First Demon c2

So, it does turn out that when I use my essence in speech it does inflate their pride. Only the difference is that essence is different from regular one.

Demonified perhaps is the term?

While regular pride is just platinum in colour. Demonified pride is nearly glowing. So, it's easy for me to see a person on which I have used my Demonic Whispering.

Peter. The football guy (I learned his name!) on which I have used my Demonic Whispering. He now has an abundance of this demonic essence.

Not only that but, this unique demonic essence is slowly growing inside of him by consuming his regular essence. This means that I can turn people into hybrid demons of some sort.

To test this one more out I did however interact with him more.

To see, how much more it easier for me to manipulate him.

"So, how did it go?" I asked the guy who now was free from his detention. He was grounded for a week. He was able to use several days he had to get close to that annoying girl.

I have no idea what he finds fascinating about her. Well, most likely he is horny and those tight jeans she wears is driving him nuts.

I know the feeling my 'friend'.

"Oh! The smart kid! Your idea was pure genius! Getting detention just so that I could be close to her for several days! Pity that she had her friends around!" He said that with a confident smile on his face. I could feel him radiating nearly supernatural charisma of sorts.

'Fascinating! So, it works like that! If I could use this then I could have multiple high-level minions with borderline supernatural confidence.' I thought with glee as I looked at this guy.

"I see, any progress with her?" I asked curiously. Sending more of my Demonic essence.

"Sadly… she found me funny though!" The guy said without being sad or anything like that. It's like he didn't give up.

This is to be expected when you have this much self-confidence.

"Hmm, don't give up. As long you left yourself a mark on her she won't go to forget you easily. Just continue trying." I said what I remembered from all those visual novels I played and all those animes I have watched. No one should underestimate the knowledge those sources give!

"Yeah. I thought so. Still though you are genius! If you have any advice I am willing to listen!" Peter said with a smirk.

And I smirked internally. This is fascinating. He is subconsciously coming with excuses to believe in a mere child.

His high pride is clouding his common sense.

"Sure thing. Listen to everything I had to say. And you will get her hands down." I said while giving him another dose of Pride Essence.

Peter chest bumped with his hand. Smiling at me when he heard that.

"Sure thing Boss! You are a smart kid there is no reason not to listen to you." He said with a confident smirk. Thinking that is a wise choice to listen to a mere 7-year-old.

Well, as long as he stays a good minion maybe I can help him get that stupid girl.

For now, I need to see if his performance improves in overall level.

Meaning if a high dose of pride improves his school life. If it does help then I can use it more openly.

For example, listening to my advice improves a person's overall performance. This way everyone will flock to get help from me.

"For now focus on your studies and football carrier. A girl will only go out with someone she knows is the best." I said that with a smile. And the guy had the look like he just realised the secret to eternal life.

"Yeah! Damn! It was so easy! You are a genius Boss! I gonna go study now and ace shit out of everything! And then join a professional football club!" He said that with fire in his eyes.

I could only smirk hearing this. Now I only need to watch over him.

To see if confidence works the way I am thinking it would.

"Good then go." I motioned for him to leave.

The dude quickly rushed off to study or whatever. While I only need to wait and see.

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

As time progressed, I continued to discover more about my powers. Especially the whole part of Draining and Inflating people emotions.

One could say it's the breed and butter of my powers.

I found Inflating extremely interesting because I send my pride into them.

Eventually, that pride consumes their whole being making those people extremely confident even ambitious. While it doesn't make them supernaturally talented they do however work extra hard.

Just how with Peter who is known to be the best football player his school can offer.

But, this was not all. What I found very fascinating about my essence in other people is that I can almost completely drain them and only leave with a small amount of pride. They will behave like nothing has happened.

In other words, it's like a farm.

Which needs constant observation though. As the moment that essence loses its demonic glow, they turn into dolls.

So, I nearly messed it up. But was able to solve it by just sending a small bit of my demonic essence since I can send it through distance to those people who have some of my essence in them.

Slowly enough I started doing that with the majority of teens of my orphanage. Most if not all teens slowly started to get confident and their school marks started to through the roof.

I, of course, got the best deal from this. The amount of Pride I could drain reached a new level. Making my Demonic Essence saturate my whole body and start to leak from it.

One could say by the time I was 9 years old. I was close to reaching the next stage in my power.

This is where I noticed that I can by all means make people see things. One of my favourite past times is making people think they see stuff. Like seeing furniture in the wrong location trying to move it, or missing their step and landing on their face.

