For the following 6 months and every day, we followed the classic demon training which was done in a gigantic arena below the castle.
The training was separated in different portions for the different army with a chief of training for each one and sometime Thanatos or à commander coming to give orders.
Chief of training : "One, two three, four, One two, four..."
Kid : "I can't follow the rythm"
The arena was bigger than our entire village, hundreds of thousands of zombies, vampires, and others train here every day at different times.
We could not access every training at the same time but Thanatos made sure that we could be with a somewhat normal army.
Kid : "Huh, how can we follow their training at 15 years old"
Demon : "Tchh see, I knew humans couldn't even dream to be at our level"
After normally 8 hours of training we could go back then another group would take our place and so on.
Chief : "Go, go, go, we are late on the schedules, humans if you continue to slow us down, I will make you stay for 6 more hours"
The army to which we belong the army number 2 trains with the army number 4, the army number 2 was more of a basic army, it was the ine that look the most like a human army.
Only the number 7 army composed of the living dead had the "privilege" of not training, well nobody really wanted to train with them anyways, and they didn't even needed it.
Chief of training : "Quicker, stop slacking off"
One of the kid : "It's so hard"
Demon : "Hehehe, they are so bad"
The rest of the time we were normally free to do what we wanted, personally, since we didn't need to sleep thanks to our "transformation" I also followed the other workouts rather religiously unlike the other 4 who had nothing to do with it.
Kid : "Yay finally the end, I am gonna slack off the rest of the day"
I let them go and waited for the other army to come, I took some notes during this tile even though it was very well organised and the transition was smooth and quick.
Chief of training : "You are saying here again ?"
Lucian : "Have nothing more to do"
Chief of training : "If you are to tired later, don't come to complain"
All the armies, no matter their compositions or their generals, looked at us strangely but I didn't really care.
Demon of the new army : "What does he even do here"
Chief of training: "If you have time to talk, you have time to train"
None of them wanted to join us for duo or team training and we even often got ignored on these occasions.
Commander of the new army : "Why is he even here"
Chief of training : "You don't have a word to say on that matter, Thanatos said it was okay"
Commander : "Tchh, whatever you say, but I am not gonna help him"
However even though they were not happy with me, I didn't care, observing quietly and staying in my corner was far from displeasing me, I can learn a lot even if people reject me.
The fighting styles of the fighters and commanders gave me lots of ideas as to what I can improve and how they use their mana differently.
One of the commanders : "This annoying human is just looking at us"
A demon soldier : "Let him do what he wants"
After these six months, we were all summoned once again by the demon who had brought us here.
This time their was no one else than him and his two usual followers, we knew that something was meant to happen, the time for the revelation.
Demon (still the same): "Hello to you, I know you didn't expect me to summon you but it's time for you to make your choice, so you can either join the army of demons and progress there to kill the hero or die..."
Gold hood : "You could have said it in another way..."
He didn't seem to be laughing at all, the magical pressure he exerted made us look at the ground like simple insects all the time and what he told us didn't seem to be a simple threat.
The Demon on the right began to speak to clarify things a little, he saw that we were either really confused or just shocked.
Thanatos (previously gold hood): "As a concelor, me Thanatos, will give you some explanations"
Gold hood : "That would be a better idea"
Thanatos : "If you join our army, you will be rewarded according to your achievements and of course whoever kills the hero will have the right to make any wishes, however if you do not join the army you are of no use to us so we will eliminate you without a trace"
At that moment it seemed to us to be a more than real threat, our parents were all too old or in bad shape to join the army so why "collect" us if we have no use.
Gold hood : "Oh my god, you are not better either"
That being said, for them, it was clearly a big gamble because if they couldn't convince us they clearly wouldn't have time to invade a territory to convince teenagers and train them to defeat the hero, but at the same time they knew that we couldn't refuse.
Thanatos : "If you are not happy, do it yourself"
Hypnos (previously gold hood) : "Me Hypnos., second concelor, am gonna explain you how this is gonna work"
Hypnos: "To help you kill the hero we are going to give you all **demonic mana** which will increase with the number of human killed"
Hypnos : "In addition, you will also have the right to havr a talent like what you have for humans, it will allow you to appear as real demons in the eyes of humans"
The middle demon that had not talked since earlier made a stele appear like the one there was at the capital of the sacred country or the one we had in the capital of the human kingdom but it was a deep black one.
Thanatos : "All in line, come on, we dont have all day"
Each of us put our hand on it to obtain a demonic talent. For my part I got **demonic commander** which is the same talent as the one I got but demonic version and therefore always 2 stars.
Well, I'm not sure what they wanted us to do with it, but I didn't think we'd get very far, especially not against the hero.
Everyone got exactly the same as what they had by being human but demonic version, this being the case it was far from progress it was even disappointing.
Thanatos: "We are not asking that you fight face-to-face with the hero, that would be suicide, but rather that you go in the army and that you kill him as soon as the opportunity presents itself, for this you will be trained like normal soldiers and will be placed near the commanders, as soon as the hero engages in a fight with them, you will kill him."
It was quite strange for me to do this but it wasn't stupid because the hero wouldn't mind a demon attacking him, even on these flanks or from behind since he can't take damage from them anyways.
