Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 381 - 300: The Demon

"It seems you bear considerable resentment towards the company,"

Duan Mingyuan said.

"This isn’t a personal grievance, but someone must speak out for the truth, right?"

He Ya saw herself as someone who could distinguish between public and private matters. If it came down to personal grievances, she only despised the Shan Clan People. It just so happened that the company and the Shanqi Commerce Association were filled with many of them.

However, the Ashen Church had nothing to do with the Shan Clan People, so on this issue, she was absolutely fair and objective.

All she did was recount the actions of Universe Company from the past.

Of course, for some people, stating the facts was, in their eyes, akin to slander.

"I’ve lived a long time and witnessed what happened back then, so you can trust me to be right," she said.

"I believe you."

"That’s right. Although the wizards’ home planet was destroyed in the bombardment, many wizards had already fled long ago. After centuries of lying low, they had integrated into many civilizations. Some of them married and had children on other planets, letting go of past hatreds and gradually abandoning their wizard identities. Yet, a small portion of them became even more fervent in their pursuit of power."

"The accusations from Universe Company against them indirectly inspired these wizards. They began to ponder earnestly where their powers truly came from. The Church believed that their power came from demons and was synonymous with evil, yet they never defined what a true demon was like."

"The closest concept was the ’Void Demon’ theory proposed by the ancestors of the Ashen Church. The Ashen Congregation worshipped the Sun God, believing the Eternal Sun gave birth to life and power. Conversely, places not touched by its radiance were habitats for demons. To this day, a significant portion of the Ashen Believers, who are unwilling to believe in science, think that the ’Cocoon’ mutation is a disaster triggered by the Void Demon," she explained.

While speaking, He Ya took out an ancient piece of parchment on which cryptic text was written in bright red ink, and beside the text were diagrams resembling some sort of ancient magical ritual.

"I must admit that wizards are a group of geniuses. They truly found a way to communicate with the ’Void Demon.’ This parchment was something I acquired from them after much effort," she said.

"You must have played an indispensable role in that."

Duan Mingyuan remarked.

Now it appears that the ’Void Demon’ refers to the ’dark muck’ that resides deep within black holes, and the place that Ashen Believers say cannot be illumined by light is the black hole itself.

These are realms currently touched by science, yet in the language of wizards, they take on a mystic hue.

Considering Duan Mingyuan’s relationship with He Ya, he believed she must have made a "significant contribution."

It was very likely that what related to the ’Void Demon’ was, in fact, told to the wizards by her.

"True to your reputation as a great detective, it seems nothing escapes your observation,"

He Ya candidly acknowledged her actions from the past, which, in her words, were "helping the underdog."

She had witnessed how the company had destroyed the wizards’ homeland and how they had launched a witch hunt to eradicate them. Therefore, as an upright good person, she stood up at the crucial moment.

"An upright good person would not let ’dark muck’ parasitize the bodies of wizards."

Duan Mingyuan finally understood why He Ya was so well-informed about the wizards and the ’dark muck.’ He now even suspected that the ritual created by the wizards to communicate with demons was meddled with by He Ya as well.

"That part doesn’t concern being an upright good person; it’s related to doing business,"

He Ya said, "If my clients have a demand, I shall find a way to satisfy it."

Causing the "dark muck" to parasitize the wizards was akin to helping them establish a bridge for communication with the demons.

"Although most wizards went mad like those shipwrecked sailors due to the ’black mud’ parasitizing their bodies, there was one who survived and reached a symbiotic relationship with the demon, which came with many benefits, one of which was the eternal life that Saintfield the Sixth had always dreamt of." freēwēbηovel.c૦m

Over a hundred years had passed since the parasitism, and even the witch-hunting had long ceased,, yet that wizard still maintained the youthful appearance of his earlier days, and his strength was perpetually at its peak.

Duan Mingyuan could already guess what happened next.

Timeline-wise, the witch-hunting was in full swing during Saintfield the Sixth’s prime, and he was likely not unfamiliar with the wizards’ various abilities.

Latter, he used his family’s intelligence network to find the wizard and obtained the Soul Swapping Ceremony from him.

"If I’m not mistaken, there should be the body of a little boy in Saintfield the Sixth’s basement, which is the original version of the Soul Swapping Ceremony. The ritual requires the soul’s recipient to be of the same bloodline. So Saintfield the Sixth’s plan was to nurture a backup vessel, but it ultimately failed. The vessel didn’t grow as he had hoped and died young."

"How do you know all this?"

Mingyuan frowned.

"Because I spent some time on the Saintfield ship."

"That boy was also cultivated by you?"

"Strictly speaking, I was more like a jack of all trades in the team... Let me tell you a secret,, the doctor that Saintfield the Sixth hired for a high fee, never intended for that boy to grow up strong."

This was the part He Ya enjoyed the most.

Every member of the Shan Clan harbored ulterior motives, and once the boy died young, Saintfield the Sixth would have to look for other blood-related relatives,, which provided the doctor with an opportunity to maneuver.

Eventually, the doctor set his sights on Saintfield the Sixth’s great-grandson.

A young man full of ambition, but with very limited wisdom and ability.

"Dong, dong dong, dong dong dong—!"

The abrupt knocking interrupted their conversation, and before Mingyuan could speak up, the person entered, barging in as though law enforcers had unexpectedly invaded a criminal gang’s hideout.

And he and He Ya, unfortunately, became the criminals.

At the door, Fu Ling winked at him and said,, "This is the assistant to the executive officer of the Ashen Consortium."

Someone had leaked He Ya’s outrageous public statements, and the news quickly reached the ears of the Ashen Consortium.

The dignified assistant scrutinized Mingyuan and He Ya with his sharp gaze,, and after a moment, he asked,, "What are you two conspiring about here?"

He expected Mingyuan to dodge the question like those who were sent to the guillotine did; he had considerable experience in this.

No matter what excuses the two came up with,, he would refute them one by one.

"We were discussing matters about wizards."

"Hmph..., a joke... Hmm? What were you discussing?"

"Wizards."

Mingyuan simply said,, "We were discussing how wizards led the Saintfield family step by step into the abyss."

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