The knight in the abyss

Chapter 617 Demons and Tieflings
"Your sister Tijana is also doing it for your own good." Lancelow reached out and pinched the little girl's face, "And what's the point of fighting? It's just two groups of people killing each other, which is far worse than taking risks." Yes. This ancient vampire is said to be able to move freely under the scorching sun without any influence at all, you should go and learn how others do it, and you won’t miss any important battles in the future.”

"Woooooooo..."

"Well, you are so obedient! Does anyone else have any questions?"

"I have." Brutal raised his hand, "I don't have any experience in the army, so don't be surprised... under whose command will we fight? What is the battle plan and how long will it last? Logistics and supplies How is it arranged, what are we going to bring?"

"I only know that the commander of this mercenary army is Solem. Do you remember her?"

"Of course she was my first customer and payment was 'on time'."

"Tijana asked me to report to her directly, and we will go there after eating. I don't know about other issues, but there are about two or three days before the army is assembled, which is enough for us to prepare." Lancelot He picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth, "By the way, put on your armor and equipment before going out, a temporary army assembled for money..."

"Understood." Brutal nodded, "I'll hang up all the spike belts."
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after an hour.

Lancelot and his two companions stood in front of the mercenary hall, stunned by the sight in front of them, speechless.This originally gladiator-shaped building has completely changed its appearance. The open vault has three more floors out of thin air, with a height of more than fifty feet. It no longer looks like an intermediary service for mercenaries, full of It is a place of bargaining and yelling, but a barracks that exudes chilling meaning from the cracks in the bricks.

"Well, it feels a little familiar." Lancelot turned his head to his partners, "Let's go."

"I don't like the way this place is at all." Brutal winced, "and I'm sure it doesn't like me either."

"Don't be nervous, dwarf." Lancelot walked towards the door, "As long as you have the right attitude, there is nothing to be afraid of in this place."

"What is the right attitude?"

"If any brick makes you feel uncomfortable..." Lancelot raised his hand and patted on a stone pillar passing by, "take out a hammer and smash it."

Although most of the mercenaries should not have woken up from last night's hangover at this moment, there are already a lot of people entering and leaving this building.Lancelot has stayed in Shuangqiao Town long enough that you can tell from the expression on the passerby's face whether the other party is new.Of these, the most common are the tieflings of all varieties—the offspring of demons and mortals.

Succubi and erinia are known to be the fertile species of demons and devils, respectively, but any daemon powerful enough to transfigure can impregnate a mortal woman with her own child.Don't take this as the way any romantic story unfolds, the truth is far more brutal than that, as childbirth is a risky activity in itself, let alone a monster born with wings, horns and a tail.

Among the scariest stories, there are even records about fetuses tearing open their mother's abdomen with sharp claws and being born directly. The heroes fell, and the story ended perfectly.

But Lancelot can easily point out the irrationality of this kind of story-any villain with demon blood and eventually goes evil seems to be able to apply this template, as if all bad guys first came to this world. With evil all over him.But after coming to the abyss for so long, especially in a town where the lord is the succubus, he still knows a lot about the descendants of the demon.

First of all, if the succubus gives birth to a girl, it will still be a succubus (but will still have some characteristics from the father, such as eye color); if it is a boy, it will be a succubus , or in Lower Plane parlance, a Cambion.And all the children born of demons and mortal women, regardless of gender, will also be demon descendants.

Despite looking very much like their fiendish kin, daedrons are still mortal, which means they age and die, and their souls travel to the Obscure Realms to be judged.If they have done nothing wrong, they are likely to be accepted by a certain divine power and enjoy eternal peace, but this situation is too rare. The goal of most demons' lifelong struggle is to become a real demon. When they can't do it, what they do will ensure that they get what they want after death.

But since they are mortals, they can have normal births and reproduce offspring, as long as they can find a suitable partner—however, this is not easy, and often involves lies, coercion, betrayal and death.When the blood of the demonic ancestors in someone is thinned to a certain extent, he is regarded as a tiefling.

As for how thin it is, of course there is no standard for this kind of thing, but generally speaking, it will be at least five generations away.There is not much difference in physical fitness between a tiefling and an ordinary person, except for the strange-shaped horns on the top of the head, the unusually sharp canine teeth, and the tail trailing behind the buttocks.

Tieflings have almost no community of their own, and tend to be on the fringes of human society on a small scale.It's not hard to imagine how much trouble, though not necessarily in a violent form, that something special about them can get them.Children who grow up in such a harsh environment naturally have difficulty becoming honest businessmen or caring philanthropists. Most tieflings end up as liars, thieves, and even killers.Isn't this an excuse for them, bad guys are bad guys and deserve to be punished, but is it really their own fault to be bad guys?
That was what Lancelot had in mind when he walked into the hall of mercenaries, because at least half of these new faces were tieflings.Just a casual glance can confirm that they are definitely not good people, but a normal person would never become a bloody mercenary, let alone serve the devil's side.

Both sides of the bloody battle are always recruiting more mercenaries, but if there is a choice, it is often a safer choice to work for the devil, because the devil will abide by the contract, as long as you do not die on the battlefield, usually you can get paid.The only problem is that there is always such a small line in the contract provided by the devil. Once the advance payment is accepted, the employee must provide the employer with the services agreed in the contract, and the termination of the contract does not include the death of the employee.

This means that when you die, you still have a debt to the devil, and the dead have nothing to pay off... except for one thing:
your own soul.

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