With a swooshing lunge the small figure launched towards Adam's back, its claws over a feet long gleaming in the darkening basin.
A flash of black light was met with a disdainful snort.
Adam scoffed as he reluctantly turned his attention away from the obelisk, his hand reaching out behind him and catching a small demon within his palm; its size was only 3 feet tall and it had a sharp tail behind its skinny and ferocious body, with eyes that were bulging and took up a third of its face.
It was young imp: it lacked fear, order, and intelligence, thus giving it the bloated arrogance to attack a devil although its strength was one of the weakest in hells environment.
With a slight frown, Adam crushed the small demons head, its arms still wailing wildly. Adam was disgusted with its appearance, its sickening blood seeping between his fingers and bone fragments littering the ground.
A soul squirmed out of it's body and pulled into Adam's mental domain for future use.
Though, Adam's mind wasn't on the physical gore, as he was more annoyed that such a weak being would try to kill him.
The thought of being attacked by such a weak creature insulted Adam's solidifying devil pride. The attack had caused Adam to fester with rage.
Negative emotions, thoughts, and sin steered a devils actions; and Adam had been trying his best to stay in control.
Yet now, a surging intent to kill these weaker and foolish demons brewed. Intangible emotion made a physical impact as strange phenomenon started to occur.
Anger from within manifested into a dangerous black aura that cause weaker demons to tremble in trepidation, earning their fear and respect in the process as they all stilled from their restless movements.
A black, nearly invisible fog swirled around Adam.
Adam's anger subsided at the sudden appearance of the black aura around his body, understanding something that he had over looked before.
'Not everything is taught within hell's inheritance.'
An instinctive knowledge on how to use the evil and chaotic black energies that filled hell came during his awakening, but not all knowledge on the full potential of his being, nor the abilities he could manifest were given.
Some things had to be learned on his own.
Feeling the overbearing demonic aura that radiated off his body, and then looking at the demon's expressions of fear and obedience, Adam felt a surge of twisted satisfaction.
And he wanted more!
Just as he was relishing in their expressions of fear, the tall and powerful demon from before came before Adam with cautioned, slow steps.
Adam's crazed bloodlust slowly faded away, his gaze piercing the demon before him, his hand slowly raised as he met the demon's terrified gaze, letting out a concentrated beam of dark energy.
It shimmered in the dimming hell environment.
The demon, Roh, watched in terror as the beam shot through his left shoulder and came out of its back.
The immense pain and powerful force caused its body to shoot back and fall onto the ground. Along with his fall a roar of pain and rage filled the basin.
"What is it?" Adam's chilling voice caused Roh's roar to come to a halt.
His expression and tone was not that of someone who had just attacked.
Roh realized that his roar of anger could be taken as a form of aggression, so in his pain and weakened state, he forced himself up and knelt on one knee. He crossed his arm across his chest and onto his wounded shoulder, forcing the bleeding to stop by covering the gaping hole the size of a fist.
The nigh immortal bodies of demons showed its prowess here as Roh's shoulder emitted thick and hot steam, the large tear on its shoulder slowly closed up beneath the fog.
The strength and physique of a full grown lesser demon were the nightmare of other races. By merely reaching adulthood, a demon horde was a threat that could cause extinction for weaker races.
Adam's devil eyes were imbued with a primordial gift, a discernment from his ancestors that allowed him to see through things normal beings couldn't.
What was a devil without discerning and cunning eyes after all.
But he felt that he could do something more.
Working on this thought, Adam focused his gaze, his eyes slowly imbued with demonic energy as a series of hell's runes started to squirm in his pupils.
Natural instinct and talent guiding his every move.
As he gazed down on the submissive and wounded Roh, a series of blood red letters slowly formed over his head: it was detailed information that pertained towards Roh.
Roh's voice quivered slightly as he spoke, his fear and astonishment growing with his realization that this newborn devil, Adam, had understood and mastered two devil techniques in the 1st day he was born.
The hell aura and hell eyes were something that he saw in older devils, and now he saw Adam grasp these techniques too.
"I-I found 5 powerful demons and brought them here, your will being their command."
Adam's gaze was still directed at the demon, demonic inscriptions in a blood red color slowly formed over Roh's head. The veins and muscles, every aspect of Roh's body and physique were also completely exposed by his eyes; there was nothing to be hidden before his demonic red eyes.
'9 years old… strength at peak tier… Berserker Demon bloodline… Roh !@$ #$%'
Adam, rubbed his chin, realizing that a fiends true name could be a critical weakness, and was protected even from his hell's eyes.
Roh's agitation was growing as time passed without Adam speaking, his body shivering slightly as he tried to heal his wound faster; the thought of escaping never crossed his mind as the gap in strength was too vast.
"Where are they?" Adam finally reeled in some of his demonic aura, allowing Roh to breathe and let out a sigh of relief.
Roh stood up with pain and roared out, "Come Out!"
Maybe in bid to quench its anger, Roh moved its massive body towards the group of demon onlookers, slapping a few away and grabbing one of the found demons and dragging them forcibly towards Adam.
"Here they are, my Lord!"
Adam merely raised a brow at the term before turning his gaze past the new comers and instead towards the rest of the demons, his blood red gaze particularly piercing.
"Don't forget your place here, otherwise…" The weaker demons shivered at his words.
He didn't forget the insult of being attacked.
Only after making sure he had instilled fear into the demons, did Adam recast his gaze towards a new group of demons; their strength all being at the peak of the 1st realm, yet their strength was at, yet mostly below his who was at the beginning of a devil's 1st realm.
Same as demons, devils 1st hurdle in reaching the 2nd realm was to obtain and refined their bloodline; slowly becoming a more powerful beings and raising their realm to a higher level.
Accompanying the bloodline awakening, new abilities and bodily transformations would occur; there are even cases of awakening a gender, as a good portion of demons were genderless.
Roh's awakening was of the berserk demon class; a monstrosity that could go into a strengthened rage that would disregard injuries and have boosted abilities.
His complete transformation was only a hair's length away.
There many other types of devils and demons, but they generally fell into physical and magical types.
Roh, was obviously a physical demon type.