Chapter 416: Accumulation (1/5)
At Silas's suggestion, Nero seemed to open the door to a new world......
From this day on, a strange foursome appeared in Red Grave City, V, Nero, Silas, and of course, Nicole, Nicole came together as logistical support, because for the next period of time, Nero planned to hunt demons in Red Grave City to increase his strength.
Although they were defeated by Yuri, Nero and V also realized that Yuri did not seem to be willing to leave the Reverse Kabbalah Tree, and he seemed to be assisting the Reverse Kabbalah Tree to absorb blood and souls, so that the fruit could ripen faster.
The human military is still debating fiercely whether to use powerful nuclear weapons to attack the Reverse Kabbalah Tree, but the human civil organizations have begun to take action, some of the same demon hunter organizations as Dan Nero, constantly appear in the Red Grave City, and are also hunting demons and monsters, although these witchers are not like Dante and Nero, they have demonic blood and can use magic power, but they can rely on the guns in their hands, bows and crossbows and machetes to achieve good hunting results, after all, they are responsible for preying on humans, Basically, they are low-level demons and monsters, and in the face of these low-level demons and monsters, human weapons are still very useful.
It's just that the purpose of these demon hunter organizations is not necessarily simple, and there may be a lofty purpose such as defending humans, but more importantly, it is to obtain the organs and objects on the demons, and the materials on these demons can often be sold for a lot of money on the black market......
Nero and his party also encountered several demon hunter organizations along the way, but Nero generally chose to avoid them and not have contact with each other...... In fact, whether it is Dante or Nero, they generally avoid showing their demonic powers in front of ordinary people as much as possible? So when Silas noticed Nero's thoughts, he thought it was very strange and asked Nero, "Why is that?" ”
"I just don't want to be taken for a monster...... Nero replied casually.
"But you're stronger than those people, aren't you? The view that the strong fear the weak? What is the rationale for this? Silas was puzzled.
"Humans are social animals? But when they find out that there is an incomprehensible person in their group, they will treat him as an outlier and reject him in turn......" V took up and explained, "Nero, he just doesn't want to be ostracized by humans. ”
"What a strange behavior......" Silas scratched his hair? Frowning, he said, "It's completely incomprehensible." ”
Such an idea? Completely different from the philosophy that Silas was exposed to in the abyss world, the demon's philosophy is that the more powerful the being, the more worthy of respect and awe? Silas received it as a child? Is this the idea? So when he was close to Dante and Nero? Except that the two of them have the same half-demon blood as him? Also because Dante and Nero are stronger than him? After getting the opportunity, he will unconsciously move closer to the strong.
So he couldn't understand Nero's behavior at all......
There is a generation gap between him and Nero, and Nero also feels that he has a generation gap with Silas, because in the last few days of demon hunting, Silas also took action? Attack those demons mercilessly? Executioner scythe wielding? Kill the devil, that's called a Lisuo.
"Silas? Aren't you also from the abyssal world? Why is it not psychologically burdensome to kill demons? Nero finally couldn't help but ask during the rest after a hunt.
"Huh? What psychological burden? Silas was stunned by the question and said, "Isn't that normal?" Demons and demons will fight each other! ”
"What does Nero mean? Isn't there any notion of the same kind between demons and demons? Nicole interjected next to her.
"No......" Silas tilted his head and thought about it, "Although there is cooperation between demons, my father-in-law said that it is more about the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and it is a matter of course for powerful demons to rule weak demons...... Then again, humans and humans really don't fight each other, right? ”
"Uh......" Nicole and Nero are both stuck, and they don't know how to answer it.
Yes, although there is a similar concept, it is not uncommon for people to fight each other, and even this kind of fighting seems to be more morally worse than demon killing......
Conversations like this would occur daily between Nero and Silas, making both sides aware of the conflict of ideas with the other, but that didn't stop them from hunting demons.
Half a month has passed, and the foursome have hunted nearly a thousand demons during this time, but the number of demons in the entire Red Tomb City has not decreased, but has increased faintly.
