Flillian, I want to live.

However, all this was only what Solitier discovered from the stranded fish washed ashore.

In the deep sea that is far beyond the reach of human exploration today, are there even larger fish or more incredible secrets?

Even Solitaire, who has lived for a thousand years, doesn't know the answer.

"Do you know why I didn't kill you but kept you here?"

In the library she used for meetings, Solitaire placed the freshly brewed black tea in front of Mars who was sitting opposite her.

"do not know……"

Mars shook her head and answered honestly.

"In fact, among the demons, most people are simple-minded and only know how to fight and kill. But I am very interested in human civilization and all things in the world."

Solitaire sat down opposite Mars, supporting her chin with her hand, and introduced herself to Mars.

"Are you trying to say that you are actually an outlier among the demons, Master Solityel?"

Mars tilted her head, as if she understood the meaning behind Solitiel's words.

"Yes, try the tea I brewed and tell me what you think?"

Solitaire was not angry at what Mars said, but instead instigated her.

"Well, you control the heat very well."

Mars lowered her head and took a sip of the tea handed to her by Solitaire. As a servant serving the noble master, she had a lot of say in this matter.

"Yes, this is an expert. Those two guys before didn't know anything at all~"

Hearing Mars' praise, Solitaire showed a happy expression on her face.

"The guy from before?"

Mars asked curiously.

"Well, how should I put it? Maybe it's because I don't have a very good reputation among my people. In fact, no one is willing to come to me. In the past hundred years, only two people have come to see me."

Solitaire held her cheeks with her hands and spoke with a somewhat resentful tone.

"Are those two the guys you mentioned who don't know what they're talking about?"

Mars shook the teacup in her hand. However, anyone who could take the initiative to visit a great demon like Solitiel couldn't be an ordinary person.

"Those two guys are also outliers among the demons. Should we say they are birds of a feather? They are both very interested in humans."

Solitaire continued.

"So, it's your kind?"

Mars asked back.

"That's not the way to say it. Although I like to study human civilization, it's just out of personal interest. But those two guys are dreaming of finding a way for demons and humans to coexist."

Solitaire shook her head and firmly drew a line between herself and the two of them.

"I'm afraid this is impossible?"

Mars raised her eyebrows.

"Why do you say that?"

Solitaire asked back.

"Although we share a similar appearance and speak the same language, I can sense that your inner being is completely different from that of a human. Your magic is so pure, it's as if your body was created for magic, stripped of all unnecessary impurities. The demon race is truly a perfect creation of nature."

Mars clasped her hands together and spoke with envy.

Chapter 141: A Fatal Wound

"Oh?"

Solitaire was very satisfied with Mars's answer.

"Although I'm sure their dream of demons and humans coexisting will meet a tragic end, it is indeed an interesting experiment."

Solitier looked at the blind girl in front of her. Although her magic power was very weak, she was born with superhuman magical perception. She was obviously a human being, but she was full of yearning for demons like herself.

"For over a hundred years, I've been quietly observing their experiments and watching them try to integrate into human society. Then, I discovered that they all accepted a human magician as their apprentice."

Solitaire shook her fingers and continued to talk to Mars about the two demons.

"what do you mean?"

Mars covered her mouth with her hands. She had already heard the hidden meaning in Solitaire's words.

"You can also become my disciple."

Solitaire opened her arms and extended an invitation to Mars.

In the town square, Mars walked through the lush vines of the chaos flower and came to the central pistil.

She reached out and touched Philen, who was sleeping on the leaves under the pistil.

What a powerful magic.

This time the feeling was stronger than before. Through touch, Mars felt more clearly the energy contained in Philen. Although it could not match the great demon like Solitiel, it was far beyond any human Mars had seen before.

"How enviable."

Mars sighed to Philen.

As a human disciple of the Great Demon Clan, Philen possesses talents that Mars cannot match. In comparison, no matter how hard Mars practices, her meager magic power makes it difficult for her to make further progress. She can only rely on external objects such as rats and chaos flowers to help herself.

What an annoying genius—if that were all.

Although she was nominally a disciple of Solitaire, Mars knew very well that her pleasure-making teacher had never considered herself a fellow human. No matter how she imitated him, even grinding whale teeth into sharp corners and wearing them on her head, she was still just a test subject to satisfy her curiosity, just like a pet that humans kept on a whim.

But this girl named Philen is different. Judging from Guter's performance just now, she has obviously become an important person in his mind, even worthy of Guter giving up the lives of everyone in the city to protect her.

"It's really unpleasant..."

Mars grabbed Philen's shoulders and pulled him up.

"What are you doing? Hand her over to me right now."

On the other side, Gutel, who was out of the Chaos Flower's attack range, was shouting at Mars who had been slow to fulfill her promise.

"I changed my mind."

Mars turned her head and gave Gutel a strange smile.

"What? What do you want to do?"

When Gutel saw Mars suddenly change her mind, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"If I kill her, what kind of expression will you make, Master Guter?"

