Demonic Devourer by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Aaron Shih]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-15T21:52:13.454000+00:00

Name: [APPRAISE FAILED]

Age: [APPRAISE FAILED]

Race: [APPRAISE FAILED]

Class: [APPRAISE FAILED]

Level: [APPRAISE FAILED]

Last Used Skill: [APPRAISE FAILED]

It’s corrupted. Somehow, I’m not surprised that Appraise failed on it. I think the skill might be able to make more sense out of these monsters when I level it up more, but for now, it’s not strong enough to bypass even the most basic corruption. Demonic influence messes with skills, I know that much, and I won’t question how I know it.

That does raise the question of how Sapphire was so easily able to see straight through me. I stow that line of inquiry for later, and then I raise my knives.

The baby dragon still hasn’t moved. Four pure black eyes are set into the side of its head, but either the dragon hasn’t noticed us or it doesn’t care.

I decide to test it, dashing forward. Each of my steps is light and carefully-placed to avoid crumbling pieces of the stone floor beneath me. As someone with Demonic Heritage to my name, it’s quite possible that the void beneath won’t actually end my existence. Still, the crushing pressure has returned, and I’m not keen on finding out what exactly it’ll do to my body.

The room is at least three hundred feet long, and it’s almost exactly in the center.

When I get within a hundred feet of it, it finally acts, all four eyes flicking to track me. From the sound of the footsteps behind me, Adrian isn’t that far back, though Sierra is keeping a good distance. Of the three of us, I’m the furthest in front, so of course it’s me that it targets.

The baby’s jaw unhinges, faintly reminding me of a crocodile, and it belches black flame.

It’s newborn yet, but the pillar of tainted fire that shoots forth is anything but weak. I hit the floor, instincts screaming at me to avoid it no matter the cost, and I nearly tumble off into the darkness below.

The attack goes wide, shooting too high to hit either Adrian or Sierra, but the uncomfortable warmth turns to searing heat as it passes. When I roll to my feet, I look up to see the air still on fire where the demonic breath weapon was.

“Wraithfire!” Sierra cries out, the tone of her voice a confusing mixture of awe, excitement, and fear. “I’ve never seen that in real life before!”

“Don’t touch it!” Adrian’s warning is superfluous, but I appreciate that he at least cares enough to tell me.

I Bloodstep up and around the still-burning section of the air, spiraling over and under it as the entire world tints the same color as the enduring flame.

The skill takes a chunk out of my magic, and for a second I consider Siphoning away the lingering wraithfire. Deep instincts scream at me to stop, so I shy away from it. Whatever that flame is made of, I’m not going to try absorbing it.

Not yet.

“The fire burns souls!” Sierra warns. “Under no circumstances are you to touch it! Stay well away!”

That sounds like something that could actually kill me.

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