Hey Magnus here. There are times when I think that life is meaningless, as a god but not so much for mortals, they have a lot to live for despite their frail mortality.

Anyway back to the story.

“Kill Him”

The demonic leader orders his servants demons to kill me. Out of the 10 demons accompanying him, a low level female demon, wearing leather armor, stepped forward.

I take a quick glance at her status and notice that she’s level 6 and the weakest in their group.

She must’ve tagged along with someone she knows.

“Lazar, this great one will take care of him."

I guess she’s with the leader which is not too surprising, considering that demons are a race that enjoys slavery.

This must be why such a low level demon is tagging along with them. I give the others a cursory glance and notice that the others demon with Lazar are at least in the 2 digit levels.

The demon who ordered to kill me must be Lazar, as he gives his full attention towards this arrogant girl.

"Of course little Kayen, this human in front of us is horribly weak. Take your time."

Kayen huh?

I have a small guess, she's his slave.

The female demon walking towards me is quite small, she’s only at my chest level. She’s also tied her hair into twin tails. She’s currently giving an extremely naïve smile, like how a child would if you gave them a challenge. Checking her status, I notice that she’s only level 6 and her name is Kayen, not so demonic, unlike her brother. I check his status.

Name: Lazar

Race: Demon

Ability Level: 99

Magic Power: 1500/1500

Max Magic Power: 1500

Body Power: 480 (280+200)

Defence: 120

Agility: 80

Resilience: 160

Magic: 150

Magic Defence: 600

Unique Skills: Single Rare Element (Dark) (Legendary) | Single Main Element (Fire) (Rare)

Innate Skills: Magic Affinity IIX (Unique) | Pain Tolerance VII (Rare) | Innate Fighting Talent (Rare)

Extra Skills: King Slayer (Unique) | Ultra Slash (Rare) | Blink Lunge (Rare) | Triple Slash (Rare) | Pain Tolerance X (Rare)

Magic Skills: Mana Shield (Primary) (Unique) | Dark Flash (Elementary) (Rare) | Shadow Spike (Primary) (Rare) | Shadow Blade (Middle) (Rare)

Custom Skills: N/A

Affinities: Fire | Dark

Resistances: Fire | Dark | Fatigue Nullification

Weaknesses: Light

Titles: Prodigy | Siscon | Vurm Slayer | Vurm Eater | Apprentice Alchemist | Exceptional Appearance

Blessings: Demon Lord Egg (Incubating)

Equipment: Orichalcum Blade (Unique) | Steel Chainmail (Normal)

Items: Map of Eldran

I stand corrected... Kayen is his sister.

These titles are ridiculous, especially that status. Why do I have to meet people like this all the time? This is just not my day. Hero eggs and Demon lord eggs are naturally drawn to each other, like moths to a flame. He must’ve come here through intuition and by destiny.

"Hyaaaa!!!" I immediately dodge to my right, as Kayen tries to cut me with her longsword. I am lucky, I trained with Remries before or else I wouldn’t be able to predict any of her attacks.

Checking Kayen’s status, I see that her body power is only at 50 while her magic power is 70. She's five times physically stronger and faster than me. The only reason I'm not yet dead is because of my fighting experience.

When I evaded Kayen’s slash, she stops and appears to be confused, as if her attack has never missed before. Although that’s not my main concern, Lazar’s eyes are a little suspicious, he’d never allow his sister to fight if the opponent is stronger than her.

I guess he’s surprised to see me dodge Kayen’s attack. Anyone would be, since her body power is 5 times higher than mine.

“Hey!!!” Kayen’s shout cuts through my thoughts. Looking at her I speak “Yes?” this stops Kayen again; hmm she’s not used to being treated like this.

“How dare you dodge this amazing ones blade” … that’s surprising. “Hmm speechless I see, you must be stupefied by my beauty and grace. Do not worry this Great one will bestow you a swift death” … she’s making me cringe. Before I can retort, Kayen charges once more, I look for my allies but they’re nowhere to be seen.

I can search for them using [God Sense] but right now I need to focus on my survival. Kayen jumps and does a downward slash towards me, I move forward so that her back is behind me and I immediately raise my leg throw a back kick just at the moment she drops.

"Ahh" My kick connects to her back with powerful momentum and Kayen grunts in pain as she drops to the floor face first.

I back away from her and the group of demons. I see Lazar looking tense and a little worried, he must really want her little sister to win.

