The shapeshifter's expression changed.
Since these monsters were Beelzebub's followers, they could naturally recognize other demons. So, they immediately recognized Roy after he transformed into the Son of the Devil.
However, recognizing him at this point was too late. The die was cast, and there was no possibility of reconciliation.
Roy, having drawn his Hellfire Chainsaw Sword, had already begun a massacre among the cabin mercenaries. With Sadako and Kayako's help, the mercenaries couldn't mount any effective resistance and were easily sawed into pieces by Roy.
The shapeshifter's powerful fighting ability made his eyes twitch, as if he couldn't control the nerves around his eyes, just like Mahogany.
"Ah, Mr. Blake, so you're a demon too. Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Roy sneered. There wasn't necessarily no conflict between demons. For example, Belial, the King of Sloth, didn't have a good relationship with Asmodeus, the King of Lust. Demons under the two demon lords often fought.
Roy was currently on Belial's side. He didn't have too much conflict with Beelzebub, but that didn't mean he couldn't take out Beelzebub's followers.
"Say whatever you want in hell!"
With that, Roy released a large amount of fear shadows towards the monsters, instantly throwing some of them into chaos. However, because the monsters were spread out, the fear shadows couldn't control too many of them.
Since Roy was being uncooperative, the shapeshifter had no choice but to let out a sharp scream, ordering all the monsters to besiege Roy.
Then these monsters witnessed the terror of technology. The chainsaw sword, empowered by the forces of hell, had terrifying destructive power.
.44 Magnum bullets couldn't kill these monsters, but they were easily sawed in half by the Hellfire Chainsaw Sword, and because the hellfire burned their wounds, it completely destroyed their powerful self-healing abilities.
As a result of the siege, Roy was unharmed, but the monsters left behind a large number of corpses. In just a few minutes, thirty to forty monsters were killed as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.
Fear began to rise in the monsters' hearts, and Roy fiercely harvested that fear.
"Hahaha! Is this all you've got?"
Actually, these monsters were quite strong. Their strength and agility were generally above twenty, and their constitution was around thirty.
Without using large-scale destructive weapons, it might take more than ten times the number of troops to take down these monsters, and there would still be a lot of casualties.
If it were in an underground environment, the casualties would be even more terrifying.
Unfortunately for the monsters, they encountered Roy.
This one-sided slaughter quickly caused the ghouls' morale to collapse. Some of the monsters began to flee, which showed that they actually had some intelligence.
"Stop! If you make another move, I'll kill this woman!"
The shapeshifter and Mahogany stood on either side of the inverted cross.
Roy, his eyes bloodshot, stopped moving. Another monster tried to sneak attack him, but he grabbed its neck, slammed it to the ground, and stomped on its neck, breaking it.
Seeing this action, the shapeshifter and Mahogany's eyes both twitched, but they didn't say anything about Roy's behavior.
Roy leaned on his chainsaw sword, slightly out of breath.
"What do you want?"
"Mr. Blake, this was our mistake! We're willing to return this woman to you. You've also killed quite a few of our kind. How about we just pretend nothing happened?"
Roy looked at the shapeshifter and Mahogany, and surprisingly saw fear in their eyes. It seemed they were genuinely scared.
"Heh, now you know to back off? Too late!"
Roy instantly switched to his Smith & Wesson M625 and M629 revolvers from his inventory. As soon as he held them, they began to transform into hell weapons.
But because Roy's shooting speed was so fast, the revolvers' skin hadn't fully transformed before the bullets were already fired.
So, the first two shots were still regular bullets, merely pushing the shapeshifter and Mahogany back a step, moving them away from Dalia.
Then, the two hell revolvers spat out burning bullets, directly blowing off both of their heads.
\[Ding! Obtained Mahogany's Fate Treasure Chest! Open it now?]
Getting the Fate Treasure Chest meant Mahogany was dead.
The shapeshifter didn't drop a treasure chest, but that probably wasn't because he wasn't dead. It was more likely that this guy had very little Fate power and didn't have a treasure chest at all.
The deaths of these two caused the remaining monsters' morale to completely collapse. When Roy continued to chase after them, he discovered that these monsters had already fled through some tunnels.