Nonetheless, I didn't use it like that much. It did however helped me to get stuff I want altering perception of how people see me.

Still though a new page in my adventure is about to start.

~~~

"You look quite disturbed Melanie," I said softly to the beautiful caretaker of mine. I have realised that my perception of things have warped just as much as my powers have evolved.

For example, I have developed an obsession with certain things which I didn't have before. Only was able to notice that after stopping and just thinking about it.

One of those obsessions is my beautiful caretaker. After understanding the basics of my powers and started pouring Demonic Essence into her. By this point, Demonic Whispering was not needed as I only needed physical contact.

That was before my breakthrough in strength, as now I can spread my demonic essence just by standing next to her.

Nonetheless, in less than a week I was able to consume her Pride and replace it with my demonic essence.

Not only did she, herself, develop some sort of obsession with me.

Where Peter saw me as a Boss and the smart kid who knows everything, Melanie started pampering me like some secretary type of thing to her beloved Boss.

Of course, that would change if I am to show some sort of sexual attraction to her which I can't at this moment. With all these posh powers I can't alter my body...yet.

Not yet, at least with enough Demonic essence, I should be able to achieve Shapeshifting, I have this feeling I can do that. After all, demons should be to a certain level non-comprehensible to regular humans. So, the one's looks should fall in that category.

"I am slightly disturbed, my boyfriend decided that it wss time to get married." The beautiful brown-haired girl said with an annoyed tone. She started disliking her boyfriend when he started to come between her and her work.

In other words, she needed to pick either work or him.

Her choice was obvious…

"I thought he left you when you have chosen work over him," I said curiously. Well, it's quite obvious that no sane human male will pass such beauty like in front of me without any fight.

*Snort*

"I thought the same when I have chosen yo- I mean work over him! But, he never left me alone!" She said with a frustrated sigh.

That moment I thought of something. By this point, I was able to achieve a completely different level on my demonic essence I could saturate it to point that it changed its colour.

While changing colour means nothing to an outsider. It means quite a bit to me. As its pure Demonic essence. Not Sin based.

This could mean one thing to me. And that is if I am to give this neutral colour based Demonic Essence to my beautiful caretaker…

Will she turn into something similar like I am?

"I see. What if I am to give you some power?" I said with a thoughtful look. A normal person wouldn't think too much about what a mere 9-year-old child says.

But to the beauty in front of me? That was on a completely different level.

Each word I say hangs on her as she tries to understand to a deeper level.

"Power? What kind of power?" Now she was interested.

"When those girls did their occult stuff two years ago they did indeed summoned summoning. Whatever it was it gave me power over emotions." I said it the way it wouldn't sound too demonic or too extreme. At least in my point of view.

"So… that's why they were down like that. Whatever it was it drained their emotions, correct?" The beautiful woman said with realisation.

"Indeed. Whatever it was, it died, when it tried to consume me, thus leaving its powers for me. Now however I have reached the point that I can share it with you." I said that to her while checking how much does she going to ask? how much is she going to question me? Turns out it's quite pointless to think this way as she…

"I accept any power given by you! I will take it!" She said that with a slightly blushing look.

She didn't care about the power origins at all!

The corruption was complete by this point!

"I see… in that case." I moved my hand and put it on her. Seconds later I send the neutral Demonic Essence into her.

Several moments later Melanie frowned. Before long she got slightly wobbly on her feet. To the point that she needed to take a seat.

Then sweat started to pour down her forehead. While all this was exterior changes. Something much more intense was happening inside her body.

While my Pride Vision could tell that this neutral Demonic Essence was fundamentally altering her insides.

Creating a network for the essence energy to flow. It's like she was a demon who looked like a human. Same way like I was.

Before long another type of energy manifested inside of her core. While I could still feel my Pride Essence there was another type of energy active inside of her.

Like another emotion-based energy becomes active inside her body.

'This should mean that she is now a demon of unknown Sin…' I thought curiously.

"This is amazing Lucas! I feel extremely good!~~~" She said that with a borderline purring tone.

'A lust demon? Well, with time we will see.' I thought internally after hearing her first words after transformation.

The beauty got up from the chair before stretching out.

"How do I use this power?" She asked me after checking her hand.

"You need to feed on the emotions of people. Since you just got this power you need to drain people through touch first. I suggest not draining them completely because this way other people will ask questions." I explained the basics first.

"I see… then I will listen to your advice." She said that with a nod. But I could see a grin on her face. I can assume she is already getting high on her new power.

As long as she doesn't break the few rules I have placed I won't have to take drastic measures.