“Hey that’s unfair!!” Kayen shouts again while trying to regain her footing. My eyebrows rise up at her irrational thinking. Even Lazar’s soldiers are acting embarrassed but Lazar is still looking expectant and wishful.

“How is that unfair?” What a child, I guess those millenniums dealing with Elyis made my patience near infinite or else I’d be screaming at this girl and have my vocal cords ripped out by her sister loving brother.

When Kayen stood up again, she grips her sword with both hands and positions it in front of her. Her face is serious but I notice that her eyes are starting to water but she’s still keeping that pride she had earlier. I subconsciously look at Lazar, you pampered her too much.

Kayen sprints and appears in front of me, and even though there was quite a distance between us, I couldn’t move out of the way, this is where the difference shows. She’s currently too strong for me. Kayen's blade comes thrusting forwards, towards my defenseless chest.

I grit my teeth and prepare myself.

If I can’t dodge it, then I’ll counter it!

I immediately swing the flat of my blade towards her thrust and it connects. Kayen's body doesn't shudder nor move from my blow but with my maneuver and quick movement, I manage to stop her for a moment. While that moment doesn't even last for a second, for me it was enough. I immediately step forward and turn around, then I immediately grab her outstretched arm and immediately throw her forward. I slam her body to the ground with all her momentum plus some of mine.

“Ughh” I hear Kayen groan in pain as I slammed her to the floor. Kayen stops moving and falls unconscious.

Immediately I feel a cold force behind me and when I turn around, I see Lazar in front of me staring down at me. Before he could do anything, I use [God sense] so I could look for help. They’re gone.

They’re nowhere to be found. I stare at Lazar’s piercing glare with my own [God's Stare]. Lazar backs off a little but he forces to stare at me. His will is impressive. I notice that i’m a little out of breath since I forced my body to move a little faster than what I can usually do. I stop taking note of Kayen as she’s not really a threat right now and also she’s unconscious.

“You….” He’s glaring at me but he’s not pissed... instead he’s perplexed? I need to capitalize on this. But before I can even speak, he stares at me with a look that says “Don’t speak or I’ll cut your tongue and feed it to the dogs”. I shut up and think of anything to help me escape from this situation, unscathed of course or at least alive.

“How did you do it?” Lazar is still a little perplexed on how I defeated Kayen even though she’s stronger than me by 5 times. “Are you hiding your strength?” Lazar takes a menacing growl as he thinks that I’ve been holding my strength and purposefully did it to pick on the weak.

First of all, the only things I could pick on right now are squirrels and bunnies not demons, second I lack any power at all, and third, actually there’s no third.

“No, I’m not holding back it’s just that– ” Lazar’s face contorts in anger as his hand flashes with amazing speed. His hand grabs my neck and raises me up. My [God's Stare] skill deactivates because I can't concentrate on it.

Ughh, I can’t breathe.

“Who said you can talk?”

Shit this really hurts, the lack of oxygen is killing me. Lazar must’ve noticed that I’m having a hard time breathing, as he slackens his grip a little but not enough for me to escape.

Lazar must be someone who perpetually commands respect all the time. Anger surges inside me because I have never bowed my head to anyone, what right does this low level being have to tell me when to speak and when not to.

Level 99 at the age of 200 hah! I’ve met beings that reached an ability level of 20,000 at the age of 500 what right does this child to tell me anything.

I glare at Lazar reactivating [God’s Stare] making him flinch and remove his grip on me and back away.

After being dropped down, I start coughing as I start taking in large amounts of oxygen. Ahhhh air, I love you so much.

After recovering, I see Lazar a few feet away from me sweating as he stares at me with both fear and confusion.

“W-What are you?” Lazar is testing the waters as he asks me what I am. His fear isn't unfounded. Every being in this realm has an innate fear of the gods, no matter how powerful they are.

“I am…. I am human” This answer doesn’t convince Lazar as he’s still far away from me, staring.

“Believe me, I am human” Before Lazar continues, I feel a large concentration of energy behind me where the others are hidden. Suddenly the ground where Lazar and his companions are shake and the sudden movement knocks them off-balance, most of them fall down but Lazar and his second in command resisted the spell and stayed upright.

Then I remember the plan, I immediately close my eyes and cover it with my hands for good measure. Within the closed darkness of my hands, I hear a loud flash as I hear the shouts of the demons resonate as the ground shakes once more.

