Chapter 29: Substitute Coin
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Chen Zhao walked into the village, where over ten demons had already gathered.
They were all Syngenors with multifarious looks.
“The honored living, can you accept my demonic ritual implent? I’m willing to give you my life. I’ll not retreat even in the face of a god.”
“The almighty living, this is my demonic ritual implent. My strength is limitless and I can beco your best fighter.”
There was already a demon who was shalessly describing Chen Zhao as being almighty. However, the demon who had claid himself to be all-powerful was only a dwarf. He was at most 1.4 ters tall despite being quite burly indeed.
“You must be the sage from the human world. Please accept my demonic ritual implent...”
“I can almost see Satan’s blessing circling around you. Please accept my demonic ritual implent...”
Chen Zhao was forced to accept over ten demonic ritual implents, all of which were from Syngenors.
Of course, only Syngenors lived in the village.
Those with noble bloodlines would not stay in such a desolate place anyway.
Almost every demon who had a demonic ritual implent gave one to Chen Zhao.
Demonic ritual implents were ford when demons injected their own powers into sothing. Those with high status would clearly use expensive materials. For example, Beelzebub’s black blade seed to be exquisitely designed.
On the other hand, Syngenors were powerless and poor, so the materials they would use were also very ordinary. It could be a shining stone, a demonic plant, or even just the soil in Hell.
Demonic ritual implents contained a portion of the demons’ powers. They could also be used to summon demons.
In Hell, when a demon offered his ritual implent to a superior demon, he was effectively devoting himself to the superior demon.
The superior demon could use the ritual implent to summon him at any ti and any place.
Therefore, when the Syngenors gave their demonic ritual implents to Chen Zhao, they were pledging loyalty to him.
However, Chen Zhao would not be able to enslave these Syngenors like a superior demon, because these inferior demons were unable to stay in the human world for too long. They could perhaps stay for an hour, or a day, but not much longer than that.
They seed to be so passionate only because items in the human world were extrely precious in Hell.
Even a potted plant could an a lot of profit to them, provided the plant could survive in Hell.
To be honest, they were just like foreign workers to Chen Zhao.
Compared to these Syngenors who had demonic ritual implents, there was another group of Syngenors who did not even have the power to create one. Their bodies were fragile, perhaps similar to a human, or even weaker.
Although they also wished to be recognized by Chen Zhao, they knew that it was highly unlikely.
If the forr were like the poor, the latter were like refugees.
In any case, they were also curious about the differences between the fabled living and the incomplete souls they could occasionally obtain.
“Beelzebub, did my soul or body enter Hell?”
“Body.”
“Can humans survive the environnt in Hell?”
“No, it’s just that you are protected by the rules. If one day you are powerful enough to open the gate to Hell, you will still not be able to survive in Hell. It’s just like how I, a demon, must turn into a human-world species when entering the human world. Such a change is passive, not sothing I can decide. If I enter the human world in my true demonic form, I’ll die very quickly just like a fish out of water.”
“You know how in many human films, there’s always a villain who wants to open the gate to Hell and release demons into the human world to create chaos. Are they all fake?”
“If there’s really soone who can open the gate to Hell for an extended period of ti, he can indeed create so chaos. The atmosphere of Hell will gush into the human world and create a Hell-like environnt in a region. However, it’s clearly impossible to affect an entire country, or even the whole world. Not even demon kings can do that.”
Suddenly, an emaciated, green-skinned demon walked up to Chen Zhao and Beelzebub.
“The great Lord Vito and the noble living, I’m the humble Raz. Can I offer you a trade?”
“What trade?”
“He’s a demon goblin. They all like to collect weird things and trade them everywhere.”
“What do you have?”
“This is my fine collection: a talking mirror. I heard that there’s a story in the human world, about soone whom I think is called Snow White. In the story there’s a Magic Mirror which can speak. My mirror isn’t that magical, but it can speak.”
“Don’t be tricked. This talking mirror is made by simply imprisoning a soul in the mirror. It’s worthless and nobody knows when the soul will dissipate.”
“Err... If you don’t like the talking mirror, I still have a wish ring. Look... this ring contains a powerful demonic spirit. He can fulfill many wishes.”
Chen Zhao looked at Beelzebub. “Is this real?”
“Of course not. It’s actually just a demonic spirit which knows illusion spells. Moreover, before we even talk about whether the demonic spirit can really fulfill wishes, if you bring the ring back to the human world and then summon the spirit, it will die imdiately. After all, only a handful of demons can survive in the human world, like a large demon or a demon king, or sothing like the Soulbringers.”
Chen Zhao stared at the green-skinned demon Raz. “Are you trying to fool ? Don’t you have sothing that’s actually useful?”
“Err... Yes, of course I do, but may I ask what price you’re willing to pay, the honored living?”
“If you have sothing, show first. I don’t even know what it is, and you’re already bargaining with ?”
“I have a substitute coin. Please take a look; Lord Vito, you too.”
“Oh! It’s really a substitute coin.” Beelzebub took the substitute coin in surprise.
“What’s its use?”
“It can block fatal damage for you once.”
“Huh? That sounds great. Does it have any flaws?”
“It has restrictions on the user, that is, it’s useless for organisms which are too powerful, like . But it should work fine for you.”
Chen Zhao took the substitute coin. “How much do you want?”
“The humble I hope to obtain at least one year worth of demonic crystals.”
“Err...” Chen Zhao glanced at Beelzebub. “Did you tell him that I have demonic crystals.”
“Last ti, I used demonic crystals to purchase sothing from him, so he might have guessed it. He’s a profiteer.”
“So do you think this price is reasonable?”
“Yes. Each of you gets what you want. Demonic crystals are priceless for us demons, but you have plenty of those, while the substitute coin is also extraordinarily useful to you, so I think it’s acceptable. Each takes what he needs.”
“Alright, I accept this trade, but I don’t have any demonic crystals with now. Help pay for it first.”
“Do I get any interest?”
“No.”
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