After I kicked her body away I knew the natives would either try and stop me or be so shocked they’d get in the way of our fight. Surprisingly it was a mixture of both but I didn’t have any time to deal with them. Using my earth arts I bent their weapons so they couldn’t be used and then chased after the vampire. I’d kicked her through a wall and as I jumped through the dust a spear of stone flew at me. Thinking quickly I spun my body in midair and kicked upwards diverting the stone away from me. Jumping back into the room I brought my left hand to the side and deflected the magic arrow shot at me into the wall. This is why I hate vampires all they do is just launch magic and hide in the shadows. Growing tired of having all the magic thrown at me I decided to tap out, “Elizabeth deal with this please!”

Jumping through a window from the room she was hiding in her daggers glowed white and she threw them into the shadows. Judging from the scream she aimed well. Nodding to her I started running outside. I needed to hurry before the other vampire started eating all the civilians. Behind me I heard the bark of bolters and laz guns as the soldiers supported Elizabeth. As I was running I heard pounding next to me and I unholstered my pistol and jumped to the left. On my right was alpha who had for some reason thought it was a good idea to sneak up on me. Holstering my pistol I nodded to him and kept running. As soon as we exited the building I could see the vampire conversing with the humans and gesturing at us frantically. Being the Annoying ass liar most vampires are he’s probably trying to make us look like the bad guys. I pulled a dagger out from my spacial bag and threw it at him. At the same time Alpha used his bolter and emptied his entire magazine towards the vampire. The humans of this world could only watch wide eyed as what they thought was another human in need of help get blown to pieces. Of course he regenerated himself only a couple of seconds later. Just in time for my knife to hit him in between his eyes. As soon as he pulled it out the knife started glowing. I’d marked the knife with a runic formation the allowed me to teleport to it. As soon as I appeared above him and swung my sword down an earthen shield materialised between us. Pushing off the shield I put some space between us. Sheathing my blade I crouched down low to the ground hiding the blade behind my body so he couldn’t see were I was aiming. Bursting through the dust cloud he ran right at me with his sword in both hands and held over his head. He swung down trying to split me in two I slashed sideways knocking his sword off course. Stepping into his range I slashed at his knee. Taking a step back he blocked my attack and retaliated with a overhead strike. As he slashed down I dropped my sword grabbed his right sleeve with my right hand and the lapel of his armor with my left, twisting around I kicked his knee and threw him over my shoulder. I tried to slam him into the ground but he broke my wrist while he was in midair and got free of my grasp. Flipping through the air he landed about 30 meters away from me and about 15 meters from the natives. Picking my sword up from were I dropped it I stored it in one of my spacial rings. Looking the vampire dead in the eyes I spoke, “Now that we’re both warmed up let’s get started.” Settling into a stance I raised my hands and took a stance my left foot and hand were in front with my hand at waist height and my palm pointing at my opponent. While My right hand was protecting my head. Channeling both mana and ki through my body I raised my physical stats by 400 points and using the mana I deployed two wings made of earth on my back. I also coated my fists with holy magic and usd my lighting arts inside my body to raise my perception and reaction speeds to the utmost limit. My pre pubescent body could barely manage to hold together the amount of power flowing through my veins and I had to rely on my bodies ability as a champion to heal because even with healing spells I wouldn’t be able to offset the damage I was causing to my self. Alpha was still standing off to the side ready to interfere if the natives tried anything or he thought I was in to much danger. As soon as i and the vampire were prepared everything seemed to go quite for 5 seconds. Then a human child in the back sneezed and we leaped towards each other. His sword glowed black and came rushing at me. Right left right then a slash from above, there’s earth mana gathering to my right mana sense shows it’s a third tier spell ground gladius without even looking at it I shoot a water bullet at it disrupting the flow of mana and ending the spell. He teleports to my left and swings his sword down on my head. I know I can’t block it in Time so I destroy the ground I’m standing on to absorb most of the kinetic energy. The remainder my armor blocks. My attack caused a cloud of dust to rise so I create an illusion of my self and hide underground. He comes flying down and slashes at the illusion but then realising his mistake he tries to teleport but I’ve already grabbed his foot. I yank it towards me and letting go I run up his body. I knee him in the chin then push of his body into a back flip and shoot three fireballs while I’m in midair. His sword cuts through one and then the second the third hits but does no lasting damage. I’m still in midair and I haven’t had time to redeploy my wings yet he takes advantage of that and lands a kick square in my chest. I’m sent flying and I smash through several buildings before I hit one of the cars with