~~~

Thankfully there was no need for any contingencies. My beautiful caretaker was draining the teenager's emotions masterfully.

I did however observe their reactions to the drain. This is the best way to understand what is Melanie's Sin.

From the looks of it, she is draining their passion… after the drain, they were much more… tame… where I drain their pride they would lose self-confidence, while her is more like passion for things. It's like they become... bored… of everything.

This is another proof that she was a lust demon.

After a short test, the brown-haired caretaker of mine walked over to my side with a smile.

"No wonder you eat much less now. After draining them I feel like a had a big dinner." She said with a smile. A smile which one should be careful of. This is another proof that she was a Lust demon.

At least in my books.

"I see, which Sin would you give yourself?" I asked her casually as I watched the living room in front of me. Yes, Melanie's office was just next to the living room and there is a glass wall separating them from us.

"Sin? So, you know more what it was who attacked you?" She asked with some concern but with much more curiosity.

"A demon. A demon attacked me. Instead of taking over me, I took over his power." I said simply.

There was some shock on her face, there was no anger. That I didn't explain properly. She was far too corrupted to care about the origins of the power she has now.

"No wonder… no wonder, my outlook of the world has warped like this. I noticed that I barely care for the majority of people. Like I started to see them like some sort of garden to be taken care of." She tried to explain to me. How she was seeing the world right now.

Quite similarly to how I do. Seeing people like a farm to be harvested and used however I see fit.

"Make sense after all they are our food," I said with a shrug.

"You have been quite naughty, didn't tell anything about demonic powers until I was effectively one myself. I can't even be angry at you." She said with an exaggerated sigh.

I could only shrug at her, after this, I explained to her what I found out about the powers and their growth. To say that she was excited was an understatement.

Once the explanation was done I decided to return to farming. Even though I could drain everything from the orphanage I already started to expand outside the boundaries of the building. Something do before sunsets.

While the same thing could be said about the second demon in the building. Thankfully we can farm multiple emotions from the people. If this is true when it means there are seven sets of energies.

Well, probably 14 in total with 7 positive and 7 negative. Or it's just 7 energies that have negative and positive traits.

Only time will tell though which is what.

~~~

Melanie was feeling quite confident now. Now that she has this power she is feeling like a wolf among sheep.

Her beloved Lucas only told her to contain herself in the orphanage where the farm was, not outside of it, still though, the newly born Lust demon decided to harvest emotions at a moderate pace.

And as a beautiful woman slightly brushing past some people? No one is going to ask anything of her. In truth, most people are going to ask nicely of her if she is alright.

Before long, once again her stomach was full she felt like she had a full course meal.

'This is incredible! The amount of money I will save on food!' The brown-haired girl nearly licked her lips thinking where she could spend her extra money on.

But, then she saw someone near her flat.

She sighed in annoyance.

"What is that you want?" She said with an annoyed eye roll. On purpose, she continue to walk forward and approach him. After all, she needs direct contact for this to work. At least for now.

"L-Lets talk about it! I am sure we can find some-" Before he can finish saying his sentence. The guy lost all the passion even the reason why he was here… He loved this woman right? So, why… did he all of sudden stop feeling it?

"Just go and leave me be. I have no interest in you anymore." Melanie motioned with her hand to get lost, like some trash. Perfectly honest she is feeling so full right now that she can barely walk.

"...Alright… If you say so, I don't see a reason to try this anymore." The young adult said with a borderline bored tone. As he turned around and started to leave with casual steps.

The brown-haired woman saw this with and could barely control herself not to start laughing. This power was… simply amazing!

Melanie should be horrified that she can do this! That she is a human with powers of demon! But, all she could feel was excitement, the thrill and possibilities of even greater power!

"This...this is going to be fun!" She said that with a giddy smile, before turning around and walking towards her flat.

Yes… she needs to rest… after eating so many emotions her 'stomach' needs to digest it…

~~~

As time passed on I decided to move on. What I mean by moving on is by getting adopted by Melanie.

This means that now my name is Lucas Williams, well surname is just one thing. The reason for it is that I could expand my territory without much problem.

By now I have several blocks of people under me. And let's just say that my power was quite immense but hard to progress.

The excess saturation of the Pride Essence allowed me to slightly shapeshift into my demonic form. At first, it was just the nails then the fingers, followed by hand… for each extra expansion of shapeshifting growth, I would need to drain hundreds of people. And could only progress little by little around every two weeks.

