Chapter 1169: Adil is...the savior?

Unlike Xue Tiansi, Xue Tiansi took the initiative to transform all the Sons of the Moon before his death.

But the Fallen Angels did not destroy all the demons.

In the original timeline, this was what the Ring Celestial Master, having acquired the fragments of the Celestial Master from the Fallen Celestial Master, did—he disassembled and reconstructed the demons, transforming them into elemental spirits. Yet, these demons still linger in the Dream Realm, having been forced to disperse due to the demonologist's loss of power. Even the contract itself remains intact.

But now that the demons have lost the domain of the Fallen Angels, and have no home of their own, they can only survive in the domains of other Angels or in the wasteland of dreams where there is no Angel to protect them.

And after losing the power of the great sin, the power of almost all the higher demons was greatly weakened.

The specific manifestation is that those great demons who were originally upper-level phantom demons have lost the "divinity" that can unconditionally increase the priority, and they can no longer become stronger because they have lost the mark of sin.

However, demons do exist objectively. Furthermore, having inherited the authority of the Fallen Angels, Venis can also control demons to a certain extent.

Regardless of whether the three ritualists were bound by rituals or curses in their lifetime, preventing them from betraying Adil... as long as they were transformed into demons, this restriction would be bypassed.

Looking at the iron plate embedded in his chest, which contained the power of ritual and curse, and thus had his mind taken away and become the core of the living ritual, Aiwass frowned slightly and read the name on the iron plate:

"Adil's mercy... Adil..."

After thinking for a while, Aiwass finally remembered... where he had heard this name.

Before he became Pope, he had come into contact with some trolls from the Theocracy. One of them was an old troll, a highly skilled Grand Ritualist... who had been kidnapped by that giant infant Perfect Human Embryo and intended to be sold to the Parthian Empire.

At that time, he accidentally heard a cardinal mention this matter casually - the buyer was a kind ruler of the ancient Parthian Empire, his name was Adil.

"I remember—"

Once he remembered this, other memories also emerged one after another - the good master was said to need some particularly trustworthy wizards, so he planned to purchase troll wizards from the southern continent. Because they had no one to rely on, they could definitely not be spies of another good master.

——But there is actually something strange about this matter.

In order to prevent his curse master from easily collecting his personal belongings and cursing him, when he gets the curse master's surrender, the good master will unilaterally bind his life to the curse master and the wizards - if you die, I will not die, and if I die, you will all die.

In this situation, the troll wizard, who is not of the same race as himself and was captured, is unstable.

Because they weren't wizards who had surrendered, but kidnapped slaves. They were unfamiliar with the place, and what if they got upset and started a fight with me? Even if we weren't of the same race, there would be barriers to aesthetics, communication, and culture—humans thought trolls were ugly, but trolls also thought humans were ugly!

Human ritualists can reward attractive female slaves, but troll ritualists have no idea what to reward. Humans can't understand the aesthetics of trolls, so naturally, it's impossible to specifically capture "female trolls that the trolls think are attractive"—and they can't reward delicious female slaves, right?

If that’s the case, then why do we need high-level troll wizards?

It's neither safe nor convenient, and the opponent's strength may not be stronger than that of the local wizards. Just look at these three loyal human ritualists... This large-scale petrification ritual is bound to be harmful to the body.

And they were obviously not there to supervise and protect the troll wizard as he completed the ritual... otherwise they would not have been unprepared and had no traps set at all.

They are more likely to come for testing and data collection.

It was like collecting data after a nuclear bomb went off—they could have just finished collecting data and left. But they didn't, and instead continued to wait in this empty city.

So Adil definitely has the ability to win people's hearts. This level of loyalty cannot be achieved through a slave contract.

And now, Aiwas finally understood why Adil spent a lot of money to buy a fourth-level troll wizard.

——Precisely because humans cannot sympathize with man-eating trolls, he can send troll wizards with spells engraved on them to anywhere without having to worry about them escaping or being taken in!

Preventing the ritualist who initiated the grand ceremony from escaping was obviously part of the deal - just like when a seed company sells high-quality seeds, it also prevents farmers from producing their own usable seeds for the next crop.

If he sells one round, he won't have to buy seeds again and can even produce them infinitely. Then who will he sell them to?

Adil had the same idea - he wanted these troll wizards to burn themselves out irreversibly after the initiation ceremony, so that the grand ceremony he developed would not be leaked out and other people would not be able to grasp the secret!

Thinking of this, Aiwass couldn't hold it in anymore... This was actually Adil's protection of his intellectual property rights.

In other words, since this matter can be taken into consideration without a doubt...it means that plagiarism of rituals in the ancient Parthian Empire has clearly become a trend. This is understandable, however. After all, everyone uses the same language, culture, and materials, so replicating rituals invented by others is not difficult. Even if reverse engineering is impossible, it's still possible to steal information by bribing slaves.

Aiwass could never have imagined that, as the birthplace of the mysterious arts related to rituals and curses, and the place where these technologies flourished and were most advanced, the ritualists of the ancient nation of Parthia, upon reaching the sixth level of energy, would first develop their own ritual encryption technology...

Judging from the time he recruited the troll wizards, Adil must have been preparing for this for a long time.

Before obtaining accurate information, Aiwass did not dare to force the troll wizard to stop the ceremony - he was also worried that some problems would cause the residents to be permanently petrified or unable to be removed.

Although he could transform into a Sin Beast to pray for a miracle, Aiwass's synchronization rate was already too high. If he continued to use the power of the Sin Beast recklessly, his soul would soon be completely corrupted.

However, although it was the first time for Venezia to create a demon, her skills were still quite solid. After the ritualists could no longer scream, she tortured them for a while and then molded their souls into demons.

Of the three ritualists, two became beholders—demons of the sin of jealousy, and the other became a chasm, representing the sin of gluttony.

After becoming a rift demon, his head was completely split open and he lost the ability to think. But fortunately, the eye demon can still communicate normally.

The two eye demons offered their absolute loyalty to the Night Demon who inherited the power of the Fallen Angels without any hesitation.

But they gave an answer that was completely beyond Aiwass's expectations -

"Adiel is...the savior?"

Ligeia, standing by, repeated in disbelief, cursing bluntly, "Are you idiots? Do you know what savior means?"

These ritualists of Paradise City have found the answer to their utmost loyalty to their benevolent master.

——They actually regarded Adil as the savior and worshipped him crazily!

Update completed!

(End of this chapter)