The guy in the mirror was nothing like how i used to look before, i now had red hair, my face looked to be quite fair, i didn't had horns on my head, so that was at least a relief, my eyes were exactly like my hair, deep red in color and weirdly enough, i now had a weird shape on my pupil, it was the shape of a heptagram star .
I can no longer associate myself with the man in the mirror, but the gue in the reflection was none other than me, how that could even be possible, my eyes shifted from looking at the mirror to staring intently at the guy that was feigning ignorant in front of me, then in a deep new voice, i asked him if that was also due to the blood essence he gave me .
He nodded and was about to explain that as he said before, the progress of things went beyond what he imagined possible as well, but before he continue to speak, i was upon him and hitting him in the face mercilessly. I kept hitting him until there was no more place on his face that wasn't swollen or purple in color .
Then after venting some of my frustration, i sat down on the ground and kept drawing circles on it, i lost my identity, my face and my race in the span of two weeks and all because a foolish mistake from that stupid guy, even worse i can't kill him now or hit him more than i already dead, that tightness in my chest every single time i was close to end his miserable life, was really something awkward and quite unpleasant to bear, that too was his fault as well .
After a few minutes like this, i was reminded that i had no much time to waste and got up and got rid of my sore mood and began trying to wake the now unconscious Ludo up, the moment he saw me piercingly looking at him, he was so frightened at first that his body began to shook, but then seeing that i had no more intention on beating him no more, he relaxed a little .
But the aggravated expression on his face didn't disappear, he then saw me outstretching my hand at him, he handed me the belt on his waist willingly without even asking for what my intention were .
I was only asking for him to give me a cape or something that i could use to cover myself up with, after all we were going to Devons, i didn't want someone to take notice of me there, but him handing me the belt would do too, so there was really no much of a difference with him doing this .
I got a cape from the belt but sadly all the capes that were inside the belt not long enough to cover me up completely from the other's eyes, not even close, all the capes that were in the belt weren't even able to cover my lower parts correctly, now that i was reminded of this, i looked down to see that my tone of skin was normal, like how it was back in my human form, but the problem was that other than a tattered piece of cloth that barley covered my private parts and was now even beginning to fail in doing that, i was completely naked .
I was still 2,5 meters tall small giant after all, i hurriedly tugged a few capes up and made something akin to a bathrobe with them, then covered my upper body using a few more of those capes, i looked like as if i was wearing a Halloween ghost custom, i couldn't help but smile thinking like this, my red eyes now fit in the picture i had in mind perfectly, i looked at the Ludo due to him coughing all of a sudden, i wondered what he had to say about this :
He was shaking the moment that i looked at him, but soon looking at me like this, he was able to regain enough courage to tell me that what i was doing was wrong, he said :
Ahem, you know this clothes fit you well and everything, but i just have a few suggestions that could make you look even better, those cloth are all magical cloth of finest quality, of the most unique magical items that was being created that a person can hope to wear one either here or back in the Real World, all you need to do is picture what you want to wear in mind while pumping your Mana in it, it will absorb your Mana and it will transform to a set of clothes to your liking, just pick the right color of the clothes you want to wear and imagine what you wanted to wear and it will do the rest, you can wear them like you currently are doing if that what you want to, never mind my opinion on the matter .
I was ashamed due to the fact that i made myself look like a complete fool, i thought all of those were merely unfited capes, so i decided to make use of how many there were and make do with them but never would i have guessed that those capes were this magica .
I really looked like a complete fool to him just now i can tell from the weird expression on his face or was that just another swollen injury, it was beginning to become really difficult to tell, but i guess he was still afraid of my reaction to his words, that was the reason why he kept beating around the bushes, searching for the right words to use to convey what he thought, without that leading to another close to death the same kind of beating he just had .
But now that i thought more about this, i actually began to realize that this was beginning to make a complete sense to why weirdly i wasn't able to find any clothes in the belt, so that was the actual reason behind that, after understanding how those pieces of cloth actually work, i couldn't help but gasp in shock and agree that this was indeed quite the marvelous magical item .
I began to inject Mana through the black capes that i was wearing and once again wore the same clothes that i once made using Transmutation, i'm really beginning to miss that crafty skill, i lost it just as i was beginning to explore how marvelous its effects were .
A crazy thought suddenly came to my mind, one that had me rethink of all my actions today, the question was related to Transmutation and the possibility of actually using its ability to reform the power system that belonged to the Shard before, if that was feasible, i can't even begin to fathom what i could have been able to with it, but one thing was certain, none of what happened today or what was going on would have happened, maybe that guy would have been laying in the same pit that his team leader was laying in .
I involuntarily was thinking that, but i saw that the body of the guy in front of me was beginning to shake even more than before as if he was able to grasp that whatever kind of thought i was currently having, it was most likely related to him and not in a good way, after i got clothed and deemed that i was ready to go, i couldn't help but wonder about something that i felt just now when i was beating him up, it was the lack of some amount of strength in my punches .
