Chapter 815: Carlos is still 'easy to bully

"It's quite easy, isn't it? Rest assured, I've avoided vital areas like the heart. If things proceed smoothly, you might even gain greater power."

Su Xiao gripped the hilt of his sword. A mark on his upper arm glowed with a blood-red light; it was one of Su Xiao's passive skills, 【Demon's Mark】. Originally, the 【Demon's Mark】 had been on the back of his hand, but because it was too conspicuous, he had transferred it to his upper arm.

Demon's Mark: Lv. 7 (Passive Skill)

Skill Effect 1: Adds 28 points of true damage during melee attacks.

Skill Effect 2: The level of the Demon's Mark can be increased by sacrificing equipment. You have already reached a treaty with a High Demon.

Su Xiao rarely sacrificed equipment to the 【Demon's Mark】. The reason was that this skill was very resource-intensive; some low-quality equipment wasn't even enough to fill the gaps in its teeth. After all, it was an ability that increased true damage, and without investing a large amount of resources, it wouldn't improve much.

However, Su Xiao's core abilities were too resource-consuming, and he had no surplus resources to cultivate the 【Demon's Mark】.

Just before, when Su Xiao sensed that the vial of blood contained demonic energy, the 【Demon's Mark】 had shown a subtle reaction. It was precisely because of this that he had participated in this matter and ultimately helped treat Carlos.

What was inside Carlos's body was a special type of demonic energy. The purity of this demonic energy was extremely high, even more refined than the demonic energy within most demons.

Su Xiao's 【Demon's Mark】 had absorbed demonic energy once before, so he immediately thought of using the 【Demon's Mark】 to absorb the demonic energy inside Carlos.

After Su Xiao obtained Carlos's blood from Caesar, he immediately purified the demonic energy within it. The result was that the 【Demon's Mark】 easily absorbed that surge of demonic energy. Although the level of the 【Demon's Mark】 didn't increase, he felt that the 【Demon's Mark】 had been strengthened.

Now, what Su Xiao needed to do was to absorb the demonic energy inside Carlos. The other party didn't want this demonic energy, but he craved it. The benefits of true damage were numerous, such as killing a high-defense Qiyuezhe in a few slashes.

As for why Su Xiao used Carlos's sword to pierce Carlos, it was because the demonic energy inside Carlos had already formed a symbiosis with him. If all this demonic energy were taken away, Carlos would die. If most of it were absorbed, the remaining demonic energy would lose its balance and begin to destroy Carlos's body structure.

Demonic energy was not water; if there was too much, one could just extract some. This matter also involved many troublesome issues.

Since Carlos had already formed a symbiosis with the demonic energy in his body, Su Xiao could not take away all the demonic energy inside him; he had to leave at least about one-tenth.

Leaving the remaining demonic energy inside Carlos was clearly not an option, so Su Xiao noticed Carlos's sword. The craftsmanship of the other party's sword was not particularly fine, and the sword had a heavy blood aura, with power not inferior to a gold-quality weapon. From these points, it could be analyzed that Carlos had used this sword for a very long time.

When using a weapon frequently, the user would more or less develop some kind of connection with that weapon. For example, Su Xiao and Checking Zhan Long Shan; even if Checking Zhan Long Shan were accidentally lost, as long as the distance wasn't too great, he could sense Checking Zhan Long Shan.

Su Xiao speculated that Carlos must have a connection with this sword, and the auras of both sides had begun to resemble each other. This was not something that could be achieved in a few years; Carlos might have used this sword for over ten years.

Su Xiao's idea was that since the demonic energy already had a symbiotic relationship with Carlos, he would leave a portion of the demonic energy inside this sword. In this way, through the connection with this sword, Carlos would not be completely isolated from the demonic energy. It could coexist, and the demonic energy would be unable to continue eroding Carlos. This sword would become a transit and balance point.

This was the best method Su Xiao could think of. If it didn't succeed, he would mount Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang within 2 seconds. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang could rush out of the fortress in at most 10 seconds, and then they would run. As for whether they could break through the encirclement of over a hundred thousand troops, that was unknown. Without risk, how could there be profit?

No one in the room noticed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. This fellow was ready at any time to act according to the situation and slip away with Su Xiao.

Caesar stood beside Su Xiao, holding a test tube rack. Su Xiao would occasionally pull a test tube from the rack and pour the potion inside into Carlos. After dozens of vials of potion, Carlos, this Legion Commander, was rolled back his eyes.

This was just a cover; the hand Su Xiao used to grip the sword hilt was the key.

Although 【Demon's Mark】 was a passive skill, it was Su Xiao's ability and belonged to him. He could completely control the 【Demon's Mark】, just like controlling the Devouring Core.

The light of the 【Demon's Mark】 on Su Xiao's arm flickered. After fully activating the 【Demon's Mark】, his perception of the demonic energy inside Carlos became clearer.

A somewhat hazy consciousness was mixed within the demonic power; this consciousness had no clear target, merely drifting unconsciously within Carlos's body.

There was no Great Demon King parasitizing inside Carlos as imagined, nor was there any ancient consciousness awakening to resist the absorption of the 【Demon's Mark】.

On the contrary, after sensing the homologous aura within the 【Demon's Mark】, that surge of demonic energy actually took the initiative to meet it, and even began to dislike Carlos.

Discovering this, Su Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. Things were simpler than imagined.

Under the attraction of the 【Demon's Mark】, the demonic energy first entered Carlos's sword. The entire sword gradually turned black-red due to the erosion of the demonic energy.

After passing through Carlos's sword, that surge of demonic energy followed Su Xiao's hand into his body.

Inside Su Xiao's body was the energy killer known as Qing Gang Ying energy. With the domineering nature of Qing Gang Ying, as soon as the demonic energy entered Su Xiao's body, it was 'beaten up' by the Qing Gang Ying energy—that is, devoured and extinguished.

The 【Demon's Mark】 only dared to cling to the surface of Su Xiao's body; how could this external demonic energy be any different?

After being 'beaten up' by the Qing Gang Ying energy, the consciousness within the demonic energy seemed a bit aggrieved and wanted to return to Carlos's body. The outside world was too dangerous; Carlos was easier to bully.

However, would the 【Demon's Mark】 easily let this surge of demonic energy go? Of course not.

A suction force erupted from the 【Demon's Mark】, and the demonic energy was absorbed a bit while completely unprepared.

【Discovered special demonic energy. Demon's Mark is already in activated state. Devouring demonic energy...】

Those demonic energies immediately knew that whether it was inside Su Xiao's body or the 【Demon's Mark】, both were very dangerous. It was safer inside Carlos. Truly a miserable Carlos.

Once the 【Demon's Mark】 started absorbing, as long as Su Xiao didn't control it, it wouldn't stop.

The pitch-black demonic energy was absorbed into the 【Demon's Mark】 along the long sword. The 【Demon's Mark】 on Su Xiao's arm gradually grew from the size of a fingernail to the size of a walnut, and as it absorbed the demonic energy, the volume of the 【Demon's Mark】 continued to grow.

The 【Demon's Mark】 kept getting stronger, and the prompts from Reincarnation Paradise began to appear continuously.

【Demon's Mark has been upgraded to Lv. 8.】

【Demon's Mark has been upgraded to Lv. 9.】

【Demon's Mark has been upgraded to Lv. 10.】

The demonic energy inside Carlos was very pure, and the level of the 【Demon's Mark】 climbed rapidly like riding a rocket. ===== CHAPTER 816 =====