A Demon's Journey

The fact that Erica possessed a spirit was known to everyone. They also knew that it possessed a water element.

However, no one had actually known the true identity of the Beast Bloodline she possessed. The same was the case regarding Christina.

Erica had tried to keep the information secret from the world. Even her husband didn't know that his wife had a life contract with the Great Kun, and his daughter had signed a life bond with the Golden Crow.

In her youth, Erica had explored some forbidden ruins. And from those ruins, she gained a forbidden summoning technique.

This summoning technique was said to summon the beast spirit most suitable to the user. Erica wasn't clear from where these beasts were summoned.

The Great Kun within her had never mentioned anything regarding it. Erica had asked the question multiple times, but the fish would remain silent.

The Great Kun was actually afraid that the heavenly laws would listen to their conversation and punish Erica if she came to know of some forbidden secrets.

It had still told Erica that summoning him was a stroke of luck. In reality, the technique she had utilized was quite dangerous and couldn't be spread around. There was a reason it was considered forbidden.

Normally, any of the beasts that Erica summoned would have to be supported by her Spiritual Energy. Erica was quite young at that moment. Her Spiritual Energy was quite weak. How could she support a beast constantly?

However, she was extremely fortunate that she summoned a Great Kun. Unlike the other beasts, the Great Kun possessed the ability to independently absorb the Spiritual Energy from the surroundings and support its existence.

Due to that reason, Erica had managed to survive.

It had also told Erica just how strong this technique was. Only then did Erica realize that if she rashly told anyone about this technique, people might try to force this technique out of her.

She wasn't strong enough to resist the might of the warriors in the area. Thus, she had hidden this technique even from her husband.

However, when Christina was born, she was born with a rare case of flame outburst.

Christina had been born with a pure flame spirit root. Normally, this would be considered a good thing. Her talent with flame element was going to be extremely great.

It would be pretty much unprecedented within the Glerian Kingdom. There were also rumors that by the time Christina advanced to the 6 Star Rank, she would be able to form her Flame Domain.

However, Christina wasn't just born with a normal pure flame spirit root. It was a variant pure flame spirit root.

The variant flame greatly increased the power of her flames. But this wasn't necessarily a good thing for Christina.

After a few years, as the variant flame grew stronger, Christina's body could no longer keep up with its growth.

There had been a couple of outbursts that burned Christina's body internally. Fortunately, Erica possessed the Great Kun that also held many healing abilities.

It had flooded Christina's body and completely healed her of any injuries, whether internal or external.

However, if this went on, Christina would someday die to these outbursts before the Great Kun could heal her.

This was an extremely dangerous situation.

At that time, the Great Kun suggested that Erica teach that forbidden summoning technique to Christina and summon a spirit.

Erica was naturally started to hear that suggestion. She was scared that her daughter might not survive if she summoned a beast that required great Spiritual Nourishment.

The Great Kun then suggested to her that this shouldn't be an issue for Christina. She was in danger because the Variant Flame Spirit Root was much stronger, and its growth was even faster than her.

Christina's great affinity with flames practically guaranteed that she would summon a Beast Spirit related to the Flames.

The Great Kun was willing to talk to that spirit and ask it to control the extra flame energy within Christina's body. If it absorbed these extra flames, the Beast Spirit would grow stronger, purer, and it could also keep his existence sustained.

Naturally, in return, the Spirit would have to protect its master. Because Christina's death would disperse the beast's spirit as well.

However, never in his dreams did the Great Kun imagine that Christina would summon the Three-Legged Golden Crow.

Even though the Golden Crow Spirit was quite young, it possessed great arrogance due to its ancient and formidable lineage.

Fortunately, the Great Kun didn't need to talk to the Golden Crow Spirit. As soon as it was summoned, it seemed to have realized the situation.

The Golden Crow ate all the extra flame energy that was generated within Christina's Variant Flame Root.

Coming into contact with the Golden Crow actually stimulated the potential within Christina's body. The Variant Flame Root's growth was greatly accelerated, but it no longer harmed Christina's body since the Golden Crow absorbed all that extra flame energy.

Christina had greatly benefited from this as well. Her flames had gotten denser, and the Variant Flame Root could produce flames much faster.

The Golden Crow had given her another set of abilities and the unique flames of the Golden Crow.

Christina had grown up as these flames of the Golden Crow merged with her Variant Flame Root.

The merging was occurring extremely slowly, but Christina was inheriting the Golden Crow's racial abilities.

Fortunately for Christina, the Golden Crow lineage's abilities were purely related to their Golden Flames and not their physique.

If their abilities were related to their physique, no matter how talented Christina was, she would never have been able to use those abilities to their true potential.

Christina was incredibly blessed to have summoned this Golden Crow.

Erica was told of the origin of this Golden Crow, and it completely shocked her. She now realized that this technique she possessed wasn't just a forbidden technique but also a legendary technique.

It had summoned such Ancient Beast Spirits whose bloodlines had already been long lost in the world.

If anyone realized that she possessed this technique, those people would band together and attack her. Even the Royal Family would hardly be able to resist the temptation of this technique. The entire Black Lake Sect might suffer extermination.

Thus, Erica had always kept the form of her Beast Spirit hidden. She had told Christina to keep her spirit's identity concealed as well.

Christina obeyed her mother's order without truly realizing just how grave the situation was.

And today, Azaroth had come and directly called her Great Kun a fish. Moreover, he seemed to know that the Great Kun had lent her Spiritual Energy.

This had completely terrified Erica. She had released her pressure and planned to intimidate him into figuring out how he knew her secret.

However, what shocked her, even more, was that Azaroth didn't seem to be affected by her pressure. He casually turned his head to gaze at his subordinates as if he was checking up on their states.

Erica noticed that none of Azaroth's subordinates were actually affected by her pressure. She saw that Azaroth seemed to be shielding them all from her aura.