In short, in this world, using Asura demon artifacts is an absolute taboo—touch it and you die instantly!

A thousand years have passed, and the Asura demon artifacts scattered across the world have almost completely disappeared. As a result, the Night Watchers have gradually become a special intelligence agency, monitoring officials, gathering intelligence, subverting enemy nations, and so on.

However, hunting down and eliminating the remnants of the Asura clan remains the Night Division’s greatest mission.

A sorcerer in a long robe walked in, holding a strange compass in his hand, moving closer to each person.

Suddenly, when he approached a man in white, the compass in his hand began to tremble violently.

“It’s him!”

Several Night Watchers immediately rushed forward and pinned him to the ground.

The man in white said, “I’m innocent, I’m innocent, I have nothing!”

The sorcerer directly searched his belt and pulled out a gemstone, saying coldly, “What is this?”

The man in white trembled and said, “I—I thought it was just a ruby when I bought it, I didn’t know, I really didn’t know…”

“This is a gemstone from a demon artifact, covered in runes. My compass started vibrating from dozens of yards away.”

The Night Watcher’s sorcerer said, “You still claim you didn’t know?

How ridiculous.”

“Take him away. Execute him!”

The Night Watcher’s Centurion waved his hand.

The sorcerer took out a special tool, placed the red gemstone inside, and pressed down hard, shattering it completely.

This has been the rule for a thousand years: anyone who seizes an Asura demon artifact must destroy it publicly at once. Anyone who hides it is executed immediately.

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“You all continue playing!”

The Night Watcher Centurion said.

Chad Sullivan noticed that this Night Watcher Centurion truly had eyes like lightning. Just one glance from him made the hairs on Chad Sullivan’s back stand on end.

This man’s gaze landed on Chad Sullivan’s face and lingered for half a second.

Immediately, Chad Sullivan’s face felt as cold as if it had been scraped by a knife.

Then, the Centurion’s gaze fell on Emily Parker’s face. He was slightly surprised, then nodded in greeting.

After that, more than a dozen Night Watcher warriors quickly withdrew and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

The Night Watchers have another rule: they must never use the matter of demon artifact possession to implicate others.

Anyone possessing a demon artifact must die, but their parents and family are absolutely innocent, even if they have also touched the artifact.

Fortunately, this rule was established, or else who knows how many massacres would have occurred.

The thing most feared in this world is collective punishment—it’s all too easy to kill tens of thousands.

Chad Sullivan asked, “Who is that person? He’s really formidable!”

Emily Parker said, “Centurion David Carter of the Night Division—a person nobody wants to provoke.”

Chad Sullivan looked out the window behind him.

He saw the man who had been captured dragged straight out onto the street. The Night Watcher Centurion raised his blade and brought it down in a flash.

The man’s head fell to the ground!

So ruthless—no trial at all, just immediate execution.

Anyone possessing a demon artifact must die—this really is an absolute iron law!

Asura demon artifacts truly are an absolute taboo.

Anyone who touches one must die!

Chad Sullivan said, “What if someone accidentally comes into possession of an Asura demon artifact?”

Emily Parker said, “How could that possibly happen?

Every Asura demon artifact has a very obvious feature: it’s covered in extremely mysterious and complex runes that simply can’t be faked.”

Chad Sullivan said, “So they’re easy to recognize?”

Emily Parker said, “Every bookstore has pictures of demon artifact runes posted inside.

Anyone who discovers one can immediately report it to the Night Watchers and receive a huge reward.

Every academy, during basic education, also teaches how to recognize the runes of Asura demon artifacts.”

That impressive?

It’s universal knowledge.

Chad Sullivan said, “That sorcerer can detect the artifact’s fluctuations with his compass, so why not just do a blanket search?”

Emily said, “Low-level demon artifacts will be detected even if left untouched.

High-level demon artifacts only emit fluctuations when used.

The highest-level demon artifacts—no matter if the user is right next to you, the sorcerer’s compass won’t detect a thing.”

Chad Sullivan said, “Why are they called the Asura clan, and not the demon clan or devil clan?”

Emily said, “Because they crawled up from underground, so they’re called the Hell Asura clan.

This is all basic knowledge—didn’t you learn it?”

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In the days that followed, Emily Parker came every day.

Very soon, she and Chad Sullivan became inseparable. Chad Sullivan discovered that her forcefulness was, to some extent, just an act.

She was just a woman—a lonely, solitary woman.

Her ruthlessness, in a sense, was a kind of protective coloration.

Because she had been slandered and ostracized so much, she had to be ruthless to make people fear her.

Of course, because she had been pent up for so long without release, and with her high martial skills and many kills, she took pleasure in killing on the battlefield and was fierce and brutal in training soldiers. That’s how she earned the title of She-Devil.

But beneath the ruthless exterior, her heart was still fragile and soft.

Of course, she was also reclusive.