blue and red lights. Standing up I cast holy buckshot thousands of small light balls fly from my hand towards the direction I sense him from. My spell hits nothing and now I sense six presences coming at me from all directions including underground. They’re timing is a bit off as the first one to reach me is the one who’s underground, I smash my foot into his face and he turns into a bloody mist, “blood clones” I think. The next four come at me from the north, east, south and west I deploy my wings and impale the two coming at me from the east and south. The other two ram face first into my palms throwing them up they knock the one coming at me from above off course and they all crash to the ground. Unexpectedly all three turn to mist. Sensing danger behind me I try to turn around but he’s already there. His killing intent bombards me and his hand is already on the back of me head. He slams me face first into the ground and starts running dragging me through the earth. It hurts and I’m getting pissed. Reaching out I grab his right leg and trip him as he falls I flip up and cut his vampiric wings off. Deploying my earthen wings again I do the same thing he did to me except I fly up. Smashing him into the sky scrappers as we go I pummel him constantly. After five minutes we’ve reached the upper atmosphere, he’s struggling with all his might and I can barely hold on to him. Once we’ve reached the stratosphere I throw him towards the ground and start gathering all the holy mana in my body into one massive beam. This is no established spell there is no tier of difficulty to it it’s simply a massive ball of mana once it’s ready I shoot it straight at the vampire. He smashed into the ground at mock 3 destroying all the buildings around his landing area. Still he manages to survive like some kind of goddamn cockroach. Both of us are almost out of mana but still have plenty of ki. Flying towards him lightning and flames incase my body as I activate a martial art thunderclap strike. I disappear in a streak of lighting, and despite how far apart we are I appear in front of him in a millisecond. I transform the armor around my hand and claws grow out as I pierce his chest and rip his heart out. In my mind I howl in rage as I missed his core by half an inch. He realises how close he came to dying and roundhouse kicks me through some more buildings. The force of impact momentarily knocks me out. When I wake up the vampire is no where to be seen. But I can sense him. Oh shit he’s heading for the humans! Activating every instant movement skill I have I blitz towards him. I can see him now! In front of him the humans don’t realise how much danger their in. He seems to have convinced him that he’s a good guy. A child, from the looks a young girl walks up to him and looks up at him with eyes of wonder he smiles down at her but I can already see it in his eyes he’s going to drain her blood to regain his power. I have no choice as soon as his fangs come out and he lunges for the girls neck I activate the first phase of my demon lord transformation. Two pairs of wings spring out of my back and I feel more powerful then ever. On my left side two wings made up off black feathers extend and on my right two wings with white feathers shoot out of my back. As he goes to bite the girl and I can see her parents trying to get to her I’m in front of them. Alpha has also just caught up and is right behind me with his left hand extended to grab the vampire and his sword in his right to pierce his skull. I wrap my arms tightly around the girl and throw my wings up as a shield. Some of my feathers are ripped off my wings and drift down among the mortals. I swing my wings and launch the vampire several hundred meters away. Letting go of the brat I pulled two vambraces from my storage rings And put them on. No matter how much I enjoyed using swords and other weapons I will always be a martial artist above all else. Flicking my wrists two blades popped out of my vambraces. As the vampire crawls out of the hole in the side of a building his body starts bulging. Slowly a second pair of insectoid like wings appear and his body starts growing. I have less then 34 seconds left in my true demon lord form and I’m now facing a progenitor class vampire. He’s still young so I can probably win as long as I’m careful but that means he and the other one are most likely royals among the vampires. Fortunately the church despises undead types above all else so I’ll just throw this problem their way and hopefully they can deal a lot of damage to each other. Hell if they can knock each other out that would be even better. However as much as I hate to admit it the church is powerful so it is unlikely that they would lose to even a kingdom of vampires led by the original. The church is a human supremacist organisation so they already dislike me because I allow all races into my city. Coming out of my daydream I realise the vampire is already in front of me and swinging for my head. With my left hand I knock the punch aside and with my right I cast the third tier flame art infernal flame it incinerates his left arm and part of his chest. Realising he’s at a disadvantage he takes to the sky and as soon as his body regenerates and there is a sonic boom as he accelerates towards the school. I fly after him and now we’re weaving through building and past helicopters. Then I realise I can’t see him. I come to a complete stop and look around to see where’s he’s hiding but presence sense isn’t picking anything up. All of a sudden the building behind me shatters and a giant