Chapter 232: Ch-232: Devils
"Clean yourselves up. We are going to war again," Victor said calmly as he saw his wives go to the bathroom.
After half an hour, the trio headed downstairs.
Victor, Amber, and Rina freshened up and went downstairs and saw Amanda and Bianca waiting for them.
" I assume you got the information you needed?" Victor asked with a raised eyebrow as he looked at Princess Amanda.
" Yes, my spy has sent information that the devils are all gathered in Leyton City," Amanda said.
" Edward, have you prepared the army? I am taking it?" Victor said, looking at Edward, who nodded his head.
" I would advise against it," Amanda said when she heard he wanted to take a large army.
" Oh, why is that?" Amber asked in a curious tone.
" First of all, we don’t need so many troops. The enemies amount to only a few thousand. Bringing hundreds of thousands of soldiers makes no sense. You wouldn’t use a sword against a child, would you?" Amanda said and then continued, " Most humans were wiped out by the magical beasts during the evolution in Leyton City, and the devils had only had less than a hundred the last time I saw them, and now it’s only a few thousand, which I assume they kidnapped for their amusement."
" I see." Victor nodded after some thought. He did not need as many soldiers. The main combatant would be him, and he could wipe out a few thousand casually and would mainly engage with the bosses. Just a thousand would be more than enough to deal with their minions.
" Mm, can I go with you as well?" Eleanor, who was also with them, raised her hand.
" I don’t think that’s wise," Hilbert said with a frown. He was already a bit displeased that Rina was going, and his other daughter also wanted to go.
" It’s fine. I will be safe, and I need to gain experience. I can’t while being sheltered, you know, and if you try to stop me, I will run away again." Eleanor said nonchalantly, and hearing her last words, Hilbert felt a headache coming on and reluctantly agreed.
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As Victor and his group marched towards Leyton City, their eyes drifted towards the surroundings.
" Looks like the evolution killed a lot of humans," Rina said with a somewhat pale face and realized how lucky they were to have Victor’s protection. Even the soldiers of Silvernum sighed as they shot Victor a look of respect.
The main streets that had previously been crowded to the point where it looked like a small market even at night were devoid of any sign of human life. The carriages that previously ran constantly were still there, but the animals and wheels pulling them were destroyed along with their magical enhancements.
Dozens of carriages and magical beasts had crashed into buildings, houses, and shops. The whole street was a total mess, with broken glass, plastic, fiberglass, and some houses knocked down by larger magical beasts.
As far as everyone’s eyes could see, they could already see dried bloodstains everywhere, as well as several hundred corpses strewn along the street and on the sidewalk in a careless manner. Some had been run over by a beast when the chaos erupted, while others had been eaten by other beasts or some other monster, as bestial bites and torn limbs could be seen on many of them.
They had to kill them as they moved, as they had turned into Undead.
All the excitement they had felt a few minutes earlier about expanding the territory and killing devils disappeared, and everyone’s eyes were filled with apprehension and fear at such an apocalyptic sight.
After they walked for a few more minutes, they stopped.
" The devils are in that area," Amanda said in a cold voice as she gestured towards the area surrounded by large steel walls and watchtowers.
" Hmm, I can sense many disgusting presences," Victor mumbled with a frown.
" Let’s camp here for now. I am sure they have spotted us and will take action," Amanda said as Victor nodded his head in agreement and signaled his soldiers.
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On the third floor of a bungalow, a group of more than fifteen people was gathered in silence. Some of them were simply sitting down, others were leaning against the wall, and two of them were crouched by the window with binoculars, looking off into the distance. But if anyone looked closely at them, they would see their pupils were pitch black and had black veins running through their skin. They were all humans who had sold their souls to the devils.
They were the main leaders or humans who had the honor of becoming slaves to the devils and were charged with being on the lookout for new humans, capturing them, and bringing them to the devils.
"It’s been almost fifteen minutes, but those guys have not moved," a bearded, burly man pointed out without taking his eyes off the army that had passed by in the distance.
The other man next to him turned the binoculars towards the Mechs and said with a tinge of alarm, "Still, this group is definitely not simple. Those scary-looking metal giants are something I can’t recognize, and I am a top-tier blacksmith."
The bearded man snorted and licked his lips before chuckling. "They may not be simple, but can they survive an attack from us after we got power from the great lords? Remember, those owners gave us so much power. I can’t wait to let loose, and they have many beauties... And I haven’t touched a beauty for over a week, and I’m already getting a little impatient. Aren’t you the same, boys?"
"Yes."
"Exactly."
"Moreover, we can present the rest of the humans as offerings to our owners. We would be rewarded; maybe I can experience that otherworldly pleasure again from those female devils," one of them said with a lustful expression, his body shivering just from recalling the otherworldly pleasure he had experienced before.
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In a large auditorium, a dozen human-like figures sat on a sofa. Everything would have looked normal if not for the fact that they had horns on their foreheads, their skin was completely red, and they seemed to be drinking blood from wine glasses and eating human brains like they were some kind of delicacy.
"Delicious, virgin human blood and flesh are the best," one of the devils licked his lips and said with pure satisfaction and delight.
"Hah, at least those slaves are good for something. Give them power and pleasure, and they even turn on their own race," another devil said with pure amusement and disdain.
"Haha, if humans were not like this, would they qualify for being our slaves?" another devil snorted.
"Haha, you’re right," the devils started laughing.
"Anyway, quickly bring the next entertainment," an elegant-looking devil said.
"Of course, Boss Vicious," a devil bowed as he brought out a human male and female who were blindfolded and shivering in fear.
"Let me go, please. At least let my wife go," the male pleaded, which brought more amusement to the devils.
The devil grinned and removed their blindfolds, and it was at this moment that a familiar voice frantically resounded as the female heard it.
"Wife!"
"Husband?" The female said in a hesitant voice, and her eyes nearly popped out after seeing her husband after such a long time, but before she could take a step forward...
Then she suddenly felt a burst of pain in her chest.
Still unaware of the situation, the wife subconsciously touched the part of her chest where the pain was coming from, and to her shock, there was nothing, as a gaping hole had appeared in her chest.
When the man witnessed the devil thrust its bloody claws into his wife’s chest, he roared in a desperate voice, "NO! WIFE!!!"
The devil grinned and then thrust a red spear at her, striking her to the ground.
The devil slowly approached the woman, who was squirming on the ground in a puddle of her own blood.
"No... Don’t... Stop it... STOP IT!" the man shouted.
Tears flowed from the man’s eyes as he watched the devil open its mouth as it enlarged and clamp down on her leg before tearing it right off her body.
The female immediately screamed in pain, and her sharp, agonizing voice felt like daggers piercing his heart when it reached the man.
Meanwhile, the devil chewed on her leg and swallowed it within seconds.
"DELICIOUS!" The devil began laughing afterward, and it immediately went for another bite, taking another chunk of the woman’s flesh from her body.
However, the man could do nothing but watch in horror and fear.
Eventually, the woman could no longer scream, so she just lay there as the devil continued to eat her body.
"Haha," seeing her desperation, the devils started laughing, but suddenly, Vicious, the leader’s, expression froze when he sensed a repulsive presence, as he said in a low voice, "Demon presence?"