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Three large puffballs leaped toward me. They were all part of Red, a truly unique lifeform. Technically a True Demon—the only one I could summon using the True Demon Authority Skill I had obtained—they resembled adorable balls of red fur with one, two, and three eyes respectively, small horns atop their heads, and wide mouths lined with sharp fangs.
They represented the smallest, weakest possible form of a True Demon, apparently. Red had continued evolving without consuming any souls so far, surviving instead by absorbing soul essence from me through our bond, which I shared to nourish him.
Because these True Demon Familiars are linked to my own True Demon Authority, and because that Authority does not grow without me devouring souls… well, they had remained stagnant. It was only thanks to the system that they could develop at all.
