Devil Emperor

Goblins were little green-skinned creatures, around one meter tall and ugly as hell. They usually lived in tribal societies and primitive cultures.

Currently, I was somewhere in the outskirts of the Gremory Territory, in some mountain range, where there were multiple goblin tribes residing. Nobody bothered to kill them, as they were pathetically weak, most of them were only of Low-Class, while of mutated or stronger reached Middle-Class, so basically they were no threat.

Any High-Class being could kill thousands of them without breaking a sweat. I currently stood at the entrance of the mountain range, before a near valley, while in my right hand I was holding my new weapon of choice.

It was a scythe, that I found buried within the treasury of the Gremory Family. Apparently, it was obtained by my Grandfather from deep within the Underworld.

It was around one and a half meters in height, with a staff-blade on the end of the scythe and also on the top. From the one side, it had an ax blade with the runic inscription upon it, while from the other side was the scythe blade, which was around half a meter long. Upon entire scythe were inscribed some kind of runes, that I didn't understand, but I knew that they originated from the will of the Underworld itself.

Its name was Rosencreutz. Growth-type Soul Weapon. Capable of tearing through any kind of energy or material, that feeds on blood and souls of killed foes. Additionally, it acted as perfect amplification of my magic, so it was like mystic code.

I needed to train with Rosencreutz more, as currently, my moves were more like a joke, I didn't even attain Novice-ranked mastery over Scythe mastery.

I shrugged my head and just walked into the mountain range.

Sunset Monster Mountain Range was called, due to the extremely high concentration of the monsters and other magical creatures in it. It housed many even on High-Class, Ultimate-Class and deep within the core mountains, there were monsters that could easily be classified as Satan-Class.

I planned to stay in the outer layer of the Sunset Monster Mountain Range as it was inhabited only mostly by Minion Monsters which are the same as Low-Class, Warrior Monsters same as Middle-Class, and Commander Monster same as High-Class.

In the inner layer, were territories of the General Monsters that are as strong as Ultimate-Class and even deeper are Monarch Monsters which is the same as Satan-Class.

So Outer Layer of was best for me.

Still, as I was walking through the valley, I couldn't help to sigh, as the entire place was like some wasteland. Only some yellow grass was growing on the hills and mountains, and everything else was like death...

I planned to say here for several months to polish my combat skills, as they were practically non-existent at this moment. Then I would return and study magic and continue working on my expansion of Demonic Energy reserves to reach the Ultimate-Class.

Reaching higher class didn't mean just an increase in reserves, but also your energy becomes purer, denser, and more potent.

After around thirty minutes of walking and constant usage of the detecting spells for some kind of life, that could be killed, I finally found my target.

Goblin Village. A small one, as there were only about fifty or so Goblins.

"Architect, scan the Goblin. One of the Minion Level and one of the Warrior Level."

I said to my A.I. Chip. Strongest goblin in this village. He sensed that most of these Goblins were of Minion Levela and one, probably the chieftain was of Warrior Level, so it was very weak even for Goblin standards.

[Class: Middle / Warrior Level

Magical Energy: 18

Strength: 32

Agility: 26

Vitality: 15]

"Hmm... that Chieftan is pretty weak. What about the average level of Minion level Goblin."

[Class: Low / Minion Level

Magical Energy: 8

Strength: 14

Agility: 10

Vitality: 9]

"Even weaker. I will just destroy the entire village with my spells. It's not worth engaging in active combat. Should I find some Commander Level monster that has the strength of High-Class, it would be better, but this not."

I said to myself, as I conjured a magic circle of silver color. As I had a heritage of both Gremory and Lucifer, I could use both magic circles. While I had an appearance typical of the Gremory Line, my magic was inclined more to the Lucifer Line, so I was more comfortable using the magic circle of the Lucifer Family. Not that someone would see me here.

As several magic circles were conjured, each of them started shooting lightning bolts at the Golbin Village like some kind of artillery. It was added with even more firepower, as I used some of my Norse Magic with my magic circles, as I was using lightning rune in the spellcraft.

Enhanced with Norse Magic Rune, my lightning bolts caused immense destruction, as they were hitting everything at the goblin village, be it primitive wooden shacks or goblins that were killed either by being hit or by collateral damage.

Within just five minutes, when I used a life-detection spell, I couldn't find any, so it meant that the entire village of goblins was properly annihilated. I briefly searched through the goblin village for some valuables, but everything I found was some Soul Coins and a few bricks of Gold that I all stored into my dimensional storage.

Every ounce of gold is good.

When I was leaving the village, I conjured a massive flame and burned it to the ground as I cannot look at such a filthy place.

"I need to find some stronger targets. Maybe some Orcs, Kobolds, or something similar with at least High-Class strength to have a proper fight. Still, I will destroy everything I see... this mountain range could be used as a good fortification point at some time, maybe a build fortress in the cleared area... it could be then used to hunt for monster materials and other things."