Cheat Awakening

[ Infernal Toothpick

Appearance: A small, charred piece of bone with a pointed tip.

Use: Primarily used for picking teeth, it occasionally emits a faint sulfuric smell.

Price: 1 soul coin.]

[ Cursed Spoon

Appearance: A tarnished silver spoon with a twisted handle and a small skull motif at the end.

Use: Used for eating, but it makes food taste slightly bitter.

Price: 2 soul coins.]

[ Demonic Candle
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Appearance: A short, black candle with red wax that drips continuously without ever melting away.

Use: Provides dim, eerie light but occasionally flickers out randomly.

Price: 1 soul coin (five candles).]

[ Haunted Mirror

Appearance: A small handheld mirror with a cracked surface and a tarnished silver frame.

Use: Reflects the user's image with a slight delay, often distorting their appearance. Perfect for playing pranks.

Price: 3 soul coins.]

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[ Possessed Quill

Appearance: A feather quill that writes with ink made from demon blood.

Use: Can write by itself but often scribbles nonsensical or rude messages.

Price: 5 soul coins.]

[ Whispering Key

Appearance: A rusty, old-fashioned key that seems to whisper unintelligible words.

Use: Opens any mundane lock but occasionally jams or sticks.

Price: 3 soul coins.]

[ Fiendish Flask

Appearance: A small, ornate flask made from dark glass with silver inlays depicting demonic symbols.

Use: Keeps any liquid at the perfect temperature indefinitely and can purify even the foulest substances.

Price: 20 soul coins.]

"Now, those seem something our level can afford, but I am quite disappointed with those products," Drakthor said while rubbing his chin. He didn't find anything useful on this page. Among all twenty objects, only the last one seems a bit useful. The rest of them are just junk, at least for demons.

After all, have you ever seen a demon brushing their teeth, or needing a key to enter someone's house? What would they do with their magic then, abandon it? And a haunting mirror? Their own face is creepy enough to scare the shit out of other races who saw them. Why need this kind of thing?"

"Maybe because those things aren't for demons at all, but outsiders like us," Myne replied while rolling his eyes. "Those things might be garbage in your eyes, but even one of them, if you put it on the market, you can easily earn thousands of gold coins. Especially this Whispering Key, assassins, and thieves would be willing to sell their entire properties to buy it.

This key can open the door to endless wealth for them... By the way, can you give me some souls? I wanted to see how we can buy things through this status," He asked, looking at Drakthor, who gave him a disdainful look and instantly moved his chair away from him.

"Do I look like a fool to you?" Drakthor retorted. "First of all, I don't have any spare souls, and even if I had, why would I give them to you? You already owe me a lot of souls, don't forget that. And secondly, it's not like you're going to buy anything for me. You bastard wanted to rob money from me, dream on."

"Miserly bastard, I told you that you could kill all the guards here and take their souls, but you perverted geezer, instead of dealing with those guards or men who were touting those poor women, were busy with getting a blowjob from the young ladies, and now you're blaming me?" Myne yelled out angrily.

After all, because of his laziness, now he not only has to collect souls for the bottomless pit in his hand ( Statue ) but also for this cheap ungrateful bastard.

"Sigh, forget it, there is no need to waste breath on a poor ghost like you.

I might as well check other categories," Myne said, while getting out from the category of hand with colourful flames floating on its fingers, and was about to tap on the skull with blood dripping on it, when suddenly everything started shaking and a bright red light came from in front of them, which was so powerful that it forced them to cover their eyes with their arms.

"Roar!!!"

Before the light couldn't die down, a loud roar of a monster sounded in the entire hall, and Myne only felt a gust of wind pass by him, and the sound of a loud explosion sounded behind him. Then, one after another, the sound of rapid footsteps of creatures running around them, and wings flapping could be heard continuously.

Finally, a few seconds later, the bright red light dimmed down, and Myne was able to see again. But as his vision returned to normal, he saw a five-meter-tall giant beast with six legs, two tails, a single big eye that covered almost half its face, and a colossal big mouth with razor-sharp teeth.

With a metal device-like collar with two white gems inserted in it wrapped around its neck, it rushed towards him at crazy speed.

