The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

By signing a pact with a "true god," one gains the power to completely eradicate evil spirits, freeing everyone from their harassment...

In that instant, Xue Luding and the little witch exchanged a glance, the little girl's eyes widening like copper bells.

The document, personally issued by the World Government, requires every city to respond and sign a contract accordingly…

Every detail struck Xue as unusual. Even the witch, whose innocence rivaled that of the Little Dragon Girl, stared wide-eyed in disbelief and confusion.

"The true god... could it be Margaret?" The little witch immediately voiced her opinion.

After all, all the clergy relied on Margaret's power, so when the true god was mentioned, the first thing they thought of was the giant walnut tree.

To her, the only true god in this world was Margaret, the tree root covered with divine and demonic eyes. Although it looked a bit low on sanity, it was indeed a level 5 being.

In this world, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a true god.

However, Xue felt that it wasn't that simple, so he casually asked, "Look at the date, how much time has passed since then?"

"Let me see, it must have been more than half a year..." the little witch said, then suddenly realized something.

“I’m afraid this so-called true god is not Margaret,” Xue Dinglu said, looking at the world filled with demons in the distance. “Even if it really is Margaret, then this contract is precisely the reason why this world is full of demons.”

The little witch's head was buzzing. She looked at the document in her hand and vividly remembered how Margaret had suddenly stopped them when they were leading the evil spirits away, and how she had attacked them without warning.

Although she couldn't believe it, her hands were trembling for some reason at that moment.

Based on the available information and speculation, it is highly likely that Margaret destroyed the world and created a world inhabited only by demons.

In that case, what's the point of her being there?

If the god you believe in is your greatest enemy, do you really dare to take up arms against that god?

However, at this moment, she suddenly froze and saw Xue Dinglu bite his finger and sign a string of incomprehensible magical runes on it.

The little witch froze for a moment, then almost screamed in terror, "What are you doing!"

"Let's see who's on the other end of the contract," Xue said expressionlessly. "And the simplest and most direct way is naturally to sign the contract directly."

Not long after, the little witch heard a rustling sound. She looked out the window in alarm. The sky was completely dark. It wasn't nighttime yet; it was still afternoon.

But in the sky, countless human-shaped balloons filled the sky, blocking out the sun and seemingly enveloping the entire city's sunlight.

Above them, billions of human-shaped balloons stared intently at them.

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The little witch's face had completely transformed into a screaming expression, her terrified facial expressions returning once again.

However, Xue Dinglu seemed oblivious to the dense, locust-like humanoid balloons in the sky, and continued to stare at the contract with a furrowed brow.

"Brother... what should we do? What should we do now? Brother, say something! Stop bullying me! What should we do? How about we start trying to purify her? Even if we have to summon Margaret, that would be fine... Brother..." The little witch stammered and spoke very quickly.

At that moment, she felt as if her soul had been scared several miles away again, and she had to desperately pull it back.

Millions of human-shaped balloons densely packed in the sky, as if waiting for you, watching you. All of them gathered together, creating a feeling of extreme unease, as if facing a formidable enemy. The threat of death instantly swept through your mind, reaching the deepest recesses of your thoughts.

When she turned her head with difficulty to look at Xue Dinglu, she was completely petrified, as if she was about to crack apart.

Although Xue Luding's ordinary eyes only shed tears of blood when viewed through the eyes of the Divine Purification Demon Eye, black flames emanated from Xue Luding's Divine Purification Demon Eye in the vision of the Divine Purification Demon Eye. At this moment, Xue Luding's other demon eye completely infected almost half of his cheek, twisting that half of his face into a face like that of a demon.

The purplish-black flames emanating from the Divine Purification Demon Eye seemed to be a response to the distortion and contamination of that demonic eye.

"No, brother, are you conscious! No, this is not happening!" The little witch felt that her last lifeline had been lost, and immediately grabbed Xue Dinglu's collar and shook him desperately.

Su Su, I'm about to die!

Brother, you've really got me killed...

……

At this moment, the ghost eye in Xue Dinglu's eye socket was spinning rapidly.

What he saw was completely different from the real world. At that moment, he seemed to see the city that was once still incredibly prosperous, but there were no countless hot air balloons or shouting pilots in flying squirrel suits in the sky.

The city looked no different from any other city. Xue felt as if he had returned to the golden age of the last century, with crowds thronging the streets and traffic flowing like a river.

"Hey! We need to get moving, damn the World Government! Damn the demons! No, we have to hurry, much faster!" a girl suddenly said to Xue Dinglu.

Xue Dinglu turned his head and was suddenly stunned. It was the little witch Su Su, but she was not little at all now. She seemed to have matured more than ten years in an instant. Even her chest had changed from being flattened by the witch's clothes to being quite large when she was wearing formal attire.

"What happened?" Xue asked, his brows furrowed.

