The Witch Hunter System

After receiving Thanato's request, Hecate nodded.

"Everyone should already know that the Soul Master made a deal with me to help him with Abaddon. This proves that the Soul Master is not narrow-minded and biased against working with Great Devils," Hecate mentioned.

"Since he has no problem working with Great Devils, why can't we make him one of ours? Everyone is wary of him because he is from Pangea. But would that still be the case if he became one of Gehenna's Great Devils?"

"Why must we push a talent with limitless potential to death when we can align our interests and work towards a brighter future together? Are you all satisfied with Gehenna's current state? Don't you want to restore its glory or even achieve something greater for yourself?"

"Since the death of the Seven Sins in the last Realm War, Gehenna also lost the status it held in the past. How much longer must we humble ourselves to other star realms to avoid a Realm War? How many more resources must we sell to Hades? Even Nightmare secretly eyes our realm covetously."

"The Soul Master is the only opportunity Gehenna has ever been given to completely change its fate's trajectory in the past million years. If we don't take this chance now, when will we ever?" Hecate spoke eloquently.

Thanatos had to admit he was moved by her words. Hecate was very persuasive. Furthermore, it wasn't just him who felt this way; Astarte and Mephistopheles were included.

On the other hand, Balmodan was hesitant.

He was naturally tempted, but Hecate's words also sounded too good to be true. She painted a marvelous future, but she did not include the risks they would have to take.

After all, this risk didn't concern the uninvolved Great Devils. Only those who had previous beef with the Soul Master carried this risk.

Now that Balmodan thought about it, there was a slight chance that he didn't have any deep-rooted enmity with the Soul Master either. Most of his conflicts were with the seven witch kingdoms, not the Great Ratholos Empire.

Balmodan was suddenly moved. Despite that, he intended to remain undecided until he learned of the Soul Master's identity.

Meanwhile, Helcan read Balmodan's expression, and his face darkened with gloom.

He did not agree with the Soul Master becoming a Great Devil, but everyone else did. His future would become uncertain if he couldn't get Balmodan to back him up.

Who would be happy about living on borrowed time?

"Don't trust her words, Balmodan. Anyone can get on the Soul Master's good side, but not you. I know who the Soul Master is – His name is Vaan Raphna. The Black Rose Kingdom's men see him as their savior, and the witches worship him as their idol."

"He shares a very close and intimate relationship with the witches. Considering your poor relationship with the seven witch kingdoms, I highly doubt he will let you off once he is strong enough," Helcan spilled.

Although Helcan wasn't completely confident the Soul Master was the same Vaan Raphna, with whom he had once traded blows in his avatar, he felt like he was at least 80% certain it was the same person.

In any case, he had to get Balmodan on his side.

"Is that true?" Balmodan deeply frowned.

Hecate revealed her surprise, but she quickly recovered her wits and silently admitted with a nod. After all, there was no point hiding after it was exposed.

Even so, she didn't expect the Helcan to learn of Vaan's identity so quickly.

It seemed like there was some history between them. She recalled that Helcan was involved in a war between the Black Rose Kingdom and the Holy Knight Empire.

Furthermore, Helcan's adamant rejection also proved his bad relationship.

After Hecate pieced together the information, she realized why Helcan was trying so hard to go against her suggestion; his relationship with Vaan was worse than Balmodan's.

"Sir Vaan indeed shares a close relationship with witches, but you shouldn't let Helcan's words mislead you, Little Bal," Hecate added with a calm smile.

"What do you mean, Lady Hecate?" Balmodan asked, ignoring the disrespectful nickname.

"He is trying to confuse you. There might be some history between you and the witches. However, your personal relationship with Vaan is not as bad as Helcan made it seem," Hecate replied.

"After all, your war with the witches was three hundred years ago. What does that have to do with Vaan? On the other hand, Helcan was directly involved in a war between the Black Rose Kingdom and the Holy Knight Empire some time ago."

"Compared to the hatred between Vaan and Helcan, yours practically doesn't exist," Hecate added.

"I see," Balmodan calmly knitted his brows before giving Helcan a passing glance.

At the same time, Helcan could only snort coldly with a gloomy look after having his plans thwarted by Hecate.

In truth, Balmodan didn't worry too much about the Soul Master after learning the person's identity. However, the person's name did spark his interest in digging up some old memories from 10,000 years ago.

Unfortunately, he was disappointed when he discovered that 'Vaan Raphna' wasn't quite the name he sought.

The name that came up in his vague memories was 'Valefor Raphna.'

"I find Hecate's suggestion to promote Soul Master Vaan Raphna to the position of Great Devil acceptable and reasonable. However, some among you may disagree, so let us vote and see," Thanatos declared before saying, "All in favor of Hecate's suggestion, show your hands."

Thanatos, Astarte, and Hecate herself raise their hands. At the same time, Balmodan, Helcan, and Mephistopheles glanced at Hecate with varying looks of disapproval.

However, Hecate pretended not to see.

Since she was also a Great Devil, how could she not shamelessly vote in favor of her own suggestion?

"And those not in favor of Hecate's suggestion?" Thanatos asked.

Helcan and Mephistopheles raised their hands.

"I abstain from voting," Balmodan stated.

"There were three favors, two disagreements, and one abstention. Since we didn't reach a unanimous decision, we will continue to discuss this matter until we do," Thanatos calmly announced.