"Master Contract Demon?" Nightmare's voice trembled slightly, "What are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" Feich held a crossbow from beginning to end, maintaining a safe and threatening distance. Since the demonic aura had an impact on the nightmare, Feich didn't mind continuing to mislead it: "Are you here specifically to ruin my business?"
"No, of course not, how could I know you're here."
"Tell me the point!" Feiqi stared at her eyes.
"I was summoned, but the contract did not allow me to disclose other information." Nightmare's eyes narrowed and became brighter, like the slits of the boiler combustion chamber, constantly radiating hot energy outward. "Sir, why did you choose such a weak skin?"
"Come here, let me see the contract." Feiqi did not answer its questions at all and kept giving orders. As long as he didn't say it, the nightmare would be unable to figure out the situation, and the pressure from the devil class could be maintained. The black flame horse kept alert and paced slowly, with its muscles tense, cautious, and very alert. Feiqi snorted, imitating the movements of the fork-way demon in memory, and slowly reached out to the point: "Contract Review..."
A contract demon cannot view the contract of another contract demon, but the contracts signed by ordinary devils and humans are not listed here. Among the contracts between humans and devils, summoning contracts are the most common. Through rituals, spells or some items with magical power, ordinary people can also call on the devil to come and serve themselves.
Kill the enemy, gain power, get guidance, and even just to satisfy the desires of the flesh, various summoning contracts are common. These contracts are also guaranteed by the power of hell, but they are signed with the "summoner's wisdom". For the contract demon, there are loopholes that can be exploited.
A little spark was split out from the nightmare's soul flame, flew to Feiqi's palm, and turned into a summoning contract. "The summoner hides his name and is very careful. It seems that he is not an ignorant summoner." Feiqi quickly browsed: "So, the task given to you is to use dream power to absorb and consume all the wandering souls here, use the energy it generates to create spiritual impact, hit everyone in the Ice Peak Fortress, and avoid the summoner from encountering the wandering souls?"
"That's true, sir." Nightmare looked at the contract that appeared in Feiqi's hand and finally lowered her head: "I'm still one person away from me to complete the task of the contract, and that's you."
"The contract requires everyone here to be stunned. I am not a human, so you have completed the mission." Feiqi shook the contract and said, "There is no need to keep you confidential, so what do you think of the people who summon you?"
Except for the nine lords of the Nine Hells and a few priests of the Demon Refining Generals, the Contract Demon has the final right to interpret the Devil Contract. After Feiqi spoke out, Nightmare felt that the summoning spell shackles that bound their souls were loose, so he said: "It's three people, two human men and one elf woman, and the summoner is one of them. They all wore masks covering their faces, and they couldn't see their appearance clearly, so they couldn't describe it."
"How did they summon you?" Feiqi shook the contract: "There is no remuneration clause above?"
"He has a nightmare statue of blood and flint, which can absorb melted gold and summon me." Nightmare was a little uneasy when answering the question about reward, and its front hooves kept digging the ground. Its heart secretly swore that if the contract demon wanted to take 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 grab the statue and change the place to harm others.
"It turns out that it is a summoning technique that is locked on items. Pay first and then work. The pros and cons are quite good. It seems that you are quite brave." Feiqi's eyes rolled and he quickly used the devil's knowledge to think about countermeasures.
After seeing the summoning contract, and holding it in your hand, Nightmare is actually easy to get rid of. The only one who is still awake in the Ice Peak Fortress is Feiqi. He is not a 100% "person", so Nightmare only needs to roar a few more times and clear out the remaining wandering souls, even if the task is completed. However, in this way, Feiqi will face two men and one woman and three summoners alone.
The three people knew about the Wandering Souls, the mission of the guardians of the Ice Peak Fortress, and may even know the fortress's warning system and weaknesses. It is obvious that the attack began on the first day after the winter snow, which was completely unexpected. Neither Kiplin nor Instructor Kelly expected that Wandering Souls would appear so early and so many. Before they even started their normal winter shifts, they even had time to enter the meditation room to control the magic circle, they were caught off guard by Nightmare.
The three people clearly knew that Nightmare's mental attack could work. It seemed that they had a deep understanding of the fortress's magic defense system and were definitely not easy to deal with enemies - Feiqi even suspected that they were people within the church, otherwise how could they get such information?
The other party was prepared for a long time, and you will know it by looking at their methods: using wandering souls to strengthen the power of nightmare, and also requiring nightmare to clean up the wandering souls, and beware of accidentally hitting them when they act. From this, it is inferred that the three of them must have entered the fortress, and they are likely not able to rely on their own abilities to see wandering souls. At least they cannot directly see the wandering souls with Hawkeye meditation and avoid them like people from the Eagle School.