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Kill it!!"

"Fire Elemental!!"

Opening my eyes, I see a floating giant legless fire elemental rampaging in the middle of the weaker demons. I see its giant claws rending charred flesh as it charges and destroys the weaker demons.

Lazar and the other veteran demons immediately act and charge in to help their kin. Suddenly emerging from the woods, Leila and Elizabeth charges forward with both of their swords unsheathed. Sensing the sudden change in pace, I order the wyvern to sky drop and help us. The wyvern closes its wings near its body to achieve faster speed.

Leila immediately engages Lazar while Elizabeth fights the second in command.

“HUMANS!!” Lazar screams as he summons a crimson red blade and confronts Leila in battle. Powerful shockwaves appear everywhere as Leila's blade hits Lazar's sword.

[Triple Slash] Lazar immediately uses a skill and he attacks Leila thrice with quick succession.

[Devil Step] Leila suddenly disappears and appears behind Lazar. She immediately throws a powerful thrust towards his back.

[Mana Shield] Lazar reacts with finesse, as a shimmering blue barrier appears to block Leila's deadly thrust. The shield that Lazar erected is unnaturally thicker than the average shield. He probably managed to raise its level by constant practice.

They continue their deadly dance as I slowly and carefully back away.

I decide that I cannot help the two female fighters so I immediately retreat but the first thing I do is drag Kayen away from the battle since it’ll leave a bad taste in my mouth if I leave someone childlike like her to her death. After dragging Kayen away from battle and into the woods, I meet Kin, she’s smiling as she’s starts to heal Kayen.

“What happened to you and the others” I immediately release the thought that’s been bothering me.

“I… I don’t really know, and it seems I’m the only one who noticed it.” Kin looks a little troubled but heals Kayen easily.

“They don’t know?” Kin nods towards my question.

What happened here? Concentrating I sense the residue of an extremely high level spell that occurred here.

It’s a pretty powerful spell. After concentrating more, I feel that the area contains the space element mana. Someone used space magic, and I think they even went as far as to use space’s sublayer form, time.

“It didn't affect you?” Kin thinks for a moment and replies immediately. “Since I am an avatar I have an extremely sensitive sense for mana, any type of mana... except for you” That last bit chilled me a little.

“So I immediately activated my avatar's full power and pushed my power to its limit. I only managed to hold on by 2 seconds before the spell trapped me in its grip. Whoever used it must have greater power than mine”

A person capable of sealing a fully powered avatar... This place is dangerous we can’t stay here any longer.

This place is attracting powerful forces all over the planet. After analyzing the spell, my caution of this place just got higher because that spell was the forbidden level spell [Time Stop].

My heart skipped a beat after realizing what dangers this place poses. People who have reached the ten thousandth levels usually aims for immortality, kingdoms, or ascension and this place will be a breeding ground for those types of people.

This place will be a battleground for continental level beings and right now, I don’t want to be a part of it.

While I’m thinking of what I should do, the battle rages on as the Flame Darkin shows signs of weakening, as the coordinated teamwork of the weaker demons manage to wear it down.

Elizabeth is still fighting the veteran demon while her sword is absorbing the fire spells being thrown at her, strengthening her blade even more. Elizabeth continues charging her enemy, constantly absorbing the spells sent against her with her sword. The other spells that she can't absorb she resists with the help of her battle dress.

[Fire Scorcher] The veteran suddenly screams and puts his hands together, then he casts a large cone of fire that engulfs Elizabeth. Elizabeth's eyes suddenly becomes fierce as she activates one of her skills.

[Blink Lunge] Before the fire completely disappeared, Elizabeth's form was already no longer in the fire. The veteran demon turns around quick but Elizabeth appears faster from empty space and she lunges forward immediately piercing the veteran demon's chest.

"uhh...." The veteran demon falls to its knees and dies.

Leila already entered her demon trigger earlier, transforming her to look more demon-like. Leila's demonic state turned her hair into white and her eyes turned red, and is fighting Lazar to a standstill. Lazar might be weaker than her in terms of body power but he’s closing the gap through magic.

[Dark Flash] Large splotches of shadow-like mass appear at a spot where Leila is. She grunts and immediately dodges away as a black spike made out of the shadow almost impales her.

[Shadow Spikes] Lazar charges Leila and swings a powerful overhead strike with his Orichalcum blade. Leila manages to block it but behind her, another splotch of shadow appears and a dark spike manages to pierce her body.

