How to become a Demon Lord: The Former Hero's Journey as a Demon Lord! - Chapter 256: How To Train A Thief.

Dray growled at Elias in irritation.

Dray knew that Elias said he shouldn’t use that black fire except it was an emergency, but how the hell was Dray going to get better at using it unless he trains with it!? Dray had a lot more control over the black fire now that he and Givalich had a contract, and if he used it for only about five minutes he won’t even feel the effects at all!

Dray said this to Elias and Elias just scoffed before using the wind to kick Dray away!

Thud!

Dray’s back slammed against the floor and he quickly rolled into a ready stance again. Elias looked at Dray for a moment before he looked down at his foot. There was a spot on Elias’ foot that had a small burn mark from when Dray first activated his black fire. Elias would never admit it to that idiot, but that black fire is a lot stronger than anything else that Dray has in his arsenal. Deay was actually right about the fact that he needs to train his black fire before he could use it. if Dray learns to control the fire, then it would be one of the most powerful resonances that Eias has seen so far.

But Elias just didn’t like that idiot, so he wasn’t going to tell him any of that.

“Use the black fire if you want. It will lead to your death anyway, but maybe you can take someone down with you if you try hard enough. Now, come at me,”

That was as close to a compliment as Dray was ever going to get and he frowned at Elias because it sounded more like an insult! But he wasn’t going to let that stop him! Dray activated the resonance again!

[Sea of Black Fire] has been activated!

Phwoom!!

And he immediately charged straight for Elias for another attack.

……..

Givalich and Rin were flying over the continent of Volcanica to get to the Duruvian mountains. They left Elias and Dray behind a few days ago and they have been flying nonstop as they tried to get to the Duruvian mountains as quickly as possible. Ria was holding tightly onto Givalich’s horns as she tried her best not to fall off. At first, Ria thought that there would be a lot of wind pressure in the air since they would be flying very fast, but Ria was surprised that there wasn’t even any wind pressure at all.

Givalich told her that it was due to a magic spell that every dragon had. They would cast a protection spell over themselves so that the wind pressure wouldn’t affect them while they are flying. It is this magic spell that allowed Ria not to feel the high wind pressure at all while they were in the air.

“I’ll be stopping for a while so we can rest. Hold on tight and don’t let go until I’m on the ground.”

Ria suddenly heard a voice speaking inside her head and she nodded since she knew that it was Givalich. Ria was already tired and she had only been riding on Givalich. She couldn’t imagine how tired Givalich would be since she has been flying for many hours nonstop. The truth is the Givalich wasn’t even that tired. She just felt hungry now, and she wanted to stop for a bath and some food.

The two women dropped in a forest close to a town and Givalich transformed back to her normal self as they began to walk through the forest. many animals and beasts ran away from them once they saw Givalich. Givalich licked her lips as she saw them running. Her predatory instincts were telling her to attack them, but she held herself back. She wasn’t going o come hunting now. She would first take her bath, then she would come out to hunt.

When they got to the town, Ria was looking around in awe at everything around her. She was surprised by how large this place was! Ria never thought that Volcanica would still be thriving this much even after the dragons were destroyed. She thought that they would just give up and perish, but it seems she underestimated them. There were large houses and also some merchant shops around selling wares to passersby.

“Hello, do you have anything to spare?”

Ria looked down when she heard a small voice talking to her. It was a little girl with dirty clothes and messy hair. She was then and she was looking up at Ria with large, pitiful eyes. Ria felt her heart squeeze as she immediately bent down to talk to the little girl.

“Awn, aren’t you a cute little thing? Where are your parents? You don’t have any?”

The girl shook her head and she put her hand again to ask for some money. Ria put her hand on her chin for a moment before she reached behind her and brought out some bread that she brought with her when she left the previous town. She didn’t have any money on her, but she was not going to just leave the little girl to starve! That would be too cruel! Shad to help somehow!

“Don’t think that everyone here is worth helping. You’ll get hurt that way ”

Givalich suddenly spoke up and Ria glared at her like she was an annoying intruder! Couldn’t she see that the little girl was hungry!? They can’t just leave her to starve! They have to help her!

“I think I’ll come to my own conclusions myself, thank you very much. I can’t just leave a little thing like this to starve. Who knows when next she’ll have something to eat!”

Ria handed the little girl the bread and the little girl thanked her with a bow before running off. Givalich sighed as she started to walk away from Ria.

“Where is your crucifix?”

Once Givalich asked this, Ria furrowed her brow in confusion and reached down to her waist where she always hung her silver crucifix, only to see that it wasn’t there! She looked up in shock as she realized that the little girl just robbed her!  She looked around to see if she could find her, but the girl was nowhere to be found! And wait, where the hell did Givalich go to!?

“Givalich! Where are you!?”

Givalich was far more important than that crucifix! The king told her to watch over the dragon and make sure Givalich returned to the church once they were done with their mission! If Givalich runs away, she would fail her mission and they won’t be able to carry out the crusade that the king planned!

But Givalich didn’t run away. After a few minutes, Ria saw Givalich coming back with the little girl held under her arm. The girl was throwing a tantrum and screaming at the top of her lungs while hitting Givalich with her tiny hands, but Givalich didn’t even look like she could hear the screams. Her face was perfectly stoic as she brought the girl towards Ria.

“Let me go! Let me go! I didn’t do anything you fucking hussy! Let me go!”

Once Givalich got to Ria, she dumped the girl to the floor and put her hand on her head.

“Apologize,”

The girl glared at Givalich and stuck out her tongue and Givalich tightened her hold on the girl’s head! The girl screamed in pain and Ria stretched her hand out as if she wanted to stop Givalich, but Givalich glared at her and made her stop.

“These are my people and I know them best. I’m not going to let this one grow up to be useless because she doesn’t understand how to recognize dangerous opponents. If you’re going to steal, then steal from people that you’re stronger than. That way, you can survive, even if you get caught. Why would you go stealing from people that can kill you, huh?”

Givalich tightened her hand even more and the girl cried out in pain.

“Ouch! Ouch! Fine, I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’ll do better next time!”

“That’s more like it. Now return it and get out of here.”

The girl threw the crucifix back to Ria before she ran away in annoyance. Ria looked at the crucifix with a complex emotion on her face. She didn’t know if she should thank Givalich for helping her get it back or reprimand Givalich for telling the girl to continue stealing!

Givalich didn’t look like she cared and she just kept moving towards an inn. Ria tried to keep up as she walked behind Givalich.

“Why did you do that? The girl is just going to keep stealing now. You should have told her to stop stealing altogether.”

Givalich scoffed at Ria’s naivety. She knew that Ria was not from Volcanica so she understood why Ria was like this. Does Ria really think that there is a better life for a girl like that? Just because there are big houses in Volcanica, that does not mean that the people are living well.

“That girl will probably never have a chance to get off the street. She’ll either be killed or end up as a prostitute if she isn’t smart. At least now, she’ll know how to be smart about what she does on the street. You can’t save everyone, woman. There are times when the best way to save someone is by allowing them to continue down the oath they’ve chosen. They’ll figure things out on their own.”