Gaya's brows arched up in shock. White and black smoke was coming out of the demon stone gradually forming a human form. She always imagined a demon being eight to ten feet tall with muscle mountains for the body as well as two horns sticking out of its head. However, the figure in front of her seemed human-like. Moreover, the figure looked like a butler wearing a black coat, white shirt, silver vest, and black tie.
In her eyes, he was nowhere close to as handsome as Michael yet she knew if the ethereal form was a human in physical form, he would get many suitors including princesses.
She was positive that it's the human who's responsible for the demon's current appearance. The demon butler's ethereal form slowly became brighter and brighter. Both Michael and the demon butler's eyes were closed. She waited for them to open their eyes. While she was waiting for them, the Hydra started to grow in size. It felt like she was holding a hot plate in her hand as the hydra. Still, she never let go of the Hydra.
[Do you wish to accept the demon as your subordinate?]
"What do you think you damn system?"
The system remained silent waiting for his obvious answer.
"Yes I do" he sighed in his mind. He was too excited to meet his demon butler so he chose not to bicker with the system. The thought of having a demon for Butler made his blood boil in excitement. He never felt this excited since he first realized he has a system and he's in a fantasy world.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining a demon subordinate!]
[The demon subordinate has reached 100% loyalty]
[Congratulations to the host for unlocking the bloodthirsty ability of Demon subordinate]
[The demon subordinate can absorb the blood essence of a living being to temporarily enhance its strength. The more powerful the blood essence, the stronger the demon would grow]
[Due to the Demon's ethereal form, it's completely immune to any physical attacks]
[You can bind the demon to yourself and one of your bases of operations]
[No one except half immortal beings could see the demon unless the host wishes to reveal the demon]
[Warning! Although the demon is completely loyal to the host, it has its own personality]
[The system suggest you buy the book of butlers and basic knowledge of this world for the demon to learn the ways of this world]
[Does the host wish to buy the two books for 3000 badass points?]
His field of view was filled with blue notifications and warnings. He took time to go through every single one of them before buying the two books as the system suggested.
The personality warning don't worry Michael, in fact, he was glad to see his butler was not a mindless drone. He wanted all of his subordinates to act on their own for his greater good.
Subordinate: Demon Butler
Cultivation Level: Core Formation level 8
Race: Demon
Status: Healthy (In Ethereal Form)
Trait: Butler (Unique)
Loyalty towards the host: 100%
"System, list all the skills of the demon. I want to see the cool stuff he could do"
Another interface appeared before them. One by one the demon butler's skills were listed in front of them in golden letters.
Skills :
Phantom Touch
Bind Area teleportation
Blood Thirsty
Imitator
Phantom Form
Mind Dominator
[Phantom Touch is the ability of the demon to materialize for a moment inside a physical being]
[The demon butler can bend the space around it to teleport near the host and the bound area]
[The Demon can absorb blood essence to temporarily grow stronger]
[The Demon can imitate the host's spells and skills. The imitated skills and spells will not be as powerful as the host's arsenal]
[The Demon can choose to hide from naked eyes. Only the host and a chosen subordinate could see the Demon when its using the Phanton form]
[The Demon's voice could dominate weak-willed enemies' bodies]
The system explained each skill one by one.
"Can these skills be upgraded?"
[Yes. The skills can be upgraded through badass points and reaching higher stages in cultivation]
"Cool" Michael was ready to meet his butler but he had one last thing to do.
"Buy the two books and bind him to me and the Abyssal"
[Warning!]
Suddenly his field of view turned black as the warning beeps screamed in his mind.
[Binding the Demon to you will reveal everything about you to the demon including your previous life]
"What?!" Michael was thoroughly upset to hear this.
[Cool down host. The demon is 100% loyal and the rules for the subordinates apply to it. Hence, the demon cannot harm you or betray you in anyways]
"If he knows everything, does that include you?"
