Shadow Monarch Hero: Viridian (SMH: Deku rewrite)

The Beginning of It All

"I haven't been getting Daily Quests..." Izuku said, glancing over to Momo as they lounged on the couch, "Have you been getting any pop-ups from the System?"

She shook her head. "When did you stop getting them?"

"Just after I turned Level 100... I think... I kinda didn't notice they were gone..."

Currently, with the 50 Stat Points Izuku had gotten from the Hidden Quest, his Stat sheet looked like this:

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Level: 103

Strength: 234 (+5)

Vitality: 214 (+25)

Agility: 286 (+45)

Intelligence: 247 (+5)

Sense: 232 (+25)

Available Points: 0

[Mana: 20,425/20,425]

[HP: 16,271/16,271]

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With the Quirk IQ, Izuku put 25 points into Intelligence and Sense each, making them both go up by 50 and evening out his Stats. It was also for the benefit of Momo, who relied more on the Intelligence Stat.

They were basically sharing Stats, and even though Strength affected Izuku more, just as Intelligence affected Momo more, it was important to take into account both of their needs in battle. It was enough to make Izuku's Mana pool jump seven-thousand points and raise his Shadow Army cap to 750 anyways, so he was more than happy to take it.

Overall, Izuku had spent his Quest Rewards, aside from the strange item he had received.

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[Magic Iso-Crystalline Gold Dust]

Item Class: XS

Item Type: Enhancement

The remains of the last Demolith. Its magical purity is unparalleled. It can be used to evolve anything of the Player's choosing. Skills, weapons, Quirks, and Shadows are all viable options.

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It was a neat item for sure, but all Izuku could focus on were the words 'last Demolith.'

"So Behemoth is the last of his kind..." Momo muttered, noticing the same thing.

The Demolith, made of Divine Steel and Shadows, which Izuku had named Behemoth, seemed to be the only Demolith Soul left. All the others had been killed in some sort of war. His entire civilization had been killed off. Even the Rigs, which continued building houses after all the Demoliths died, had slowly succumbed to their biology without their symbiotic relationship.

And really, Behemoth wasn't exactly the last of his kind. He was dead, after all. His Soul had been pushed into a new body of sorts, but his days as a true living being were over. Demoliths reproduced by fusing with another of their kind. It was a cultural mark of husband and wife essentially. And once they fused, they imbued a piece of themselves with incredible Mana, and that piece would break off, slowly morphing and evolving into a unique Soul imprinted with the genetic material of its parents. Even if there was another Demolith in the universe, it was unlikely Behemoth could fuse with them given his state as a Shadow.

"What did it...?" Izuku asked the open air. "We found no other predators... The Boss that Shoto killed was a Burrow." A Burrow was essentially a rat-like creature that dug underground to surprise its opponents from beneath. This one had been augmented by the Spatial Magic that permeated the forest, but it still wasn't all that strong, not nearly enough to kill an A-Rank Golden Demolith.