CHAPTER 189: CHAPTER 170 THE DEMON RACE’S CONSPIRACY BEGINS TO EMERGE

The Demon-controlling Race, one of the peculiar races residing on the overseas island of the He Clan.

When everyone hears the introduction about the Demon Masters, the first thing that comes to mind is the familiar profession from traditional games: Summoner.

Because both Demon Masters and Summoners share a common characteristic: they both summon demons to fight for them.

However, Demon Masters are not like Lin Yi’s Spirit Summoner.

Lin Yi’s Spirit Summoner can deal considerable arcane magic damage even without relying on summoned creatures;

he can even switch to a close combat profession, with damage not inferior to any other profession.

But the Demon Master cannot.

You could say that the Demon Master’s own damage is exceedingly weak.

Among all its skills, aside from defense skills, almost all are skills for adding attribute buffs to summoned creatures.

If the summoned creatures cannot be utilized, then the Demon Master profession is basically useless.

Because relying on the few attack skills of the Demon Master, it can’t deal much damage to monsters at all.

Additionally, let’s introduce the summoning system of the Demon Master.

The demons summoned by the Demon Master come from the Abyssal Demon Realm, the same Demon Race that all the races on the Rafam Continent detest.

The demons summoned by the Demon Master are determined by level.

The corresponding level of a Summoner will randomly summon demons of the respective level from the Abyss Demon Race.

The higher the level of the Demon Master, the higher the level of the summoned Demon Race.

Upon hearing this, many might understand why the demons they summon are unruly.

This is because those demons from the Abyss, even if summoned by them, do not necessarily obey their orders.

With the innate antagonistic relationship between the Rafam Continent and the Abyss Demon Race, demons below level thirty are only imbued with the most basic setting: slaughter.

To kill all Rafam Continent creatures before them, even their summoners are no exception.

Due to the peculiarities of this racial profession, Lin Yi had once seen an introduction about this profession in an article titled "Game Curiosities."

The article also described the origins of this race.

In fact, the Demon-controlling Race did not initially exist on the Rafam Continent.

During the Demon Race’s invasion of the Rafam Interior, they took advantage of the fact that the Demon Race had not yet extended their claws to the overseas island of the He Clan.

The people of the He Clan not only refrained from providing reinforcements to the interior.

At that time, the leader of the Orochi of the He Clan secretly rescued a Demon Race general who had been severely injured by a human strongman, bringing him to the island where the He Clan resided.

In order to save his life, the Orochi God unhesitatingly severed one of its heads to perform the supreme secret technique of the Eight-headed Race, ultimately managing to save him.

Grateful for the life-saving grace, the Demon Race general taught all his skills to his descendants.

After that descendant mastered those skills, he broke away from the Eight-headed Race, and a new race, the Demon-controlling Race, was born.

Strictly speaking, this so-called Demon-controlling Race is still an inheritor of the Demon Race.

In a past life, Lin Yi only saw this as part of the game’s setup, so upon learning this information, he only found it intriguing without any other thoughts.

But now, the Demon-controlling Race, in Lin Yi’s eyes, looks like the Demon Race’s spies planted on the Rafam Continent.

It was mentioned above, when Demon Masters summon the Demon Race.

If they level up and want to summon again, if the previously summoned demon isn’t dead, it will be sent back to the Abyssal Demon Realm.

Doesn’t this provide the Demon Race with an opportunity to gather intelligence on the Rafam Continent?

Moreover, in the past life, when the He Clan didn’t participate in the anti-demon war, it wasn’t given much thought, only seen as indifference.

However, now, Lin Yi feels that the He Clan could become a very unstable time bomb as a new demon race war looms.

Lin Yi has reasons to think this way.

Because during the demon race invasion in a past life, when players from many national districts were fiercely resisting and fighting against the Demon Race.

The He Clan secretly led people to ambush the Russian main city in the Northern Continent: New Berengen (equivalent to Cyan Dragon City).

They nearly killed all the newbie players in New Berengen at the time, even slaughtering the general stationed there (Lv40).

At that time, the players in New Berengen looked at these savage high-level players from the He Clan with deep-seated hatred.

But due to the overwhelming difference in strength, they were powerless to resist and could only passively endure it.

As a result, the Resurrection Divine Hall in New Berengen was crowded, yet no one dared to step out.

When top Russian players hurried back from the anti-demon battlefield, the He Clan had already retreated to their island.

This incident was quite sensational at the time.

The enraged Russians even engaged in a national war with the He Clan for over a week.

