Zongman, the history of a devil's rise

Fingertips tapping the tabletop...

A crimson magic circle spread out in front of Vitan, with a dark purple mist spreading from it. A brown-skinned woman wearing only a thin silk dress and revealing overall attire gradually emerged.

"Astaro, this company will be managed by you temporarily."

"I have already poured all the information about this world and the things you need to do into your mind."

Just now he had obtained enough information from Westcott.

The first is almost all the magic knowledge in this world.

The second is that the most important magic that Westcott mastered is the magic formula of creating elves.

With this technique, his plan can proceed smoothly.

In the original work, Westcott used this technique to create the original elf Takamiya Mio.

At the same time, this ritual was also reversed, allowing Takamiya Mio's spiritual power to flow backwards, helping him to create the Reverse Kabbalah Tree of Life in his body.

Became a demon king of the same level as Somiya Mio.

And he didn't use this technique to deal with Takamiya Mio.

What he wanted to do was to use this technique to create a circuit in his body that could support ten garden nodes.

Indeed, the spiritual power on earth is no longer sufficient to support the creation of an elf.

If he wanted to do this, he had to wait until five thousand years later. Otherwise, Westcott would not have planned for so long and would have created an elf that obeyed him and was easy to control.

From this point of view, the spiritual power required to create an elf is quite terrifying.

Even for the current Vitan, it is nothing but wishful thinking to want to create an elf of this level by itself.

The amount of magic power that needs to be consumed would instantly drain all the magic power in his body, and it would still not be enough.

But it didn't matter, he wasn't going to create a complete elf.

It was just a matter of producing a semi-finished product, and his own magic power was fully capable of supporting it.

After making the circuit, he can perform a simple simulation of the Kabbalah Tree of Life by obtaining the spiritual power of the elves, just like Gokawa Shiori.

This caused his strength to increase slightly again, to the point where he could easily suppress Tohmiya Mio.

"I understand, Lord Vitan, leave this to me."

……

It was already late at night when I completely left the DEM Japan branch.

After Honjo Nia left, Vitan did not ask her where she went, because he could probably guess where she went.

Probably renting a house and starting his comic work again.

Erya has no shortage of money. Before she was captured by DEM, she was already a very popular cartoonist.

Westcott had no interest in her money, so the old bank card number could still be used.

"Then let's go find Hoshimiya Rokuko next."

Vitan, walking on the street, quickly set his next target.

There was no way. The only three elves whose locations he could clearly find out through the original work were Yuiya Miku, Honjo Nia, and Hoshimiya Rokuku.

The other elves do not often appear on Earth. The only one who often appears is Tokisaki Kurumi.

But she was the type whose whereabouts were a mystery, so it was a waste of time to approach her aimlessly.

This is why he spent so much effort to control DEM.

It's not just the DEM Club, the fusion of magic and technology is quite interesting, and because of this, he can more easily obtain information about the spirits' appearance in the world.

His toes touched the ground lightly, and a pitch-black ribbon rose up out of thin air, completely wrapping him up.

The next moment, Vitan disappeared from here.

……

A slowly rotating round planet covered with white and blue swirls.

There was deep, dark darkness all around, with countless twinkling stars surrounding Vitan's body.

"Well, it is indeed here that I can sense the existence of spiritual power."

The reason why he didn't find any trace of Hoshimiya Rokuko last time was simply because he didn't conduct any investigation.

After all, he was in the universe at that time. Even if he arrived in a new world, he would not start exploring from the universe.

After locking the direction, Vitan floated in that direction.

A beautiful girl was floating alone in the deep space.

She is like a stone, like dust, like dirt.

Without any feeling of discomfort, she had become a part of this place, irresistible and uninterrupted, drifting steadily and quietly in the name of 'nothingness'.

She - slowly opened her eyes.

"...Hum?"

She whispered quietly, not for anyone to hear, and stretched out her curled up body.

The bones and flesh, which had not been exercised for a long time, let out a small cry.

“Huhuhu…? I blocked the space, but you still managed to force your way in.”

The girl raised her hand and hummed his name with her pink lips.

"——"Seal the Lord"!"

The girl held the huge key directly in her hand, and she inserted the front end of the key into the space in a daze.

"--open!"

Then, in the next moment, a hole like a black hole appeared in front of her.

