I felt my head was pounding from the pain. Being trashed around countless times made the throbbing pain very unbearable. At that moment, when my consciousness was hazy, I saw a woman carrying my beloved wife on her shoulder like a rag.

The girl was laughing as she talked with the lunatic bunny who thrashed me while claiming that she picked her up as a plaything. I felt my heart started being corrupted by darkness. My rationality was kind of started to become something worthy to throw away was the feeling I got from that corruption. 

I was angry. My anger was reaching the peak when I heard that Lucio, who told me about this place was one of their underling. It seems like I was a fool. To think I would come to the enemy's trap directly like this is rather laughable. I kind of want to laugh at myself. 

I stopped caring about what Lucio had warned me. I glared at both the bunny and the woman. If I kept hesitating like this, I might lost everything here. And thus, I decided to use it, the thing I had which I deemed as dangerous and swore to never use it even once.

"Raise the Flag; Bel Pheol"

I muttered. My body felt the surge of the desire for destruction. Miasma flowed out from my skin and they mixed with the Holy Aura I emitted. Holy Aura, Monarch Aura and Demonic Aura overlapped with each other and created strong ripples in the air.

The bunny, the woman, and the skeleton which supposed to be killed earlier were looking at me. They looked very wary of me as the air around me had changed completely by 180 degree. I gripped my Regalia in my left hand. I took a deep breath and decided to call it, my power that I had never called even once before.

"Daemon Arm: Grim Archive"

I said. As soon as I said it, everything turned gray color as if the world itself had been pertrified. A strangely shaped golden key suddenly appeared and floated in front of me. It turned clockwise twice in the air and some kind of mechanical sound was heard as if the key was made to open some invisible door of tool.

[Welcome to Grim Archive]

[Upon activation, you will have registration fee]

[Grim Daemon Flag Detected]

[Registration Fee had been annulled]

[Began Registering the host as the Master of the Archive]

[Insufficient Demonic Element Detected]

[Began Adjusting the Demonic Element]

[Advanced Demonification Detected]

[Mental Encroachment Detected]

[Awakening the Demon Lord Attribute]

[Racial Affinity had reached 100%. Commence Registration]

[Registration Complete]

Such system announcement popped out one after another. Something was sent to my mind. 

[Daemon Arms Affinity : SSS]

[Complete Access had been granted]

A new info popped out in front of me as the information flowed in. According to the information, my Daemon Arm wasn't in form of weapon or armor. It was a set of extra skill. Once Activated, Grim Archive would integrate with my brain and gave me access to the extra system. 

The system had three abilities, Grim Note, Grim Record, and Grim Gallery. Grim note was an ability to record and lock the soul wave and pattern of my subordinates. This ability would allow me to save a copy of their soul so that I could revive them anytime they were killed. Grim Record was an ability to access the memory, Skill and abilities of the deceased. The amount of accessible subject however was depending on the affinity of the Archive Owner. Grim Gallery was an ability to store souls of those I had killed personally or using my direct subordinates. Those souls could be used as extra fuel by exchanging the collected souls for mana.

These abilities alone are already very broken. And with my affinity level, I could access almost everything recorded in the archive. The first and the third abilities were not usable in this state but the second one was quite interesting.

I accessed the archive through the system. I looked at the bunny in front of me. I smirked as I decided to pay them a hellish revenge from me. The restriction of Grim Archive was just that I could only copy one ability from one deceased and the maximum number of skill I could copy was just 12 skills a month. 

After choosing some abilities from the long list, I closed the system window. As soon as I did, the color returned to the world. The bunny and the woman were moving. I faced the bunny and smirked. Sensing a danger, he attempted to attack me again but this time, the outcome would be different.

"[Absolute Stagnation]"

I activated one of the copied ability. In that instant, the world around me stopped. The bunny stopped just few centimeter from my body. It was rather frightening to see the large blade of the scythe was near my neck when I stopped the time.

This was the ability of the Acedia Demon Lord from 200 years ago. That demon lord held the flag of Stagnation which had an ability to stop time. This ability could stop anything except for the thing the user touched. The main problem of this ability was the range was limited to 40 meters radius and the thing the user touched would move according to the previous speed and everything left the body would stop. In other word, if i let go a projectile, it would stop in the air and if I touched an arrow it will flew toward the direction it was flying toward till it left my touch. In other words, it was kind of useful for escaping or setting a trap.

I moved away from the bunny. I kind of staggering from the pain he had inflicted upon me beforehand. I took out a blood potion from my bag and drank it. The damage was recovering and the pain lessened. I walked away from the bunny and approached the skeleton instead of the woman.

This guy was a type which had a bad affinity to my skills so I had to remove him first. I touched his hollow chest and activated another ability.

"[Soul Eater]"

This was an ability to completely absorb the soul of the target. This ability belonged to the Gula Demon Lord from 800 years ago. The soul absorbed by this ability would be then converted into mass of experience depending on the target's level. The experience absorbed by this technique was however just 5% of the total experience the target had. The other demerit was this ability could only be used by a direct contact with the target. In case for human being, it must be skin to skin contact without any hindrance so under normal circumstances, this ability was almost unusable as a demon lord who had such tremendous aura would never be able to do an assassination.

When my hand touched the skeleton, it regained its ability to move. The light in the eye sockets flickered from the sudden appearance of me in front of him but it died out right away. As it losing its strength, the skeleton didn't touched my body anymore and stopped mid air.

I then approached the woman. I grabbed her head directly and muttered two skills name.

"[Mental Blackout] [Monarch Soul Domination]"

The first skill, [Mental Blackout] belonged to the Superbia demon lord from 750 years ago. The ability of this skill was to temporarily disable someone's ability to think and reduced the target into something like an animal who only could move by instinct. The only demerit of this ability was that the caster must directly touch the head of the target to activate this.

The second one belong to Superbia Demon lord before Farma. The ability allowed the caster to dominate anything who had less wisdom than the caster. The case of the target would be free of this ability after gaining wisdom was nonexistent. The demerit of this ability were that even small amount of ability to think would create some chance for the spell to fail and the direct contact requirement.

The woman involuntarily dropped Alicia's body. The body which had slipped out from the woman stopped in the air. I threw the woman aside and turned toward the bunny. The time limit of the time stop was about to end soon. I approached him.

"[Level Drain] [Status Drain]"

I activated two abilities at once. Those abilities were belong to Invidia Demon Lord from 100 years ago and 400 years ago. The first one had an ability to steal the level of the opponents under the condition that the requirement the target had higher level than the caster. The second one was ability to drain the parameter of the target and add 1% of the drained parameter to the caster. Both abilities had range of 2 meters but their activation was slow and glowing light of the draining process was rather obvious that made these abilities easy to dodge.

As I used the copied skills I started to wonder. The skill of the previous demon lords had some restriction or demerit. But, in case of my ability, there was kind of almost no demerit at all. But, there might be some kind of weakness of the Death Attribute Skills I had but I hope it wasn't something fatal. As I finished pondering the time stop effect had ran out and everything had returned in motion. 

The skeleton crumbled down. The woman and Alicia's body fell to the ground. And the bunny scythe cut nothing but air and the holder, who had lost his strength from my skill, unable to stop the scythe's momentum and got dragged by it till it got stuck on the ground. I smirked as I saw the bunny was confused. I approached him from behind and commenced my revenge on him.