Seizing Destiny From Heavens Hands-Chapter 408: The Demon Race Parasite — Demon Execution Alliance’s Infiltration of the Logistics Division
Chapter 408: The Demon Race Parasite — Demon Execution Alliance’s Infiltration of the Logistics Division
Shen Mo looked pleased.
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Now that Divine Thunder Force had manifested, he finally possessed the capital to contend with demonic energy.
From this point on, he no longer needed to burn through vast amounts of spiritual power or blood qi. Relying on Divine Thunder Force and blood essence alone would be enough to fight against demonic energy.
His efficiency in slaying demons and accumulating military merit would increase even further.
However, obtaining merit step by step was still far too slow.
If he wanted to exchange for the fifth layer of Divine Elephant Prison Suppression Force, he needed an astronomical amount of merit.
Unless he made a massive military contribution all at once, it would be nearly impossible.
“Judging by the timing, the Demon Execution Alliance should be preparing to infiltrate the logistics personnel by now.”
Shen Mo narrowed his eyes in thought.
In any fortress, the frontline combatants were undoubtedly crucial.
But just as essential were the logistics personnel in the rear—those operating formations, refining pills, and crafting weapons.
Because of the special nature of their roles, their loyalty was even more critical.
If something went wrong with the logistics Demon-Suppressing Guards, the consequences would be devastating!
Substandard or even poisonous pills, fragile weapons prone to shattering, shoddily made uniforms, and unmanned formations—how much damage would those bring to a battle?
As someone who had thoroughly studied five thousand years of Huaxia history, Shen Mo understood this all too well.
The Demon Execution Alliance’s infiltration of the logistics division posed the greatest threat.
If he could root them out, the military merit he would earn would be far greater as well.
…
Three days later.
The first battle of winter erupted.
Five million Lesser Demons surged out of the Demon-Suppressing Sea under the command of numerous True Demons, launching a massive assault on the fortresses.
The demon race selected the human race’s Vermillion Bird Fortress as their primary target.
They committed a full two million Lesser Demons to the attack.
The remaining three million were divided among three other targets with relatively weaker overall strength:
The human race’s Xuanwu Fortress and White Tiger Fortress, and the monster race’s Jinshan Fortress.
Human fortresses were frequently targeted by the demons.
That was because the cultivation of blood qi techniques was far more effective in the Demon-Suppressing Sea.
And due to innate physical differences, humans were already half a step behind monsters when it came to blood qi cultivation.
As such, once they fell behind, they kept falling further.
These three fortresses had long suffered repeated attacks from the demons, and their Demon-Suppressing Guard casualty rates remained high.
Reinforcements were slow to arrive.
So after tasting success, the demon race never stopped attacking these specific strongholds.
For centuries, that strategy had never changed.
The nearby monster race fortresses often remained on the sidelines during such attacks.
After all, the humans and monsters had been mortal enemies for over a thousand years.
Just because they now served together in the Demon-Suppressing Sea didn’t mean centuries of blood hatred could be swept aside overnight.
Unless a human fortress was on the verge of complete annihilation, monster race fortresses rarely sent reinforcements.
The Flood Dragon Fortress would occasionally lend a hand, but only with trivial, noncommittal support.
Humans had always relied on themselves.
This battle was a grueling one.
Due to the scale of the demon race’s offensive, the Demon-Suppressing Guards did not leave the fortress but instead relied on the elevated defensive positions to fend off the attackers.
In battle, the demons relied on their demon flood dragons and nearly breached the walls multiple times.
Many guards on the walls fell in the defense.
But under the protection of Shen Mo and Shi Dingyue, Li Heitan and the others all survived unscathed.
They even joined forces to slay a True Demon Venerable riding a demon flood dragon, earning a major contribution.
In this battle, Shen Mo shone brilliantly thanks to his blood essence.
He single-handedly slew five True Demon Venerables—not only defending his section of the wall but also assisting in the defense of the adjacent segments.
The battle lasted a full half month.
Only then did the demons finally retreat, leaving behind the corpses of hundreds of thousands of their kin.
