The System Awakens: Rise of the Champion

[You have Assimilated with the racial essence of [Imps]]

[You have Assimilated with the racial essence of [Incubus]]

[You have Assimilated with the racial essence of [Succubus]]

[You have Assimilated with the racial essence of [Sinful Demons]]

[You have Assimilated with the racial essence of [Fallen Angel]]

Ignoring the changes happening outside, many things began to unfold within Damian as his talent, [Library of the Unseen], started recording everything inside him.

In his mind, rather than seeing visual prompts like a system interface, he simply knew, as if the information had always been there.

[The Spiritual Library is being created...]

As soon as the [Spiritual Library] began forming, foreign knowledge, millions of pieces of information, flooded Damian's mind.

Details about his new talent and its capabilities became clear to him.

To put it simply, his new talent revolved around spirituality.

As established before, a being is composed of three fundamental aspects: body, soul, and spirituality.

Body refers to the physical flesh and everything related to it, such as constitution, traits, physical attributes, energy reserves, race, and even bloodline abilities.

Soul refers to the essence of a being.

A soul can reincarnate, take different forms, and persist beyond death, either moving to Heaven or Hell.

The soul carries spiritual aspects within it, such as talents, and, if strong enough, it can even retain memories from past lives.

Spirituality serves as the mediator between the flesh and the soul.

Spirituality functions like a bridge, a system that records what the body learns and transfers it into the soul while also allowing the body to access the knowledge stored within the soul.

Through spirituality, a being can store experiences, learned skills, developed abilities, and gained traits within the soul.

However, the soul doesn't record these things as they are; instead, it captures their essence.

If a being dies and their soul reincarnates into a new body, the stored essence allows the new incarnation to replicate the talents, bloodline abilities, constitutions, and other traits from its previous life.

Thus, the Spiritual Library was not just a record.

It was a system that could preserve, transfer, and awaken power across lifetimes.

For example, Damian has learned many things throughout his life.

The essence of everything he has learned, experienced, gained, developed, or even created is stored in his soul with the help of his spirituality.

Now, if an unfortunate incident leads to Damian's death, his soul will carry all those essences.

When his soul reincarnates into a new body, that flesh will be able to use the stored essences to develop the same abilities he possessed in his previous life.

The flesh is like an organ that creates and develops, while the soul serves as a storage unit that retains everything.

Spirituality acts as the mediator, processing and transferring what the body learns into the soul while also making the stored knowledge accessible to the body.

However, not everything can be recorded within the soul.

There are limits.

Furthermore, no one typically has the ability to manipulate spirituality.

But Damian's unique talent grants him control over his spirituality, soul, and flesh, allowing him to shape them at will.

This ability enables him to create a literal library within his spirituality for easy management.

This library only contains information related to the soul, body, and spirituality.

[The collection of races has been updated.]

[The collection of memories has been updated.]

[The collection of souls has been updated.]

[The collection of constitutions has been updated.]

[The collection of demonic abilities has been updated.]

[The Spiritual Library has been successfully created.]

[You can access anything from your Spiritual Library however you want, as much as you want, at any rate you choose, and in any quantity you desire at will.]

Just like libraries, where books are arranged and anyone can take and read them whenever and however they want, inside Damian's spirituality, a type of library was created using everything he had assimilated, devoured, absorbed, or developed.

Everything came together and arranged itself under the effects of his new talent, The Library of the Unseen.

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[Spiritual Management: Spiritual Library]

[Authorities: ???, ???]

[Races: High Human, High Fallen Angel, High Demon, High Imp, High Incubus, ???, ???]

[Soul Count: ???, 278 x Demons, 127 x Imps, 18 x Succubi, 12 x Incubi, 1 x Fallen Angel]

[Memories: ???, 480 x Demons, 1 x Fallen Angel]

[Talents: The Path of Infinity, Mind of Eternity, World Tree's Avatar, Limitless Refinement, Transcendent Harmony, Rule Breaker, The Library of the Unseen, ???, ???, ...]

[Abilities: Devourer, King's Dominion, Eyes of Heaven and Earth, Radiant Fire, Radiant Flight, Negativity Sense, Harvest of Negativity]

[Demonic Abilities: Demon's Grasp]

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The things that had their essence stored inside his soul appeared in his mind.

He ignored everything else and focused on the section he cared about at that moment, races.

