Life Hunter 23 ''Kind Demon''

"Here, your egg" Arima said and put down the egg in front of the dragon. The latter picked the egg with magic and surrounded it with his body like he was trying to protect it.

"Thank you" the dragon bowed his head

"It's okay if you want to repay me, here, look" Arima created a map in mid-air with magic "You see that point, there's a war going on, I want you to go there and help a bit" He said

"Which side?"

"The Kingdom of course, the Empire is not even a country anymore" Arima uttered

"Mh, of course, if you ask, I'll do it, but why don't you do it yourself?" the dragon asked

"I'm lazy" Arima said blankly

"…" The dragon was speechless.

After giving the egg to the dragon, Arima left directly to the Alliance, he visited Niria and gave her the Pope, still unconscious.

"Thank you very much" She said in an excited voice.

"Why do you look so happy?" Arima asked with a strange expression

She tilted her head "I'll torture him of course" She said

"Y-yeah" Even Arima became awkward. He coughed "I'll borrow the smithy for a bit" And decided to do a tactical retreat.

"Not a problem" Niria said

Arima headed to the smithy and began to work on the orichalc.u.m. He first refined it with Night's help. Coating with orichalc.u.m is actually pretty easy but it takes time. He began with Karma, he just had to dip the blade in the melted orichalc.u.m and hammer it until the metal fuse with the sapphire, which is not really a metal, but it works the same.

For the frame of the guns, it's even easier, because to fuse the orichalc.u.m and the mithril, only magic control is needed. The biggest problem resides in the barrels made of adamant.i.te, after dipping it, he had to re-ream and re-rifle it after hammering it. For the bullets it was simple, he just melted the already existing bullets and mixed the melted adamant.i.te and orichalc.u.m in the mold.

He finished in two days. When he left the smithy, he stumbled upon Niria who was waiting for him.

"What's wrong?" He asked

"I'm here to tell you that the Alliance has already begun to integrate with the humans" She said with a smile.

"Already? That was faster than I thought" Arima said

"It's because a sky dragon suddenly appeared in the battle wreaked havoc. I don't know why though" She said

"Oh, seems like he got carried away" Arima said

"Carried away?" Niria uttered

"Nothing, that's all you wanted to ask me?" Arima brushed it off

"No, actually someone wants to meet you" She said and pointed to a little girl beside her who actually had pointed ears, red eyes, and small fangs.

"(She's from the demon race)" Arima thought "Now that I think about it, she's here from the beginning, who's that?" He asked

"My mom" Niria said and smiled

"Sorry?"

"My mom" She smiled

Arima looked at the little girl then at Niria, Night did the same, and they repeated the same action a few times.

"I'm impressed" Arima finally talked and Night nodded

"About what?" Niria asked

"I thought that gap-lolis were just a legend" Arima blurted out.

"What's a loli?" The little gi- Niria's mom asked.

Arima observed her "You don't need to know, what is your business with me?"

"I'm here because my husband, the elven king and the human king, which we took contact with, all want to thank you" She said

"I understand. And?"

"And we want to give you something in return. To be honest, you're the person who basically was behind the scenes in everything, if we don't reward you, one way or another, it will look like almost the whole continent is yours" She explained

"I see, what do you want to give me?" Arima asked

"We know that you don't need any money or materials after we saw the capital-"

"I don't know what you're talking about" Arima interrupted her and feigned an innocent ignorance.

"Y-yes" the loli wore an awkward smile "In the end, we want you to ask anything that you'd want from us" She said

"Something I want? I don't think there's something..." Arima put his hand on his chin and pondered for a bit and suddenly thought of something "I heard if at least two different rulers recommend someone to the guild, they can raise their rank, I want you to promote me to the S rank" He said

"We can do that, that also means that we'll have to listen to a favor from the Republic, but that's good enough for a reward" She wondered and said "What about your t.i.tle then?" Then she asked

"My t.i.tle?" Arima was unaware.

"When a mercenary raise to the S rank, he is given a t.i.tle, I want to know the t.i.tle you want" She explained

"I see. You can choose it yourself, I don't have any idea" He said just like that.

"I understand, we'll find a t.i.tle that suits you. It should be done by tomorrow, you can go check at the guild by then" She said and left almost immediately.

Arima said goodbye to Niria, he then visited Elia and Lifa to say that he would leave tomorrow. The king had a meeting with the human king so he wasn't here, he'll most likely explode when he learns that Arima was here.

Then after that, Arima went to meet Jorga.

"How are you supposed to fulfill the favor you promised me if you leave the continent?" That was the first thing the serpent asked.

"It's okay if you call me, I'll come back immediately" Arima said

"You realize the continent you're going to is at least five thousand kilometers away, right?" Jorga said

"It's okay, I can teleport back unless you call me when I'm in a fight or in a situation where I don't have enough mana" Arima said naturally.

"I see, so why are you here?" He asked

"I'm going to the Republic quickly, meanwhile, can you train Night a bit?" Arima asked

"Ah?" Night exclaimed "Wait! I never heard about that!" He shouted

Arima ignored him "I want to you to help him break through to the eighth level" and said

"Don't ignore me!"

"Sure, I can do that" Jorga said and Night grunted.