The number were staggering and the amount of pride energy needed was enormous.

But, it was understandable as the energy needed to be extremely dense which could affect my flesh.

So far I know that my demon form is extremely humane. I was expecting more inhuman. Like a different skin colour, long nails or even horns.

After two years of being in this stage, I can safely say that it's the longest period without any new sort of powers manifestation.

Not that I need any new powers. The powers of Drain and Inflate in AOE form is more than enough. And messing with people perception of things is just cheery on top.

And so the fateful day finally arrived.

*Ding Dong*

"Hmm?"

"A visitor?" I said with a curious look. As I looked towards the doors instinctively my vision switched to Pride Vision.

'Hmm, that's quite a bit of pride. This shows that they are confident in whatever they do, or is confident about certain ability they have.'  Internally I did a basic profile on this newcomer.

It was a regular day of feeding for me. Nothing of interest or planned. My hold on the new school was spreading. But, it takes time since the children around my physical age are quite useless to me. Melanie has a greater progress with them. But me? I barely get anything from them.

That's why I prefer hanging around teens or young ambitious adults.

Their emotions are raw, barely restrained. It's like a wild farm ready for harvest.

'Are those robes?' I finally noticed the clothing of this person.

My gaze quickly went to the calendar on the wall.

Early summer of 1991…

'Heh…'

'Time sure flies when one is having time of his life. Well, I suppose I will play a little. Since they want me to attend Hogwarts. Inviting a demon to an extremely juicy farm.' I thought with a feral grin.

Walking toward the doors. I slowly opened them and got face to face with Professor McGonagall. The Deputy Headmistress herself, as well as Head of House Gryffindor AND Professor of Transfigurations.

That's quite literally three roles she is filling in. How in Satan's great name this woman is even walking? In my previous life, I had one job and that was enough for me. This woman here is doing three and another extra one in summer…

No wonder Dumb-as-door has enough time to plot when someone like this woman is doing the majority of the work.

"Good Morning. Mr Lucas Williams, I presume?" She started talking with a certain strictness in her tone. Someone who used to teach would have this kind of tone. Not only that but it does work. For example, it makes a person pay extra attention to her. Unless, of course, one is not paying attention on purpose.

"Yes. That would be me."

"Good. My name is Minerva McGonagall. I am Professor from a prestigious school called Hogwarts. School for Witchcraft and Wizardry." She said that as if reciting from a piece of paper thousand upon times by this point. It even felt like it was said automatically by this point.

"Ok," I said with shrug. It caught her by complete surprise. Pulling a Saitama move was something I always wanted to do.

"How can I help you?" I asked her before she could come up with a response.

"I would like to invite you to the school. But, before this, I wish to speak with your parent or a guardian."

She was obviously in disbelief at my response. I mean I just shrugged at her whole mentioning of 'wizardry' or 'witchcraft'.

"Of course. Please, come in, I will go and tell Mel about this." I motioned for her to come in.

~~~~~~Minerva McGonagall~~~~~~

Minerva McGonagall was quite baffled by this muggle child. For one she never meet someone this...perfect looking. The child was… looking almost like a Veela.

It was strange. She could not feel anything from him. Veela's have their allure. even if it reeled in, still there and it can still affect weak-minded wizards.

This however shows that the child was at least a descendant of a veela. Such...perfection is a trait of a veela.

Which is strange on its own. As Veelas are not known to be living in Britain.

Before long McGonagall was able to meet the boy's parents. She was not surprised that the boy's mother was just as perfect as the boy was.

She can assume the boy inherited the beauty of his mother but the looks of his father. As there was no similarities between them.

"Good morning I would like to introduce myself. My name is Minerva McGonagall, and I have come here to talk about your son's magical abilities." The Professor quickly introduced herself and went straight to the point.

"Oh? You mean about all those little things he does from time to time?" The brown-haired woman said with a slightly curious look.

Perfectly honest the Professor has never met someone… so, casual about this. Many would assume it's devil's work or some other muggle things they come up with nowadays…

Having barely any reaction to magic was weird. It's like they knew about it already.

"Yes. May I know what kind of things?" The Professor asked curiously.

"Well, making things fly to his hands. Changing people hair colours, teleporting, sending things flying away. And many more."

McGonagall eyes slightly widened hearing that the boy already did Apparition at such young age!? One slight mistake and he would have split himself!

"I see. I would like to invite your son to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's a place where children learn to control their inborn gifts like magic." The older lady started to explain and use one of the most used methods of persuasion.

"I agree. If he will learn to control these gifts then he should attend this school."

"Yes."

Minerva nodded at her reasoning. She could not quite believe how easily she persuaded this young woman. Most likely, this woman saw a lot of magic and knows its dangers without properly being trained in its use.

"Then it's agreed then! Lucas will attend Hogwarts. How does it work? It's should be a boarding school correct?" The woman pressed for some answers.

"Indeed. But, he may leave for holidays. Like Easter or Christmas."

"Wonderful."

"I would like to go about some details before I take Mr William for shopping." The Professor from Hogwarts seriously said that.

She needs to talk about magic and secrecy of it. First and at most, before going into some details.

"Of course. Let hear them."

