Chapter 583 - Book of Creation’s Pieces (2/2)

Transformation? Link was quite curious. The game had transformations. For example, dragonification was the most typical one. However, a dragon couldn’t hide their power after transforming. They were still a dragon.

But this demon didn’t have any demonic aura after transforming. It looked just like a mouse. This was quite interesting.

He walked inside the seal but didn’t see a mouse anywhere. There was just a demon girl around 13 or 14 years old.

She couldn’t be over four feet tall. She wore a pure white fur dress and was barefoot. Her face looked just like a human’s with pink cheeks. There were only two inhuman characteristics. First, her black eyes had faint purple veins. There were also two curled horns near her ears. The horns were also black with the same purple veins. They were beautiful and looked harmless.

Perhaps due to being watched by everyone, the “little girl” looked shy. She hugged her knees in the corner, peering outside cautiously. Her expression, paired with her lovely features, made her look pitiful. There was none of the chaotic murderous intent a demon should have.

Seeing Link come, she curled up even tighter, hiding her face behind her knees. Only her eyes were revealed.

“Will you kill me?” She finally spoke. Her voice was bright and young like a little girl’s.

However, this was just the surface. To Link, he saw a Level-10 demon. She looked pitiful now because the Magicians present were all more powerful than her. If she faced regular people, she would be a horrific demon… The souls lost due to the explosion outside the city hadn’t been laid to rest yet.

Link didn’t answer the demon’s question. Instead, he asked, “So you must be Nozama’s daughter. Tell me your name.”

“I’m Merna.” The “little girl” still looked pitiful.

“Merna?” Link thought back. This name was foreign… No, he might have seen this girl before. Oh, right. She might have been in the game’s demon fortress.

With this clue, Link’s memory sharpened. Yes, after Avatar used his life to injure Nozama, he’d returned to the demon fortress. In the game, it was actually a storyline game. Naturally, countless players swarmed over to watch. Link went too, of course.

While they killed one boss after another, there would be a non-player character who wouldn’t attack voluntarily. Her name was Merna, and she wasn’t eye-catching. She wasn’t brave either and would run away after a player came. They wouldn’t be able to find her afterward.

Thinking now, she’d faced many players in the mid-Legendary Level and must have been terrified. She had escaped without caring about her poor dad at all. Of course, that didn’t mean that Merna wasn’t dangerous. It just meant that she didn’t feel anything towards Nozama. They were merely using each other.

Thinking of this, Link said, “I want to know everything about Nozama. If you tell me, I’ll let you go.”

Merna shook her head. “No, it doesn’t matter if you forgive me. If I betray my father, he can easily use a dark curse to kill me. I can’t.”

“Oh, then I’ll just have to take you to the city’s church to be baptized,” Link said with a smile. He studied Merna’s reaction while talking.

When he mentioned baptism, he saw Merna shudder clearly. To a demon, a baptism was like getting sliced by thousands of knives. It was the most horrible torture. Their souls would disappear completely after it.

Merna gulped. Instead of begging him, she turned to Celine and wiped at her tears. “Sister, you’re my sister. Father told me about you many times. Save me, Sister, I don’t want to die.”

Her tears rolled down like pearls, and her voice was so sad. She looked very pitiful. Celine opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. She looked to Link. It was clear from her eyes that she had softened a bit.

It wasn’t because of Merna’s overly-dramatic performance. Instead, it was because of their similar pasts. If not for Link, Celine would probably have a fate like Merna and become a puppet too. Merna looked to only be a teenager. She was curled up in the enemy’s Mage Tower and tried so hard to save herself.

Celine couldn’t do it.

Link understood Celine and knew her thoughts with that one look. He sighed inwardly and said to her, “Merna is still useful. In the future, she can help us defeat Nozama. You will be in charge of her, but know that if she does anything, you’re responsible.”

Gentleness appeared in Celine’s eyes. She knew that Link always respected his own rules and was strict on himself. Today, he broke the rules for her. Clearly, she was very important to him.

“I will watch her carefully, Lord,” she said seriously.

“Yes.” Link nodded and turned to Eliard and Evelina. “The single annual forgiveness right of the Lord has been used up.”

The lord’s forgiveness was the only special right Link gave to himself.

Eliard and Evelina nodded to show that they’d recorded it. This was the supervision system between the core Magicians. Even the lord wasn’t exempted from it. Of course, Link could break it if he really wanted. However, his image that he’d built up would be destroyed instantly. He had to choose between these two options.

Merna had Legendary power while Celine was only at the pinnacle of Level-8. Thus, Link tapped the magic seal. Countless runes appeared in the air and easily passed through the seal, burying into Merna’s body.

At the same time, other runes flew into Celine’s body.

Three seconds later, Link tapped the seal again to cancel it. Merna pouted, but she stood up obediently and walked to Celine.

She had no choice. Not only did Link seal up most of her power, but she also had a curse planted in her for Celine. Celine could torture her with one thought. She had no way to fight back.

Celine patted her head and murmured, “Alright, Merna. It’s much better than baptism.”

Merna’s matter would temporarily stop here. “I wish to go north. I need some helpers,” Link said to Eliard.

The north had the main piece of the Book of Creation. He had to at least try his luck. If he really got the piece, the High Elf threat would vanish.