The bird-like monster flying towards me was quite literally on my tail, and as it got closer its features became more distinct.
The creatures wings were feathery but had multiple holes put through them which limited the birds flight.
It was also covered in blood,mostly on the beak and its wings, and it looked like it had just gotten out of an intense fight before it spotted me and then was hell bent on killing me.
It's eyes glowed a furious red color and you could see the wind bend around it as it whipped through the sky.
「Because its moving so fast it shouldn't be able to cut corners so if you hop out the way last second you should be able to temporarily dodge it.」
"Finally you provide helpful information."
Roar!!!
My ears rung as the bird-like creature let out another blood curdling roar which wouldn't come out of any regular birds mouth,although this world is all but regular.
'It seems this is the time to finally use my shadow demon.'
Suddenly, my shadow elongated and stretched out in an inhuman way before it crawled out from the ground and became a three-dimensional human shaped monster.
My demon shadow started running with me as I checked its capabilities.
The shadow demon was pitch black, even when the sun hit it the darkness within it only devoured the light leaving this physical monster of darkness behind, it was around 6 feet tall -taller than me- and had sharp black claws made from the same thing as it's entire body.
In its left hand instead of its claws the entire hand was turned into the sharp end of a blade. The blade was the singular part of its body which allowed light to reflect off it. Lastly was its glowing white eyes with a purple dot in the middle,presumably its pupil.
The bird was only a few tens of meters away from me so I extended my hand and sent my shadow demon to kill the bird by itself whilst I run away and find a good hiding spot.
Heeding my command the shadow ran towards the flying bird with no fear and overwhelming resolve.
「So you're just going to send it to die. You know that's your only means of fighting you currently have,right?」
"I know that but who else could I send to at least slow that torpedo down,certainly not m-"
「Yourself,of course」
"How about you come down here and jump in front of that bird and stop it. I'd like to see you try."
「That's coming from the person who is down there, and can stop it, but is running away from it.」
"How about you tell me how to stop it then."
「Just use your shadow demon, you bimbo.」
"I already did that!!!"
「Then wait.」
Roar-!!
The bird roared but was stopped mid-way.
Turning around to see what caused the bird to stop, I saw my shadow stuck in a fight against the bird whose wings were even more damaged than before,which stopped it from flying and using its main advantage,its speed.
After watching the intense battle for many minutes the victor was finally decided as my shadow demon rained supreme with a decisive blow to the birds head.
'What the. I knew my demon shadow was a high ranked one but how can it single handedly kill such a strong monster,even though it was hurt it was still strong.'
「What do you mean how. This is the power of a shadow demon, especially one as strong as yours.」
[Azriel Viala - Demon Child of misfortune,death,and suffering
Age:16
Demon Shadow:High-Ranked(Evolution 1%)
Potential:Supreme(Superior)
Abilities:None
Status:
Strength: 2 Speed: 4
Stamina: 2 Intellect: 3
Misfortune:500(9999 is the max)
Instinct: 5
Demon Shadow Assimilation: 0%
(Average human stats are around 2 to 3)
Talent: Misfortune of Death]
"My status window appeared. I'm a real hero aren't I now."
「Hero? Where I don't see one.」
Ignoring the pesky system I ran back towards the fight after my demon shadow had killed that flying abomination.
Reaching the defeated body of the bird monster, or the Jackal's Sparrow, I patted my demon on the back and then examined it for any damage.
As expected the shadow demon was damaged a lot so I returned it to its shadow form causing it to melt and then form the two-dimensional shadow we know and love.
[You have defeated the 'Jackal's Sparrow'.]
[Assimilate energy quickly into your body from the Jackal's Sparrow in order to evolve your body and your shadow demon's]
Quickly sitting down in a meditating position I started to absorb the energy which was from the Jackal's Sparrow into my body with complete concentration.
***
"You're saying he jumped off a mountain right as the Aquinox Realm transportations occurred."
"Yes sir."
"Do you know why he was on the edge of the mountain in the first place."
"Presumably to end his own life, sir."
"Why would he want to do that? He was one of the ten talents."
"We ran a background check and found out that he lost both his parents at a very young age and that the only person who cared for him was one of the adults in the orphanage as he was bullied by both the other adults and kids,alike."
"Yesterday was the day the girl who cared for him in the orphanage died. This left him with no one else who cared for him and no one to support him, sir. We think it was because of these reason he had decided that he would take his own life."
"Hua, luckily today the Aquinox Realm decided to send the demon awoken early."
"Yes, I agree, sir"
"Leave. I no longer require you here for now."
"Yes sir."
The hooded man left the illustrious room.
Standing up the red haired man pulled out his phone,his yellowish pupils reflected back at him on the black screen.
Putting the phone to his ear he then said.
"Continue the operation at all costs,we can't lose some important talents just because they aren't human! Have it done before the shadow demon awoken students return. I'd be a pleasant surprise."
-Yes, I will have it done as fast as can be.-