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After a moment the scientists go do other science things. 'Okay, I need the maximum info possible. First of all, let's concentrate on myself and the change that my new race gave me.'
I start to observe myself, and apart from the obvious tail, wings, and body of a 9-year-old, I remark something about the aura I say my body gives off. I can control it, and information about it is like engraved in my brain. 'No, it seems more profound than that, maybe in my soul?'
So I start looking at that place that seems to hold my ability, and bingo, it seems that in this place there is a comprehensive list of my abilities. I understand their primary function, and I can sense that using them would be like using limbs. 'Well, I will need to train them; after all, you still need to train your body if you want to use it perfectly, and I need the strength to avoid death and be able to enjoy myself.'
So my ability, first of all, is my race, succubus, more precisely, I am a succubi, the first stage of evolution of a succubus. There is some info about what I need to do to evolve, more than info, it's more of an instinct to eat a maximum of emotion. The more intense the emotion and the stronger the person from whom it originates, the better it is for me.
'Well, I would have done it regardless, even if it was detrimental to me, but if it permits me to become stronger, it's good.'
Now my abilities, first the resistance, they are exactly that, they help me resist. There is no improvement to do on that front. I note the four that I have: pain, thermal fluctuation, magic, and abnormal condition resistance. I still note the presence of magic resistance, which means there is magic in this world. I will need to learn it later and see if I can get more resistance.
Now for the skill, the first is already my favorite even if I didn't see the other.
The skill was emotion devourer, it permitted me to detect the emotion of others for a range of around 20 meters passively, and I could augment it. But more importantly, it permits me to eat emotions like food and convert them into energy for my growth. Normally the augmentation is gradual, as my stomach needs time to process it, but maybe it's the fact that I am the first of my race, or maybe it's due to the emotional void I have inside of me, but I can process the emotion in an instant and strengthen myself extremely fast, so much so that I think in a year or so, I will evolve.
For the other, more interesting one, there is emotion aura; it seems to be an aura exclusive to my race. It permits me to exacerbate the emotion of someone to a level that even a slight fear can become a full-blown terror attack.
It also seems that it is this skill that gives my body this quality, it seems to manipulate the perception of the one who looks at me to have a favorable opinion of me, and by favorable I mean that the average guy will literally fall in love at first sight and worship me like a goddess if I am not careful.
The others are flight, self-explanatory.
Material creation, once I found out about it, I created a dress for myself, a simple black dress that ended at my knee, nothing too extravagant but of superior quality to everything that was made in my previous world, it even has some defensive ability.
And finally, mental magic. I guess I already have magic, but I still will need to learn other types of magic. It seems that mental attacks are the main strength of my race, contrary to skill, it is more complicated to use, more like an encyclopedia rather than an instinct, like I have the instructions, but I need to understand them, which is honestly easy. I did it on the second try, a simple mental attack to make one of the scientists feel observed. It's pretty good, but the important thing is that I can create other magic by studying the mechanics of one, so I will be able to create fire, ice, and other magic, but not now; I don't want to destroy the capsule where I am. It seems to have an effect on my growths, not as much as feeding on emotion but enough to quicken my evolution by a month or two.
Well, these abilities of mine gave me an idea. If I am correct, the time for my evolution will be halved, and I will be able to train my ability.
'But more important, it will augment the quality and quantity of my meal.'
And so I started to experiment, and in a blink, six months had passed.
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Six months later
It was really an enjoyable six months.
During that time I got to become familiar with my new power, and I found a method to augment my meal quantity and quality.
You see, the more numerous and the more intense the emotions are, the better, but there's some rule.
For example, if I or another person artificially induce or strengthen the emotion with mental magic or my aura, it will no longer count, as the emotions are not true anymore, if that makes sense, but the mind is really easy to manipulate, for me at least. For example, I provoked some of the scientists' terror panic as soon as they came near my room; that in itself doesn't count, but the paranoia and fear they developed were real, and so even after I stopped, they still felt fear and apprehension each time they passed near me.
I also created couples, it's surprisingly easy. Fake attractiveness between two people long enough, and the feeling becomes genuine in a matter of days. After that, I just have to enjoy the feeling of love and passion, and when I see that the emotions are calming down, I make them cheat on each other and enjoy as their nascent love is transformed into full-blown hate for each other.
The only ones I couldn't manipulate were Exposition Man and his bodyguards, a shame because they are the most powerful here and so the most appetizing. I think Exposition Man caught me and my little game. I wasn't particularly subtle about it after all, but he did nothing, he was more intrigued than anything else.
'It was truly enjoyable, but I know it's time for a dramatic entrance.' I thought totally not about just wanting to shock all my audience for a quick meal and finalizing my evolution.
All the scientists are in front of me, and the bodyguards are at the entrance, a perfect audience for my birth in this world.
