After waking up

In the bakery, the shadow demon who had devoured the bakery owner was calming down. The active mental power and the energy contained in the flesh and blood of human beings before death seemed to have a slight stimulant effect, making his pale face appear... Flushing.

This feels so good!

Shadow Demon's eyes showed a trace of greed as he looked toward the back corridor. He knew there was someone there. His shadow continued to extend under his feet, entering the dark corridor, passing through the closed door, and entering the dim living room.

The shadow expanded in the living room, and there was the sound of bones twisting in the shadow, as if some kind of terrifying monster was stretching its body, and a twisted black figure stood up from the shadow.

But the next moment, the shadow in the living room dissipated, and he seemed to feel something strange in the shadow of the nearby building.

When the bakery owner died in fear, the nearest gargoyle had already noticed it and heard the scream that stopped suddenly.

The gargoyle is a puppet with its own spirit. Unlike demons such as familiars, in addition to its terrifying appearance, the gargoyle itself almost reveals any breath. It is extremely sensitive to sounds and can discern the emotions in the sounds.

Looking up from the ground, the gargoyle looks like some kind of bat in the sky, but when the gargoyle flaps its wings and approaches the ground, the monster with a wingspan of 7 meters shows how terrifying its body is.

The gargoyle made no sound, and even the sound of flapping wings was blended into the cold wind of the winter night in Digao.

Wow~Wow~Wow~

Gargoyles hover like ghosts in the night over the rooftops near the bakery.

The Archbishop of the Holy Church, who was originally standing on the second floor of the building at the end of the street, now retreated into the shadows beside the balcony door.

The Shadow Demon in the bakery subconsciously held his breath.

There’s no mistaking it, it’s the gargoyle of the Black Castle! Did the Queen send people from Castle Black to hunt me down?

It is not difficult even for the current Shadow Demon to defeat a gargoyle outside, but gargoyles always appear in groups. If there is one outside, there may be a hundred in the sky.

Apart from being able to feel the changes in the shadows outside, Shadow Demon could hardly detect any breath. He listened carefully to the movements outside, but could only hear the cold wind on a winter night in Digao.

What a terrible thing!

A gargoyle, something that would usually be scorned when the royal guards were chatting in private, now gave Shadow Demon a sense of oppression that could not be ignored.

The twisted dark wizard, the perverted executioner who cares little about human life, the old demon who devours flesh and blood

There have been more madmen in the Black Castle than in the Holy Temple since ancient times, and the Dilga royal family has zero tolerance for betrayal.

After a long time, as if unnoticed, the gargoyle took off again and left the street quietly.

Somewhere above Digao, Mulan, who was holding the gargoyle token, had noticed a gargoyle landing and checked it out.

Although nothing was found about the gargoyle, for Mulan, the abnormality of the gargoyle spoke for itself.

Mulan murmured to himself, seemingly searching for the escaped shadow demon and archbishop, but in fact he was also thinking about how to avoid Sabastina.

Sabastina, who had been sitting on the back of the gargoyle reading a book, seemed to have no intention of paying attention to foreign objects, and now she glanced in that direction.

"Professor Jonest doesn't seem to be in a hurry to catch that guy?"

"Maybe I want to see why the Archbishop of the Temple didn't take action first."

Mulan looked at the red-robed witch whose eyes never left the gargoyle.

Sabastina finally put down the book, but Mulan did not answer and looked in that direction. He did not sense the shadow demon sealing him, but he sensed the existence of the archbishop.

That powerful holy power, that holy power that almost brought Mulan a fatal crisis not long ago, must be in that location. Mulan's dark side shrinks itself with extraordinary instinct.

"Professor Sabastina, if you want to take action against the Archbishop of the Holy Temple, how confident are you?"

Sabastina's face under the bandage showed an expression of shock that no one else could see.

"Professor Jonest, do you want to take action against the Archbishop?"

Mulan smiled.

"Hahaha, just asking casually, don't be so nervous."

Sabastina finally put away the book. She hung a lot of Mulan on the gargoyle's claws very seriously, and it took a long time before she spoke.

