Chapter 101 A Contract
The biological level of the ancient evil artifact is at the legendary level.
However, Soren’s challenge level is already close to the legendary level. With the strength of his current demon avatar, he doesn’t take any legendary creatures seriously. If he successfully advances to become a Balroth Fire Demon, a legendary adventurer team would not even have the strength to fight him. The demon avatar is not the same as the Wanderer’s body; both its area attack and defensive capabilities are much stronger. The Wanderer’s body is suitable for one-on-one critical fights, while the demon avatar is very suitable for clearing out weak enemies.
The flames gradually dissipated.
Soren emerged from the flames, and the scene was so shocking that the professionals before him trembled with fear. Although they felt dread and worry in their hearts, they showed no intention of fleeing, which undoubtedly proves that these people are experienced veterans.
The reason is simple.
This is a desert area, the terrain is open, and the visibility is excellent; everything within a few kilometers can be seen clearly from a high vantage point.
And Soren can fly.
Under normal circumstances, once they choose to escape, they would inevitably be hunted down by the demons. In such a terrain environment, if everyone loses the will to fight and chooses to flee, practically no one would be able to survive. For the Balroth Fire Demon, who possesses high-level teleportation ability and can fly, hunting down these professionals would be a matter of minutes. If they do not concentrate their strength to fight once, they will definitely be killed one by one.
Stay and face Soren.
This not only requires wisdom but also courage, so Soren couldn’t help but regard these people before him with a bit more respect.
The Order faction members all possess strong convictions.
As the flames on Soren gradually disappeared, mysterious demon tattoos decorated his bare chest. He took a slow step forward, and the professionals on the opposite side immediately gripped their weapons tightly with tension.
Now he is a demon.
Demons are chaotic and evil beings, and every action of his makes the professionals before him feel a chill.
“Humans.”
Soren’s figure exuded an imposing pressure. The demon avatar’s intimidation skill is very high, and the pressure from a superior being made those opposite feel tense; the gap in strength between the two sides was too great to pose any challenge.
The demon avatar can only provide a tiny bit of killing experience to the original body when it kills enemies.
For an original body that has just killed the God of the Hunt, pointless slaughter holds no meaning at all. Being summoned to the Eastern Kingdom was clearly an accident. However, after a simple battle, Soren began to have other thoughts.
Divinity!
Interestingly, many ancient evil artifacts possess divine power.
Divine power has its uniqueness; only the essence of power that transcends mere mortals can encompass various mutations. Thus, many ancient evil artifacts that are sealed possess divine power. If it is a Divine b*stard, then the divine power within them would be quite astonishing.
Divinity is never too much.
Looking across the entire Southern Coast, there are very few enemies that can provide divine power to Soren’s original body, unless he intends to confront certain deities directly. Even though Modo is in pursuit of the Indigenous People’s Tribe, a single tribe only provides a divinity value of 1 or 2, and the entire tribe needs to be exterminated. In contrast, these individually sealed evil artifacts are much easier to deal with.
The demon avatar also requires divinity.
Firstly, Soren’s divinity value can be transferred to his original body at any time because the power of divinity is shared within the soul.
Secondly, any demon lord in the Bottomless Abyss possesses a great deal of divinity.
Relying solely on enhancing his strength, the Balroth Fire Demon form is Soren’s limit. To continue advancing, he must rely on divine power to stack up into a demon lord.
Looking at the entire Bottomless Abyss, there are many targets with divinity!
However.
One troublesome point is that divinity is very rare in the Bottomless Abyss due to the vast number of demons and the overall strength of the lower planes. Targets with divinity in the Bottomless Abyss are almost all of leader-level. This means their challenge difficulty may be significantly higher than that of the material plane.
An advanced demon with divinity undoubtedly commands demon subordinates that far exceed the combat power of a single Indigenous People’s Tribe.
The flames extinguished.
This signifies that Soren may not want to attack these people.
This undoubtedly eased their nerves a little, but Soren’s next words left them puzzled.
“Mortal!”
At this moment, Soren looked completely different from the other demons, or rather, he vastly differed from legendary demons. He appeared very rational and was not influenced by chaotic madness. In a deep voice, he casually tossed the soul crystal in his hand and said, “I am very interested in the souls of these things!”
“Maybe today, I can consider sparing you!”
Demon slaughter does not require reasons; however, a demon must have a reason to spare lives.
Others thought this was natural; demons are indeed like that.
So sometimes, being a bad guy feels pretty good.
A middle-aged monk, who seemed to be the leader, stepped forward, gazing at Soren with some hesitation and asked, “What do you want us to do?”
