"Let me introduce you first, I'm Mephistopheles, just a businessman. ”

Mephistopheles bowed to Liaya.

"For a noble driver like you, it's just a small person who can't be seen, so please don't take it to heart. ”

Mephistopheles said this, and with a kind smile on his face, he didn't look any threat.

But Liaya didn't feel the slightest sincerity in these words, she glanced at the bodily fluids on the dagger in her hand, Hong Kong-style with the identity of the other party's demon, Liaya would never let her guard down. And, for some reason, she felt as if she had ever heard the name Mephistopheles.

Mephistopheles also followed Liaya's line of sight to see the dagger, the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little helpless, but it was still friendly, as if it was not himself who had been stabbed just now.

"It seems that it is impossible to convince you of my sincerity, even then I sincerely hope that you will take the initiative to withdraw from this incident, I have no intention of making enemies of you, as long as you are willing to quit, or do nothing, then I will not hurt you in the slightest. ”

Mephistopheles responded to the churning elven fire once again.

"Who do you think you're talking to? ”

This time the flames were even more intense than the last time, and the crimson flames enveloped Liaya's body, swallowing her into it, and Liaya, who was in the flames, began to assimilate with the flames, her skin, hair, and even the clothes on her body were transformed into flames.

Whether it's her status as a goblin or the status of Liaya's ruler, there's no way Liaya can accept the persuasion of Mephistopheles, a demon, and even more so that demons are never something to be trusted.

"Really?"

Mephistopheles dusted off the spark in his face with his hand and sighed helplessly.

"Although I am very reluctant, I can only be rough at this time. ”

Mephistopheles raised her hand, but it was still too fast for Liaya, who was already prepared, and Liaya, who was wrapped in flames, came to Mephistopheles in the blink of an eye, grabbed Mephistopheles's wrist with her hand that turned into flames, and the heat of the elven fire instantly ignited Mephistopheles's clothes, followed by the stench of the flames scorching her skin.

Even though his entire hand was burned by the flames, Mephistopheles was still unhurried and calm.

"The so-called magic should be something extremely simple, like elven magic that manipulates the elements, and it is good to create it and then drive it as you like. But at some point, the fools began to add unnecessary restrictions to mana, limiting the form, the way, and the effect. ”

The flames spread rapidly on Mephistopheles's body, and in a few moments he was wrapped all over his body, and under the burning of the flames, his skin was long gone, and his muscles and fat were exposed to the flames, and he quickly cowered and carbonized, only the eyes and the mouth were still moving.

"It's true that the conditions attached make magic stronger in all aspects of touch, but with that comes the loss of flexibility and creativity, really...... No way. ”

Eventually, even the eyeballs and mouth were deformed and destroyed in the flames, and the demon named Mephistopheles was transformed into a disgusting charred corpse in less than two minutes.

Releasing the hand holding the charred corpse, Liaya's palm still had the same touch as before, and her nose was full of the stench of burning fat, all of which proved that the demon who claimed to be a merchant had been burned by himself and had indeed been killed. But for some reason, she always felt that something was missing in her heart, as if something had been missed by herself.

"It's like this. ”

Very suddenly, the charred corpse in front of him opened his eyes again, and the eyes that should have been burned by the flames were as bright as before, and Liaya could even see her own reflection in them.

As Mephistopheles opened his eyes, the charred corpse began to crumble, looking no different from dead ashes, but no one would have felt that this was a precursor to Mephistopheles' disappearance, because he still had that calm tone at this time.

"It's just a simple illusion, and instead of clumsily formulating the contents of the illusion, leaving everything to the imagination of the person in the illusion, it will achieve better results, after all...... When I think what I see is true, even if it is full of flaws, it is still true. ”

The corpse was gone, and Liaya stood in place, holding a short sword in her hand, still in her physical form, Mephistopheles still standing in her original position, nothing changed.

Leaya's palms trembled slightly, it was because Mephistopheles had humiliated her, but it was undeniable that she was starting to feel terrified. She didn't know when Mephistopheles had cast her illusion, and she didn't even feel like she had been hit, which made her confidence, which she had built on strength begin to crumble.

Fear was only for a moment, and Liaya knew what she had to do, whether it was for her country or herself, she couldn't retreat, she couldn't ...... There is no way back.

But what should I do? In the face of this level of illusion, whether it is defense or counterattack, it is pale, even if Mephistopheles dispels his magic before, it is just an illusion, but from the beginning to the end, he doesn't even know what he is going to do? What do you see, which are realities and which are illusions?

After a short hesitation, but it was a very huge loophole, Mephistopheles smiled and raised her hand, snapped her fingers again, and a magical light appeared around her, which was a huge magic array carved into the wall.

Liaya only felt a moment of vertigo, in a state of sensitivity to the magic, and she could clearly understand that it was the discomfort caused by the forced pumping of the magic in her body.

Her body, which had been living on magic, suddenly lost her magic powers, and she experienced discomfort similar to withdrawal symptoms, and the intense dizziness and detachment caused her to fall to the ground.

"You...... What did you do?"

To be precise, Leaya knew what Mephistopheles did, but she didn't know how.

Magic is generated from the soul, and it stands to reason that as long as the soul exists, the magic will not be cut off, but it is not a situation where it is impossible to create a pseudo-vacuum, such as forcibly extracting magic power at a faster rate than it was generated despite one's will.

It's easy to say, but it's not a common difficulty to do.

"It's just a trivial insurance measure, not something to brag about. ”

Mephistopheles walked over and lifted Liaya up from the ground and placed her against the wall.

"You should believe me a little more, I said I didn't want to hurt you, it's not a lie. ”

There is no difference between excessive self-humility and false lies, and Mephistopheles, the demon, has never said a word of truth from the beginning, and Liaya suddenly has a feeling that the demon in front of her is more foggy than Lucia and Abraham.