I asked him about it and at the mention of the previous beating he just got and still hadn't healed from it, his expression turned grave and his expression hardened slightly, i thought he was finally having a meltdown, but as if someone poured some cold water on him suddenly, he regained his composure and took a deep breath, then began to explain the reason to why i was feeling so, he said :
Well, ummm, this was most likely due to the fact that we demons are able to showcase all of our full strength when we are in our demon form, but there's also a few exceptions to that and from the looks of things, you don't seem to fall under those exceptions, i heard that the children of the Demon Emperor had no problem in using their full strength in their human form or Demon form, with the first being even stronger than the latter, due to the size difference and the huge increase in dexterity and such .
I nodded my head at that and as we began walking towards Devons as per his suggestion at least for until his injuries heals, i asked him how to transform to that demon form willingly, he asked if i had a new organ in my body, i wondered how was he able to tell, but i still nodded, he then suggested that i should try to induce it .
I sensed the whereabouts of the demon heart, the black heart which was now in the right side of my chest using Mind Power, then tried to induce it just as he said, i should have removed the clothes before i did so, but i forgot, ending in shredding them to pieces just as i transformed, much to his heartache .
After acknowledging that it indeed worked, i tried to transform back by inducing my red heart for what i believed to be human, then i successfully returned to normal, so at least that was a relief, my new face will take some time to get used too, but there was nothing that i can do, at least currently, maybe in the future, i would be able to .
As we walked, i noticed that he had a disappointing look on his face, i didn't ask him about it, due to already knowing the obvious, he was actually disappointed of me choosing to go for the second plan which wouldn't benefit him that much, but if i had chosen the first plan he had introduced to me, him and his family would have been able to reap a lot of benefits .
Sowing discord between the Demon Emperor's faction was alone worth doing everything they could to achieve, at any cost even if that meant being labeled as traitors, later on, the grudge between the Demon Emperor and their family was one that won't be solved until on of the two parties vanished, even though i felt that we had a common enemy and that we might be able to work together, there was a huge block standing in the way of me being able to fully trust him or his family, Demons in general .
The Monster Race Grand Emperor, who ever would take control of the demons, will still willingly or unwillingly succumb to the orders given by the monster Race, due to the inability to do otherwise, so even if their family was the one to sit on the throne, they would be dethroned the moment that Grand Emperor of beasts want to do so, this was under the condition that he and his father didn't have the support of the Spirit Race .
If they had it, then they may be able to change things around in the Demon Race, for better or worse to the humans that was still unclear to me, due to not having a clue about what their intentions were, nor was i interested in knowing, i already decided to take dealing with these matters into my own hands, so i will do what i have to do without involving anyone else, especially not another group of demons, that might have even more crazy plans for us humans, so i wasn't interested in participating in these kind of conversation with him .
But what i was currently interested on was how strong i was compared to the Demon Emperor, what kind of characteristics does the demons in that Dorell family have and what kind of demons were they actually, seeing that there was someone quite suitable to answer my questions and clear most of not all sorts of confusion that i currently had without any ability to lie, i asked Ludo directly about all of this .
He said that those guys were Troll Demons, i looked at him weirdly after he said that, thinking that even such a Bizarre coincidence shouldn't be happening, right .
He was completely oblivious to what kind of thoughts was i currently having in mind, he continued to say that they were more inclined to thyphysical strength kind of demons, their bodies were quite sturdy, strong too, their skin were resilient to deal with all sort of attack, their Mana core was smaller and unable to store much Mana in it, so most of those trolls were using Mana to enhance their bodies all the time .
They have never produced a Ruler level powerhouses among their ranks, most likely due to the fact that they were being treated by the other races and even other demons as a good resource for the creation of all sorts of Defensive Magical Equipments, but this kind of shady trade was always being carried out in secret, any news about this happening reaching the ears of The Demon Emperor, he would storm to where that kind of thing was carried out on and destroy the whole place, but from time to time there would be a quite notices of disappearance about members of that type of demons .
I cursed my rotten luck, these news were really like a difficult pill to swallow, even when i turned into a demon, i was being targeted by demons and the other races as well, but i guess finding out about this race strengths and weaknesses did help me to understand how to make the best use of it, so that was at least something .
Seeing him forgetting to talk about something important, i stopped him in the middle of hm talking and asked him to tell me more about my eyes and what kind of change happened to them .
He looked at me for a few seconds, then he shook his head and said that he have not clue about this even happening before, even the encyclopedia of Demons, that gathered most if not all the information about demons which he had throughly memorized didn't talk about something like this appearing, even in the most severe cases of mutation .
I at him saying that couldn't help but beginning to become excited, since it was a weird thing, then that meant it was quite strong, right .
He told me that i will need to discover what was wrong with it on my own, or you might suddenly be able to understand what it do and how it works, but till then, he can at most give me the encyclopedia to see if there was anything inside of it that might help .
I for the first time thanked him for something and that took him by complete surprise, looking at him like this i was then reminded that he still hadn't given me an answer about what level of strength was i currently in, and how much was the difference in strength between me and the Demon Emperor .