Doomsday Code

Chapter 198 Shadow Demon

Marta was like a kitten abandoned by her owner. She curled up and leaned against the broken wall illuminated by the campfire.

Just as she was staring at the campfire in a daze, suddenly a shadow flew past her eyes.

The sudden shadow startled Marta, and her body quickly went into alert mode, and then she saw a familiar butcher knife.

At this moment, on the stone where the butcher knife was stuck, a shadow that kept changing its shape was constantly wriggling, trying to break free from the butcher knife.

At this time, Sheli still walked out of the darkness with a torch in his hand with a cold expression on his face.

"These monsters just appeared outside. My knife couldn't kill them, so I caught one and wanted to ask you what kind of monster it is."

Marta's mind had been confused since she saw him come back. She thought that Sheli, the cold ice cube, was annoyed by her, so he just left.

"Oh, this... this is a shadow demon."

At first Marta was a little dazed, but when she realized what the shadow in front of her was, she immediately exclaimed.

"Ice, how did you do that? These are shadow demons. Those epic masters who come in here wouldn't dare to touch these shadow demons without being fully prepared, let alone catch them."

At this time, Marta regained her previous lively self, walking around the stone with the butcher knife stuck in it, chattering non-stop.

"Ice Cube, we've made a fortune this time. As long as we pin him down like this, we can go find a wandering merchant and sell him when daybreak comes.

As long as we sell him, we will have a lot of money, and we won't have to scavenge here anymore."

Sheli still had that cold look on his face. He walked to the butcher knife and pulled it out.

At this time, the shadow demon was still wriggling on the tip of the knife, trying to escape.

However, Sheli did not say a word, picked up the butcher knife and was about to throw him into the bonfire.

Marta, who was still dreaming about the future, saw Sheli was about to throw the shadow demon into the fire. She immediately came forward, grabbed Sheli's hand and said:

"Ice Cube, what are you doing?"

"Kill him. You just said that the fire can suppress him, so I think the fire should be able to burn him to death."

Marta became anxious when she heard this. At this moment, she was like a wife trying to stop her stupid husband from squandering the family fortune.

"I told you that he can be exchanged for a lot of money. With the money, you can do whatever you want. If you burn him like this, you will be a more prodigal idiot than those prodigal nobles."

Sheli's calm eyes lit up slightly. He didn't care whether he was a spendthrift or not. He accurately grasped the meaning of Marta's words.

"You mean to say that with money I can leave here and go wherever I want?"

Marta looked into Sheli's eyes. She was just an ordinary scavenger, and in her eyes money was the boss.

But now that she looked into Sheli's eyes, she suddenly felt that what Sheli meant by his words might not be the same as what she understood.

Marta hesitated for a moment and said:

"Well... of course. As long as you have money and a legitimate identity, you can go wherever you want."

However, after hearing this, Sheli's eyes, which had lit up slightly, returned to normal again, because he did not have a reasonable identity and did not know the situation of this world, so he had not left here after being kicked out of the City of Sin by Samlett.

Seeing that Sheli was about to throw the Shadow Demon into the fire again, Marta was really anxious. She thought for a moment and thought that the man in front of her might be a wanted criminal.

But these were not what she was worried about. She really felt that it was a waste to burn the Shadow Demon to death like this.

After thinking for a moment, Mata thought of something and then held Sheli's hand again.

At this moment, Sheli was also angry because she interrupted his actions again and again. He was not an easy person to get along with. He had killed countless orcs and those who had ill intentions towards him in the desert capital.

The reason why he accommodated Marta before was because he followed Samlet's teachings and gave some help to the best of his ability to those humans of the same race who had no intention of killing him.

So he killed the scum who profited from persecuting Marta.

At this moment, Marta also felt the coldness from Sheli, but she still said resolutely:

“Don’t burn him, you can tame him.

Don't you want to leave here without being discovered by others? As long as you take in this shadow demon, you will be able to hide in the shadows in the future, and then no one will discover you when you leave here."

At this moment Sheli became interested. According to his shallow knowledge, it seemed that only people who practiced shadow magic could do the shadow escape technique. He did not expect that the monster in his hand could also allow people to do the shadow escape technique.

"How to subdue him?"

Sheli is still so concise and to the point.

Marta fell into deep thought, because she learned about the taming of Shadow Fiend from the scavengers.

Naturally, those merchants would not tell her, an ordinary scavenger, the specific methods of conquering the monster.

Finally, Marta could only shake her head.

Seeing that Sheli was about to be thrown into the fire again, she said quickly:

"I don't know why you are so anxious, but I know who knows. With your strength, it will be easy for you to ask him how to subdue the Shadow Demon."

But Sheli said at this time:

"I know. I just want to weaken him with fire, otherwise I won't be able to sheath my knife."

Marta didn't know what was going on in Sheli's train of thought. In Sheli's mind, as long as his knife was unsheathed, he had to drink blood.

Since his swordsmanship has reached perfection, the only two times when he struck without drawing blood were the one involving the Shadow Fiend and Samlet.

The second time was because he had to carry out the mission given by Samlett, so he left the shadow demon behind.

When the Shadow Demon approached the flame of the bright wood, the two saw wisps of black smoke coming out of the Shadow Demon, and then the orange-red flame of the burning bright wood turned into dark green in an instant.

At this moment, the two of them felt like they had entered the legendary underworld. The wailing sound of the shadow demon when being roasted kept ringing in their ears.

Seeing this, Marta's whole body tensed up. She grabbed Sheli's arm tightly and looked around from time to time, fearing that a ghost would suddenly appear.

According to Sheli's perception, there were no living creatures around that had the intention to kill them. He saw Mata frowning as she pulled his hand, but seeing the fear on her face, Sheli still did not ask her to let go.

When the shadow demon was burned from the size of a basin to the size of a fist, the resentment in the wailing sound in the void turned into a plea for mercy.

Then Sheli saw that the shadow demon turned into a pool of ink-like fluid, which directly merged into the butcher knife in his hand, and then a shadow shape condensed on the butcher knife.