Demon Emperor Prodigy System

"He wishes to get serious", Lucifer thought, getting up. "Let's get serious then". Lucifer wiped the blood off from the corner of his mouth.

As he could see his brother summon two shortswords and place them at his sides and summon a bow, he knew he is in trouble; all he had left were the three daggers.

Lucifer proceeded to summon the two daggers left in his storage and place them at his sides. "I am not using the crimson or teal blade right now. I can't rely on only my equipment".

"Let's play this smart the sword is not that far away, and I could try to pick up my gauntlets or the shield as well, but I have to play it smart."

Next thing that Iblis could see while getting his bow ready was his younger brother running towards him with a single dagger in hand.

"Now is the moment Lucifer thoughts", as he jumped into the air with all his might. With the dagger mid-air, he proceeded to perform the Reverse Side Kick. As a result, the dagger bolted forward, and Iblis was forced onto the defensive. As Iblis landed on the ground, he rolled forward and, since he found himself close to the gauntlets, managed to slide his forearms into them before getting back on his feet.

"This is great", he thought as he found himself in possession of the gauntlets with the clawed attachments.

As he got back on his feet, he began running forward, and he realised that Iblis had managed to defend against the dagger and was getting his arrows ready.

"This can be dangerous", as he looked around; his shield was not so far away, so he decided to slide forward with his back close to the ground sliding his shield onto his gauntlet wielding left hand, barely managing to defend against the arrow.

"No, my precious shield", he internally screamed as due to a lack of time, there was a dent, and the arrow nearly pierced the shield.

As he got back up again, he was all scuffed up, but he knew he had to do something.

"I am quite far away for close combat, and I do not have much I could use for distance combat".

"Well, I guess I have an idea, but I do not think Orcust will be too happy, but I have to win this at all cost".

Lucifer pulled out the wooden spear from his dimensional storage necklace. After finding the balance point taking aim, finding his footing and running to gain momentum, he was ready to throw the spear right towards his brother.

Iblis barely had time to shoot one arrow before the spear approached him.

Lucifer sidestepped the arrow, used the distraction to roll on the ground, grabbed his shortsword, rolled back on his feet, and continued running while putting his shortsword back into its scabbard.

After which, he pulled out his wooden axe from the dimensional storage, and as he found himself 36 feet away from his brother, he was ready to throw the axe. He prepared the overhead throw holding the axe with both hands, and, using his adrenaline-filled strength, threw another projectile at his brother.

Iblis was tired of these cat and mouse games, but there was not much he could do considering they were both unable to use abilities. He could usually read his opponent, including Lucifer, but this time, something changed, and Lucifer seemed to be reading him.

Iblis found himself defending against the axe with all the projectiles being thrown at himself the felt more like a hindrance instead of an advantage. It was a lot quicker to throw a weapon than draw a bow, even for someone as good as him, considering he had to let go of a bow and avoid getting hit.

As Lucifer was closing the distance, he could see Iblis drop his bow and knew what he had to do. He drew his shortsword as he neared his brothers' location. As he closed the distance, Iblis was already wielding the dual shortswords.

In a split second, Lucifer dropped the shortsword and performed a front kick sending the weapon flying into the air, somewhat confusing his brother.

He pulled out his sheathed daggers and used them to push both of the shortswords to the side with the momentum he built up from running and jumping to gain reach.

"Perfect", he thought as he let go of the daggers as the shortsword landed back in his hands as he was slowly descending, and he thrust it into his brother's stomach.

"I guess I win", Lucifer stated before making space for the doctor to come to heal his brother. There was always a doctor around during their sparring just to be cautious. Doctor (A person with an ability to heal others employed to heal others within a business or while serving someone in particular. Thus different than healers used to support a group while in a fight).

Iblis was healed and approached his brother.

"How did you become such a monster, or have you just not been giving it yours all during training. Your strength will become an immense asset to the kingdom in the future. Maybe even it might be enough for humans to let us live in peace finally. You do need to work on your technique; your movements seemed odd at times." Iblis finished talking and looked at his brother.

"So he noticed", Lucifer thought.

But he decided to reply with, "the body is the problem a young body like this is difficult to use. It wasn't easy to reach you, and I usually had to jump to reach you. Even if I had agility, I lacked power, speed, and reach."

"Thats reasonable..."

Iblis was cut off by Orcust, who shouted, "that was crazy. I can't wait to spar with you as well."

"Much appreciated, but you are giving me too much praise."

"The training with Orcust is slightly different; it mostly focuses on learning various martial arts and physical combat mixed with using abilities with no weapons". Lucifer continued, "it is pretty helpful, but I would never want to go into hand to hand combat against this behemoth", Lucifer concluded.

Orcust stated, "get a bit of rest, collect your equipment and get ready to do some training with me", he continued, "you just increased my expectations to expect a harsh session" he finished talking and looked at Lucifer.

Lucifer nodded, collected the equipment, and left to go to his room to clean himself up a little bit and organise himself. His natural healing was kicking in, and the artefact highly contributed so physically he should soon recover.

"I need to expand my arsenal soon."

Authors note: I try to use appropriate techniques for most of the fighting, but when using swords, most of the techniques are based within other fighting styles, so not much could be done except basics. For martial arts, mostly Taekwondo, but there will be more variety as the story continues; it is simply not possible to use everything at once.

Thank you for reading another chapter; it is much appreciated!