This may be caused by Yuri's constant summoning of demons in the Reverse Kabbalah Tree, and the increasing number of demons does not have much impact on Nero and them, but for those demon hunter organizations, the impact is a bit big, although these demon hunters can hunt low-level demons and monsters, but their number is much less than that of demons, once they accidentally provoke more demons than they can handle, it will often lead to huge casualties.
Therefore, in the past half a month, the demon hunter organizations that everyone has encountered have become fewer and fewer, but the military troops have become more.
It's simple to raze a city with a nuclear bomb, but once the Red Tomb City is destroyed, it means that hundreds of thousands or even millions of civilians will become homeless, and how to settle so many refugees at that time is the most troublesome thing...... So after the argument, the military still felt that it would be better to try not to use nuclear bombs if they could.
Fortunately, after so many days of observation, humans have also found that the huge demon tree has not changed much, although demons continue to appear from the tree to prey on humans, but its harm seems to be ...... That's all?
So in the end, the military sent a large number of troops into the Red Tomb City to clear out the demons, which was still very effective, and they once compressed the range of the demons' predation by a large circle.
But the closer you get to the range of the Reverse Kabbalah Tree, the more demons you encounter, so gradually the advance of the military troops is also greatly hindered, and a large number of guns are fired every day, and similarly, a large number of soldiers are killed and wounded every day.
It seems that some progress has been made, but Nero and Nicole both realize that this is not intentional by the demons, after all, many civilians have fled, and these human soldiers who continue to enter have become the main objects of the demons to provide blood to the tree of reverse Kabbal......
However, knowing that it was a trap, Nero couldn't do anything in the face of this situation, they couldn't find the commander of the military and let them evacuate, right? People don't know Nero at all, how can they listen to them?
"So...... We still have to solve the root cause as soon as possible! Nero looked at the great tree of reverse Kabbalah and sighed, "But my strength is not enough...... I don't know what happened to Dante and Letithtracy, in case they are really dead, then I ......"
"Don't worry!" Nicole patted Nero on the shoulder and said, "You have to believe that the man is not so easy to die, he is holding it, but my grandmother made him a weapon...... Let's not talk so much, hurry up and help me debug it. ”
In addition to hunting demons and then devouring demons' souls to enhance their own magical power, Nicole has also been using the materials obtained from those dead demons to make weapons for Nero these days, Nicole plans to make a prosthetic arm for Nero, so that his right hand can be restored to combat effectiveness, but pure technological materials are not compatible with magic, so they can only be replaced by materials such as demon horns or demon bones.
Nicole's right wrist prosthesis is still in the debugging stage and is not useful for the time being, and in the same way, Nero's magic has grown, but he still feels that it is still insufficient.
"Here you go!" V came back, panting, a huge black demon crow rested on his shoulder, the corners of the crow's mouth were still stained with purple blood, after gasping for a while, V reached out and handed out two pitch-black soul light clusters towards Nero, and said, "Kill two ......"
"You're fighting again?" Nero took the soul light cluster, frowned and said to V, "Your body is fine, right?" ”
"It's okay, I can still hold ......" V closed his eyes and rested against the car door, while the black demon crow on his shoulder sneered at this time: "Hey, hey, isn't it?" This guy almost died......"
"Shut up! Griffin! V reprimanded.
The demon crow named Griffin chuckled and stopped talking.
"Let's eat it!" V then said to Nero, "Silas is still hunting on the other side, and he may be able to bring back more later." ”
Nero took these two soul light clusters, looked at the pitch-black light, sighed and said, "To be honest, I really don't want to devour the souls of these demons, this pitch-black light makes me very uncomfortable, every time I swallow them, I feel the demonic blood in my body stirring...... Anyway, if such a soul eats too much, I won't become a real demon too, right? ”
"Who knows? We don't have a choice right now. V replied.
Thinking of Dante, whose life and death were unknown, Nero didn't say much, gritted his teeth, stuffed the two souls into his mouth, and then felt the two souls turn into a thin stream of magic in his body and melt into his body......
Silas's advice to Nero is of course well-intentioned, but he doesn't understand one thing because he doesn't know much about souls: the soul of a demon is an "evil soul", and there are too many negative forces in such a soul......