Sometimes demons are more secretive than humans.
Of course, definitely not now.
After hearing Joshua's words, Lardanas was very glad that the human being stepping on his head didn't seem to be planning to kill him for the time being. But unfortunately, this is just a matter of hanging on for a while. Not to mention that it will not survive long after being seriously injured. If it is delayed for too long, when a strong man with enough power to penetrate the abyss comes, its body will be afraid. It doesn't mean you have to suffer.
As a demon who enjoys playing with people's hearts, Lardanas knows very well that as long as it is alive, humans have 10,000 ways to get the information they want, and in this world where magic is prosperous, death may not be able to avoid this. At one point, countless necromancers were worried that the test products were not rich enough. They didn't mind opening a demon's soul and pulling out the information they wanted.
This leads to a very embarrassing thing - it is impossible to live, let alone dead.
Above his head, there were fluctuations of magic power. Lardanas noticed that the surrounding city guards had begun to gradually wake up, and several footsteps were walking in this direction.
This one-eyed demon is not afraid of this. Anyway, it is ready to tell everything it knows as long as someone asks. Even this clone cannot escape the fate of destruction in the end. It would rather self-destruct. , and I don’t want to experience the feeling of my soul being ripped open over and over again.
Anyway, the devil has never had any moral integrity, so just say it.
Because its head was trampled into the soil, the one-eyed demon couldn't hear who the humans above were talking to or what they were talking about, but it didn't dare to struggle or even move. It could only quietly feel the slow motion of the blood and internal organs. The feeling flowed out, but after a period of time that was not considered a long time, Lardanas felt a hand grab the broken magic horn on his head and pull it out of the soil.
"Listen, devil."
The familiar voice of the warrior came: "If you don't want your soul to be burned by the holy fire, then I will ask and you will answer."
—Same scene, not long ago.
The silver sword in his hand turned into a petite silver-haired girl holding his hand with a burst of magic power. The black ax stuck on the ground not far away also resumed its youthful posture and headed towards where Joshua was. Come.
"Master, you only use sister this time and insert me in there alone!"
Before he even got closer, Rin's complaints followed. The black-haired boy looked unhappy: "Too partial!"
Hearing her brother's complaint, Yingze smiled slightly, held Joshua's hand tightly, and said nothing.
Because the ax is suitable for chopping big things, but it was a bit awkward to chop demons - I inserted it easily.
Without saying these words, the warrior just rubbed the head of his little butler and frowned in thought.
Just now, when he was in the Mage Association, he suddenly had a vague premonition for no reason. He felt that the aura of chaos would appear somewhere. However, because it was just a premonition, he hesitated and did not set out to search immediately. But after that, after After a while, the azure orb vibrated, and there was a reaction to detect chaos, and the vague premonition turned into a real image, showing everything in the sacrificial place before his eyes.
There was no way to describe this feeling to others. Before witnessing it with his own eyes, Joshua couldn't believe that this was actually happening. After thinking about it, he could only attribute it to the power of the sages who allowed him to see it. Disasters happening all around.
Familiar footsteps came from behind. Joshua turned around and saw the blond swordsman with a look of surprise and disbelief.
Brandon walked up to the warrior. He bent down and observed the demon that dared not move under Joshua's feet. After sighing with emotion, he said: "The golden peak, the big demon in the spiritual realm, if you hadn't chopped it off If the blasphemous magic circle breaks through the perception barrier, then when the summoning is successful, the demon will launch a large-scale attack, and at least thousands of people will be killed or injured in the imperial capital, causing great panic."
"At that time, both the royal family and the empire will be embarrassed, the festival will not be held, and all the top officials of the city guards and imperial guards will be demoted... This sword of yours has saved at least dozens of people's official positions."
He raised his head and looked at Joshua, with a somewhat complicated expression on his face: "Although you were so close that I couldn't exert my full strength, but you killed such a demon so easily...Joshua, are you going to advance..."
"Not even close."
Shaking his head, Joshua looked at the system's [2/30] task prompt bar at the edge of his retina, and immediately changed his words: "Actually, it's still a lot worse."
The answer was irrelevant. Brandon naturally had an estimate in his mind. He nodded to express his knowledge. Then, the swordsman lowered his head again and stared at the demon with a frown: "Why do you keep this demon?"
"There's something I want to confirm."
Said casually, Joshua reached out, grabbed the broken horn of the devil, and then roughly pulled it up: "Listen, devil."
He said in a tone that did not allow for rejection: "I ask, you answer."
"Yes, strong human being."
