The Affinity For Darkness

Chapter 4: Reconstruction into a Dragonoid

The 8 heroes walked the streets as a parade was prepared for them. Everyone in the city is gathered to greet the new heroes who are supposed to save them from the Demon Queen reign of terror. The person who stood out the most is Amelia as she has the Affinity for light. She waved to the people with a friendly smile on her face as she walked by them.

'These people will become nothing but my pawns soon,' she thought to herself as she continued to smile.

A girl ran over and handed Amelia a bouquet of roses and with a smile on her face. Amelia accepted it and suddenly her finger was pricked by a thorn from one of the roses.

"Oh, I'm sorry, please forgive me," the little girl apologized.

"Don't worry, it's okay... Please go back to your mother," Amelia said with a smile.

The little girl smiled happily and returned to her mother and Amelia waved at them both. The people were impressed and marveled by her level of gentleness. After the parade she returned to her room and threw the bouquet of roses in the furnace.

"Damn maggot! Damn low life Maggot! Gave me a thorny rose and injured myself. I should have hanged her mother and burned their bodies to ashes," Amelia yelled as she gritted her teeth in anger and started to bite her thumbnail.

"Such words shouldn't be coming from your mouth, Young Hero," Ferora stated as she walked in with bandages and disinfectants.

"I don't want to hear anything from you, do you understand?!" Amelia shouted.

"Of course..." Ferora obeyed. She added the disinfectant on the wound and wrapped it with bandages.

"Clean the blood off the floor," Amelia ordered.

"I'll have a maid cleaning it up. In the meantime follow me I have something to discuss with you and the others heroes," Ferora requested.

After some time the heroes were gathered together in a small meeting room. The heroes happily gloated about the luxurious life they are having and the boys talked about the maids that served them. They all stopped when Ferora and Amelia walked in.

"Thank you for gathering here, first I would like to announce that all of you will go through a baptism," Ferora announced.

The heroes seem bewildered about what a baptism is.

"It's a ceremony every hero takes before they can start training. You will be baptized in holy water and you receive the blessings of Goddess Meratim," Ferora explained.

"Do we get a power up with it?" Han asked.

"Yes, your strength will double in value..."Ferora replied.

The heroes were excited about being baptized and the next day they returned to the church. The heroes were guided to a pool inside the church and they were asked to wear white robes.

"Do we have to wear this?" Amelia questioned as she lifted up her sleeves and smelt the robe with a disgusted look on her face.

"Yes. Please step in the pool and receive the blessing of our Goddess," Ferora requested.

One by one the heroes entered the pool and were bathed in holy water. Each of them noticed that their powers had doubled in value.

"I feel so much stronger."

"Ha...The Demon Queen doesn't stand a chance."

"Yeah, bring it on."

"Patience young heroes," Ferora encouraged, "The demon Queen comes later. For now you must train to become stronger."

"Ha, why do we have to? We are stronger already," Hans stated arrogantly.

Ferora found her explanation lacking so she used her spatial ability to eat a hole into the wall. The heroes were shocked and awed as they've seen it before but not on this magnitude.

"To control power you need training and with graining you'll become stronger. Wouldn't all of you want to be strong enough to defeat your enemies in one blow," she offered.

Ferora offer enticed them all. Who wouldn't want to defeat the most powerful being in the world with one blow and so they decided to accept.

In the Meantime.

In the deepest and darkest part of this unknown cave where Indura was sealed a pool of jetblack water was on the ground. The place was silent when suddenly bubbles started floating to the surface of the water and immediately afterwards a hand came out of the water. Jason crawled out of the water coughing loudly.

"I thought I was going to die!" he exclaimed.

With his hands he crawled on the ground only to be shocked by something. He glanced around and saw that his legs had grown back. Jason couldn't believe his Magic Perception so he reached down and touched his legs.

"N-No way," he said slowly, mind-blown. He was overwhelmed and tried to comprehend the miracle.

Jason rubbed his hands all over them and pinched them to make sure they were real. He wanted to cry but soon realized that he couldn't cry. Jason crawled over to the black water and looked at himself in the reflection. He gasped as he looked at himself in the water.

His hair is long and straight with the left half of his hair jet black and the other half in the color lime green, His eyebrows and eyelashes are lime green. Jason's complexion became whiter and he looked a bit more older and apart from those he was the skinny 14 year old he is. Jason slowly opened his eyes and couldn't believe what he was seeing as his eyes were not only regenerated but the sclera turned black and his pupil changed from black to lime green gemlike dragon pupils.

"No way...Ah!" he gasped. Jason moved his lips as his canines became longer, "I guess I'm not human anymore."

What he has become is a combination of Dragon and a Humanoid or for short a Dragonoid. Jason was unfazed as he looked himself in the eye of his reflection in the black water, he could see a clear image of his adopted father in him.

"From this day forward Jason Yeager has officially died. Now I'm Lucifer the Dragonoid," he declared.

Lucifer closed his eyes once again and stood back on his feet for the first time in a while. Suddenly, the black water at his feet dried up and vanished. Lucifer turned around and noticed that bones of his adopted father remained.

"Thank you father..." he expressed his gratitude.

Lucifer walked away toward the large door before him and pushed it all his strength. The large door slowly started to move and Lucifer realized something.

'I'm stronger than before and my body feels lighter as well, Is the power of my evolution?' he wondered.

The door slightly opened but the gap was wide enough for him to pass through it. Lucifer walked out the room and looked ahead at the dark cave. Thanks to his「Magic Perception 」he can see things a thousand times more clearly than with his own eyes. Lucifer then noticed there were two metal statues that look like knights with broadswords that stood by the entrance of the room. The eyes of the statue glowed and they looked at Lucifer.

'Figures something like this would have happened. The only difference is I came on the wrong side of the door,' Lucifer thought to himself.

One of the statues raised its hand and swung it down on him. Lucifer jumped away out of instinct dodging the blow that easily cut into the ground. He rolled on the ground and found his balance to return to his feet. The two statues ran towards him with the full intention of killing him.

"Fine, if that's how you want to play."

Lucifer ran toward the statues and leaped in the air. With his fist he punched the leg foot of the statue. The result wasn't as he predicted as his fist and wrist broke. Lucifer was kicked away by the statue and slammed straight into the wall.

"Gyaaaaah!" he cried out in pain. The impact caused his Ribs, Skull and Spine to crack and he fell to the ground. "Damn it, I thought I was—Wait, why am I not feeling any pain?"

Lucifer didn't understand what was going on. Suddenly he looked at his fist as a black mist covered his hand and seconds later his injuries were healed not only that but his cracked bones repaired themselves again.

'This mist is repairing all my injuries and dulling my sense of pain. Is this the power of darkness?' He asked himself and suddenly realized that a statue was standing in front of him. It swung down its sword on him with all its strength and Lucifer grabbed it with his hands out of instinct. Even with all his strength Lucifer struggled against the power of the giant.

"Rrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" he cried out.

Lucifer's hand was covered in darkness and the sword broke in two under his grip. He released a pressure that made the statue fall flat on the ground. Lucifer stood tall as his body was discharging black lightning and a curse mark appeared similar to the one Indura had on his right side of his neck. Under his long bangs Lucifer opened his eyes and looked at the statue intensely as they charged right back at him.

"Let's go..."