Chapter 200: Lilith

“Animae Scrutinium.”

It was a spell from the soul echisos branch that my new parallel thinking had been brewing since before, activated. Immediately, many memories began to flood my mind.

It was a sensation that gave me a tinge of nostalgia, but now I had more control over it than in my first days in this world and I put them away quickly, without paying much attention to him, apart from that from his body I removed the mask that emitted an ominous aura.

At that moment, I felt as if something wanted to invade me, but it was correctly repelled by my blessing. Without a moment to breathe, I immediately pulled out a large hood from my storage and put it on.

I quickly dressed, deactivated the morphogenesis, took the core of the demon’s body, which had now almost disintegrated, without even understanding how it had died, taking the core I had made sure not to damage.

And finally I took its storage bag, with that I already had everything I wanted from that demon, and next was….

“Fuck, why isn’t there an easier way!, haaa… you fucking shitty world… ughh!!!!”

Complaining about how irrational the world was, that it made me aunto inflict wounds on myself from time to time, especially every time I used this ability, which is definitely not made for humans.

With no choice, quickly made an incision in my chest and placed the core, which looked like a purple pearl, into the hole. Immediately, before I released any more blood, I activated demonization.

If I could use morphogenesis to make a small artificial space by molding the bone and skin a bit, it would have been easier. But maybe because they are both physical change abilities, or I didn’t have enough control, they couldn’t overlap.

The ability began to activate and started searching for the energy source.

Honestly, demonization is an ability that only some pure-blooded demons have, an ability that stimulates their lineage to revert to a kind of ancestral regress, giving them increased strength and even new abilities.

It’s as if they temporarily transform into a superior species. I, being human, obviously don’t have that, and I blame whoever created the sin legacies for not taking that into account.

But my alternate self, who stood next to legacy bearers who were also not demons, learned of this method to use it to harness another powerful legacy ability.

Once it started, the pain went away a bit, along with the bleeding. I clearly felt horns growing on my head, as well as a tail, and how the skin around the demonic core began to cling to it, creating new magical conduits and adapting to my new, non-human form.

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Name: Seraphina Silvercrest

Race: (human-sealed) Lilith

Rank: Intermediate Transformation

Gender: Female

Strength: [220 + 182 + 39] = 441

Mana: [228 + 187 + 180] = 595

Agility: [210 + 174 + 50] = 434

Defense: [107 + 89 + 31] = 227

Vitality: [215 + 178 + 49]

= 442

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Demonization is affected by the quality and rank of the demon core I use, and I am now 20% stronger and my stats reflect that.

Interestingly, even though my lowest stats went over two hundred, with demonization it still tells me I’m on the fourth metamorphosis, but I think the reason is that these are temporary improvements.

And now, along with the help of the twins, except for defense which was at the fifth metamorphosis, the rest was at the sixth, and the mana, surprisingly, came at the seventh metamorphosis, which ranged from 450 to 650. It was a huge improvement.

My body stopped functioning as a human one would, and I became what I believe to be the ancestral species of succubi.

That name… I remember hearing it in many games, and I think also in my world there was an actual mythology behind that name, although I didn’t remember it clearly. But From my point of view, it seemed more like a name than a race per se.

Also I think the even the abilities, except for morphogenesis, could be used more fully, including dual synchronization. Unfortunately, since I can’t use morphogenesis at the same time, I can’t test how useful it is, unless I do it with a m…

’No, let’s stop thinking stupid things. Concentrate, we can’t let them catch up to us.’

Once the demonization was over, without thinking any more nonsense, I felt the ones who were once my allies almost catch up to me. This time, if they caught up, I would be their target.

I was in my best state and started running again. I moved through the forest on the way; I was now of the retreating side, and if I was caught by someone powerful, I would have no room to regret it.

Luckily, it seemed that the main forces were having their quarrel on the smoothed path, and only mercenaries and a few squads of soldiers were hunting in the forest. My doppelgänger, who lagged behind, confirmed it.

I ran with everything I had until, finally, after 30 minutes of running as far away from conflict as possible, I reached a clear territory. Lucky or not, I arrived just as the demon leader was entering his own front, and I took the opportunity to get inside.

Once inside, I had room to see that the main squad on the human side was being held at bay by some elite demon soldiers.