"The World Government has been controlled by human demons. They have released demonic contracts to the whole world, and the populations of some city-states have already become slaves of demons. Damn it! I don't want to live in a world ruled by demons!" the "Great Witch" said through gritted teeth.

But at that moment, Xue Dinglu touched his left eye and instantly understood his current state.

"An illusion? When?" Xue Dinglu murmured. "And this place, is it the same illusion from half a year ago, on Doomsday?"

The High Priestess immediately grabbed Xue's hand and rushed outside. At this moment, the dragon demon was rampaging through the sky. People piloting small planes strapped explosives to the dragon demon and detonated them step by step, turning into fireworks in the sky.

However, such explosions were largely ineffective. Demons are immortal and indestructible. Even if you kill them with human lives, the dragon demon will still appear in the sky above the city the next time, indiscriminately sowing fear and despair upon everyone.

"What do we need to do now?" Xue asked.

"I've made contact with Lady Margaret. The World Government has now distributed their pact with the human demons to all officials worldwide via communication terminals. Although we intercepted and remotely destroyed the communication terminals, numerous cities have already fallen..."

"Now, we need to sign a contract with Lady Margaret as quickly as possible, and then..."

"Use Lady Margaret's power to completely destroy the demons, and all those who have been enslaved by them."

The high priestess said through gritted teeth.

"Us? Are there any other people besides the two of us?" Xue Dinglu sensed the different meaning in the words and immediately asked.

The High Priestess didn't hide anything, saying, "Besides us, there's Mayor Kaito of this city, and another member, an intelligence agent named 'Crow,' who can help us remotely use Margaret's power to destroy the communication terminals in the hands of the officials."

"These are the last three members of our team, but even so, we will save this world from being completely conquered by demons," she said.

Xue Lude fell silent. If the translator hadn't made a mistake, when he first arrived in this world, he noticed that the sky above the city he first landed in was filled with crows, but this city had no crows at all.

Or perhaps the sky above this city is filled with human-shaped balloons, which is why there are no crows.

"And one last question, what exactly is the contract between humans and demons?" Xue Dinglu asked, this might be his last question.

The High Priestess, seemingly without any impatience towards Xue Lude who knew nothing, spoke very seriously, word by word: "Human demons are demons born from humanity's fear of the concrete concept of 'humanity'."

"Demons grow stronger through fear. All the uncanny valleys—fear of evil people, and even all kinds of fears born within humanity—will eventually be absorbed by human demons. Therefore, human demons are among the most terrifying demons, second only to the three Prime Evils."

"What makes human demons even more terrifying is that anyone who fears others will become nourishment for a human demon and a teleportation anchor for it. It can be said that as long as humanity is not extinct, human demons will be one of the strongest and most invincible demon kings."

"Therefore, human demons infiltrated the World Government through this, creating a 'werewolf' scenario that fostered mutual suspicion and fear within the World Government, thereby gaining control of the entire organization. Therefore..."

"It plans to go directly through the World Government to turn all those who have signed contracts with it into 'fake humans'!"

"It is a monster that looks extremely similar to humans, but in essence it is a demon in human skin, and it highlights the weirdness and twistedness of the uncanny valley. These demons, who live on fear, are preparing to turn the whole world into a farm where fear is born from them."

She recounted the state of the world, sentence by sentence. In short, if the human demons succeeded, the whole world would become a place teeming with fake humans and all sorts of other monsters from the Uncanny Valley.

Humans live alongside pseudo-humans, living in constant fear, in a world resembling some kind of ghost story. They must always be wary of those around them, wondering if they are monsters in human skin, or they will die a horrible death.

Because here, all the demons in the world feed on human fear, and fear has a threshold; only after feeling fear and then relaxing can they cause more fear next time.

Similarly, killing a group of people every now and then is also the best way to maintain fear.

"So, what should we do?" Xue Dinglu asked the great witch.

The two ran and talked, while dazzling fireworks exploded in the sky, representing the pilots' fight against the enslavement of the dragon demon with their lives.

"Margaret's Pact: The goddess Margaret grants us the power to fight demons. If the whole world becomes a region enslaved by demons, and human civilization, culture, and even all our love are devoured by demons, then a lose-lose situation is better than a win-lose one!"

"A lose-lose situation?" Xue Dinglu murmured the word, and in an instant, he understood a lot.

“Yes, since demons are monsters that are born and become powerful by relying on human fear, what would happen if we all became fearless monsters?” she laughed, but Xue Dinglu stopped in his tracks.

All the information in my mind connected in that instant. Ah, so that's how it is…

Xue's Law gradually came to understand everything and found that he was gradually understanding the truth of the world.

"We've arrived, Kaito. Let me introduce you. This is Xerides, our newest member." The High Priestess began introducing another member of their group to Xerides.

The other party was an extremely young person, who did not resemble the mayor of the city at all, but rather someone who had just graduated from university and started working.

