1101 Demons and Believers Part 1 (1/2)

The child's mother was packing up the clothes that she had hung at the front of her door. She was a little too late to pick her child up when the demons went inside the village, so she was unable to do anything when she saw Nailisi walk up to her child and squat down.

From her perspective, Nailisi was not smiling. Is that three-headed monster going to eat my son? She wanted to go up and snatch her child away, but her legs seemed to have been rendered completely stiff. It made her incapable of budging.

Nailisi was almost on all fours on the ground and still was unable to look at the child in the eyes. The child held on to a cat and lifted his head. He looked at Nailisi's big head and got very interested in the horns on it.

”What's your name?” Nailisi gently asked. She had impeccable control of her voice, so the child was not frightened at all.

”Gagas,” the child replied.

”Right, Gagas, can I ask you a question?” Nailisi asked.

The village was completely silent. There were villagers looking outside the window. None of them dared to make any sound for fear of spooking the demons and harming the child.

”No problem, but who are you?” the child asked.

”Me? I'm a demon,” Nailisi patiently said to the child.

”What's a demon?” The child extended his hand, wanting to touch Nailisi's horns, but was unable to reach it.

What's a demon? Nailisi was rendered speechless by the child's question. She thought for a bit and said, ”Demons are bad people.”

”You're lying.” The child was angry and put the cat on the ground pouting. That cat was so spooked that all the fur on its body stood. It ran without a second thought after gaining its freedom.

Nailisi had no intention of harming such a weak creature that was not even considered a magic beast. She smiled and said, ”I'm not lying. I'm here to kill the missionaries in the village. You know... Umm, priests.”

”Very good, very good!” The child clapped and pointed at the white tower at the end of the village. ”The priests are right there. They live in the white house and are not doing any field work.”

”Thank you, little one. Here, a gift for you from a demon.” Nailisi picked out a small statue with her nails and handed it to the child before standing up and waving at the supreme demons.

The demons hastened their steps and rushed at the white house.

Seeing the demons going far away, the mother wobbled out of the door and picked up her son, running inside a compound.

Saleen followed right behind the squad of demons and shook her head at the scene. According to historical records, even common peasants did not fear demons to such extent in ancient times.

They had been mutated, crazed demons out to harm humans back then. The peasants in those times would have simply gathered around to hunt those demons. Tens of peasants were more than capable of beating a common demon to death. Even three to five retired soldiers would have proven more than enough to capture a level nine demon alive to be sent to the nobles to be dealt with. According to those records, humans back then were probably professionals the very moment they were born.

Saleen knew that Nailisi had no intention of playing with common folk. She only had fun manipulating and torturing powerful professionals, which was why Saleen was not worried at all when Nailisi went up to ask the child about things.

A level one priest was seen preaching to several villagers in a white two-story house at the other end of the village. He was talking about a story in the Holy Codex. It was difficult to propagate the faith in that village. The villagers did not even bother building a true, official church.

There were only a handful of vagrants who bothered listening to the priest's preaching. Of course, there were also several devout believers, which made the priest feel rather pleased. The first believer would have continued to preach to their own families when they returned home. In time, more would join the faith.

As for the vagrants, they were only there for the free dinner after the preaching. Everyone had bad days after the war. It was deemed worth it to waste an afternoon to get a meal with meat at night.

Nailisi's demon squad came before the white house. She quickly found that even the demons behind her had problems getting into the house, let alone she herself. She cut a slit at the wall with the Sword of Rules and tore at the front wall with her four arms.

As she pulled, the whole wall came tumbling down. Saleen cast Cleaning and suppressed the dust that kicked up from the crumbled wall.

It was a level one priest who was seen preaching. His was babbling away feeling pleased with himself when the wall at the front suddenly disappeared. A tall demon stood right outside, staring at him with pitch black eyes.

The priest opened his mouth and quickly found he had lost his voice.

Among the ten who were listening to him preach, six fled to the backdoor after letting out terrified shrieks. The other four stood up and hid behind the priest with terrified looks on their faces.

Nailisi was looking right at the nervous priest. Saleen suddenly shared his senses with her. His eyes saw a squad of knights clad in golden armor at a high place over 10 miles away escorting over a dozen holy masters.

The old holy master was observing the inside of the village using something like a pair of alchemy binoculars.

Isn't that a little too far? Even if she were to kill the priest right there and then, their squad would not have been able to get there immediately. When she was done killing who she came to kill, those people would probably pretend they saw nothing and continue to tail Saleen's party.