Chapter 137: Do Demons Also "Pad Their Stats"?
William's words silenced Colby instantly.
"Maybe I can..."
"Can obtain the demon's mercy before your blood runs dry?" William spoke the thoughts deep in the other's heart.
Colby clenched his fists, but eventually relaxed them.
The priest was right; this was just his foolish delusion.
Just like how he had been played the previous two times.
In reality, the situation might develop into—other residents of the town also getting implicated and losing their lives.
"Mr. Colby, that's why I said from the beginning, we are your only hope," William continued.
"Can you... really stop the demon?"
"I can't prove it to you, but you have no choice, do you?"
Colby closed his eyes and finally gave up the idea of compromising with the demon.
"What else do you want to know about the ritual?" His voice was old and weak.
"The entire process of the ritual, and the way to stop it," William said.
"The Sacrificial Ritual will officially activate when the crops mature. In order to obtain souls faster, the land here will become more suitable for seed growth...
The harvest is just an illusion. The state of crop maturity will only last for fifteen minutes. After that, they will instantly rot and turn into the power of the ritual itself...
Negative energy will affect the people in the house; they will kill each other, and the unjustly dead souls will remain here forever..."
Colby described the content of the ritual in detail.
"Recently, because a new demon came, the ritual was interrupted. As for other methods..."
The old man mentioned that the sacrificial ritual was set up by the demon, and its tools were in another dimension, unreachable by humans.
But at the moment of "Harvest," the ritual items would briefly appear in the human world.
At that time, as long as they are destroyed, the ritual can be completely ended.
However, those items are surrounded by a massive amount of evil aura.
Crossing over from another dimension, they can not only shield any perception but also possess extremely strong pollution properties.
Therefore, entering that aura rashly is no different from suicide.
In this way, William and his group seemed to have no choice but to leave the new demon be.
Only in this way could the ritual remain stopped.
But they all understood that this idea was too naive.
Although the new demon had helped William not long ago, Colby's lesson was right in front of them.
William would never expect a demon to do good deeds.
If this new demon left one day, the sacrificial ritual would likely proceed again.
"Looking at it this way, we have to expel the new demon, let the sacrificial ritual resume, and then find a way to stop it..."
William rubbed his chin, deep in thought.
At the same time, Silas mentioned another matter.
"The Church once recorded a method to invalidate a demon contract."
"As long as the contractor makes another deal, and when the demon takes out the contract, find a way to snatch it and tear it up."
"In this way, the enslaved soul can be released..."
William understood that Silas saw that he wanted to give this old man a hand.
Of course, there was an element of charity in it.
But William was considering more whether saving Colby would help stop the ritual.
However, regarding the method provided by Silas, he reserved his opinion for the time being.
Demons are so cunning; to make the other party make a deal, one has to pay enough chips.
But Colby had already sacrificed his soul and had completely become a slave.
William really couldn't think of anything else he had that was worth the demon's attention.
At the same time, there was another matter worth noting.
Since just now, the new demon on the farm had been extremely quiet and showed no rejection of the existence of William and the others.
There wasn't even a tentative attack.
This made the measures William arranged useless.
"What is this guy's purpose..." He pondered secretly.
The dark night passed quickly, and a golden dawn lit up the horizon.
The sunflower field seemed to have regained its vitality.
But everyone understood that this was just a temporary illusion.
"We have to report this matter!" Bent looked serious.
Now that this commission involved a "Sacrificial Ritual," it naturally exceeded the scope of what the few of them could handle.
Others had no objections either.
So Bent picked up the phone and walked aside.
"Ah... Ahhh!"
Suddenly, a scream came from the house in the farmland in the distance.
Immediately afterward, everyone saw Jessie running out from inside.
She ran straight towards William and the others.
"Save... save me."
Jessie looked terrified, clutching her right arm tightly.
There was a clear claw mark on the girl's arm, emitting a rotten smell and black blood vessels nearby.
William narrowed his eyes and immediately signaled Judy to take out the Holy Water.
After some purification, Jessie returned to normal.
"Thank you... that thing came again this morning. As soon as I turned around, I saw a black and blue face."
She gasped for breath.
Yesterday, William and his group left in a hurry, only instructing Jessie not to tell Roy the purpose of their visit.
So as not to cause the latter's rejection.
At this time, Jessie asked about the commission again, and everyone looked at William.
Just as the latter wanted to speak, he saw Roy also coming out of the house.
"Hey, it's you again! What are you doing to my daughter!"
Roy held an iron shovel; he had heard his daughter's cry just now.
"Dad, your hand!" Jessie exclaimed suddenly.
Roy looked down and saw a black and blue claw mark on his hand.
Immediately afterward, he felt a burst of dizziness. When he looked up again, the people in front of him all turned into ghostly shadows!
"Ah... Ah!"
Seeing that Roy's mind was affected, Silas and the others hurried forward to stop him.
After washing with a bottle of Holy Water, Roy finally returned to normal.
And William's brow furrowed gradually.
After this, Jessie's mother Denise, and the farm's original owner John.
These people all ran out of the house in unison.
They all claimed to have seen "Ghostly Shadows," and they all had a black and blue claw mark on their arms.
Under William's purification, everyone was out of danger and finally believed what Jessie said.
Originally, this was something to be happy about.
But William's frown deepened.
What exactly does this new demon mean?
The injuries on the Solomon family only looked scary, but they wouldn't endanger their lives at all.
Even if left alone, they would disappear on their own after a period of time.
One must know that this one repelled another demon last night, and the latter possessed the ability to set up a sacrificial ritual.
By comparison, the current attacks were a bit like child's play.
Even in William's view, it was a bit deliberate.
"Is this giving me 'free merits' (padding my stats)?" He couldn't help but have this thought.
Before long, not far from the group, a scarlet aura suddenly emerged.
Faint ghostly wailing and howling came from it, heading straight for the Solomon family.
These few sacrifices looked terrified and were stunned on the spot for a moment.
Seeing that William didn't move, Silas took the initiative to step forward.
He took out a Bible and read the exorcism chapter aloud.
But in the next moment, that aura suddenly burst out with powerful force, blasting Silas away instantly.
"Ouch..." The latter lay on the ground covering his butt.
Seeing this, Bent and Zar also took out their holy artifacts respectively.
But the outcome was the same as Silas.
William raised an eyebrow.
Judy on the side was eager to try, and he nodded in agreement.
Thus, under the puzzled gazes of the academy trio, that evil aura was dispersed by Judy with Holy Water.
Immediately afterward, a sand monster condensed in the soil.
But this time, the former was some distance away from the group and did not intend to approach.
Seeing this, William immediately signaled Judy to go forward.
Sure enough, the monster was easily purified by the latter.
The academy trio was shocked!
Are we inferior to a child?
Subsequently, the evil aura appeared again, and it was a little closer to that house, seeming to be waiting for the group.
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