Rummmmble...!!!
Ash-gray magicules glimmered.
The magicules inside Adelio poured out at a ridiculous speed.
Before long, those magicules transformed into mist in midair and began wrapping around Ria.
'...Maybe because my magicules increased so much after evolving, the amount being consumed really isn't that bad after all.'
The amount consumed was roughly thirty percent of his total.
That was partly thanks to [Odin] precisely regulating the amount of magicules needed for Ria's [Naming], but also because Adelio himself had evolved and increased his total magicules by more than tenfold.
Well, considering he had evolved twice starting from an [Arch Demon], that was only natural.
Fwoooosh!!!
While Adelio was briefly lost in thought, her evolution was nearly complete.
From the cocoon-like gray sphere, a pure white light flashed, then blazed like a great sun as it began peeling away the shell of magicules.
And at its center—
<Report. The individual Ria has acquired a body, and approximately ten percent of the [world's restrictions] have been lifted.>
There stood Ria, now evolved into a [Demon Lord].
"It really worked..."
Having fully completed her evolution, she moved the body now fused with her mind and let out a breath of amazement.
It was because Adelio had granted it [Dark Magic] so it would follow the sensations she had when she was in spiritual form, making it easier to use.
Originally, he had wanted to avoid using [Dark Magic] whenever possible, but for demons, as long as it wasn't the curse-bearing kind of [Dark Magic], it was actually helpful instead. It seemed that decision had paid off.
"So, how is the new body? Ria."
At Adelio's question, Ria turned her surprised face toward him, and her cheeks slowly flushed.
"...I love it. Thank you, Adelio."
With that answer, she broke into a bright smile.
Having succeeded in achieving one of her long-held goals, Ria smiled like a girl whose dream had finally come true.
Not a demon's smile, but the smile of an ordinary girl.
"......"
"......"
"......"
"......Um..."
As an odd silence settled in while Ria and Adelio simply stared at each other without saying anything, Moss, who had been watching from the side, cautiously spoke up.
At once, both of them twitched like people caught red-handed and turned to look at him.
Moss darted his eyes around, unable to hide his flustered feelings, but he had judged that if he didn't say something now, this lovey-dovey scene might continue for hours. After hesitating, he finally forced himself to speak.
"...B-but then... what about me and the secretary...?"
It was certainly shocking that his master Blanc—no, Ria—had obtained a body, but he and Cien still didn't have bodies of their own.
And if they wanted to remain in the material world, bodies were essential.
"...Ah, you don't need to worry about that. I can make bodies for the two of you right here in hell."
Adelio gave an awkward smile, as if trying to hide his embarrassment.
At that answer, Cien asked the next question.
"Directly here? But there are no materials or spells here capable of creating bodies suitable for an [Arch Demon] or above..."
If such a thing had existed, Ria would have already made sure either Moss or Cien obtained a body first.
As her closest aides, they would be able to move between hell and the material world far more freely than other demons.
"Well, just come with me for now. I have a way."
Adelio knew that much already, which was why he intended to show them himself.
The method of creating bodies that he had gained thanks to the war against the Phantoms.
"...This is..."
The place Cien, Moss, and Ria arrived at after following Adelio was yesterday's battlefield, where the corpses of the Phantoms were piled up like mountains.
Located very close to Ria's castle, the battlefield was still thick with a mingling of mist-like remnants of demonic magic power and eerie remnants of phantom magic power.
"...Adelio. Could it be..."
"Yeah, your guess is probably right."
Having decided to drop the formal speech with Cien, Adelio nodded at her voice and answered.
Then, glancing at the silent Ria and Moss beside her, he lifted his head toward the mountain of corpses and drew up his magic power.
"Their invasion got some of our kin killed, so shouldn't we collect the price?"
Sssshhk...!!!
The magic circle of Summon Demon.
After creating a magic circle so enormous it covered the battlefield, Adelio altered the spell inscribed into it.
So that instead of summoning a demon, it would use every corpse and every lingering trace of magic power here as materials to summon bodies.
"[Summon Flesh]. The price is... all the corpses here."
Fwaaaaaah!!!!!
In an instant, immense magic power surged violently, and the battlefield trembled precariously.
Ash-gray magic power burst outward and swept across the field.
Before long, the mountain of corpses scattered into particles and floated up into the air,
then gathered into roughly two hundred large masses before descending to the ground.
Thud! Boom!!
"...These are all... bodies...?"
Two hundred bodies.
Every one of those masses was a body for demons to incarnate into.
In other words, with a single spell, all the corpses had been transformed into bodies.
"Wow..."
Having witnessed such overwhelming magic from right in front of them, Cien and Moss could only stare in shock.
Even an [Arch Demon] who had lived for tens of thousands of years could never imitate magic on this level.
"Aide. Secretary."
"...Y-yes!"
"...You called for us?"
Cien and Moss only barely came back to their senses at Adelio's call.
"Your bodies are those first two in front. Go closer."
The two of them approached the bodies Adelio indicated.
Even at a glance, the first two bodies among the more than two hundred looked superior to all the others.
They even shone, as if he had put special care into them.
"Then now, I'll give names to the two of you as well."
Once the two knelt beside the bodies, Adelio stretched out his hands toward them and continued.
"T-to us too—"
"—You're giving us names?"
The two demons' voices shone with anticipation at the possibility of receiving names.
As before, Adelio answered by drawing a curve at the corner of his lips and releasing magicules.
"......"
"......"
At that, the two demons... no, the two servants bowed their heads deeply and waited for the words of their new master.
Then Adelio's ash-gray magicules split into two streams.
"Aide. From this moment on, your name is Moss."
The two branching streams of Adelio's magicules—
"And you, Secretary. Your name is Cien."
—wrapped around the two demons who had, at this moment, truly become his servants.
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