Chapter 40 Orderly and wicked

"Contract Demon-sama?" Nightmare's voice trembled slightly, "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Feige wielded his crossbow from start to finish, keeping a safe distance from the threat. Since the demonic aura had an effect on the nightmare, Feige didn't mind continuing to mislead it, "Are you here specifically to spoil me?"

"No, of course not, how could I know you were here. ”

"Getting to the point!" Feige's eyes narrowed.

"I was summoned, but the contract didn't allow me to reveal other information. Nightmare's eyes narrowed and became brighter, like a slit in the combustion chamber of a boiler, constantly radiating hot energy outward. "My lord, why did you choose such a weak skin?"

"Come here, let me see the deed. Feige didn't answer its questions at all, and kept giving orders. As long as he doesn't say it, the nightmare can't figure out the situation, so the pressure from the devil class can be maintained. The black flaming steed paced slowly on guard, muscles tense and cautious, very alert. Feiqi snorted, imitating the movements of the fork demon in his memory, and slowly stretched out his hand: "Contract review ......"

A Contract Demon cannot view the contract of another Contract Demon, but the contract between a normal Demon and a human is not included. Among the contracts between humans and demons, summoning contracts are the most common one. Through rituals, spells, or items with magical powers, ordinary people can also call on the devil to come and serve them.

Killing enemies, gaining power, receiving guidance, or even just satisfying the desires of the flesh are common for all kinds of summoning contracts. These contracts are also vouched for by the power of Hell Order, but they are made with the "wisdom of the summoner", and are full of loopholes for contract demons - loopholes that can be exploited.

A spark emerges from the Nightmare's soul flame and flies into Feige's palm, turning it into a summoning contract. "The summoner hides his name, and he is quite careful, it seems that he is not an ignorant novice summoner. Fei Qi took a quick look: "So, the task given to you is to use the dream power to absorb and consume all the geistins here, and use the energy generated by them to create a spiritual shock, stun everyone in the Ice Peak Fortress, and at the same time prevent the summoner from touching the geyers?"

"Exactly, my lord. Nightmare looked at the contract that appeared in Feiqi's hand, and finally lowered his head: "There is one person left for me to complete the task of the contract, and that is you." ”

"The contract calls for stuning everyone here, I'm not a human, so you've completed your mission. Feige shook the contract, and then said, "You are not asked to keep it secret, so what are the people who summoned you?"

Except for the Nine Lords of the Nine Layers of Hell and a few Hell Purgatory Generals, the Contract Demon has the final right to interpret the Devil's Contract. After Feige opened his mouth to explain, Nightmare felt the shackles of the summoning spell that bound his soul loosen, so he said, "It's three people, two human men and one elf woman, and the summoner is one of the men. They all wore masks to cover their faces, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, so they couldn't describe them. ”

"How did they summon you?" Feige shook the contract, "There's no compensation clause on it?"

"He has a Nightmare statue of Blood-Flint that absorbs melted gold and summons me. Nightmare was a little uneasy in answering questions about the pay, her front hooves scraping the ground. It secretly swore inwardly that if the contract demon wanted to take away its summoning reward, then it would desperately kill the contract demon's skin, force the contract demon to return to Hell, and then find a way to retrieve the statue and kill people in another place.

"It turned out to be a summoning technique locked on the item, pay first and then work, the pros and cons are not small, it seems that you are quite bold. Feige rolled his eyes, and quickly used the knowledge of the devil to think about countermeasures.

The summoning contract has been read, and with it in your hand, the nightmare is actually easy to dispel. The only one who was still awake in the Ice Peak Fortress was Feiqi, who was not 100% "human" in the first place, so the Nightmare only needed to roar a few more times and clean up the remaining geismas, even if the mission was completed. However, in this way, Feige had to face three summoners alone, two men and one woman.

Those three people knew about the geist, the mission of the guardians of the Ice Peak Fortress, and maybe even the vigilance system and weaknesses of the fortress. Obviously, the attack began on the first day after the winter snow, which was completely unexpected. Neither Old Man Kiplin nor Instructor Kelie expected that the geists would appear so early and so much. They hadn't even started their normal winter duty shifts, and they hadn't even had time to enter the meditation room to manipulate the magic circle when they were caught off guard by the nightmare.

Those three people obviously knew that Nightmare's psychic attack could work, and it seemed that they had a deep understanding of the fortress's magical defense system, and they were definitely not easy enemies to deal with - Feige even suspected that they were people from within the church, otherwise how could they get this information?

The other party has already prepared, just look at their methods: use the geist to strengthen the power of the nightmare, and also ask the nightmare to clean up the geist to prevent accidental collision when he acts. From this, it can be inferred that the three of them must be going to enter the fortress, and it is very likely that they do not have the ability to rely on their own abilities to see the geys, at least not like the people of the Eagle School, who use eagle eye meditation to directly see the geyers and avoid them.

