*Blinks*
"ouc!…"Lifting his heavy eyelids,Lucas blinked away as his eye stung horribly from the sensation of dryness.
He started rubbing them instinctively to try to ease the discomfort,while slowly taking in his surronding,adjusting his sight to the poorly lit environment.
The room he is in was submerged in the smell of weathered wood and old leather,he wrinkled his nose at the foreign fragrance as the discomfort in his eyes slowly subsided.
Old wooden book shelves lined parts of the wall,different furniture with weathered condition were arranged in a organized manner.
As his memories slowly cease to be foggy and obstructed,confusion and slight fear surged in his mind.
"I don't think I did anything too wrong in my life,but this is a bit creepy for …"His muttering stopped midway when he heard the creaking of the floor as well as a series of light steps.
He tensed up instinctively and look at the source of the noises,he realized he is on a bed at the moment and it was tugged into the very back of the room with no other close exit.
"…wait"A sudden realization hit him,his body doesn't feel as powerless as before and he can feel a bit of strength in his limbs.His breathing were no longer obstructed or difficult.
With that in mind,Lucas start searching for any things he can at least swing to defend himself with.
A glint in the corner of his eyes caught his attention and there he saw what seemed to be a stick or cane lying in a heavily decorated box.
He grabbed it and tugged himself under his bed sheet along with it,breathing as quietly as possible as he waited.
The steps becomes clearer and heavier sounding with each passing seconds.Lucas try to calm his rapidly beating heart as much as possible and get ready to sprang up to defend himself.
*thud*
The moment when the steps ceased and he was about to flipp the bed sheet over his possible adversary,he heard a soft thud on the ground next to his bed.
"Welcome to Ewiotia,personal assistant Cyna at your service, lord Lucas."
A soft feminine voice called out to him and he realized he might be surprisingly bad at playing dead as of that day despite lying on his bed all the time.
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"So from what you are saying,I was summoned here to destroyed civilization along with my 6 other ...siblings?"
Sitting on a short wooden stool,Lucas asked the lady who is expertly giving him a fresh haircut at the moment.
Cyna is a women with jet-black hair wearing a silky long sleeved one piece dress of a foreign origin,her eyes and facial feature showed no emotion in them,despite being rather attractive appearance-wise.
she slowly explained the current situation to the utterly confused Lucas a moment ago after he realized she probably isn't a threat.
The world he is currently in is called Ewiotia,which he remembered as the same world recorded in the books Leah lend him before.
From what he was told,his soul was send to his current vessel when he die and his goal was set to wiping out the current civilization in this world with 6 other people that have also just arrived
"Lord Lucas doesn't need to cooperate with the other 6 archdemon necessarily,but it will certainly fasten the process."cyna replied as she moved to better spots for trimming his hair precisely.
"I see...…"Lucas frown as he looked at his appearance in the small mirror on the bedside table,looking back at him was a boy of about 16 with the same dark hair cyna has.
There was no difference between this body and that of a late teenager,except for a pair of rare violet coloured eyes that glint with exotic shine.
"Did I got reincarnated into a cultists family?"He kept quiet until now because as any sane person would,he is quite afraid of the circumstances.His eyes kept tracking the moving scissor blades in her hands.
From the various detailed and realistic stimulus he had experienced,he can confirmed this isn't a dream or a hallucinations without much doubt.
What he cannot accept however,was being sent into a cultists home and told he is going to kill everyone in this world like a invading demon lord all of a sudden.
"Miss cyna,what would…happen …if let's say …I couldn't …help out with this grand plot of yours?"Lucas qulped as the scissors blade stopped moving when he finished that sentence.
*silence*
"Lord Lucas will be violating his contract of divinity if he didn't aid the process of the third cleansing when required…and will lead to immediate death of the vessel.
"I…I see…wait... third?"Lucas frowned as she start trimming his hair again,from that response he is sure she mean she will murder him if he doesn't comply with her cult.
"I understand there is a lot of doubt in your mind at the moment,so please allow me to show you the proof you required in this case."Somehow it is as if she has read his thoughts,cyna complied to clear his doubt about his destiny in this world.
Before he can react to her ominous words,cyna lift her arm and point her palm towards his chest.
Charc-black Coloured symbol slowly emerge on her hand,runic writing spread out with the stamp as the center,somehow floating in the air.
*thump*
"Axiea"Lucas could heard his heart made a sound that it shouldn't be making when she spell out that word,a violet coloured symbol appeared on his chest in the same way with three layers of runic writing encircling it.
"Do not fret,my lord.That is your sigil as one of the seven archdemon,I merely brought it out for you to see."Lucas swallow back the scream that were about to form in his throat and watch the glowing sigil curiously.
"Ah…!"In a sudden enlightenment,Lucas remembered what this thing glowing through his thin shirt is.
In the books,a sigil is the source of power for every person that is attune with mana.They formed slowly when these people lived through their daily life by obsorbing the mana from the surrounding.
When they are completed,these sigil served as a storage unit for mana,along with it, these section of runic writing supposedly each serve to adjust the spell characteristics.
Lucas stared at this surreal sight,thinking that he just turned a bizarre corner in life without any preparation.
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Afterwards,with a simple short hair cut done for him,Lucas was guided to the outside.He was given some better clothing like a thin coat and pant made of some beast hide.