"That's good then, [Altera rationem terram] (Next dimension territory)" Arima chanted and a colossal amount of mana poured out of his body. And he disappeared from the forest along with Jorga and Night.

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Arima was smiling and Jorga and Night were looking at him.

"What happened?" Jorga asked with a confused voice. He was sure that he felt something like a teleportation but he realized that he was still in the forest.

"Basically, I brought you in a parallel dimension by creating a rift in s.p.a.ce" Arima said "That's one of my trump cards, in here, I can use my strongest magic without worrying about killing millions, and I also can lock people here, but I can only sustain it for around a day until I spend all my mana" He explained

Night and Jorga listened with a stiff expression. They were on the same side right now, staring at Arima like he was a monster. Although the latter lived for thousands of years, he never babbled into dimensions, but he knew it wasn't something a person should be able to do so easily.

Arima clapped "Have fun" He said and left the dimension. Jorga and Night were left in an awkward ambiance. They looked at each other and Night transformed into a dragon.

"Let's go, we have twenty-four hours" Jorga said and smirked.

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Arima appeared in the forest and directly left to the Republic, before arriving, he hid the mana that was surging out of his body the best he could and entered the main city of the country.

In the city, no matter where he looked at, he could see people selling products.

"That's a market Republic for sure" He said and his eyes fell on a certain booth and directly approached it.

"Hi, can I buy all of that" Arima said to the owner of the booth and pointed to a case with a lot of white chocolate.

"Yes, five golds for everything" The owner smiled and said.

Arima easily gave the coins and left with all the chocolate, he began to eat it while walking.

He had a day to wait to get his S rank designation so he decided to go to the library one more time. This time, to look for information about the continent where he's about to go.

He kept reading until noon and because he was tired since he hadn't slept before taking care of the Pope and that he was using his mana continuously to maintain the connection with the other dimension, he went to sleep at an Inn.

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At the same time, in a big room, three people were sitting at a table. One was fox man, another was an elf and the last one was human.

"What kind of t.i.tle should we give to a guy like that?"

They were in the middle of a heated discussion

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The next day, Arima woke up realizing his connection with the other dimension ended. He directly teleported to the Great Forest.

When he arrived, he saw that Night was resting, he successfully broke through the eighth level, his body became bigger, his scales and claws toughened and his wings changed, the red lines on his body also became brighter.

"You worked hard" Arima said

"…Yeah" Night replied while looking at the sky

"Thanks" Arima turned towards Jorga and said.

The latter laughed "Don't worry, it was fun for me, so you don't have to thank me" He said

"I see. Let's go Night" Arima said and Night returned to the form of a wolf which was bigger than before.

"Next time Jorga" Arima waved his hand at Jorga and returned to the Republic.

With Night, he directly headed to the guild. He entered and went to the nearest reception.

"h.e.l.lo, I'm here to update my rank and register my soul beast" Arima said to the receptionist. He also took the occasion to register Night and give him an official ident.i.ty while receiving his rank.

"Welcome, your card please" The receptionist demanded. When she took the card and saw the information on it, she froze and then searched hurriedly for a paper in her desk and looked at it "Wait a bit here please" She said and left

A few minutes later, she came back with a silver card in her hands and handed it to Arima.

"Congratulations on your promotion, you're now an S rank" She smiled and said.

"Thanks" Arima took his card and put it away "What about the soul beast registration" He asked

The receptionist took out a paper "Can you bring your soul beast here?" She asked

"Yes" Night stayed outside because he was too big to enter. In the end, Arima teleported him inside.

The receptionist wrote the information about Night and gave Arima another card for his soul beast.

"By the way, I'm supposed to have a t.i.tle, right? What is it?" Arima asked

The receptionist smiled awkwardly "It's written in your card, didn't you see?" She said

"Oh, I didn't notice" he took out his card and read it "…Ah?"

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At the same moment, in a white room, there was only a fireplace, a table and two sofas, seated on them were the old G.o.d, Azes, and the woman, Zesta.

"Have you looked at what that human has been doing recently?" Zesta asked while drinking some beverage.

"No, I had work to do" He said nonchalantly

Zesta slammed her cup on the table "He destroyed a country already! If it continues like that, he will be noticed by the other G.o.ds. No, I'm sure one of them already did it" She said

Azes laughed "What a promising human"

Zesta sighed "Do you know the t.i.tle they gave him?" She suddenly asked

"Mh, what is it?" The old G.o.d was curious

"They called him…"

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"'Kind Demon'?" Arima read his t.i.tle and furrowed "What the h.e.l.l is that? No wonder that receptionist was so awkward about that" He already had left the guild and was now walking in the streets

"Isn't that good? It describes you well, whether it is the 'kind' part or the 'demon' part" Night commented.

Arima glared at him and stored his card "We arrived" He looked in front and said. They arrived at the harbor of the city. He looked around and saw many ships docked.

"It's time to go" Arima said and smirked "It's been a long time since I had this much expectation about something"

"About what?" Night asked

Arima's smile became even wider "I want to meet stronger people. Basically, to have fun"

Night sighed "Then let's go, what are we waiting for?" And smiled too.

Arima laughed and the two resonated, they flew off to the sea and directly broke the barrier of the sound.