Demon Emperor Prodigy System

"Time to show them what I've got", he said aloud as he palmed his fist.

As Lucifer said that, he made his way through to where Iblis and Orcust stood.

Today's practice will be with actual weapons, not wooden ones," Iblis stated. "You will soon turn three, and father wants you to develop your hand to hand skills and develop pure technique, but for that, you need to get used to utilising your weapons without employing an ability."

"Oh boy, if he only knew I have 28 years of experience behind me", Lucifer thought as he pulled a set of black daggers and placed them around his waist.

"I think I need to be creative to beat Iblis", he thought. Then, after thinking for a second, Lucifer pulled out the set of clawed attachments for his gauntlets, the shield, and the black shortsword.

"This ought to do. Honestly, my arsenal is limited; but the sharp edge of my blade was all that I needed for nations to fall in my past life."

"I feel quite pathetic even thinking about such silly thoughts."

"I am ready, are you, Iblis," Lucifer said quite quickly.

"I am always ready, brother", Iblis replied.

"No abilities, just pure skill and technique." Lucifer continued, "I have to give this my all; otherwise, my pride shall never recover as a swordsman, fighter and conquerer."

As Lucifer thought about his past existence, he got into position. He lowered himself and pushed his foot back as he placed his remaining free hand on the hilt of the sword.

He felt it through his body; his blood was boiling with excitement. His eyes became sharper; his grip became tighter; he had to prove himself.

As he placed his full strength into his feet and his vision sharpened, he bolted forward in an instant. As he ran forward, he felt free and like he was finally becoming his former strength.

As he was closing the distance, he closed his eyes and focused on the air touching his face as he runs and the quiet nature of the training ground. He could hear his brothers regular and peaceful heartbeat.

At an instance, his eyes bolted upon as he was close to his brother now. As he closed the distance, he blocked his brothers' longsword with the spiked shield, but instead of attacking, he lowered his body and slid underneath his brothers strike, utilising his smaller and more agile form.

Lucifer attempted to attack from behind, pulling out the shortsword for maximum momentum and power.

At the last second, Iblis pulled out the shortsword with his free hand and blocked the strike.

At that moment, Lucifer pulled his shield back and allowed it to drop to the ground to distract his brother as he utilised the clawed attachments of his right hand, which which was the one that held the sword that his brother was forced to defend against

Lucifer grabbed the guard of the stone from underneath and pushed upward.

*Clank* It dropped to the ground.

Lucifer thought, "you may be smart and won battles, but I won wars, boy".

Lucifer proceeded to push his now free again shortsword downward towards his brothers, now exposed arm as Iblis did not even have a chance to turn around yet.

"Is this all you have got, brother" Lucifer mocked to create a reaction in his brother.

At the last moment, he could see the hilt of the longsword approaching his stomach as nothing was stopping his brother from using it.

Lucifer managed to kick the shield upwards at the last second, which was lying on the ground, granting him partial protection as he was still pushed a few meters back.

He picked himself up from the ground. "This is not over", he shouted pridefully.

"I am pathetic", he thought.

He outstretched his forearms and dropped the gauntlets entirely to the ground.

"I need speed, and I need to get myself together and stop embarrassing myself", he said to himself as he got into his stance before taunting his brother to come to him.

"Time for round two", he knew he has to try his best as he could see Iblis running with his longsword pointing downwards, ready to strike upwards.

"I see Iblis; sometimes you are two predictable because you think you are so much ahead of your opponent", as Lucifer thought this, Iblis let go of the longsword with one hand and grabbed three throwing knives from his side and proceeded to thor them towards his brother.

"This stance was perfect," Lucifer thought.

*Clang*, *Clang*, *Clang*

All three parried with the sword easily, and with the wide balance stance wielding the blade outstretched in a mix of a guarding and a long stance, his vision was not impaired at the slightest.

Lucifer knew he was disadvantaged in power, reach, and speed, but he had experience and agility.

He knew when Iblis would swing his longsword by inspecting his body at every second, and when he did, Lucifer side stepped lowered his blade, ready to strike and as he thrust.

*Clang* his brother was too quick and used his longswords guard to block.

"My sword is not durable enough to face the longsword head-on", Lucifer thought.

But my options are limited; I am at a disadvantage in every aspect except experience.

As Lucifer realised he has to do something, he utilised his footwork span around backwords and, while doing so, grabbed one of his daggers.

"Let's see how you counter this"; he said to himself as he threw it towards his brother from such a close distance he hardly had time to react.

Too busy defending from the unexpected, Iblis was hardly able to defend against the next attack, a horizontal strike with a force of an entire 7-year-old body behind it.

Usually, it would be nothing, but his longsword was mid airt, and the attack was unexpected; the attack was such an unexpected event that Iblis lost his grip on the longsword, and it dropped onto the ground a meter away.

At the very moment, as Lucifer was expected, he felt piercing pain in his stomach as he flew backwards, losing the grip of his sword.

When Iblis lost the grip on his swords handle, he instinctively proceeded to prepare a kick that was so fast that Lucifer had no chance to react to it.

"It seems it is the perfect time to get serious", Iblis stated as he looked at his brother, picking himself up off the ground.

Authors note: As mentioned in prior chapters, demons grow up faster physically and mentally, and they are vastly stronger physically than humans naturally. Also, this is more of a basic fight second part will involve more techniques and actual martial arts.

Thank you for reading! Much appreciated!