~~~

Not even once did Melanie Williams question her for bigger details. For a second Minerva thought that the woman didn't care for the younger Williams.

Yet, that proven otherwise as she would hug him before leaving.

Still, though she was baffled by the casual behaviour of those two. Never before in her 30+ life as a Professor did she meet a muggle family who take magic at such face value.

"We have arrived. This is the Leaky Cauldron. The gateway to Magical Britain." McGonagall said with matter in fact voice.

"A run down Pub?" Lucas asked with a slightly frowned look. Just from the exterior, he looked disappointed.

"Don't judge a book by its cover Mr Williams." She said that already countless times to several muggle children she brought here.

To her words, the boy just smiled.

"Oh, I don't. I was expecting gates of some sort, Not an establishment like a pub to be entrance into the Magical side of our world." He explained what he meant.

"I see. But it's not a Pub. It's an Inn." She clarified to him before motioning him to enter the building.

Once inside Minerva showed him how to enter the Diagon Alley. She wanted to see his reaction to the magic of place.

Thankfully his reaction to magic was what she has expected awe. That means he didn't see anything like this. And there is no need for her to dig deeper to find out about it.

"First we shall go and get some money for your shopping. Follow me." She motioned him to follow her.

It was quite strange that the boy barely asks anything. The previous person was extremely opposite to this one. The Granger girl nearly drove her mad with her constant questions.

"We going to a Goblin owned bank. Be extremely respectful to them and do not ask any unnecessary questions." The Professor informed Lucas strictly.

"Ok."

Moments later they entered the marble building the only such building in whole Diagon Alley. The armoured Goblin standing guard even to this day still send some goosebumps to the older witch even to this day no matter how many times she comes here it reminds her not to mess with these little creatures.

Once they got into the line they needed to wait just a few minutes until they got served.

"Key." The Goblin Teller demanded.

The Professor handed over the key to the Goblin without any complaints about the rudeness of the creature.

"A muggle-born I assume?" The Goblin said when he saw the key.

"Yes. Lucas Williams. We would like to open an account under him. Funded by the Ministry for the period of his attendance in Hogwarts."

"Yes. Yes, I heard this many times already. The money will be transferred from the Ministry vault to the human child's one momentarily, you can go now and withdraw it." The Goblin motioned to get a move on before giving back the key.

"Next!"

The moment they walked away the Goblin called for the next client.

~~~

After withdrawing the money they started to walk towards getting their things.

"Those creatures are quite rude. Why do people allow them to control wizard money?" Lucas asked her, after seeing how goblins behave around the wizards and witches.

"You will learn about that in Hogwarts Mr Williams. We have a very long history with them." She said that with a smile. The more they are interested in Hogwarts the better it is for her. Most of her answers usually are related to Hogwarts which make children more interested in magic in general and which leads them to stay in Magical Britain.

"I hope so, their rudeness was on a completely different level." The boy said to her as they entered the clothing shop.

This is where his Hogwarts robes will be made. Then followed the books.

Professor McGonagall wanted to see how the boy will behave around the books. She wanted to see which of the 3 houses he will end up in.

It's no surprise that Slytherin is the house he won't be ending in. No muggleborn has ever ended up there since the Dark Lord reign.

The house is far too extreme with their blood purity. So, it leaves either Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff.

After seeing his below-average interest in books she assumed it will be Gryffindor.

Then… the most weirdest thing has happened to her life…

It was the boy's wand…

Never before in her life she saw Mr Ollivander get it right on his first try!

The very first wand which was given to Mr Williams was the right one! Even the wandmaker himself was baffled to the point that he forgot to speak for a certain amount of time.

"Well… Mr Williams, I do hope it will serve you well." It was the only thing the old wandmaker could say.