Book 4: Chapter 3: A Demon King’s Pondering

Book 4: Chapter 3: A Demon King’s Pondering

The Cliff Overlooking the Battlefield of Blood and Ruin

Arkaz crosses his arms as he watches his granddaughter soar through the air straight towards a revenant before surprising it with a punch to its face in the middle of its battle with a weaker demon. Which is ironically an arachne.

The arachne clearly doesnt enjoy the interruption to their fight, and neither does the revenant. But Arkaz just snorts and waves his hand, turning the level five hundred and forty-one arachne into a bloody mist in the process without even looking at it. Which seems to shock the revenant for a moment only for it to regain its senses and begin fighting his granddaughter with all of its strength.

Lets see what you can do, beloved granddaughter of mine

Arkaz watches as Scarlet fights the demon, considering every move she makes and marking all of the mistakes she makes in his mind to tell her later. Mostly the ones involved in their familys fighting style that shes been learning over the last few months from him while at the Kitsune Clans castle.

The fighting style is centered largely around four different aspects of the blood lycans. Their regeneration, their senses, their claws, and their tail.

Although it took Arkaz a while for him to convince Scarlet to actually use her tail in her beast form, since the girl doesnt like using it for some reason. Which is fine and preferred when shes not in battle but in her beast form, but when shes in battle, Arkaz and her father both believe she should use every advantage she can.

And after a while, they managed to convince her of that very thing. Even if they focused solely on the lycan form training without the tail before that.

Arkaz rubs his chin slightly as he watches her using the fighting style he himself developed. As she repeatedly moves in closer to the bipedal ghostlike creature whose slightly ethereal skin is glowing with a black light and repeatedly drives the creature to attack her in spots that wont disable her in any way, letting her get a free hit in on the creature over and over again. And with each and every blow the revenant lands on her, the revenant finds its purplish black blood burning in the process, rising from its skin in the form of steam.

No its not just its blood burning.

The Demon King smiles slightly as he focuses on the revenants body, watching as some of its blood simply vanishes with each and every blow.

That blood nullification skill of hers is just as impressive now as it was when I first saw it she may very well be able to clear the curse when she grows up.

He continues to watch her as she fights, using each and every one of her skills to eventually take down the revenant all on her own. A feat that many people her age would never even dream of doing. Something most her level wouldnt do either.

And yet, Arkaz raises a brow at the frown on her face.

Was that not enough to get her to level five hundred?

Scarlet looks in his direction before nodding and turning around to attack another demon.

Guess it wasnt.

Arkaz takes a momentary glance at his inner System clock before finding there to only be a couple hours left until the day ends.

Shell probably still make it. But she wont be able to get the Catalysts she needs in time. Those will probably take her at least a couple weeks to gather. And thats not even considering the requirements to be able to ascend in the first place.

The Demon King almost sighs in a brief bout of sadness at the thought of seeing her disappointed. Because he knows that she was for some reason rather determined to make this goal of hers.

I wonder why?

From what he understands, tomorrow isnt a special day in any way at all. Although he very much remembers her birthday that is in a little over a month from now.

Wait a second

Arkaz scratches his chin as he furrows his brows in her direction.

does she know when her real birthday is?