7 Chapter 7: The Awaited Birthday Part 3

NOTE: It's damned finals week so I haven't been able to properly write T_T. I hope you'll bear with me for a bit. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT SO FAR!!!!

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Robert and Lisa were merrily chatting as they went back to the Grand hall.

"Hey Hey, how can you use magic that creates ice? I thought the magic elements were limited to water, fire, air, and earth?" Asked Lisa.

Robert turned and looked at Lisa, and he smiled as if he was looking at child saying a cute thing...which in reality, was actually the case as Lisa was a 5 year old child; a year older than Robert as she mentioned it while they were walking.

"Oh Lisa, don't be too limited in terms of your understanding of magic. The 4 elements you have mentioned could be considered as the "foundation elements" for magic." Said Robert in a teacher like way of speaking.

"Foundation elements???" Said Lisa while she tilted her head as she didn't understand.

"The 4 elements that you've mentioned could be the considered as what most magic is based around on, but there are ways to create variations in those 4 elements. How to do this? One of the ways to do this is to try mixing 2 types of elements together. My ice magic is a variation of water magic and air magic. There are other ways that I have not yet tried nor gained enough knowledge about." Said Robert.

"?????Wut??????" Said Lisa in a confused tone.

"*chuckle* I'll tell you more about it in a later date." Said Robert.

Indeed, Robert, our young demon prince, has actually learned to create variations of magic while utilizing 2 elements. Truthfully, this could be considered as advanced magic, but Robert read a lot of novels in the past coupled with his past science lessons and cheat blessing which allowed him to achieve this feat. Still, it caused him a fair amount of time to actually to create something like ice magic, and the best he could do is make a small layer of ice which had little to no offensive or defensive power, and could only have a use in battle if used in tactics like making their opponents slip. He was sure that someone out there had already created deadly ice magic.

Moving on, the pair chatted about things like their backgrounds. Lisa was actually a cat woman noble that was sheltered all her life, and it was only now that she got out of her family Villa. She was the 3rd daughter of one Arcusignis' provincial rulers meaning that she was indeed high up the social ladder. Lisa, on the other hand, was surprised to know that Robert was the demon prince, and immediately gave her apologies for being rude, but Robert said that it was okay.

Once they got back to the Grand hall, it was still as lively as ever. Astrith could be seen talking with the "Twin Celestial" teachers, but once she spotted Robert, she said farewell to the teachers, and immediately approached Robert.

"Where have you been???????" Asked Astrith in a sweet voice and a smile, but at the same time, one could feel some coldness in it.

"uhhhhh Mom, I found a friend. Her name is Lisa...tadahhhh." Robert said while making an exaggerated motion of presenting his new friend, Lisa.

"uhhhh hi...." Lisa said shyly as she wasn't used to talking to strangers.

Astrith eyed Lisa, and then at Robert before smirking.

"I see. My son has grown up so fast." Astrith said while looking at Lisa and then at Robert once again.

"Noooooo, Mom it's not what you think." Robert denied the thoughts of his mother that seemed to ship him and Lisa.

"Don't worry, Mother understands. Besides this lass here is quite pretty." Astrith said.

"Ugh mommm."Robert said embarrassed.

"*chuckles* Anyways, it's time for us to meet your father." Said Astrith.

"*sigh* okay, now, we go!" Said Robert in a somewhat excited way while pointing his finger outwards as if he was an adventurer.

"Robert?Are you okay?" Astrith asked seeing her son's weird behavior.

"Eh nevermind." Said Robert.

Robert does weird gestures or actions from time to time. This is something he got from his past life.

Astrith and Robert went towards King Vulcan while Lisa said farewell. As they walked, rune like markings started to appear on the walls of the Grand hall with one of the markings being exceptionally large. These markings were colored black, and emitted a sinister feeling.

The crowd in the Grand hall were confused, and King Vulcan wasn't too happy about disruptions in his son's celebration. It was one of the rare times he could have the chance to see him due to his work as the Ruler of Arcusignis which was a hefty role to have. To think someone actually had the courage to pull of a stunt like this. King Vulcan was furious.

"WHO DARES!!??" King Vulcan bellowed.

Suddenly, several hooded figures started to emerge from the large rune like marking. The hooded figures numbered 7 in total, and oddly enough, they were able to stand on the wall. The one in front, walked down slowly from the wall, and faced the stunned crowd.

" GIVE BACK OUR ANCESTRAL ITEM OR FACE OUR WRATH! " The hooded figure exclaimed with a sinister voice.

The hooded figures then released a black mist from their bodies that started to permeate around the hall, but before it went further, a voice sounded out.

"How about go f*ck yourselves?" Said King Vulcan before raising his palm up slightly, and then evoking a magic spell.

"" King Vulcan said in a cool fashion.

Pure golden flames then began to erupt from the hand of the Demon king. The golden flames engulfed the whole castle, but oddly enough, no screams of agony were heard nor was there any burning smell. The nobles just stood there calmly as they got engulfed. Robert was surprised, and cursed at his father for trying to burn his own son during his own birthday, but was soon surprised to only feel a bit warm, and even felt cozy due to the flames. Some were surprised, but overall, everything was pretty calm.

The same can't be said for the hooded figures though. They tried to scream, but nothing came out of their mouths. The mist they released was immediately cleansed before it actually did anything. Slowly, but surely, the hooded figures turned into ashes. The rune like markings on the wall disappeared as well.

In short, the bad guys died anticlimactically :(

After the pure golden flames receded, the whole crowd then resumed its former liveliness as if everything was just normal and expected.Our dear demon prince, Robert, was confused as hell though.

"????The fudge?????? That's it? No vengeful speech? No rebuttal from my father? No clues on what they actually wanted? We didn't even damned know where they came from, and who they were?????" Robert said with a voice that contained sheer confusion and surprise.

This kind of outcome was truly unexpected for him.

"If your father couldn't eliminate them in one move then there would be a crack in his pride as the Demon king. Additionally, the is a special move dating back to the 1000th Demon king, and was continuously improved then passed down per generation." Said Astrith to her confused son.

"But why didn't it burn us?"Asked Robert even though he already knew a bit about the answer, since in novels, there were spells that could pick targets that would be effected.

"Your father can pick the target's of the spell. It can even erase weaker spells and Master ranked curses." Said Astrith.

Robert was not surprised at first two effects, but the ability to erase Master ranked spells surprised him as Master ranked spells are already bordering the limits of mortals. Only the final rank, Saint, is above it in terms of the mortal spells.

Spells along with curses can be divided into these categories:

Elementary-Adept-Advanced-Expert-Master-

Saint.

He heard from his mother that there are spells higher than Saint, but the knowledge regarding it is not available to even the nobles. There might be a clue somewhere, but for now, Robert doesn't have any leads nor plans to find out as he still needs to find knowledge about adept and above spells so he can finally start mastering them using his cheat blessing.

"Sorry for that brief disruption. I hope you forgive me for it. I shall go check on why there were intruders that could trespass the castle." Demon King Vulcan said before leaving the hall.

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Outside the castle, a young looking handsome man with blond hair, gold colored slit eyes wearing a black long sleeved shirt could be seen standing.

"Hmmm I'm late. I hope that narcissistic king wouldn't be too angry at me. I also have to check on that guy's son." Said the youth before disappearing.

To be continued....