Leila grunts in pain but manages to push Lazar away and escape the shadow spike. Despite the pain, Leila can continue fighting due to her [Pain Tolerance X] skill.

[Demonic Slam] Leila charges forward with her sword imbued with demonic energies. Lazar immediately activates his mana shield but Leila's skill shatters it knocking Lazar a few meters away. Lazar immediately stands up, barely damaged, and he continues the fight.

Lazar’s showcase of magic is nothing short of amazing. His ability to manipulate the field while constantly fighting is truly impressive.

A second later the wyvern drops from the sky and shakes the battlefield, surprising everyone except Leila and Elizabeth. With my command, the wyvern is alternating in between fights, protecting Leila from the spikes and allowing Elizabeth to gain an advantage against the other weaker demons.

Despite our advantage, I can’t help but feel something bad is going to happen if we don’t leave right now but right now, with my weak power, I can’t do anything. I look back at the area where Kin is, tending to Kayen. I start thinking of possible ways for me to help.

I look towards Kin and the mana enveloping the area. The residue of the time mana came from a forbidden level spell, an 8th rank magic, its residue is incomparably huge.

It wouldn't make sense for the spell to only be in this place. I activate my [God Senses] and spread it as far as I can. Immediately, I start sensing large clumps of mana everywhere. It seems that spell was used almost everywhere, except the area near the formation. The formation naturally cancelled out the spell, preventing me and Lazar's group from being affected.

Suddenly a new idea comes to my mind, I sit in a meditating position and start generating mana according to the book [Mana Generation for Idiots].

Instead of following the book, I add my own knowledge and understanding of magic. In my mind, the book starts to unravel and split into multiple parts. While adding my own knowledge, lines get erased and sections change. Every mistake and every inefficiency is getting replaced by my own knowledge. Slowly the book becomes too different and a newly formed book appears.

[Mana Generation for Geniuses]

Using the book I created, I start to generate mana inside me, the first time is usually the most intense since the body is still getting accustomed to receiving mana. Fortunately for me, I removed every wrong and bad part of the original book and my body quickly generates large amounts of mana.

Of all the beings in the world, no one has more knowledge concerning magic than me. I easily guide the mana from the surroundings into my body while cleansing my mana veins. The mana starts to fluidly move throughout my body through the use of my mana veins.

"Magnus? What are you doing? Now isn't the time to generate mana!" Kin's voice falls on deaf ears, as I start absorbing mana faster. At first, the mana that goes inside my body doesn't give me actual mana, instead I use it to clean my and reinforce my mana veins. After all, the cleaner ones mana veins are the easier to absorb mana and use it.

Unfortunately, time is of the essence and I can't afford to dilly dally by fully cleaning my veins. I need to reserve that for later times, when i'm not in danger. Once my veins are wide and clean enough, I start to generate more mana but instead of absorbing the environmetal mana, I start to take in the mana residue from the spell.

Usually it would be impossible to absorb mana residue since mana residue still belongs to the owner making it volatile in the body of others, unless the owner causes it to be non-harming but mana residue is naturally volatile and I doubt, this spellcaster made the effort to make his mana non-volatile.

What I'm planning will kill normal beings but I can never ever be considered normal, such problems are non-existent for me. To make sure that the mana residue doesn't kill me, I need to purify the residue with my own mana.

Using the very little mana I absorbed, I start to devour the mana residue little by little as I remove the ownership of the user filtering it out as pure raw mana. Once the mana became raw mana, I start absorbing the extremely large amount of raw mana surrounding the area.

While continuously absorbing the raw mana I purified, I use the mana I absorbed to purify more of the residue.

“Magnus…” Kin’s voice sounds surprised. My eyes are closed so I ignore her. I need concentrate properly so I can’t really waste time with her right now. One mistake and I can ruin my mana veins, preventing me from using magic anymore.

I start to feel the large amount raw mana coursing through my veins. Any normal being that tries to absorb this much mana, at first, would rend their body to pieces but I’m not just anybody, I am Magnus, the God of Magic, all forms of magic and mystic would beg just for me to use them.

Despite my best efforts, the large amount of raw mana feels like hot scalding liquid running through my veins.

This is more painful than I thought. I sense Kin's worry as I brave through the pain.

"Magnus!" I start to feel liquid coming from my skin. Is that sweat or blood?

