Chapter 170 The Half-Demon Boy

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Eleanora's eyes opened wide as she reached the fourth floor of the building, moving across the corridors while killing the occasional demon rat or demon cockroach, until she finally found someone. It was a boy with short red hair. His entire skin had turned red-colored, and his eyes were orange and red. He had two black horns over his forehead, and seemed to have increased his musculature, as his clothes were all torn apart around his body.

He was desperately fighting the demon monsters, as a dozen of them were swarming him mercilessly. It seems that the boy was indeed part demon, but unlike the others, he could keep himself sane and was fighting to survive.

"Hahhh… W-Why is all of this happening?!" Cried the boy. "I don't understand a thing! Mother… Where are you?!" Cried the boy, trying to fight back the monsters, but they were already biting his legs and arms, and he was desperately punching and kicking them away.

"There you are, you're a sneaky boy, aren't you?" Eleanora reached Erdrich in an instant, surprising the half-demon boy as her spear slashed in half the rat that had jumped right towards his face!

SLAAASH!

"UWAH!"

The boy fell to the floor, looking at Eleanora flabbergasted. Her powerful Soul Aura and her appearance… everything within her was fantastical, she looked like an amazing knight princess from some sort of fairy tale he could have read when he was younger.

"Y-You… who are you?!" He asked in surprise, Eleanora's presence was incredible. Vampiress ' charm quickly affected him, as he started to feel embarrassed by just being at her side.

"You seem to have inherited your mother's powers, and you don't seem brainwashed nor malicious. I suppose you'll survive, but your future looks grim. Stay close to me, boy, I'll slay them." Said Eleanora.

"Mother…? These powers are from my mother?!" Asked the boy rather doubtfully, he didn't know what was happening. He was born in this house and raised by his beloved mother, who always spoiled him. He had been living a peaceful life without knowing the grim past of her mother, and even when Treebark was beginning to get sick, he didn't knew what it was, even less that it was provoked by her mother's curses.

SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!

Eleanora slashed apart the beasts, quickly noticing she was accumulating a lot of EXP. Although without Blake at her side, she was incapable of seeing her own status, it seems that if he wasn't closer to her, she had the option of accumulating the EXP and then distributing it if she choose to. Blake had shown the same capability when he had fought many monsters at the same time, defeating them all after accumulating a lot of EXP granted some bonus EXP when it was finally distributed.

This was a strange hidden ability. Perhaps not even intentional that the Grimoire gave to them, the more accumulated EXP that they had yet to distribute, the more bonus they would get. Of course, they were incapable of accumulating it over a long time, and the most that EXP has lasted while being accumulated before being automatically distributed has been 10 minutes.

The rats and cockroaches died by Eleanora's might. Her nimble and dexterous movements showcased the experience of someone who had fought for thousands of years. Although her weapon of specialization was never the spear, she had fought using one for a few hundred years, good enough for her to acquire enough experience to use it masterfully.

"A-Amazing…" The boy muttered.

"Why did you escape from your sister?" Asked Eleanroa.

"I-I did it because I didn't want her to see me like this… I am a monster now… I-I don't know what happened but…" cried the boy. "I won't be accepted anymore as I am…"

,m "Bullshit." Sighed Eleanora, as she touched the boy's chest, absorbing the demonic essence flowing through him and redirecting it into her spear.

"W-Wha…?!"

The boy suddenly found himself turned back into a human!

"Done. Your transformation triggers when you absorb large quantities of demon energy. It seems you can generate some through the demon core in your chest, but you need practice for this. It was simply a forced transformation." Said Eleanora. "Don't worry."

"A-Ahh… T-Thank you!" Cried the boy, as he began to actually cry while hugging Eleanora's dress and covering her in his tears and snout. Eleanora made a disgusted expression in her face, mercilessly kicking the boy away.

CLASH!

"Uagh!"

"Pervert, don't dare touch me. My body is only for my lord." Said Eleanora ruthlessly, her eyes shone bright red as she pointed her spear down into the boy.

"O-Okay! Sorryyyy!" Cried the boy. Eleanora sighed as she quickly held him with her arms and ran downstairs.

"I-I am not a girl! Don't carry meeee!" The boy cried more than his sister as Eleanora carried him downstairs and threw him inside of the closet where his stepmother and his stepsister were.

"There he is." She said.

"Erdrich!" Cried Charlotte. "I am so happy you're okay…"

"Brother!" Said Emilianna, the two hugged the boy tightly, showering him with affection.

"Now my job here is done, remember the money you owe to me… I will come with my master to get it. If you don't do as you promised… then there will be consequences." Said Eleanora, as if she were completely devoid of any emotions of empathy, she said such words to them. Of course, deep down, she felt slightly happy they were okay. Perhaps the despicable human emotions of this world were affecting her, and she disliked it a lot.

Eleanora darted outside the room after that, sealing it once more and then rushing where Carl and Treebark were, finding that there was a big army of dozens of rats and bugs trying to get inside the room while she wasn't there, the Wild Boars summoned by Blake were fighting bravely but more than half of them had perished by now.

Eleanora covered her spear with blood and unleashed a powerful barrage of attacks through a technique!

"Blood Spear Technique: Crimson Rose Garden!"

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

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