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"Kazim, master! Don't do this!"
The demon residing within the giant's body sensed Kazim's determination and immediately panicked, "If you take that step, there's no turning back—"
"Nonsense."
Kazim glared with blood-red eyes, reached into his own chest, and pulled out the slender demon, wreathed in smoke and burning with flames.
——That was a Smoke Demon, a demon that controlled concepts such as fire.
It was not an Upper-Level Demon but a lower demon that had contracted with Kazim when he had just become a Demon Scholar.
Kazim himself was not blessed with innate talent, but had acquired the power of the Path through an extremity of will. He had long been dissatisfied with his patron demon... but there was nothing he could do.
Once he became a Demon Incarnation, leaving his physical body behind to become a demon, he could never change back. And the more this was the case, the more resentful he became towards the Smoke Demon.
