The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

"The demon race... how should I put it, is practically the opposite of us witches. We witches are born full of good intentions. Other races are born as blank slates, with the right to choose good or evil. Only demons are born full of evil intentions." Lilith snapped out of her reverie, looking at the gradually darkening sky, and said thoughtfully.

“That’s right!” Sylph took out a medium-sized planting pot, filled it with water, and then put a giant water fern seed in it. After injecting some exotic magical energy into the pot, it grew to three meters tall in just a few minutes, and its spread leaves, like umbrellas, firmly covered the grassy area where they were.

"Although all demons are villains, their evil is different from that of other races. You see, they need souls to survive and to advance, just as we need air to breathe and giant water ferns need water and exotic magical energy to grow."

It's this innate predatory instinct that makes them natural enemies of other living beings. "Sometimes I wonder, aren't they also caught in a bind?" Sylph sighed.

“They have no moral compass, how would they know right from wrong? Even if they were forced into it, they wouldn’t have the thought that they were forced into it. But there is a feeling that they really deserve to die, but I can’t bring myself to hate them.” Vasita haphazardly brushed her wind-blown hair behind her ear.

"How could such a race exist in the world? If only there were no abyss, no demons would be born! Ultimately, it is the abyss that gave birth to this deformed race of demons! That ever-present stench of evil is the source of all tragedy."

After Lilith finished speaking, she seemed to remember something and looked at Moran:

"Moran, does this Nightmare Demon have any memories of the Abyss's origins?"

Moran shook his head: "He's only three hundred years old, and the demon race doesn't have anyone who records or studies history, so he doesn't know much about the origins of the Abyss. But the demons in the Abyss are much more terrifying."

"What about demonic magic?" Vasita asked. "This card doesn't seem to contain any knowledge of demonic magic!"

Moran sighed: "We haven't found anything suitable for us to learn yet."

This is also what makes her uncomfortable.

This Nightmare Demon possesses quite a few magical abilities.

Its core abilities are erotic seduction, dream colonization, and pain transformation.

Erotic seduction refers to using appearance, actions, eyes, smell, and voice to seduce a target, causing them to fall into an irresistible infatuation and lust.

Dream colonization can implant nightmare seeds in a target while they are asleep. As the nightmare seeds take root and sprout, the target's dreams will gradually turn into a labyrinth of lust. The longer they are immersed in the labyrinth of lust, the more severely their soul is eroded by lust, and the weaker their body will become, until their body dies and their soul is harvested.

Pain Conversion can transform erotic pleasure into extreme pain damage at a ratio of 1:100, making it easier for the Nightmare Demon to torment the target during intercourse and finally kill the target to harvest their soul.

In addition, he also knows intermediate-level soul magic, intermediate-level disguise magic, and intermediate-level dark magic.

Among intermediate-level soul magic, there are three spells: Intermediate Soul Contract, Intermediate Soul Harvest, and Intermediate Soul Furnace.

A soul contract allows a demon to mark the target's soul. Once marked, if the target dies, the soul will not be protected by the laws of the world to await reincarnation. Instead, it will be judged as a corrupted soul by the laws of the world, absorbed by the demon, and become part of the power of the abyss.

Soul harvesting allows demons to directly seize and kill the souls of the dying, but only souls filled with malice and lust can be harvested directly.

The Soul Forge is a crucial magic spell used by demons to forge souls and extract their energy. Intermediate disguise magic includes three spells: Perfect Humanoid, Memory Stealing, and Mass Hypnosis.

Through perfect humanoids, they can use the soul fragments of those with whom they have signed a soul contract as materials to weave a perfect disguise for themselves, with every aspect of their bodies being exactly the same as the owner of the soul fragment.

Then, through memory theft, they steal the memories of the souls they have harvested and imitate their words and actions based on those memories.

Finally, through group hypnosis, everyone was convinced that he was a kind "stranger".

After a series of maneuvers, even a novice demon who has just crawled out of the abyss and has no knowledge of other races can be perfectly disguised in the crowd.

As for the final dark magic, the Nightmare Demon's magic is basically a combination of lust and dark elemental power.

It's more accurate to call it Dark Desire Magic than Dark Magic.

There are tentacles that can create translucent tentacles, which produce ten times the pleasure when touched, while simultaneously draining life force; the Heart-Eroding Love Lock that can cause the bound person to develop a morbid attachment to themselves and prevent them from touching others; and the Crimson Night Curtain that can cover buildings and amplify the lust of those who enter.

These magical abilities, each with unique and astonishing effects, are all types of magic that Moran has never encountered before.

Unfortunately, whether it's the Nightmare Demon's core abilities or other intermediate-level soul magic, disguise magic, and dark magic, they all rely on the energy of malice and lust.

The Nightmare Demon's core abilities and mastery of dark magic are inseparable from the power of lust.

Without extreme lust, erotic allure, dream colonization, and painful transformation cannot be employed, and the Dark Touch of Lust in dark magic will only be the most ordinary Dark Touch.

As for soul magic, although it only requires the power of the demon's own bloodline and not much energy from evil thoughts and desires, whether it is a soul contract, soul harvesting, or soul furnace, it will pollute one's own soul and cause the soul to fall.

These spells are not much different from holy light magic and faith magic, and may even come at a higher cost and with more serious consequences.

The thoughts of accepting holy light magic and faith magic are too chaotic. One needs to completely abandon one's emotions and maintain absolute rationality in order not to fall into a state of madness and chaos.

These demonic spells either require corrupting one's own soul, leading to its corruption, or they require actively increasing one's evil thoughts and desires, ultimately resulting in the corruption of the soul.

Both emotions and the soul are key to maintaining an independent and clear-headed personality.

For witches and sorceresses who value self-preservation more than power, the greater magical effects gained in exchange are tantamount to suicide.

What they need is self-empowerment, not to be enslaved by power and become slaves to power without a sense of self.

Moran regretfully but resolutely removed demonic magic from his list of spells to learn. (End of Chapter)