Lucius

Lucius

Lucius was a human who once worked in a tavern. One night after clearing up alone, he went into the back alley and encountered a mysterious demon. The demon killed Lucius, however when he awoke he had become a Half-Demon.

During Lucius' struggle of being labelled as a demon and being hunted by humans and soldiers, he grew stronger through multiple near death situations and awakened his demonic power. Eventually after falling into madness he began devouring humans and demons alike, and anything that moved. After a year of madness he awoke within the demon territory, he had become a Baron-Class Demon. Due to eating many demons Lucius' purity of demon blood had greatly increased to the point he had grown wings and taken control of his instinctual madness. Lucius' mind had numbed over time as he was conscious during his rage, he had also been labelled as a high priority target to be killed by the Cellian Empire, however it was only a relatively small bounty.

Due to Lucius' newfound notoriety he had gained the attention of other high-class demons and was taken in by an Earl-Class Demon, he had about 30 Baron-Class Demons under him and so Lucius had great competition. Over a time of about 2 years, Lucius fought with demons and humans, only soldiers, this continued to draw his previously human mind to the side of the demons. His blood purity would continue to increase by drinking the blood of the demons he felled. By fighting lots of Baron-Class Demons he was able to raise his blood greatly. After he had become the strongest Baron-Class Demon under his Earl-Class Master, he challenged and defeated a Viscount-Class Demon and won. After eating the Viscount-Class Demon, Lucius evolved into a Viscount-Class Demon.

After another 3 years, Lucius had exponential growth of his demonic power and had taken over the Earl-Class Demons forces and then defeated and eaten the Earl-Class himself. Lucius had become the first evolved Earl-Class Demon to be born within the last 300 years in the demons history. With this huge accomplishment he was abducted by the 6th Duke of Hell, at his castle he was tortured and held prisoner for 5 years. Then the 6th Duke of Hell forced Lucius to become his son and shared his blood with him continually for another year, this unimaginably allowed Lucius to become a Duke-Class Demon, however he would be subservient to the 6th Duke of Hell until his death. Lucius became the only Duke-Class Demon to evolve ever in the demons history, and became known as the 12th Duke of Hell.

During the Demonic Cellian War, the Cellian Empire, led by Emperor Orkun, fought brutally with the 12 Dukes of Hell. 4 of the Dukes had fallen and the Cellian Empires momentum only increased. At the climax of the war, Lucius with his forced father, fought with Orkun. Orkun was extremely powerful and was able to battle the two Dukes with ease and began toying with them. Orkun was very interested with Lucius as he was so young and human looking without many of the pronounced demonic features. Lucius attacked on his fathers orders and released all of his demonic power, revealing to Orkun his singular demonic eye. Orkun was very surprised and a huge smile grew on his face, he then instantly killed the 6th Duke of Hell, releasing Lucius from his slave binding and he immediately fled. Orkun did not chase after Lucius and let him leave.

After Lucius' escape the Demonic Cellian War ended with the Cellian Empires victory, having killed 8 of the 12 Dukes of Hell. Lucius decided that with his newfound freedom he would kill the remaining 3 Dukes and takeover the demon race. Lucius easily killed the 3rd and 9th Duke of Hell, however struggled greatly with the 1st Duke. He had a life and death battle, losing his left arm and being pierced twice in the abdomen and chest, however the 1st Duke was defeated by being beheaded by Lucius. After Lucius had killed the 3 Dukes he ate them and absorbed their demon blood. He rested for another 2 years and evolved into a King-Class Demon, an unheard of level of power in all the demons history. As Lucius had become a King-Class he was able to control and communicate with all demons of a lower class. He mobilised all remaining demons and created his Demonic Army to protect him from the ever growing human empires.

One day while Lucius was around his castle within his demon territory, Orkun magically appeared before him. Orkun knew about Lucius' condition of being a Half-Demon and that he was originally a human. Lucius confided in Orkun, although they had become amicable, it was clear Orkun had other motives and they were human and demon, born to be enemies. Orkun left Lucius with a gift, a book of the history and anatomy of demons. The book was very old and dated to before the creation of the Cellian Empire itself, the older known civilisation on the continent. Through the book, Lucius learned of all the demons classes and what lay above the King-Class Demons. Lucius' goal was now to become the strongest demon the world had ever seen, he wanted to have power at least equal to Orkun, who exerted uncontrollable pressure on Lucius even though he was a King-Class Demon. Within the book it is told that King-Class Demons are unimaginable catastrophes and have the power to destroy an entire kingdom by themselves.

Over the next few years, Orkun disappeared from the world without a trace. This made Lucius extremely uncomfortable and unhappy. He continued to purify his demon blood by removing human blood each night. He would sacrifice lower-class demons and extract their pure demon blood to aid his growth. After 22 years he managed to achieve a purity of 91% and evolved further. He shed his body and it formed anew, the pain was indescribable, but he had been reborn again. He now looked completely human, save for his horns, as he was able to contract his tail and wings at will. He could also see through the eyes and other senses of each demon under his control. He had become an Emperor-Class Demon. With Orkun having vanished, Lucius decided to start a war with the Cellian Empire.

The second Demonic Cellian War began but in the opposite direction. The demons had overwhelming victories against the Cellian Empire, which had become unstable and turmoil struck after Orkun's disappearance. After 3 years of war and a continued stalemate of a year, the war ended and Lucius withdrew his demons. The demons had reduced the Cellian Empires' territory by 15%, which was huge due to the Cellian Empire's immense size. Lucius then lazed his time within his newly built castle and demonic tower.

Many years later, Lucius, now known as Lucifer, would meet Samson, the boy of prophecy. The instant they came close to each other their souls resonated. At that moment Lucius knew that he and Samson were destined for battle, and one which Lucius would lose. Due to this resonance, Lucius regained his humanity and lost his demonic nature. He became a solemn person who only longed for death at the hands of Samson, however, to not alter fate or the proper timeline, Lucius continued his appearance as the Demon King.

Over the years Lucius increased his strength to the point he surpassed Fate's laws and he became the second coming of the Demon God, an absolute being stronger than a Divine Spirit or Deity. The 7 Governors were powerless against Lucius who easily subdued them, he then faked Aleph's death in order to lure Samson to fight him. During their battle, Lucius was smiling and crying with delight, he knew he had fulfilled his role that had been given to him by Zed himself. As Samson finally killed Lucius, the apocalyptic world surrounding them vanished as an illusion, Samson realised what was happening as Lucius cried and smiled at him as he faded and disappeared.

Lucius would reappear as a remnant spirit along with all the others to suppress Fate and Anti-Fate and rid the world of its control. Lucius whispered words to Samson that pulled him from the final point of no return in his conscious world which allowed him to prevail in the final battle. Lucius then returned to nothingness leaving only his will with the remnant demons left on Earth.