#16: [何が先にある] What Lies Ahead…

A night later, Shiro [Lucifer attended school and found out that a new student is going to join them.

Itsuo approached him and told him that the new student is human and is as strong as a demon Baron.

"No need to worry, I'm stronger than a demon Emperor, he can't put a dent on me" he replied with a smile.

The new student introduced himself as "[] Makoto Hisui" from the Human race. As he introduced himself, he couldn't control his mana fluctuations and those who are below him in terms of level, kneeled from the pressure, Gabriel and Lucifer felt nothing as usual, but Gabriel's recognition was beyond what he knew.

"What is it sister? Cat got your tongue? Don't tell me your level is actually lower than his now?" he teased "No… he shouldn't be here" she said "[] Humanity's strongest, I assume?" Lucifer said "Yeah, he's supposed to be born in Israel. So why is he here?" she said. Lucifer being Lucifer, he wanted to challenge Hisui but he was beat to it, Hisui asked him on a duel before he could say a word. Of course he accepted, but he gave a condition, the battle will be three-way. Lucifer against Hisui against Gabriel.

In the arena, the headmaster, Noro, was their referee. The School began a rumor that Noro might be Shiro's tutor from before, hence, which is why he has attained a large amount of favor within the school. But of course, that rumor is baseless, thus making it untrue. But that not the whole truth as well, Gabriel knows this full well, that Noro is the Akumu clan's royal tutor and his family had always been their aids throughout the generations.

The fight starts… none of them is making a move, Hisui pulled out his bladeless sword in which then a pale red flame can be seen as its blade.

Gabriel took on her female armaments and prioritized her agility and her mana tan her physical.

Shiro however, did nothing, and stood there. Although that's all he did, the whole arena felt that a strong surge of mana and explosive power is surging out of Shiro's body. Shiro lifter his head and everyone can see his eyes. Both of his eyes became peculiar, the left colored violet, and the right colored pale blue. The violet eye has a weird look to it, and the pale blue looked like it came from a dragon, Noro noticed his left eye and remembered a book which it is written, the eye's name; Wraith eye, which has 2 levels, one being Wraith and the other being Wraith emperor. Wraith emperor eye can multiply his power by a thousand fold while the wraith eye can only boost him a hundred fold.

Hisui tried to attack Shiro but his blade vanished all of a sudden, "[# 40 – Null]" Shiro spoke. "An ancient spell that negates all elemental spells" he added as he vanished in the wind. The crowd wonders where he is, and is found standing on top of the arena dome. Noro tried to stop the match in favor of Shiro but the students asked for why.

"The violet eyes that he possesses right now is called the [Wraith eye], an ancient spell that boosts one's magic power by a hundred-fold. In Shiro's case, the Wraith eye is only premature, thus boosting his strength by fifty-fold. That power could already destroy the whole country in one fell swoop, so I suggest to give this win to Shiro" he spoke.

The crowd was shocked to see a spell that destructive that it could wipe out a whole country in one go. Lucifer however only wanted to test out his Wraith eye again after twenty centuries.

After school, there was already a rumor going on, "Shiro's demonic eye came from forbidden magic" but of course they don't have any proof that there is Forbidden magic at hand.

[Forbidden magic] is a genre of spells that humanity is not allowed to possess, apart from demon summoning, there are more than 12 forbidden spells, Wraith eye not included.

As their rumor get clouded with facts that it is not forbidden magic, someone started calling him the [Demon king]. And as his nickname spread, more and more schools want to recruit him, but every time someone recruits him, he declines without batting an eye.

"You'll regret this!" a dean from one of the schools cursed. He laughed it off saying that they would want to make something up before the tournament as a joke. "Child, you might not want to provoke them more that you intended to" Noro spoke lightly "Old man, when you get to my age, you won't really care about what humans say, rather, you would want to find out how they fight back" he said then looked at him. Noro froze, Shiro's [Lucifer's] wraith eye, in a matter of hours, became matured.

"Why so surprised? Demons my age can do this no problem" he said "Your age? How old do you think you are? 16-year old demons can't even produce epic-grade magic" Noro replies "My age, is a little bit older than the rise of Hell and Purgatory, about 1500 years older than it" he said "If you're not lying, the soul of the boy would be nowhere" "That's not true, the boy and I, we share the same soul, you can say that I've been asleep all this time but accidentally woken up by some dragons wanting to host this body" he replied.

"Tell me, who are you really?" Noro asked one more time "Rather than tell, it might be better if I show you"