Chapter 175 Demon: Prepare the steamer, I shall steam this tender and delicious Young Dragon.
Making a pact with a demon, demons strictly abide by the contents of the contract; if humans violate the pact, demons are not angry, but rather pleased.
Violating the contract shows that humans are greedy and untrustworthy; such human souls are... more entertaining for demons to toy with.
If demons see value in cultivating the soul of the person they made a pact with, they might secretly stimulate that person's desires until their soul becomes incredibly tantalizing, and only then will the demon descend to feast upon their soul...
As a banquet for themselves.
There are many types of demons, with various demons to be found.
The demon Andre made a contract with... is like the Blood Moon demon...
Blood Moon demons are entirely crimson, with claws like the blood-red crescent of the half-moon, and they revel in consuming fresh blood and souls.
During the Blood Moon night, Blood Moon demons absorb the aura of the blood moon, and ferocious bone spurs grow on their bodies.
This kind of demon is greedy yet rational, taking pleasure in watching their prey struggle in despair.
A middle-ranked Blood Moon demon... might be just a bit stronger than the superhumans of the Human World at the [Golden Wheel] level.
If a Golden Wheel-level superhuman hasn't experienced brutal despair, in battle against a Blood Moon demon, they might be caught off guard... and be cruelly tormented to death.
Blood Moon demons...
No...
It's that all demons, during battle, like to treat their opponents as prey, then assault the mind with words and various unexpected abilities... to slowly drive their foes into despair, into madness...
So, under normal circumstances, don't provoke demons, let alone think about breaking a contract with one.
The power or else obtained from a demon comes at a price.
The major temples of the Human World are right to pursue humans who make contracts with demons.
Sometimes, what temples fear are not the demons, but humans who suddenly gain bizarre powers through contracts with demons.
Andre is his student, which is why he could say to the Holy Knights of the Valkyrie Temple... that the Valkyrie Temple has no right to judge Andre.
For anyone else... he would wish for the temples to hurry up and capture those dangerous individuals who made contracts with demons... to properly judge them...
"Teacher... when we meet the demon I contracted with, could you not kill him? After all... it's truly thanks to the power I received from him... that I'm alive to see you now...
That demon has never violated the terms of the contract, though he sometimes appears at my side, whispering temptations... trying to amplify the hatred in my heart and the loathing against myself...
You don't have to kill him... just let him willingly release me from the contract, okay teacher?"
"...."
His own student is treating a demon like an angel?
Forming a contract with a demon, and even developing a friendship...
This fool must not realize that the demon he contracted with has been preying upon his soul with some inconceivable ability... siphoning and devouring something from his soul...
And one day, when the demon decides that this foolish student's soul has been cultivated into a delicious feast... it might just devour his soul in one bite...
"I'll see, if he releases you from the contract peacefully, I won't trouble him, he can go back the way he came.
If he doesn't behave... I'll try if I can make him become your familiar."
Demons can make contracts with humans and naturally can become familiars of humans.
However, in the Human World, no summoner mage dares to summon a demon and make a familiar contract with one.
If the summoned demon is too strong, it might end up turning the summoner into a familiar for the demon.
Becoming a familiar of a demon... summoned into The Abyss... wouldn't live for long before meeting a grim end.
Demons are belligerent, and even amongst themselves, battles often erupt; if they contract an interesting familiar, they would wager in battles with familiars...
As for whether human familiars and their demon summoners fall in love...
Don't be foolish.
Unless a human familiar is strong enough to pique the demon summoner's interest, otherwise... romance with a familiar... is just a game.
Demons are not humans.
How are familiar contracts made again?
It's been so long, I need to recall a bit, back when I was studying in The Abyss... I learned how to make a familiar contract, I seem to recall graduating from Demon Academy as the third-ranked in my class due to my outstanding performance.
"You first contact the demon you made the contract with, if you can coax him over here, all the better."
"Okay. Eh... teacher, where are you going?"
"I'm going to purchase some special venom, which can be used in medicine after extraction."
"Oh."
Andre watched as his teacher approached those humans... they looked like members of the Beautiful Scorpion Guild.
All members of that guild were scorpion people with poisonous scorpion tails.
Wait... the teacher isn't planning to take the scorpion tails from those scorpion race girls, is he?
Wouldn't that be too cruel?
Cutting off their scorpion tails... would reduce their combat power by at least a half.
Lance walked up to the members of the Beautiful Scorpion Guild.
The Golden Yin Soldiers surrounding the Beautiful Scorpion Guild members saluted Lance, "Lord Lance."
"Hard work everyone, once I'm done here, I'll take you all out for a big meal with the salary I've saved over the years, to replenish you properly."
"Lord Lance... you remember us?"
"Of course, my peacekeepers."
Smiling, Lance patted the shoulders of a few Golden Yin Soldiers and then turned to look at the members of the Beautiful Scorpion Guild.