1004 Acting on Ones Own Part 2 (1/2)

”Please...speak!” Hu An had only then realized his words were rather inappropriate. He had lost all his dignity in front of the demon and sounded even humiliated. As such, he ended up raising his voice.

He then saw that the demon lashed out with a spear in her hand, thrusting in his direction.

A large ice shield was erected right in front of Hu An there and then. Despite him being a sorcerer who had just made it to grade-8, he was still a sorcerer nonetheless. He would not let himself be ambushed inside his own tower. As those thoughts ran inside his head, he had prepared his next attack.

The half yard thick shield was easily pierced by Gray Memory. Thick blocks of ice sprayed all over the place. Nailisi smirked menacingly as she thrust the spear at Hu An's abdomen. The sorcerer lost all senses in his body, and then was hauled and thrown out of the tower in one go.

The Gray Memory in Nailisi's hand was something made out of the spike on the silverline golden spearfish of more than 100,000 years old. Even a grade-10 sorcerer would have done well just evading the attack instead of throwing up magic shields to take it head on, let alone a shield erected by a grade-8 sorcerer.

Nailisi did not even need to use the six eyes on Gray Memory for targeting when killing a grade-8 sorcerer, saving her a lot of mental powers. Hu An had been too careless, thinking that he would be able to instant-cast any spell on his turf, allowing Nailisi to get near. Saleen's letter had also led him to believe that Nailisi would not have moved against him.

Nailisi was a demon after all.

She put Gray Memory away after throwing Hu An's body outside the tower and went on to catch the dying man.

”I didn't mean to kill you, mage,” Nailisi teased. She admired the fear in Hu An's eyes with glee and continued, ”My master wanted to keep you alive, but you're speaking to me in such a loud voice, and I don't like it.”

There was also confusion with that fear in Hu An's eyes. ”How can a bonded creature move against the order of the mage controlling it? Saleen's letter was true, so why is this demon killing me? Is it really all because I yelled at it?”

”I don't like anyone else having pride but my master. Mage, I'm giving you a chance now. Be my slave, and I'll let you live.” Nailisi threw out a tempting invitation.

There was chaos within the tower. The demons from afar rushed at the place. With Hu An no longer being in charge, the grade-4 grand mage left inside did not even dare resist. The situation where Hu An ended up being in the hands of a demon was watched by most of the mages and apprentices present. Seeing a grade-8 Ice Shield broken in an instant, the low-level mages and apprentices lost all courage to fight.

”Move, and I'll have all of you dead,” Nailisi said as she let her demons surround the tower. Without a sorcerer being in charge, the offensive capacity of the tower was reduced to close to nil. Nailisi had no fear of them killing demons either. She had grown to know human psychology well.

So long as there was hope, no one would dare do anything stupid.

Nailisi landed on the ground and formulated a plan in her mind. Seeing the sorcerer who went limp, she continued, ”I will give you one chance. I'm sure you know I am serious by now. If you'd like to stick to your pride as a mage, I'll grant you a quick death. If you want to live, you have but to nod.”

Hu An felt his neck still capable of moving and nodded furiously.

Nailisi smiled and said, ”I knew it, but you were too slow, and I don't like you.” Nailisi grabbed hold of Hu An's head and extracted his soul as soon as she was finished talking, throwing it inside an old broken puppet.

It was a low-level puppet Nailisi had gotten from Saleen. She had intended to use death magic to control it initially but housing a soul of a sorcerer within seemed to be a good option as well.

Nailisi looked at the completely dead body in her arms and put it inside the dimension stone. She returned to her imp form and kicked the door to the tower open, before letting some of her demonic spirits in.

Demonic spirits did not exist with the purgatory of devils to fill up the numbers. There was a need for orderlies within the demon army. The demonic spirits possessed an intellect and were quick on their feet, as well as being fluent in demon tongue, making them excellent errand boys and messengers. The energies with the purgatory of devils were aplenty, much better than how it had been on the demon plane. The rules within the purgatory of devils were more complete, and some within the 100,000 housed within were nearing advancement.

The powers of the demonic spirits had also been enhanced. Nailisi was more comfortable using the demonic spirits than she was with humans. Nailisi kept no imps around however.

Seeing the trembling magic apprentices as soon as she entered the tower, she felt bored.

She made it to the seventh floor and ordered everyone up there. A grade-4 grand mage, three grade-2 mages, one grade-1 mage, and twelve apprentices.

Quite a group Hu An had there. There were no swordsmen though.

”Will you all be willing to serve me?” Nailisi asked lazily. The mages and apprentices looked at each other speechless.

”Say yes, and I'll let you guys live. I need you to go do something else after all.”

”What do you need us to do?” The grade-4 grand mage asked.

Nailisi shot a dragon crystal needle with her mouth. The mage's head was blown off before they knew what was happening. Nailisi chuckled and continued, ”You want to ask questions before you say yes? What do you take me for?”