Phio's gaze swept back and forth over He Xi.
She turned and exchanged a look with the two Sisters behind her.
Aside from that extraordinarily resilient soul, they still could not see any qualities in this human that would make him worthy of being a Sect Master.
Lamasha's urgent whisper came from below them. "Let him try... Phio... let him try!"
Phio remained unmoved. She sneered at He Xi. "There is no need to verify a proposal that is doomed to fail."
As a devil who had lived for countless years, she had personally witnessed innumerable contract rituals.
Especially contracts made with humans.
Human souls were the most numerous, their desires the most varied, and they were the easiest to lure into Baator.
She was absolutely certain that such a thing was impossible.
In her eyes, his arrogant speech just now had merely been an excuse he made up after noticing the trap in the contract and deciding he did not want to complete the deal.
More importantly, she could not understand what he hoped to gain by doing this.
Just as the man himself had said, who would do something that brought them no benefit?
If he was merely an arrogant, overconfident fool, that would be one thing.
But what if there really was a scheme behind it?
If the relationship between the two parties to the contract changed and no new souls flowed into Baator,
then this transaction would not count as her achievement at all.
Rather than waste her efforts for nothing, she might as well drag Lamasha beneath her feet straight back to the Nine Hells.
Once she submitted proof of Lamasha's incompetence, with Lord Zariel's help, Lamasha would surely lose her qualification to operate on the Material Plane and search for souls.
"Sir, perhaps you