A demon named Congreve hopes to make Eryi disappear.
As a demon with a name, Congreve would normally be reluctant to do something so reckless. The Abyss didn't have enough believers, and his power wasn't even one percent of what it possessed within the Abyss. But this human was simply too much of an eyesore.
Congreve knew Er Yi.
A month ago, the foolish human black wizards chose to open a passage to the abyss in Dark Marsh City. They read ancient documents and believed that as long as they connected to the abyss, they could summon obedient abyssal creatures.
Of course, if they are not given a little sweetness, how can they be willing to provide nutrients for the abyss?
Just like those gods who claim to protect humanity, if they don’t give humans some benefits, how can they gain more believers and obtain divine power from them?
The plan went smoothly, but a small error occurred, and Congreve was only able to send a small part of his consciousness into the material world.
The cause of the error happened to be Eryi.
…
Congreve has just left the body of Lady Blanche's housekeeper.
This woman named Blanche seems to be of noble status, but the power she holds is not even half as great as that of her hateful stepsister.
Her stepsister Bernice was quite smart among the stupid humans. After becoming Maria's priestess, she immediately found two good paladins for herself.
Protection and safety were paramount. The two paladins had solved 95% of her problems, and with the help of the King's Capital's Believers' Guild, Blanche had been unable to harm her.
Finally, Blanche turned her attention to the deity she served, Maria.
This was also Congreve's original purpose.
The best way to make a god disappear is to make its believers abandon their faith. This is easy for newly born gods. The strength of faith is largely related to the accumulation of time.
The quickest way is to discredit Mary's abilities and attack her priestly character.
But if you really want a god to disappear completely, without even a single believer left, a huge scandal must break out.
Congreve devised a plan that seemed perfect.
In an inclusive city, the chains of discrimination between believers seem to disappear without a trace. Believers in the Great God of Light do not discriminate against believers in the New God. Believers in the God of Wealth do not consider believers in the Goddess of Harvest too poor.
They seem to be having a great time, but are they really?
The chain of discrimination among believers is particularly obvious at times.
For example, a god you used to look down upon suddenly achieves remarkable feats. Or someone who feels they are living worse off than their neighbor suddenly becomes rich.
Darkness begins to grow.
It is also because of this that the casual sentence "Maria is the incarnation of the God of Curse, and the priests are in collusion with the black wizard" will spread in Sunset City and gradually evolve into flesh and blood.
Those stories are not the masterpieces of the creatures in the abyss, but the malice of human beings.
Congreve manipulates the consciousness of the abyss and parasitizes in the darkness, taking advantage of the moment when human malice is at its deepest and when people even forget their own beliefs.
These maliciously manipulated humans would often spread news unfavorable to Mary to their neighbors and friends who believed in her. When these people's faith wavered and they chose to abandon their belief, the Abyss Consciousness would gain a momentary respite, gaining a small presence in their subconscious.
These malices are not enough to make humans completely lose their will, but they are enough for the devil to impose some small instructions on them at critical moments.
For example, go to a certain place together at a certain time and do something.
If Mary’s priests were present in this particular scene, she would not be able to argue.
Everything was going well, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to call Eryi out.
One day, Congreve gave a hint to a wealthy businessman, asking him to go to the healing station and invite the most powerful priest to a castle outside the city.
He even found out what Maria was good at and cast a curse on the rich businessman's wife.
After receiving the hint, the wealthy businessman immediately rode a carriage to the healing station and said: "My wife has been cursed by a strange creature and is now trapped in the castle and unable to leave. I am willing to pay a large sum of money for her support."
Rich businessmen are eloquent and expressive, and according to Congreve's experience, priests of various gods like this type of believers the most.
Rich, helpless, and always willing to offer a large amount of money for support, Congreve believed that this wealthy businessman could successfully take Eryi out of the city.
But things started to deviate from the script from here.
"Let's go." An adventurer holding a black square box got on the carriage with the rich businessman.
Congreve had never seen such a scene before.
"Where is the priest?" Congreve had to control the rich businessman's body.
"It's inconvenient for her to go out, so I can just follow her." The adventurer said as a matter of course.
"I heard that the priestess here is the best at removing curses, so I came to ask her for help. What does this have to do with you?"
"It's okay, she has already given me the most crucial item." The adventurers were already accustomed to dealing with these questions.
