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Chapter 20 - Cultivating the Heavenly Demon soul transmogrifying Art (2/2) 

Slowly but steadily the image that he had in his mind was projected to the outside world and formed the body of the first demon Mephistopheles. Seeing the steady progress, Thiago was happy inwardly, but tried to immediately rid his mind of every distracting thought again or else there was a slight possibility of the condensation failing at the last moment which he definitely did not want to see.

Slowly the minutes ticked by and suddenly Thiago shouted: "Condense" and the projected image that had been rather illusory before had now manifested to become the spitting image of the imposing and incredibly intimidating archdevil Mephistopheles. Just after the condensation Thiago noticed that actually one fifth of his mana inside his demon core had been sucked dry after he had shouted "condense", it seemed as if the condensation of the demon would need some mana to work, but this was not a problem for Thiago with his huge and pure mana stored inside his demon core he should have enough reserves to complete all two remaining condensations without problems.

Observing his first condensed demon, he could see that Mephistopheles had no physical form, rather he was a crackling storm of lightning and fire that radiates winding branches of ash and shadow which looks as if they were what his body is composed of. Nodding his head, Thiago exclaimed: "Not bad, really not bad. He looks even more intimidating and evil in person than he was in my memory, but that is a thing to be happy about, Haha." Thiago exclaimed after carefully observing his first condensed demon.

Mephistopheles just hovered in the same place that he had initially appeared, because at the moment the demon was without any sentience and only acted according to Thiago's commands because he was condensed with the "Heavenly Demon soul transmogrifying Art". And the demon was naturally not the real demon, if he even existed in the first place, but just a "copy" based on Thiago's memory.

Well, that did not mean that the demon could never gain sentience, because if Thiago was willing then this was not something impossible to achieve but it would still take some time.

Now that the first demon had been successfully condensed, he did not waste any time and promptly began with the second one.

Now that he had already done the same thing one time, he was already many times faster than before and in just a few minutes the same shout as before appeared inside the soul space:

"Condense!"

With a "Vroom" sound a massive amount of mana was sucked out of Theo's demon core and appeared inside the soul space to support the condensation of the Demon.

Subsequently a few seconds later a majestic and evil looking King of hell or also known well as God of Death came to being.

Just like Mephistopheles before, he was standing still on his place, while Thiago observed him.

King Yama was majestic in appearance, was completely black in appearance, with red shining eyes and red garments. He was carrying a noose and a mace, which were ornamented with a skull.

All in all, he also looked extremely intimidating and terrifying.

"Very good, as expected of the King of hell, Haha." Thiago laughed in delight after seeing that his second condensation was also a complete success.

Averting his gaze form Yama, he mumbled: "Now I just have to condense the last one and then I can start with the preliminary tempering of the soul so that I can finally find this damn goblin village entrance." Thiago cursed inwardly when he thought back to this damn goblin village entrance.

"Let's begin with the last one" Thiago encouraged himself and then begun with the already quite familiar practice of imagining the demon.

"Condense!"

This shout was actually heard just a short time after Thiago had begun with his last condensing and it showed how much more vell versed and faster he had become with this condensing of demons in contrast to the first time.

Just as the two times before, the demon appeared and stood still and this time the demon who appeared was Typhon. His looks were a little different compared to the last two, Typhon was a winged giant, who was so huge that his head looked as if he was brushing the top of the soul space. He was man-shaped from the waist up with two coiled serpents in place of legs. He had a hundred serpent-heads for fingers, a filthy, matted beard, pointed ears, and eyes flashing fire. Thiago was naturally not disgusted or anything like that with these looks, no it was the exact opposite because the more insane terrifying and intimidating his demons looked like the more, they could be of use for him in the future.

Now that he had successfully condensed all three demons it was finally time for the tempering of his soul, which would give Thiago a new outlook and view on the word pain.

Next, he did as it was instructed inside the technique and commanded these demons to slowly fly over to where his soul was and then simply imprison his soul between them to temper it.

This word "imprison" might sound a little wrong at this point but it was instructed like that in the technique so Thiago would also just do it like that. And imprisoning the soul while bombarding it with the energies form the three demons would have the effect of the soul regenerating constantly due to the continuously tempering of those exact energies and therefore become stronger in the process. And the whole pain that had been warned about in the technique would be coming due to this.

Abiding by his instructions, the three demons flew over to the throne his soul was currently sitting on and then formed a triangle around him.

Seeing that the demons were in place Thiago gave them the last command according to the instructions in the information he had previously received after buying the technique.

He commanded them to release their respective personal energy of the Archdevil, God of Death, and Monster God to spread to his soul.

Upon coming into contact with each other those respective energies were coalescing into a kind of dark red and black evil energy which slowly drifted towards Thiago's soul.

Inwardly already preparing for the pain to come, Thiago waited while observing how the energy was constantly approaching his soul, when suddenly he felt a shudder run down his spine. Instantly he had a bad foreboding.

It was the moment when the energy came into contact with his soul, that he at first thought: "hmm, why is there no pain at all?" When suddenly his entire being was coursed through by the extreme pain of his soul being slowly corroded by the evil energy of those three demons.

Instantly Thiago cried out in agony:"Ahhhhhhhhh! It hurts!"