So I started, during my time experimenting, I managed to control what I think is my mana, and I started to repress and control it until it became an instinct. Apparently it was good enough to fool the scientists and make them question how my magic aura suddenly dropped so low. It also permitted me to get better control of my magic, my reserve tripled since the first time I had woken up in this world, and for the first time, I let it go rampant, destroying my capsules and shocking everyone in front of me, giving me the last push to evolve.
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POV: exposition man
These past months had been full of surprise. First, a subject that was considered a failure due to a lack of ego suddenly developed one. The idea behind the creation of the succubus race was simple in essence: create a race with the same potential as a daemon but with a body and reproduction ability. For that I used part of my own body to mix with the spiritual body of daemons and create the first succubus and the origin of her species.
But I encountered a problem, the body created didn't have an ego. Now it will normally not be a big deal, just incarnating an elemental inside will create the ego needed. But there was the problem that it was impossible, the body rejected every spiritual entity that we tried to incarnate inside. Worse, when we forced the process, the spirit incarnated inside, who was a great elemental of darkness, had its ego destroyed in one hour, leaving nothing behind but the remnant of its power.
I was preparing to terminate the project, it had already served its purpose. I did collect precious data to finally create my greatest creation, one I can call my child. But that's when it finally developed an ego on its own.
And from this moment on it surpassed all of my expectations. Some time after this event, more than fifty percent of my assistants working on the project reported to have developed an instinctual fear when they are near the chamber of the original succubus.
Some time later, over half of my assistants on this project were reported to have developed intimate relationships, which would normally not be too out of the ordinary, but ten couples in one week seemingly having developed sentiments overnight? I needed to investigate, because if I don't find the cause, the curiosities will kill me.
So for the first time since its awakening, I returned to the chamber of the original succubus, and one of my questions was immediately answered as I felt the mental attack coming from the chamber. It had no effect on me, as I am more powerful than the user, but I understand now what's happening. She learned how to use magic and use it to terrify or make my assistant fall in love. Now one final question. Why?
I asked one of my guards to rest here and take measures to see what's happening. It's not ideal, but he's at least resistant to abnormal conditions and powerful enough that unless she tries really hard, she wouldn't be able to do anything, and she does not have enough experience to know how to bypass resistance without brute force.
I couldn't wait to have the result, none of the other succubus created from the data and cells of the original showed such peculiar behavior.
And after two months I finally had my answers. After a massive breakup of all the couples, the succubus seemed to show a big enough augment in its strength to be noticeable even without specialized instruments, and it's then that I had an idea.
I went to the chamber where she is and started to gradually let go of the rein I have on my emotion for suppressing my curiosities, stopping me from starting to experiment on everything and everyone around me, and I saw the augmentation in her power corresponding to my emotion augmentation.
It was fascinating. I expected her race to feed on souls like daemons, but to think they evolved to feed off emotion, that's the reason why she started all this, she wanted to feed on more emotion.
After having answers to my questions,
I started to observe her more and more, as her rise in power was truly surprising, as she now has as many magicules as a greater daemon even if she hasn't even evolved yet.
I have truly only one problem with her race, it's the fact that they are all women. From various tests, I determined that no male succubus will ever be born. It's simply not possible, even if they can become spiritual entities later on via evolution, they will not be able to change their sex.
As for their reproduction, I don't know how it will work. They definitely can, but I don't know how it works, it will be a surprise for later.
I am forced out of my thought as in front of me the subject of my thought starts to destroy her pod. With her massive magic aura.
Now I wonder why she did have to destroy it, but as I look at my assistants, who all have a look of fear, and even my guards, who barged inside the room after sensing the massive aura and who have a look of unease, I immediately understand.
'I wonder what emotion tastes like? For her to carve it so much, it must be good.' My thoughts come to a stop as I observe the first evolution of a succubus as she is enveloped in a practically black purple aura.
I don't even have time to take a measurement before the aura dissipates, and a mature looking woman in a short black dress appears, her beauty is dark and attracts the look of everyone present like an abyss you can't help but look at.
I am the first to escape her charm as I realized what just happened. I can accept that she can evolve, her energy levels were certainly in the range where I expected an evolution at any moment, but normally when one undergoes an evolution, they become unconscious for a certain period of time for them to adapt to their new strength, but she finished hers in a second, and from her aura, the change is significant. She is twice as powerful as before with an augmentation of the quality of her aura by manyfold.
'So how is it possible? Did she seriously take control of all her new power in an instant? Only a handful of people are capable of it, and she is barely six months old. She truly is an interesting one.'
She looked around her, taking in everything around her, and then her gaze stayed on me. She looked me in the eyes and asked.
"So what is your name, my oh-so-dear creator? I can't keep calling you exposition man in my head, and another question. What is mine? It's rude to call me subject this and that even if I am technically a test subject," she said with a false tone of respect in her voice, not even masked.
I ignored the way she referred to me and smiled while responding, "My name is Twilight Valentine; as for your name, you will need to earn it with a little test."