"Then you should understand that it was an extremely dangerous power. It was uncontrollable and troublesome." As if he were thinking of Barbatos's well-being, Luke patiently tried to persuade him.
But in Barbatos's eyes, Luke's words and actions only made him feel that the Abyss truly was an immensely powerful force—so powerful that even Luke was unwilling to hand it over! The inexplicable greed in his heart surged once more.
Get it!
Greed screamed in his mind. His other personality did not oppose him at this moment either, as though it had been suppressed by his greedy emotions and fallen silent once again.
"Give it to me!" An urgency Barbatos himself had not noticed entered his voice. He had not even realized that his reason and thoughts were already being quietly controlled by certain emotions.
"This was your choice!" Hearing Barbatos's deafening roar, Luke seemed helpless. At Barbatos's urgent demand, he beckoned and pulled a sheet of hellish parchment burning with black flames out of the void.
"Come, sign a contract." Luke spread the parchment open and passed it through the air toward Barbatos.
The parchment, which had been long in Luke's hand and measured a full three meters when fully unfurled, was not even the size of Barbatos's fingernail once it landed in his hand. Yet that did not stop Barbatos from understanding the contract through the energy fluctuations emanating from it.
After all, compared with humans who relied on seeing to believe, his observations and insight went far deeper.
For example, in Bruce and Stephen's eyes, it was merely a sinister parchment. But Barbatos could easily decipher the unencrypted energy fluctuations and Rune Script on it, ultimately understanding what purpose it served.
"Why can't you give me the Abyss directly? Why do I have to find it myself?"