bat with two pairs of wings grabs me. As it digs its claws into my chest I punch it’s face and then stab it’s eye with my hidden blade. Sadly it’s not enough and the damn thing rips my body in two. Before I can blink I’m hurtling to the ground as pain radiates from my entire body. As soon as I land I cast mega heal on myself and recover my missing body parts. I can see the natives in the distance and many of them are puking, it seems a fight between immortals is a little to much for them. 27 seconds left! As soon as he swoops down I encase my left hand with Ki and punch him. The force of the blow launches him back the way he came as even more buildings are destroyed. Teleporting in front of him I channel ki into my hands and they burst into flames. Ki is just like mana in that it has elements its user can wield it’s just a physical version of mana that usually only works on the casters body. Using a short chant to channel my focus I yell, “elemental fist!” As embarrassing as it is to have to yell what I’m about to do in a fight it’s better to do so when I’m trying to use a complicated move that your not used to because it decreases the risk of the spell failing and helps you visualise what happens. As soon as my fist connected there was a massive explosion and the building around us shattered. Even I was blown back, flipping around mid air I landed in all fours and launched several healing spells through the dust. As soon as I finished my barrage I started running because if any of those missed my position would be revealed. Flapping my wings I shot into the sky and circled around the area looking for my opponent. Looking down I saw the dust cloud expand out and I launched several air bullets assuming it was the vampire trying to catch up to me as quickly as possible. Despite my precise aim all the came out was a dagger tied to a piece of cloth. Realising I’d been tricked I tried to twist to the side and teleport but he was already next to me. He planted his fist in the pit of my stomach and I was launched through the skyscraper behind me. Twice I bounced off the ground before ordering the nanobots on my armor to form claws and digging them into the ground. Before I’d even recovered my balance he was already infront of me, he launched another kick the sent me flying again. While I was in the air I twisted around and used the momentum to fly as far away from him as I could get. 10 seconds before my transformation is over. Landing near the humans he tried to suck their blood again to recover his mana which was almost totally drained. I laughed to myself it didn’t matter how strong he was but he had almost no battle experience repeating the same trick twice in a row made it very obvious he was a greenhorn. I’d already left a teleportation mark on the child I’d saved last time. Suddenly I felt the urge to cough and bringing my hand in front of my mouth blood came out. I looked down and realised there was a hand protruding from my chest. Here I was thinking he was an idiot and he had completely outsmarted me. He missed my mana core by only a centimetre! Encasing my hand in holy flame I pieced my own chest and grabbed his heart. Crushing it in my grasp I spun around and kicked him towards the street below. At this point I was totally out of magic and with the skills only progenitor vampires have he had damaged my spiritual body as well as my material. I couldn’t regenerate but with the skill I’d hit him with he shouldn’t be able to either. 3 seconds and then the backlash from using the first phase of my transformation will hit. If I don’t kill or imprison him before that I might very well die. After Landing in front of him we both start using every martial art and ki technique we have available. Throwing a jab with my right I dislocate his jaw and then stepping forward I uppercut him with a fist clad in flaming ki. After recovering his posture he slashs at me with his claws. Channeling ki to the sole of my boots I explode forward and tackle his legs. Throwing him over my back I swing around into a arm bar and break his elbow. His arm comes around and rips me off him and as he stands up and throws me into the nearest building. With one second left in my transformation I abandon any thoughts of defending and channel all my remaining ki which is nearly 10,000 points into my right hand and as soon as he stumbles through the hole I made I jump out at him and aim right for his stomach. The resulting explosion levels every building within 100 meters. When the dust cleared I was the only one alive. Despite my victory I was heavily wounded and Kneeling on the ground. In my left hand was a tiny core and my right was over my mouth. The mortals who had run away when when the explosion happened surrounded the edge of the crater. I could see some more soldier looking people trying to back them up. When they saw me kneeling on the body of the vampire there was a moment of silence where they all just looked at me. Slowly I stood up and materialising my sword I raised it into the air and let out a roar of victory. My soldiers who had come running to help me as soon as they arrested the other vampire also raised their weapons in victory. Some of them even ran towards me to celebrate. But Before they could even get to me I coughed up blood and collapsed to my knees. Elizebeths voice echoed throughout the crater, “My Prince! stop all of you! Can’t you see he’s injured?! Healers get to him now! Soldiers secure the area for your master! We need to get back to the portal ASAP we’ve only got 8 minutes and 15 seconds before it closes!”

