“Ahhh fuck!” A childish voice cursed out like a sailor from a long expedition. “What the fuck is this pain for? Mother fucking hell!”

“Mind you fucking tongue you brat!” Hissed a man's angry voice in response to the wannabe child sailor.

“Fuck you Eric! Don't you dare forget what you idiots made happen to me. You bastard and bitches owe me big time. Luna is right in saying that you all are stupid.” Snapped the angry child sailor.

“Lucifer, you bastard! We got you gear and two amazing weapons and you still say that we owe you?” Shrieked a woman's high pitched wail.

“Oh shut it knife ear. If what Luna says is right, then the only reason I couldn't use Mana externally is because I am only 8 years old! So half your ‘extra lessons for my talentless’ self are just bullshit sadism from you.” Lucifer roared in anger towards the elven woman.

“Lucifer, we are sorry.” Yue finally spoke up. Speaking in a soft and clear voice Yue bowed her head towards the boy who was raging at her companions. “I am sorry that you suffered from your spirits trying to take over your body. While the equipment can be considered a down payment it is not the last thing we shall give you. Your lessons can be considered royal standard. You yourself are a talent in combat but your skill in social settings. Is utterly abysmal. You are terrible at dealing with people. Your lessons on this will be increased if you so want it. This is all we can offer, make your choice.”

Silence took over the group. Soon a barking wolf pup came running to the scene. Breaking the tension between the four people. Luna had come running to Lucifer's side with excited barks announcing her stealthy approach. Launching herself towards Lucifer, Luna tackled the boy to the ground with playful nipping and licks of affection.

Laughing as he wrestled with Luna, Lucifer temporarily forgot the tense situation Yue’s question posed. With three stern faced onlookers the duo's play came to an awkward halt. With Luna snorting with wolven disdain towards the watchers and Lucifer laughing quietly to himself and scratching his head, the two stood up from the ground.

“Yue what do mean my social skills are terrible? I can communicate with all different races in their own natural tongue, Beasts have always understood me and I know basic knowledge of society's rules. What else must be known for me to be considered skilled?” Lucifer questioned the draconian woman who stood before him. He doubted the three in front of him were telling the truth about his social skills. Luna had told him he ‘is the best two-leg’. Luna never told lies and Lucifer knew her since almost birth.

“Brother. They mean talking between two-legs. There are lots of odd things you two-legs do when talking.” Luna's voice sounded out in Lucifer's mind as Luna made use of one of the marriage ceremonies benefits: telepathy. The bonding between Luna and Lucifer had become a soul level relationship. Luna's everything became transparent for Lucifer, he could understand her, read her thoughts, know her needs, any part of Luna that changed became known to him.

“As it seems like Luna told you based on your look.” Eric said as he entered the conversation. “You need to learn how to use Mana externally now that you can use it. I'll teach you Light magic. As it seems your Element is a new variation of it.

“I will teach you the subtleties of society and interpersonal communication. But this is only if you wish it.” Yue spoke again in quiet yet resonant voice.

“Luna?”

“Brother you should accept. Those idiot two-legs actually know some helpful stuff. But don't tell them about your Dark Element. We will let the world think there is a new Light Element variation to hide your dual Elements.” Answered Luna through their mental communication.

“Fine. Let's learn these ‘subtleties’. But I will continue my hunting and sparring with you, Eric. Deal?” Lucifer reasoned quickly after getting Luna's input.

This conversation and bargain allowed Lucifer two whole years of quiet study. With hunts three times a day, sparring with Eric after lunch, the rest of Lucifer's time was spent learning about emotions, tones of voice, etiquette, body language even customs for each different race.

