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“Let’s start with the simple stuff. Name, age, the likes.” Damien said expressionlessly.
The woman couldn’t answer him right away, though. Her entire body was shaking in fear, and the silent tears never stopped flowing from her eyes.
What he had just forced her to experience was beyond her capacity of understanding. Even now, she couldn’t comprehend what had happened, and that feeling of disorientation only worsened the mental damage she had.
It wasn’t as if her legs had simply been dug into the earth. No, they had fused with the earth itself. Essentially, her legs became the ground.
The forceful changing of her molecular structure, as well as the suddenness at which it happened, brought unimaginable pain. When compared to being burned alive every day, it was still leagues worse.
Damien understood this, and he knew that if he pressed her before she could regain her wits, he would only get incoherent drivel from her mouth. And so, he quietly waited.
Until an entire 30 minutes later. “Elitra, 20, Demon.”
It was curt, or rather, dull, but perhaps because she was still in shock. Damien simply nodded his head and continued.
“You said you were a relatively important person, right? So, who’s your backer?”
“Father, Demon King Lucius.”
Another brief reply, but one with much worse connotations. Damien’s face contorted when he realized the implications of what he just heard.
“Demon King Lucius? How does he compare to the other 3 Demon Kings?”
“Stronger than Demon King Granheim, weaker than Eden and Eliza.”
‘Granheim, Lucius, Eden, Eliza.’
“Also, if I die or face a life-threatening situation, father can manifest and help me.”
Damien felt a cold sweat running down his back. ‘Thank god I decided to use her for information gathering. If I had thought to kill her...’
It wasn’t like he had no thoughts of going against the Demon Kings, in fact, he was exactly planning to do that. But only after proper preparations had been made. He was in no condition to face one now.
Damien cast a strange look at Elitra, whose gaze hadn’t left the ground since she started talking.
‘I can’t kill her now, but I can’t simply leave her here. Her spirit is crushed at the moment, so she isn’t a danger, but I can’t speak about the future. It’s better to be safe than sorry.’
He obviously had a way out of this situation, but he was hesitant to use it. There was no way he’d let this demon woman anywhere near little Xue’er.
But, thinking about how he could section off portions of the Sanctuary like he did when he separated space for his inventory, he figured that it was the best choice.
Perhaps, he would be able to lure a Demon King away from the rest of the Demons’ forces. If he could do that...
A certain plan he had been cooking up could be set into motion.
‘All four Demon Kings have a Nihility Flame in their body. If I can just devour them...’
Another goal sprouted in his mind. Others might have been wary of a flame that would try to consume them. Others might have been wary about the fact that it would corrupt their mind. But for him? None of these problems mattered.
The flames would become docile the second they came in contact with the Void Essence that always helped him out. As for the mental corrosion, didn’t he have a Mind Prison to entrap any unwanted thoughts?
The Void Heart Sword Law was something that should have been used to turn him into an emotionless killing machine, but Damien had now decided to repurpose it.
He would use it as a convenient method to entrap and extinguish all of the negative thoughts transmitted by the flame.
Of course, all of this was simply counting his eggs before they hatched. For any of his plans to work, he first needed to kill a Demon King.
Taking a deep breath, Damien moved on to his next line of questioning.
“Tell me more about this so-called Demon God.”