Auryn stood and his mind raced through the novel's demon hierarchy as he faced the entity before him.
Though he could sense the seeping menace from its form. He already knew this wasn't an Archfiend. At least not yet.
Archfiends were Tier 4 demons with capabilities that made them city-level threats.
These were humans, elves, dwarves or even beast -kins that had lost every form of normalcy entirely, reality-warping monsters that commanded armies and spread corruption through mere presence.
The entity in front of him was a Demon-Knight. A tier 3 veteran whose contract achieved partial demonic transformation while retaining humanoid features.
The preserved human structure marked this entity clearly. Its face and stance was enough proof. But the deterioration was also evident.
The shadow-wrapped body, fused black clots where hands should be, jelly-like feet merged with the ground. This demon was on the verge of ascending, their humanity slipping away bit by bit.
