During the Dark Ages

Before me was a primitive looking camp with tents made of animal skin and a large bonfire in the middle of the camp. I counted twenty two tents with two of them being larger than the others. In one of these large tents I could sense dozens of weaker auras belonging to imps and from the other I could feel only three large auras belonging to greater imps.

'That tent must be where that lord Hans guy is.' I thought and decided to enter the tent and see what was so great about this guy. I entered the tent as quietly as possible and inside I saw three greater imps as expected...but what I didn't expect was that they were all naked. Inside I saw two female Greater imps laying on a fur mat and facing to me was a large muscular bag covered in white tattoos.

'I should get out of here.' I might be a Demon but I wasn't disrespectful enough to disturb someone while they were having a 'passionate moment' . But just as I was about to leave something happened that shook me to my very core. As I was leaving I felt a stern gaze on my back and when I turned around I saw the stern face of a Greater imp that had a scar over his left eye and eyes glowing with malice. He was staring right at me.

"What is it lord Hans?" One of the female Greater imps asked and Hans turned around to look at her and I quickly but silently made my exit.

'That guy is strong way stronger than Grox.' I thought to myself. Even though I haven't fought him yet, I could tell just the fact that he could sense me while I was using [Stealth] assured me of that. I decided not to make a fuss over Hans for now and instead decided to scout the camp more and get a better understanding of the strength of this horde. I observed the camp for a few hours as the imps went about their daily lives they mostly hunted, sparred with each other which gave me a rough understanding of their strength and they also had a small, stone forge but they didn't have enough resources to create more weapons. After doing my observation I quickly came to a conclusion, the imps must die. I have counted twenty five Greater imps, including Hans and the two females, in total while for the imps I have counted over fifty. Twenty Greater imps was way more than the others and I could handle but I have deemed the imps a bigger threat for one simple reason.....evolution. If Hans was just waiting for most if not all of the imps to become greater imps to attack us then I simply couldn't let that happen. So I waited patiently until nightfall when all the imps came back to the tent for the night except for the scouts and those that were either killed by demonic beasts or were lost in the forest. The grearer imps were feasting outside but that was inconsequential at the moment. I flew to the back of the tent out of the camp grounds then I held my hand forward and I created a fireball in my palm. Instantly every one in the camp became aware of my presence but it was already too late. I channelled my aura into the fireball making it even stronger. As I was going to shoot the fireball I saw Hans running past the tent with an axe in hand. We locked eyes with each other and I fired the fireball at the tent and he threw his axe at me with all his might as it sped towards me. The fireball shot out towards the tent and it instantly became engulfed in flames.

[- 120 LP]

At the same time, the axe dug deeply into my stomach causing blood to leak onto the ground. I snapped my finger causing the fireball to explode and Hans leaped backwards into the air trying to avoid the hell flames but he wasn't that lucky. The impact sent him flying back inside camp while the flames burned his flesh.

[You have slain a level 9 imp. You have gained 540 exp.]

[Your [Hell Fire] grows stronger.]

[You have slain....]

[Your....]

[You....]

As the notifications rang into my mind I pulled the axe out of my stomach and let it fall to the ground. The wound was deep and it was healing slowly but I need to leave quickly before the Greater imps come back. In a moment of inspiration, I controlled my aura to flow to my stomach and to my surprise the wound started healing faster.

"You!!!" Shouted a greater imp and fear instantly gripped my heart but when I saw it wasn't Hans my panic lessened but did not completely disappear. To my luck, this greater imp didn't seem that strong so he might be recently evolved. I quickly picked up the axe and activated both [Demons Pride] and [Demon Enchant] deciding not to waste anytime. I kicked off the ground towards the imp and he swung his sword at me but I blocked it with the axe handle and tackled him to the ground. I focused my aura into the tip of my tail and stabbed it into his chest, right through his heart, easily piercing through.

[You have slain a level 2 Greater Imp. You have gained 1260 exp.]

I didn't have time to celebrate my victory and quickly got off his corpse as I heard more voices in the distance coming towards me and quickly flew deeper into the forest.