Chapter 174: Chapter 174 Unlucky Demon
“Even if they’re demons,” I said, tugging at the corners of my mouth, “I’m starting to feel a bit sorry for them now…”
“You have a very… unique general,” Sandora also wore a deadpan expression and glanced at Pandora who was seriously observing the actual effects of various warheads, her words bearing implied meaning.
Yes, very unique, very unique… Honestly, having a temperamental loli with hidden violent and iron-blooded attributes always by your side is quite a stressful thing indeed…
At this moment, at the “experimental firing range” arranged by Pandora, the remaining demons had basically lost all their fighting capacity. Despite the power suppression, the firepower of what could be called battlefield slaughtering machines was still unbearable for flesh and blood. Additionally, the demons were more unlucky because, in order to test various warheads’ real killing effects, the Xyrin Soldiers’ shooting intentionally avoided vital areas from the beginning, turning a normal battle into a one-sided torture. I even had a ludicrous thought: Could it be that these demons were flattened by the hundreds of pounds of warheads inside them?
Hundreds of pounds, and that’s probably an underestimate. I’ve witnessed the firing rate of the Single Soldier Cannons. With the demons’ average height upwards of three meters, the bullets inside these poor fellows reached a terrifying number inside their bodies, so much so that the most skilled surgeon would refuse such an excruciating bullet-removal surgery due to a lack of patience.
The demons, with their large bodies, collapsed powerlessly to the ground, special warheads inside them causing ongoing damage, which made them twitch endlessly in pain. Dirty green blood flowed all over, carrying waves of corrosive blue smoke and pungent odors. Despite such circumstances, there were still two demons standing on the ground.
One of them was the leader demon with bat wings; he was obviously much stronger than his underlings. From the start, he had been using shadow energy to create shields to mitigate the damage from bullets. Of course, during his ordeal, he also attempted to escape from the air, but Pandora had already prepared several Floating Cannons in the sky. As soon as this guy’s feet left the ground, a barrage of powerful high-energy rays rained down on him. Knowing it was the enemy toying with him, the demon had no courage to resist such seriously dangerous rays and reluctantly stayed on the ground to cooperate with our ammunition test—that’s what I thought.
And the other demon still standing was the Broken-Horned Demon Guard that Lin Xue had specified to keep. Furthermore, because they had been explicitly instructed beforehand, the Soldiers paid extra attention to this broken-horned guy. Aside from the final harassment fire needed to prevent him from breaking through the cordon, they hadn’t directly shot at him from start to finish, so apart from being out of breath, this demon guard was actually better off than his boss.
The relentless noise of the gunfire finally quieted down. The two surviving demons eventually came to their senses. As they surveyed their surroundings, they saw all their comrades fallen, and they themselves were surrounded by layers of enemies.
Carefully avoiding the demon blood on the ground that continued to corrode the stones, we approached the two surviving demons, who immediately raised their heads. Their blood-red eyes were filled with intense hatred as they stared fiercely at us.
“Despicable humans!” The leader demon, trembling all over—not knowing whether it was due to severe pain or fury, but clearly the latter from his words.
“It’s quite surprising to hear such words coming from a demon,” I said feigning surprise, then quickly raised my hand pointing towards him. He immediately took two steps back, and his wounds burst open at once.
Typical cunning demon, even in such a dire situation, still thinking of launching a sneak attack. Just now, this guy was secretly gathering his last bit of strength, trying to use this last opportunity to deliver a lethal blow to us. Unfortunately, reality is cruel, and he thought he had hidden his small movements well, but they couldn’t escape my mutant perception of spiritual power. The energy he had just gathered was instantly disrupted by my spiritual power, triggering a minor mana backlash, causing all the wounds on his body to burst open from the uncontrolled burst of internal energy.
If my spiritual power interference had been a little late, allowing the fellow to gather all his energy to launch, he would have likely received a more devastating effect. However, that would have resulted in him instantly being burned to a pile of high-calcium ash by his own evil flames. I wanted to keep him for some information. Although Lin Xue said that the broken-horned guy knew a lot, as a small leader, this winged guy might know roughly the same, right?
