Chapter 273: Karims past (a) (1/2)

Karim threw the magic contract back to Elliot, and his actions earned him a threatening glare from the person sitting opposite him.

Elliot's demeanor changed entirely. He was like an enraged king of the jungle.

Karim felt that Elliot would pounce on him if he didn't provide him a reasonable explanation for his previous actions.

”You see, I have a good reason for returning it to you,” Karim said in a soothing voice. ”You probably don't know, but magic contracts are outdated as they only work on people up to a certain level.”

Since he didn't even know such common knowledge, Karim believed that Elliot came from a low-level civilization.

”And you're above that certain level?” Elliot asked as his expression eased and calmness returned to the tense environment.

Karim was no longer under threat of facing his newly learned demonic-ranked technique that could easily break everything, living or not, into pieces!

Karim sure was lucky!

”You guessed correctly.” Karim said, ”I indeed am far above that certain level.”

Elliot already knew that Karim was a Sublime Emperor. Since he knew that, it was easy for him to conclude that magic contracts only worked on Magic Emperors and those who were below that level, but not on anyone more powerful than the former.

”Well, good for you,” Elliot said as he stored the magic contract in his spatial storage device.

Karim pulled out a contract of his own and placed it on the table.

”I suggest we use this as it works on even me.”

Elliot glanced at the thing Karim forwarded towards him. It was something like a magic contract, but Karim made it from materials obtained from the tree of evil and abyss ink. Both were something Elliot wasn't familiar with as he had never come across them.

”Sure, since it works and can bind us to targeted rules, why not?”

Elliot agreed to sign it. He could not trust anyone out here. It was too hard for him to do so. That's why he needed to use this contract even when establishing a give and take relationship with Karim. He didn't know about his intentions either, so it was right for him to not trust him.

Karim gave him a pot of abyss ink and a feather pen that wouldn't erode even after getting dipped in the toxic ink that could curse others to death. He also specifically warned Elliot not to get the ink on his fingers or else things won't end well for him.

Elliot took his warning quite seriously and wrote several conditions on the Eternal Contract. After making sure that there were no loopholes that the other party could exploit, he gave it back to Karim and told him to sign it.

Karim read it, and a shocked expression appeared on his face.

”Y-you, when did you find out who I really am?”

Karim was so shocked that he even stuttered.