After making the announcement, Tang En began to investigate Stanley's castle.
It was definitely not a matter of a day or two for Stanley to sign a contract with the demon. As his headquarters, there must be clues left in his castle. Tang En thought that he could infer something related to the contract from these clues.
Most importantly, Tang En wanted to determine the demon's movements and see if this was just an ordinary demon summoning and signing a contract, or if the demon took the initiative to sign a contract with Stanley, a human king, in order to achieve some goal.
But unexpectedly, what he discovered was far beyond Tang En's imagination.
"All of this … was done by him?"
Tang En looked at the scene in the room with a cold expression. He suddenly felt that it was too easy for Stanley to die so easily. Oh, no, he might not be dead yet, but his soul was taken away by the demon. Perhaps he would have a chance to settle the score with him in the future.
This room was one of the many sealed rooms in the castle. It was not locked but sealed by some kind of power, making it impossible to enter.
When Tang En found the node of the seal and broke the seal, he saw an infuriating scene. There were torture instruments stained with blood hanging on the walls of the room. These torture instruments were obviously heavy S.M. products, but it did not matter. Most importantly, in the corner of the room, there were pickled corpses piled up. These corpses were all fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls. Because they had been pickled with medicine and there was a magic formation set up by Stanley in the room, the corpses had not rotted.
"It's too tragic!"
Eluri, who was standing next to Tang En, covered her mouth and cried. "That Stanley is really not a good person!"
Fiona was silent for a moment before slowly saying, "We should have come here earlier."
Aurelia shook her head. "Who would have thought of such a thing? But … at least we're here. It's better to be late than never. "
After Tang En settled the matters in Blood Rock City, they immediately came over. Fiona and Aurelia had to deal with the administrative matters in Gras, while Eluri was in charge of setting up a branch of the Holy See here to prepare a place for the immigrant believers to pray.
On the other hand, Tang En also wanted to use Eluri's natural affinity to appease the emotions of the elderly and children. Even if the Gris people were not religious, they still could not resist Eluri's personal charm.
"How many girls were sacrificed here? Their parents clearly knew that the girls who were sent to Stanley would never see them again. Did they not suspect anything? These people are actually scrambling to offer up their daughters? "
Fiona found it very difficult to understand. Even if the people could not resist the king, they would at least react negatively to such a situation, right? But why was the truth so contrary to common sense?
"I'm afraid they've all been affected by Stanley's demonic magic."
Eluri wiped her tears and said sadly, "It's very difficult for humans to resist the power of the demons."
"But," Tang En frowned, "as far as I know, the demons are the experts in playing with people's hearts and contracts. Demons, on the other hand, are just a bunch of destructive maniacs full of contradictions. They rarely do things like sign contracts with human beings."
"But the Kamala Bloodthirsty Demon is indeed a type of demon …"
"So there must be a problem …"
Tang En sighed. "Get someone to come over and collect these corpses, then make them public. Let them see what kind of person Stanley, who they worship, is. While you're at it, film it for the Magic Projection Tower as material for a program. After it's made public, let these poor little girls rest in peace as soon as possible."
Eluri corrected Tang En's words. "Their souls have already left here. What's left is just a scarred shell in the secular world."
"Okay, okay. Anyway, let's continue."
Tang En led everyone to search one room after another. The sealed secret rooms they saw were similar to the first one, but the torture instruments inside were different. Those little girls had all become the pitiful victims of Stanley's subordinates.
This situation continued until Tang En pushed open a door in the basement of the castle.
"This is —"
Everyone gasped in unison, followed by heavy coughs. The strong smell of blood choked them and made them cover their noses.
The basement had an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, and a pool had been dug into the center of the room. The pool was filled with boiling blood, and from time to time, one could see white bones beneath the blood. Complex magic arrays had been carved into the ground around the pool, and the blood in the pool flowed through the grooves of the magic arrays, giving off a strange glow.
What was even more horrifying was that on the nodes of this huge magic formation, there were not common magic materials, but young hearts!
The blood in the magic formation flowed into the hearts when it flowed through the nodes. The hearts pulsated and sent the blood into the magic formation at the same time, forming a very strange cycle.
In the center of the blood pool was a light purple oval cocoon imprisoned by runes. A strange pillar was suspended above the cocoon. The pillar seemed to be engraved with the abyssal language, but the language was very chaotic and could not be deciphered.
