Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 340 Mission: 02-4 Nephilim
"..."

After receiving the call, Virgil stared at the surveillance camera footage with a cold face, remaining silent.

"She's the only one who got away?"

After a moment he turned his head and asked the person next to him.

"Yes."

This was nonsense. Virgil had only captured this one demon, one with a spirit capable of answering questions. So, she—or her companions who came to rescue her—wouldn't waste their efforts rescuing others. It seemed the silver-haired girl had left Limbo, so the surveillance cameras didn't see her. All we knew was that she inexplicably vanished from her chains and then cut open the cage to escape.

But this was no different from knowing nothing at all. Of course, the demons would operate in Limbo. While the destruction they caused in Limbo would be reflected back into reality, it was, after all, a dimension devoid of living beings. To avoid detection and prevent humans from noticing the demons' occupation of the city, the demons had come to a consensus that they would operate only in Limbo.

Of course, many demons that are not strong enough cannot leave there at all.

"The gate was destroyed after that?" he confirmed again.

"Yes."

So, it's likely that no other demons came to rescue the silver-haired girl; she simply broke free from her chains. However, those chains should have been foolproof in suppressing demons. In experiments, demons wearing them couldn't even defeat a three-year-old child, and they couldn't enter the Limbo on their own initiative.

"Call the team leader in charge of this research."

"Yes."

"besides--"

Virgil called out to the member who was about to leave, his eyes cold, "Is the member in charge of that side still there?"

"Yes."

"Let them evacuate immediately and abandon that sub-base."

"Yes. And the others?"

Virgil raised his hand and ran his palm cleanly across the front of his neck.

"I understand."

The subordinate lowered his head, stepped back, and then left.

Virgil crossed his fingers, placed his hands on the table, and slowly rested his chin on the back of his hands.

Since the demons imprisoned there had already escaped, that place was naturally no longer safe. To prevent the members of the association from being captured by Mondes and causing a chain reaction that would expose more bases, they naturally had to evacuate as soon as possible.

But... this doesn't seem to be safe enough.

Virgil adjusted the timeline of the surveillance footage to the present moment, and saw that the members had already obeyed his orders and took action, silently counting their number.

One, two, three, four, five.

They listened to Virgil, but sadly, not enough. Faced with the threat of their own lives, Virgil doubted they would continue to obey his orders.

Otherwise, Virgil would have ordered them to commit suicide on the spot after completing the task, which was the absolutely safest method. Every second these people stayed here could expose their position to Mendes. As long as they were accidentally discovered by Mendes's spies during their evacuation...

Then all Virgil's efforts over the past decade would be destroyed.

"Boss, someone's coming."

Virgil turned around and saw the guy who had made the chain. He said bluntly, "What you made is flawed." The guy was surprised: "This, this is impossible! Is there something wrong?"

But facts speak louder than words. Faced with the surveillance video records, the fact that "a chained demon escaped" as an unshakable fact slapped the researchers in the face.

"No... My theory should be complete..."

Faced with the researcher, who was lost in self-doubt and seemed to have lost his soul, Virgil signaled him to leave so that he could figure out the problem. Meanwhile, he issued new orders to the members of the association who were "cleaning up" the sub-base, asking them to bring back the chains that had been used to bind the silver-haired girl.

He was also a science student and knew that when reviewing mistakes, video recordings were not as useful as physical objects. This also gave him an excuse to convince himself that since they needed to bring the items back, some small risks were indeed necessary.

But they still had to be vigilant. They obviously couldn't just go straight to the main base; they had to circle the city a few times. If they found any signs of demonic stalking along the way, the exposed sub-bases would also have to be abandoned immediately.

He had to be careful, because his enemy was the dark force that controlled the entire city. Any mistake would bring disaster to everyone here.

The plan has not yet reached a critical stage, and he cannot afford to lose these subordinates.

"Any news about 'Dante'?"

Virgil asked again.

The answer wasn't very good. As an unemployed vagrant, the man named "Dante" had no fixed place to live and was difficult to find.

After all, from what we know, Dante wasn't as fortunate as Virgil to be adopted by a family, but instead ended up in an orphanage. He later escaped, wandering from place to place, often targeted by demons and dragged into Limbo, preventing him from staying in one place for long. Interestingly, the place he spent the longest time after leaving the orphanage was Limbo's prison.

In other words, Dante's current identity is actually a "fugitive", and that's why Virgil learned about his brother's current condition. It still takes more effort to really find him.

So even if he didn't find it, there was nothing he could do. Virgil reluctantly dismissed the people around him and returned to his room alone.

Carrying a demon-binding chain brought by his men.

He locked the door, made sure no one would disturb him in the short term, then looked at the chain in his hand and hesitated.

At this moment, he had a vague idea in his mind and wanted to try to confirm it.

Virgil sat down at the table, placed the key in front of him, and carefully fastened the chain around himself.

The magic power suddenly stagnated, and Virgil felt the chains in his hands become much heavier. At the same time, his mind raced, and he stretched out his chained hand, calling upon the Yama Blade dormant within his body.

The demonic power inherited from his father could hardly pass through the part locked by the chain, which seemed to prove that there was nothing wrong with the effect of the chain.

So, what about the other side?

Virgil did not continue to try to use the power of the devil to forcibly attack the chains. Instead, a holy white light flashed in his hands, and the slender and elegant Japanese sword appeared in his hands without any hindrance.

"As expected, the power of angels won't be affected by this chain. Could it be that..."

But Virgil immediately shook his head and denied his idea.

The Nephilim possess the powers of both angels and demons. Virgil and Dante are the only two sons of the two worlds left in this world.

Except for the two children hidden by Sparta, all other Nephilim had been killed by Mendes long ago. Because -

——Legend has it that only Nephilim can kill the King of the Demon Realm.

(End of this chapter)