The tribal Orcs valued the Water Element and the ocean as their source of life. Lucifer learned each and every known custom and manner the seafaring Orcs practiced. Lucifer studied their defining traits. Large muscular bodies bigger than even the most robust human warrior. Light greenish skin, trade mark of the Orcish people. Sharply pointed ears adorned their chiseled and masculine faces. As a tribal race all orcs had very detailed tattoos carved all over their bodies to show their tribe and status. Orc’s large bodies; averaging around 6’4”, gave them lots of surface area to create their tattoos. With warriors getting tattoos of their kills along their back and their tribal status along their right arms. While their torso would be tattooed with their tribes patron Beast. This combination showed their tribe, status and their trophy kills. Warriors with rare and exoctic Beasts tattooed on their back would have higher status within the clan. These surprisingly brutal ways are extremely effective with structuring the orcish culture. While orcs themselves love power, they are very peace loving, only going to war when resources are scarce. The orcs are extremely peaceful but actually are treated almost as bad as Nephilims by humans and dwarves. Multiple dwarf run slave trades operate throughout human lands hunting orcish tribes that are unlucky enough to be sighted by the Trade’s information network. Orc’s large, strong bodies make them prime labour slaves for dwarf and human usage. Even the occasional elven noble would purchase an orcish slave. Orcs being natural sailors have an immense affinity towards the Water Element and all of its variations. But orc chieftains are truly well known for their skill in Alchemy, being the best Alchemists amongst all the races of Gaies.

The reclusive Elves known for their love of nature wooden forest isolated their kingdom. A pale skinned race with looks almost identical to humans with only longer pointed ears and smaller lithe frames than their human counterparts. Truly smaller than most races save the Dwarfs, elves averaged at a height of 5’6” and a thin body only weighing about 120 pounds. A forest dwelling united kingdom within the north-western part of the Lovita continent. Secretive and isolated by dense forests and the long rivers of Lovita’s northen edge. Monogamy based monarchial government controlled the elven lands. While the elves did have a Senate to control their daily governmental issues, the elven monarchy held the real power with absolute control over the treasury and army. Elf people are truly reclusive and seldom took interest in the world outside of their forest kingdom, choosing to view all races as equals and maintaining their neutrality in foreign countries since the end of the Demon Hunts. Elven nobility and Senate members are known to have slaves but their slaves tend to be of the human variety solely based on the humans closeness to the elf forests. Elves are truly the only race of sentient life that has a disposition to the Earth Element’s variation of Wood. The elf people also have a high natural affinity to Wind. Now Jasmine being an elven Arch Magus of Ice; is seen as an anomaly, being someone that could relate to Lucifer very aptly.

The most warlike race after the Demons being the ever increasing race known as humans. Humans are a race with rounded facial features with the most variation between individual people’s appearances. Humans average 5’9” and a weight of 180-200 pounds. While being innately greedy and warlike people, humans are well known for their race’s most preached saying: ‘Humanity is the root of all races. Even the King of Beasts made his children turn into our likeness.’ This preaching created a human supremacy movement. Many human children were instilled the belief system that they are innately superior to all other races. This subtle brainwashing adding onto human’s innate greed and warlike nature created the multiple human kingdoms vying for world domination underneath their diplomatic policies. Racism also formed a need for slavery of the other races for humans. Only when one had a slave of every race was one truly considered ‘high society.’ The human Element tend to be Light as seen by the God of Heaven and Light choosing them to create his Nephilims. But Water and Fire Element are very common for humans not of the Light Element and its varying deviations. Lucifer slowly began to subconsciously hate humans aside from Eric with a fiery passion as they are also the secondary cause for his father’s hunted life. The only reason Eric was spared of Lucifer’s wrath is due to his time with the boy and his complete lack of any of the human supremacy theologies. The man even openly admitted and told the boy of his race’s failures instead of allowing Yue the opportunity to. Though the only thing Lucifer could find useful about the human race was their Alchemy skill. Being only second to the tribal orcs who held Alchemy as a sacred art and not selling nor teaching their craft to outsiders no matter the method used to ‘coerce’ them.

