Mixed Blessing System

After hearing what Fabienne had to tell them, the people in Lothur's group were naturally more worried about the continent's future.

Previously, only Cykad had such concerns, while Lothur and his women only wanted to become stronger.

Of course, they knew demons were troublesome and could have disturbing goals. But they hadn't expected these creatures actually to want to exterminate humanity!

So, after Lothur had isolated himself to produce the cultivation resources he would give to Fabienne, his women, and Cykad gathered some distance away from the young Ritter's mother's people to discuss the matter.

"This is all very serious!" Annaliese said in a low voice as she looked at the large Tyrannosaurus Rex. "What are we going to do?"

Cykad had a solemn expression, as worried as Annaliese and the other three. "I think we should continue with our plans. 

I probably won't be able to follow you all the way, but I'll at least help you achieve your goals of getting stronger in these lands.

Once you're strong enough to go to Demon Island, I'll try to gather allies here in Concordia for a possible war."

Hearing this, Viktoria said. "The most important thing now is not to get carried away because of the dangers. This demonic goal didn't start yesterday or today. It's been their plan for thousands of years.

So when you think about it, nothing has changed. This is still the same reality as before. The difference is that we are strong, and with the knowledge of it, we can prepare ourselves.

Let's continue our hunt so that Lothur can grow stronger and we can get new Soul Bones for ourselves and the rest of our friends. Once we have fully formed Spirit Bodies, we can deal with any problems."

They nodded their heads in agreement. 

The group's plans had already been to exterminate the demons. The difference was that now they would do it to protect themselves, whereas before, they just wanted to become stronger.

But while they agreed that their plans were basically the same as before, Rebecca asked a question. "What about the spectres? Unlike demons, they're easier for Lothur to deal with. Wouldn't it be more interesting for us to solve that problem before we go to Demon Island?"

Spectres might be just as difficult to deal with as demons. Not only that but with the ability to possess and the characteristics that are difficult to counter, these creatures could greatly assist the demons in their goals.

Thinking about how Lothur had an advantage over these creatures, Rebecca felt they should immediately divide their attention to look for demons and spectres.

They wanted to do something like this but focused more on demons, while only Cykad's subordinates were working on finding spectres.

Not only that, while Cykad's subordinates were compiling the locations of spectres, they were only doing so with 'low' level spectral beings.

"That's true." Elke agreed with Rebecca. "I'm sure that even 3rd Catastrophe spectres wouldn't be able to do anything to Lothur. Hunting them could be a way to weaken the demons."

Hearing this, Cykad narrowed his eyes and looked to where Fabienne and the whole group of demons were gathered near Lothur, where this young man demonstrated his alchemy skills, and the two kittens were protecting him.

Cykad asked. "Do you know what your tribe expects or wants from the spectres? Lothur told me the spectres are working towards the same goal as you, demons."

After hearing this, most of the demons there didn't understand what Cykad was talking about, but Fabienne looked at him differently, seeing that Lothur's group wasn't so misinformed.

The relationship between demons and spectres was a secret that only high-ranking demons in the tribe knew about!

She then commented. "Before the Demon Emperor had his powers separated and his essence trapped in the Lost Tree, he damaged the Reincarnation Wheel, exacerbating the problem of spectres in our world."

Spectres existed long before the Demon Emperor. However, thousands of years ago, only one in 200,000 evil souls would become a spectre after death. After such a creature's deeds, the ratio had changed from that to the current one, where practically every dead person with a grudge would become a spectral creature.

This wasn't the case from the beginning, and it had progressed slowly over the years.

But in this generation, the emergence of spectres after death had finally reached its peak, which was behind the current continental crisis in the face of these creatures.

"Since then, the leaders of the demon tribe have been using the spectres as our allies, using them to create chaos and distractions, but also to search for the Seven Singularities," Fabienne said.

"Is that true?" A lower-ranking demon asked in surprise.

Fabienne knew all this because she was a noble in the demon world. With a lineage of the highest purity, she was in the demon world what the 0.1% of nobles on this continent were in the human society.

Even at a low level, she would have crucial information about her tribe that other demons would never have access to!

But she didn't know everything, and there was a lot of information about the current plans of the demons that Fabienne was in the dark.

"Yeah." She said to her subordinate.

With this confirmation, not only that demon but also several others were a bit surprised. 

Before the Demon Emperor damaged the Reincarnation Wheel, demons, and spectres didn't get along so well.

To say that they were enemies would be an exaggeration. Still, they had a lot of rivalry, just like people from different sects might have with each other.

So, it was a surprise for these lower-ranking creatures to discover that their tribe had done such a thing.

"Anyway, the spectres are helping with the Demon Emperor's resurrection plans. But you should be careful with them. Spectres are difficult to deal with. And as far as I know, they will play an important role after the Demon Emperor's resurrection.

According to my information, they will be crucial for dealing with the strongest humans when our elders absorb their powers."

Hearing this, Cykad imagined that these creatures would probably dominate the minds of humans or human allies in the war that might be unleashed after the Demon Emperor's resurrection.

With that in mind, he broke into a cold sweat and immediately grabbed his communication crystal to send orders to his men.

After having access to so many risks for his world, he couldn't wait any longer to try to change the position of the humans and the beasts in all of this.

'I must learn the location of the strongest spectres on the continent and begin to gather evidence. Lothur is only one person. If I can't convince more beings to join us, we'll have problems later on!' He thought about this as he prepared to send out new orders to his people!