Chapter 228: The Project (5)

Perseus POV

"It was roughly 1 million." Lachlan answered

"1 million?! For that?! Even your first so-called great demon lord stopped after like 30k, what the hell is wrong with you?! Even the heroes summoning use only those who have already died."

"Against their will, some of the sacrifices they got were from fellow demons." he countered "We extract them willingly, and we use mana compared to life force and life energy, I'd argue that we're more ethical."

"Nah, don't do that, no amount of ethical discussion can defend that, I don't care if your goddess approves of this or not, and I get, oh it's a small number of sacrifices for the greater good, but that's the only argument you can have, there are ways to beat the heroes without all that crap."

"Easy for you to say, but there's a reason why this war has been going on for ages, there is simply no other way." he responded "Besides, you kill people too, what's the difference, this is just us with a collective mindset and doing a similar thing."

"First of all, I am nowhere near that number, second, I have always been open about the fact that I'm a hypocritical prick."

"Well, then I can say the same for us."

1 million, that's a stupidly astounding number, and willingly? Even if I sense some truth in his voice, what's stopping those under him from straying away from that rule and telling him lies? He got faith in his people, but that faith is called blind faith, shit, though thank you for giving me some motivation for the future.

I hate that I had no other reason to kill this guy since he never truly intentionally tried to harm my people, but at least I'm somewhat motivated now, damn it, 1 million, and roughly? The chances were deemed impossible with the number at like 30k, 1 million shouldn't even be a sure chance, which means that they were willing to continue that number.

No wonder Lilith can't tell me this, this is just ridiculous, shit, I think that number even exceeds the number of kills all the gods carried out combined.

Unfortunately, I can't get more details, I can force Lilith to, but that might put a really tough strain on our relationship since we've sort of agreed to keep politics and this kind of stuff out, I can force the demon lord now too by shifting to Satan, but the other demons might attack me, he got generals in this room too, so I'll definitely die.

Leilah can't really talk with souls of the dead, and neither can Maple, despite the 2 being people associated with death, even combined, I doubt they can either, but even if there's a chance that they can, I'll have to get to the place where the souls are taken and interview one by one for proper details.

Fake rose project...if that's possible, then all the other projects that I've read will be as well, both on the human and demon side. I'm gonna need Zach to work extra hard, and I'm also gonna have to work extra hard to get the money to hire the little guy to do investigations while I'm not doing it myself.

After this tournament, I'm gonna retravel to every continent and stop everyone of these projects, I can't take their words that these people's words, and I sensed some truth...keyword some. That means these projects are treating people like how I was treated, I can't let that happen.

Demons, humans, I'm shutting all of this crap down, I might endanger my village in the process since they both might see us as a common enemy. For now, I just need to focus on getting third, I need to help those guys get back to the future and I need that artifact to help me to travel to the other side in the future.

Stress is starting to build up in my head again as I left that room...Adam is targeting a time-traveling device, and the demon lord is engaging in a project with a super low success rate, while the human side is probably engaging in the same thing.

The demons got a formula to mass-produce that crap now, which means they're going to keep going, and that means that the number of death will increase thanks to the low success rate.

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"Hey." I greeted as I saw someone coming in my bedroom door and I turn up to see Maple

Leilah has volunteered to spy on the demons to see if there are other demons with the fake rose power on the continent and she's checking to see their progress, maybe she can gauge their power more accurately if she sees them practicing it. I don't have a plan for Buddy yet, so he's staying with me for now.

"You're not angry at Lilith, are you?" She asked

"Not really, she has always said that she doesn't stop what her people do, she'll only spectate and support them from the shadows."

"Well, what are you thinking?" she asked as she sat next to me

"Do you know what Zoris is hiding? Any projects that I should know and stop?"

"No, but I don't doubt that they managed to hide it from my vision." she shook her head "Lilith has told me that she didn't realize how incompetent she was and how uneducated she was about her own people until she walked amongst them, and has also revealed to me that the demons had hidden many things from her."

"Yeah, so now I'm thinking about how I can easily find out about other hidden projects and stop them, unlike Lilith, even though you mostly follow the same method of allowing your followers and believers to do whatever they want and leaving the results to the people amongst them, you'll stop something like...this."

"How many demons' lives were lost for this?" she asked

"1 million, roughly."

"Goodness." she exclaimed "Well, if there's anything I can do to help, I'll do it."