Chapter 1 A Small Squad

The small squad of demons around Hao Ren really didn't have much strength. They were all bottom-tier grunts from the demon world. Even though they were much stronger than ordinary humans, they were nothing to the superhumans around Hao Ren. After the two leading formal demons were killed, the remaining ones were just a bunch of chaotic demons with limited intelligence, only a little smarter than animals. After several humans suddenly attacked them, these guys didn't react at all and died on the spot. Some were stabbed to death by Hao Ren, some were stabbed to death by Lily, and some were swatted to death by Izhaks, some were swatted to death by Izhaks, some were swatted to death by Izhaks - in fact, only Hao Ren and Lily reacted quickly enough to steal two kills, the rest were all swatted to death by Izhaks.

The corpses of the chaotic demons were evenly smeared across the ground, and soon turned into puddles of hot ashes. By this time, the group of human soldiers in front hadn't reacted yet. The leading male officer was holding his sword, preparing to say a few polite words (after all, on the surface it looked like they had a great advantage), but he didn't expect the demon squad in front of him to blossom from within and die. Moreover, the succubus leading the team was the first to attack - the junior officer felt that the world was a little unreal, and that business was getting easier and easier…

Lanina wiped the blood off her slender sword and walked charmingly towards Hao Ren and the others, "Are you alright?"

The bearded man next to Hao Ren and several other men and women instinctively tensed up, but seeing the succubus's respectful attitude at this time, they immediately confirmed that Hao Ren was indeed a warlock – although he was a relatively dreaded profession, at least he was on the side of humanity, so they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Hao Ren wasn't ambiguous either, and led his little friends towards the human soldiers, "You're from the Holy See Allied Forces, right?"

The leading human officer finally reacted, staring at the group of people in surprise, "Who are you?"

"They are friends," the bearded man walked up from behind and nodded to the human officer, "If it weren't for their help, I'm afraid several of us would have died in the demon camp. This person next to me is a warlock, and this succubus is his servant, so don't worry."

Lanina immediately nodded, looking especially respectful, "Yes, yes, I was summoned by my master…"

The succubus girl lied without batting an eye. If the two demon soldiers lying on the ground could hear this, who knows what they would think. This identity switcheroo was too useful!

In this world, there is a profession known as "warlocks" who can summon and command demons, and also have a lot of knowledge about the demon world.

Because of this, warlocks sometimes become accomplices in the invasion of the human world by demons – usually, if a demon lord wants to invade the human world, the easiest way is to disguise himself as a low-level demon and be summoned by a warlock, and then coerce and lure the warlock to open a temporary portal. Therefore, warlocks are dreaded by many people.

But things have two sides. Even though warlocks are dreaded, they are also a positive profession recognized by this world: these people are experts in demon knowledge, and all races in the human world must have the assistance of these warlocks to deal with those demons whose natural combat power is frighteningly high. At the same time, all races must have warlocks to help open the door to attack the demon world. Therefore, warlocks are also indispensable experts, scholars, and leaders for all races to fight against demons – in fact, the profession of warlock was originally created to fight against demons.

It's just that many people later went astray.

This is the warlock, a group of mysterious and unpredictable, awe-inspiring and fearful forbidden scholars. They may become accomplices in the demon invasion, but in most cases, they are the greatest reliance of the Order camp against the demons. Hao Ren had discussed with Lanina from the beginning that it would be most convenient to operate with the identity of a warlock: when encountering demons, they would say that Lanina was the boss, and when encountering humans, they would say that he was the boss. Anyway, the two had no contractual relationship, so it was up to them to say whatever they wanted…

You really can't deny that this is better than anything else. People in this world would never have thought that demons and humans would cooperate peacefully in this way - only one mad king in the world had tried to establish a harmonious situation between all races, but later died. History used its wheels to prove the irreconcilable relationship between humans and demons, and by the way, it helped Hao Ren.

The human officer also looked at Hao Ren with considerable apprehension and awe after hearing about his warlock status, but based on the obedience of the succubus and the combat situation just now, this statement was obviously credible. He was just curious about one thing now: "Have warlocks started practicing marksmanship these days?"

Hao Ren laughed, shook the silver alloy spear in his hand, and looked up at the sky, "I can't do anything else…"

The human officer immediately stopped asking questions: In order to control demons, warlocks usually suffer a lot of mental shock. After summoning a certain number of demons, they are more or less mentally unsound. Judging from the symptoms of the person in front of him, he is at least a demon master…

At this time, Vivian took out her solitary mercenary spiel, "We received the Allied Forces' call to join the army, but we got separated from the main force after passing through the portal. We happened to meet your people being captured by demons, so we joined them. Can you take us to the Holy See Allied Forces' station?"

Lanina had observed the Holy See Allied Forces for a while before leaving this world and had grasped a lot of information related to the Allied Forces. Although several months had passed, the basic situation looked unchanged, so Hao Ren and the others knew how to fool them.

The human officer looked Hao Ren and his group up and down, and confirmed that except for the succubus, the others were normal humans, so he nodded, "Come with us, we're short on people right now. But this warlock, keep an eye on your pet after entering the station, don't let her run around, she might be accidentally killed."

The large team reorganized its formation, bypassed the nearby demon patrol teams under the cover of the obsidian forest, and headed towards the Holy See Allied Forces' station. The "Allied Forces spies" rescued by Hao Ren and the others naturally walked with the human soldiers. The bearded man asked the junior officer about the situation with a worried expression, "It seems like only you guys came... other races didn't send anyone, right?"

"We knew this would happen, why bother expecting anything," the junior officer sighed helplessly, and looked at the bearded man with a respectful expression, "It can't go on like this anymore, you're such an important scholar, but they sent you to collect specimens, and they didn't even allow you to bring a guard, this is obviously..."

The bearded man shook his head, "Heh, what can you do? It was originally a team that was barely put together, it's already good that it's lasted for so many years. Now that the Mad King has been missing for more than half a year, it's time to split up."

Hao Ren had been listening with his ears perked up the whole time, and immediately heard some inside information: the ordinary-looking bearded man was obviously not an ordinary soldier, his disguise was probably fake, and he seemed to be a remarkable figure, but he didn't know what went wrong within the Allied Forces, and he was thrown out to die - and almost really died.

The surrounding soldiers could also be explained all of a sudden. No wonder so many of them carefully ambushed a group of demon grunts, it should have been to rescue the bearded man and others. In addition, these soldiers were all human, and there were no other races to be seen, which seemed to indicate that there was already a problem with the Allied Forces.

The team advanced cautiously, constantly changing direction along the way, but the way they changed direction seemed to follow some rules, presumably to bypass the demon strongholds around the obsidian plain. Some of the human soldiers were dressed as mages, and they held ancient-style staffs, constantly setting up small-scale barriers to eliminate or forge the aura left along the way. Obviously, these veterans had accumulated considerable experience during their half-year stay in the demon space.

Hao Ren and the others deliberately lagged behind, and Vivian whispered to Izhaks, "By the way, we're about to go to the Holy See Allied Forces' territory, do you have any psychological resistance?"

"Resistance to what?" Izhaks asked, puzzled.

"They're your mortal enemies," Nangong Wuyue interjected from the side, "They're all your enemies, weren't you killed by them back then?"

Izhaks chuckled, his face indifferent, "Aren't demons my enemies? This world is my enemy, it's the same wherever I go."

Hao Ren immediately heard infinite heroism from this sentence - only such a fierce person could say "The world is my enemy" so lightly, and the gold content of this sentence is definitely higher than those hotheads who feel that the world is unfair without doing anything. Izhaks summarized this conclusion after being brushed by the whole world, bloody gold content…