Chapter 2363 — Chapter 2363 Scarecrow

Lev stared at the demon pinned to the ground by Yuan's Swords of Eternal Torment, a dazed expression plastered on his face.

"Wait… pain? It's painful?" he suddenly muttered, realizing the strange remark.

'He's actually feeling pain?!' Lev cried inwardly. 'But our pain tolerance is so high that even being thrown into a shredder wouldn't make us feel anything!'

After allowing the demon to endure a few moments of agony, Yuan deactivated the swords' ability and casually made a gesture with his hand.

In the next instant, the demon was lifted off the ground and dragged into the air—still impaled by the swords embedded in his body.

"W-What do you plan on doing with him?" Lev asked in a fearful voice.

"I'm going to use him to make our journey more smooth," Yuan calmly replied, refusing to elaborate.

"What have you done to me?! Let me go!"

Meanwhile, the demon struggled desperately to free himself from the swords. However, no matter how much he twisted or pulled, they refused to budge, as if they had fused with his body.

Seeing this, Yuan activated the swords' ability once more.

"AHHHH!"

Agony surged through the demon's body again, forcing another ear-piercing scream from his throat.

"The less you talk, the less painful it will be," Yuan said in a cold voice.

The demon wanted to cry but had no tears, and he reluctantly nodded in silence.

"Let's continue forward," Yuan said to Lev, who was still trying to figure out what Yuan was planning.

A few hours later, Lev sensed another presence approaching them.

However, before he could even warn Yuan, a loud scream suddenly tore through the air, startling him.

He quickly turned toward the source of the scream, and sure enough, it came from the demon Yuan had captured and forced to follow them.

'Don't tell me he's—!'

A chilling realization crept into Lev's bones the moment he understood why Yuan had dragged the demon along with them.

'He's using him like a scarecrow… to drive others away!' Lev cried inwardly.

Even though the demon attacked them first, Lev couldn't help but pity him.

Sure enough, when the approaching presence heard the demon's agonized screams and saw the dreadful sight of an impaled demon being dragged through the air, they immediately turned around and fled at twice their original speed.

However, they didn't leave completely. Instead, they lingered at a safe distance, observing the situation with clear curiosity.

Using this method, Yuan and Lev were able to travel in peace for several months. Unfortunately, their strange spectacle had also drawn a growing audience of demons quietly following behind them.

"Who the fuck is that crazy bastard? He's dragging Dune around while torturing him!"

"Do you think Dune is genuinely feeling pain, or is he merely acting for some reason?"

"I don't know, but his screams are real enough to send shivers down my spine, no matter how many times I've heard them."

"Poor guy. I wonder what he did to offend that madman."

"I have never witnessed such savagery in all my life…"

"Look at his perfect appearance. He's definitely a noble."

"But what would a noble be doing so deep inside the Deprived Crimson Valley?"

After using the demon as a scarecrow for an entire year, Yuan also started feeling bad about it, so he decided to release the demon.

"Thanks for your assistance for the past year," Yuan said as he completely deactivated Swords of Eternal Torment.

The demon coughed up a mouthful of blood when Yuan made it sound like he volunteered to help them. However, he didn't dare to correct Yuan and simply said, "It was a pleasure…"

The moment he was freed, the demon spun around and fled at full speed, running as though death itself were chasing him, completely ignoring the group of demons signaling to him from afar.

Seeing that the demon had no intention of stopping for them, several of the demons broke away from the group and chased after him.

"Hey! Dune! What the hell was that about?!"

"Did you really feel pain? Or were you only pretending?!"

"What did it feel like?!"

Since demons were incapable of feeling pain, the concept itself naturally stirred their curiosity.

"Fuck! Get away from me! I don't want to talk about it!" The demon named Dune shouted at them.

"If you're so curious, go attack that fucking crazy bastard yourselves! I bet he's already looking for my replacement!"

Hearing this, several demons actually paused to consider the idea. Since they had never experienced pain before, the thought of feeling it for the first time strangely intrigued them.

Eventually, a few of them turned around and flew at Yuan while exuding killing intent.

"I don't believe that you can actually inflict pain on us!"

"If you can really hurt us, I'd really like to experience it myself!" "You want to experience pain?" Yuan's expression remained nonchalant as he watched three demons soaring toward him.

"Then I'll let you experience so much of it that you'll never want to experience it ever again!"

[Swords of Eternal Torment!]

A dozen swords glowing with golden brilliance materialized around the demons, surrounding them from all sides.

Although the demons could have easily avoided the attack, they chose not to, allowing the swords to impale their bodies.

The instant the swords drove through their bodies, a foreign sensation erupted within them, overwhelming their senses and plunging them into unimaginable pain.

"AAAGH!"

"WHAT IS THIS FEELING?!"

"IS THIS PAIN?! IT HURTS LIKE HELL!"

Even as the unbearable pain overwhelmed them, not a single demon asked Yuan to stop.

Lev swallowed nervously as he watched the demons willingly subject themselves to such agony. Yet at the same time, he found himself growing intrigued. The concept of pain was so foreign to demons that it held a strange allure.

Yuan was no stranger to their masochistic behavior. In the past, many demons would deliberately provoke him, hoping to experience pain for the first time.