Looking at Evelynn, who had vanished in the blink of an eye, everyone began looking around.
Yet apart from the pool of blood on the ground, there seemed to be nothing else that could prove a demon had been here earlier.
Staring at that pool of blood, Luke did not think for long and decisively ordered, "Thirty people per squad. Quickly spread out and search the area around Wrenwall. Don't miss the city either. This demon is extremely powerful, so be careful. If you discover anything, request support immediately."
Even he could no longer sense Evelynn's aura, which meant the other party had truly left without looking back.
But to be safe, they still had to search the surroundings. Not a single corner of Wrenwall could be ignored.
Since she was injured this time, if they could catch up to her, then this was absolutely a good chance to eliminate this demon of agony.
If an injured demon wanted to recover from its wounds, then the first thing it would think of was naturally hunting humans.
"Yes!"
A general accepted the order and quickly began making arrangements.
Before long, under the night sky, squad after squad swiftly set out in every direction.
At this moment, Frey was crouching on the ground, using a small, clean glass vial to collect the demon's blood.
"With her blood, I can track her scent more easily."
Frey looked at the demon blood in the vial, which amounted to roughly half a small bottle, and continued, "This much is enough."
At that moment, Vayne looked toward Luke, wanting to say something.
Luke already understood what she meant and said directly, "From this moment on, that squad of yours is under your command. Your main mission is to hunt down this demon. There is no time limit. You must kill her before she harms ordinary, innocent people."
"Yes!"
Vayne accepted the order. The aura of killing intent around her body flowed outward, and her eyes were as cold as a ghost in the winter night.
Now that she had personally seen the enemy who slaughtered her family once more, if she did not fight Evelynn to the end, Vayne would never be able to swallow this hatred.
Everything she had suffered was all thanks to this demon.
This time, she would make this demon repay blood with blood!
She would begin an endless hunt.
Under Luke's authorization, the first official demon-hunting squad was born.
Its members were all warriors from Luke's personal guards who had been under Vayne's command. In total, there were about one hundred fifty people.
Under Vayne and Frey's long-term training, they had gained a considerable understanding of demon-hunting knowledge.
So this time, Vayne would also be leaving for a while.
Not only for revenge, but also to rid the people of a threat.
If Luke had guessed correctly, Evelynn had probably already fled far away from Wrenwall at high speed.
As for Vayne and her demon-hunting squad, their mission was to pursue Evelynn endlessly and absolutely prevent her from running wild within Demacia's territory. That would likely take some time.
The current Evelynn had been cut by Snowglance, and her strength was not what it had been before. This was the best chance to strike while she was weak.
With Frey's demon-blood tracking technique, and with Evelynn's true name in their grasp, Evelynn should not even think of acting freely as she had before.
The matter could not be delayed. Vayne quickly set off with her squad.
Luke did not remain idle either. He turned and returned to his room, then began studying the Snowglance in his hand. Purple markings were still attached to the snowy-white blade.
Stored within those markings was a portion of Evelynn's power.
As a being close to the level of a top-tier demon, her power was naturally not weak. Back then, the reason Luke had been able to slash such a large wound into her body was because he had used her own power.
He had to admit, it was quite useful.
Among demons, there were roughly several ranks.
Standing above all demons were the Ten Great Demons. Even Luke knew very little about these Ten Great Demons.
Evelynn, and some of the demons Luke had an impression of, were not among the Ten Great Demons.
There was only one he knew of, an existence ranked at the head of the Ten Great Demons. Its name was the Ancient Fear, Fiddlesticks.
If the current Luke encountered a being of that level, he would only have two choices.
Either rise up and resist, then die.
Or lie down on the spot and die peacefully.
In short, death either way.
Although Evelynn was powerful, she was still a little distance away from the Ten Great Demons. However, she was also just beneath the Ten Great Demons.
She fed on human agony. Her hobby was to arouse human physical desire, then once the human had taken the bait, she would grant him or her unbearable pain and take pleasure from it.
In order to do this, Evelynn had learned how to shapeshift. She could change into many beautiful forms. As a demon, she had no gender. Men and women were both her prey.
The nature of a succubus also provided her with great help. Usually, she did not need to put in much effort. Just the aura released from her body was enough to make her prey lose their minds.
Beneath Evelynn were the two demons Luke had encountered last time in the border waters.
