""Ohh~""
Kathrine sighed, this was the exact same response she had gotten from the two lovebirds she was showing around
'How many times have they responded like that now..? 14 times?'
Kathrine desperately wanted to keep her eyelid from twitching but alas she was only one person, and there was only so much one person could endure
"Would you guys take this a little seriously!?"
Mike snapped out of his own little world he had with Julie and spoke quite seriously
"But I am taking it quite seriously though?"
"You two are obviously not taking this seriously at all!"
Mike sighed before he asked
"Are you 100% certain that there are no spies here?"
"Eh..? What do you mean spies?"
Mike sighed deeply before he muttered
"Never mind, just continue your tour"
As the tour continued Mike and Julie communicated through their mental connection
[Tell me why you don't just use [Control] on them again..?]
Mike debated with himself whether if he should say for a bit before he 'spoke'
[Because… It's possible to detect it]
Julie widened her eyes slightly before she asked
[How?]
[Some sort of skill… And it looked like she could use my servants to trace back to me, the point is that if it exists then it exists, I can't just spam servants all over anymore, if she can do it then it's possible someone else can do it too…]
[So you don't use [Control] because of that..? Then are you never going to use it again?]
[I'll use it again, don't worry about that, I'll just have to be a little more selective with my choice of servants]
Mike closed his eyes and remembered the confrontation between his 5 servants and Jane, at the start the 5 horned werewolves had seen a glimpse of hope, but that was because Jane was feeding them that hope because she wanted the sadistic pleasure of crushing their hope, which she did by revealing her powers as a level 8, then once they were all defeated she picked up one of them and sensed Mike though an unknown skill where after she muttered
"Found you…"
At this point Mike was scared shitless, he felt her through the connection and knew that she would trace it back to him, so he pulled the plug and used [Decimate] on the 5 servants and cut his losses
'It still gives me the shivers… That power I felt from her…'
Mike knew that he had to at least reach level 8 and get 3 out of 4 parts of his blood converted to elder blood before he stood a chance, to say the least, he didn't like those odds so he chose the flee along with Julie which brought him to his current predicament of who to use [Control] on
'Since Jane can feel it it's possible that it's a power all level 8's has, which would be a problem for a number of reasons…'
"Oi"
Kathrine turned around and before she managed to react she was grabbed by the neck by Mike and lifted up, at the same time Mike summoned his wings behind his back and spread them out as he spoke
"Disrespect me all you want, but any insult towards my wife and I'll snap your neck… Is that understood?"
"Y...e...s…"
"Very good…"
Mike put down Kathrine before he turned around and walked back to Julie ignoring the hate-filled gaze he received from Kathrine all the while, then he muttered
"All you can do is glare at me… Why don't you continue your tour?"
Kathrine grit her teeth before she remembered her orders and sighed before she continued the tour, Mike squeezed Julie's hand as he unsummoned his wings…
In the evening Mike and Julie visited the elder again, she showed a smile on her aged face before she gestured for them to sit down and asked
"So… What do you think of our city?"
Mike sighed and for a moment he debated whether he should tell the truth before he eventually decided just to say it
"It's sloppy, at least from a defence and counterintelligence sense…"
The elder nodded and sipped her tea for a bit before she asked
"Do you know how we manage to keep our population up?"
Mike had a faint idea but he wanted to hear what the elder would say so he shook his head, the elder sighed before she spoke one word
"Tribute"
Mike sighed, he had somewhat figured this out, but alas it turned out to be just as bad as he guessed, then he raised his hand as the elder was about to explain and spoke himself
"You pay tribute in form of young and fertile members of your own race… I guess the children of them are returned, along with some of the mothers?"
"...Yes"
Mike sighed then he did something the elder didn't expect he drew the knife and spun it around for a bit before he stabbed it through his own palm and spoke out loud
"I offer my blood to summon you, Beel! To this mortal plane!"
The knife began glowing red hot as it sucked Mike's blood, then a moment later a rift formed above Mike's palm and 'something' peeked through before she spoke
"Why have you called me?"
Mike lowered his head slightly before he spoke
"I need your help, the curse that prevents these people from gaining power, can you remove it?"
Silence fell over the room, then the elder demon spoke
"That's easy as if a curse cast by mere mortals could do anything other than squirm in front of me… But what do they offer in return?"
The elder of the wind spirit race didn't hesitate, a near maniac expression showed on her face, she and her race had been suppressed for too long, but not so that they had forgotten what freedom and revenge tasted like
"EVERYTHING!"
