A Nexus Devil

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Serafall smiled kindly at Jake as his explanation was finally finished. "Okay, I've got the whole situation in hand now, and honestly, it was a lot more than I expected," she sighed a bit. "But that's okay," she said, perking up.

"Because now we can plan some contingencies for the future... even if it's 20 years from now. My good buddy Ajuka has a perfect memory, so he won't forget any details I give him," Serafall said to Jake as he nodded along, not quite following her but pretending that he was.

"Anyway," she continued, "you don't need to worry about those so-called heroes once you get back to the future. We will handle them."

Truth be told, Jake had kind of forgotten about those four with everything that had happened so far at Hogwarts. He supposed it would be nice not to have to deal with them, though. They were all kinds of dicks to him anyway.

"They were just extremely arrogant assholes," he thought to himself.

"So now that my explanation is over, what now?" Jake asked Serafall, to which she smiled. Her smile was still beautiful to Jake, but this one seemed to be a bit... sadistic?

"Now?" she said excitedly. "Now we train you in real magic. Not these weak Hogwarts spells tailored for wands, but real devil magic!" She exclaimed.

She didn't really think Wizard magic was a complete waste, but outside of a handful of strong spells their magic just plain didn't measure up in sheer power to the rest of the world!

And after watching Jake almost die, and hopefully Grayfia never finds out about that (Serafall shuddered), she wanted him to have a powerful and versatile ability up his metaphorical sleeve. Hence her ice magic.

Jake just nodded along. Learning some ice magic didn't sound too bad to him. So why did he suddenly feel a creeping sense of danger? "So how do we go about doing that?" he asked.

"It's quite simple, really," Serafall said slyly as she brought forth a small portion of her demonic power. Suddenly, the entire forest clearing, from the biggest trees to the smallest blades of grass, was instantly frozen solid!

Jake was shocked at that display of power! It only took a few seconds for him to link all the frost around him with the giant ice cube that smashed the dragon and saved him the day before!

"It was you who saved me yesterday!" He exclaimed, pointing at Serafall.

Serafall giggled at his apparent revelation. "Indeed, it was I, the Great Maou Serafall, who saved you! And you should be thankful to me because now this Maou is going to allow you to copy her ice magic!"

As she said that, her magic flared up even more, and the temperature all around them dropped even further. A blue, misty aura surrounded her menacingly.

"Wait, I thought you didn't want me copying other peoples' powers!" Jake exclaimed, confused.

A magic circle formed along Serafall's hand before she pointed it towards Jake. "I never said that!" She replied. "I just told you not to tell anyone about it," she elaborated.

"Besides, ice magic is pretty common in the supernatural world, so no one will bat an eye at you being able to use it.

Now, the records from 1000 years ago weren't exactly clear, and my memories are a bit foggy since I haven't studied in hundreds of years, but I do recall that in order for Solomon to be able to copy another being's power, his whole body had to be sufficiently exposed to it.

That's how you were able to copy Dimension Lost's abilities when it was used on you!" With her explanation finished, she fired a giant wave of ice at Jake!

Jake did what anyone else with basic survival instincts would do in that situation—he dodged out of the way! "What the hell!" he shouted as he rolled on the frozen grass from his last-second dodge. "Are you trying to kill me!?" he exclaimed.

"Of course not," she replied. "I would never try to kill you, Jake," she said kindly before she once again smiled slyly. "I am going to have to hurt you a bit for you to copy my ice magic, though." She fired another wave of ice magic at Jake, too fast for him to dodge this time!

He threw his arms in front of his face protectively right before it slammed into him, and he felt colder than he had ever felt in his life. It was as if he was being frozen down to his very core. The girl of Jake's dreams turned out to be a lot more powerful and sadistic than he had initially thought...

Jake dropped to the icy ground after the spell connected with him, completely shivering as his skin turned almost completely blue. His clothes and hair had comically been completely frozen over.

Serafall couldn't help but feel a twinge of guilt about blasting him with her ice magic, but his current icicle-like appearance was undeniably hilarious. She wished she had a camera to capture the moment. Besides, it wasn't her fault he had such a masochistic bloodline.

She wondered if Solomon was just a total masochist himself to be able to willingly endure the attacks of all 72 demons just to copy their powers...

Jake collapsed, shivering on the cold ground. He was absolutely freezing as Serafall's ice magic coursed through him. He imagined this is what taking a bath in liquid nitrogen felt like! It was not a pleasant experience. Zero out of ten, he would not recommend!

Serafall, meanwhile, was squatting down next to Jake, somewhat giggling at his icicle-like appearance with his completely frozen hair and school robes.

"Don't just lie there shivering, Jake! You've got to ride it out. You have to absorb the ice magic I cast on you. Let it flow through you, down to your core. You need to feel the ice and be one with it and all that! At least, I think that's how it goes…" she said the last part somewhat unsure.

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