The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 394: Blood Demon
...This is actually a blood demon.
Philip was momentarily absentminded as he stroked the dead head.
He actually did not expect that his newly recruited subordinate could actually kill the notorious Blood Demon.
These degenerates who followed Nicholas Flamel in the royal capital in the name of "Hermetic Scholars"... always made Philip feel vigilant and uneasy.
As a prince, Philip could not lack occult knowledge.
He knows very well that there are fundamental differences between the fallen and the extraordinary beings who are walking on the road of sublimation.
On the road to transcendence, the silver level is a very important and indispensable stage.
Because if you want mortals to have extraordinary power, you must use curses to corrupt the soul. Only souls that have undergone this kind of treatment can spontaneously absorb the power of curses from the outside world.
Whether it is strengthening the body to a foreign state, or infiltrating the soul to deepen perception, or using a curse to temper one's will... the prerequisite is that the soul must be able to absorb the curse.
Although these curses will strengthen the body and soul, they are also mixed with many impurities.
Resentment, pain, desire, sadness... Absorbing the curse in a mortal body means that you are also absorbing these wills floating in the curse.
——These are "impurities".
It itself will strengthen some of the negative traits of extraordinary people, such as gluttony, lust, irritability, jealousy... In addition, extraordinary people have just gained great power and have not seen the big world yet. Usually the mind will also expand accordingly.
This is also the reason why Bronze-level extraordinary beings are most likely to succumb to temptation.
But when reaching the Silver Stage, the moment the soul condenses from gaseous state to dew, these external impurities will also be discharged - this does not mean that people will become saints, it just allows those negative things that do not belong to them to begin with. The influence has just been purified away.
And the Fallen bear more than just these negative qualities.
They even have to continuously increase the degree of erosion to strengthen this negative quality and make it manifest.
Extract one or more kinds of drugs to transform yourself, so that you can permanently acquire one or more heterogeneous abilities. The stronger this desire becomes, the more new mutations will continue to be added to them; every time the degree of erosion increases, the heterogeneous abilities will also become stronger.
——This means that every fallen person is a paranoid and lustful madman.
It's just that what they care about is different.
For example, Kaifuni is relatively stable.
Although Philip didn't know where her abilities came from. But this must be related to her revealed abilities——
The ability to turn shadows into powerful tentacles may be due to her inferiority complex about her weak body...
But in short, the threat of "Shadow Demon" is not very high.
She has not shown any "appendages" or other parts that tend to be demonic, which shows that her desire is not too strong, at least she is a normal person.
But this "blood demon" is different.
Of course Philip knows the true identity of the Blood Demon——
His apparent identity is that he is a new apprentice at the famous cursed material store "Hal's Antique Shop". But in fact, he was a serial killer on the run, dubbed the "Ritualist Killer" by authorities.
He often lurks in various curse material stores and second-hand bookstores with mysterious books, testing whether the shop owner is a ritual master. If not, he would steal the money from the store and leave without a trace.
And if it is true, he will find a way to learn rituals and occult knowledge from the shop owner, and quickly master this knowledge.
——Then use the new ritual he learned to kill his teacher.
His teachers only found out their identities as ritual masters after they were killed by him. But also because they were all killed by the Ritualist Killer, this directly led to their ignorance of what rituals the Ritualist Killer had mastered.
The investigation soon reached an impasse.
No one knows what the "ritualist killer" actually wants to do.
But what is certain is that he is a transcendent in his own right, and his general profession is hunter. The specific profession is uncertain, and his rank is also uncertain, but it is definitely either bronze or silver.
Three years ago, the Ritualist Killer disappeared.
Some people say that he may have been discovered by an experienced ritual master and killed him, but others say that he may have studied under a knowledgeable old ritual master, which is why he was delayed in taking action.
When the police department found the Ritualist Killer again, they were surprised to find... that he had already embarked on a path of depravity.
——He is one of the Hermetic scholars in the royal capital, a fallen person codenamed "Blood Demon".
Similar to Kaifuni's abilities.
His special ability as a fallen person is the ability to control his own blood at will. Not only can it bring blood out of the body and turn it into a hard shield or dagger, but it can also speed up the blood flow to improve strength and agility. It can also turn blood into needles, which can be stabbed at a longer distance or through traps. Enter the enemy's body, travel through the blood vessels, and destroy the enemy's heart or brain.
And the people he kills will have all the blood drained from their bodies.
This should be a special ability of his hunter profession.
Unlike the previous situation, Blood Demon is loyal to Nicholas...or temporarily loyal.
He had never killed anyone outside his target before, but under the command of Nicholas, he roamed and killed many wild wizards and dark wizards. Even when Nicholas asked him to kill wizards from towers in various countries, there was no hesitation.
He is also proficient in crossbows, poisons, daggers, close combat and traps. As well as mastering many rituals, and being very familiar and understanding of the wizards' fighting methods.
This allowed him to never fail in his hunt.
...But in a sense, it was also thanks to the Blood Demon.
It was precisely because the blood demon hunted without any cover-up that it was revealed that Nicholas was actually hunting wizards in secret; it was also because Nicholas dared to accept the following of such a person that finally caused the kingdom's senior officials to pay attention to Nicholas. alert.
Afterwards, Philip finally found out Nicholas' true identity.
"...the inventor of the Philosopher's Stone."
Philip narrowed his eyes slightly and murmured in a low voice.
He had no idea which side Nicholas was from.
But he may have been killed by now.
——A few months ago, with the disappearance of Nicholas, the blood demon's actions became more and more crazy.
On the basis of constantly hunting wizards, he returned to his previous hunting mode... and lurked in "Hal's Antique Shop".
However, this is the royal capital after all.
Unlike other places - the crows quickly found out his identity.
But none of them dared to act rashly.
While the Blood Demon is hunting, the ritual he used to disguise himself will become ineffective. It was easy for Liu to see that there were visible spells on his face and horns had grown slightly on his forehead.
This means that his strength is already quite close to the golden level, and he may break through the last layer of membrane at any time.
When his horns are fully formed, the real, sane "demon" hatches.
At that time, the blood demon's ability will be able to affect people besides himself.
Originally Philip wanted to wait and see.
At least wait until your plan is completed before mobilizing covert troops or an elite team of extraordinary beings to encircle and suppress them.
But as the blood demon's hunting frequency increased, his strength increased faster and faster. He was about to fall completely before His Majesty passed away...
However, he had no intention of sending his men to kill him. ~IndoMTL.com~ Not that he meant well.
It's just that he didn't believe that a few of his men could kill the Blood Demon.
Although the Blood Demon has never attacked a silver-level wizard...but when he kills a bronze-level transcendent, he won't even be injured. It's as simple as killing a chicken.
But after Delicious Wind Goose heard about the Blood Demon's ability, he suddenly claimed that his ability could restrain the opponent and might be able to kill him.
Under the insistence of Delicious Wind Goose, Philip reluctantly assigned him the task.
At that time, the delicious wind goose was already a dead person in Philip's heart.
Who would have expected it... In just three hours, Delicious Wind Goose successfully killed the Blood Demon.
He wasn't even seriously injured!
——How did he do it?