In the underground waterways, Claire finally got a little better after half a day's rest, although her head no longer hurts, but there is still some dizziness, the sequelae of the use of gems in the kingdom are very peculiar, no matter what potion is taken, it has no effect, and she can only rely on a closed mind to wait for it to slowly subside.

"How long have I been asleep. ”

"Nearly 16 hours┉┉"

Hearing that she had been asleep for so long, Claire was a little incredulous and muttered, "How can this be!"

Although it was an overuse of gems, Claire believed that this time it was not as long as before, so how could it take so long for her to recover.

"It seems that the power of the gem, when used, wears out your soul and body. ”

“┉┉┉┉”

Claire was silent, although she had signed a contract with the demon, Claire also knew what the other party knew about herself, and the less the better.

A smile appeared on Misty's face like flowing slime: "There is no need to hide my contractor, as a higher dimensional being, I can feel the power contained in this gem, your body and soul as a mortal are not accommodating enough to continue to use this gem for a long time, otherwise your body and soul will be torn apart under the impact of power." ”

"Then why am I this time┉┉" Seeing that the other party already knew the secret, Claire said without saying anything.

"The power in the gem is more activated by your mind, which can allow you and other mortals to use super-level spells and various special abilities, and the more powerful the spells and abilities, the more you need to activate more power in the gem, you initially thought that it was the length of time to use the gem to determine the size of the sequelae caused by the wrong judgment, if you just need to learn spells and accelerate meditation, the power of the gem can help you do it without too much, but the previous real name contract is a powerful spell left over from the second generation and is even closely related to the rules of the world。 However, you tried to parse the contract with the power of the gem at that time, and naturally activated much more power than you normally in that short period of time, which caused extremely serious sequelae. ”

"Serious!?" Claire suddenly felt that her body seemed to be very weak, even though her head didn't hurt much anymore, but her whole body felt like she was out of strength: "What happened to my body when I fell asleep?"

Misty pointed to the basin of water, which was almost completely stained red, and even the towels hanging on the side were red.

"There is a large rupture of capillaries throughout the body. The musculature was unusually distorted, but fortunately it did not hurt the internal organs and bones, and your spatial ring happened to have a healing potion of extremely high purity, so I let you take a bottle while you were asleep, otherwise your body would not have been able to recover in such a quick time. ”

Misty gently picked up a ring, Claire looked at it and found that it was the ring she had stolen from the beautiful noble girl in the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce before, she only knew that it was full of all kinds of gold and silver treasures, but she didn't expect that the ring also contained potions.

"Don't mess with my things!" Claire snatched the ring from Misty's hand.

If the demon was holding something else, Claire probably wouldn't mind that, but when she thought of that girl with a peerless temperament and appearance. Claire feels guilty when she thinks that the girl might grieve and lose her ring.

Misty didn't mind Claire's actions: "Your luck is very good, this bottle of healing potion is a high-purity potion that I have never seen before, and it has cured the damage to your body in a very short time, but the weakness and exhaustion that act on the soul cannot be treated by the potion and can only be slowly recovered by time." ”

"I know┉┉" The experienced Claire nodded, knowing the characteristics of the sequelae best.

"The pharmacists who were able to concoct such high-purity potions almost went back to the era of 10,000 years ago, and it was hard to imagine that there were still great apothecaries among mortals today. ”

Claire was stunned for a moment: "Ten thousand years?

"I'm curious where you got this potion. ”

For a while, Claire buried her head and muttered quietly: "I stole ┉┉"

"Where did you steal it?"

"It has nothing to do with you!"

Claire put the ring in her pocket, stood up a little weakly, poured some water, drank it, and waited until it was a little better before looking at the demon and said with mixed emotions: "Thank you for taking care of me when I was unconscious." ”

"You need no thanks, I am only fulfilling my contractual obligations. ”

"Not a likable guy at all. Claire shook her head helplessly and asked, "Did anything happen when I was unconscious?"

