Instructor – 1

(Alexa's POV)

I couldn't hold back a grin from appearing in my face after I was done talking to my husband as he went to put a request on the Adventurer's Guild for a instructor for our son. I couldn't be happier for him. My son not only have an amazing talent as a mage, he also has talent as a swordsman!

I couldn't be happier! Although we live in a peaceful era, that doesn't change the fact that having power allows you to live freely, without being oppressed. And now, my son that will be a better mage than me in five to ten years, will be a famous swordsman as well.

We should send him to the academy as soon as he gets to fifteen, there's a limit for how much we can teach him here about magic. I look outside, to the garden through the window of the corridor. My son is doing pushups diligently.

Normally, making excessive exercises would be bad for the development of the body, but since the body of a mage works a bit different from the average body, he will be fine. Actually, exercising with the amount of mana that he has at the moment will be better for him.

(3° person POV)

The guild was in a uproar due a certain request, posted on the same day. Several adventurers were attracted to the reward, one white gold coin per week, more than a average adventurer could make in one year.

The monetary system of this world is simple, divided in several coins. Copper coins, the most basic and common, most used by commoners and stall merchants, silver coins that have the value of one hundred copper coins, mostly used by merchants, stall owners and commoners.

Above that there are the gold coins, with the value of one hundred silver coins, and is mostly used by merchants and nobles, one of these can last a commoner family of three more than three months of living expenses and allows you to live three months in a bit below average inn.

And then there are the white gold coin, with the value of twenty gold coins, and for that value, you can already imagine that they are for nobles and rich merchants. Even if the lord of this town is a lower noble, the value that he offered is easily paid.

Many though of getting the job, that was coaching his son in the art of the sword, but most turned away when they saw the requirement. To have the skill swordsmanship at level 5. Skills are a measurement of your ability, and the levels represent it.

They range from 1 to 10, with one being a beginner and level ten being enough to be considered a saint of the sword, being able to cut anything with any kind of sword. So, what does mean the level five that the city lord required? That meant someone that has considerable mastery of the sword, the level of a knight of the capital.

However, most adventurers here are low ranking, and their level if swordsmanship doesn't go beyond 3, as it is already a good level, and the vast majority of the people that wield swords are stuck on that level.

However, the request doesn't have rank limitation, that leaded to a lot of adventurers wanting to try it anyway. After all, they only had to convince the lord to let them train the kid, right?

But that plan backfired. Some indeed managed to convince the lord of the city that they had level four, and that they would be able to achieve the same results as a level five, as the boy was still too young to hold a sword.

The part that backfired was that what "coaching" the baron was asking for. What his son wanted was a sparring partner… and the kid has some serious talent with the sword. None of the fools were able to defeat the kid, being disarmed in the first exchange of attacks.

The lord them forced the losers to visit the guild and have their abilities analyzed. When the farce was revealed, the liars were arrested for trying to scam a noble, a severe crime that resulted in a few years of imprisonment. After that, the son of the baron, Abaddon, turned famous for being an accomplished swordsman at a young age where most noble children would be having a hard time lifting a sword.

And so the request was stuck on the board for three months without anyone accepting it. However, some adventurers were surprised when a woman ripped off the paper and took it to the reception with a smile, revealing surprisingly sharp canines between her rosy lips.

(Woman): "I'll take this one!"

(Abaddon's POV)

After magic practice, I was swinging my sword in the courtyard while circulating my mana in a way that my parents wouldn't notice to accelerate the muscular growth of my body. The current level of my skill in swordsmanship is 5, that's why it's the level that I asked my father to put at the adventurer's guild.

Even if I'm a master swordsman, this body is still young, and can only handle so much, so the skill level is stuck at five, as that is the level that this body can handle without being self-destroyed. As for the reason I want a sparring partner…

I want to take the opportunity that my level is reduced, and if I go all out, the enemy will be able to fight me in fair terms, and I will be able to retrain myself, and maybe even evolve my style and become a better swordsman. As I wipe the sweat from my forehead, I tale a look at my status.

[Name: Abaddon Grigori] [Level: 1]

[Titles: none]

[physical strength: 120]

[Intelligence: 25.000]

[mana: 2.000.000]

[Agility: 100]

[Skills: Status Concealment – Swordsmanship 5 – Elemental Magic 10 (Fire, Water, Earth, Wind) – Thunder Magic 10 – Light Magic 8 – Dark Magic 10 – Shadow Magic 9 (Dark, Light)]

[Blessings: Blessing of Lisanna, the Goddess of Death]

I don't have as many skills as I had back in my previous life because right now I'm a human, not a demon. Because if that, all my racials and demonic magic have disappeared, as well the skills that I made, since they were fueled by demonic power, not mana.

Still, I haven't mastered light magic yet, since I never used it in my previous life. It's not like demons couldn't use it, but there were no advantages in using it at all. Also, it's not like I'm obsessed in returning to being a demon, it's because it's the only way I know of how escaping the limitations if a human body.

After all, humans have a natural limit in growth speed, but they can evolve endlessly like demons. However, that's it, they don't have special powers, although they can use inferior versions of all racial powers.

For example, a human can use demonic power, but cannot generate it and cannot use it as well as a demon can, making it pointless to use unless in a specific situation. Therefore, I want to turn into a demon, a form with limitless growth, unaging and with demonic powers.

As I swing my sword again after the short break, I notice my father leading a woman with red hair in my direction…