402: Chapter 402 The Demon Wizard! The Soul Eater!

It might even be a trick by Yishi Mansion, trying to make the trial more difficult.

Blanche and the others stared at their surroundings with vigilance, their internal magic power surging as their respective spells were ready to be unleashed.

As long as the opponent dared to appear, they wouldn't mind giving them a stern warning.

Suddenly, Reis caught a glimpse of a gray shadow appearing in the clouds out of the corner of his eye.

"Wait..."

Before Reis could even finish speaking, a bloody light slammed into the giant flame bird, passing through it and knocking Reis flying.

Because everything happened too fast and the group hadn't reacted yet, Reis had already fallen into the blood cloud.

As the giant flame bird vanished, the surrounding blood mist began to converge toward them rapidly.

Seeing this, Blanche just wanted to grab the companion beside her, but a blood-colored light flashed before her eyes.

Blanche stood frozen on the spot; her companion in front of her had already vanished, yet the severed arm in her hand still retained a lingering warmth.

When she turned her head again, her surrounding companions had disappeared, and she couldn't even sense their presence with her Spiritual Power.

Feeling the increasingly dense demon energy, Blanche couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.

Just as Blanche turned back around, preparing to continue forward, a humanoid gray shadow appeared in the blood mist ahead.

Seeing this, Blanche's face lit up with joy, thinking her companions had returned.

But suddenly, a familiar face came into view, and Blanche's expression stiffened.

Bronk!

Before Blanche could figure out what was happening, the unstoppable Nie Ning crashed directly into her, sending her flying.

"Watch where you're going next time, or I'll crash into you every time I see you!"

Nie Ning scolded Blanche angrily, then continued flying forward.

However, as time passed, Nie Ning's expression became increasingly ugly.

He was lost!

Otherwise, he wouldn't have crashed into Blanche.

This was not good news for him.

Moreover, with the enhancement of his Strange Beast Body, his extraordinary beast-like perception made him vaguely feel that something terrifying was lurking nearby.

No need to think about it, it was definitely the work of that escaped demon!

Nie Ning's expression was gloomy; he couldn't figure out why such a huge blunder had occurred.

He was certain that Belen was definitely a seventh-rank Transcendent.

But as a seventh-rank Transcendent, how could he not even figure out whether the demon was dead or alive!?

Could this also be a conspiracy by Yishi Mansion?

Thinking about it, it wasn't impossible.

If Amivika really had a problem, binding him to her was indeed a good method; at least for now, he was still of some use to Yishi Mansion.

When Amivika chose someone else again, Yishi Mansion could repeat such a trick.

But, weren't these people worried about losing control?

Good luck didn't mean they wouldn't die; with the way Yishi Mansion was playing this game, even a Child of Fortune would be played to death by them.

"Damn it, these bastards, I'll make you pay sooner or later!"

Nie Ning gritted his teeth and cursed.

Suddenly, his keen senses allowed Nie Ning to detect someone behind him.

With white light condensing in his hand, Nie Ning backhanded a Wind-Thunder Blade behind him.

As the blood cloud was split open by the Wind-Thunder Blade, Nie Ning finally saw that it was Blanche, who had been chasing him relentlessly.

Blanche's condition didn't look good; there was a wound across her chest spanning both shoulders, her pale face was devoid of blood, and her eyes were filled with terror.

And the Wind-Thunder Blade wouldn't show mercy.

Even though Blanche reacted quickly, her shield was still broken by the Wind-Thunder Blade, and she was sent flying.

Nie Ning naturally wouldn't bother with someone who was biting his heels.

But the moment Blanche flew away, a person suddenly appeared in the position where Blanche had just been.

The other party looked like a young man in his twenties.

He had a head of short, choppy hair, fair skin that looked well-maintained, and wore a simple gray robe, looking just like a wizard.

But there was a look of indifference on his handsome face, and his dark red pupils appeared extremely strange.

The young man glanced indifferently at the flying Blanche, then slowly turned his head to look at the astonished Nie Ning.

Nie Ning didn't dare to act rashly; the other party gave him a very strange feeling.

Clearly covered in demon aura, yet he didn't look like a demon at all, but rather a living human being.

The two stared at each other for a while, and the young man suddenly smiled.

"You walk really fast; I haven't even had the chance to thank you for letting me out yet."

Hearing this, Nie Ning's expression sank instantly.

Although he didn't know how the other party managed to look like a human, the current situation was very bad for him.

But he also felt a bit strange in his heart.

Because the other party's aura didn't exceed his perception; at least from the surface, he was at most a fifth-rank.

Seeing Nie Ning didn't speak, the young man shrugged: "Don't be so nervous; we are all demon wizards, so we should be closer to each other."

Hearing this, a look of strangeness flashed in the depths of Nie Ning's eyes.

If the other party was a wizard with a demon bloodline, then his current human appearance could be explained.

In other words, the eighth-rank demon he thought it was, was actually a human!

"Demon? I've never heard of a demon like you."

Nie Ning asked very strangely.

Although the young man knew Nie Ning was fishing for information, he didn't care anymore, because he had already undergone a qualitative change!

"I am a bit different from you; I have the Soul-Eater Demon bloodline, which belongs to a relatively rare type of demon."

The young man smiled slightly and explained.

Nie Ning recalled information about Soul-Eater Demons in his mind.

But suddenly, he thought of a book he had once read, which he had obtained from the wizards he and Heloise had killed on Tiesen Island at sea.

In an instant, a chill surged into Nie Ning's heart.

If he remembered correctly, the Soul-Eater Demon was a type of demon that even other demons found very troublesome.

Unlike conventional demons, the Soul-Eater Demon had a special ability: it could devour all energy from others!

Everything!

It was the kind that wouldn't even let go of soul energy!

And absorbing natural energy and absorbing energy within someone else's body were two different concepts, because the energy within the body would carry the individual's spiritual imprint.

Therefore, when absorbing too much alien energy, most people only had two endings.

Either go crazy, or explode and die!

Although a demon's body was stronger than a human's, it still couldn't devour without limit; it needed to spend some time to digest this energy.

But the Soul-Eater Demon was different; their bodies could perfectly fuse various energies, and it was rumored that they could even devour the Power of Corruption.

What was even more terrifying wasn't this point.

If people ate too many people, they would get sick; Transcendents would also be affected by the energy of other Transcendents, and might develop symptoms like elemental erosion.

So eating one's own kind could be considered a taboo.

The Soul-Eater Demon was terrifying precisely because of this point; they were creatures that wouldn't even spare other demons.

Once they appeared, in most cases, they would be killed by other demons, or directly banished to other worlds to cause destruction.

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