The Useless 8th Prince

Arriving In The City

“Master. Are you okay, Mister?”

Hearing Camellia's worried voice in her ear, Ciel regained her senses from her daydream. He turned his head towards the beautiful girl then smiled mysteriously.

“It's okay, Camellia. I'm just happy because it got a region that is several times more ‘kaya’ than the previous region.”

As a slave and servant who takes care of Ciel's daily life, Camellia knows that her master is angry. Because he often did his master's duties, he also knew that the place they were headed to was dangerous. The girl looked at Ciel with a serious expression.

“I will protect you, Mister!”

Hearing Camellia's promise, Ciel's cold smile softened. He put his hand over the girl's head and then stroked her hair.

“Then I will count on you, Camellia.”

“Good, Master!”

Despite saying so, Ciel himself did not care much about that. As a transmigrator, of course he had his own plans since childhood. To be honest, the young man had covered up his own talent.

Ciel knew the level of power that existed in this world. The power level is divided from level one to nine. Levels 1 and 2 were considered low-level demons. Level 3 and 4 were considered medium-level demons. Levels 5 and 6 were considered high-level demons. Level 7 was called a King-class Devil. Level 8 was called an Emperor-grade Devil. While level 9, it is called class ‘Demi-God’.

In each level is also divided into three stages, namely the initial, intermediate, and final stages. Moreover, from what Ciel knew, it was difficult for a demon to break through the level barrier. Such as from low to medium level demon, from medium to high, and so on. However .... breaking through from the high level to the King realm was said to be extremely difficult. Most demon nobles are trapped there.

Why did Ciel say a portion of the nobles was of course because most ordinary Devils were even difficult to rise from the middle level to the high level. In addition to requiring a lot of nutrients, exercise, and the like. There are things that are considered very important by the Devils. It is an innate talent and ability.

Innate ability is an ability that is born with the devil. The one who knows innate abilities the most is the demon itself. Many types of innate abilities range from very powerful, very strange, to useless.

For example there is an innate ability called ‘Shadow Control’, that innate ability increases the owner's affinity of abilities on shadow and darkness magic. There are also innate abilities such as ‘Marsh Smeel’, abilities that make the owner emit a foul scent and annoy opponents. Ability that is considered useless.

According to Ciel himself, no innate ability was useless. Depends on its use. He had once read a book about the extremely outstanding demon knights. The book was lent by the 5th prince to encourage him.

In the book, it is told about the Devil who has the innate ability ‘Hardening’. As the name implies, the ability can be used to harden the skin. Of course, just a little harden. But in his hands, after a long struggle and practice, that trivial ability became extremely terrifying.

Fending off weapons, fending off magic, that person became extremely powerful as if incarnating like a walking weapon. Incredible might be the right word to describe it.

In the Demon race, besides there being various innate abilities, there were sometimes also strange cases. If usually a demon has one innate ability, there are also those who have two. Of course, it's very rare. While three or more, it only existed in legends. Incidentally, Ciel had one too. More precisely, three innate abilities.

The first innate ability was called the Eye of the Lord. In the legends, it was already likened to the eyes of a God. Its function is to see the innate abilities of opponents, statistics, and various kinds of information about almost all objects.

The third or last innate ability is called Devour. Mother Ciel was a descendant of another Empire. Their ancestors were called Beelzebub. As the incarnation of one of the seven great sins of ‘Gluttony’, Devour has the ability to absorb almost all kinds of living things and turn them into energy to strengthen the body. In other words, a very strong body even exceeds ‘Hardening’ in the story.

Possessing the three legendary abilities of his ancestors, Lucifer and Beelzebub, Ciel was by no means stupid. Moreover, he was a reincarnator. The young man knew that he had the potential to be at the top of this world. Yes .. only potential.

His reason of concealing himself as a Prince was useless as well because of this. What would happen if the Emperor knew that he had such extraordinary talent? Of course proud and raised him as Crown Prince! Just ... Is that good for Ciel?

The answer is clearly no. As a very talented little boy, surely the stepmothers are jealous and try various ways to finish him off. After he died, the Emperor would definitely get angry, but would also forgive his wife because the corpse of a genius could no longer be considered a genius or the future of the Black Sun Empire.

That's just the first possibility. Even if the stepmothers did not hate him, what about the Empire or other Kingdoms? Looking at potential enemy candidates, they must have hunted him even to the end of the world. Not allowing it to grow. He must have died young!

The only way is to close yourself and act as a useless figure so that people are not wary of him. Of course, Ciel still took advantage of various opportunities. He is considered a waster for picky food and often spends money on good food.

A good meal was of course made from precious materials such as Demonic Beast meat as well as various rare herbs. Such a thing was extremely useful for strengthening his body. Especially because of the Devour effect, you could say Ciel leveled up just by eating.

As for magic training, he would do it in the room when alone. With the Eye of The Lord, the young man made sure that no one was watching him. Only then did he start practicing controlling mana and also practicing magic.

For the magic books themselves, Ciel often went to the Imperial library and took many books at once. Since most demons had one or two magic affinities, no one was suspicious as he retrieved magic books of different types of magic elements. Maybe in the eyes of others he just wanted to find a book to read when relaxing. At most, they would feel sorry for the book that might be used for the pedestal of Ciel's tea cup.

Moreover, Ciel borrowed books in just one night. People thought it was impossible to memorize everything. Of course they were wrong, because with the Eye of The Lord he almost had a photographic memory. Remembering almost everything in one look.

The reason Ciel acted in secret other than fearing being wiped out, he realized something important. Nothing in this world could be relied upon except his own strength. It's not that he doesn't trust his father, mother, and people who seem to love him. It's just that he wants to feel safe anywhere and anytime.

Of course, Ciel really did not care about the Emperor's throne. But who will believe him?

As of now, even after acting as a lazy Prince who did not want the throne, there were people who did not like it. He was really sent to die!

Only, they did not know that what Ciel did for fifteen years of his life was not in vain.

Thinking of the complexity of the situation within the palace, Ciel quietly let out a long sigh. He was grateful to be out of that place. But he was also somewhat worried as he would face various unknown dangers.

“Life is really hard,” muttered Ciel while shaking lightly.

The young man could only prepare himself to face the various possibilities before him. Without feeling it, time just passed. Four days went well, Ciel finally arrived at Black Lily City.

>> Connect.