Demon's Virtue
Chapter 791: Checking on the Humans

Eiro pulled his wings into his back, landing on the road in front of the humans' settlement a bit outside of town. The moment he did, some of them stopped what they were doing and came over toward him, trying to greet the demon. Though, most of them kept on going with their work, as Eiro preferred them to do. At the end of the day, he just came here to check on them and see how they're doing, and also to meet Marius, the humans' representative, of course.

Overall, the humans clearly settled here extremely fast. Eiro had already heard it from the reports, but the humans really got properly involved, and didn't even pull back when looking at Eiro anymore. Considering how some of the other monsters in the town looked, Eiro actually had a relatively more human-like appearance when his extra 'bits' were concealed. Red skin wasn't the craziest thing they'll have seen here. Of course, they were still respectful; after all, Eiro was extremely powerful, and not just in a combat sense. He was technically the ruler of this town, whether he was the lord or not. If they upset Eiro, they were basically done for, at least that's what their thought-process was. Eiro himself thought that he was pretty lenient and kind these days.

Then again, considering how he just spoke to Gobo, maybe that wasn't totally the case... after all, he was the Demon Lord of Virtue and Sin. Both sides were part of him.

The humans quickly decided to give Eiro a quick tour of the area. Some of the monsters had apparently helped with expanding the houses to make sure that every family had what they needed, and so that the different experts with particular classes could properly use their abilities and show their worth. The fields that the humans tended to were also doing incredibly well, much better than the fields taken care of by the monsters. But Eiro wasn't the only one to notice that, as Boju, Gobo, and Marius already made sure to have the farmers of both sides exchange tips and tricks about farming, though that mostly resulted in the human farmers teaching the monster farmers about things they didn't know, while the monster farmers taught the humans about the more special plants or animals that were being kept. This was mostly bestial monsters or magical herbs and plants that Eiro provided.

Before long, Marius, who had just heard that Eiro had gotten here, came rushing out from one of the fields toward the demon. He cleaned his hands and face with a rag, deeply bowing in front of Eiro, "Thank you for taking the time to come here, Lord Daemonherz!"

"No, no, of course I would. I wasn't able to come here in the past three months, but I really wanted to see how you were all doing," Eiro replied, continuing to glance around the area, "I presume that Mislan has treated you well?"

Marius immediately nodded, smiling broadly, "Yes! He has been the best help that we could have asked for. He was the go-between for us and the monsters very early on, and made sure to assist us in whatever ways we needed it."

"I see. I do have some questions that I would like you to answer in more detail, but that can wait."

A bit startled, Marius nodded his head, "O-Of course! Is there anything else that you would like? Have you eaten yet?"

"Don't worry, I'm not here to have you serve me," Eiro smiled lightly, "And yes, I have eaten."

He had, technically. Though that was mostly seen in Eiro using flesh magic to continuously fill his stomach with his own meat so that he could level up his 'overeating' skill. That was basically the only way to reliably get his fill these days anyway.

Eiro continued to walk around the area, "Really, I'm just here to see how you all are doing. And it's going pretty well, huh?"

"Yes, lord! It is going very, very well! Much better than it did in our old home, I promise you!"

"Alright. In that case, I've got something for you," Eiro said, pushing his hand into the air before pulling something from nothing. It was a large, subtly glowing crystal that these humans dearly needed, which took quite a long time to procure, "The one that was supposed to be in the old adventurer's guild was broken during the monsters' invasion, so I brought a new one for you all."

All the humans that had gathered around looked at the large crystal, trying to figure out what it was. Only a few of the people here in the village had ever seen what this was, really. It was a 'Class Change Stone', something that people needed to access to change or advance their classes once they reached level 100 in their current class.

In a large town, it was relatively easy to get to it. A capital city would have multiple to account for all the people that would need to use it every day, and it was usually set up in big guilds like the commerce, adventurer's, or crafter's guild, and was publicly accessible for everyone. This was the main requirement for the country allowing these guilds to access these stones. The town's lord would also usually have their own if they were rich enough.

In small towns, though, that was different. The people there either had to travel to the nearest stone, or they had to simply wait as two or three times a year, an envoy would travel around to different smaller towns. There were always a few travelling around a country at any one time.

However, in more remote places or small villages, it wasn't uncommon for people to simply not have a class in the first place, as even these people travelling around with the class change stones wouldn't come to every single settlement, and not everyone had the time or opportunity to travel to a nearby town while there was one there. That was why most of these people hadn't ever seen one before. However, Marius most certainly had.

"Is that... is that a class change stone?" Marius asked, almost stumbling over his words, "Are these not extremely rare?"

"Well, sure, but I've got the means to procure one on my own," Eiro pointed out. Again, they were rare and expensive, and could only be made in limited amounts, so even through Solomon, it took literal months to get one. Well, Eiro actually tried to get his hands on two so that he could try absorbing one of them, but the second one would take another little while, and getting a stone here to this town was much more important than anything else, "For now, call everyone here and have them get their first class or have them advance their class if they already have one, if possible. After that, we'll set up the stone in the town hall for the time being until we find another solution."

Marius looked at the stone with a massive smile on his face, "Thank you, Lord Daemonherz, this is amazing! Quickly, everyone, go get the others together!"

And it didn't take long either. The humans quickly gathered and one after another chose their classes based on what their job in the town currently was. And while that was happening, Eiro had a chance to look at some of their work.

"Hm..." Eiro grumbled slightly as he squatted down in front of one of the wooden carts that were used by the humans. It was clearly made recently, but the quality was... questionable, "Was this made by one of you?"

The demon asked, running his hand over the grains and splinters of the wood. Slowly, a young man came over toward him. He seemed to be in his late teens or early twenties, "I made that... somethin' wrong with it?"

Eiro looked at him. His hands were shaking, and he was missing two fingers. His pinky on his left hand and his middle finger on his right.

"... You're one of the woodworkers here?"

"Aye... my pop was one, and my pop's pop too," the man responded, in a very stoic manner. He did seem to have the talent for it, at least judging from his smell, but his actual work was more than shabby. With a sigh, Eiro pushed his hand to the side again. He pulled out his travelling workstation from his treasury, dropping it into the ground. The demon looked around, seeing that there were others here that were sick, and some that were missing a limb that Eiro had very clearly neglected.

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