Fulfill the Contract

Huo Ling was already well practiced at conducting promotion ceremonies for mid-rank devils advancing to high-rank devils.

It took only one day to completely finish the promotion ceremonies for fifty outstanding employees.

By contrast, promoting the other mid-rank and low-rank devils in the city took nearly half a month.

There were simply too many devils needing promotion, leaving the high-rank devils of Huo Ling City exhausted.

Once he had finished with all that work, Huo Ling had no choice but to begin fulfilling his own contract.

When he had been young and foolish, he had signed an unequal contract with Nustien. Now it was time to pay the debt.

The current Huo Ling did not dare go alone to Nustien's Palace of Death. Though they were old acquaintances, what necromancer or lich was ever a good person?

What if Huo Ling went there intending to do business, only for Nustien to set his sights on Huo Ling's body instead?

Thus, Huo Ling had the liches construct an enormous death altar in a corner of his territory.

Rune arrays had already been inscribed there with death runes, ensuring that Huo Ling could communicate with Nustien precisely.

Once everything was ready, Huo Ling took out the demon corpse he had carefully selected.

It was the weakest among the several legendary demon corpses acquired this time, likely having advanced to legendary rank not long ago.

After placing the enormous body of the legendary demon at the foremost position on the altar, Huo Ling stood below it and silently began summoning Nustien's descent.

As great swathes of death runes appeared, everything proceeded smoothly. Before long, Nustien's consciousness was summoned out of the Death Plane by Huo Ling.

Huo Ling had also arranged a large number of isolation arrays around the perimeter, preventing Nustien's consciousness