Capítulo 844: Chapter 844: It Was Targeting Him
The incident came without any warning. The moment the small dog demon lunged at him, Callum Yuan immediately reacted, raising his leg and kicking it away with skillful force.
After hitting the ground, Too Drake almost hesitated not a bit before lunging at Callum Yuan again. Callum took a step back, expressionless, this time using direct strength.
The little rascal crashed heavily into the cage, the wounds on its body bleeding profusely, but as if it felt no pain, it frenziedly lunged at Callum again…
Scarlett Jennings was still on the video call, suddenly witnessing this incident.
The previously sobbing little cat demon instantly forgot to cry, tensely listening to the strange sounds of hissing and fighting from the phone’s other end.
Scarlett Jennings was looking at the red eyes that flashed briefly on Drake’s face in the video, along with the black demon energy emanating from him.
Her heart tightened, almost immediately realizing something was definitely wrong over there.
At this moment, she couldn’t afford to wait around for someone to take over. Directly instructing the system to watch these people and the cats and dogs, she prepared to head over to Hannah Hearne’s side.
Seeing this, Barrett Clement immediately grabbed her tightly, yelling, “I want to go too! Take me to see Drake!”
Scarlett Jennings didn’t have time to argue with him, simply allowing him to hold her as she prepared to leave. Just then, a familiar call suddenly came from above,
“Scarlett!”
Looking up, she saw a flood dragon snake swimming in the sky, swiftly diving toward her, landing and transforming into the form of Dashiell.
Seeing her, he was quite displeased, “You skip class and didn’t take me with you!”
He had been coaxed into attending class, but she sneakily ran out. That’s not the way to do things!
Before Dashiell could continue complaining, Scarlett Jennings brightened her eyes, grabbed Dashiell, and indicated,
“Complain later, there’s urgent business now. Quickly give us a ride.”
Dashiell: !!!
He’s not a transportation tool! Do they really need to order him around so indifferently?
Although feeling dissatisfied, his body truthfully transformed into a flood dragon and within moments whisked Scarlett Jennings and the little cat demon away.
After three months of formal cultivation at the Academy of Mystique, both Dashiell’s transformation speed and flying speed were exceedingly fast.
In less than half an hour, Scarlett Jennings arrived at the location of the warehouse with the little cat demon.
From a distance, she could see that the warehouse had a large hole in the roof, like it had just been artificially damaged. Dashiell instinctively flew toward it, attempting to carry them through the hole.
Scarlett Jennings was about to ask him to use the main entrance, when suddenly, from the corner of her eye, she glimpsed familiar Golden Light shining from the broken hole.
At the same time, the little Liora Gold in her pocket emerged, seemingly excited.
Scarlett Jennings momentarily forgot to speak, her eyes intently fixed on the entrance of the warehouse, allowing Dashiell to carry her through the hole.
Just upon entering, her vision was filled entirely with Golden Light.
Scarlett Jennings saw Samuel Chalmers in the warehouse.
The warehouse was a mess, with Callum Yuan and Hannah Hearne looking somewhat disheveled.
But more pitiful than them was the small dog demon they had jointly pinned to the ground.
He was bleeding and injured in multiple places, yet still emitting thick black demon energy, attempting wildly to destroy everything in sight.
Samuel Chalmers stood in front of him, and as the small dog demon attempted to break free, he raised a hand—a Golden Light flew from his hand, landing directly in the small dog demon’s forehead.
The Golden Light integrated, and Scarlett Jennings saw the black, surging demon energy seemingly purified, quickly returning to its normal color.
Simultaneously, the redness in Drake’s eyes rapidly faded, no longer struggling like before, falling to the ground weakly, his breath faint.
“Drake!!”
Barrett Clement let out a piercing shout, snapping Scarlett Jennings back to reality.
Samuel Chalmers turned toward her, seeing Scarlett Jennings bringing the little cat sprite quickly towards his side, then swiftly passing him to reach the small dog demon.
Although Callum Yuan and Hannah Hearne had done their best to restrain their strength, due to the inexplicable madness of the small dog demon—and harming those around it even at the cost of self-injury compounded by the wounds it already carried.
This frenzy nearly drained its life force completely.
Scarlett Jennings sensed the barely audible breath of the small dog demon, first pulling out the Healing Talisman Nathan White gave her, aided by demon power to stabilize Drake’s condition.
However, she was not a professional healer, in this situation they must quickly transport him to treatment in Capital Metropolitan.
Instructing Dashiell to carry Drake and Barrett Clement first, Scarlett Jennings then looked at Samuel Chalmers.
“Do you know what’s going on with him?”
Scarlett Jennings didn’t believe Samuel Chalmers’s sudden appearance here was a coincidence.
He was no longer the person he was, wouldn’t simply happen to know she’d be here and make up a reason to take her home.
His presence could only be for himself.
Given that Araminta Gold had mentioned he was investigating something, Scarlett Jennings speculated the situation he was investigating might be related to the sudden madness of the small dog demon.
Sure enough, Samuel Chalmers looked at her without concealing anything, saying,
“His demon energy has been contaminated by an impurity, but the specifics of this impurity require further investigation.”
He could feel that this impurity capable of contaminating demon energy was not limited to the small dog demon alone.
Where, exactly, it was—unless it acted out again like it just did, he wouldn’t be able to detect it.
The fortunate part was, his Golden Light could indeed purify this impurity.
Even, if his guess was right, this impurity might very well be targeting him.
Samuel Chalmers concentrated without speaking, as Scarlett Jennings refrained from questioning further, while Hannah Hearne beside them looked bewildered.
Unsure why, out of nowhere, there was this impurity?
Initially, their task was simply to find the cat sprite.
Yet now, the situation seemed to have become more complicated.
Callum Yuan wasn’t preoccupied with Hannah Hearne’s speculations, instead observing Samuel Chalmers before him.
He didn’t know this person, but could feel a presence from him that encouraged closeness.
Thinking back to what Mr. Wen had mentioned previously about a certain someone, Callum Yuan vaguely guessed the identity of the person before him.
Although his heart trembled, his face showed no sign.
Then speaking of the earlier situation with the small dog demon,
“The little dog demon’s eyes turned red, both its demonic power and strength transformed beyond typical sprite standards, and it felt neither pain nor death—this must be the condition you mentioned after being contaminated by the impurity.”
When Scarlett Jennings arrived, the demon was already subdued, its situation not as clear to her as to Callum Yuan and Hannah Hearne, but upon hearing this, she added what she had momentarily seen,
“Aside from these, his demon energy manifested as an extremely murky black color, possibly serving as another point of judgment.”
Scarlett Jennings earnestly supplemented her own observations, but unexpectedly, after she had finished speaking, all three of them looked at her.
Samuel Chalmers looked at her, asking,
“You can see this murky black demon energy?”
Scarlett Jennings was taken aback, noticing the slightly puzzled look in Callum Yuan and Hannah Hearne’s eyes, calmly counter-asked,
“Can’t you see it?”