The walls of the huge cavern were covered in caves, and behind the caves were intricate tunnels.
After Roy sensed the fear and took out a dozen or so more monsters, the rest all fled into the depths of the earth.
There was no point in chasing them any further, so Roy reverted from his Son of the Devil form and went to the inverted cross to untie Dalia.
Roy thought that after being untied, Dalia would be scared of him, especially since she had seemed quite traditional before. However, he didn't expect her first words to be about her daughter.
"Roy, how's Ceci?"
She really was a good mother, so good that even the little ghost girl wanted to keep her as her own mother.
"Ceci's fine. I took her to a safe place. You'll be able to see her in a little while."
Dalia let out a breath of relief.
"That's good!"
Dalia tried to stand up, but because she had been hanging upside down for too long, her legs were a bit numb. As soon as she stood up, she fell into Roy's arms.
This made her face, which was already a bit red from the blood rushing to her head, even redder.
"Sorry, Roy!"
"It's okay! Dalia, aren't you scared of me?"
Dalia looked up at Roy.
"Are you referring to that demon-like appearance just now?"
Roy nodded.
Dalia pursed her lips, then gave a faint smile.
"I was just kidnapped by two police officers tonight, which made me realize that identity doesn't mean everything. There can be bad people among the police, and naturally, there will also be good demons."
This made Roy recall a saying he had heard in his previous life.
"There's no such thing as a noble profession, only noble people!"
Hearing this, Dalia felt it made a lot of sense.
"Who said that?"
"I don't know, I heard it from someone else too. Dalia, since your legs are a bit numb, let me carry you out on my back!"
"Mmm!"
This time, Dalia wasn't as polite as before. She very naturally leaned on Roy's back, pressing her body close to his.
This made Roy realize something. It seemed he had successfully reeled this fish back into his pond.
"Hold on tight!"
Feeling the increasingly rapid heartbeat behind him, Roy hooked his arms under Dalia's long legs and began running towards the subway tunnel.
Not long after Roy left, a well-dressed, handsome middle-aged man suddenly appeared in the huge cavern.
Looking at the inverted cross and torches on the skull mountain, the middle-aged man began to speak to himself.
"Already gone? The residual aura is still quite strong. They shouldn't have left long ago... Hmm, it's indeed Belial's aura. Could that lazy woman have done it? Or perhaps just her follower..."
After a moment of contemplation, a burst of fire suddenly appeared beside the middle-aged man, and a seductive female figure emerged from the flames.
"Beelzebub, my daughter is dead! Did you do this?!"
The voice was incredibly beautiful. Even though it was an accusation, it sounded like a flirtatious plea. Elizabeth's voice was considered quite seductive, but it was completely inferior to the voice from the flames.
"Asmodeus, why would I attack your daughter? What benefit would that be to me?"
"But my daughter, Adela, died in your territory! Are you really saying you had nothing to do with it?"
"No, no, no, this isn't my territory. I'm just temporarily residing here. Your follower might have indeed encountered some other trouble. Why don't you sense the aura here?"
The flame suddenly expanded and then quickly shrank back to its previous size.
"This aura... it's that bitch Belial! So she's the one who did it! Damn it!"
Belial, who was currently lazing around in her luxurious villa in Waterfall Town, suddenly started sneezing uncontrollably.
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"Achoo! Weird, could it be that little Roy is thinking about me?"
The flame began to shake violently, appearing very unstable. The middle-aged man seemed a bit surprised by how angry the flame was and, putting on a good-natured act, began to劝说.
"Asmodeus, it's just a follower. What's there to care about?"
"You don't understand! Adela wasn't just any follower! She—"
The voice suddenly stopped. The flame must have realized that if it continued, it would reveal a secret.
"In any case, I won't let that bitch Belial off! You just wait and see!"
After uttering those harsh words, the flame dissipated into the air.
The middle-aged man smiled.
"Hehe, it seems there's another good show to watch."
With that, the middle-aged man also disappeared into the cavern.
After running for a while with Dalia on his back, Roy soon found a large number of soldiers guarding the tunnel. The letters F.E.A.R. could be seen on their tactical vests.
