Chapter 2461: Black Magic
<...They fundamentally can’t harm you directly in the first place.>
Huh? Caesar gestured toward the center of the enormous array as though the horrific scene unfolding there directly contradicted everything Mortex had just told him. Does that man know they can’t?
At the center of the array, a noticeable change began to occur in the routine that had been repeating continuously until now. The jinn—no, the devils—had stopped entering the victim’s body one after another, draining him completely dry, and then accelerating his recovery so that the process could begin again.
At that moment, the five devils stopped moving altogether and simply remained in their positions, staring at the victim from every direction and slowly scanning him with their eyes from head to toe, while the victim’s body visibly healed and regenerated before them, this time with greater precision and completeness than before... And yet the victim, that human suspended at the center of everything, didn’t appear to have relaxed even slightly because of the pause in his torment. On the contrary, the expression of sheer terror covering his face only continued to intensify.
Mortex sighed, as though he had already anticipated Caesar’s misunderstanding.
"....?" Caesar cautiously took another quick glance toward the hooded figures standing motionlessly along the edges of the enormous array before withdrawing his gaze again. You’re going to have to explain that one, my friend.
Mortex replied. He then continued,
He continued, Mortex gestured toward the enormous array spread across the ground before Caesar.
".....?" Caesar’s eyes opened to their limits upon hearing those words. He had heard about this concept countless times while he was still living in the mortal world with his father, but every time the subject had appeared before him, he had simply dismissed it as nothing more than fraud, superstition, and meaningless nonsense.
Mortex continued,
<...The second variable is the strength of the array itself or the black magic being cast. The larger the array you use and the stricter the conditions imposed upon it, the stronger, older, and greater the devil you manage to summon will be.> Mortex added after a brief pause,
Caesar swallowed his saliva this time, unable to suppress the instinctive reaction after everything he had just heard.
That’s what Darvion used to do!! Caesar suddenly shouted inside his mind as the connection immediately became clear to him.
Mortex continued,
...Damn this place. Caesar gritted his teeth tightly as his impression of the Necrofortress Galaxy sank even further. What exactly do the devils gain from making those kinds of demands?
Mortex replied in a strange tone,
He continued,
...Universes?! Caesar pressed both hands hard against his head, immediately catching that particular word among everything Mortex had just said.
Mortex quickly returned to the original subject rather than elaborating further.
He continued,
Mortex continued,
𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
.... Caesar lowered his gaze toward the ground and muttered thoughtfully as he finally reduced Mortex’s lengthy explanation to its simplest meaning, So dealing with them is basically a way to obtain a shortcut to a desire.
Mortex nodded in agreement with Caesar’s conclusion.
Afterward, Caesar turned once again and cautiously glanced toward what was currently happening inside the enormous array, returning his attention to the ritual he had momentarily neglected while listening to Mortex’s explanation. ...I understand. So were those people in white the ones who summoned those devils? What exactly did they ask for that would cause thi—
Caesar’s eyes suddenly opened to their absolute limits when he saw what was happening inside the array at that very moment.