The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 71

As soon as mana went in, the aura meter reacted right away.

“Whirr” went the meter. It started to shake.

First, a dull grey, then a sudden flash of angry red, like fire. It smoothed into a bright orange, like a sunset, then quickly shifted to a sunny yellow.

Usually, aura meters take about five minutes to show a reading. But Roman’s was different.

The meter turned yellow.

It was incredibly fast.

In just about five seconds, the aura meter changed a lot, reaching yellow.

This meant he was as strong as a 3-star warrior.

Willas watched all this, swallowing nervously. ‘…Could he be a 4-star?’ he thought.

It was amazing. Willas had used aura meters many times, but he had never seen one react so quickly and dramatically.

Even for someone very strong, like a 4-star swordsman, the colors usually changed slowly.

But Roman’s reading was not normal. It made no sense to Willas, leaving him completely confused.

He looked at Roman’s face.

Seeing Roman’s calm face, one of Willas’s eyebrows went up.

However, Willas was greatly mistaken.

He thought Roman was using all his power. But Roman hadn’t even started to try hard.

The initial mana injection was merely a fraction, for experimental purposes.

It wasn’t the Salamander Continent’s method; just a small push of condensed mana, yet the aura meter reacted strongly.

Roman found it funny. A device that showed power with colors.

After making sure the aura meter was safe, Roman went right to what he wanted to do.

“Mana burst.”

Aura emission.

He gathered mana.

Then, in one go, he unleashed it at the aura meter, which reacted as if about to explode.

Boom!

Rumble!

A roar erupted from the aura meter.

The yellow color turned green, and the green deepened, becoming almost black.

This was not normal at all.

Willas couldn’t stop what was happening. The aura meter was covered in total blackness.

And then,

Crack!

Crumble!

It shattered.

Willas, watching it crumble along the cracks on its surface, was stunned.

He looked at the debris.

Then at Roman’s face.

And back at the debris again.

“This is insane.”

This result defied all logic.

What even *was* this aura meter?

When first created, the continent’s leading minds had combined their knowledge to produce it.

The people who made it said it would only show four colors. They also said it was so strong it could never break when measuring someone’s power.

In fact, a very powerful magic user and a super strong swordsman had tested how strong the aura meter was.

The result?

It was perfect.

Even when a 6-star swordsman put mana in, the color only reached green. No matter how much mana went over the limit, the aura meter stayed in one piece.

It was a device they had checked very carefully.

“How could this happen?”

His mind was going fast. He didn’t know what to make of what he was seeing.

Could it be broken?

No, it couldn’t be.

He had made sure the aura meter was working before coming to Dimitri, and he had used it on many people without any problems.

So, there was only one thing it could mean.

The aura meter had reacted very strongly when Roman put mana in. So, its breaking must also be because of something special about Roman.

Roman asked,

“Is it broken?”

“Not exactly. This has never happened before, so I can’t be certain. But…”

He stopped talking.

Just before it broke, the aura meter had clearly shown green.

Because that part seemed real, Willas knew one thing for sure.

‘Roman Dimitri is a 4-star swordsman.’

4-star.

His mouth went dry.

Even a 3-star swordsman at Roman’s age was amazing.

This meant he could become incredibly strong. He had the talent to become a 5-star warrior, which is where the strongest people on the continent are.

But a 4-star in his twenties? That was something else.

If he was already 4-star at such a young age, no one knew how strong he could become.

‘This is huge. Roman Dimitri wasn’t just someone with hidden talent waiting to appear. He was already a powerful monster. Such a monster living in Dimitri… If people found out, it would cause big changes in the Cairo Kingdom and even the whole Salamander Continent. Even the Empire would pay attention if a new 6-star talent showed up.’

The original answer should have been that he passed the test.

Not a 3-star, but a 4-star swordsman, Roman Dimitri was more than good enough to be a Ranker.

However, the Empire, which had built the Valhalla Temple in the Cairo Kingdom, had its own plans.

So, he couldn’t tell Roman the truth yet. He needed to understand what was really happening first.

Willas said,

“…This situation has never happened before, so I can’t make a quick decision. I’m sorry, but I need to look into this result very carefully and will give you an answer in a few days.”

It seemed like Roman Dimitri needed to be looked into very closely.

After the test, Willas quickly used the Empire’s information network.

Information about Roman, from when he was born to what he had been doing recently, arrived in just one day.

‘Roman Dimitri.’