Mars pulled out a small knife from her sleeve, and without waiting for Gutel to stop her, she stabbed it into Philen's chest.

In an instant, blood gushed out from the wound and splashed on Mars' face.

Lord Solitaire will certainly be interested in this experiment.

Mars thought firmly in her heart.

For her, being recognized by Solitaire is one of the few things that mean something in her life.

"You, you look down on me?!"

Gutel's eyes were red, and she was so angry that she no longer cared about whether to reflect or not. She raised her hand, gathered a huge amount of magic power in her hand, and prepared to liberate both the Chaos Flower and Mars.

"Does my current appearance qualify me as a demon, Lord Sollitir..."

Mars felt the huge magic circle gradually condensing in front of Gutel. The complexity of the magic was far beyond the level of understanding of the human magic she learned from Solitaire. Judging from the power, it was probably enough to raze the entire square and the nearby buildings to the ground.

However, in the face of such a devastating attack, Mars was not afraid.

"The demons are indeed beautiful."

Mars just sighed sincerely in her heart.

"I'll leave Lord Solitaire's affairs in your hands."

Mars pointed at the head of the little mouse that usually followed her around, and conveyed her memories of the past few days to it.

The mouse that obtained Mars's memory quickly crawled into the sewer under the square.

"Then let the grand party begin."

Mars raised her hands. A demon who wanted to become a human killed a human who wanted to become a demon. Are you satisfied with this story? Master Solityl?

"..."

However, just as Mars closed her eyes and prepared to meet Guter's attack, Guter suddenly stopped casting the spell and slowly lowered his arm.

"Huh? You..."

Guter's operation of suppressing the gun made Mars stunned for a moment.

thump~

Accompanied by a crisp knocking sound, Mars's head was suddenly hit hard by the tip of the staff.

How can it be?

As a huge feeling of dizziness hit her head, Mars realized that Philen, who had just been stabbed in the chest and killed by her, had miraculously crawled up from the ground, summoned a magic wand, and attacked her physically.

Watching Mars fall straight forward, Philen first looked at the staff in his hand lovingly, and understood why Haita specially chose this extra thick staff to give to him.

"Phelan, you can only attack the core of the flower!"

On the other side, Gutel looked at the tentacles of the Chaos Flower, which were curling their vines and attacking Philen after discovering that their master was attacked. He hurriedly opened his voice and loudly conveyed the most important information to the other party.

"Is that so?"

Philen heard Gutel's cry, then raised his head and saw the Chaos Flower above his head, trying to use its leaves to cover its vital pistil.

"Attack magic."

As a beam of light flew out from the tip of Philen's staff, the attack magic drew a beautiful arc in the air, perfectly bypassing the leaves' defense like a world-class kick, and hitting the pistil of the Chaos Flower at an extremely tricky angle.

stab-

The pistil, which had no reflective defense, was instantly penetrated by Philen's magic.

The huge body of the Chaos Flower, which had just been twisting its body and twitching its tentacles and vines, first stiffened, and then turned into black mist at a speed visible to the naked eye and gradually dissipated into the air.

"Oh, I see."

After doing all this, Philen turned around and looked at Gutel who was in the distance.

Chapter 142: As long as it works, it's not a bug

"Uh, Philen, are you okay?"

Although Philen, who had just killed the Chaos Flower with a handsome blow, appeared calm and composed, in fact, the dagger that Mars had just stabbed into her chest was still hanging on her body, and blood was still pouring out of the wound.

"Oh, this one?"

Fearon lowered his head and saw the dagger stuck in her chest.

For human beings, this is undoubtedly an irreparable and fatal injury.

But because of this, when Mars pierced Philen's chest with a dagger, the intense pain and the desire to survive caused by the attack on his heart woke Philen from the coma brought by the curse.

However, under the dual weakness of the plague and the curse, even if she regained consciousness, Philen had no ability to fight back after suffering a fatal blow. When she was thrown to the ground by Mars, her life had already begun to count down in seconds.

"Aura, cast obedience magic—target: me."

When he was on the verge of death due to a heart attack, Philen gave an order to Aura hanging on his waist.

As the balance tilted towards Aura because of Philen's weakness, Philen slowly stood up under the drive of magic. Then, she summoned her staff and aimed the heavy front end at Mars, who had focused all her attention on Gutel.

"I see, it's Aura."

Gutel slowly pulled out the dagger that had pierced Philen's chest, then placed his hand on the opponent's chest and used recovery magic to repair Philen's wound.

"Obedience to magic is truly incredible. Once activated, no matter if it's a plague, a curse, or even death, nothing can disobey its command. Unless the body is completely destroyed, it can move unhindered under the power of magic."

Philen looked at Aula, who was lifted up by her and taken outside to avoid the wind, and couldn't help but sigh.

You know, although Philen is still running a high fever and the curse spread by the Chaos Flower has not completely dissipated, Philen does not feel sleepy at this moment and moves freely as if nothing happened.