Eric also came to hate and respect the dwarven people. The short, stout and bearded version of humans, a race of plains dwellers that either travelled the world as merchants or holed up in some fort they built out of nature’s hills and rocks. Dwarves are best known for their creation of the Trade. The globe spanning organization for every purpose: information, slave trade, bounties, Beast bounties, Alchemist requests and Alchemists tasking jobs. Any can post, request, question about, inquire, trade through the Trade. All that matters is if you can trade something of equivalent value in exchange. Dwarves pride themselves in their honesty and uprightness when dealing through the Trade. Even a dragon’s egg can be safely and honestly transported through the Trade, if you trade enough. Nothing is too contraband, too taboo, too dangerous for the Dwarven Trade to dare to do. This sole fact was the only reason chose against seeing one dwarf and killing one dwarf, like he was on the verge of doing for humans. Earth and Fire are the two Elements that the dwarven people most awaken to.

And finally Lucifer learned about his own heritage. Draconian. The children of dragons. Sired by the Dragons of Night and Day to combat the Demonic Legion. A race of human like dragons. Partially scaled humans being the most apt description of the race in appearance. With only pure and blood draconians possessing more scales and the exceptionally rare tail and/or wings. A draconians scales are the colour of their Element. Black for Dark, Gold for Light, Blue for Water, etc. Draconians are a monarchy based race that believes that the higher purity of their dragon bloodline should rule. This created their current society. With 6 Kingdoms and 2 Empires throughout the entire world the draconians truly were ‘dragons amongst men.’ Skilled in combat, magic, martial arts, mathematics and diplomacy. The draconian people dominated the world of Gaies, but for every boon they had they also received an equal burden. With extremely low birth rates, long lifespans and a dragon’s pride, draconians are unceasingly in the decline. Bounties on their royal bloodlines for magical research spread throughout the Trade. Alchemists and old warriors closing in on their deathbeds hunted them to try and figure out how the draconians lived their 300 year lifespans. Lifespans doubling the most long lived of the rest of the races. Draconians truly have an affinity to all Elements only majoring in the Light and Dark Elements for their royal bloodlines.

Lucifer laboured over these racial studies for an entire year leading to a lack of his previous constant martial growth. At the end of his 9th year, Lucifer chose to request his etiquette lessons be put on the back burner as he tempered his way of battle. Fighting Beasts and the occasional warrior hunting in the forest, Lucifer made remarkable progress in his fighting prowess. Once again stunning Eric by his aptitude for the Spellblade arts, Lucifer mastered [Elemental Spear] in 3 months of study and even more remarkably created his own unique method of healing. A method that required Lucifer to command the Mana within one’s body to heal them, while this method used one’s own Mana it took miniscule amounts of Lucifer’s Mana.

Now on the eve of his 10th birthday, Lucifer stood proudly. Adorned in his pale blue Aqua Fang breastplate, pauldrons and cuisses, as well as Juggernaut Grizzly leather under armour holding it all together; Lucifer stood a proud 6 feet tall, with his large leathery wings and vicious deadly looking scaled tail behind him. His dark gold scales glistened in the twilight of the setting sun creating a magnificent image of a warrior with godly greaves and gauntlets about to go into battle. Before Lucifer stood a trio of proud and emotional group of people. Eric, Jasmine and Yue looked on in pride and sadness as the boy they raised and taught for 4 years prepared to set out on his own. There is a saying that a sheltered eagle cannot rule the sky and that is what could not happen to Lucifer. So the trio planned to send the boy the Elemental Academy to learn, interact and make friends his own age amongst the varying races that attended the Academy. Hopefully finding someone to trust, love and care for besides Luna. Who now lay lazily at Lucifer’s feet. With an eye cocked open Luna glanced at the group of mix match two-legs and her dearest brother. Seeing as it was almost time to leave and begin his true training that she would teach him while he journeyed the lands and took his place at her side as a new Apex within Gaies.