ALL NOVEL Chapter 159 What Tactics Did I Use?
""...Huh."
Lawyer York suddenly opened his eyes, starting to cough violently.
He turned over, keeping on coughing until he hacked up a clot of filthy blood and his breathing smoothed out.
He looked back at the door.
The door of the archives was tightly closed; the other party had already left. The accomplice who stole the documents was nowhere to be seen.
Afterward, his body began to undergo drastic changes—his features from the Snare Fiend started to emerge as he underwent demonization.
Many soft, tentacle-like pink flesh buds surfaced on his arms, spontaneously dancing in the air, like some sort of antennae, sensing everything around them. They were organs for ingesting dreamland and memories.
His pupils turned into a misty pink with a dark red cross star twinkling in the middle. His back became hunched, his body emaciated, and a snake-like long tail slithered out from behind.
With demonization, the wounds he had suffered were also healed.
"I've survived..."
York murmured to himself.
His voice turned sharp like a woman's, with a slight metallic friction.
No matter what breed the contract demon was, Demons are imbued with robust vitality. Even if they advanced to become Parasitic Demon Bearers, the basic traits from the Demon wouldn't disappear.
Simply being shot through the heart wouldn't suffice to kill him outright.
If you want to kill a Demon cleanly, the best way is to blow up the head, sever it, or directly take the heart away. Even if the heart is torn in half, it can recover under the robust life force shared by the Demon.
This kind of vitality is quite similar to the savage Trolls of the Southern Continent. That is why, in the past, when a newly possessed demon was found in Avalon, they were directly condemned to burning at the stake—if a killed Demon was left unattended, it would rise and run away after a while.
But fire can sever the Trolls' regenerative power, so people also surmised it could permanently kill a Demon.
However, the real reason fire executed these Demons was that the flames continuously injured them. The body tried to heal while being scorched and would only die after prolonged torture. Queen Sofia later abolished this cruel punishment in favor of regular execution.
Without a doubt... Since the other party was also a Demon, he must have known about the robust vitality of a Demon.
Therefore, if he chose not to kill him outright, the only alternative was that he intentionally spared York's life.
York wasn't particularly resentful towards the person who attacked him—perhaps a little, but not much. What was more important was the information he got from it.
Combining what the man had said earlier, it was clear he was under the command of his mentor. Yet, judging by his actions, he was not loyal to that mentor.
It was very possible that he was bound by a contract from his mentor, thus, he had to attempt to kill York once.
It's very possible.
After all, he was a Demon possessed by a Shadow Demon, and he seemed to have sold many souls, with his body mostly controlled by the Shadow Demon. Such a Demon, of the first energy level, could beat the third... It's understandable why his mentor would feel uneasy.
It was precisely because of his dissatisfaction that he defied his mentor's will and intentionally allowed himself to survive. For this, he even uttered some unnecessary words to hint at his background.
What does he want to do?
A possibility suddenly occurred to York.
"Could it be that he seeks the skill 'Defying Pact'?"
"Heh heh..."
The quiet Snare Fiend within him heard his thoughts and couldn't help but scoff, "Keep guessing, you're getting close—close to 1% now."
Stop disturbing me, York responded discontentedly in his mind.
The Snare Fiend was always like this, adept at deception. Even though York was its master, the Snare Fiend always tried to lead him astray.
In past instances, he had believed in the Snare Fiend's analysis and suggestions until he realized that it deliberately lured him into a trap. It wanted him dead to escape, and since then, York had stopped trusting its words.
It was very possible.
The Lohar Society inherited the Mystical Skills 'Defying Pact' from the first President Lohar, which had the power to break contracts and oaths without punishment.
If he was controlled by a contract, then seeking York's help to shatter it made a lot of sense.
So why didn't he go to the President?
And as a member of the President's faction, how could he not know Boka's address and still needed York to provide it?
After transforming into the Snare Fiend, York's thinking became much faster.
He quickly thought of a plausible explanation:
The Demon's mentor might not be from the Lohar Society but from the Noble Red Society!
Only the President's faction in the Lohar Society fully aligned with the Noble Red Society. Though he and the Vice President had also joined The Association, the upper echelons of the Society might have seen through their 'hearts of Transcendence'.
The Association kept them only to create a balance. To reap more benefits from both sides.
But the Society today... or at least, the Demon's mentor, might believe that keeping the President would suffice. Therefore, they wanted to specifically eliminate the Vice President's faction's influence, without the President knowing.
—Everything made sense!
The Demon and his mentor were from a faction within the Noble Red Society, but not too high up because they only knew the names of the Vice President and himself... And they came to the office to attack York because they actually didn't know his exact residence. They could only find his law office, so they planned to lie in wait here, expecting to catch him unexpectedly."