169 Going for Peak Rank 2 (1/2)

During these seven years, hundreds of Neo-Demons have come from the Magi World to the Beta Heavenly World. Their jobs were to take control of the land owned by the Daybreak Clan and harvest their resources.

As for the Sunlight Champions that came to war, they all returned to the Daybreak Magic Tower. The reason for sending them back was that there is where the Sunlight Core, which is fundamental for their training, is present.

The goal why Zatiel had brought them to war was to test them, to see who of them was worthy of becoming a Neo-Demons, and what he has seen was extremely satisfying. But there is a problem with the bloodlines they needed.

Most of them do not have an ancient heritage that could be harvest through atavism, so Zatiel needed to find suitable bloodlines for them and until he does, it better that they increase their power has Sunlight Champions since the path itself is meant to improve the speed of Neo-Demons training.

Right now all of the Neo-Demons that entered this world when the war started were in the Fiend Essence Extraction Chamber.

Including Dante, the number of Rank 1 Neo-Demons that remained alive after the Ten Tower Formation was established were thirty-four.

Thanks to the constant battles, the huge amount of resources at their disposal plus the help of pieces of Fallen Star and the chamber all of them have reached Rank 2.

They had been constantly increasing their energy pool with the Abyss Aura extracted from those demons and their Elemental Bloodline Marrow with the captives from the Heavenly race.

This was the reason why they had so many corpses of Angels to be able to impale ten thousand of them over these years.

The demons that were flayed and chained to the wall were been constantly replaced except for those at Rank 3.

Zatiel had managed to secure a great number of demons over the years and had bought the ones owned by the other members of the council.

Rank 1 and 2 demons could be replaced easily, but those at Rank 3 could not. Every time these demons were about to succumb due to the drain of their energy and vitality, Zatiel will heal them and allow them to rest until they could be used again.

Luckily for those demons, they were essentially brain dead, or else these would have to experience this perpetual cycle of torture.

In the center of the chamber, there were Zatiel, Sophia, Ezequiel, Kilo, and Rax. They were surrounding the unconscious Rank 4 Angelic Paragon, Martin.

The five of them had an immense amount of power running inside their bodies and consciousness. They were all giving a great sense of stability, clearly depicting that any damage done due to the accelerated training and use of Blood Essence Combustion was mended.

During these years Zatiel had remained almost every single day inside the chamber and his strength has increased considerably but the greatest improved he had was not as a Neo-Demon but in his Animus path.

Becoming a Rank 2 Animus was not very hard since he had hundreds of brains at his disposal to increase his Mind Force and his proficiency in the disciplines was very advanced, especially in Clairsentience.

But there was something different about Zatiel's Animus path, that even the Mind Ruler race did not have. That was the mantle of invisible Will Aura that was covering his body.

Will Aura is a form of using Mind Force, that Zatiel was able to employ thanks to the Path Technique known as The Will That Guides The Heart.

The Will That Guides The Heart has a multitude of uses, most of them focused on increasing the power of the body.

As a Rank 2 Animus, Zatiel could currently use the Aspect of Endurance that creates a mantle of Will Aura around the entire body increasing his defense and attack, and the Aspect of Fortitude that consists on increasing the output of Will Aura, this amplifies the physical abilities by a huge margin, but it also spends an immense amount of Mind Force.

The Aspect of Endurance and the Aspect of Fortitude, are the two most elementary uses of Will Aura, but they are fundamental as one progress as an Animus and trains The Will That Guides The Heart.

The rest has also become very powerful but it was not Ezequiel or Sophia, the ones who battle power obtained the greatest increase. That feat belonged to Rax and Kilo who had advanced their bloodline to Rank 5, transforming it into a King bloodline.

They were still weaker than the other two Neo-Demons with Emperor bloodlines but the difference has diminished greatly. Unfortunately for the two of them, the Metallic Dragon bloodline reaches its peak at Rank 5 and their atavism technique will be no longer of use.

Of course, as Neo-Demons, Kilo and Rax will not be subjected to any type of bloodline shackle, and they can improve it by assimilating other bloodlines into the Bloodline Heart, but they have to be careful.

The information that they obtained from the Chaotic-Core when their Bloodline Heart was finished stipulated that using inferior bloodlines will have negative effects, so they must assimilate another King bloodline or better yet an Emperor.

Zateil was analyzing the four them and he was very satisfied with their improvement.

'A.I. Chip, scan the five of us.'

As usual, after Zatiel command, the voice of the chip was heard and the information was sent to his mind.

[Bip... scanning targets

Name: Zatiel Daybreak

Race: Neo-Demon (Rank 2 Daybreak bloodline) / Animus ( Rank 2)

Strength: 128.4

Physique: 246.6

Speed: 159.9

Abyss Aura: 254.2

Sun Force: 261.5

Mind Force: 134.5

Elemental Bloodline Marrow. 61.2% completed

Name: Ezequiel

Race: Neo-Demon (Rank 2 Storm Titan bloodline)

Strength: 221.4