Gargoyle Supremacy

At first, it was just the left arm. In the second game, Carn claimed Arthur's right arm. The left leg and right leg were next. But after the legs were gone, the game got boring.

Carn stared at the limbless detective, satisfied. He stared at the man and sighed.

"Any last word, detective?"

Arthur didn't respond. Carn wasn't aware that Arthur already had a heart attack and died when his right leg was smashed to bits.

Looking at the lifeless body, Carn snorted. He extracted holy power from the dead detective. Unfortunately, Carn only got 1,000 gold marks richer as the guy had wasted a lot of energy with his cursed swords.

Carn turned to Anna next. He had no grudge against her, and she had never said a word during the fight. Carn wondered how he should deal with this.

Meanwhile, Anna was at a loss. She was forced to come here against her will after accepting the infant angel's offer. Afterward, she simply followed the holy spirits around, treating them as messengers of god.

Who could have thought that they were up to something evil? Anna regretted her life choice and waited for Carn to end everything.

She had already lost her faith in god. She didn't want to live anymore.

Carn walked toward Anna, who continued gazing at the ground.

"Miss secretary."

Hearing Carn's voice and her title, Anna looked up. Carn also canceled his transformation to face her directly.

"Remember me? I'm Carn Yunho. I was with my father on the other day's church service."

Anna was surprised. She didn't expect Carn to be such a young man. She asked him, "Those angels always told me that you were a cruel demon. I thought you were a monster or something. Are you a human all along?"

"That's what happened when you only listened to one side of the story. There are always two sides of a coin."

"True. I guess I was too hasty to judge. So…" Anna smiled wryly and waited for her fateful end, "Will you kill me?"

"Why should I?"

"Huh?" Anna was surprised, "But aren't you and us enemies?"

"Who told you that saints and demons are enemies? My father is a saint, and he's alive and kicking. My mom's an ordinary human, and she's living together with me for years. I mean, again, two sides of a story?"

"…"

Anna wanted to facepalm and cry, but she ended up laughing. She couldn't believe that she was biased in her view so much that she was disgusted at herself.

She thought of Han, whom she had met while she and the others had visited at the military bunker entrance. Recalling how the holy spirits had done to Carn's father, she despised herself even more.

Noticing how Anna's facial color changed over time, Carn smiled and assured her, "Miss secretary, I won't harm you unless you intend to harm me or my family… like this stupid man over there."

Anna nodded and let out a long sigh of relief. She thanked god that goodness still prevailed in this world.

But Carn wasn't finished with her yet.

"But unfortunately, there should be 10 more holy spirits in this world, and they might hold contempt because I spare you. Those guys are petty and prone to jealousy. Just because an incarnation survived a crisis, they might troll the survivor by killing them indirectly. Oh, now that we mention it, did you or your sponsors visit my father on the way here? I'm kinda worried if they might visit him or try to kill him because I killed one of them, and my father is coincidentally the dead holy spirit's incarnation."

Anna gulped. She lowered her head in guilt and confessed everything—about the group's ambush on Han and how they had left him to death in front of the bunker entrance.

Carn listened to her story in silence. He quietly looked up, gazing at the dimension rift in the sky. Though wasteful, Carn gathered 100,000 silver marks of Aether and sent it toward the cracks.

Instantly, the dimensional crack mended and vanished. 2200 leftover silver marks returned to Carn as if the dimension refunded him.

After dealing with the rift, Carn sighed, "You weren't responsible for that. Don't blame yourself."

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to join them. I just didn't want to work under my boss anymore, and I saw a chance. I thought they were god's messengers. I didn't know they were this ambitious and evil!" Anna couldn't lift her head. She also started crying as she regretted leaving Han there to his death.

Carn shook his head. Because nobody was looking at him, he vanished, teleporting to the Georgia military base.

.

Upon arriving at the base, Carn found countless fresh corpses of soldiers, hunters, and many residents within the base. He rushed to the entrance of the bunker and found a suspiciously long pole, sticking out as an eyesore in the middle of a road.

At the tip, the blood stain was still new. However, Carn couldn't find his father's body or life signature around there. He scanned further, searching for signs of life within the bunker.

However, he discovered something else. Instead of finding humans in the underground shelter, he found Aether of undead beings, namely wraiths. These vengeful spirits were exclusive beings that only Demon Lord Fleur could animate.

Noticing the presence of Fleur, Carn feared for the worse. He teleported deeper into the base to find the naughty grim reaper.

