Chapter 255: Rites to Dissolve the Contract
As for black magic, most people thought it was something nefarious that only demons or people who have fallen into depravity would use.
It’s believed that whether it’s learning or using black magic, it would corrode and eat away at one’s soul, so the church ostracized black magic. Anyone caught secretly learning black magic would be seen as an evil heretic and would be immediately apprehended. The Four Kingdoms also cooperated and dealt with any literature related to black magic, so there were few powerful black magicians left.
Snow happened to be one of them.
According to Snow, the slave contract she used on Elena was an ancient one, likely the original made by the founder of black magic.
Other than being powerful, complicated, and unable to be broken, it had a special feature… if the slave fell in love with their master and gave birth to the crystal of their love, then the contract would automatically be cancelled.
“Actually, black magic isn’t that frightening, Edward, the founder wasn’t a scary demon. He only made the slave contract because he was a fatty who nobody liked. He used the contract to catch girls, held them captive and left the only way to break the contract so that a girl would like him.”
… Catching and imprisoning girls, and you say he’s not a frightening demon.
I’m afraid Snow’s the only one who could say something like that. However, the person responsible for correcting Snow is her brother, and the only thing Elena was concerned with was how to face the reality.
From when she was crammed into a deliver package, to almost a year later, even if there wasn’t any particular movements from the demons and the Forest of the End was silent, with lesser skirmishes at the borders, Elena knew that it was only the calm before the storm.