Misty shook her head, "I'm sorry. My power is first and foremost confined to a small space in this small space, at most to an area near this waterway. For the time being, you can't reach farther outside, unless you can expand the space further. ”

This is obviously impossible for Claire, now his head is still a little drowsy, and he has experienced such a heavy sequelae, if he continues to use the gem, he is afraid that he will die next, and now he must take a break and try to recover some of his body. In such a debilitating situation, if something happens, you will be in trouble. Ignoring the demons beside her, Claire took out some of the brown bread she had just bought, smeared some of the remaining butter and dried meat, and ate it.

After sleeping for so long, Claire was indeed a little hungry, and three times five divided by two solved two large slices of bread and a bag of dried meat.

Looking at the demon sitting on the side, Claire took the butcher shop in her hand and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

"No, I don't need to eat mortal food, for the negative feelings of human beings and the depraved soul are necessary to sustain my existence. ”

Claire glared at the demon and withdrew her hand and ate it herself: "Mmmm~ It seems that being a demon is not a good thing." ”

"What do you mean by a good deed?"

"Delicious stuff. Have you ever tasted it?"

"I don't need to eat mortal food, but I can eat it, but it doesn't mean anything to me. ”

"Are you going to be hungry?"

"We don't have that feeling, appetite is mortal desire, and our desire is more manifested in the deeper desires of the heart, and most of them are negative and sinful desires for mortals. ”

Claire took a sip of water and swallowed her food and asked, "For example?"

"For example, I long to devour more fallen souls and become stronger, I want all the mortals in this city to believe in me, I want mortals to fall into the extreme side of their hearts┉┉"

Listening to Misty's account, Claire couldn't help but ask with confusion, "No wonder the world calls you demons." But is there any point in you doing this? Or is it just because you need to do it, as you said you need fallen souls to sustain your existence. ”

"Part of it is because of the need to maintain my existence, and part of it is because of my desires. ”

"Is it really just for desire!?"

Misty said without hesitation: "Satisfying one's own desires is a proof of one's own existence for our demons, and nothing is more important to us than satisfying one's desires."

Misty paused abruptly halfway through.

"What's wrong?" asked Claire, confused.

Misty's body slid towards the door of the room like slime, "There are many people who have entered the waterway, and there are a few of them who have magic fluctuations and are mages!"

I've been found here!?

Claire was suddenly startled and hurriedly activated the protective circle that was placed outside, but the result was nothing, and it was obvious that the circle had been dismantled. After determining that the circle was invalid, Claire didn't have time to think about how the other party found her here, and now Claire's first thought was to run away as soon as possible.

Even if she got this magical gem, Claire still knew that she was just a low-level mage who had barely reached level 7 in magic, and it was okay to hide in a dark place and sneak attack others, and face a few mages and a group of well-trained guards head-on, she had absolutely no chance of winning! Not to mention that the city is also full of extremely terrifying monsters, and even a powerful warrior as powerful as Longa still lost to the arena champion named Gelkate with the help of the power of the gem.

"Get out of here, can you sense the location of these people?"

"Absolutely. ”

Claire quickly packed up, put some magic books that had not had time to read and learn into the space ring, including the skull of the orc Longar placed on the side, Claire quickly applied a 'stealth' and 'night vision' to herself, and ran to the door to watch quietly, there was still no one in the dark waterway, and there was no footsteps at all, as if no one had come in at all.

"Please keep allowing the gem to break through a small portion of the spatial blockade, or I will have to return to the abyss under the pressure of the Law of the Interface. ”

"Got it, I'll try to do it. ”

Originally, Claire didn't want to continue to use the power of the gem at this time, but considering that the demon's sensing power was much stronger than herself, Claire didn't care so much and tried to let the power of the activated gem at the minimum break through the so-called spatial blockade as the demon said. The demon's body that followed Claire suddenly writhed and contracted, hovering around Claire's arm, turning into a black bracelet as if violating the principle of matter.

Claire accepted the demon's gesture with a fixed steady, and then rubbed her hands and feet to run deeper into the underground waters. (To be continued.) )