He politely reject her offer to dressed him up,as that he would prefer to have the chance to dress for himself now that he can move without much difficulty and spare himself the embarrassment.
The hallway was decorated with painting of surprisingly good condition despite the rest of the furniture being quite old and used.
As he admired the art secretly,they arrived at a fairly spacious living room.Thinking that he is about to get some food to eat,he quicken his pace behind her.
"Miss cyna,can we have a meal first before doing that training you spoke of?"Lucas state his request with hope,after all the things that happened he was feeling quite starved.
"Lord Lucas,the archdemon race doesn't need to consume any substance for sustaining a healthy body,mana is all they need.You may have these mana stones to regain your strength"Cyna replied as she point at a piece of cloth spread out on a large round table.
Lucas stared at the clusters of red stone on the cloth,their hard exterior glint with metallic shine,seemingly mocking him as he felt a large part of his feeble pleasure just vanished.
Cyna looked at lucas grief-stricken face for a few second before nodding and moving into the kitchen area on the side of the living room.
"Although there isnt much here I shall prepare some food for you,please take a seat and wait,my lord."Lucas was revived upon hearing those words,he thanked her gratefully and took a seat on the sofa.
Grabing one of the mana stone out of curiousity,an idea came to his mind.Looking at these stones,they are similar to the one the book described,they are mend together using minerals that can stored any mana within its capacity.
Lucas felt his lack of mana in his sigil just like the feeling of hunger,so he decided to try obsorbing them to see what will happen.
"Axiea(call sigil)"Lucas chant softly and watch as his sigil appear to answer him call,with some excitement he slowly held one of the mana stone infront of the sigil.
*Hum*
A line of red misty string appear from the stone,waving as it connect itself to the sigil which started emitting a humming sound.
As the seconds went by, the stone slowly loose it's shine and crumble away.Lucas did the same thing with the other stones until he exhausted all of them.
He realized that,since he could still remember the content of the book he read, so he can use any of the spells he remember in the book as long as it doesn't have any affinity.
In the book's lore,after having their sigil formed.Mage will each have one specific affinity imbued in their sigil by birth,which will influence the spells the mage can cast.
Since he doesnt know what affinity he have,he can still use the basic form of spell without any affinity.
"Now let see…it should be…"Runic writing on each of the three outer encirclment morphed into different wordings as he imagine the shape,size,intensity and other characteristics of the spell.
After he is satisfied with his imagined form,looking around the room,he found a widow near the sofa he is seated on.
It would be bad if he damaged some furniture of the house if he activate the spell in the house.So with some expectation,he pointed his palm towards a patch of barren earth outside the widow.
He froze when he saw the view outside,the sky were clean and tinge with pure white clouds.This sight weren't not something anyone can see in his world anymore.
He only know about what the sky should have looked like and that the cloud weren't constantly spewing acidic rain in documentary he read when he was young.
He spent some minutes admiring the sight and taking in clean fresh air and earthy fragrances of this foreign world,before focusing on his experiment again.
"It should be…Livikloom Asana(mana pellets) ?"After the short chant,hecan felt his sigil mana was drained rapidly into the runic words.
The words Immidiately glowed with great intensity,a ball of red energy quickly formed on his palm.Arc of energy bolts dance around the ball of mana.
At first,he felt a great deal of excitement from his success,but his face slowly morphed into confusion and fear as the tiny ball of energy expand to the size of basketball then almost the size of the wall he is facing.
"Release it now!!!!"A loud shout rang behind him and he released the spell Immidiately when he saw the speed at which it is expanding.
The giant ball of angry energy flew across the air and landed in the batch of barren earth a few hundred meter away.
"Arkk…!!" A second later,the piercing and thunderous sound of explosion echo in his ear causing a great deal of pain.
A visible tremendous Shockwave also start spreading out from ground zero at alarming speed,behind that he can vaguely see a rising fire ball and flung dust.
Lucas froze instinctively at the blast of air coming towards the house they are at and the looming scorching fire ball left at the site where the spell landed.
"Llaouabia(Formation Activate)"Before he can start frantically searching for any spell he can remember that might save them from this.A red barrier swiftlyformed infront of the wall to answer cyna's chant.
The barrier vibrate slightly from the impact,but other than that no damage can be perceived on it or the walls.
"woa…Arkk!!"Lucas yelp in pained when he felt a great deal of pain on his head,he looked back to see a cyna twitching her eyebrow with a contorted face filled with anger.
"You little shit!Do you have any idea how close we were to being flattened?You almost became one of the bigger jokes in the archdemon race history!"Four wings behind her unfold and tensed up like a angry cat's tail.
"Sorry about that…!!"Lucas lowered his head in shame despite his curiousity on her character change and the four black wings that appeared behind her.
"That is…enough.Sir Odes,do leave my body right now."cyna's expression calmed down Immidiately as the four black feathered wing behind her desolve into blue particle.
Those particles then gathered together and swiftly formed the shaped of a bird, morphing and twitching until a creature with four eyes stared at lucas intently was left.
"Yes,lady cyna I am terribly sorry for my manner of speech back then."The creature before him is a giant crow of about the size of a dog with four batch black eyes and wings gracefully folded behind it.
Lucas stared dumbfoundedly at this creature and was once again reminded of how crazy his life has become.