I guess they were left behind to buy time and allow the leader to get into his lair safely. It would only be a few minutes, at the cost of life I could count as around a thousand soldiers.

But they had complied, and their leader was now safe. That time was useful for the rest of the troops and mercenaries who were still coming out of the forest, like me.

I had already passed them, but I had to make sure anyway. I quickly activated my eyes and, as I thought, I felt I could see everything clearer than before. I could see several barriers around this demonic front.

From the looks of it, it was more important for defense than detection, as the defensive ones were powerful and complete, while the detection ones were the minimum necessary. Still, it would not have been easy to get through them if I were a human.

Hence why I have to be a demon. My target is a demon, and he’s on the demon side.

I watched as the one who seemed to be the highest authority in this place, along with his subordinates, organized as best he could. They were sending the archers to the wall most urgently and the mages, protected by shielded warriors, to reinforce them.

He was surprisingly fast and competent, although his earlier withdrawal left much to be desired. It seems that front line defense was his specialty.

Before the barrier of a thousand soldiers was breached, he had already organized his defense. Arrows, which could reach farther than magic, began to rain down on the cavalry ahead, accompanied by some mages who seemed to have a great magical range, and so began the siege battle.

..

’well, I didn’t think that in less than a day I could be on this side already.’

I got to thinking. I was moving faster than I thought, and if I was lucky, it would last even less than the week, which was my most optimistic time, if it was the best situation. now that might be the second or third best situation, I thought it might have taken longer, but everything went smoothly so far.

I had even agreed with Astrid that she would allow me to extend my absence if I didn’t show up, the same with the girls who are helping me.

While not ideal, it was a favorable situation. Having two portals from both worlds so close, and in the chaos of war, this could work and go more smoothly.

Now, pieces of information I was missing began to fill in in my head. I didn’t have them because they weren’t needed when my alternate self investigated the past of my now target.

That new information began to assemble and take the shape of a better plan in my head, and if I acted right, I could finish this quickly.

’Okay, let’s continue without losing momentum.’

The sooner I finish, the sooner I’ll get out of this senseless war for me, which was making me sick.

Discreetly, I went to the back. I was now a mercenary, and in a defensive assault we are useful only in desperate cases, as we could bring more chaos.

I watched as they closed the front door, and from my doppelgänger’s perspective I realized that not all the mercenaries and soldiers made it inside. But they couldn’t keep the door open with the enemy right in front of them.

Now my next step is important. I’m going at a good pace, and I can’t break it. Originally I thought I could impersonate the supply or pretend to be wounded to get into the rift, but if I play my cards right, I could create a better situation….

I looked up at the sky with my eye ability activated. I watched as the sgenrally transparent barriers began to show before my eyes and show me their structure, allowing me to clearly see the runes that made them up and therefore their weak points, along with my affinity in the runes, helping me and giving me more clarity.

I did not stop at just seeing what their weakness was and began to analyze it to understand it. The function or algorithm of these barriers began to show itself to me.

I looked at the changing algorithm that defensive barriers used to have so that they would not find weak points easily, or at least so that they would not be fixed.

I began to decipher what they were doing, leaving aside detection, anti-diffraction or illusion spells and other simple miscellaneous barriers such as illumination, there were three barriers that were helping the demons in this defensive battle.

The first protected against magical attacks, absorbing mana and even using it to strengthen itself.

The second stopped the inertia of physical attacks, useful against direct attacks.

By the time objects imbued with magic passed through the first, they would only be arrows or swords without magic and only with inertial power, which would be totally blocked by the second.

And the third somehow linked these two individual barriers, and also affected them in such a way as to allow the barriers to only work in one direction, allowing attacks only from within, so that this side would attack freely.

They were strong barriers and far more advanced than I could ever see in the kingdom Avaloria and around the academy, where their future seeds were, giving us the best of the best in terms of barriers. Although it had already been breached once.

But leaving that aside With the information from the barriers I formed a plan that could kill several birds at once.

When I made it concrete, I began to move, or rather, my doppelgänger began to move.

I, for my part, did not stop watching the barrier until and again confirmed, I was now sure of its pattern and algorithm, to predict the right moment I needed.

With all my experience in runes and a quick calculation, I found what I was looking for….

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