The moment the black hole unfolded in front of him, Vitan stopped moving forward.

It happened so quickly that not even a second was wasted.

He saw Rokuko, who had long curly golden hair, crawling out of the black hole.

When Hoshimiya Rokuko saw Vitan, he gave him a very cordial greeting.

She raised the staff in her hand and released light towards Vitan's head.

"Uh oh..."

Light woven from spiritual energy that glowed golden was shooting toward Vitan.

Vitan did not make any unnecessary movements, but just sighed softly and let the light hit his body.

Then, a rather strange sight appeared.

The moment the light hit Vitan, it was as if it had hit a refracting mirror and shot back at the same angle.

This is the latest magic that Vitan has mastered after studying magic for so long.

Crystal reflection technique!

As long as he can analyze the spells or spiritual power composition released by his opponent, then any magical attack will no longer have any effect on him.

This is also the reason why the 'Future Record' that Erya used on him just now didn't work.

He had already analyzed the spiritual power used by the elves, so if the elves used this energy attack they would not be able to cause any harm to him.

“…Huh?”

"It doesn't work."

Looking at the light flying back, Rokuko tilted his head expressionlessly and dodged the attack.

The next moment, Rokuko moved his fingers, and the gravel floating around immediately flew towards him at high speed.

At the same time, she was not idle at all. She flew quickly in front of Vitan, raised the staff high and wanted to smash it down.

boom--!

A light blue shield appeared on the surface of Vitan, blocking the attack coefficient that Rokuko had just launched.

“Oh…”

Countless rays of light shot in from different angles, and the result was the same as before, all of them were bounced back by Vitan.

Vitan never fought back during the entire process.

Rokuko was also attacking very vigorously, and this state lasted for nearly three minutes.

The attack has stopped!

A hint of interest appeared on Rokuko's expressionless face. Although he still looked dazed, his body movements were very different.

"——Who are you? Why are all my attacks ineffective?"

When ordinary people encounter a situation where their attacks are completely ineffective, they will become a little excited and emotionally unstable.

But her tone was completely calm and without any inflection.

"Let me introduce myself. I am a demon, and I am here to make a deal with you."

He waved his hand to clear away the rubble scattered around him, and the dark wings symbolizing the fallen angel spread out behind Vitan.

What followed was Vitan's usual clichéd self-introduction.

Rokuko listened and nodded calmly, neither expressing his own opinion nor showing any emotion such as surprise.

"Hum, so that's how it is!"

After fully understanding the origin of Vitan, Rokuko tilted his head.

"Now it's my turn to ask you, is your purpose the transaction you mentioned?"

"That's right. I need half of your spiritual power. At the same time, you can put forward the corresponding conditions and I will help you complete them."

Vitan stated his purpose in a deep voice.

“…Huh!”

"Is your purpose to obtain my spiritual power?"

After hearing everything, Rokuko muttered softly, still looking at Vitan with no change in expression.

Vitan also stared at Rokuko's golden pupils through the gaps in her long hair, waiting for her reply.

however--

"I refuse!"

Rokuko rejected Vitan's request without any hesitation and gave his own explanation.

"I admit that you are very powerful, but the premise of the transaction is that I have something I desire, but I don't have such a thing."

There are no surprises.

When Vitan came in front of Rokuko, he had already anticipated this outcome.

Compared to other elves who have tragic life stories, Hoshimiya Rokuko's childhood was actually pretty good.

Although he was originally an orphan, he was adopted by a family with a very good family atmosphere.

Life went smoothly after that, but there was one thing that became a problem.

Rokuko, who has been an orphan since childhood, has always been extremely eager for family affection. Being adopted by such a good family, she is particularly greedy for this kind of warmth. In extreme cases, she will regard this thing as her own and will not be willing to share it with outsiders.

Therefore, Takamiya Mio took advantage of this opportunity and transformed the suitable Rokuko into an elf.

After obtaining this power, Rokuko immediately and completely sealed other people's memories of his sister and parents.

But her parents were not happy about this, instead they scolded her and called her a monster.

Unable to endure it any longer and suffering a great blow, Rokuko sealed their memories of him, sealed his own memory, and locked his own heart.

Now she won’t feel lonely!

You won't feel any hesitation at all.

A hint of anxiety too.

Be it joy or happiness—be it admiration, too.