Chapter 143 - Perishing Together (1/2)

Over the coming days, Roy kept collecting souls in the city.

In addition to him collecting them personally, Roy developed a batch of ‘downlines’. They were all top-middle-rank demons forced to sign contracts after Roy ruthlessly beat them.

There were about seventy of these demons, and they could bring Roy at least a thousand souls every day. But as time passed, the name of Demon Osiris gradually spread. His appearance as a frost demon was very easy to identify, so many middle-rank demons avoided him after recognizing him and no longer gave him the chance to attack.

Helpless, Roy could only stop this enslavement method because he found that not only were middle-rank demons avoiding him, but even some high-rank demons in this city noticed him. The high-rank demons certainly did not want more demons to compete with them for souls. But they noticed that Roy was about to promote, so they did not attack him and maintained a certain degree of restraint.

Compared to the high-rank demons, the angels did not have so many reservations. On the contrary, as long as Roy appeared, he would often be attacked by a large number of angels in this area. It seemed that the angels did not want another high-level demon to appear, so they were all thinking of ways to kill him in the cradle…

After realizing this situation, Roy tried to avoid the angels as much as possible, afraid of accidentally encountering high-level angels. After coming out to collect souls every day, he found a place to focus on compressing his magic power.

Even so, the number of souls Roy possessed kept increasing, from thirty thousand to fifty thousand and then to seventy thousand. He was getting closer and closer to his goal of a hundred thousand souls.

Just like that, a month passed. And during this month, the humans of this world had suffered heavy losses!

Take the city Roy was in for example. A city with millions of people had almost turned into a ghost city within merely a month. The organized regular army had long been exhausted from the war with angels and demons. Although the powerful technological weapons of humanity posed a threat to angels and demons, unfortunately, these powerful weapons usually needed a long period of training to master. If the soldiers who knew how to operate them were killed, it would take a long time for new operators to complete the training and replenish their forces. During this period, these weapons could only become decorations.

Humans had still been able to use tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets to counterattack at the beginning. But later on, they could only use ordinary firearms to protect themselves and counterattack. And these ordinary firearms posed even less of a threat to angels and demons.

The city was now completely reduced to a battlefield where angels and demons fought every day. Human figures could no longer be seen on the ground, and all the survivors hid in sewers, underground bomb shelters, and so on. Their numbers had also dropped to an incalculable extent, and they could only live like the rats in the gutter.

Even though they were hiding in these dark corners, humans were still dying in large numbers. Every day, when Roy collected souls with the Soul Attracting Flag, he could always collect ownerless souls from some corners. Clearly, these dead humans had died due to the lack of food and medicine.

Regarding this situation, Roy could only sigh. He knew very well that in such an Armageddon War, human cities could no longer carry out any production, and there was only death for the survivors here.

On the other hand, the survivors hiding in remote mountains might be able to find a way to survive, and they might even be able to build facilities like refuges and obtain food through farming with the strength of a few people.

However, this was merely struggling at death’s door. If humans were unable to expel angels and demons, sooner or later, humanity would eventually perish over time…

Although Roy had human thoughts and felt sympathy for the humans of this world, feeling as though they had encountered an unexpected disaster, Roy was helpless concerning this situation. He was only a middle-rank demon and could not influence this Armageddon War at all.

However, as a former human, Roy understood human nature quite well. As the resistance of humans became weaker and weaker, Roy became more and more vigilant.