Hope.
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Soren’s mouth as he slowly replied, “Just a contract.”
“I need one of you to sign a contract with me, and then I can consider sparing you. Otherwise, none of you will leave alive today!”
Intimidation!
Soren’s body ignited with flames again, and combined with the explosion of his intimidation ability, it immediately made all the professionals opposite tense up.
“A contract?”
Soren’s words caused all the professionals to exchange glances. Don’t demons usually dislike contracts? Isn’t it demons that frequently sign contracts with mortals?
Is that ancient evil artifact summoning not a demon but a devil?
No, wait!
There are no flame demons among devils!
The professionals before him seemed a bit hesitant, but they didn’t dare hesitate for too long because demons rarely have good temperaments and do not tolerate bargaining. They were worried that Soren might change his mind and k*ll them all at any moment.
“I’ll go!”
Just as others hesitated, a clear voice rang out.
No one wanted to sign a contract with a demon, especially one that might directly involve the soul. Moreover, Soren mentioned signing with one person, and among this group of professionals, many might not possess the spirit of sacrifice.
A girl dressed in sporty attire stepped forward.
In the Eastern Kingdom, there is a unique aspect: women can also advance to become monks, and they belong to a special faction. The martial arts route is significantly lighter, and Soren’s original body once encountered a formidable female martial arts master in the desert. The girl before him was likely also a female monk trained in that route, appearing to have decent strength.
“Chan!?”
“Chan?! You!…”
The surrounding professionals were taken aback, but it seemed no one intended to step up to replace her immediately. Who knows what might happen when signing a contract with a powerful demon? They might even end up losing their souls to the Bottomless Abyss.
The girl looked fairly delicate but wore a resolute expression, saying slowly, “Let me do it.”
“Demon!”
“I will sign a contract with you.”
Courage.
Sacrifice.
These are commendable qualities. Soren had thought they would push each other away a bit before eventually sending someone to sign a contract with him, but he was surprised that someone actively stood up with the idea of sacrifice.
A very good choice.
The leading monk seemed to struggle internally, wanting to say something but hesitating as if he intended to replace the girl.
However, Soren made the decision immediately and said in a deep voice, “Very well!”
“As long as you sign the contract with me, I will spare your companions.”
The expressions of the other people present turned ugly, but secretly, they felt a breath of relief. d*ath may not be that terrifying, but falling into the Bottomless Abyss is genuinely dreadful. Just now, Soren clearly displayed the power to imprison souls, which instilled deep-seated fear in their hearts. If even their souls could not escape, that would be too terrible.
A glimmer of power shone.
Soren is the master of the contract; whatever contract to sign is entirely under his control, so he directly turned the contract into a complete dominion mode and pushed it deep into the opposing soul.
A contract of complete control.
Soren can know the every move of the other party at any time, and in return, she can gain the ability to summon demons, which is determined by Soren himself. It can be summoning himself to descend or summoning the demons he controls.
A mysterious power enveloped them.
The one-sided contract only required the other party’s consent, so it was completed in an instant.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The girl’s expression also relaxed a bit as she slowly said, “I have signed the contract. Can you now let my companions leave?”
She could not comprehend the contract.
As a mortal, she did not understand the significance of signing a contract with Soren, but she was more concerned about whether Soren would break the contract. For her, as long as her companions could escape danger, that was all that mattered.
“Of course.” A faint smile spread across Soren’s lips.
A very good soul.
The moment the contract was completed, Soren extracted a small piece of her soul and sensed a pure soul within.
Signing contracts with demons or devils can yield extra abilities. Demon lords can even directly enhance the other party’s strength and grant mortals who sign contracts with them various abilities and attributes.
Soren is a high-level demon, and a powerful Flame Demon.
More importantly, his original body is a deity, so the girl named ‘Chan’ obtained the ability to be completely immune to fire damage the moment she signed the contract with him.
Moreover, the power she gained from the contract may not stop there.
Because their souls are connected, Soren’s original body is not simple!
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The time to summon demons is limited.
Soren likely has little time left before returning to the Bottomless Abyss, so he does not plan to waste too much effort here. Having come to the Eastern Kingdom this time, he intends to take a look at this familiar yet unfamiliar world. After confirming that he can view the girl’s perspective at any time and sense her heart to some extent, Soren’s figure soared into the air, flapping his demon wings and leaving the place.
Eastern Kingdom.
A world full of mystery and the unknown!
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(PS: I didn’t finish this chapter yesterday, but I feel like it turned out quite well.) (To be continued ~^~)