Chains extended from the walls of the basement and gathered on the pillar. In Tang En's eyes, the power of the whole magic formation was gathered on the sharp pillar through the chains. The whole stone pillar emitted a very strange aura.
The whole basement was very bloody and horrible, but this light purple cocoon was clean and pure, as if it did not exist here.
"Who knows this magic formation?"
Fiona's face was very ugly. "Just one look and I feel that it's very evil. There's definitely nothing good in this cocoon!"
"This magic formation is nothing. The key is what is that cocoon …"
Tang En was also very surprised because even he could not find any information about this cocoon in his mind. There was no useful information.
[Nola, do you know anything?]
[Eh? Me?]
Nola poked her head out of Tang En's chest pocket. [It seems to be some kind of incubation form of life. I can feel the existence of a life form inside.]
Incubation of life?
Tang En frowned. If he carefully observed the cocoon, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be something like a fetus inside.
At this moment, a drop of thick blood suddenly seeped out from the bottom of the stone pillar. The blood slowly gathered and grew larger. Then, with a drip, it landed on the light purple cocoon. Then, everyone saw the cocoon of light suddenly shrink. The fetus inside suddenly struggled as though it had been severely injured. Moments later, the cocoon of light stretched out again, but there was suddenly a trace of bloody aura on it. After more than ten seconds, the bloody aura disappeared again, but the light cocoon dimmed a little.
Tang En could clearly sense that the bloody aura was purified by the cocoon of light and not absorbed. This made him even more confused. No matter how he looked at it, it did not look like it was incubating the fetus inside. Instead, it looked like it was killing or corrupting the fetus.
[Nola, this magic formation doesn't look like it's incubating the fetus …]
[Who told you that this magic formation is incubating the fetus?]
Nola was stunned. [I'm just talking about the cocoon of light. Isn't this magic formation obviously trying to corrupt the fetus?]
"…"
Is it obvious …
Based on the principle of protecting what the enemy wants to destroy, Tang En decided to get this cocoon of light out first. The key content of the contract between Stanley and the demon was definitely related to this cocoon of light. At least, Tang En did not believe that the crude Stanley had the ability to set up such a complicated corrupting magic formation.
"Wait here. I'll get that cocoon of light out."
After saying that, Tang En floated over. After arriving near the cocoon of light, he could see the fetus inside more clearly. Instead of calling it a fetus, it was better to call it a baby.
However, after seeing what was in the cocoon of light, Tang En's expression became even stranger because it was a baby demon with two horns on its head, two wings on its back, and a thin tail.
Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?
The demon signed a contract with Stanley just to deal with a baby demon?
Is there a need to go through so much trouble?
Can't they just crush it to death?
Tang En was speechless. At this time, another drop of blood dripped down, and the cocoon of light shrank fiercely again. Tang En was surprised to see that the baby in the cocoon of light had a very painful expression. Its small hands were tightly clasped together, and its small face was wrinkled. A strange blood aura began to corrode the baby, causing a bloody shadow to appear on the fetus' face.
Tang En did not dare to delay any longer. With a wave of his hand, violent magic power swept through the entire basement. The hard chains and runes collapsed, and the power accumulated in the magic formation exploded. The blood in the blood pool soared into the sky and penetrated the entire castle. Everyone in Bloody Rock City witnessed this scene.
After breaking the magic formation, Tang En looked at the cocoon of light that was getting dimmer and dimmer. The lingering blood aura seemed to have penetrated it. After thinking for a moment, Tang En placed his hand on the cocoon of light.
The power of the Void could even purify the aura of Chaos. A mere corrosive blood aura should not be a problem.
The Fire of the Void suddenly appeared, and the soft transparent flame easily burned away the blood aura on the cocoon of light. Tang En continued to control the Fire of the Void to go deeper into the cocoon of light to purify the pollution. After a while, the Fire of the Void passed through the fetus, dispersing all the filthy power accumulated in the fetus' body. Tang En had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard a crisp crack.
The cocoon of light cracked.
The baby demon inside slowly opened its eyes and looked at Tang En in front of it. It blinked its beautiful purple eyes and suddenly opened its arms happily.
"Papa …"
"…"
Tang En was instantly petrified. "— What!?"
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