"The rank of the Archbishop of the Holy Temple is not low. This is the Great Holy Temple of Digao. In theory, he is the representative figure in charge of the entire Dilga. Even if we go together, we can't kill him."

Good guy, I'm just asking you how sure you are that you're going to kill me right away? Mulan's mouth also twitched.

"Professor Jonest, I heard that you are a devout believer in the Holy Light, but you actually have the idea of ​​taking action against the Archbishop?"

"I just want to discuss whether we can suppress the Archbishop and capture the Shadow Demon. Professor Sabastina, are you over-interpreting it? As for faith, the Holy Light is pure, but the Holy Church is not."

Sabastina nodded, already having a judgment in her heart. Mulan Jonest's gentlemanly appearance concealed a wild heart.

"Suppression is out of the question. It's okay to cause some trouble, if necessary."

The corners of Mulan's mouth curled up slightly. If possible, he wanted both to please the queen and to achieve his own goals.

In the bakery, Shadow Demon finally relaxed, but he did not take action again. The shock just now made his reason return and restrain his desire.

The shadow demon himself was severely injured, and it has been damaged to the core. Coupled with the current temptation, it will weaken his will.

But this desire for human souls and flesh and blood must not be let go. At times like this, if you let your desires go, while devouring human beings, you will also continue to absorb their negative spirits and toxins in their flesh and blood, and that kind of pleasure It becomes addictive and gets stronger.

The power of existence is constantly polluted in this process, and in the end, the shadow demon becomes a real monster, both physically and mentally.

Even vampires whose paths tend to be predatory are extremely cautious in the selection of blood food, and try to choose higher-quality blood sources, such as humans with special blood constitutions, such as pure virgins, etc.

In the living room at the other end of the bakery corridor, a pregnant woman hid in the closet holding a four or five-year-old little girl. The mother covered the girl's mouth with force. The bodies of the mother and daughter were shaking slightly, and their eyes were filled with tears. Showing intense panic and sadness.

At this time, the shadow demon gnawed on the bread again. He ate more than a dozen breads before he stopped. After resting for a while, he lowered his body, his body became slightly shadowy, and finally shrank into a mouse.

It's not a good place to stay here for long, you have to run away quickly.

The mouse carefully left the bakery through a crack under the door and scurried directly into the sewer in front of the door.

Digao City has a developed sewer network system, and Shadow Demon plans to escape from the city directly through the sewers.

The Archbishop also moved, following unhurriedly along the ground in the direction of the sewer.

It seemed that God was also helping Shadow Demon. On the originally clear night, dark clouds gathered in the second half of the night and heavy snow began to fall, which made the visibility even lower at night.

I'm a mouse, I'm a mouse

Shadow Demon kept escaping in the sewers, and the filth and stench of all kinds of filth almost made him nauseous. He was also a royal guard after all, and all material conditions were the best. He had never been so embarrassed.

"hiss"

A huge rat came out of the corner in front, staring at Shadow Demon and pounced directly on him.

'court death! ’

Two rats bit each other in the sewer, causing a splash of filthy water.

After a while, a mouse limped forward again.

'Damn, it's crumbs.'

But the smell of blood seems to trigger more dangers in the sewers.

Shadow Demon never dreamed that one day he would be afraid of rats and bugs in the sewers, but the situation at the moment was so strange and sad.

In Digao in winter, a little bit of food can trigger the ecological circle in the sewer.

But what really shocked Shadow Demon was that when he finally got rid of a mutated toad, a black cat actually appeared at the turning of the sewer ahead.

‘My, demon? ’

The mouse stood frozen in the sewer, staring blankly at the black cat in front of him. It licked its paws and turned to look at the mouse with extremely human eyes.

"Meow~"

A kind of stimulation that the spirit is penetrated by some kind of power, a kind of fear of facing a natural enemy, a kind of absurd disbelief to the extreme, and the negativity that has just been absorbed, all kinds of emotions rush to the face, shaking the soul of Shadow Demon.

"Ah no, ah."

Shadow Demon's resonance relaxed and shattered at this moment, and his body directly appeared. In the narrow sewer, a mouse expanded rapidly and was transforming into a person.