Demon Contract

Hearing the fanatical words of the head of the Heresy Inquisition, Lin Yu's reaction was relatively calm.

Lin Yu had long expected that this man might be insane.

After all...

Raising an extremely dangerous Dark Species beneath a massive city of a million people, and even transforming himself into a Dark Species...

Lin Yu would never believe such actions had been taken for profit.

Sitting in such a high position, if he had acted rationally, the head of the Heresy Inquisition absolutely should not have done something like this.

High risk, low reward. Given his position, identity, and abilities, he had no reason whatsoever to do it.

Unfortunately, the world was a giant Rube Goldberg machine. In a mad world like Night Valley, attaining a high position often only required powerful Supernatural Power—which meant that even the head of the Heresy Inquisition of a city, a figure who was in some sense more important than the city lord and the City Hall councilors combined, could be a madman.

Even if he might not have been insane back then, after dealing with Dark Species and evil day after day, it was entirely possible that he had eventually descended into madness while sitting in this lonely position.

Or perhaps...

Perhaps he would never have gone mad in the first place. Maybe the [Book of Hell] had dragged him into the Abyss of corruption with its own hands.

After all...

Old Zheng's voice had already sounded.

"Boss, this book... whether it's genuine or not, it's definitely not simple."

"I can feel that too."

Lin Yu replied to Old Zheng in his mind.

Through his perception of Mental Power, the [Book of Hell] was radiating wild and powerful Mental Power.

From the perspective of Mental Power, this thing could be considered "alive"!

But it