However, due to the easily defensible, hard-to-attack terrain of the He Clan’s island, neither side could make significant gains after a week, and Russia had to conclude hastily.

Nevertheless, the enmity between the He Clan and the Russians was thus established.

Back then, Lin Yi speculated about it with great fascination.

Of course, these are all later events...

Returning to the profession of the Demon Master.

Don’t underestimate the Demon Master; to them, it seems like a useless profession.

But when a Demon Master reaches Level 30, you must understand that the Demon Race after the Third Transformation has gained a certain level of intelligence.

By then, the Demon Master will reach the highlight of their profession.

Having a Demon Race ally with the strength of the Third Transformation means that, even if the master were a pig, their strength wouldn’t be too far behind any profession of the same level.

By then, the Demon Master only needs to think about how to reach a consensus with their summoned demon for assistance, without worrying that the summoned being would kill them first.

But with this, when the Demon Race invades,

the Demon Master profession will again face a peculiar situation.

That is, can you make the demons you summon kill your own people?

Obviously, that’s impossible.

Now thinking about it, this profession always gives Lin Yi a feeling like a thorn in the throat.

However, Lin Yi currently is not considering matters so far ahead.

Taking advantage of the time waiting for the event to start, Lin Yi gave a simple introduction about the Demon Master profession to Zealous Drunkard and others curious about it.

Tianshi glanced at the three players left by Hojo Takeshi, suspiciously saying:

"You made them stay just for this?"

Suddenly thinking of something, Shengshi Drunkard uncertainly said:

"Is this related to you summoning those werewolves?"

When Shengshi Drunkard, along with Luoshen and the Divine Hall, attacked the Proud Sanctuary’s stronghold, the sudden appearance of those werewolves was, one could say, the key to their failure.

Afterward, Shengshi Drunkard specifically found someone to analyze and study Lin Yi’s ability.

At the time, those werewolves were obviously only after the demons, paying no attention to Shengshi Drunkard and others.

And since then, even when surrounded by the Divine Hall, Lin Yi had not used this ability again.

The conclusion reached by Shengshi Drunkard’s advisors was:

Lin Yi’s ability is either a one-time use or can only target demons and not players.

This conclusion, combined with Lin Yi’s anomalous actions and explanations about the Demon Master,

finally led Shengshi Drunkard to boldly speculate if there was an inevitable connection between the two matters.

Though Lin Yi had used this ability twice in front of Tianshi and others, in terms of understanding Lin Yi, Shengshi Drunkard, who specifically had people research his opponent, likely knew best.

Regarding Shengshi Drunkard’s speculation, Lin Yi merely laughed it off without answering.

Seeing this, Shengshi Drunkard understood tacitly and did not ask further.

This made Tianshi and others completely baffled,

"What kind of riddle are you two playing? Aren’t you going to explain it in detail?"

At this moment, it was Shuai Jiaozha who remained clear-headed,

"Well, you’ll know soon enough, what’s there to explain?"

As time was almost up, among the three players left by Hojo Takeshi, one named "Tanzawa Shouichi" walked over, gesturing arrogantly to Lin Yi and others:

"Follow us."

Saying this, he no longer paid attention to Lin Yi and the others, walking away with the other two, chatting and laughing in a certain direction.

Seeing their disgusting demeanor, Tianshi couldn’t help but express anger:

"I really want to kill these arrogant idiots right now."

Shuai Jiaozha agreed and said:

"Me too."

Shengshi Drunkard looked at Lin Yi, who merely smiled:

"Don’t rush, soon enough."

At this point, many might wonder, what if Lin Yi does indeed summon the Elves, but they can’t act against humans? What’s the use?

In the end, won’t Lin Yi himself have to kill those He Clan players?

However, Lin Yi had considered this aspect thoroughly.

Since attacking players directly is prohibited, Lin Yi thought,

In a confined space, what if these players are accidentally killed?

Lin Yi figured this wouldn’t be difficult for Elf Race Great Elder Gamplov, right...

After all, a Great Elder being over Level 70 and at Demigod Level, even just the aftershock of his skills would be enough to kill these mere Level 20 players a few times over.

Lin Yi was not worried about getting the first kill but about extracting information about the Cyclops Race from the arrogant He Clan members.

This is crucial as it concerns whether Lin Yi and the others can return, with no room for error.

Just as the group spotted the dilapidated Tianmu Temple from afar, the player Tanzawa suddenly said:

"Stop, everyone waits here."