" How do you feel, Master Damien?" Lynch asked from somewhere above but Damien could not hear him, all he knew was that his entire head was bursting with pain as his eyes throbbed as someone poked him in the eye with a bee's sting that was as thick as the finger of a baby.
Damien did not know what to say for a long time, he just stayed in the foetus position for a long time before he pushed himself off the ground after the pain in his eyes started to get a bit dull. He breathed a few heavy breaths before he blinked his eyes and then looked around as he tried to adjust the new eye that he has acquired as a surprise.
" I feel like sh*t," he answered quite honestly and he was not even lying one bit as he felt his right eye prickle like someone was stabbing him again and again from the inside.
" Well, that's expected," remarked Lynch not sounding at all bothered by the fact that his master was in pain, instead he came to fly in front of Damien and then turned his head to the side as he looked at the eye that was left behind by the previous overlord but now belonged to Damien. " From the looks of it, you have adjusted pretty nicely with the remnants of the demon overlord, this is something that I have never seen before."
It wasn't as if there were no treasure hunters who tried to find the traces of the remnants that were left behind by the overlord. In fact, there were a lot of them, some of them failed while looking for the remnants while some died in the hurdles and the remaining ones who succeeded in finding out the remnants, they were rejected by the treasures that were left behind by the demon overlord.
Some died a horrible death while some became the mutated ghost shire monsters whom Damien killed earlier.
Lynch has watched many treasure hunters losing their lives in the past when he was assigned to create another demon overlord as not many knew but it was the job of his kind to look for a potential candidate who could take the position of the demon overlord but all of them have failed again and again. So what made this man different?
Did Sierra choose this man impulsively or did she have something else on her mind? This was something that Lynch could not help but question.
" What did you say?" Damien who was still reeling in the pain from the newly acquired attribute raised his head and asked Lynch again since he missed what he was saying because of his ringing ears.
" Nothing, Master Damien," replied Lynch, even if there was something special about this man whom the duke brought to the demon world, he was sure that he will find out about it pretty soon.
Damien nodded in a daze before he picked himself up from the ground and blinked his eyes. Now that the initial pain was gone, he could see the surroundings just fine without having to blink every now and then.
" Do you feel different? I suppose that the closer you get to becoming a demon the more your body will be in alignment with the demon world," Lynch stated and only then did Damien notice that he was not feeling as hot as he was before, yes, it was still sweltering hot but he could bear this much heat.
" I do feel like I am more grounded to this world," when he was first brought to the demon world he felt like he was dragged to a place where he did not belong and everything that he did made him feel sort of out of place. This was nothing new to Damien who has been always the odd one out in the class or the university where he used to study since the people did not want to be associated with someone like him who had no family or friends.
But now that he felt like he finally had a place where he belonged, the feeling was fleeting but he still caught hold of it.
" If that is the case then I believe that the merging was successful," said Lynch as he turned to look at Damien who was now standing upright without showing any signs of strain from getting his body merged with a remnant of the demon overlord.
Damien touched the space ring that was in the box and placed it on his finger before he turned to look at the monster lizard that was lying on the ground and asked Lynch, " If I bring this Metallica lizard back with me do you think I will be able to win over that brat?"
He still hasn't forgotten the fact that Abaddon refused to accept his defeat even if he was only lucky, even luck played an important role. The bottom line was that he defeated that man fair and square and yet the man refused to hold his side of the deal and did not become his slave as he promised.
" The Metallica lizard is a grade three monster and you are a first-year student of the academy, I believe that you should be able to win this small hunt with it since the first years can only hunt level one or two monsters," Lynch replied and Damien nodded sighing happily as he turned to pick the lizard up and then put her inside his space ring but then a sort of weird cracking sound made him pause and then he lifted his head to look at the roof of the cave where he was standing.
The roof was intact and there was nothing that looked out of place which was why he turned to look at Lynch to ask what was going on but as he noticed the newly formed cracks egg that Lynch was carrying in his hands, Damien knew that he did not need to ask what was going on.
The egg that was in Lynch's hands cracked open and then to his horror, Damien witnessed a mini Metallica lizard drop on the ground covered in gooey and sticky liquid.