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Chapter 85: The Limit of Humanity? (Fourth update! Please subscribe!)
Stray demon.

This is a demon that has no power, no belonging, is completely ownerless and harmful.

When a devil's servant betrays his master, or even kills his master and flees the devil's territory, the devil will become a stray devil, just like a ferocious wild beast wandering outside the herd. Because there is no one to restrain or watch over him, he will often break taboos and cause great disasters.

They are wanton pests that betray their masters for their own desires. Therefore, as long as there is a trace of a stray demon, whether it is its original master or other demons, they have the obligation and right to eliminate it.

Other forces also regard stray demons as dangerous factors. Whether they are angels or fallen angels, once they discover a stray demon, they will eliminate it.

Now, Aize encountered such an existence.

"Would you like to play some fun games with me, little brother?"

The rogue demon who looked like a spider woman smiled at Aize charmingly, and while smiling, she moved closer to Aize and licked the corner of her mouth, as if she had seen something delicious.

However, Aize didn't even look at the other person. After recognizing that the other person was a rogue demon, he immediately turned around and prepared to leave.

"Haha, do you think you can leave?"

Spider-Woman was not in a panic. She just watched Aze leave happily and continued to walk forward slowly.

"It's been a while since I met a young and handsome guy like you. And I'm tired of eating those greasy old men recently. Can I change my taste?"

After these words were spoken, Aize, who was about to turn around and walk away, suddenly stopped.

"What? You're not going to escape?"

Spider-Woman looked a little surprised and actually stopped as well.

Aize said without turning around, but with his back to Spider-Woman.

"…Have you ever eaten a human?"

The voice was filled with a coldness that could be clearly sensed by others.

Spider-Woman didn't notice it, and when she heard Aize's words, she immediately smiled provocatively.

"Yes, I have eaten it. Although I have only eaten some old men who wanted to make a move on me and couldn't resist the temptation and quietly followed me here, but human flesh is indeed delicious. It's a pity that I didn't know it before."

Spider-Woman seemed to want to see Aize's face full of fear, and her intention to tease Aize was clearly revealed.

As a result, she did not see the fear on Aize's face, but instead saw him turn around and walk back.

You dare to come back?
Is this kid not afraid of death?

Spider-Woman was stunned.

Then, she heard what Aize said next.

"I came here to see if I could take the opportunity to learn something that would never happen in human society, so I have no interest in a rogue demon like you."

Aize spoke with an indifferent expression.

"But now, I have changed my mind."

Looking at the Spider-Woman standing there in a daze, Aize said expressionlessly.

"It's better for a pest like you to disappear here."

Hearing this, Spider-Woman was stunned for a moment, and then she burst into laughter as if she had heard something extremely funny.

"Disappear? Me? You mean you're going to kill me here?"

Spider-Woman asked back, and at the same time, the corners of her mouth cracked because of laughter, and her face became hideous.

That was no longer a human face, but the face of a monster.

"Who do you think you are, brat!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Spider-Woman suddenly shot towards Aize.

The eight spider legs behind her pushed against the ground, turning her body into a spring. She was ejected as fast as a bullet, making a sound like breaking wind.

In the blink of an eye, Spider-Woman was catapulted in front of Aize.

"Turn into a skewer!"

Looking at Aze who was so close, a cruel look appeared in Spider-Woman's eyes, and the spider legs behind her cut through the air and stabbed into Aze's body.

“Clang!” “Clang!” “Clang!” “Clang!” “Clang!”…

The sound of metal and iron suddenly appeared in the dark factory like firecrackers.

The Spider Woman's eight spider legs fell on Aize's body one after another, but it was as if they had pierced a thick steel plate. Not only did they fail to penetrate Aize's body, but they also rubbed sparks on the surface of his body.

Looking closely, these spider legs did not fall on Aize, but were blocked by a layer of flowing white light about a few centimeters away from Aize's body.

"W-what?"

Spider-Woman's eyes widened, she couldn't believe what she saw.

And this was her last reaction in this world.

"Bam—"

The next moment, a fist wrapped in surging white light turned into a flash of light and slammed down on the Spider Woman, causing a terrifying roar.

