A Nexus Devil

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Are you se-serious right now?" Jake was shivering so much that he had trouble pronouncing his words. The half-human popsicle on the ground sputtered out, "I-I don't think it's wo-working."

Serafall, right next to Jake, continued to observe him with her eyes and her magical senses. It didn't look like it was working either to her. That must mean she didn't use enough ice!

Another magic circle formed on her hand, and she blasted Jake, who was on the ground, with even more freezing wind from her hands.

When the second blast hit him, Jake went from thinking he was bathing in liquid nitrogen to feeling like he was in the middle of the cocytus itself! "Oh my G-God, why did you blast me with i-ice a-again? R-really Serafall!?"

He somehow spoke through even more shivering than before. Serafall, meanwhile, noted that he was able to use Big G's name without any repercussions.

She felt like he was really lucky in that regard! He could curse the bastard (in Serafall's opinion) anytime he wanted.

"Oh, there we go! I can see it working now," Serafall said, and Jake, still shivering on the ground, started to feel something happening to his body.

The color was slowly but surely returning to his skin, his frozen hair was starting to melt, and his shivering started to lessen as he slowly felt the cold that was literally permeating throughout his entire being just a moment ago start to fade away.

Eventually, it just became a pleasant coolness that spread throughout his body.

"Wow, your bloodline really is amazing," Serafall praised. "No wonder everyone supernatural wants to murder you, if you can actually gain immunity to their magics and be able to copy them after only being hit by their spells one or two times!

" Serafall couldn't help but admit she was slightly jealous of his ability to learn magic in such an easy but not painless way.

Serafall had spent at least a dozen years just to be able to use competent ice magic at all… and here he was learning it within the span of 5 minutes! 'Some people have all the luck.' She thought to herself, 'and those people usually tend to be Gremorys, in my experience.'

Jake was just happy that he was no longer a popsicle! He stood up from the ground and inspected himself physically. He looked the same, but internally, he could now feel something new inside of himself.

He didn't feel cold anymore, but at the same time, from the depths of his body, he knew he could unleash ice magic now. He raised his hand and pointed it off to the side as a magical icicle, straight out of Dark Souls, formed in his hand and launched towards a nearby tree!

The ice spear punched a hole right through the thick bark upon impact! Jake whistled to himself in appreciation. He also felt like that icy spear he just fired took way less magic than he would have expected it to.

'Does my bloodline grant me cheaper magic casting, when using copied abilities?' He mused to himself. That giant Ice Spear didn't feel like it took any more magic than a normal bombarda.

Serafall smiled at the absolute look of glee on Jake's face. She had seen the same expression on thousands of younger devils the first time they started casting real magic, and not just basic training spells.

Just as Jake was about to launch another icicle for fun, Serafall interrupted him. "Hold on there before you go absolutely crazy and start raining ice death all over this forest. I have one more thing to give you. Hold out your hands," she said.

Jake did as she asked and held out both of his hands. She placed her palms over the back of his hands, and between the two, a magical glow appeared, along with a burning sensation on the back of Jake's hands!

"Ow, what the hell?" Jake said as he ripped his hands away from hers, inspecting for any burn marks or damage. To his surprise, he saw that the back of each of his hands had what looked like a red magic circle tattooed on them. "What are these supposed to be?" he asked her.

"Those," Serafall said, "are a gift from your brother. The magic circles on the back of each of your hands are the Gremory family magic casting circle, exclusively used by members of the Gremory clan and their peerage members!"

"What's a peerage?" Jake asked.

"We'll get to that later," she said. "Anyway, as I was saying, with those now fused to your hands, you'll be able to use the Gremory magic circle whenever you want to cast magic from now on. Magic circles are the inventions of devils, and they're probably one of our greatest creations.

The Gremory clan, along with my Sitri family, has some of the best magic circles. They can cut down the magic required to cast a spell by up to 90% sometimes!" She bragged proudly.

Jake himself was blown away by that revelation. That meant he could literally cast ten times more magic than before before he tired himself out! That was amazing! He absolutely loved it…

Jake felt himself slightly torn up at the fact that his brother truly did consider him a member of the family, gifting him the use of their family magic circle.

"Please tell my brother I said thank you," Jake said to Serafall sincerely. "This feels like one of the first true gifts I've ever gotten in my whole life." Serafall was saddened by that statement, knowing that he basically grew up as an orphan without knowing anything about his family.

Serafall just nodded to him before her demeanor changed back to her cheerful persona. "Okay!" she said. "And with that, I think we can head back now! I'm getting hungry anyway, and the food at this human school actually isn't that bad.

" Serafall grabbed Jake's hand, which once again caused him to blush, and she started leading him out of the forest and back towards Hogwarts.

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