Stroking this dead head, Philip felt a little absent-minded for a moment.
He actually didn't expect that his newly recruited subordinate could actually kill the notorious Blood Demon.
These degenerates who followed Nicholas Flamel in the name of "Hermetic Scholars" and acted in the royal capital... always made Philip feel vigilant and uneasy.
As a prince, Philip could not lack occult knowledge.
He knew very well that there were fundamental differences between the fallen and the extraordinary beings who were walking on the road of sublimation.
On the road to transcendence, the silver level is a very important and indispensable stage.
Because if you want a mortal to have extraordinary power, you must use a curse to corrode the soul. Only the soul that has undergone this kind of treatment can spontaneously absorb the power of curses from the outside world.
Whether it is strengthening the body to a foreign state, or infiltrating the soul to deepen perception, or using a curse to temper one's will... the prerequisite is that the soul must be able to absorb the curse.
Although these curses will strengthen the body and soul, they are also mixed with many impurities.
Resentment, pain, desire, sadness... Absorbing the curse with a mortal body means that you are also absorbing these wills floating in the curse.
——These are "impurities".
It itself will strengthen some of the negative traits of extraordinary people, such as gluttony, lust, irritability, jealousy... In addition, extraordinary people have just gained great power and have not seen much of the world, so their minds usually are not as well.
It will expand accordingly.
This is also the reason why Bronze Level Extraordinaries are the easiest to succumb to desires.
But when reaching the Silver Level, the moment the soul condenses from gaseous state to dew, these external impurities will also be discharged - this does not mean that people will become saints, it just allows those negative influences that do not belong to them to be purified in the first place.
Just dropped it.
And the Fallen not only have to bear these negative traits.
They even have to continuously increase the degree of erosion to strengthen this negative trait and make it manifest.
Extract some or multiple desires to transform themselves, so that they can permanently acquire one or more heterogeneous abilities. As this desire becomes stronger, new mutations will continue to be added to them; each time
As the erosion rate increases, the heterogeneous abilities will also become stronger.
——This means that every degenerate is a paranoid and lustful madman.
It's just that what they care about is different.
For example, Kaifuni is relatively stable.
Although Philip didn't know what kind of desire her ability came from. But it must be related to her revealed ability——
The ability to turn shadows into powerful tentacles may be due to her inferiority complex about her weak and powerless body...
But in short, the threat level of "Shadow Demon" is not very high.
She has not shown any "appendages" or other parts that tend to be demonic, which shows that her desire is not too strong, at least she is a normal person.
But this "blood demon" is different.
Of course Philip knows the true identity of the Blood Demon——
His apparent identity is that he is a new apprentice at the famous cursed material store "Hal's Antique Shop". But in fact, he is a serial murderer on the run, named "The Ritualist Killer" by the authorities.
He would often lurk in various magical material stores and used bookstores with mysterious books to test whether the store owner was a ritual master. If not, he would steal the money from the store and then leave quietly.
And if it is true, he will find a way to learn the rituals and occult knowledge from the shop owner, and quickly master this knowledge.
——Then he used the new ritual he learned to kill his teacher.
These teachers of his only found out the identities of their ritual masters after they were killed by him. But because they were all killed by the ritual master killer, this directly led to them having no idea what rituals the ritual master killer had mastered.
Known.
The investigation soon reached an impasse.
No one knows what the "ritualist killer" actually wants to do.
But what is certain is that he himself is an extraordinary person, and his general profession is hunter. The specific profession is not sure, and his rank is not sure, but he is definitely either bronze or silver.
Three years ago, the Ritualist Killer disappeared.
Some people said that he might have been discovered by an experienced ritual master and killed him, but others said that he might have studied under a knowledgeable old ritual master, which was why he was delayed in taking action.
When the police department found the Ritualist Killer again, they were surprised to find... that he had already embarked on a path of depravity.
——He is one of the Hermetic scholars in the royal capital, a fallen person codenamed "Blood Demon".
Similar to Kaifuni's ability.
His special ability as a fallen person is that he can control his own blood at will. Not only can he bring the blood out of the body and turn it into a hard shield or dagger, he can also speed up the blood flow to improve strength and agility, and he can also turn the blood into a
It turns into a needle and pierces the enemy's body from a long distance or through a trap, wanders in the blood vessels, and destroys the enemy's heart or brain.
And the people he kills will have all the blood drained from their bodies.
This should be a special ability of his hunter profession.
Unlike the previous situation, Blood Demon is loyal to Nicholas...or temporarily loyal.
He had never killed anyone other than his target before, but under the command of Nicholas, he roamed and killed many wild wizards and dark wizards. Even when Nicholas asked him to kill wizards from towers in various countries, he did not do it at all.
Don't hesitate.
He is also proficient in crossbows, poisons, daggers, close combat and traps. He also masters many rituals and is very familiar with and understands the fighting methods of wizards.
This made him successful in hunting.
...But in a sense, it is also thanks to the Blood Demon.
It was precisely because the blood demon hunted without any cover-up that it was revealed that Nicholas was secretly hunting wizards; it was also because Nicholas dared to accept the following of such a person that it finally aroused the kingdom's high-level officials to be wary of Nicholas.
After that, Philip finally found out Nicholas' true identity.
"...The inventor of the Philosopher's Stone."
Philip narrowed his eyes slightly and murmured softly.
He had no idea which side Nicholas was from.
But he may have been killed by now.
——A few months ago, with the disappearance of Nicholas, Blood Demon's actions became more and more crazy.
On the basis of constantly hunting wizards, he returned to his previous hunting mode... and lurked in "Hal's Antique Shop".
However, this is the royal capital after all.
Unlike other places - the crows quickly found out his identity.
But none of them dared to act rashly.
When the blood demon is hunting, the ritual he used to disguise himself will be ineffective. It can be easily seen that visible spells appear on his face, and horns have grown slightly on his forehead.
This means that his strength is already quite close to the gold level, and he may break through the last layer of membrane at any time.
When his horns are fully formed, the real, rational "demon" hatches out.
At that time, the blood demon's ability can affect people besides himself.
Originally Philip wanted to wait and see.
At least wait until your plan is completed before mobilizing covert troops or an elite team of extraordinary beings to encircle and suppress them.
But as the blood demon's hunting frequency increased, his strength increased faster and faster. He was about to completely fall before His Majesty's death...
However, he had no intention of sending his men to kill him.
It's not that he has good intentions.
It's just that he didn't believe that a few of his men could kill the Blood Demon.
Although the Blood Demon has never made a move against a silver-level wizard...but when he kills a bronze-level transcendent, he won't even get hurt. It's as simple as killing a chicken.
But after Tasty Wind Goose heard about the Blood Demon's ability, he suddenly claimed that his ability could restrain the opponent, and he might be able to kill him.
At the insistence of Delicious Wind Goose, Philip reluctantly assigned him the task.
At that time, the delicious goose was already dead in Philip's heart.
Who would have imagined...it only took three hours for Delicious Wind Goose to successfully kill the Blood Demon.