Beneath them were juvenile demons. In Ionia, these juveniles were collectively called azakana.
Further down were all low-level demons, which were not worth discussing.
While Luke was observing it, he suddenly discovered that the markings on Snowglance's blade had actually already extended all the way to the end.
Snowglance had the trait of absorbing power. It could either absorb Luke's power and store it, or absorb someone else's power and bring Luke a short-term enhancement. However, absorbed power could not be maintained for very long.
But now, Luke discovered that this demonic power had not dissipated at all.
Only when he felt his palm begin to heat up did he realize something was wrong.
The instant his palm began to heat up, the markings on the blade also began to glow. Gradually, it was Luke's entire hand that grew hot.
It happened very quickly. On the back of Luke's wrist, interwoven purple markings began to appear, like demonic runes.
At the same time, the markings on the blade began to fade bit by bit.
Luke realized that Snowglance seemed to be transferring Evelynn's power from within the blade into his body.
After hesitating and thinking it over, he did not interrupt the process.
Later, Luke's entire arm began to heat up. Only after he had absorbed all the energy inside the blade did a subtle feeling appear throughout his body. As for exactly how subtle it was, even he could not describe it.
It seemed that he had become a little stronger overall.
He put Snowglance away and looked at the markings on his wrist. His right hand clenched, loosened, clenched, loosened. After repeating this a few times, he frowned slightly and began thinking.
Then, Luke closed his eyes and tried to sense it carefully.
As a strange sensation appeared, it was as though he had found some trick. He opened his eyes again, and his entire right arm was unexpectedly wrapped in black mist, while his hand had also transformed into a demon-like purple claw.
Seeing this scene, even the experienced Luke froze for a moment.
What was going on?
He swung his arm and noticed that both the feeling and the strength were much greater than in his normal state.
Using a demon's power was a strange experience for Luke. He stayed there alone, looking left and right. One moment he picked up a cup and crushed it with force, the next he pinched his chin and struck a thoughtful pose in front of the mirror.
In short, he was having quite a lot of fun.
Only when he discovered that his stamina was rapidly being consumed did he quickly cancel the demon state.
He looked at the markings on his wrist. They still existed.
Luke could sense that the power he had consumed was slowly recovering. That was right, demonic power.
This time, it seemed that the demonic power within Snowglance had been permanently transformed for his own use.
Then what exactly was he now?
Half-human, half-demon?
Luke looked into the mirror and noticed even more details. He discovered that he seemed a little more handsome than usual. Even he could not help being attracted by the person in the mirror.
Although this kind of thing happened often, this time it felt a little different.
Generally speaking, his aura seemed to have undergone a subtle change.
Oh no.
I've become a succubus!
This thought flashed through Luke's mind. He gave himself in the mirror a wink, and only after feeling so disgusted that he wanted to vomit did he move his gaze away.
After that, he sat on the bed, stroked his chin, furrowed his brows, and began thinking.
He had not expected that by a twist of fate, he would actually absorb part of a demon's power for his own use.
Overall, this should be a good thing, right?
So far, after absorbing Evelynn's power, he had not felt any side effects.
However, the moment this thought flashed by, Luke suddenly felt his entire body become unbearably hot. Beneath him, there was a force that had gathered for a long time and was now ready to erupt, as if stirring restlessly.
Scenes of being alone in the room with Evelynn earlier flashed through his mind. The desire deep in Luke's heart was inexplicably awakened.
Very soon, Luke entered a conflicted state.
He was still staying up late, and Luke's brain told him that he really wanted to sleep right now.
But somewhere in the darkness, as if from the unseen, a voice seemed to sound, saying, "No, you don't."
A certain force in Luke's lower body suddenly concentrated its troops and launched a surprise attack. They swept across the long battlefront and, in an extremely short time, broke through the defenses in his mind, occupying that place.
And so, he stood up and left the room.
Under the night sky, Luke knocked on Sona's door.
The door quickly opened. Sona, who had not yet fallen asleep, looked at Luke standing at the doorway and froze slightly.
It was not only because he had come to visit late at night, but also because she always felt that the Luke before her seemed even more charming than usual.
As Luke looked at her loose, flowing water-blue hair and those moving eyes that shimmered like rippling water, he also felt a tremor in his heart.
