to use it. From his inherited memories he knew that he could use the orb that was embedded in his chest to activate the skill but now he had a decision to make. The question now is to choose where he will set up his lair? Because if the lair is the greatest asset of the demon Noble, it is also his biggest weakness as a lair is subjects to all sorts of threat as it is a mystical place that can be used for differents purposes. So if a demon is weak and his lair or Dungeon is discovered by a stronger foe it may spell his doom. So one of the things that demons do is that they go to dangerous and inaccessible places to set up their dungeons. And fortunately for him he had an idea of where he could do that. A place that predators don't really go to;The place that last night was the location of a bloodshed;The goblin cave.