Chapter 191: The insidious truth! (1/2)

The rays of light spread throughout Benjamin's body, killing the filthy serpent inside.

[The curse of the serpent had gotten annihilated!]

”Congratulations! You're now free of its curse!”

Benjamin could feel it too. His body had gotten lighter, and his complexion had gotten better. However, he wasn't able to rejoice as Elliot once again tightened his hand around his neck.

”Now, honor your end of the deal, or else I will kill you.”

Following the rules of his acting, to play with Benjamin's mind, he must put him in a constant tug of war, giving him no chance to think things.

”You must first promise me that you and your beast won't kill me”

Elliot gritted his teeth, but in the end, nodded his head. ”Alright, I promise.”

”Not with words but with a magic contract.”

Elliot's face contorted. However, acting as if he had no other choice, he pulled out a magic contract, wrote some terms on it, and passed it over to Benjamin.

Benjamin swept through the rules and then swiped the blood off the corner of his mouth with his thumb and pressed it on the magic contract, signing it.

[You've signed a magic contract with Benjamin.]

[You've used a hundred units of the essence of life to nullify it.]

Right after that very moment, Elliot used a few of his essence of life to break free from the limitations of the contract. However, Benjamin didn't know, and he still believed that he was going to get out of this place in one piece.

”Now, speak,” Elliot said with a dark look on his face.

He was acting as if he wanted to kill Benjamin but now had no way of doing it. He and the others couldn't even hold him captive as that would be breaking the rules of the magic contact, Benjamin thought with a sly look in his eyes.

Elliot managed to break the serpentine devil's curse, and that indeed came as a surprise to him.

However, he refused to believe that he, a teenage boy, had a way of breaking free from a magic contact that magicians used only because there was no way of nullifying one.

However, he had fallen straight into Elliot's trap!

As a gentleman, Benjamin didn't mind taking his revenge after ten years. For now, he decided to tell him everything and escape this place alive.

”We came here to fulfill a mission three months ago. Our main goal was to create a barrier to enclose the forest, stopping whatever's inside from going outside. For that, we used barrier-generating crystals and placed them in five different selections, the center and the entrance point of the eastern, Southern, Western, and Northern zones. One of them is inside of this cliff, in its center. You'll be able to get out of this forest, and using the life-saving scrolls will become useable in the nightmare zone after you break it.”

”Is that all?”

”No!” Benjamin immediately said, ”That was just the first part of our plan, one of our means to an end. Our second goal was to kill the magicians that the higher-ups would bait into this place. Not a single person returning would arouse the association's and magician community's suspicion but also their interest. Due to their greed, they will keep on sending more and more people to explore this settlement, and we will keep on killing them, offering their bodies to our god until he descends on one of our bodies.”

”You guys were aiming to become the serpent's vessel?!” Elliot's eyes widened in shock. He could've never thought that the serpentine devils were planning so far.