Daimon read the woman in the book saying he would have died due to his mana being drained and he smirked, he could tame Disaster back then and even stole its energy which allowed Narasha to recover some control over it.
This book was certainly a treasure, but he could feel that Disaster would have been able to destroy with the given time and if it was needed, not to mention the thing couldn't take his mana without his permission.
And even if it could somehow do it, he had his life spark, so his existence wasn't fully supported only by mana, unlike mages, probably this is why there was no notification from the system, he was never in danger to begin with.
Thea injected more mana into the book, but new words didn't appear, so apparently this time it was Daimon's turn to do so, so he did, luckily his reserves outmatched even middle ranked Lord ranks, because the book was quite greedy.
After a couple of seconds of Daimon giving mana to the book, new sentences appeared on the black page.
"For starters, let me tell you the origin of our race and why the clan is named Ryner, despite the fact that my and thus your surname being Neris, as the current ruler you must be informed about the war of foundation, which involved four people that led the four seas, I'm sue you have heard some amazing feats and achievements from them, well, that is if one of them was the winner".
"What I can tell you is that there were way more people involved in that war than those four whether it was on purpose or nor, and among those who were involved not out of out will there was me, I was dragged from my home, by the trash that led the Maelstrom Sea for their stupid game of war".
"I bet that idiot named himself something like "Hydra King" or whatever, but the truth is that he was a half breed between a human and a magic beast that took human form, however after hunting and killing many snake races, he somehow integrated their lineages into himself".
"He did so eight times, an by doing so he gained control over eight different elements, becoming an abnormality with the ability to use mana of eight different elements, anyway the guy that was playing to be hero for the Mermen Sea apparently drove the idiot to a corner, and so he decided to go for the ninth element".
"It was then when he dragged me out of my home… somehow, first he offered me a deal, I'll be partner and he would not only spare my life but help me evolve, but of course I could see the madness in his eyes, so I refused and a battle broke out".
"What he wanted was my core, so that he could obtain the rare space affinity with which my Void Devouring Python race is innately born, as trash as he was, he was honestly a monster, having fused eight snake races into his, he attained a beast form which resembled one of the ancestors of all snake races, a Hydra".
"But even after all that he was a mere imitation, Hydras have nine heads and they are always women, also even if his battle prowess was insanely high for a fake Stellar being, I was of a higher realm than him".
"Also, it seems I was luckier than him, because he seemed to have not gotten the support of someone important, and so even when his reinforces arrived, the small army of magic beasts that were convinced my noble aura, crushed them".
"Unfortunately, I was hit with some kind of curse by him which slowly made my body turn into stone, but not before I ripped off the main head of his beast form, which was of darkness affinity, to swallow it and use it as energy to slow down the curse".
"He fled since I had a small army at my side while he was left with nothing from the reinforces that arrived previously, I also found a place to hide with an incredible treasure in the form of a natural spatial gate nearby and built a small fortress around it".
"The magic beasts that followed me to battle, gathered their subordinates and joined me, but my time was counted, so I created this special record with a part of remaining powers, granted some of my blood to the one that contributed the most and helped me during all the process, which I'm pretty sure you know, a guy called Ryner who used to be a member of the Tidal Snake race, but after accepting my blood he became the originator of a new race".
"Back then he called himself a "Dark Maelstrom Serpent", to be honest it sounded cheesy for me, but I was dying so I didn't care too much about it, anyway I then used the spatial gate to hide my body in a secret destination, because I didn't want that piece of trash to use it for his own benefit".
"My consciousness stayed behind to write a few more things in the record, like the coordinates were my physical body was hidden, so that one day a decent descendant can ascend into a member of my race, besides that, the last thing I was able to hear about the war, was that the guy from the Mermen Sea was winning".
Up to this point the book kept demanding more mana from Daimon, but it suddenly stopped here, which meant it was time to change one more time.
Needless to say, but all the presents were amazed at the story told by the book so far, well Thea and Marlene would have had it hard to believe that someone was able to use eight elements, if not for the fact that Daimon has openly told them he can use all of them, not to mention he is both a knight and a mage at the same time.
But that is not everything that surprised them.
"It seems, you were fated to be my friend, huh Thea~", jokingly said Marlene, those reinforces that were useless, were probably Milo's family, in other words the King of the angelfish clan and his subordinates.
"Well, anyone else for sure will find it hard to get along with you", said Thea with an almost unnoticeable smile, it would be a lie to say she wasn't in a good mood right now, not only she got to know her last name but the name of her race, which have been a mystery until now.
But then new questions were born at the same time, for example she was born with space affinity, also maybe the previous rulers had their secret black pages, but none of them had space affinity for sure, otherwise the Chauliodus clan would have been eliminated a long time ago.
The members of Thea's family always had either a strong darkness affinity, or a strong water affinity, in isolated cases they had decent dual darkness and water affinities, the only exception to that was her father, he had strong water and darkness affinities.
"So, father's blood had concentrated enough to be a member of the Dark Maelstrom Serpent race, he was the closest to break the limitation that had been preventing us direct magic beast descendants from reaching the Maximum Stellar ranks", mumbled Thea.
She was confused as to why she went one notch up and was born probably with the lineage that Thalia had, in other words she is a member of the Void Devouring Python race, and not only that, she has the darkness affinity that Thalia stole from the Hydra Guy, and even an innate ability that has the word "Nine" in it.
The name of an innate ability isn't given by a person, but appears along with how to use it, it's a memory that dwells in the lineage, at least that is the case for real magic beast descendants.
For Daimon it is different, because the innate abilities of the lineages he has, have been adapted to be represented as skill through the system, such is the case of the Ruler of the Sea for example, the original ability was called Commander of the Sea and it belonged to the Black Armored Shark, but he surpassed the limit of the species in the trial of the Lineage Temple and got it to evolve.
