Chapter 215: Demonic Eyes (1/2)

After marveling at the might of his new wisdom skill while thinking of various methods to employ them. Tyler finally snapped out of his daze as Uriel's voice suddenly reverberated in his mind. He wasn't sure what kind of analysis she was talking about but as long as it didn't affect him negatively, he wouldn't complain.

He still hadn't gotten used to the sensation when hearing someone's voice directly inside his mind, especially without any warning. Receiving a communication request was easier because it gave his mind time to adapt.

However, the sudden voice he heard from Uriel— that felt like a part of him but different— was a little harder to get used to. With an inward sigh of resignation, he put that issue away for now and was about to contemplate on the matter at hand when another female voice suddenly reverberated in his mind again, startlingly him yet again.

'Geez why am I so jumpy today.'

'Pardon the intrusion Master, there's currently an unexpected situation. How would you like me to handle it?'

'...'

Tyler was momentarily at a loss for words before he finally realized who was speaking to him. It was Kali. After he had sent Jarret's group out of the castle to retrieve the Raven settlement, he soon realized that he had ducked up and let his guard down yet again.

Subconsciously, because the situation with Mammon was over and the ones who kidnapped Liz had fled, he expected all the spies from the Brimstone family to be gone as well.

However, that thought process had been incredibly naive and would surely cause him problems he didn't want to handle.

Struck by this realization, he found himself pondering for hours on what he should do about the problem. He needed to regain a level of control over every situation in the Darknar region so he needed an insurance policy with Jarret's group.

As they had already left a considerable while back, there weren't that many people he could send after them, and narrowing his choices down to 3, he quickly settled on Kali and Flare who should be investigating the undead army. Although the word 'settled' may be selling them short.

As there was no longer any need for both of them to be doing the same job, he decided to call back Kali and she appeared before him almost immediately using her skill, •Shadow Movement•

After giving her a detailed description of Jarret and the carriages, he used Spatial Teleportation to send her to the Red river per Z's calculations on the route the Raven settlement was most likely to follow.

According to him, the possibility was 98%. Such boundless confidence on his own deduction scared Tyler a little. Or maybe he was just worried on his behalf. Still, Z was an abundantly Cautious type so there was probably no reason for concerns.

Although he seemed to be under the false assumption that Tyler had planned this from the start and was using Jarret as bait to draw out any more enemies as he judged Tyler would be able to instantly teleport to the side of any of his creations.

That was an ability Tyler hadn't even been aware of but Z was naturally right as always. Due to his soul connection with his undead creations, especially with his three shadow rouges. He could technically sense their location in space and appear next to them with a bit of spatial distortion and teleportation.

Tyler sighed yet again at his own thoughts, as he asked Kali what she was talking about and she gave him an oddly detailed report of what had transpired after she caught up with the group.

Apparently, a group of predatory beastmen and a dragonkin with a very weak divine aura had attacked the carriages unprovoked as they attempted to kill Jin, forcing her to intervene. While Tyler was surprised she could sense divine auras, he didn't dwell on that for long.

Being attacked was something he didn't want to tolerate but this was the demon continent. It would be unnatural for anyone to just pass by any groups in an uncontrolled region as this without any type of altercations happening.

Moreover, it didn't seem like Jarret's group was strong enough to take them out even with Kali's help so he needed to find another way out of this. Coming to a quick decision as time was of the essence, he told her to inform Jarret of something.

From what the group said, their aim in this region was to see him, as he wasn't sure what their reasoning was, he asked Jarret to dismiss them if they didn't give him any suitable explanation. How he went about it was left to him and if things went out of hand, his last resort would be to sacrifice his remaining time in the library in order to teach some idiots a lesson. Still, that was something he rather not do.

It didn't take long for Kali to report back with the entire story which seemed a little interesting. To gain an insight into all the abilities of the seven great behemoths would surely come in handy in the future. Someone like that would also know a lot more information than even Z had provided him.

However, the problem was he didn't have what she wanted. He had gifted Mammon's soul to the Dark Garuda after assimilating enough to evolve his skill.

Anyway, he would see if she would accept a compromise, otherwise, there would be nothing for him to offer them, but that didn't matter much as he planned to get some information out of them for the time they've cost him today.

With that, he instructed Kali to just monitor them closely and ended their talks. The moment the conversation with her ended, Tyler immediately heard Uriel's voice.

{Several soul connections detected, would you like Uriel to manage all soul connections in the future while notifying master whenever there is a communication request?}

”Umm? Sure, that would help.”

'Is it just me, or does she sound a little jealous for some reason.'

{It is impossible for an artificial intelligence like Uriel to get jealous.}

”Oh, you read my thoughts again. And why are you suddenly speaking in the third person.”

{The castle's connection with the Void library is reaching an end, the estimated time left is 7 hours 11 minutes, and 59 seconds. Please be prepared to exit the Library.}

”That's a random topic change but seriously?!”

Hearing how long he could spend in the library till he would be forced out, Tyler panicked a little.

With her new connection to his soul, it seems she could accurately read his surface thoughts and respond accordingly without him needing to ask but that may be more trouble than it's worth seeing as she had ignored his questions.

With no time to waste, Tyler quickly push the issue with the Wisdom skill and Kali to the back of his mind as he moved around in an attempt to learn more skills.

According to Uriel, the Void Library contained more than 200 million items but only 2,770,021 spell books which most of which were low-level spells that were practically useless but were all collected by the demon king and his minions just for the sake of collecting.