The elder demon showed a smile…
Over the night something changed, not only with the members of the wind spirit race in the city but with all members of their race, even those who only had inherited part of their blood seemed to... change, ever so slightly, the thicker the blood the bigger the change, over the next few weeks the change was apparent, the wind spirit race used have light green hair, this started to turn into a dull shade of red.
"What the fuck is happening?"
Jane looked at the member of the wind spirit race that they had captured earlier that week, they had been in the process of breaking her sprit with torture, but one day she suddenly stopped reacting to the pain, that was when their carelessness cost the life of a torturer that had mistakenly thought that he was finished breaking her and had sneaked into her cell late at night for a game of 'hide the salami' but when the guards arrived to cheek on the prisoners that morning the torturer was found dismembered into multiple eerily equal parts, two of which was missing, further investigation revealed that those parts had been eaten by the wind sprit race girl.
Raw, bone, and all.
The following that the wind sprit race girl was quickly killed, her body thrown in a mass grave out back… But when one of the guards that morning was reported missing the pieces seemed to fall into place, his patrol route had taken him by the mass grave, where he was found, his body had been dismembered into eerily equally shaped parts with three of them missing.
Along with the corpse of the wind spirit race girl.
further tracking had of traces from the mass grave, following those traces they quickly tracked down the wind sprit race girl that showed strength and power greater than her level by quite a bit
"I'll ask again… What the fuck is happening!?"
Jane was speaking to a doctor, he was looking over the corpse of the wind spirit girl whom Jane had killed once again, this time she had also removed her head, just to be sure that she was dead… The doctor finished his examination and spoke
"She appears to be perfectly alive, despite the fact that her head is in the other room"
"So she turned into a zombie?"
While rare cases of undead had happened on the continent, this had been linked due to the fact that it had the highest concentration of mana on the planet, but that was a whole other can of worms, also the doctor quickly denied
"No, an undead would show signs of decay, this is like…"
"Like what?"
"Like she's burning mana to activate an extremely high-class healing spell, I would have to examine her in detail to understand it but---"
"No can do I am afraid"
"Wha---"
The doctor and Jane turned around and saw it, the head of the wind spirit girl was there, floating mid-air with a creepy smile on its face, the eyes were dull and she clearly wasn't conscious, but something had possessed it
"Long time no see Jane"
Jane calmed herself down and was about to ask when she noticed something amiss and deployed her shield just in time as the corpse of the wind spirit girl exploded along with the head
""Ohh~""
Kathrine sighed, this was the exact same response she had gotten from the two lovebirds she was showing around
'How many times have they responded like that now..? 14 times?'
Kathrine desperately wanted to keep her eyelid from twitching but alas she was only one person, and there was only so much one person could endure
"Would you guys take this a little seriously!?"
Mike snapped out of his own little world he had with Julie and spoke quite seriously
"But I am taking it quite seriously though?"
"You two are obviously not taking this seriously at all!"
Mike sighed before he asked
"Are you 100% certain that there are no spies here?"
"Eh..? What do you mean spies?"
Mike sighed deeply before he muttered
"Never mind, just continue your tour"
As the tour continued Mike and Julie communicated through their mental connection
[Tell me why you don't just use [Control] on them again..?]
Mike debated with himself whether if he should say for a bit before he 'spoke'
[Because… It's possible to detect it]
Julie widened her eyes slightly before she asked
[How?]
[Some sort of skill… And it looked like she could use my servants to trace back to me, the point is that if it exists then it exists, I can't just spam servants all over anymore, if she can do it then it's possible someone else can do it too…]
[So you don't use [Control] because of that..? Then are you never going to use it again?]
[I'll use it again, don't worry about that, I'll just have to be a little more selective with my choice of servants]
Mike closed his eyes and remembered the confrontation between his 5 servants and Jane, at the start the 5 horned werewolves had seen a glimpse of hope, but that was because Jane was feeding them that hope because she wanted the sadistic pleasure of crushing their hope, which she did by revealing her powers as a level 8, then once they were all defeated she picked up one of them and sensed Mike though an unknown skill where after she muttered
"Found you…"
At this point Mike was scared shitless, he felt her through the connection and knew that she would trace it back to him, so he pulled the plug and used [Decimate] on the 5 servants and cut his losses
'It still gives me the shivers… That power I felt from her…'
Mike knew that he had to at least reach level 8 and get 3 out of 4 parts of his blood converted to elder blood before he stood a chance, to say the least, he didn't like those odds so he chose the flee along with Julie which brought him to his current predicament of who to use [Control] on
'Since Jane can feel it it's possible that it's a power all level 8's has, which would be a problem for a number of reasons…'
"Oi"
Kathrine turned around and before she managed to react she was grabbed by the neck by Mike and lifted up, at the same time Mike summoned his wings behind his back and spread them out as he spoke
"Disrespect me all you want, but any insult towards my wife and I'll snap your neck… Is that understood?"
