Modern World Warlock-Chapter 122: Nihilor’s True Intentions
After Camille gave her instructions to the injured Nihilor, she questioned his motives for kidnapping Alice instead of killing her at the park.
The demon replied by stating that he saw potential in the woman. Thus, he decided to capture her.
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"Potential for what?" Camille asked.
"To become a powerful carrier…" Nihilor said as blood dripped down the sides of his mouth.
Camille wanted to know the reason why he was trying to bring the demons known as "pisacas" to the world when they were so chaotic that not even hell wanted them around.
Nihilor was a fiend who always dreamed of controlling his own legion of pisacas, thinking that he could become the next king to replace Satan.
With that objective in mind, the fiend traveled to the "Cannibal Forest" in hell and gathered dark seeds that he could use to create the extinct demons.
However, when Nihilor tried turning other demons into carriers, he noticed that their body constitutions didn't serve as suitable vessels, so he had to come up with another way to birth the pisacas.
That's when Astaroth proclaimed himself as the new "King of Wrath," which prompted Nihilor to meet with him as he wanted to assess his powers.
After realizing that he didn't have a chance to beat Astaroth, he offered his services to the archdemon, who took the fiend under his wing.
A few months after Astaroth was summoned to the modern world by Sabelio, the archdemon became obsessed with the umbra on Earth, stating that it was the purest and densest negative energy he had seen.
With this new obsession in his mind, Astaroth summoned Nihilor to Earth so that he could use his mind-corruption powers for his benefit, and Nihilor agreed as he wanted to test humans as potential vessels for pisacas.
Astaroth was never aware that Nihilor was trying to create pisacas since the fiend planned on overtaking his position and told Astaroth that he was merely siphoning the lives of his victims to become stronger.
Camille listened closely to the demon speaking, turning to look at Dante to confirm that he was telling the truth, to which he nodded affirmatively.
"Why did you corrupt my father? What did he have to do with your plans?" The handler asked with a severe tone.
"Your… father?" Nihilor asked.
"Dante," Camille called the warlock, making him snap his fingers and shutting the Torment Maiden close again.
"Aaarrghhh!" Nihilor's screams filled the warehouse before the spiked doors re-opened.
"Ethan Winter… The guy you corrupted to betray the Jade Dragons!" Camille exclaimed, clarifying who her father was to the demon.
"I see… Something felt familiar," Nihilor muttered.
The fiend explained that he had nothing personal against her family as he was simply following the orders he was given by Astaroth, who wanted to take the place of the Jade Dragons.
"Why would a demon that powerful want to become the leader of a mafia family!?" Camille asked in a louder tone.
"I wondered that myself…" Nihilor replied, his tone defeated.
By the time the fiend was summoned to Earth, Astaroth was already convinced that he needed to take the Jade Dragon's spot—something that Nihilor inquired about with him later on.
Astaroth explained that Earth was a much more developed world than Terra, and if a demon as powerful as him created a giant fuss, every other country would know about it in a matter of hours.
Nihilor couldn't see how that would be a problem since the humans wouldn't be able to do anything against him, but when Sabelio interjected their conversation and spoke about nuclear weapons that could destroy an entire city, he understood Astaroth's position.
'Hmm, so Sabelio halted Astaroth from going on a rampage by threatening him with nuclear weapons…?' Camille pondered.
"Why did Sabelio summon Astaroth?" she asked the fiend.
"He said… He didn't want to let this country fall," Nihilor replied.
"Fall to who?" Camille continued, making the fiend shake his head in silence, as he didn't know to whom Sabelio referred.
Camille turned to look at Dante, who nodded affirmatively again, confirming that Nihilor was telling the truth.
The fiend's work for Astaroth was nothing but a side gig for him. His true objective was to overtake Astaroth's position with his own legion of pisacas, so he never cared for Sabelio's intentions.
From the things that Camille read in Alan Dunlap's journal and the information that Nihilor was giving, she knew that Sabelio had gone through some sort of traumatic experience that made him look for a way to summon demons.
Moreover, the man said that he was doing it so Novaria wouldn't fall, which only left the handler with more questions. Still, she had to move on to other topics.
"What happened with the doctor…?" Camille asked.
Trinity, who was listening to the conversation from Dante's microphone, perked up with anticipation as she heard Camille speaking.
"Ah, yes… Sylva—he was helpful," Nihilor muttered.
"What do you mean?" Camille continued.
When Nihilor came to an impasse with his research on creating dark carriers, Sabelio spoke to him about a doctor that he needed to corrupt since his skills were unmatched.
After the fiend corrupted Doctor Sylva, they used his skills to conduct a heart transplant surgery on Sabelio.
Then, Nihilor used him to develop a method that wouldn't kill the vessels he used as dark carriers.
Later on, he was sent to Highpoint Town to help with the creation of the drugs that the thugs were using to dramatically increase their speed and strength.
The doctor was vital to almost everything that the Blood Dragons were doing, and the man had been doing it all under Nihilor's mind control.
"Why Highpoint Town?" Camille asked, making the fiend reveal that it was the place where Astaroth had been staying.
Trinity instantly started to type on her computer, redirecting the drones scouting the outskirts to go to Highpoint Town.
"Is he still there?" the handler continued.
While Nihilor didn't know the fate of Dr. Sylva, he could tell he was still alive, as he was still receiving faint nourishment from the corruption in his mind.
