Demon King Ascension System

112 Runemasters (1)

“You did a good job surviving for so long, Blake.” The beautiful demoness nodded and said as the huge gorilla and the humanoid demon in its huge arms landed on the ground behind her after taking a huge leap.

Similar to riding a roller coaster, Blake’s head was slightly dizzy as he was brought up and down at a relatively fast pace when Robus was using all his might to jump and arrive at Vera’s location as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Robus didn’t just swing his arms around everywhere when he jumped and kept a relatively stable posture, significantly helping Blake to prevent himself from vomiting after getting his whole body shaken for some time.

“Yeah... Fighting all 19 of them at the same time is impossible though.”

“I was barely able to dodge their combined attack at the very last second,” Blake said after Robus let him go off of his hand and stood on Blake’s own two feet.

“But considering you told me to come to you and you are standing very calmly right now, I guess it is not impossible...” Blake continued saying as he saw Vera just stand still on her feet while holding onto a small cube filled with rune inscriptions despite him telling her that there were 19 humanoid demons chasing him.

“My dear student, let me teach you something while we’re here,” Vera said after she finished drawing the final set of runes on a tree beside her.

Blake was waiting for the lecture that Vera wanted to give him, but Vera didn’t say anything else after she said that.

Instead, Vera kept her silence while her eyes kept on the direction of where Robus and Blake had come from earlier. In other words, the direction where the humanoid demons that were chasing those two would come from.

.....

Blake was curious about what Vera wanted to tell him, and despite his willingness to wait patiently for Vera to actually start explaining things to him, Blake was fortunate that he actually didn’t have to wait for that long.

Right after the first few humanoid demons came from the forest and stopped at the edge of the clearing after seeing two new enemies, Vera finally started to speak.

“Blake, although you certainly have a very large advantage with the fact that you could draw spells in just a second, two seconds at most, way faster than the humanoid demons in this realm, that is not your strongest suit.”

“You are also able to use second realm spells despite still living in the first realm, which is still also not your strongest suit despite it is clearly a cheat that not one demon could do, including me.”

“Those advantages you have are certainly unfair advantages that many demons would die to have.”

“And in most circumstances, those two traits you have would be your strongest trump cards.”

While keeping her mouth open and explaining all these things to Blake, Vera kept her eyes on her surroundings as more and more humanoid demons appeared from the forest.

She might not be able to see and also feel them since she had most of her abilities locked to be able to live in the first realm, but Vera was sure that even though she only saw 8 humanoid demons appearing at the edge of the clearing in front of her, 11 others humanoid demons were already on this place, circling around the clearing and slowly moving towards her direction.

Vera knew that the first realm humanoid demons weren’t the brightest when it came to intelligence, but such a basic strategy like circling their enemy was a feat that even the high-intelligence demonic beasts were able to come up with.

“However, in your current case, when you are still living in the first demon realm, your strongest, the most cheat-like ability you have is not those two that you use almost all the time.”

“In a realm where 99% of your enemies were not able to study runes other than their own runes, the strongest and unfairest ability that you have in your arsenal is the fact that you are also a runemaster.”

Vera then stopped for a second as he saw the 8 humanoid demons that were standing still at the edge of the clearing start making their way towards the other edge of the clearing, where she, Blake, and Robus were currently standing.

“You made some very useful rune formations at home that had genuinely helped a lot in maintaining the garden and helping you cook.”

“But don’t you ever forget that rune formations were much, much more capable than just that.”

Right after saying those last words and the 8 visible humanoid demons were already halfway towards reaching her, Vera ran her nether through the small cube that was filled with inscriptions in her hand.

Her nether ran through her heart to her arms, then to her fingers before it reached the small cube and lit up the inscriptions that were visible on the small cube that was only the size of a tennis ball.

Not stopping there, Vera also sent her nether through the set of runes that she drew on the tree beside her, lighting the runes up, and sending space elements wave toward her, Robus, and Blake together, seemingly protecting them from something.

Blake felt the layer of protection that covered his whole body and wondered what it did as it was the first time that he felt he was being protected despite the absence of a visible-looking armor like the dark earth armor.

Blake wanted to ask Vera what she had done, but he knew that he didn’t have to ask that as Vera still continued her explanations.

“Us, runemasters, needed some preparation time to be able to use our abilities properly.”

“It was a slight disadvantage when you were faced with a situation that you didn’t prepare beforehand.”

“But when you have that time to prepare, then your enemies would have to be very strong, or more prepared than you in order to make you lose.”

Once again after she finished her explanation, the runes on the little cube in her hands flashed.

And it seems that Vera didn’t only have two rune formations prepared beforehand.

From the forest all around them, not only from their front, from their sides, and also from the forest on their back, flashes of lights as bright as the flash of the cube in Vera’s hand that made Blake flinch a little, came from all those directions.

Blake saw the flashes of lights, but he didn’t know what those rune formations had done.

Blake looked all around him once again, found nothing, then realized.

He found nothing.

Not even the 8 humanoid demons that were supposedly running toward him.

As if knowing that her student would soon ask her questions if she did nothing, Vera simply pointed her finger upward, which led to Blake raising his head when she saw Vera’s gesture.

And when his head finally looked up to the red sky above, Blake couldn’t help but swallow his saliva and rubbed his eyes as he was afraid that he was currently seeing things.