"Hello, I'm Kaito, the mayor of Lanhai City. I've issued an emergency evacuation notice to the entire city, and now almost everyone has taken refuge in underground shelters." He said, beginning to explain the current situation in the city to the two of them.

However, Xue Dinglu's right eyelid twitched.

Looking at Mayor Kaito, he suddenly felt he looked very familiar... extremely familiar...

Human-shaped balloons should all have the same face, right?

In the vision of the Divine Purification Demon Eye, all the faces of the humanoid balloons were the same, and that face was the face of Mayor Kaito in front of him. However, it was not the imposing figure he was in now, but a face that looked like it had been dead for a long time, soaked in water, and had become gigantic!

They immediately began their operation. At this moment, the High Priestess began to draw the contract incantation and said, "Raven, if time is of the essence, publish this incantation directly on the world network. We are in a time when humans and demons are racing against time."

"Crow received. I am currently remotely fighting for control of the network against those demon-controlled cities..."

"Wait, damn it, cyber demons! Cyber ​​demons! Why can the embodiment of the internet become a demon?!"

Suddenly, another member's terrified scream came through the communication. At that moment, the High Priestess frowned instantly and said, "Crow, calm down! Calm down! Don't be afraid. The more afraid you are, the stronger the demon's power will become. Don't be afraid!"

However, at this moment, there was no sound from the other end of the communicator.

The silence between them was eerily quiet.

They looked at each other.

The internet has even been taken over by demons, giving birth to internet demons...

So what else can we do?

"Ugh..." At this moment, Mayor Kaito's surveillance footage showed a riot breaking out in the entire shelter.

Those who had been holding communicators seemed to be influenced by something; they stared intently at the crowd protected in a corner, and then they rioted.

Pushing, trampling, crying, and blaming everyone, the riot escalated, with people throwing their communicators at each other as if they were weapons.

It seemed as if the whole world had gone mad, society was on the verge of collapse, and everything had completely lost its original form.

……

On the other hand, the little witch, who was not affected by the illusion, looked up at the sky in terror once again.

The human-shaped balloons made way for her, but this did not bring her any relief. Instead, she looked up at the sky with a tearful, cat-like expression.

In the sky, a gigantic humanoid balloon, seemingly over ten kilometers in size and blotting out the sun, looked down at the ground.

If Xue Lude were to look up at the sky right now, he would surely see that the face of that gigantic humanoid balloon is none other than Mayor Kaito's face...

The whole world was left with only this face staring intently down below. This fear from head to toe completely turned the little witch into a tearful cat-head state. Especially since Xue Luding couldn't be woken up no matter how she called him, she could only tremblingly reach out her hand to protect Xue Luding.

Tears streamed uncontrollably down his chin. He looked up at the sky and said tremblingly, "We...we were just joking...can we...can we make up? Please let us go..."

The enormous humanoid balloon in the sky seemed to be smiling; it didn't attack, but rather appeared to be merely coming to take a look.

No wonder!

At this moment, these humanoid balloons were no longer affected and would no longer lose their direction just because they were within a kilometer's radius. Fully armed, they launched a death charge downwards.

At this moment, she completely panicked and had no choice but to spread her arms to block Xue Dinglu and then close her eyes.

The next moment, a tremendous force seemed to lift her shrine maiden robes, and Xue Dinglu seemed to have stepped out of the illusion, grabbing his collar, and then...

"Buzz!"

The dimensional blade slashed out with a beam of light, and the moment the beam touched the humanoid balloon, it shattered, instantly splitting into billions of tiny cutting beams that bounced between the various humanoid balloons.

The successive explosions of the balloons caused a rain of blood to fall from the sky. When the halo disappeared, the humanoid balloons found that Xue Lude and the little witch were nowhere to be seen on the ground. They had completely vanished from the city hall.

One by one, the small black dots were inflated again, and these newly inflated human-shaped balloons returned to the queue.

All the balloons dispersed, as if nothing had happened.

They continued to drift in the sky, waiting for the demon to appear.

……

The portal landed in a small alley. The little witch seemed to still be recovering from her shock. Looking at the unfamiliar alley and Xue Dinglu, whose pupils now seemed to have returned to normal, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That was close, we almost died."

Xue Dinglu remained silent, not revealing the scene he had witnessed while under the influence of the illusion.

Even the high priestess might be different from this junior priestess in personality, style of doing things, and even...

Xue Luding glanced at her chest, which was completely covered by the shrine maiden's outfit and showed no movement, and thought that he must be overthinking it.

Furthermore, he didn't believe that this guy, whose intelligence seemed to rival that of the Great Dragon Girl, could be the leader who organized the resistance against the demons at the crucial moment.

However, this was all the information Mayor Kaito had, so Xue Dinglu decided to go to the next place to take a look.