A perfect little discreet assassination technique, by the time the other humans realize the deception, it would surely already be too late.
Demon: "So what do you say it seems simple right?"
Lucian : "Hmmm sure yeah"
He raised his aura giving us the opportunity to raise our heads a little, the other four quickly accepted and left without saying a word, stunned after the demon king placed **absolute obedience** on them.
As for me, I also accepted and was placed with Vector, a commander of the 2nd army, specialized in hand-to-hand combat, a perfect prey for the hero.
Lucian : "Huh killing the hero, seems quite hard to be honest, do they teally think it's that easy"
On my way to leaving the room, I asked Thanatos to discreetly join me outside, I had quite some things to ask him, to what I could and couldn't do.
Indeed, to carry out this mission we had access to the demonic library, ask for help from the commanders and others thkngs to make our job easier.
Lucian : "I am pretty sure that also include what I want"
Lucian: "Well, we will see what I can get"
Any special requests should be made to Hypnos or Thanatos depending on the nature of the request because I wanted to annoy Thanatos, I asked him.
Thanatos being the only one with teleportation power in the army of evil, atleast at what I could see, my request was particularly addressed to him.
Thanatos: "So what is your request Lucian?"
Lucian (the mc): "Does a powerful being like you remember my name? I am touched by it, I would like you to teleport me to the village, I have to take something there that will help me."
Thanatos: "There are only 5 of you it's not that complicated, it's okay, let's go"
Lucian : "Thank you"
Thanatos : "You could atleast have tried to not forget something"
Lucian : "Oh, you will see"
He teleported me, in an instant, to the village in which I took a simple sword a little old, and some other thing that I changed place.
Thanatos didn't really understand what I was doing but just took care of bringing me back when I was finished, bot asking question.
Thanatos : "I don't understand what you have done but okay..."
Lucian: "Oh trust me, you will see"
Then as soon as he was done with me, he did go back to his business, anyway as soon as I needed him I could call him and he would appear almost directly, even though he was working, thanks to his astral body.
At the end of that day we all went home, unable to say anything to anyone because of **absolute obedience** but well not as if I intended to reveal myself anyway.
Mc's Mother : "Oh you are here"
Mc's Mother : "Just go away, I don't even want to see you"
I didn't want to see them either anyways, so I just got to train again, so I could avoid them and just clear my mind.
Our next days were rather busy, we met our respective commanders and we entered to master our respective talents with them, I could also finally meet mine.
Vector: "So you're the kid I'm going to take care of?"
Lucian : "..."
Vector : "Impressed by the muscles huh, I am Vector, commander of the 2nd army"
I didn't even answer him because I had already seen him and each time he was too busy with his training to even notice me.
Vector is one of the 6 commanders of the army number 2, he was more in charge of the vanguard.
His fighting style was rather simple, he use his muscles and fill them with mana to do maximum damage, it would surely look like "magic fighter" a three-star talent, rather normal that he was commander then.
One of the demon : "Oh this human is with vector...Good luck to him"
Other demon : "Poor him, I am kinda sad for him, he is gonna get beaten up"
Random Demon : "It's gonna be a good show"
This being saud, apart from using demonic mana to boost his attacks and his speed, he didn't know how to do much else, as much as I saw in the past months.
Usually this kind of fighter ends up in the arena to entertain the crowds but it doesn't exist here so it doesn't seem too bad to put him in the army.
Vector: "I know you've been measuring me from the beginning, I'm not blind, come and go, I'll be waiting for you with everything you have"
Lucian : "I guess I have bo choice"
Vector : "You absolutely don't"
I didn't have the slightest desire to do what he told me...a two-star facing a three stars, everyone knew that it was lost in advance and his experience made it even more difficult, I had to do it anyway thought, let's make it fast...
Vector : "Oh come on, don't complain"
After getting beaten up in the true sense of the term for about 8 hours and corrected by Vector between two beatings, I was finally able to go home, the only advantage of this training was that Vector was restrained from killing me and atleast gave me some advices.
Demon : "You see, I knew it was going to get fun"
But after all the hours and under the tons of punches and others that I received, I was able to learn some postures and other basic things to the fighters.
But my day unlike the others did not end there, during the 16 hours of the remaining day I spent at the bookstore picking up books on demonic mana and combat, books that no one reads given the state that they are.
And also the fact that I saw totally no one in the library even in months and that I saw no one with a book anyway.
Lucian : "Such a shame, do demons don't know how to read"
Then once I had the books I liked, I came back to the training ground, quietly observing the other workouts, which all gave me ideas about what I could do.
But for now I needed a plan, a plan to be sure that it would be me who would kill the hero and not one of the other humans, 2 of them, Rey, Droy, also had two-star talents so it wasn't very worrying, especially not considering their lack of progress since obtaining their talents.
Lucian : "I don't have to worry about the two stars anyways, I should just try to catch up to Chris"
But Chris the 4th him was something else, a 3-star talent, in other words almost impossible to catch up with and Loid the last one with 3 stars was not someone I can see easily as no one never knows where he is.
I needed something that would make me clearly superior to all of them, without any doubt, that's why I will study as much as possible to find this thing that will make me surpass them and the hero.