Chapter 2488 QuestionsThe shock lasted for just long enough before Alex knew he had to continue. There were other questions he needed answers to.
From what he had learned so far, he could infer what had happened next. Killersky joined the tournament, did the best she could. When she realized she was failing, she took over Windborn.
Windborn must have been too strong for her to properly control, which must have been the cause of the episode that she went through during the Replacement test. She had made the wrong choice as a result.
Once she realized Windborn had failed as well, she began searching for new candidates to take over. Had she not slipped due to speaking as Killersky while being Windborn, Alex would have never realized this was the case at all.
He might have even been captured by Fairy Xin without any trouble and taken over just as easily. In a way, he had been quite lucky.
'All this trouble for what?' he wondered. He needed to find out.
He asked the woman the question, and despite the woman's reluctance to answer, he could see everything she thought of.
Alex saw a man sit in a circle of other men, his eyes completely white as he spoke some words. He saw blackness all around him, with hundreds of thousands of men fighting each other. He saw a swarm of men in a room, sitting around, grinding ingredients into a paste.
He saw weak and feeble men with pastes on their bodies that remained in bed. He saw the image of the current Alchemy God. He saw the pills and their effects.
He saw the Book of Endless Recipes.
With images alone, Alex would've had a slight difficulty deciphering what the woman was thinking of. But thankfully, along with those images, he gained vague feelings as well, helping him understand more or less what was happening.
The demons were worried about the war. They could tell there was one on the horizon, perhaps thanks to a seer. The demons knew that should they get into war this time, they would most likely lose.
The humans had the power of pills that could do far more than their pastes could. As a result, they needed that power as well.
Alchemy was a thing in the demon realms, but none of it was as advanced as it was on the human side. And the one who stood at its peak was the Alchemy God.
Their plan, from what Alex could tell, was to infiltrate the tournament with an Alchemist of their own and do just good enough that the Alchemy God would want them under him.
After that, they could slowly siphon away knowledge of alchemy from him, improving themselves and improving alchemy for the demons. Once that happened, they could fight the humans without worrying about the wounded and injured.
And if they got lucky somehow, they could even steal the Alchemy God's book.
"That's a bold plan," Alex thought as he went through the images. "And it might have worked too, if you just asked the Alchemy God to take you in."
Alex could see why they were so desperate now. The livelihood of many demons, should another war happen in the future, relied solely on this. And the reason why they had failed was because of him.
Alex didn't know how to feel about that. He felt somewhat guilty, but considering the other choice was to die, the guilt washed away quickly.
He shook his head, shaking away all the thoughts, and delivered another Heaven's Impact on the woman who was just beginning to gain her wits. She fell into a lull again, and Alex thought of what he wanted to ask next.
He asked about Shumi.
The images that flashed then were beyond Alex's comprehension.
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