At this point they had unveiled around an eighth part of the first black page, and the story had already changed the way Thea saw the history of Neptune, so she injected more of her mana to see where all this was going.
"I must say that I'm amazed, somehow you were born a member of my race, not only that but a direct descendant of mine, perhaps it happened because the one in a gazillion scenario, of both of your parents carrying an active part of my lineage happened, and in an even rarer happening, you who was born from lower ranked species, was able to survive, adapt and control a lineage stronger than you".
"Ah right, don't try to make specific questions, this pages are showing the answers I prepared, for this scenario, the array determined what to say based on the comparation between your mana and mine, the same for the one who is grabbing the book besides you, but for that, I used a sample of the mana that idiot used to drag me from my home to this mess, and incredibly it shares some resemblance, only around 5% but that's enough, because I ran tests every minute during the last days of my life, with all the races I knew off and always got a 0% resemblance result".
Daimon's eyes frowned as he read that part, the woman called Thalia, was able to deduct he is a system user, based on some kind of comparation between his mana and the one of the Hydra Guy, which is honestly amazing, though it will only have sense for those who know about system users, for others such a low resemblance in mana is a mere coincidence at most, or maybe a way too distant common ancestor.
Thea's eyes glowed, she gazed at Daimon and couldn't relate it to the guy described on the story, besides the fact that he has more than one affinity, but then she remembered the small explanation Daimon gave them about Adam and Marcus being more than what it meets the eye.
"Does that mean, that Hydra guy was like those two… like you, Daimon?", she asked, Daimon saw those pretty amber eyes of hers and he shook his head.
"He was probably like Adam and Marcus, but none of them is like me", he confidently said, which made Thea nod, if they were facing two guys on the same level as Daimon, then things would be pretty bad.
After that little exchange, Thea continued injecting mana into the book and then, the record reached probably the most important part of it.
"Still, even if you were lucky enough to be born with all that, which for sure has given you enough means to rule over others, you are also unlucky to not have only inherited my lineage but the one I stole from him, because I died before assimilating it".
"So, you in an existential limbo, which is preventing you from advancing, I think the middle stage fake Stellar level should be your limit, but don't worry I have a solution for that, you just have to suppress the darkness lineage and use it to ignite your Void Devouring Python lineage, and for that you need to refine the physical body I left behind".
"I will give you coordinates, as long as you promise to avenge me, starting with the one holding the book next to you, believe mw people like them are monsters, they come deprive others and then leave without any consequence, out of all the battles I managed to see or heard about, besides me, that idiot only experienced problems when the other three that came alongside him, participated".
"That's in part why I stole something from him, in the form of his dark affinity lineage, the purpose of my lineage is to be able to retaliate against idiots like him, of you want me to help you destroy that limit your own "luck" has given to you, that is my condition".
With those words, the black page stopped producing words, but the book didn't close, as if it was waiting for Thea to do something, which for sure wasn't what she did on the spot, which was close the book with a slightly angry expression on her pretty face.
"This power I have wasn't given to me by you, but by my parents, my mother's frail body gave birth to me, against all odds, not only that but she didn't give up until the last second, just to see me for a bit more time, she was the origin of this strong lineage I have, as for my father, it was his death what gave me the strength to control it, I already surpassed my limits once before, I just have to do it once again!".
Daimon smirked, he suddenly tightened his grip on the book and ignoring the fact that the thing was trying to drain his mana, he forcefully opened it, just to rip off the first three pages with a single move of his hand.
'You might have prepared to deal with guys like that scum, but whether you believe it or not, I'm not like them, so stop giving problems to my friend', he thought.
The moment Daimon tore off the black pages, the sweet sound of a notification echoed in Daimon's mind.
[Ding]
[The mission "Stealing from the devil", has been updated <!>]
Thea saw the pages in Daimon's hands, and to her surprise, the rest of the words that were hidden, and would have stayed like that, as she wasn't going to betray her friend for the help of some shady ancestor, started slowly appearing.
That being said, there was black electricity assaulting the hand of Daimon, it was something she has gotten to comprehend better lately, a curse.
From within Daimon's mind, a soft snort could be heard, before Evangeline's annoyed voice sounded.
'A mere dead snake dares to try and lump me in with those low lives, know your place, humph!'.
Apparently, whatever that curse was, was aimed to that "mana" which resembled the one of the Hydra guy, which was actually the leftover energy firm of the system, in other words, the curse wasn't targeting Daimon as a whole like normal, but that small aspect of him.
But Thalia miscalculated and annoyed a certain administrator girl, who was having a nice rest, so before Daimon's anti-curse abilities activated, she did her move, since the system was targeted in a sense, she got some leisure to act.
Which ended in the curse being blasted away and the three pages revealing their secrets as part of the counter-effect, curses are rather interesting in the sense that if they don't succeed, the effect will invert and the caster will be the one suffering.
'Thanks Eve', inwardly said Daimon, which earned him some mumbles from Evangeline who then returned to sleep.
Daimon then turned to see Thea and handed her the three black pages.
"I think you can get that material, but don't do as the record said, that will be the same as giving up a part of what your parents left for you, instead of that why not integrate it together, so that you get all the benefits without the downsides", he said.
Thea's limpid eyes saw the silver haired youth casually handing her the coordinates, to the corpse of a magic beast who was priceless, and she smiled.
'No matter what he turns out to be, speaking so casually about creating a new variant lineage, is something only Daimon will do', she thought as she accepted the black pages.
'But isn't that what makes me enjoy being around him', she added as she gazed at the coordinates written in the pages, while she kept the black book into a separate ring just in case.
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