While this process may have seemed like it took a long time, it was completed almost instantaneously, and everyone only felt the changes occurring for a couple of seconds.

"This is very strange," Elfie muttered, still with the same expression on her face.

"Do you feel that too?" Sir Holloway asked.

"I do, but what exactly is that? It feels like him, and at the same time, different... very different," Elfie replied.

"He is no longer human..." Sir Holloway muttered with a shocked expression.

As a vampire, he could feel the presence of consumable blood from anyone.

Just now, he felt the presence of blood disappearing from Damian, and there could be only one reason behind it: Damian was no longer human.

And he was right.

Damian was no longer a human.

Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that he was no longer just a High Human.

He had become something more.

Looking at the [Races] stored within his soul, he saw that he possessed [High Human], [High Demon], [High Imp], and [High Incubus], along with two other races that he couldn't retrieve any information about.

No matter how deeply he searched within himself, those two races remained a mystery.

Right now, he wasn't just a [High Human]; he was also a [High Demon], [High Imp], and [High Incubus].

As he assimilated with the racial essence, his talent, [Library of the Unseen], automatically created separate sections, forming distinct racial identities using each essence.

And just like a library, he could choose which race to embody at will.

Since he had decided to summon his legion of demons, he shifted his race from [High Human] to [High Demon].

As soon as he did, his appearance began to change rapidly.

His height grew from 7 feet 4 inches to 8 feet 8 inches.

His once fair, white skin darkened into a deep crimson hue, his muscles becoming larger and more defined.

His brown-black hair turned completely jet black, thickening and growing all the way down to his waist.

His blue eyes lost all color as both his irises and pupils darkened into a pitch-black abyss.

Sharp brown claws extended from his fingers, and from his forehead, two thick horns, about 35 centimeters long, emerged, bending backward as a thick flame ignited between them.

[You have switched your race to [High Demon]]

The [Crown of the Ruler of Hell], which had been floating in front of him, moved as if it had a will of its own, settling onto his head behind his horns.

The metal of the crown began to melt slightly before curling like a serpent around his neck, forming strange black patterns across his skin.

"Summon the demons."

A deep, coarse voice rumbled from his demonic lips.

The ember gem embedded in his crown flared intensely, and an enormous ember magic circle appeared beneath his feet.

It expanded continuously, growing larger and larger until it detached from the ground and rotated into a vertical position.

As soon as the demonic magic circle fully manifested, a strange energy seeped out, dark with an amber glow, an energy so corrosive that it disintegrated everything it touched.

That same energy enveloped Damian, making his very existence even more overwhelming.

The sheer pressure it exuded was so suffocating that the vampire army struggled to remain conscious.

Even the noble vampire, Aeron Brenlith, was reduced to crawling on the ground before the immense being standing in front of him.

Sweat drenched his face.

His eyes were bloodshot.

His breath was ragged.

He was shaking with terror.

He couldn't speak, not that he even wanted to.

The absolute fear kept him paralyzed.

Even Damian's own faction members were frozen in dread.

Those watching from a distance were no different.

Horror was written across their faces.

They had never witnessed such an existence, one that shattered common sense over and over again.

A being who had somehow ascended to a high-ranking demon...

And was now summoning legions of demons onto the battlefield at his command.

Due to the effects of the strange corrosive energy emerging from the demonic magic circle, the air grew thicker, and the vampires began to feel it harder to breathe.

Every single one of them felt their bodies growing weaker and weaker, and one by one, they fell to the ground, unable to withstand the strange pain coursing through their bodies, weakening them further.

Then, from the demonic magic circle, about one thousand demons of all shapes and sizes emerged.

Some were incubus, some were succubus, some were imps, and some were sinful demons, the kind born from various sins filling Hell.

Each demon had a different body frame, and they wielded sharp weapons in their hands.

Their bloodthirsty, sadistic expressions were unmistakable.

Though they were different kinds, there was one common thing that struck those watching them emerge from the magic circle: fear and dread.

Even Damian's own faction members felt all sorts of evil and dreadful emotions welling up inside them.

Despite being far from where Damian was summoning his demons, they could still feel the effects of his actions.

"This is madness..." the crimson-haired noble vampire Lillian Brenlith muttered, her expression one of shock as she watched the scene unfold.

"He is a ruler of Hell," Countess Amaya Kuroyami muttered.

"And he just turned into a high demon... What is happening? How is any of this possible?"

"I don't know anything except that... Aeron Brenlith is dead."