The next second, seeing the look in Luke's eyes, Sona's pretty face reddened. She lowered her head, said nothing, and stepped aside to make room.
Very soon, the door carefully closed, as if signaling the beginning of a sleepless night.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
After fleeing a great distance at high speed, Evelynn finally could no longer endure the wound on her body and stopped in a dark place.
In the night, her figure gradually appeared. Her body was still bewitchingly curvaceous, but a shocking wound remained on it from beginning to end.
The pain coming from the wound made Evelynn grit her teeth, and her eyes were filled with immense fury.
In her mind, the face of that human prince kept flashing by.
If she just let what happened tonight pass like this, she would absolutely not be able to swallow this anger.
She was Evelynn. When had she ever suffered such a thing?
It had always been her who toyed with humans. Yet now, she had actually been tricked by a human.
She had taken the initiative to throw herself into a human's trap. Not only that, she had been wounded by him, and even part of her power had been stolen.
That was all power she had painstakingly accumulated year after year, all for the sake of one day breaking through her current demonic rank.
Many years ago, Evelynn, who had believed herself to be powerful enough, had suddenly realized that above her, demons had an even higher rank.
It was a level that even she at the time could not reach.
Ordinary demons could not come into contact with it at all, and many had not even heard of it.
But she was different. By an accidental opportunity, she had come into contact with it.
Ever since then, she had taken that as her goal.
Over all these years, she had appeared in every corner of Runeterra, constantly absorbing power, constantly growing stronger, all for the sake of one day entering that position.
She had finally drawn close.
But now, thanks to that human prince interfering like this, the distance between her and that position had suddenly become much farther again.
Evelynn was unwilling to accept this. She could not tolerate something that had belonged to her being stolen away by someone else like this.
In her fury, the aura around her body also began to fluctuate constantly. A surging pressure swept violently toward the surroundings, and the area immediately sank into a suffocating atmosphere.
Soon, the demon blood attracted a magical beast.
Just as Evelynn, in her immense fury, wanted to destroy everything, a pair of ghostly green eyes appeared in the darkness not far away.
Immediately after came the sound of footsteps moving. A massive one-horned wolf stared greedily at Evelynn and slowly approached her.
The furious aura around Evelynn instantly vanished. She looked at the one-horned wolf slowly approaching her, and a tempting smile curved across her lips. "Come here, big guy."
"Roar!"
Her sultry voice sounded, and in the next second, the one-horned wolf immediately leaped up impatiently, pouncing toward Evelynn. It opened its bloody maw wide, wanting to devour her.
"Whimper..."
However, in midair, the one-horned wolf let out a muffled whimper. It howled in pain, and its massive body, taller than a person, began struggling in midair.
Evelynn's expression, which had still been sultry a second ago, became exceptionally cold in this instant. Her lashers were tightly choking the one-horned wolf's throat. With just one movement, she could snap its neck.
However, she was in no hurry to deal with this impatient big guy.
Soon, cries of agony rang out one after another. After several seconds, then ten seconds, the one-horned wolf, whose entire body had already been tortured beyond recognition, died in immense terror. Its four limbs were twisted grotesquely, a kind of visible, excruciating pain.
Evelynn casually flung the one-horned wolf's massive body away. This tiny amount of pain was nowhere near enough to heal her wound.
Moreover, compared to what humans gave her, the pain of wild beasts also felt far inferior.
She needed humans. At a time like this, whether it was expired food or cheap bread, things she usually would not even bother glancing at, it did not matter. As long as they were human, it was fine.
And these two types of ingredients were the easiest to find.
In a place like Demacia, there were actually many high-quality cakes. However, in this place, hunting high-quality cakes was far more troublesome than elsewhere.
Meanwhile, expired food and cheap bread were the easiest to act against. They were parasites of society, often incompatible with most humans, vile, ugly, and worthless. When all humans huddled together for warmth, they were the easiest ones to fall behind.
It was just that, under normal circumstances, she looked down on these people as well. She would rather go hungry than absorb the cheap pain from their bodies.
But now, she had no room to be picky.
In order to hurry and repair the wound on her body, she had to make do.
Once her injuries recovered, she would definitely regain her lost ground.
Looking back in the direction of Wrenwall, Evelynn's figure once again vanished into the darkness and disappeared.
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