Chapter 281: Imperial Family’s Proposal
Earlier, the Sloth Devil was stunned by the sudden disturbance from one of her undead. She immediately recognized it as a deadly karmic attack! Without hesitation, she severed her connection to the undead, causing damage to her soul due to the forceful disconnection. Though she had no idea who the attacker was, she knew they were undoubtedly an expert in karmic techniques.
From the nature of the attack, she could discern its type—a curse, and a powerful one at that. She felt fortunate to have detected it in time; otherwise, the curse would have struck her soul directly. She had no desire to discover its effects, her sense of danger warned her that a direct hit to her soul would spell her end.
Sweat rolled down her forehead; it had been a long time since she had felt so close to death. Once she calmed herself, she lay back down. After checking her connections to her many undead, she finally identified which one she had lost. Letting out a sigh, she closed her eyes, appearing tired and drowsy.
Although she had just lost one of her pawns, she seemed unfazed. She had already succeeded in accomplishing what the Devil Lord wanted. Following the incident in the Doria Empire and the complete failure of their plan in that region, the devils had decided to proceed with their backup plan. Even if someone discovered her undead, it wouldn’t change the outcome now—the news had already spread. She couldn’t imagine how the Flamecrest family could salvage their reputation, especially with the opportunistic noble snakes ready to exploit the situation.
This time, the Devil Lord’s plan was to activate all their sleeper agents. After their failure in the Doria Empire, the Devil Lord decided to have the traitors within the empires stir up chaos. She and the other devils would serve only as support, watching as the factions within the empires tore each other apart.
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Back at Aldrian’s location, he removed his hand from the forehead of Commander Marcus’s corpse. He had just given the caster of the necromancy technique a taste of his newly created technique. Since this type of necromancy was deeply tied to karma and possessed karmic properties, a karmic attack was the most fitting response.
Building on his comprehension of the curse from the Envy Devil, Aldrian developed his own curse technique and refined his concept of curses. The result was a new curse he intended to use against the Sloth Devil. It was a powerful curse—by his standards—that inflicted excruciating pain within the victim’s soul. The victim would endure a slow and agonizing death over the course of several days, depending on their ability to resist the curse’s effects.
Since it was a type of curse, it couldn’t be healed with pills or ordinary healing techniques. The simplest solution was to seek help from cultivators who possessed holy energy to dispel the curse. However, for devils, that option was out of reach. To them, a curse attack of this kind was particularly devastating. The only way to break the curse was to overpower it.