“…” Congreve chose to stop manipulating the rich businessman’s consciousness. After the rich businessman’s consciousness half recovered, he took the adventurer back to his home.
The long-planned event was finally aborted, and the curse Congreve had cast on the wealthy merchant's wife was successfully lifted. The wealthy merchant, having regained consciousness, shook the adventurer's hand, thanked him profusely, and presented Maria with an additional ten gold coins as a donation.
The group of humans who almost gathered together because of the order were restored to normal as early as when Congreve discovered that the plan had failed.
This incident made Congreve more vigilant.
Although the curse on the wealthy businessman's wife was not complicated, it was cast by Congreve himself, and even some powerful priests might not be able to successfully remove it. But this time was different.
The problem lies in the black box in the adventurer's hands. It seems that anyone who possesses this item can release the corresponding magic, which is very disadvantageous to him.
Congreve focused his attention on the black box and successfully intercepted the item on the adventurer's way back to the Adventurer's Guild.
Just when he wanted to study it carefully, the black box disappeared out of thin air.
From here on, things were completely out of Congreve's control.
After this, Congreve became cautious, minimizing his presence as much as possible, and continued to seduce those with unstable minds in certain small places, allowing them to provide him with nourishment.
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Congreve, having left the butler's body, lurks in the body of a resident of Sunset City.
The recent appearance of two S-rank adventurers had aroused his vigilance. As luck would have it, he knew them both. Most of the inhabitants of the Abyss had heard of them, including the other two members of his original adventuring team.
The curse upon the human adventurer was planted by the Demon Lord himself. Without the help of the Light Spirit, he would have died long ago.
The curse has recently begun to loosen, and the one who caused all this is the priestess of Maria, who probably also serves as a guide to the gods.
Congreve decided to meet with her first no matter what.
Yes, he did so many little things in secret, but he didn't even see the real owner.
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Congreve already had a rough idea of the treatment station's operating hours; ostensibly, it was open 24 hours a day.
The healing station is almost always managed by other staff members from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm every day. The God-invoker Priest himself will leave the healing station during these times or do other things.
But at night, the opposite is true. After 6:00 PM, the entire healing station is left with only the melon-shaped elves, the God-Caller priests, and the demon wolf who reside there. Visit at night and you're guaranteed to see the God-Caller himself.
After 18:00 that day, Congreve used the body of an ordinary resident of Sunset City and gradually approached the treatment station.
As a named Abyssal Demon, Congreve's abilities surpassed those of ordinary Abyssal creatures in every aspect. As he approached the healing station, he felt himself passing through a barrier.
It was a feeling that was hard to describe. The barrier looked no different inside or outside, but Congreve knew the air flowed differently there.
After crossing that line, the proportion of magical elements in the air changed.
Anyone with even a modicum of magical knowledge knows that the proportions of magical elements vary wildly from place to place. Even the east and west sides of Sunset City are different. With every step, the proportions of magical elements in the air might shift slightly.
But the situation is different around the healing station. Not only does the ratio of magic elements not change, but each element also presents a perfect 1:1:1 ratio.
Here, as long as you have the corresponding elemental affinity, you can obtain any kind of magical element and use any kind of magic.
Congreve took two steps back, leaving the range of the barrier. He didn't know whether he should continue forward.
Congreve was arrogant and conceited. He believed that foolish humans were only worthy of being their nourishment. They stood in his way and should naturally disappear. However, knowing that the other party's abilities might be even greater than he imagined, he hesitated.
The demons are willful and selfish, fighting fiercely for territory in the Abyss every day. They tempt humans in the material world simply to obtain better nutrients, not to truly allow the Abyss to devour the material world as they claim.
Therefore, no demon is willing to sacrifice himself to pave the way for others of the same kind.
This time, he wasn't the only demon emerging from the Abyssal Interface. If things got out of control, Congreve could simply choose to play it safe and trick his fellow demons into paving the way for him.
Congreve summoned a palm-sized coal-like creature and instructed it to go to the healing station and observe the situation inside.
Ten minutes later, word arrives that the coal-like creature has lost control, and Congreve gets its perspective.
A powerful mental shock pierced Congreve's consciousness, and he fell out of the controlled human.
"What's this……"
…
The next day, Eryi found that Maorongrong was playing with a black stone by pushing it with his paws.
"What is this?" She went forward and picked up the stone.
Absorbs 200 energy points.
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