Page 55 of Summoning Sex Demons

“For what?”

A branch snapped behind me, and I twisted my head, expecting to see Dani.

But instead, a demon who looked similar to Biast with red skin and a huge body that towered over me stood at the trees. “What’s a human doing in these parts? Come to play?”

“Get out of here,” Minseok shouted. “Now!”

I shuffled backward, my arms suddenly feeling so heavy and tingly. “What’s going on?”

Before I could mutter another word, the demon lunged at me. I didn’t remember what happened next, just that my tingling arms burned with such an intensity that I thought I was still in the river. And then the demon’s neck snapped, everything suddenly went black, and I heard Acaros’s voice drifting through my ears.

CHAPTER

THIRTY

ACAROS

A demon corpselay at my feet. I shuffled back a few feet, yet some kind of power emanating from Iza’s body wrapped around both my ankles like snakes and dragged me toward her, my body feeling like it was being crushed from the inside out.

Everything happened so quickly that I didn’t know how to stop it. One moment, I had been hunting Iza down and following her scent into Wrath; the next moment, I’d watched her kill a demon in a split second.

She tightened her grip on me. “Acaros! Help me! I can’t see anything.”

“Release your hold on me, Iza.”

“I-I don’t know how!” she exclaimed. “I don’t know what’s happening.”

I had been in war and battle, and usually, demons went for the souls, to suck them right out of the body and end a demon’s life for good if they were trying to kill another. Typically, I could fight back. But I couldn’t. Not this time.

When Iza pulled me all the way to her, her eyes were pure white with a ring of black around the edges. With the last of my energy, I reached out and grabbed her hand. Iza took a huge breath and stumbled back, releasing the magic.

She landed on her ass and stared at the corpse a couple of feet away.

“Oh my God,” Iza whispered. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God!”

After shaking her head, she slowly backed away from the demon’s corpse. Usually, a demon couldn’t die unless another demon—or angel—sucked out their soul and stored it in their own. But I couldn’t even see a remnant of a soul.

None.

Not even a smidgen of mist anywhere.

Which meant that this demon’s soul was still intact in his body, but he was dead.

“Impossible,” I whispered.

Iza turned to me with heavy tears in her wavering eyes. “Acaros, wh-what did I do?” She ran toward me, hands shaking. “I didn’t mean it. Is he dead? I-I don’t even know what h-h-happened.”

“It’s okay, Iza,” I said, still staring at the demon.

Nobody had this kind of power. Nobody alive at least.

A tree branch snapped to my left, and I glanced over to see Dani emerging from the dead trees.

She set her gaze on the man, then looked at Iza, her lips turning into a small smile. “I knew it.”

“What is going on?!” I exclaimed, wrapping one arm around Iza’s shoulders and pulling her toward me. I shifted my body to shield Iza from Dani, in case Dani had put some kind of spell on her. “What have you done?”

“I didn’t do anything,” Dani said.

---