The one-eyed demon's head was pulled out of the soil. It quickly realized that the cracks in time and space had been completely closed, and the connection with the main body was completely severed. It couldn't help but feel a burst of despair, but it spoke very quickly, using proficient human common language. : "Everything, everything, as long as you want to know, I will tell you!"
"…?"
Brandon looked at the demon with a strange face, his eyes full of doubts. He turned to look at Joshua, and found that both guys seemed to think this kind of conversation was normal, which made the swordsman feel very incredible. .
When will the devil be so cooperative
The normal rhythm, shouldn't it be through all kinds of coercion and torture of the soul to get a little bit of information? !
But he didn't understand that a normal demon had no brain at all, and no matter how hard it was pressed, it would be impossible to find out what it couldn't remember. Only intelligent monsters like Lardanas could communicate.
Joshua was very familiar with this reaction of the devil. He quickly asked some questions that Brandon didn't understand at all, such as who was the lord of the twenty-seventh floor of the abyss and whether the blood rain plain on the thirteenth floor had begun. Building the Bone Temple, what are the recent movements of the controller of the Valley of Tears Fortress, and whether the Abyssal Waterfall that runs through almost all the abyss shows signs of drying up.
The blond swordsman couldn't understand any of these questions. He knew that there were many layers in the abyss, but he didn't know the name of which layer, let alone those special unique nouns. There is a hidden existence that even the most proficient archmage in demonology may not fully understand.
"The lord of the twenty-seventh floor is Moldali, the King of Corpses, Temple of Bones? I don't know. The Lord from the Valley of Tears has stayed in his castle recently and has not come out... The Abyssal River Styx has indeed shrunk, but not Dry and exhausted…”
The one-eyed demon also answered each one clearly and neatly. If you don't know, just say you don't know. If you know, just say it as clearly as possible. The conversation between the two was very fast. Even Ying and Rin both showed tangled expressions - they had already I can't keep up with the amount of information in the conversation between the two parties.
Brandon on the side also couldn't understand, but he gradually understood the context of the conversation.
Joshua seemed to be confirming the map of forces in the abyss and the corresponding trends through repeated inquiries, but this made him very confused. You know, most people don't even know the existence of the abyss, even if they are warriors. It is unlikely that this kind of Chaos Watcher knows the situation in the sealed sunken world, but now it seems that the other party is more familiar with the abyss than this one-eyed demon, because as the inquiry process, it can't answer. I know more and more.
But it seems that the prototype of the Azure Orb is the fire of order taken out by the sage from the abyss. The sage must have been to the abyss. Thinking of what Joshua once said when communicating with him, Brandon felt that this was not strange. things.
Soon after, the inquiry ended, and Joshua nodded slightly: "It seems that there has not been much change—it is better to say that there has been no change."
This group of demons had no preparations to invade Mycroft's world. They were fighting among themselves as always, with no intention of working together.
This was indeed the case. If the seal of the abyss had not been inexplicably lifted and the gate of the abyss opened in later generations, these demons would still be fighting among themselves and beating each other's brains out. Who would have the intention to invade other worlds.
"But please repeat it."
After thinking for a long time and feeling lost in thought, Joshua lowered his head and said to the silent demon: "Are you sure you saw a group of dragons in the Plague Swamp...wait?"
Getting closer, Joshua confirmed: "Dead?"
This incident really surprised him. The soldier tried to kick it, and then found that the huge monster had indeed stopped moving, and its life breath had completely dissipated. This not only made him frown: "Suicide?"
"I think it was just excessive blood loss."
Brandon glanced at the one-eyed demon's abdomen—Joshua caused a huge wound there, and almost all of the demon's body fluids and internal organs flowed out. That's how the demon had the vitality to struggle to this day. Even the giant dragon was affected by this. Zhongshang had also gone to meet the Dragon God a long time ago: "This demon was on the verge of death. You asked so many questions. It's normal for him to die."
"I forgot that it was just a clone, gold level only. I couldn't help but... I took advantage of it. I originally planned to give it to Master Nostradamus to see if there was any other hidden information in its soul."
Sighing, Joshua looked at the city guards who were getting closer and cleaning up the ruins along the way. At the same time, Brandon took out a mirror with a communication circle from his waist. The swordsman glanced at the message on it. , then shrugged to Joshua and said, "What a coincidence, Joshua, Teacher Nostradamus just wants to see you."
When he said this, his tone became a little serious: "Of course, with His Majesty the Emperor."
After the update yesterday, I went to the airport to pick up my luggage. I was too sleepy and slept in the afternoon. I thought two or three hours of sleep would be enough... Sorry!
(End of chapter)