[Pain Resist I] Kin casts a spell and I feel the pain lessen by a large amount. I release a sigh of relief.

[Pain Tolerance I] I activate my extra skill and lessen the pain even more but the skill is relatively low, so it only lessens it by a small amount.

I'm not used to pain but it doesn't compare to the milleniums spent staring at the mortals striving their way to the top.

I take in more mana while Kin assists me in reducing the pain.

[God Sense] picked something, there are more than 10 beings coming this way and something tells me none of them are any lightweights.

I start picking up the pace, absorbing more mana at the risk of extreme pain, though I said risk, I feel the pain rending my skin.

Wounds are appearing at my skin and I’m starting to sweat blood. My head is becoming extremely light headed and breathing is becoming a chore to do.

[Pain Tolerance I (Normal) evolved into Pain Tolerance II (Normal)]

Not right now skills, I can’t have my concentration broken.

[Pain Tolerance II (Normal) evolved into Pain Tolerance III (Normal)]

*Sigh*

I continue absorbing, and since the pain is being reduced to tolerable levels, I absorb even faster than before. Usually most people would be full of mana right now and wouldn’t be able to absorb any more but I have the skill [Endless Mana Capacity]. My body has an infinite mana capacity, unlike normal beings who have to train first to expand their mana capacity.

I feel that my tank is full but every time I absorb more mana, I feel like my mana tank is expanding more and more.

That dangerous group of people I sensed earlier is coming here and they’re close, I need to go faster.

Since I can endure the pain more easily now, I speed up my pace even more, resuming the skin rending and blood sweating activity from earlier but this time I even feel some of my bones shaking.

[Pain Tolerance III (Normal) evolved into Pain Tolerance IV (Normal)]

With my newly evolved [Pain Tolerance IV] can endure this pain even more.

I’m not used to accepting any pain, but right now it’s the rational thing to do, so I absorb even more.

Almost all the residue is gone and the battle near the formation is also drawing a close. The Flame Darkin was already destroyed, as it’s molten body is scattered all over the floor, lightly burning the grass.

It managed to take down 3 of the demons accompanying Lazar and its dying explosion injured the majority of them.

*Roar!* I look at one side of the battle and see the wyvern bravely fighting off the demons.

The wyvern's left wing is hanging down but it is still fighting. I guess I really need to take care of it now. It's doing such an effort to fight for me.

[Rising Phoenix]! Elizabeth shouts a skill as she jumps towards the sky and immediately drops down in a plume of radiant fire, burning the demons around her. Elizabeth immediately slays the demons hit by her skill and she continues to battle the lesser demons.

Leila and Lazar’s fight is still raging on and it has been escalating with no one to help them.

Both Lazar and Leila are still unwounded but their stamina and mana tanks are dwindling, Leila’s been switching between her base form and demon trigger to conserve mana while Lazar isn’t using his magic as showy before, only using it at key moments. Their extra skills must be spent as well.

Once I'm done surveying the immediate surroundings, I stare at the two females in front of me. Kayen is finally awake, Kin must've healed her.

"Magnus..." Kin looks at me with complete shock.

"What?" I slowly stand ignoring the pool of blood beneath my feet.

"Let's talk later. I need to deal with the current situation" I flick both of my hands as I start to cast a spell.

Name: Magnus

Race: Fallen God

Ability Level: ???

Magic Power: 100,000/???

Max Magic Power: ???

Body Power: 10 (5+5)

Defence: 1

Agility: 10

Resilience: 1

Magic: 10,000

Magic Defence: 40,000

Unique Skills: Creation (Sealed) (Ultimate) | Indestructible Essence (Ultimate) | Endless Mana Capacity (Legendary) | All Magical Knowledge (Partially Sealed­) (Legendary)

Innate Skills: God's Eye (Sealed) (Godly) I God Senses (Sealed) (Godly) I God’s Stare (Sealed) (Godly)

Extra Skills: Pain Tolerance IV (Normal) I Martial Knowledge from the Goddess of War (Partially Sealed) (Legendary)

Magic Skills: N/A

Custom Skills: N/A

Affinities: N/A

Resistances: N/A

Weaknesses: N/A

Titles: God of Magic | The Fallen God | The one who wished for more | Masochist | Friend of the wyvern

Blessings: Sealed (Indeterminable) | Cursed Eyes

Equipment: N/A

Items: N/A