"Uh, I think this method really is quite effective. If it can cover a huge number of Devil Race members at once, that would be better than anything."
"Seconded."
"I think it's fine too, but if every Devil Race member affected ends up like this, then the people responsible for handling the corpses will need serious attention paid to their mental health."
"What corpses need handling? The Devil Race on our side can just die back to their homeland. As for those already in Hell and the Abyss, why bother with them? Sooner or later, they'll rot away completely."
"That makes sense—"
At Caster Association headquarters, Jia Xiu was demonstrating to the president and the advisers his idea of "healing" the Devil Race to death.
Since they still had no way to inflict massive numbers of tiny wounds across an enormous area of Devil Race members to serve as fertile ground for healing spells, Jia Xiu had used only one Devil Race member for the demonstration.
Judging by the intended objective, the demonstration had been quite successful.
A living Devil Race member had been turned into something resembling a tree root covered in root nodules.
Given what the Devil Race had done, it was not worthy of pity. Still, the visual effect was genuinely nauseating.
One or two would be manageable. But if corpses like that covered the ground everywhere, disposing of them would indeed require considerable fortitude.
"What range and number of targets do you expect a single strike to cover in the future?"
Master Larven asked.
Jia Xiu did not actually have any particularly concrete figures for that. Strictly speaking, the entire project had not even reached the PPT stage; most of it remained at the level of pure speculation.
So he could only give an estimate.
"This