Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Lucius observed the Lost and saw that it was indeed walking lighter than before. While his footsteps were still loud, they could at least be attributed to his size and weight now and wouldn't bring too much attention.

"Good! That's how you should walk." Lucius said, making the Lost stop and turn around.

After this, Lucius gave Doyle a few more orders and tested out some more things. Only after an entire hour had passed did he decide to stop.

"Looks like your control is very good," Kiana commented.

"Indeed. This will make things far easier for us. Though… there is still the question of more such creatures." Lucius spoke.

"What do you mean?" Kiana questioned.

"Having one of them doesn't really feel much and the bore shrews didn't feel hard to control either. But we have to remember these are far bigger and stronger than bore shrews." Lucius answered.

"Ah, I understand. So you are worried that you might not be able to have the same level of control over more such beings." Kiana replied.

"Exactly. Though it's more because I don't know if my gift is at that level yet or not. I'm sure as my gift grows and my proficiency with it increases, I won't have as many problems." Lucius stated.

Kiana nodded her head and suddenly remembered something. She looked towards the metal cabinet that was attached to the wall.

"Are you going to stop here now?" Kiana asked.

"No, we still have one more subject to test it out on. Another lost lamb that needs guidance…" Lucius said as he went towards the metal cabinet. 

~clang~

~kacha~

The door of the cabinet was opened and the other prisoner that was kept inside it was revealed. The man seemed to be hanging off his restrictions and was forcibly standing due to them.

He had evidently passed out at some point in time. Lucius raised his brows upon seeing this and checked to see if the man was still alive or just unconscious.

"Oh, he's fine, just fainted." Lucius said before opening the restraints of the man.

"Come, carry this man for me and place it on the table there, Doyle." Lucius ordered.

"Hmm!" A grunt of agreement came from Doyle as he walked towards the cabinet, before picking up the fainted man.

~DENG~

Putting the man on the metal table, Doyle retreated and looked toward Lucius for further orders. In response to that, Lucius lifted his hand and pointed it towards Doyle.

~shua~

A red streak of energy was shot out from his hand that entered the head of Doyle making him feel pleased.

"Go stand near the wall silently. I'll call for you when needed." Lucius ordered.

Having received a reward, Doyle immediately turned around and carried out the orders obediently. With him gone, Lucius put the restraints on the prisoner and got ready to do the same thing.

"At least he won't talk as he's knocked out…" Lucius muttered before slightly squinting his eyes as Nexus activated.

Gift Name: Wind Gait

Description: Allows the user to gain the assistance of the wind, muffling their steps and increasing their speed greatly.

Rank: Rare

Type: Physical 

Evolution: Possible 

Evolution Requirements: 5x Aether Crystals, 8x Stream Swallow Rune Crystals, 1 Kilogram of whistle weed. 

Other Owners: Sam Aldon… (Total owners: 917)

Seeing the information in front of him, Lucius nodded his head.

"Just as reported… though that name in the end… Sam Aldon," Lucius muttered.

He then looked towards Kiana and spoke, "the name of this prisoner is Baza Aldon right?" 

"Umm… according to the records, yes. This is Baza, the Speedy Bandit. He's well known for stealing and robbing thousands of people. With his gift he has managed to get away always and was only caught because he was passed out drunk when someone recognized him. 

They broke his legs so that he could not use his gift, and I think he's still recovering." Kiana replied.

"I see… does he have any family?" Lucius questioned.

"He probably should. But we don't have it on the records and neither has he mentioned it before. We do know that he is not from the land of Etara and is an outsider, so he probably has family living elsewhere." Kiana answered.

Lucius nodded his head while thinking of the name that was in the other owner's section of the information. While Nexus usually showed a lot of names upon being used with hell aether, Lucius had managed to suppress it by now since it just gave him a splitting headache.

But even then it had shown one name due to Lucius not having full grasp over it yet. 

'Though that did end up bringing me a pleasant surprise. Both have the same gift and the same surname, Aldon. They are definitely related somehow and that should a family member of this guy.' Lucius thought to himself.

"No wonder he passed out, though. I didn't know they broke his legs. He was definitely in pain the entire time and being forced to stand on legs that had not fully recovered probably made him faint." Lucius said before getting closing his eyes.

He checked how much hell energy he had left and realized that it was just enough for another trial.

"Alright, let's begin this. Hopefully, we are done before midnight." Lucius stated.

"About that, I already have a room prepared for you in the next room, if you want to stay here. Though I think it would be best if you stay in the top floor's room, as this area is still not fully prepared." Kiana reminded.

"Alright, that will make things convenient," Lucius replied before walking towards Baza.

He put his hand over his head and started to inject hell energy into his body. The same process as with Doyle started and progressed at the same rate. 

Lucius and Kiana watched on as the man started to transform and change. He let out several grunts but due to being unconscious since the start, he didn't make much noise. Lucius took note of this and decided that having subjects sedated one way or the other might be a better choice.

Lucius continued to watch on as the man reached the point where he needed the second infusion of Hell energy, which Lucius gave him quickly. 

"Oh?" Here was the point where the differentiation between Doyle and Baza started.

While Baza's body also grew a lot, it didn't become muscular like Doyle. Instead of that, it became a bit more slimmer and athletic. His legs and arms grew longer while the muscles on his thighs and calves made snapping sounds.

It looked like they were cramping real bad and if any normal person saw it they would wince in disgust. His bones were also making a lot of cracking and snapping sound and it was obvious they were changing greatly as well.

Lucius paid particular attention to the man's legs as they were having the most unique changes and saw that the soles of his feet were becoming thicker and a rubbery layer of skin had covered it. The skin was darker than the rest of his body's skin, looking more brown than maroon.

The torso of the man stayed almost the same but got more athletic with ripped abs appearing on his stomach. The facial changes of Baza though were almost the same as that of Doyle and he grew fangs and different colored eyes.

"Oh? He actually retained his hair… Now that's new." Lucius said upon noticing the hair that was slowly growing.

Doyle had fully shed his hair upon transforming and had no hair on his head nor anywhere on his body. This was consistent with the other Lost that Lucius knew of and had seen. Nearly all lost has hair-less body that was more like toughed armor instead. 

But for Baza, the hair on his body increased in length and turned into an almost fur like level. Except for his face, the rest of his body was now fully covered in hair and he looked more like an ape.

"That's a strange mutation…" Lucius muttered.

He could still understand the change in Baza's legs as his gift was more oriented toward his legs and they were naturally more developed and stronger. But Hair was unrelated to it and Lucius couldn't understand why it had now grown to the level of an animal.

Even the few rare Lost that did have hair in his past world had it on their head. As for the animals and beasts that were corrupted by hell energy, they weren't called as lost even though the process was relativity similar.

They were instead called hell beasts. Not only did they have lower intelligence than the normal Lost, but they were also harder to control as well. But they were also stronger than the normal lost when compared at the same level.

This had often caused them to be picked as mounts for the true bloods of the Great Barrom clan.