Xuanwu Fortress, however, was far from unscathed.
More than two hundred Demon-Suppressing Guards had fallen in battle.
The number of damaged weapons and formations was beyond count.
After the battle, Shen Mo’s military merit skyrocketed to 125 Ding-rank merit points.
After all, slaying a single True Demon Venerable awarded ten Ding-rank merits.
At this rate, he was accumulating merit far faster than an average Yellow-rank guard.
Even Shi Dingyue was a bit envious.
After all, killing a True Demon Venerable still required considerable effort on his part.
Shen Mo seemed to have cultivated some strange technique—or perhaps possessed a rare spiritual weapon—that allowed him to refine blood qi and nearly neutralize demonic energy.
Under such an atmosphere, the Xuanwu Fortress sounded the retreat horn.
On the way back to the tent, Shen Mo’s gaze swept over the Demon-Suppressing Guards one by one, checking their Life Panels.
Finally, his eyes stopped on a particular person.
“Demonic parasitism? Now that’s interesting.”
Shen Mo blinked.
Just as humans and monsters could cultivate techniques, so could the demon race.
Different demon arts granted different abilities.
For example, the demon art Hundred Weapon Demon Art was practiced by the majority of Lesser Demons.
By cultivating it to the first level, their hands could transform into weapons like swords or blades.
The higher the level, the more weapons they could conjure.
At its peak, they could transform into sabers, spears, swords, halberds—even bows and crossbows.
Another example was the Bewitching Heart Scripture, a technique exclusive to True Demons. Once cultivated, it allowed them to confuse the minds of others, manipulating Demon-Suppressing Guards into serving the demon race.
Then there was the Parasitic Split Soul Technique, a method only available to True Demons who were heirs of the Great Archdemons.
It allowed the demon to split a wisp of their demonic energy and disguise it as spiritual power or blood qi, sneaking it into the body of a Demon-Suppressing Guard.
This method was one of the demon race’s favorites—and one of the hardest to detect.
Although the guards employed various detection methods, the demon race’s tricks were ever-changing. There were always some they couldn’t catch.
Finally, there was the most hated demon art of all—Thousand Faces Shapeshifting Technique.
This technique required three conditions: the practitioner had to have True Demon bloodline, be a descendant of a Great Archdemon, and be at the Heavenly Peak Demon Venerable Realm. All three were indispensable.
Once mastered, it allowed the user to freely transform into human or monster forms and infiltrate Demon-Suppressing Fortresses to carry out sabotage missions of all kinds.
Shen Mo had heard from Shi Dingyue and Li Heitan that twenty years ago, a descendant of a Great Archdemon had been captured. A soul search revealed that a True Demon Venerable who had cultivated the Thousand Faces Shapeshifting Technique had successfully infiltrated the Xuanwu Fortress.
But even after a top-down purge was launched across the fortress, they had never found that demon.
Some believed that the demon had escaped during the chaos.
Others believed the demon had hidden even deeper—like a venomous snake in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
These demon arts, through countless encounters between the Demon-Suppressing Guards and the demon race, had been captured and cataloged by the fortress authorities.
There were even Demon-Suppressing Guards dedicated solely to researching demon arts—never fighting on the battlefield, but instead spending every day analyzing techniques to find weaknesses.
Shen Mo now closely examined the Life Panel of the man before him.
His name was Gao Ming.
He had already been parasitized four years ago.
His mind and soul had been subtly tampered with.
Outwardly, there was no change.
But within, he now revered the demon race as supreme.
Gao Ming was also a member of the Demon Execution Alliance and often worked to recruit others.
Because he behaved normally and fought bravely, no one had ever suspected anything.
[Recent Opportunity 1: Tonight, drinks and conversation with Li Ming from the pill depot. Successfully recruited him into the Demon Execution Alliance.]
[Recent Opportunity 2: Tonight, met with Song Hua, a fellow guard. Used personal connections to successfully have him assigned to the spiritual weapon division.]
[Recent Opportunity 3: …]
After reading it, Shen Mo’s eyes lit up.
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