Feiqi looked at Nightmare's summoning contract again and thought about it: "How about doing things for me?"
"Every devil wants to do things for the contract devil, and the soul brought by the contract is the sweetest." Nightmare nodded, "What do I need to do and what kind of reward is there?"
"Those three people will affect my arrangements here, so I want the souls of the three of them. Can you do it?"
"They have my summoned blood-fire statue, and I can't attack them - you should know this!"
"Fanny, something without motivation, has the blood and flint locked your intelligence?" Feiqi's eyes shined with the red light of the devil, and his mouth made an evil tempting voice: "You have completed the request for the summoning contract. As long as I use the contract to explain this, you must leave the mortal world. So, if you still want to gain more benefits from this mortal journey, listen carefully and do it honestly!"
Nightmare sprayed smoke from his nostrils, lowered his head and leaned over and pricked his ears to listen.
"There is no 'people' that are awake now. You will detonate the wandering soul in the courtyard. At that moment, you will consume the wandering soul and knock everyone unconscious. At the same time - pay attention to the wording of the contract - and avoid the summoner from encountering the wandering soul. Do you understand? At the same time, this does not refer to the entire summoning period, but to the same time you complete the previous two tasks."
"So, then you will no longer be protected by the summoning contract and should leave the mortal world. However, I can summon you to do things! I have a soul contract for the Paladin here - don't look at me with such a big eyes, stupid horses who have never seen the world. Such contracts are rare, valuable, and worth some effort. So, the three guys who summon you and are in my trouble must be killed! You bring them in, work together inside and outside! You can't attack the holder of the statue, but the other two are fine, and you are no longer affected by the summoning contract, that is, you can use wandering souls."
"Do you understand? If you don't understand, or can't do it, get out of here and don't delay my business." Feiqi rolled his wrist and summoned Gresham's Paladin contract. Dark brown, silver edges, and golden silk hanging ears. Seeing this thing, all kinds of red burning cinders began to fall down from Nightmare's mouth...
Feiqi shook the contract and said with a devil's kind and kind smile: "Two changes, this contract can be picked in two years. You only have one chance to answer this question immediately: Do you do it or not?"
"Do it! Do it, do it, do it!" Nightmare nodded: "It is my honor to serve the adults."
"This is not an honor, this is the devil's contract." Feiqi and Nightmare nodded at each other, and a new devil contract was reached. Nightmare led the three summoners into the trap according to Feiqi's method to help Feiqi harvest their three souls, so that it can obtain the Paladin contract - due to limited space, it can only write this simple statement.
Nightmare turned around and Fitch also turned around and began to prepare. Cooperating with the devil is full of risks. Many people believe that the risk is that they cannot understand the contract and are easily exploited by the devil. But in fact, the biggest danger is that people believe that they can avoid this risk with sufficient intelligence and caution.
Confidence is right, and there are indeed people who have enough intelligence and prudence to avoid the risks of contracts - although such people are very rare. The devil does abide by contracts, but the more important essence of the devil is evil. Those who are sufficiently intelligent and prudence put intelligence and prudence on contracts, while the devil uses a thoroughly evil mind to think about how to harm people.
So, what really solves this problem is not intelligence, but wisdom of "don't deal with the devil". Just like the three summoners, they have enough intelligence and resources to make the nightmare work, but the evil devil will still wait for them on the road ahead.
Fei, the evil devil Qi, rushed to the weapon room as fast as he could, pulled off his cloak as a bag, and put in three crossbows. In fact, there were more crossbows in the weapon room, and also rich armor and weapons, but he had no time to arrange them. In addition, there were four crossbows on his back, plus two bear-catching clips, this was Feiqi's entire weapon.
He could not defend the entire castle alone, so he could only choose the key places. When he ran wildly with his weapons on his back, he kept thinking, where would the target of those three guys be? The Ice Peak Fortress is not a castle for the nobles, there are no treasure houses, and there are no valuable things. There are many crossbows and arrows in the arsenal, and there are even siege-level crossbows and giant crossbows, but...what do you want those things? Are you attacking a castle for a certain noble?
We cannot think from the perspective of what treasures we have. We must speculate on what they lack from who the other party is, what skills and what means they have as the starting point. The answers to the above three questions are two men and one woman, who knows the fortress's intelligence and will summon nightmare. They have mastered the summoning statue of nightmare and can summon and disperse nightmare at any time. It is logically very safe, but they still wear masks in front of nightmare and do not reveal their names. This can only be said that they are used to being cautious.
Feich's heart was pounding, and he already had the answer. There was a place in the Ice Peak Fortress that was very attractive to some people, including Feich.
Chapter completed!