Until he was 25, he lived a normal life, nothing special.

He was just seen as useless from a normal rich family. People thought Roman Dimitri was trash and made fun of him for being the lord’s son who was stupid.

People started to think differently about him after the Blood Fang incident.

He beat the Blood Fangs all by himself, helped in the war with Barco, and even won against Homerus.

‘His life before and after 25 is completely different.’

The reason was unknown.

Did he get a special chance?

Or had he been training hard by himself, secretly?

What was clear was that Roman Dimitri had changed.

He started acting like a new person, showing the talent he had hidden before.

Flip.

He turned the page.

Finally, there was the Barco incident.

The shocking thing where he went to Baron Barco’s house and killed his son right in front of the father.

As he read that, Willas felt like he wanted to groan.

“…He’s truly insane.”

He was very bold.

Roman always did things that were not normal.

Barco’s family would have fallen apart anyway. But Roman Dimitri purposely put himself in danger where he could have died, and he killed Antoni Barco.

Others might simply think he was cruel.

But considering Roman’s past actions, it was all perfectly planned.

‘Roman Dimitri never does anything halfway. When he beat the Blood Fangs, he went after their boss and broke up the whole group right away. In the war with Barco, he made people look at Lawrence’s army, and then he attacked Barco from behind at the perfect time. It’s the same now. To stop Barco from getting strong again, he went right there to destroy all their chances. He was so bold to risk his life for what he planned, and he was able to make it happen. Roman Dimitri wasn’t just a monster who became 4-star in his twenties. He was also smart enough to use that power well.’

What he had done recently was impressive.

He was as warlike as the people from Valhalla, but he also had very good judgment.

‘Just one thing. Let’s confirm the aura meter’s result and make a decision.’

The broken aura meter.

He needed to know the reason.

He sent the broken pieces to the Magic Guild, and the answers came back in less than two days.

The report stated:

[…The aura meter was working fine. The blackening and breaking of the aura meter must have been caused by some invisible power that was too strong for it. And the green color it showed was normal.]

“As expected.”

It was as he suspected.

Roman was a 4-star swordsman.

The aura meter hadn’t broken down or given a wrong reading. Roman really was 4-star level in his twenties.

It was an amazing result, hard to believe.

When he first came to Dimitri, he never thought this would happen. But Willas had finally found the person he was looking for.

Roman Dimitri.

He wasn’t just talent to be checked for the rankings.

Willas immediately contacted the homeland.

The ranking system came from Valhalla.

But why did the Valhalla Empire manage the rankings of other countries?

People thought it was just how Valhalla was, but the real reason was not so simple.

“I will suggest Roman Dimitri as someone to recruit.”

Through magic message, Willas reported to the homeland.

The Valhalla Empire wasn’t just a bunch of battle-loving barbarians.

They were smart and knew how to make their Empire look good. They found a way to take talented people from other countries by using their ranking system.

It became easy to control things because people thought being a Ranker was a great honor.

Because talented people in every country wanted to become Rankers, the Valhalla Empire could find talented people sooner than other countries, even with fewer people working for them.

Willas explained the reason.

The reason for wanting to recruit Roman Dimitri.

When the person back home heard about how Roman acted and his 4-star talent, they said through the magic message,

“He’s definitely a talent we want. Change Roman Dimitri’s rating to A-rank. Keep watching him closely and find ways to get him to join us. Like I always say, the most important thing when we get talented people from other countries is to be secret. Make sure they don’t know we are trying to steal talent using the ‘Ranking System’. Make it seem natural, you have to make Roman Dimitri want to join Valhalla.”

“Understood.”

A-rank.

That was a very high rating.

Only one other person in Cairo had ever gotten that rating.

So, A-rank meant they really wanted to get Roman Dimitri, no matter what.

Willas said,

“Tomorrow morning, as soon as it’s day, I’ll go to Dimitri. I’ll tell him the aura meter was wrong. Roman Dimitri is not 4-star, but 3-star. We can say he got the last spot in the rankings, and that will be the end of it. And I’ll start working on getting him to join us as fast as I can. Just being ranked at 25 is a big thing in a small country like Cairo. It will make people very excited.”

With those words, he ended the communication.

And the next day, Willas’s announcement made a huge shock in the Cairo Kingdom.

The youngest Ranker.

Just like Willas thought, Roman’s actions, even though they only saw ‘part’ of them, made people very shocked.