GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

His voice rang out through the arena. "That struggle for survival pushes us to excellence. We either survive or die. It is why I am creating a noble family. You all know me as one that breaks common sense, but I assure you that you do not know the full extent of my capabilities. Many of you came here to become my subordinates while most of you came to watch what I am capable of. I will show you what Khaos Aeternus, the Lord of the house of chaos is capable of."

Now everyone is looking forward to what he has to show them. They saw mid-rank demons begin to appear within the center of the arena. Their number reached a thousand before they stopped increasing. Then the gates to the center of the arena were sealed.

"Watch and see what I am fully capable of, what I am offering you as the Lord of the house of chaos."

The 100 balls of chaos he created flew into the center of the arena and scattered into fireflies. The fireflies settled onto the mid-rank demons and got them into a frenzy.

The fireflies affected them in various amounts depending on the amount that settled on them. The ones with a lower amount of fireflies began to fight the closest demon to them while the ones with high enough fireflies began to evolve. They would lie down and be surrounded by the cocoon of evolution.

The spectating viewers were confused by the situation but they kept watching. The rabid mid-rank demons fighting each other started to reduce in numbers as they died. The ones that absorbed enough fireflies after taking the portion belonging to the killed ones also started to evolve.

The ones that have started evolving will eject the extra fireflies they have if they have too much of what is needed to start evolution. The released fireflies will then find a viable host and enter its body. Soon the arena became filled with evolving mid-rank demons but their numbers have reduced from a thousand to 100.

The evolution didn't take long and none of them died during it. They were all done in 30 minutes and what appeared in the center of the arena were 100 high-rank demons. The high-rank demons spectating were surprised and intrigued, but they were only slightly impressed.

The reason why they weren't impressed is that it is of no use to them. It is also difficult to be impressed when you have very high expectations. It might be a very useful ability for Aeternus to create high-rank demons but it isn't useful to them.

The ability to create high-rank demons from mid-rank is something that has never been heard of in the abyss. It might be a very rare ability exclusive to Aeternus but these demons expect more from the Ominous reaper. They didn't come to watch the creation of high-rank demons.

Only Aeternus himself was impressed. His former ability, the chaos spark could only work with high-rank demons. Any lower than that and the demon will surely die. Even high-rank demons have a discouraging survival rate. But that has changed. Now, even mid-rank demons have a 100% survival rate. All thanks to the fireflies.

The Chaos fireflies are actually parasites. He got the idea from the clone of Legion that helped him with the law of the soul. These parasites are soul parasites made from chaos energy and his sin ability. They will attach to the host and help the host to adapt to chaos energy which will ensure their survival during the evolution process.

The 100 high-rank demons in the center of the arena started to fight again. Once the evolution process is completed, the fireflies will become stronger and wish to recombine into the chaos spark but they aren't enough. So they will influence their host to seek out other sources of the fireflies. If those sources are other hosts, then the two hosts will try to kill the other and take their fireflies for themselves.

The current fight at the center of the arena is more appealing than the previous ones between weaker mid-rank demons. They are stronger and they have stronger sin abilities. A barrier had already surrounded the center to protect the spectators from danger so they remained entertained without worrying about their safety.

More and more of them were starting to get impressed. Aeternus had turned 1000 weak mid-rank demons into 100 formidable demons. It is a highly efficient conversion when it is known that 1 high-rank demon is stronger than 1000 mid-rank demons and the value of 1 high-rank demon to the growth of mark of sin is at least 100 killed mid-rank demons. Aeternus had made an unprecedented efficient conversation of 10 mid ranks demons into 1 high-rank demon.

The fighting demons soon started evolving. Each one of them needs 9 more portions of the fireflies which means that they have to kill 9 opponents with a single portion to evolve.

Some of them got more than they needed after killing an opponent with a lot of portions. The extra fireflies will simply leave during evolution and find a lucky host. So the demons didn't need to kill 9 opponents to get what is needed for their evolution.

Their numbers finally reduced to 10 evolving demons. This time the evolution took longer but everyone waited to see what would come of it. This is exactly what they came to see after all. So waiting 3 hours isn't too much for them.

Eventually, the evolution was done and 10 noble demons appeared. Their majesty and the suppression of the surrounding high-rank demons with their innate aura proved their authenticity. If they are fake noble demons, then they are incredibly powerful fakes or these high-rank demons won't be sensing the definite threat to their lives from the noble demons.

Now everyone is impressed. Aeternus has done it. He proved he can make demon nobles. Even more impressive is that he created them from mid-rank demons. They were all applauding him. Some were also sighing in relief because it meant they will be able to leave soon.