"Sir, target spotted!"
FEAR was actually here? Could it be...?
"Roy!"
Sure enough, Sultana was on the scene. She recognized Roy at a glance.
"Roy, are you alright?"
Sultana rushed to Roy's side, checking his body.
"I'm completely fine. This blood on me isn't mine."
Dalia was resting her head on Roy's shoulder and had actually fallen asleep in this situation.
It seemed the fright of the night had completely exhausted her.
Sultana sized up Dalia's face.
"Is she the one you were going to rescue? She's a real beauty!"
Roy sensed that Sultana's words had a double meaning and quickly changed the subject.
"Sultana, why are you specifically guarding this place?"
"I had just gotten home and laid down when I received a call from Gerald. He told me to bring a team to guard the subway tunnel to prevent the worst-case scenario. What was the situation inside?"
The worst-case scenario was, of course, Roy failing to rescue her, and the ghouls in the subway running out and killing people everywhere.
"There's a huge cavern deep in the tunnel with a complex underground system. There were about one hundred and fifty ghouls that just appeared. I took out a little over half of them, including the leader, and the rest all ran into the depths of the earth."
After listening to Roy's account, Sultana frowned deeply.
"This is troublesome!"
Without the leader's control, these ghouls have lost their organization and will likely become scattered and disorganized.
And there definitely isn't enough food underground to sustain them, so these guys will eventually return to the surface.
When that happens, the FEA will still have to deal with it, not to mention how the organization behind the ghouls will react after tonight's events.
"I also discovered that those ghouls are connected to the Cabin."
As soon as she heard the word "Cabin," Sultana immediately became alert.
"Shh! Don't talk about this here. Let's go back first!"
Back at the Dolphin Hotel, Roy took the sleeping Dalia to Ceci, who was also asleep, and put the mother and daughter in the same bed.
Afterwards, he went to Gerald's office to meet with him.
Sultana was also in the office. She must have already reported the situation because Gerald's expression was very grim.
"Mr. Blake, you said you encountered the Cabin with the ghouls?"
"Yes! The Cabin sent a group of mercenaries to trade with the ghouls. Their target was me. And the Cabin is also providing food for the ghouls in exchange for the ghouls providing some blood to the Cabin every so often."
Gerald frowned deeply, considering the information Roy provided.
After a moment, Gerald spoke.
"I'm afraid the Cabin isn't the only organization cooperating with the ghouls! The Cabin is a secret organization whose purpose is to research supernatural powers. They rarely get involved with cults, but based on the LAPD situation, there's clearly a cult operating in Los Angeles."
Gerald's assessment made some sense, and both Roy and Sultana agreed with his judgment.
Sultana began to piece together the events from the beginning based on the available information.
"From what we can tell, the ghouls probably appeared beneath Los Angeles a long time ago. They have strong bodies, so about a hundred years ago, they gained the worship of a cult. The cult began to offer sacrifices or provide sustenance to these ghouls, and this continued until today. Later, the Cabin discovered the ghouls and started to get involved. We don't know the extent of the Cabin's involvement yet, but it's definitely been going on for quite some time."
Gerald tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table.
"Sultana, I want you to be responsible for rooting out the 'Cabin' in Los Angeles these next few days! I don't want to see those disgusting rats anymore! As for the cult within the LAPD, let's wait for a response from the FBI before we deal with that."
Roy and Sultana left Gerald's office. The older sister yawned in front of Roy.
"I never thought things would turn out like this!"
"Yeah, who would have thought?"
Roy and the FEA were both ready to call it quits, and Gerald even paid hush money, but then things took a sharp turn, and the ghouls ended up screwing themselves over.
"Roy, I'm too tired. I won't chat with you anymore today. I'm going to bed."
Sultana didn't go back to her apartment. After all, it was almost dawn, and going back and forth was too much trouble. She simply booked a room at the Dolphin Hotel.
It was an FEA property anyway, so they wouldn't charge Sultana.
Roy shrugged and went to Dalia and Ceci's suite, wanting to check on them before heading back to his own room to sleep.
But he found that Dalia was actually awake.
Asmodeus, the King of Lust
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