Next day in the demon realm>
Walking into the chamber was queen zekora, sitting down she looked towards Diablo
"You next task will be survival in the dead forest, this will not be just any survival you will be task to defeat the most powerful monster that has plagued the dead forest and return with proof, aft er that I'll be sure you can enter a veil you self"
"Why do I need to prove my self like this?, I've trained with one of your strongest squad, are you looking Down on me?"
"No….in fact it's for you own protection, you see only you can enter the veil and close it from within, so I'm being caught atleast it better than sending you straight to you death don't you think?"
'She has a point tho'
"Alright I accept "
"Good" zekora said with a smile "during your training I've tasked our best iron smith with the production of you armour and weapon, you well being is our priority" she said with the nod of her head
A burly demon built like a bulldozer stepped forward carrying a red chest
Looking at the queen first Diablo stepped forward and opened the chest inside he saw a pitch black full body armour and gauntlet
"According to you trainers, you do well with your fist rather than a sword so we made these with special care with you ability of imbuing you equipment with hellfire in mind" the burly demon said
"Wow" Diablo said lifting up the gauntlet, "I thank you my queen for these, you won't regret it"
Getting ready, equipping himself, he wore the armore and gauntlet noticing the gauntlet ended in adjustable claws and had little sharp edges along the knuckle area and a small dagger inserted into both gauntlet.
Looking at himself in the mirror
'I look pretty badass don't i' he thought to himself with a pose and a smile on his face
Few hours later
"This place isn't as creepy as it was during my first passage, maybe because of I can see in the dark now" Diablo said to him self while walking
'Sssssss'
>D rank beast encounter <
>first kill<
>kill beast without minimal injuries
>reward; 2 soul shard
The beast in front of him looked like a snake back from his old world but it had horns on its head this was one before was very big, 2 times bigger than an anaconda.
Walking forward he activated his demonic aura making the snake like beast to flinch back and stare at him warily, coating his getting closer it suddenly spat a green like substance, seeing this Diablo jumped aiming to punch the head of the snake with his gauntlet
*Bang*
His hand went straight through the snakes head making it collapse,
"Well that was not how envisioned my first battle but…it works to"
[+2 soul shard]
"Ohh yeah that's right, I could get a new skill if I get enough soul shard, let's see"
Opening the shop tab Diablo browsed through the skills available to his current rank
*claw strike; realeses aura in the form of claw that travels for 5 feet before fading (cost; 10 mp)
Cost; 20 soul shard
*demonic Haki; using users can sense living around him for a radius of 10 meters (cost; 5MP/sec)
Cost; 25 soul shard
"Hmm they are the only skill that's available for my rank and both are useful...well let's see how the hunting goes"
Looking at his stat he had a slight smile on his looking at his demon rank
>Name; Diablo (lesser demon)
*2/200
>class; None
>Hp;85
>MP; 135
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"It seems I need soul shard to increase my rank and here I thought I'll be stuck as a lesser demon forever hahah finally, but killing to rank is pretty straight forward for demons tho no wonder they are all strong"
Realizing instead of survival he was sent here to rank up he felt bad talking to zekora like that earlier
"I guess it means I'm way stronger than my rank suggests if I was able to beat a squad of demon knight and a duke"
Moving on Diablo met a couple of F to D rank monsters along the way obtaining 29 soul shard in total
"I guess I should go for the demonic Kai skill, going around blind in this forest is kinda scary"
>demonic Haki learnt<
Seeing this Diablo felt and slight pain in his head, and then he understood the steps to use his aura to search
Activating his new skill he was able to perceive the beast around him for 10 meters and able to distinguish their strength, still searching he realize that the weaker beast around the area were running away from a spot just further ahead.
"I guess that my next stop" he said running toward the spot,on getting close with his demonic Haki still active he was able to sense to beast up ahead , increasing his pace
>C rank beast encountered<
>Reward in defeating 4 soul shard
With a smile he jump in the midst of both beast startling them
Both beast looked like wolves with grey furs and red eyes,
The one closer to him shipped its paw at him rasing his gauntlet he took the hit head on his knees bending slightly from the pressure
[-4]
'Uggg this lesser demon body"
he activated his hellfire on his other gauntlet and punched it straight in the gut burning the fur around the area, whimpering the wolf beast backed down while the other one behind tried to bite diablo head off, ducking right on time the wolf flew above him , grabbing the tail of the wolf with his gauntlet ablaze in hell fire he threw the wolf on the second that was already charging at him.
*Bam*
Pulling out the dagger in his gauntlet he dashed towards both wolf the one with the tail still on fire was rolling on the floor trying to put out the fire while the other charged at him again swiping its paw
"You never learn do you" Diablo said as he dived under the swipe while stabbing the wolf in its throat and dragging the dagger downward spilling gut and blood behind
[+4 soul shard | 8/200]
*grrrrrr*
Looking back he saw the other wolf backing off slowly while growling
Unleashing his demonic aura it froze for a moment and with that little moment of uncertainty cost it it's life
Diablo coated one of this dagger with hell fire and threw it towards the dazed wolf aiming at its eyes
*whimper*
The wolf tried to take out the blade with its paw
successfully removing the blade it looked at the spot the annoying pest was and couldn't find him just then Diablo landing on it back while piercing it's brain with his dagger
[+4 sS (12/200)]
"That was crazy hehe, keeping demon haki and hell fire active was a little bit draing on my mana reserve" Diablo said with a sigh
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>Name; Diablo( lesser demon)
(12/200)
>class; none
>HP; 81
>MP; 65
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Just then he heard several growl from behind him looking back he saw what he presumed as the pack of the wolves he just killed behind him With one several times larger
"Oh shit I'm in trouble"