Summoning the Holy Sword

Under the bright light in the square, everyone could clearly witness the village head’s face swollen with bulging blood vessels. It spread out on his face akin to a spider web. After discovering the abomination of a face, Anne couldn’t help but scream and took two steps back, protecting the little girl behind her back. Everyone could comprehend that this old man wasn’t normal. Not to mention the black tattoo-like odd symbols that appeared on his neck.

It was the imprint of a devil.

“…”

When he heard Rhode call him out, the old village chief remained silent and stared coldly at the man in front of him. He then rotated his eyes to observe the surroundings.

“I’m sure you are very clear about your situation now,” Rhode said emotionlessly.

He drew his sword along the village head’s neck. The cold blade sent chills down the old man’s spine, but he continued to clench his teeth, refusing to speak. Perhaps, he had nothing left to say? Or did he feel that there was no use in saying anything?

“If you have nothing to say… I do.”

Rhode wasn’t surprised at all with the village chief’s reaction as he shrugged his shoulders and sighed. Afterwards, he gave an odd but firm command.

“Get your monsters to stand down.”

Rhode shook his head and threw these memories to the back of his head. He eventually studied the old man with a funny expression, slowly admiring his face which quickly changed between red, pale white and green. That was the first time Rhode had seen a person’s face transform so many times.

“Although I think you may be very passionate to return to hell, but actually leaving you behind may be a good option. As a devil worshipper, you must have heard of the ‘Song of the Appease’, am I right?”

“N-No!!!”

Upon hearing the familiar term, the old man suddenly screamed. Because what Rhode had just said, was the most terrifying punishment to all devil worshippers.

In the world of Dragon Soul Continent, whether it was humans, angels or other races, after they die, their souls would return to earth, fall into deep sleep, and slowly blend into the world. Just like water that evaporated, begone without a trace. And this was the most frightening point for the devil worshipper. In fact, many of them tried to escape this consequence, so they turned to the devils for help. If they became a devil worshipper, and once they die, their souls will not disperse but will go to hell. Although this was a root of pain in many legends, these devil worshippers thought otherwise. Those were just the ending for some dumb humans who got lied to by the devil. However they’re different, there’s someone behind their back! And once they entered hell, they will continue to serve their respective master. Maybe one day he could grasp a chance to be an actual devil and also become one of them who controlled others from behind the curtains. There were some devil worshippers which succeeded previously, so that meant they had the chance too right?

To the devil worshipper, this was considered immortality, which was the most important hope for them. But angels were able to destroy this dream through the ‘Song of the Appease’. The song would forcefully seal their souls and blend them into the world.

This was never tolerable for any devil worshipper because that meant all their hard work would be for naught. Why did they do the things they do? To give up their human dignity, feelings, and everything just for this? Didn’t they do this to gain immortality? Now that I have worked hard for so many years, you want to make them all go to waste?

No one could take this blow.

The old man finally stopped resisting, his expression dulled as his head drooped and looked to the ground after realizing he had no way out.

“… Ask what you want. Kid…”

“You can make your creatures retreat now. To tell you the truth, although they aren’t strong, they are very annoying.”

Rhode observed the surroundings and noticed that his men were almost at their limits. Although after killing the Shadow Devil, Marlene, Celia and Lize once again got into the battle, most of the mercenaries were starting to show signs of fatigue after battling the undead monsters for so long.

This time, the old man no longer resisted. He opened his mouth and let out a weird, hurried and low shout. Upon hearing, the undead creatures quickly returned to darkness and disappeared.

“Good. It seems like we will have a good time working together.”

Although the old man acted obediently, Rhode still kept the smile on his face and looked even more intimidating. Christie who had been hiding behind Anne finally relaxed a little and loosened her grip on Anne’s clothes. Although the smile on Rhode’s face looked pleasant, the little girl felt scared instead. Although Rhode had a stern face, the little girl thought he looked much kinder previously.

“I hope you can seriously answer my every question.”

Rhode put down his sword.

“Firstly, I hope you can tell me, why did you want to capture Christie.”

Upon hearing Rhode’s question, Christie opened her eyes wide with surprise and blinked rapidly at the old man in astonishment. Previously, Rhode only told her that he was worried that she might face danger at night, so he brought her here. Now she just realized that she was the target all along.

“…”

This time, the old man’s expression sunk. He knew he had failed badly. Previously, the old man thought Rhode didn’t know his true intentions, but through his question, the old man realized that Rhode already knew what he wanted to do… Thinking of this, the old man clenched his teeth before giving out a hopeless sigh.

“This is my master’s order. If it’s not for his order, do you think I will want to raise this girl?”

Upon hearing his answer, Rhode frowned.

Rhode suddenly had an awful feeling. Previously when he discovered about Christie’s life experiences, he heard that no one wanted to adopt her when she was still a baby. Eventually, the village head took her in and brought her up. Initially, he thought that was the responsibility of the village chief. Now he realized things weren’t as simple as he thought.

“Your master made you adopt Christie?”

Could it be the devil behind this village chief, had something to do with Christie?