To the natives of this world it may have seemed odd for a girl in a beautiful dress to be giving orders to soldiers on the battlefield but Elizabeth was my second in command so the soldiers listened to her without question. The soldiers immediately formed a circle of flesh and steel around me as Elizebeth and the few medics we had with us started frantically casting spells. The last thing I remember is being carried out of the crater on a stretcher as my soldiers held back news reporters trying to take photos and then going through the portal. After that everything was just black.

Two days later I woke up in my room in the castle of Eden city. Everything was blurry and I could barely move my body but I could feel two weights on my chest. Looking down I saw my sister and Elizabeth sleeping peacefully on top of me. For the first time in many many millennia Regret coursed through my body as I thought of what would have happened to my family and Elizabeth if I had died. I kept overestimating my own strength and now I’d nearly died three times due to my ego. If I died here Elizabeth would either be killed when the hero was summoned and her identity as a future true demon general was found out or if it wasn’t she would be forced into a marriage with him, my sister would have no choice but to become a member of the hero’s party and might very well die fighting the regular demon lords and my parents... they would be heart broken. Making an oath to my that I would never but my self in harms way by overestimating my strength again I looked towards a corner of the room. I Smiled self deprecatingly as I realised who the two watching me were.

“Hello father. Welcome my lady.”

The two people in the corner were my dad and surprisingly an avatar of this worlds core. The core of this world identified as a female so I addressed her as such. Before the core could say anything to me my father interrupted as he asked, “Leonidas is it true? Are you truly the demon lord?

Glancing at the core and then to the identification Crystal next to my bed I sighed, “Yes father but not in the way you think. My goal is not to destroy the world just the false gods”

After dad calmed down the three of us talked long into the night discussing information that not even the gods were privy two. Many of my fears were allayed but even more were confirmed. The rest of the information I will lock away deep in my soul were not even the gods can touch it. Not that they can as long as I’m on this continent at least. The barrier around it prevents them from interfering with this continent according to the world. The best outcome was that father agreed to not tel anyone and think about becoming one of my generals and he also said he’d talk to mother about siding with me as well. After our conversation was over I went back to sleep. I needed to recover quickly so I could train, once I turn 13 I will have to go to school and the humans on this continent are far stronger then I expected. If I want to be able to fight the gods first I’ll need to be able to fight the church With those thoughts in my mind I drifted off to sleep.