"Y...e...s…"
"Very good…"
Mike put down Kathrine before he turned around and walked back to Julie ignoring the hate-filled gaze he received from Kathrine all the while, then he muttered
"All you can do is glare at me… Why don't you continue your tour?"
Kathrine grit her teeth before she remembered her orders and sighed before she continued the tour, Mike squeezed Julie's hand as he unsummoned his wings…
In the evening Mike and Julie visited the elder again, she showed a smile on her aged face before she gestured for them to sit down and asked
"So… What do you think of our city?"
Mike sighed and for a moment he debated whether he should tell the truth before he eventually decided just to say it
"It's sloppy, at least from a defence and counterintelligence sense…"
The elder nodded and sipped her tea for a bit before she asked
"Do you know how we manage to keep our population up?"
Mike had a faint idea but he wanted to hear what the elder would say so he shook his head, the elder sighed before she spoke one word
"Tribute"
Mike sighed, he had somewhat figured this out, but alas it turned out to be just as bad as he guessed, then he raised his hand as the elder was about to explain and spoke himself
"You pay tribute in form of young and fertile members of your own race… I guess the children of them are returned, along with some of the mothers?"
"...Yes"
Mike sighed then he did something the elder didn't expect he drew the knife and spun it around for a bit before he stabbed it through his own palm and spoke out loud
"I offer my blood to summon you, Beel! To this mortal plane!"
The knife began glowing red hot as it sucked Mike's blood, then a moment later a rift formed above Mike's palm and 'something' peeked through before she spoke
"Why have you called me?"
Mike lowered his head slightly before he spoke
"I need your help, the curse that prevents these people from gaining power, can you remove it?"
Silence fell over the room, then the elder demon spoke
"That's easy as if a curse cast by mere mortals could do anything other than squirm in front of me… But what do they offer in return?"
The elder of the wind spirit race didn't hesitate, a near maniac expression showed on her face, she and her race had been suppressed for too long, but not so that they had forgotten what freedom and revenge tasted like
"EVERYTHING!"
The elder demon showed a smile…
Over the night something changed, not only with the members of the wind spirit race in the city but with all members of their race, even those who only had inherited part of their blood seemed to... change, ever so slightly, the thicker the blood the bigger the change, over the next few weeks the change was apparent, the wind spirit race used have light green hair, this started to turn into a dull shade of red.
"What the fuck is happening?"
Jane looked at the member of the wind spirit race that they had captured earlier that week, they had been in the process of breaking her sprit with torture, but one day she suddenly stopped reacting to the pain, that was when their carelessness cost the life of a torturer that had mistakenly thought that he was finished breaking her and had sneaked into her cell late at night for a game of 'hide the salami' but when the guards arrived to cheek on the prisoners that morning the torturer was found dismembered into multiple eerily equal parts, two of which was missing, further investigation revealed that those parts had been eaten by the wind sprit race girl.
Raw, bone, and all.
The following that the wind sprit race girl was quickly killed, her body thrown in a mass grave out back… But when one of the guards that morning was reported missing the pieces seemed to fall into place, his patrol route had taken him by the mass grave, where he was found, his body had been dismembered into eerily equally shaped parts with three of them missing.
Along with the corpse of the wind spirit race girl.
further tracking had of traces from the mass grave, following those traces they quickly tracked down the wind sprit race girl that showed strength and power greater than her level by quite a bit
"I'll ask again… What the fuck is happening!?"
Jane was speaking to a doctor, he was looking over the corpse of the wind spirit girl whom Jane had killed once again, this time she had also removed her head, just to be sure that she was dead… The doctor finished his examination and spoke
"She appears to be perfectly alive, despite the fact that her head is in the other room"
"So she turned into a zombie?"
While rare cases of undead had happened on the continent, this had been linked due to the fact that it had the highest concentration of mana on the planet, but that was a whole other can of worms, also the doctor quickly denied
"No, an undead would show signs of decay, this is like…"
"Like what?"
"Like she's burning mana to activate an extremely high-class healing spell, I would have to examine her in detail to understand it but---"
"No can do I am afraid"
"Wha---"
The doctor and Jane turned around and saw it, the head of the wind spirit girl was there, floating mid-air with a creepy smile on its face, the eyes were dull and she clearly wasn't conscious, but something had possessed it
"Long time no see Jane"
Jane calmed herself down and was about to ask when she noticed something amiss and deployed her shield just in time as the corpse of the wind spirit girl exploded along with the head
