Under Sareth's suggestion, Nero seemed to have opened the door to a new world …
From this day on, a strange four-person team appeared in Red Grave City. V, Nero, Sareth, and of course, Nico. Nico came as logistical support because in the next period of time, Nero planned to hunt demons in Red Grave City to increase his strength.
Although Urizen had defeated them, Nero and V realized that Urizen did not seem to be willing to leave the Qliphoth. He seemed to be helping the Qliphoth absorb blood and souls so that the fruits could ripen faster. Since Urizen did not come out, Nero and V could rest assured to deal with the demons that had left the Qliphoth to hunt for food.
The human military was still fiercely debating whether to use powerful nuclear weapons to attack the Qliphoth, but human civilian organizations had already begun to take action. Some demon hunter organizations like Dante and Nero continued to appear in Red Grave City and hunt demons and monsters. Although these demon hunters were not like Dante and Nero, who had demon bloodlines and could use magic power, they could rely on the guns, crossbows, and machetes in their hands to obtain good hunting results. After all, the ones in charge of hunting humans were basically low-rank demons and monsters. Facing these low-level demons and monsters, human weapons were still very useful.
However, the purpose of these demon hunter organizations was not necessarily simple. They might have the lofty purpose of protecting humans, but most of them wanted to obtain the organs and objects of demons. The materials of these demons could often be sold for a high price on the black market …
Nero and the others encountered several demon hunter organizations along the way, but Nero generally chose to avoid them and not come into contact with them … In fact, whether it was Dante or Nero, they would usually try their best to avoid showing their demon powers in front of ordinary people.
So when Silas sensed Nero's thoughts, he felt very strange and asked Nero, "Why is that?" Nero asked.
"I just don't want to be treated as a monster …" Nero replied casually.
"But you're clearly stronger than those people?
The strong are afraid of the weak?
What's the reason? "Sareth was puzzled.
"Humans are social animals?
But when they find that there's someone they can't understand in their group, they'll treat him as an alien and reject him instead … "V explained." Nero just doesn't want to be rejected by humans. "
"What a strange behavior …" Sareth scratched his head.
He frowned and said, "I don't understand at all."
Such a philosophy?
It was completely different from the ideology that Sareth had come into contact with in the Abyss. The ideology of demons was that the more powerful an existence was, the more worthy of respect and awe.
Silas was brought up?
Was it also the same philosophy?
Is that why he got close to Dante and Nero?
Other than the fact that they had the same demonic bloodline as him?
Was it also because Dante and Nero were stronger than him?
After getting the chance, he would unconsciously lean towards the strong.
So he couldn't understand Nero's behavior at all …
There was a generation gap between him and Nero, and Nero also felt that there was a generation gap between him and Sareth because in the recent demon hunting operation, Sareth had also taken action?
Mercilessly attack those demons?
Swinging the Executioner's scythe?
When it came to killing demons, it was called nimble.
"Silas?
Didn't you also come from the Abyss? Why don't you have any psychological burden when killing demons? "Nero could not help but ask during the break after a hunt.
"Huh? What psychological burden? "Sareth was stunned by this question." Isn't this normal? Demons will also kill each other! "
"What does Nero mean?
Isn't there any concept of kinship between demons? "Nicole interrupted from the side.
"No …" Sareth tilted his head and thought for a while. "Although there is cooperation between demons, Foster Father said that it's more of a relationship between superiors and subordinates. It's only natural for powerful demons to rule weak demons … Speaking of which, do humans really not kill each other?"
"Uh …" Nico and Nero were stunned. They did not know how to answer this.
Yes, although they had the concept of the same kind, it was common for humans to kill each other. In terms of morality, this kind of killing seemed to be even worse than demons killing each other …
Similar conversations happened between Nero and Sareth every day, making both sides realize the conflict of ideals between them. However, this did not prevent them from hunting demons.
Half a month had passed. During this time, the four-member team had hunted nearly a thousand demons, but the number of demons in Red Grave City had not decreased but had instead increased faintly.
This might have been caused by Urizen continuously summoning demons of the Demon World in the Qliphoth. The increasing number of demons did not have much effect on Nero and the others, but it had a huge impact on the demon hunter organizations. Although these demon hunters could hunt low-level demons and monsters, their numbers were much fewer than the demons. Once they accidentally provoked more demons than they could deal with, it would often lead to massive casualties.
