The Greatest Sinner

"Sigil of 70th Demon, Prince Seere - activation." 

Evan said quietly, and the next moment the sigil glowed brightly. Reinier felt an eerie and all-consuming aura begin to emanate from Evan. It was many times more terrifying than the previous one.

He didn't know what was going on, so he wanted to kill Evan as soon as possible. Reinier was sure Evan had used some sort of forbidden spell.

The young man himself was still lying on the ground. The moment the sigil was activated, the whole world froze and his consciousness was transported to "Nirvana".

There was the clatter of hooves and Evan smiled and said: "You`ve come."

The young man looked at the incredibly handsome man riding the white horse. His long black hair reached to his waist and his green eyes were calm and mesmerizing. He was definitely one of the most beautiful men in the entire world. It was the seventieth demon, Prince Seere.

He glanced at the "Warp", then shifted his gaze to the young man. He was waiting for Evan to utter his wish.

"I need a weapon to kill him!" Evan said loudly.

Prince Seere nodded and said slowly: "Twenty... years..."

Evan frowned, <Fuck, I got a lot stronger, but even the help of the 70th demon is just exorbitant.>

When Evan had enlisted the help of the 71st demon, Duke Dantalion, he`d paid 15 years of his life as the price. He was very weak at the time, which is why the price was so enormous. The stronger Evan got, the lower the price for the demons' services was. But, and the stronger the demon was, the higher the price for his help was, too.

Evan knew that Prince Seere would demand years of his life as payment, but he hadn't thought it would be such a big price.

<It looks like I need to get a lot stronger before I can use the power of other demons.>

The young man looked at the demon and calmly said: "I agree."

Prince Seere nodded and a moment later Evan felt the life force drain from him. It was a terrible and disgusting feeling. You were dying while still healthy and young. Life itself was slowly leaving you.

The demon disappeared, and Evan returned to the real world.

At that moment, the red waves of energy were emanating from his body. It was proof that the demonic power was filling his body.

A massive lightning bolt was already flying toward Evan. Reinier quickly cast his spell and was about to kill Evan with this attack but...

Swing.

Suddenly the lightning dissipated. Evan was walking slowly toward Reinier with a long silver knight's spear in his hand. It looked very simple but effective, though there were no patterns or engravings on it. There was an unthinkable menace from this weapon. And Evan himself looked like a real demon from the underworld.

Reinier wanted to attack again, but he just couldn't handle the pressure. He was scared, and all he wanted to do was run away.

Evan looked coldly at Reinier and said briefly: "Die."

The next moment Reinier saw a silver spear flying toward him. There was nothing he could do about it, for by that moment he was already dead.

Bam. Bam. Bam.

The spear pierced Reinier through and destroyed dozens of trees behind him. Even an evolved monster of the first rank couldn't have done something like that. The plume from the spear left numerous cracks in the ground, and the rocks were crushed into dust. It was unprecedented power for the magician who hadn't even reached the "One-Pointed Star" yet.

...

Somewhere to the north of "The Kingdom of Fallen Hopes". In the depths of an abandoned castle.

"Have you felt that?" The girl said seriously.

The man with the glasses nodded while mixing two potions of some kind, "Yes, this power... it's very similar to ours but still different. I can't figure out what... it happened too far away and the impulse was so weak and short... What a pity... I'd like to see what happened there with my own eyes."

Saying this he approached the five-meter-long red monster. It was restrained by thick iron chains and could not even move. Only its appearance would have terrified everyone, but now there was endless fear in the monster's own eyes.

The monster stared in panic at the calm man before him. His red mantle with the image of ebony was barely visible because of the dim illumination.

The man bent toward the monster and calmly poured a potion directly into its mouth. The purple liquid quickly disappeared from the small vial.

Crack.

After a couple of seconds, strange changes began to happen to the monster. Its skin turned purple, its muscles increased dramatically in size, and its fangs became sharper and larger.

"Release it." The man said briefly.

The woman nodded and a second later, she broke all the chains holding the monster down.

"What a shame, it`s got stronger, but it couldn't evolve and went completely mad. Another failure." The man said calmly as he watched the monster attack him.

The monster's clawed paw collapse on the man, but he stopped that attack with a single finger.

Whoosh.

A small, red magic circle appeared on the tip of his finger and the next moment the monster's body began to swell.

Boom.

The monster exploded, and its parts exploded in all directions...

The spear disappeared and at the same moment, Evan fell to the ground. Now it wasn't about the price paid for the spear, though Evan had already shortened his life expectancy by 35 years in total. But while he was still young, it did not affect him. Only as he would approach a certain age, the payment would make itself felt.

During the battle with Reinier, he had been seriously wounded, especially with the lightning trident. The blood didn't stop, and everything in front of his eyes was blurring.

Evan remembered something and quickly retrieved a pill from the spatial ring, but when he wanted to swallow it he dropped it. Neither his arms nor his legs obeyed him. He collapsed to the ground looking at a small yellow marble not far away from him.

<Damn...>.

Evan looked up at the blue sky and thought his life was about to be cut short. It would be a very sad end to his story.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Suddenly Evan felt the metallic taste of blood in his mouth. He didn't immediately realize what was happening, but when he saw the raven hovering above him, he smiled.

The one-eyed raven was hovering over Evan and blood was dripping from its body right into his mouth. The monster decided to do all the same things Evan had done for it not so long ago. With its sharp claws, it made a deep cut on itself. It fed Evan its own blood, just as the young man had done then.

Nevertheless, it could not save Evan. He was not a monster so that another creature's blood could hasten his regeneration.

<Since this is the last thing I'll drink in this life, I...want... MORE!">.

Evan couldn't even speak anymore, these were all his last thoughts before his mind finally clouded over.

<MORE! MORE! GIVE ME MORE OF THAT BLOOD!!!>

As another drop of blood entered Evan's mouth, his eyes suddenly glowed with a golden gleam. Then the glow waned, his amethyst eyes became as deep as the abyss itself and it seemed to Evan as if he could see the whole world through.

[Sin - Greed was opened]

[The Rat Sigil was obtained]