Chapter 177 - Demons
Chris
"Demons? Really?" I asked before I fully comprehended what was said. It was just so outlandish. Sure, we knew of them now that the world had changed but it was still odd to think of them as real.
When one shouted Demons, it was hard not to think of all the depictions from fantasy shows and whatnot. Even though they were very real now and were possibly a threat, my kneejerk reaction was to think it unbelievable.
"Yes, Demons." Carson confirmed like he expected my skepticism, "After we found proof and the remains of a Demon Summoning Ritual, our City Leader sent us out to call for help. That is the reason we are here."
After he gave a touch more information, and my mind kicked into action that this wasn't a joke, I pulled up everything I knew about Demons.
Not something I thought I would ever say.
Demons were a Race among the multiverse similar in some ways to how they were depicted in our mythologies. They were cruel, cunning, deceptive, and most of all, corruptive.
They infected worlds, draining them of their essence and twisting them into hellish wastelands that only benefitted Demons.
Like our stories, they were waging a never-ending war against another Race, the Angels, but that was irrelevant to what they were doing here and not worth getting into. Plus, the Angels weren't as radiant and angelic as their name would believe. There was just as much dirt on their Race as their was on Demons. Except their vice wasn't taking over planets as much as waging holy wars.
Demons, though, were a nuisance anywhere. Just the mana they gave off was enough to infect other creatures, turning them Demonic, which was how the Demonic Leopards from the tutorial were made. The only reason a Demon would be on Earth was for only two reasons. Because the terraforming made them and they now populated the planet, or someone was stupid enough to summon one.
Based on the fact that Carson just said they found evidence of a Summoning Ritual, I guessed it was the latter.
Summoning Rituals sounded exactly like what they were. Using a type of Formation along with rare materials and reagents, sometimes even a sacrifice, you could call out to a being you wished to summon and pull it through space to your location.