It has been a week since I started Alice's training and it has been fruitful for the both of us. Alice has learned to use her powers proficiently enough for me to have to fight her seriously to win. I had even managed to teach her all my traits with the exception of [Holy Resistance] due to it's strict requirements. She learnt them quite quickly due to having [Demonic Energy Manipulation] thus gaining the instinctive ability to manipulate demonic energy.
I also gained a few insights on how to use my [Hell Fire Affinity]. I had mostly only created fireballs and streams of fire and recently I had created a fire javelin. Now however I create more objects using flames and most importantly I had learned to control my flames from a range. I could now control my flames within 30 meters of myself allowing to change trajectory or even explode them from a distance.
Alice and I were doing sword training as usual. By now we were also using our [Hell Fire Affinity] and [Shadow Affinity] skill respectively during training incorporating them into our fighting styles. As I was searching for Alice I heard something in the distance.
"Alice." I said and she soon materialized beside me. We flew in the direction I heard the sound, as we got closer I started to hear the sound louder and louder and I couldn't help but activate [Aura Vision]. When I saw what was causing the noise, a smile couldn't help but appear on my face.
"It looks like I won't have to go out and search for undeads on my own then." I said gleefully.
We continued flying in the direction of the red auras and then we finally laid eyes on our prey. Unlike what I expected, these weren't undeads. They were small red humanoids the size of a small child, they had small red horns on their head and a small red spear tip tail. There irises were red like ours but they seemed like a small flame was dancing in their eyes and there scleras were charcoal black. Looking at them, I knew I had seen my first real Demon and my first thought was, these things were kind of cute they looked way less menacing than an undead especially with their height. But that wasn't going to stop me from killing them.
"Let's go, Alice." I said and flew towards these demons.
"Ok." Alice said following right behind me.
We flew infront of the demons and they squeaked when we appeared in front of them. One of the demons ran away as soon as we appeared and before either of us could go after it, the other demons stood in our way with flaming claws. They lunged at us and we quickly separated causing the demons to split into two groups. One of the demons lunged at me with it's flaming claw and wanting to see how strong it was I met it with a flaming punch. When my fist came into contact with it's claws my hell flames immediately spread over it's entire body turning it into ashes within seconds.
[You have slain a level 8 Imp. You have gained 480 exp.]
[Your [Hell Fire] grows stronger.]
I haven't seen these notifications in a week and quite honestly. The feeling and knowledge that I was growing stronger.
Seeing their comrade being burnt to ashes didn't deter the other imps as they so lunged at with their flaming claws. Knowing how weak they were I didn't bother to toy with them anymore and instead decided to end this quickly. I flew into the air and created 6 large javelins made of hell fire. I then threw them towards the imps and they jumped out of the way but I changed their trajectory making them hit their target. Then I snapped my finger and all of the javelins exploded taking the imps back to hell where they belong.
[You have slain 3 level 9 Imps. You have gained 1620 exp. ]
[You have gained a level. You are now level 5/15.]
[You have slain a level 10 Imp. You have gained 600 exp.]
[You have slain 2 level 8 Imps. You have gained 960 exp.]
I looked over to see how Alice is doing and as expected of my first student she was easily dominating the fight. She had all of the imps wrapped in shadow tentacles and then she decapitated all of them using her sword. After she was done, she flew over towards me.
"Should we tell Synthia about this?" Alice asked.
"Sadly, yes." I said. We haven't seen Synthia since the horde and I was busy training Alice so I didn't bother visiting her.
"Let's go." I said and flew off towards the mansion.
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In the forest outside of City B, the same imp that ran away from Colin and Alice at the beginning could be seen running. Colin had tried to search for the imp using [Aura Vision] but he didn't find anything which either meant that the imp was outside of his skill's range or it had some kind stealth ability like Alice either way he didn't care after all how much trouble could one imp be, right. Unfortunately for him, he was about to find out. The imp soon reached a large clearing in the forest where a huge bonfire raged and surrounding it were taller red humanoids eating meat. There were also many tents littering the clearing that looked to be made from animal hides. The imp entered one of the huts and inside was another red skinned humanoid but unlike the others this one was covered in white tribal tattoos.
"What do you have to report?" The humanoid said in a deep masculine voice.
The imp then let out a series of squeaks and chattering sounds that sounded like gibberish to anyone except someone of the same race.
"Oh that's interesting. A true demon and a vampire huh, they should make excellent opponents for a warrior of Bellicus such as I." The humanoid said and his irises glowed brighter and looked more like flames dancing in the night sky.