[No. The demon will not know the existence of the system]
Michael's mind was filled with questions. Trusting the demon with his previous life didn't seem like a good idea to him. He wanted that life to be hidden from anyone except Gaya. Only because he was planning to marry Gaya, he revealed his previous life to her. Still, he didn't completely divulge everything that happened on earth.
[Think of the demon as the Alfred to your Batman. Even if you wanted to, you cannot go back to earth or anyone in the universe no matter how powerful they were. So there's no harm in letting the demon know. Trust me host, I got your back]
Somehow the system sounded trustworthy to Michael. Despite its tendency to rob him of his badass points, the system did have his back always. His gut feeling told him to listen to the system. Sooner or later, someone would definitely connect the dots between Ghost and Lucifer, Michael knew this. So letting the demon know about his two personas wasn't a world-ending problem to him.
Revealing his life on earth seemed like a bad idea still the system assured him that the demon would not be able to betray him in anyways.
"What if I don't bind the demon to me?"
[Then there's a possibility of losing the demon's loyalty slowly and if the loyalty level dropped under a certain point, the system will be forced to neutralize the demon]
The system sounded cold. After spending almost 60,000 badass points, Michael would never let the demon die in vain. With a heavy sigh, he finally decided to bind the demon.
"Go ahead, bind the demon to me and the Abyssal" Michale felt a tingling sensation within him like something was getting embedded into his soul itself.
The sensation lingered for another couple of minutes before fading away.
[Now you're all set]
His field of view got clear of notifications and warnings as he slowly opened his eyes to see a black-haired man in butler's uniform kneeling in front of him. The butler looked exactly as he imagined.
"Tell me what's going on here? Is he really a demon?" her eyes sparkled with excitement regardless of her doubts. She was used to the miracles performed by him. In her mind, this was another miracle from him.
[oh, I forgot to mention, the demon will have no recollection of its memory before entering into the slumber state. So he's like a newborn child, take good care of him]
The system expected him to get mad. However, Michael just laughed in his mind.
"That's good" He was glad that the demon has no recollection of its past. This way, the demon would focus on serving Michael rather than trying to finish whatever business it had before entering into the deep slumber.
[What the?]
The system sounded surprising. Michael did not continue to argue with him as he was busy admiring his demon butler. He was perfect, neck-length hair that looked shiny and straight, a body type that was neither too bulky with muscles nor thin, blue eyes that filled with loyalty towards Michael, neatly ironed clothes that looked crisp. In simple words, he was a perfect butler. No one in this world would recognize him as a demon in a million years.
"Should I address you as Lord Lucifer or Master Ghost, my lord?" His voice didn't disappoint Michael. The voice was crisp, rough, mesmerizing, and gravely calm.
"How did he-"
"He had to know everything about me, that's the price I had to pay for waking him"
"I'm not questioning you but can we really trust him? He's a demon for god sake" She quickly whispered in his ears.
"You can trust me with your life, Lady Gaya" the butler turned his sharp gaze towards Gaya. Michael never thought the butler would also know her identity. It seemed like binding let the demon know almost everything Michael knew.
"Whoa, this is fucked up" she stared at Michael as he signaled the butler to stand up. Although the butler was in an ethereal form, it was really hard to notice the lack of physical body.
"The question is how do we call you?" Michael asked. The three of them stood in silence for a few moments. She was in shock due to everything that happened while Michael was deep in thinking of a new name for his butler.
At the moment, except for the sound of the waterfall hitting the ground, there was no sound.
"Azazel"
"Sebastian"
Michael and Gaya said at the exact same time. The name Azazel was Michael's while the latter was hers. The demon gawked at both of them with a calm smile. He kept his etiquette like a professional butler.
"What the hell? I name you Azazel Sebastian.. You'll be called Azazel when we're in this form and Sebastian when I'm Ghost and she's Aelia. Until we found you a suitable physical body, avoid revealing yourself to the world"