1012 Demons Slaughtering the City Part 2 (1/2)

The sorcerer signed the contract and followed Nailisi about obediently. They saw what was happening and asked out of pity, ”Sir, can you...”

”Can I let the common people go?” Nailisi asked, looking in the eyes of the sorcerer.

The sorcerer nodded and continued, ”It is meaningless to kill them. If you want to set an example, Ironwall City is already a good one. It was more than enough to strike fear into the hearts of people.”

”Nope. I'm not doing this to set an example. It's revenge against Sufonso. Golden swordmasters don't die that easily. I just want to know how it'll feel, for him to come back to a dead city,” Nailisi answered plainly, however that was far from the truth. There was only one soul in her Blood Soul Tower. She would be able to get the item running again, if she killed every single living thing in the city.

Of course, it was a given that she would be scolded by her master for pulling off such atrocities. ”So, what? It's not like people will have a better opinion of demons even if the demon army ends up killing no one.”

Demons actually did not kill once they were done eating, yet most people had the opinion that demons hated humans and would hunt down every last human they saw. Only the temple guards, and most people from Metatrin City held no enmity to demons, and Nailisi was not happy with that.

Rumors came with a price too. What happened in Ironwall City had spawned a lot of rumors. Most people believed that it was the demon army that crushed Ironwall City, not the human army serving under Saleen.

The longer Nailisi followed Saleen, the more she came to understand humans. The very reason she went on a killing spree was because she knew that humans were a contradictory bunch. People would not have a better opinion of her even if she did not go about killing people. With people fearing her after she went about killing people, only then would the humans truly begin to think seriously.

The temple guards were established to have humans get along with demons. His assumptions were then verified. The humans and demons within the temple guards trained and went about killing alongside each other, so there was solidarity within the ranks of the temple guards. Demons within also became comparatively easy to control.

Demons were more loyal than humans. When they had acknowledged everyone in the temple guards to be one of their own, no demon would have betrayed their comrades. Nailisi gained confidence in that as well. So long as the demons did not go about doing anything untoward within the Kingdom of Metatrin, she would not care if many more others out there went about scolding her. It was due to that, that she did not restrain herself when she went killing people and capturing souls.

Her methods were more brutal than the Holy See's. The Holy See tricked believers to convert, and then went about feeding their god with the faith of their believers. What Nailisi did was to forcibly throw souls inside the Blood Soul Tower, and she had yet to know what to do with the souls harvested.

Saleen had grown rather careless from his hectic schedule. He would not let Nailisi come to Yaoyang City alone otherwise. Nailisi needed souls, or she would not have bothered going all the way to prepare a Blood Soul Tower. Souls of humans were the most wholesome out of all creatures and were able to provide the highest amount of power. Even a common farmer's soul would be more wholesome than that of a high level magic beast.

Despite the great fire snake's painstaking efforts to break through into grade-10, its soul remained incomplete. It was precisely because such that gods loved using humans to spread their faith.

When the Myers Mainland had truly broken through the limit of grade-13, gods would descend upon them. By then, no one would care about demons anymore. Nailisi paid no heed to reputation. All she was concerned about was to enhance her own powers as soon as possible.

There were quite a number of spells geared specifically for dealing with souls in demon magic. Having a fully functioning Blood Soul Tower would allow her use of the power of all manner of soul magic at a fraction of the effort originally required. Nailisi's mind was more adamant than Saleen's. She wanted to get stronger, and for that, she ignored the plight of innocents in Yaoyang City altogether.

When the planes reconnected with each other, there would be no innocents to speak of. Perished living creatures were calculated in billions in the war between planes. As the power level was raised across the entire Myers Mainland, the barrier between the planes would grow weaker. Humans of the primary plane would have to deal with countless enemies they would have never seen before otherwise.

Nailisi speculated that Saleen's temperament would cost him dearly when fighting reached such stages where things were more violent and unpredictable. It would not be of any use to try to buy the hearts of people pretentiously, as the clashing of planes would shatter all pretenses.

”I want souls, and I want to grow stronger!”

The atrocities wrought within Yaoyang City were indescribable. Nailisi handed two Blood Soul Towers to the supreme demons to be used for collecting souls, while she remained in the earl's residence to clear a piece of land among the rubble.

”Right, Charles. Come over.” Nailisi had, without him saying, learned of the name of the sorcerer for having signed such a contract, and handed over a good bunch of materials for drawing magic arrays.

”Sir, you didn't mention anything about helping you kill in the contract.” Charles was starting to feel regretful of having signed a contract with the demon before him. He had not anticipated Nailisi to slaughter the city. He watched the city before him crumble and was able to do nothing, not being able to be of any help to anyone around there.

From a certain perspective, he had become an accomplice out of fearing for his life. A grade-8 sorcerer would not sit idly seeing all those atrocities about. The demon had gone too far by involving him in all of that.

Nailisi stared at the sorcerer with cold eyes and said, ”Kill? All lives are equal. If humans can go about killing other creatures, why can't they die themselves?”

”No! At the very least, humans have honor, and morals!” Charles retorted loudly.

”Honor? That's something built on the foundation of strength. I'm sure you've heard of the First Dynasty, no?” Nailisi did not lash out. It would have been problematic if the sorcerer was one to say yes to everything instead.