Therefore, in the past half a month, the number of demon hunter organizations they encountered became fewer and fewer, but the number of military troops increased.
It was simple to raze a city with nuclear bombs, but once Red Grave City was destroyed, it was equivalent to hundreds of thousands or even millions of civilians becoming homeless. At that time, how to settle so many refugees was the most troublesome thing. Moreover, the entire world was now paying attention to the demon tree that appeared in Red Grave City. Countless people would see any excessive actions of the military, and the consequences of a careless move might be being scolded until they could never rise again … So after the debate, the military still felt that it was best not to use nuclear bombs if possible.
Fortunately, after so many days of observation, humans found that the enormous demon tree had not changed much. Although demons were constantly emerging from the tree to hunt humans, the harm seemed to be … nothing more?
Therefore, in the end, the military sent a large number of troops into Red Grave City to eliminate the demons. This method was quite effective, and they had once reduced the hunting range of the demons by a large margin.
But the closer they got to the Qliphoth, the more demons they encountered, so the advancement of the military troops was gradually greatly hindered. Every day, a large number of guns and cannons rang out, and at the same time, a large number of soldiers were injured and killed every day.
It seemed that they had made some progress, but Nero and Nico realized that this might have been intentional by the demons. After all, many civilians had already fled, and these human soldiers that kept entering became the main targets of the demons to provide blood for the Qliphoth. Simply put, this was a trap, luring humans to continuously send people to their deaths …
However, even though they knew that it was a trap, Nero and the others were helpless in this situation. They could not possibly find the military commander and get them to evacuate, right? They did not know Nero and the others at all, so how could they listen to them?
"So … we have to solve the root cause as soon as possible!" Nero looked at the enormous Qliphoth in the distance and sighed. "But my strength isn't enough … I don't know how Dante, Leticia, and the others are. If they're really dead, then I …"
"Don't worry!" Nico patted Nero's shoulder. "You have to believe that that man won't die so easily. He's holding a weapon my grandmother made for him … Let's not talk so much. Hurry up and help me adjust it."
In addition to hunting demons and devouring their souls to increase his magic power, Nico had been using the materials obtained from the dead demons to make weapons for Nero. He planned to make a prosthetic arm for Nero so that his right hand could recover its combat strength. But pure technological materials were not compatible with magic power, so he could only use materials like demon horns or demon bones to replace them.
The right wrist prosthetic that Nico had made was still in the debugging stage and could not be used for the time being. Similarly, although Nero's magic power had increased, he still felt that it was not enough.
"Here you go!" V returned, panting. On his shoulder was a huge black demon crow, and the corners of this crow's mouth were still stained with purple blood. After panting for a while, V stretched out his hand and handed two black souls to Nero. "I killed two …"
"You're participating in the battle again?" Nero took the soul and frowned at V. "Is your body alright?"
"It's okay. I can still hold on …" V closed his eyes and leaned against the car door to rest. The black demon crow on his shoulder mocked, "Hehehe, isn't it? This guy almost died just now … "
"Shut up! Griffin! "V reprimanded.
The demon crow named Griffin cackled and did not say anything else.
"Hurry up and eat!" V said to Nero. "Sareth is still hunting on the other side. He might be able to bring back more later."
Nero held the two souls, looked at the black light, and sighed. "To be honest, I'm really unwilling to devour the souls of these demons. This black light makes me very uncomfortable. Every time I swallow them, I feel the demon blood in my body become restless … Speaking of which, if I eat too many of these souls, will I become a true demon?"
"Who knows? We just don't have a choice now, "V replied.
Thinking of Dante, whose life and death were unknown, Nero did not say anything else. He gritted his teeth and stuffed the two souls into his mouth. Then he felt these two souls turn into thin streams of magic power and fuse into his body …
Of course, Sareth had good intentions when he gave Nero this suggestion. However, he, who did not understand much about souls, did not understand one thing. The souls of demons were 'evil souls'. Such souls contained too much negative power. It might be fine for pure demons to eat them, but it was not necessarily a good thing for half-demons like Nero to eat too many evil souls …
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