The powerful force turned into impact force, which caused a violent airflow and blew away the surrounding dust. At the same time, it also blew up Spider-Woman's body, turning it into a pile of minced meat.

“Ugh…Ahhhhhh…!” The Spider-Woman’s body exploded, leaving only her head intact. It fell to the ground, rolling out while screaming.

It wasn't long before Spider-Woman's presence disappeared.

Aize stood where he was, one of his hands enveloped by surging white light, maintaining the waving posture, motionless.

After a while, he retracted his fist.

"Clap-pop-pop-"

Just then, a burst of applause came from the corner of the factory.

"........."

Aize remained silent and was not surprised to hear the applause.

He looked quietly towards the source of the sound and saw a man walking out from the darkness in the corner.

"What a beautiful strike! You were able to kill a demon in an instant with your bare hands. Even though you are just a lowly rogue demon, your ability is much stronger than we realize."

The person who came out of the darkness while clapping and praising was a man wearing a priest-like robe and with conspicuous white hair.

The man didn't seem to be very old, at least not much older than the current Aize, but he exuded the aura of a veteran, giving people the feeling of a soldier who had fought on the battlefield for many years. People with keen senses could clearly perceive what a dangerous person he was.

"…someone from the church?"

Aize glanced at the other person's white hair, then at the priest-like attire, and said these words calmly.

The other party neither admitted nor denied it. He smiled calmly and spoke slowly.

"It seems that you have already noticed my presence. When was it?"

The other party did not answer but asked instead.

"When I was about to leave." Aize was not stingy with his advice, and said lightly: "At the beginning, I thought there was really only one lone demon here, but on second thought, this seems unlikely."

"This place is so remote and quite far from the city. If there is only a low-level rogue demon hiding here, then even if I wander around outside during the day, it should be difficult for me to detect the power fluctuations here."

"I'm not a perceptive person. If I can sense the existence of power fluctuations, there must be something behind it. It's definitely not just a hiding place for the lowest level rogue demons."

In a nutshell, the stray demon just now was too weak, and this was just a remote abandoned factory. It was impossible for it to emit power fluctuations that were strong enough to be clearly felt by Aize who was moving around in the city.

Therefore, Aize noticed something unusual and concluded that there was something wrong.

"Now it seems that this place must have been chosen by you to lure me in, right?" Aize looked at the white-haired man and said, "You found a way to spread the power fluctuations, and deliberately did not eliminate the stray demons here. Do you want to see how I will perform when facing them?"

"What is your purpose in setting up this trap to test me?"

"Or...you just want to kill someone with a borrowed knife?"

Aize's attitude became a little aggressive.

The white-haired man didn't care, instead he admired Aize even more.

"You are really quick-witted. Although this is just something I did casually, it is quite rare that you can see it so clearly." The white-haired man smiled and said, "Fortunately, my companions are not here, otherwise they would laugh at you."

"...You just revealed the fact that you are the only one here?" Aize narrowed his eyes and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will attack you?"

Hearing Aize's words, the white-haired man shrugged and spread his hands.

"Are you such an aggressive person? We didn't know that." The white-haired man said, "Don't be nervous. I have no ill will towards you."

"On the contrary, I'm here to invite you."

"I don't know, are you interested in coming to our place?"

The white-haired man suddenly extended an olive branch.

"Go to your place?" Aize frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Isn't this guy from the church?

Why doesn’t it sound like…?
"Literally, I just want to invite you to start a business with us." The white-haired man said with an undiminished smile: "There are many people like you and me around me."

"We have different origins, but we are all the purest human beings."

"We don't have innate powerful powers like angels, fallen angels, and demons, but we all have strange abilities in our bodies."

"The artifact is the only gift God has bestowed upon us humans."

As he spoke, the white-haired man slowly walked towards Aize.

"With such a blessing, don't you want to try to use this power to defeat those abnormal beings, or even defeat gods and demons, to see where the limits of us humans are?"

When this sentence reached Aize's ears, it was as if a flash of lightning flashed through Aize's mind, and he understood everything in an instant.

"Are you from the Heroic Faction of the Misfortune Group?"

Aize spoke without thinking.

"Are you Siegfried?"

These words stunned the white-haired man - Siegfried.

(End of this chapter)