Subconsciously, Myne quickly raised his arms to cover his face with eyes closed, but when the pain he expected didn't come, he opened his eyes and saw there was no sign of the big monster, only a big portal could be seen in front of him, from which all kinds and sizes of monsters were rushing out like a tide, and going behind him, completely ignoring him and Drakthor as if they didn't exist at all.

Turning back in confusion, he saw the entrance, which was sealed with a super solid meter door, was still there, but a big seven-meter-tall hole appeared in the wall beside it, which led straight as far as the eyes could see. Seeing the hole, in which all the monsters were going, Myne understood what that loud booming sound he heard before was.

"Don't scare children, those toys won't dare to harm you. I have left my aura on you, you are absolutely safe," Just when Myne wanted to ask about those monsters Drakthor beside him, who surprisingly was very calm as if it was not a big deal for him, suddenly heard Zarathunathis's proud voice.

"Lord Zarathunathis, these are your army?" Myne and Drakthor walked toward Zarathunathis, and Drakthor, who was still hoping to get a reward, asked with an admiration tone.

"Of course, this is my army, otherwise you didn't expect that I do everything by myself, right? Of course, I can do that, but then it would be no more fun, and everything would be over in a matter of minutes...

Well, it seems like they have already started, let's go and see, you two also understand how I work, maybe you can also learn a thing or two from me, right?" Zarathunathis, saying that, snapped his finger, and Myne and Drakthor only felt their vision get blurry before they realized what going on, they were already stood in the sky on top of the Ember Falls City, which now was in utter chaos.

Under the moonless sky, Ember Falls City had never seemed so vulnerable. The air was thick with a palpable sense of dread as the demonic monsters, each more terrifying than the last, rampaged through the streets. Their eyes glowed with malevolent intent, and their howls pierced the night, sending shivers down the spines of the city's inhabitants.

Shops and homes, once filled with warmth and light, became twisted remnants of a brutal attack. The magical lanterns and lamps on the road, flickering desperately, cast long, frantic shadows as if the city itself was trembling in fear.

In the heart of the chaos, the city's defenders struggled valiantly, their faces set in grim determination. Their swords clashed with the monsters' claws, sparks flying in the darkness, but the overwhelming numbers of the demonic horde pushed them to the brink. The smell of smoke and blood filled the air, mingling with the cries of the wounded and the dying.

Yet, amidst the despair, there were glimmers of resistance. Some brave souls, unwilling to surrender, fought on, their spirits unyielding. They moved through the wreckage, saving those they could, their courage a beacon in the engulfing darkness. Though battered and bloodied, Ember Falls City refused to fall easily, its heart still beat with defiance against the nightmarish siege.

Boom!

A small, few-meter-tall mushroom cloud appeared at the position where more than twenty city guards were crazily fighting with the demonic monsters. When the dust settled, even their ashes didn't leave behind, only a meter-deep crater and a lot of destroyed buildings were proof of their now destroyed existence.

Myne turned his head to see which guy had released such a powerful attack and saw that it was a half-monster, half-demon-like creature, with the lower body of a spider but the upper body of a humanoid man, who was holding a cannon-like thing on his shoulder, which was the culprit behind this attack.

Then Myne saw that weird spider guy throw a black metallic object into the mouth of the cannon, charge it with his mana for a few seconds, before looking around, and after confirming a target, he jumped very high and pulled the trigger.

As he did, with a loud bang, the metallic ball he put inside before shot with crazy speed from the cannon and hit the ground before a building, and with another big explosion, everything around the targeted location was blasted apart.

BOOM!

While Myne was greedily admiring the cannon in the spider guy's hands, a loud explosion sounded from the castle direction, and the big beast with one eye but six legs, which gave Myne almost a heart attack, shot out from the castle like a rocket and crashed on nearby houses, destroying a lot of them.

Everyone unintentionally only gave the beast a single glance until he was smashing house after house. When he finally stopped, they quickly turned their heads at the big hole in the centre of the castle and saw a girl with blonde hair wearing tattered night clothes, floating out from the castle, her eyes were completely dark, surrounded by a red demonic aura.