Feige looked at Nightmare's summoning contract again, and thought to himself, "How about doing things for me?"

"Every devil wants to do things for the contract demon, and the soul brought by the contract is the sweetest. Nightmare nodded, "What do you need me to do, and what kind of pay?"

"Those three will affect my arrangements here, so I want the souls of all three of them. Can you do it?"

"They're in my possession of my summoning Bloodflint statue, and I can't attack them - that's what you should know!"

"Stupid, unmotivated thing, does the blood flint lock your intelligence?" Feiqi's eyes shone with the red light of the devil, and his mouth made an evil seductive voice: "You have fulfilled the requirements of the summoning contract, as long as I take the contract and explain this, you must leave the mortal world." So, if you want to get more out of this mortal journey, just listen carefully and do it honestly!"

Nightmare puffed a puff of smoke through her nostrils, lowered her head and leaned over to listen.

"There are no waking 'people' in the Ice Peak Fortress now, you can detonate that geist in the courtyard again. In that instant, you're consuming the spirit, stuning everyone, and at the same time – note the wording of the contract – while avoiding the summoner from touching the spirit. See, this refers not to the entire summoning period, but to the same time you complete the previous two missions. ”

"So, you are no longer protected by the summoning contract, and you should leave the mortal world. But I can summon you to do things! I have a paladin's soul contract here - don't stare at me with such big eyes, stupid horses who have never seen the world. Such contracts are rare, valuable, and worth the effort. So, the three guys who summoned you and got in my way had to be killed! You brought them in, and you could not attack the owner of the statue, but the other two were fine, and you were no longer affected by the summoning contract, i.e. you could use the geist. ”

"Got it, if you don't understand, or if you can't do it, get out of here, don't delay my business. With a flick of his wrist, Feige summoned Gresham's Paladin Contract. Dark brown, silver-edged, gold-filigree hanging spikes. Seeing this, Nightmare's mouth began to drop all sorts of red burning cinders......

Fei Qi shook the contract, and said with a kind and kind smile of the devil: "Three for one, this contract can be ripe and picked within two years." You only have one chance to answer the question right away: Do you do it or not?"

",,!" Nightmare nodded, "It's my pleasure to serve the Lords." ”

"It's not an honor, it's a devil's contract. Feige and Nightmare looked at each other and nodded, and a new devil's pact was made. Nightmare lures the three summoners into the trap according to Feige's method, helping Feige harvest the souls of all three of them so that it can get the Paladin Contract - limited space to write this relatively brief statement.

Nightmare turned and left, and Feige turned around and began to prepare. Working with the devil is fraught with risks, and many people believe that the risk lies in not being able to understand the contract and being easily exploited by the devil. But in reality, the biggest danger is that people believe they can avoid this risk with enough intelligence and caution.

Self-confidence is true, and there are people who have sufficient intelligence and caution to avoid contractual risks – although such people are very rare. The devil does keep the contract, but the devil's more important nature is evil. Those who are wise and prudent enough put intelligence and prudence on the contract, and the devil is in the realm outside the contract, with a completely evil mind, to figure out how to harm people.

Therefore, it is not the intellect that can really solve this problem, but the wisdom of "not dealing with the devil". Just like the three summoners, they have the intelligence and resources to do the nightmares' work, but the evil devil will still be waiting for them on the road ahead.

Fei Evil Devil Qi rushed to the weapons room as fast as he could, ripped off his cloak as a baggage, and loaded three crossbows into it. There were actually more crossbows in the weapons room, as well as an abundance of armor and weapons, but he didn't have time to set them up. With the four crossbows on his back, and two bear traps, that's all Feige's weapons.

He alone could not defend the entire castle, so he could only pick the most important places. As he ran around with his weapons on his back, he kept wondering what the goal of those three guys would be? Ice Peak Fortress was not a nobleman's castle, there was no treasure trove here, and there was nothing of value here. There are a lot of crossbows, bows and arrows in the arsenal, and even siege-level crossbows and giant crossbows, which can be ...... What do you want those things to do attacking a nobleman's castle?

You can't think from the perspective of what treasure you have, but you have to guess what they lack from the perspective of who the other party is, what skills they have, and what means they use. The answers to the above three questions are two men and one woman, know the information about the fortress, and summon nightmares. They have mastered the Nightmare's summoning statue, which can summon and dispel Nightmares at any time, and is reasonably safe, but they still wear masks in front of Nightmares and do not reveal their names, which can only be said that they are used to being cautious.

Feige's heart was pounding, and he already had the answer. There is a place in the Icepeak Fortress that is very attractive to some people, including Feige.

He went straight to the library, and nine times out of ten, those three guys were going there!