After teleporting twice, Carn appeared in the luxurious bedroom of a presidential resident, which was the only place with lights on.

Fleur, in her humanoid appearance, lay lazily on the king-sized bed. Her grim reaper cloak rolled on the floor, next to the bed. As Fleur never wore human clothes, Carn saw everything. However, he was not in a romantic mood or enthusiastic in carnal behavior.

Staring at the demon lord in her most vulnerable state, Carn asked her.

"What did you do to my father, Fleur?"

Fleur opened her eyes and found Carn in his gargoyle form. She smacked her lips in disgust, "What? Do you think I killed him?"

"I'm asking you again. What did you do to him?!"

Fleur smirked as she found Carn's reaction amusing and satisfactory. Even though it was a prank, she was happy that she got into his head. She then confessed before Carn would escalate the situation.

"I saved his ass and sent him home. What? Are you trying to pick a fight with me? A loyal subordinate who also saved your father's life? Pfft. Go ahead. SMITE ME, GREAT LORD! LET YOUR WRATH BE KNOWN IN THIS WORLD!"

"…"

Carn rolled his eyes, but he secretly let out a sigh of relief. Since Fleur said so, he decided to verify the information. After canceling his transformation, he tried accessing the messenger app to text Han.

However, there was no internet connection underground. Your next read awaits at My Virtual Library Empire

Giving up using the internet, Carn rescanned the underground residents. But again, he couldn't find fault with Fleur as he couldn't locate a trace of Han's Aether or life signature anywhere in the bunker.

"See?" Fleur giggled and taunted Carn, "How could you suspect the ever-so-loyal me? I'm disappointed in you, Pebble."

"Tsk."

Carn rolled his eyes once more and turned around, preparing to leave. But Fleur leaped up from the bed and climbed on him like a monkey. She hugged Carn from the front and pressed her chest against his.

"Hey, Pebble. I've recently learned something interesting from the local humans. You see, I browsed the internet and found something called… bestiary. I was wondering if we could test this out since we're both demons. Hey, wanna try using my human body? I'll let you do it with your gargoyle form. I want to try using a rock."

Carn deeply frowned, unamused by Fleur's seduction, "Scram, or I'll feed you to a crowd of incubi."

"Nah. If an incubus finds you, you would have been dead… like how you lost to Kaim and their puppeteers."

"…"

Getting mentioned of his weaknesses made his stomach churn. Once again, Carn was frustrated by his own shortcomings.

At that moment, Fleur seized the initiative. She sealed his lips with hers and tore his clothes in one pull.

"YOU!!"

Carn was taken aback. He had allowed a woman to get too close. But then, Carn realized that Fleur couldn't harm him due to their pacts, so he was confused as to why she could do it without receiving a backlash punishment.

Fleur could read Carn's expression and grinned. She inserted her tongue into his mouth and played with him. But Carn clenched his teeth to bite it off, forcing her to pull back her tongue and unseal their mouth.

Upon parting their mouths, their saliva formed a bridge. Fleur smirked while Carn wiped his mouth in disgust.

"Come on, Pebble. That was just a prank."

"DON'T. DO. THAT. AGAIN!"

"Don't be a wuss. It was just a kiss."

"…"

"Here. I'll apologize. I'll let you punish me however you want," Fleur giggled and sat on the edge of the bed. Then, she opened her legs. "Come, my lord. SMITE ME!"

Carn glared at her and turned around, transforming back into a gargoyle. He spent 5 silver marks and teleported away.

.

Seeing Carn leave, Fleur pouted in disappointment. She had planned to seduce Carn so that they could get closer. Then, she could infiltrate his dungeon and steal the dungeon core without fighting him.

Unfortunately, Carn turned out to be a coward. She licked her lips, planning to be more aggressive.

"I should find a succubus somewhere… Ah, right. I remember I saw a few succubi and incubi in the ECD enclosures. If those horny humans haven't moved those sex slaves yet, they should still be… there."

Fleur transformed into a black smoke and vanished. She, too, was inspired to go somewhere isolated.

According to the intel that she had gathered during her time in the ECD facility, there was a hidden human society, which sometimes gathered on a small island for human trafficking and immoral activities. Some succubi and incubi were drugged and transported to that island. However, every time they were transported there, only half of them returned to tell a tale of abuses and exploitations.

When Fleur broke out, only one incubus remained, but a few succubi were still alive. She wondered if she could find them in the facility and get them to help in her mission.