“Bastard! What have you done?!” The demon leader was suddenly hit by a mana backlash, and in fright, he discovered he could no longer feel the flow of energy within his body, feeling intense unease, a situation he had never encountered before—he knew about magical professions’ Silence ability, having experienced it, but this was completely different! The Silence spell simply prevents a spellcaster from gathering mana properly, but now he couldn’t feel his power at all, as if the innate demon energy in him had vanished into thin air! This strange human had actually stripped him of his demonic talent?!
“You’d better keep plenty of respect, demon,” I said irritably, looking at the demon leader who, despite being in such a dire state, still acted arrogantly. Then I slowly sauntered up to him but then stepped back—damn it, what does this guy eat to grow so tall? His height of over three meters really hit my insecurities! Better keep some distance to offset the height difference…
However, it seemed someone else at the scene was more concerned about their own height. Pandora walked briskly up to him, then lifted her little foot and kicked precisely at the demon’s leg, accompanied by a crisp sound of breaking bones. The tall demon grunted and fell to his knees.
“What a violent loli!” More than one person thought so.
As an informed person, Sandora and I exchanged glances, sharing a mutual understanding, “The little guy is becoming more and more concerned about his small stature…”
Unfortunately, Pandora’s height was forever a tragedy. Although the demon had already knelt on the ground, he still looked gigantic in front of Pandora, who was only about one meter twenty-three tall…
Having taken down one, Pandora turned her gaze to the Broken Horned Demon Guard next to her. The latter shivered and quickly crouched down, sensing what was expected…
This guy was quite amusing.
“Listen, demon,” Pandora said, “considering you are quite dishonest and completely unaware of how to behave as a captive, I have already stripped you of your demonic powers. If you can’t learn to be smarter, I won’t hesitate to take away much more…”
“Just kill me then! Despicable human!”
I quickly entered my swagger mode and then, with a snap of my fingers and a smile, said, “Vision.”
The demon paused, then immediately cried out, “What have you done!”
What had I done? A simple thing: I used my spiritual power to forcibly sever his brain’s ability to process visual information, causing him to experience the illusion of blindness. In reality, from his eyes to his nerves to his brain, his visual system was completely undamaged. It was just that, under the interference of my spiritual power, he had “forgotten” how to interpret the information transmitted from his retina. Although the brain structure of demons might differ from that of humans, their spiritual structures were not significantly different. Thanks to Sandora’s special training and my own explorations, I had long mastered the technique of instantly analyzing an enemy’s spiritual structure using my own variant spiritual power. Using this technique to disrupt the partial spiritual functions of intelligent beings was as easy as flipping my hand.
But this seemingly powerful skill also had its flaws. Its effect could be significantly reduced if the enemy’s spiritual power far exceeded my own, and it was almost ineffective against “low-level creatures” who relied almost entirely on nerve reflexes to act. However, obviously, the demon in front of me was neither a freakish monster like Akmonde nor a low-level creature like a paramecium, so he was affected.
“Next, smell… I will gradually strip you of everything that makes you a living being until you understand your place…”
“Damn it, what exactly…”
“Can’t you come up with a more creative phrase?” I pulled a brick from my personal space and rhythmically began to tap it on his head, “Next, touch…”
“Pain… hmm, that’s not good, let’s go with taste.”
Jaina had already become dumbfounded next to us. Was this still that incredibly powerful variant demon? Powerless as a baby in front of a Divine Envoy? The Divine Envoy hadn’t even made a serious effort, just casually stripping the creature of its innate biological abilities? What a bizarre and irresistible power!
“Very well,” I saw the Demon Leader in front of me seemingly resign himself to his fate and lower his head sullenly. I nodded in satisfaction, “Now, you can honestly answer my questions…”
“… Brother,” Pandora tugged gently at the back of my clothes, while Sandora silently stared skyward, “He can’t hear anymore…”