Chapter 408 Great Sin Ritual. "Damn!"
Iver's expression changed as he suddenly realized he had overlooked something huge!
Or rather, his desire for transcendence had clouded his mind... making him forget an important detail.
The contract he had originally signed was with the Shadow Demon.
And because of that, when the Shadow Demon ascended into the Night Demon, Iver's contract had already ended!
Once the contract ended, it disintegrated on its own—and the invisible chain between Iver and the Night Demon would disappear with it.
Under normal circumstances, that meant the Night Demon would be expelled back to the Dream Realm by the Hourglass's Apostle.
After that, only by using a ritual pointing to the Night Demon and expending a massive amount of power could Iver briefly summon the Night Demon back to the Material Realm—and that was assuming the Night Demon willingly answered the summons.
In Xianxia terms, the Night Demon had already survived its heavenly tribulation and was about to be forcibly taken away for ascension.
The suffix for a Greater Phantom Demon with a priority of +1 was "Divinity." In a sense, Greater Phantom Demons were gods, or at least demigods. Their power far exceeded the world's limits, so they could remain in the Material Realm for only a very short time. Otherwise, they might draw the Hourglass's hostility.
The Angels of the Great Sin who had been dragged down by the Ouroboros Ring Ritual could technically be considered victims. Even so, their existence would still be targeted by the Hourglass; needless to say, those unaffiliated Greater Phantom Demons who were neither Apostles nor Angels of the Great Sin, and who still dared to descend into the lower realm on their own, would fare even worse.
Iver now only had the Third Level Demon Scholar profession. There