"When demons stopped thinking, they stayed lemures for life."
Facing the stunned team captains, Jia Xiu said calmly.
"Before you performed the ritual, didn't you read the instructions for the previous steps?"
Instructions? What instructions?
The two captains froze.
Everything had been so urgent. How could they have found time to read the instructions first?
Fortunately, Jia Xiu was very patient. He explained on his own initiative, "The Demon of Judgment determines who gets the Flame Demon based on their actions and who provided the sacrifices. Clearly, throughout this entire trial, I was the one who acted the most like a devil."
At that, everyone in the observation room lost it.
So this guy knew his behavior was devilish!
Jia Xiu continued, "As for the sacrifices, even though you were the ones who lured them in, the spell you used was mine. That makes me the provider of all the sacrifices. So no matter how you judge it, the Flame Demon should belong to me."
After hearing his explanation, the last two captains lost the only hope they had left and slumped helplessly to the ground.
Although there was no chance of turning things around, Captain Algma still had one last question.
"So from the moment we used your spell, we'd already lost, no matter what we did?"
"In theory, yes."
"Then why didn't you end this trial sooner?" he demanded angrily. "Were you just making fun of us?"
"Uh, you may have misunderstood. I wasn't making fun of you at all. I just wanted to see what summoning a Flame Demon looked like."
"Huh?"
The captain could rack his brains all he wanted, but he never would have guessed Jia Xiu would give that reason.
"Don't you think so? The biggest spectacle in this Phantom World had to be