Ellis didn't respond, he just looked at Nyx quietly, his gaze deep.Of course he knew that Nyx didn't do it on purpose, but that didn't mean he could let it go.Demons don't grow like humans, Nyx's magic power was skyrocketing, even beyond his own control, and if this situation continued to develop ...
Ellis didn't dare to imagine the consequences.He knew very well that Nyx had never been a peaceful demon.He was smart, cunning, and mischievous, and he even managed to brush off his own demonic outbursts with a "there's nothing we can do about it" attitude.But Ellis understood better than anyone that this was no small matter.
"Nyx."He spoke, his voice low and strong.
"Hmm?"Nyx responded lazily, his tail wagging lightly in the air with an air of disinterest.
"You must learn control."
Nyx laughed, as if he had heard some great joke.
"Control?Ellis, do you realize what you're saying?"He looked at Ellis with the eyes of a child, "Demon magic was never meant to be used for 'control', it's destruction, it's chaos, it's a gift from the Abyssal instincts - do you think we're going to be like you humans and learn how to'control'?"
Ellis didn't back down; his gaze remained steady, with an undeniable firmness."If you don't learn to control it, it will consume you."
Nyx froze, his red pupils contracting slightly.
Ellis's voice was calm, but carried a power that could not be refuted, "You can still retain your self-awareness now, but when the magic goes completely out of control, it will become the master, and you will only be reduced to a puppet of the magic."
Nyx stared at him, his original careless smile gradually tightening a few points.
Of course he knew that.In the Abyss, there were too many demons that couldn't survive the stage of "growth", their magic power flared up, and they were eventually devoured and turned into senseless monsters, or even torn apart by more powerful demons, becoming the nutrients for evolution.Now Ellis was confident that he could control him, just because there was a contract in place, Nyx couldn't hurt Ellis, which was granted to him by the Abyss.
Nyx lowered his eyes and tapped his fingertips on the desktop, "So what are you going to do?"
Ellis' answer was simple."Teach you."
Nyx froze.His eyes widened as he looked at Ellis incredulously, "Are you kidding me?"
"You're my contracted demon."Ellis's voice was calm as if he was saying something perfectly normal, "It's my responsibility to make you learn to control your magic."
Nyx's expression was a bit complicated, as if he wanted to taunt, and as if he wanted to refuse, but in the end, he just looked at Ellis in silence for a long time.Finally, he hooked the corners of his mouth, his red eyes curving up slightly with a few impish smiles.
"Well," he said with a shrug, feigning relief, "let's see if you've got what it takes then, Mentor Ellis."
"That's why all indentured demons must come of age before they can go to the human world."Ellis's mentor had told him this, "Because in the human world, nothing can suppress them, and they can't suppress themselves."
Those words echoed clearly in Ellis' mind at the moment, and he looked at Nyx, realizing that he was probably the only mentor who had ever accidentally brought an "underage" demon to the human world.
Nyx's magic was growing at an alarming rate, violent and uncontrollable, like a beast ready to break free from its cage.In the Abyss, such demons wouldn't be treated as exceptions, as there were countless equally powerful demons that could suppress them and it wouldn't matter much.But in the human world - there wasn't a single being here that could truly restrain Nyx, and his magic fluctuations would even have an effect on the entire academy, the entire city.
Ellis knew very well that if this continued, sooner or later Nyx would become a real disaster.
Nyx knew it too.
But his attitude remained casual, as if none of this mattered.He sat on the window sill, his red eyes reflecting the moonlight outside, a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth, "Seriously, you think the human world can trap me?"