Reclaiming the Demon’s Curse - Chapter 148

In a dark and damp underground prison, one could hear several figures whispering.

“When did he arrive?”

“I’m not sure… As soon as I woke up, he’s already there.”

“That’s weird. We should hear the guards opening the door and the gate whenever they send someone in.”

“You’re right. This one isn’t even from the same race.”

“Ugh… I was awake at that time. I tried attacking him since I’m loving his smell. However, he’s quite strong.”

“Oh, so that’s why you have more injuries than before. Kekeke…”

This group of prisoners is all in the same room as Cyril. The room is quite huge enough to fit 40 prisoners. However, there are only 15 of them right now not including Cyril.

Aside from that, all of them have their feet chained… except for Cyril of course.

Everyone here was confused by his mysterious appearance.

“If he’s not part of the any Beastman Race. Then why is he even here?”

One of them asked but it seems like he’s not waiting for an answer. All of them remained silent for a moment thinking of a reason.

“Haa~ Anyway, we tried eating him but we can’t… He’s too troublesome to deal with.”

Grug… Grug… Grug…

His stomach suddenly grumbled. They were only provided food every 4 days and obviously, it is not enough for them.

“Ugh… I want to eat him.”

“Kaede, you’re the boss here… Why don’t you try approaching him? Ever since he arrived here, he remained silent and just fed his weakened cat.”

“Tsk… Don’t waste your energy. He’s quite strong. He’ll talk to us if he needed. Just wait for the guards. They should be coming again in the next two days. If they needed a miner, some of us might be selected if we look even a bit better…”

Compared to the other Beastmen inside the prison, Kaede appears to be small. However, because he is from the noble Fox Clan, he was assigned to be the leader in this large prison cell.

The others are from the Hawk Clan, Raven Clan, Shadow Cat Clan, and Turtle Clan. All of them appear to be very skinny aside from being dirty. It’s even hard to recognize them at this rate.

Aside from that, there are three corpses within the prison cell. From the Shell and Wings left behind, one could tell that they came from the Turtle Clan and a bird clan.

They either died due to hunger or cannibalism of the Beastmen that were left here.

Anyway, the group indeed decided not to bother the newly arrived man to reserve their energy. If they can become a slave miner, they know that it would be better for them since they would be able to eat food every day!

That is much better than staying here to wait for their death!

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“Magenta! Magenta! What’s going on?”

Cyril called out to the Demoness. After entering this place, Cyril immediately tried to connect to the outside world but as expected, he lost his connection to the Entrance Crystal. It means that he has to fulfill something here within the Arcane World to get out.

It might be an item he has to find, a beast he has to kill, or he just needs to wait until his reconnection to the Entrance Crystal happens naturally.

It would really depend on the will of this High-Class Arcane World.

“Xagan, what’s happening to Magenta? This never happened when we entered the Red Goblin’s Arcane World.” Cyril decided to ask the Demon within his body.

He can only hope that it wouldn’t be expensive.

“Well, it’s a knowledge worth 5 days, Contractor…” Xagan immediately replied.

However, before Cyril could agree, the demoness weakly replied.

“M-master… I’m fine. T-this Arcane World is just too stable so I’m being rejected…”

Magenta did her best to explain.

“Stable?”

Cyril could understand a few things from that as he nodded. He learned from Selma before that the unstable Arcane World will collapse one day.

As for the stable one, they might exist forever and wouldn’t cause an outbreak to the Human World.

“I guess, the demons can only safely enter unstable Arcane World. Can you do something about it? I can’t have you weakened like this forever…”

“Don’t worry, Master. Just give me a couple of days to rest and my body will be able to adjust.”

“That’s good to hear. Right, I have here some healing potion, can you use that?”

“Ugh… It will do more harm to my body, Master. Just water is enough.”

“Is that so?” Cyril asked.

Since he was about to pull out his lesser healing potions, he decided to just get some bottles of normal water as she requested.

Looking at it, the cat appears to be dehydrated.

“Two days, huh. Very well, I can wait that long.” Cyril said as he looked around.

“Yes, Master… If you also allow me to corrupt these creatures here, it might help me a lot faster.”

Cyril didn’t immediately decline. After all, he’s unsure about these imprisoned creatures. They might’ve been some mindless murderers after all.

It might indeed be better to have them serve Magenta instead.

“How will you do it?”

He asked silently.

When he first arrived here, some of the awake ones seemed to be surprised and attacked Cyril. They are even salivating after they have gotten close to him and getting a whiff of his scent.

He already realized that the creatures here are from the Beastman Race so he felt that it’s indeed natural for them to desire his human flesh and gobble him up.

Luckily, he’s not some pushover and dealt with them with a few punches to teach some of them a lesson.

“Kuh… I will just cast some mind-breaking spell on them. Since they are weak, it will be easier for me. Then, I can corrupt them a lot faster with another magic as long as I managed to touch them. I might overexert my body right now, but once I’m successful, it would assist me in my regeneration, Master.”

Magenta answered hoping for Cyril to agree.

“Ugh, if it will overexert your body, with your current condition, something bad might happen. Wouldn’t it be better to wait for two days instead?”

“I…”

“Once you recovered, I will let you corrupt them. For now, I’ll have to extract information from them..” Cyril added.