Chapter 923 A Dispute Quickly Settled

Chapter 923 A Dispute Quickly Settled

As Alex returned home, he reached into his mind space for a moment to give instructions.

As he arrived, the air was thick with the cacophony of the eight demon kings, their voices clashing in a chaotic symphony, arguing about who should consume this new soul inside the soul space.

"Quiet!" Alex snapped, as the voices died down.

Alex looked at all of them and glanced over at Sangis, who was quietly observing them in a corner.

"I didn't send this man's soul in here for you to snack on. This is not a game. He was working for someone, and we need to know when that someone is getting here. Whoever finds me those answers first gets to eat the soul," he declared, his voice carrying the weight of the task.

But that left one massive issue.

"Sir," Paimon said, walking toward him with a lascivious gait.

"How are we supposed to get answers fairly? Only one of us can possess this soul at a time. Wouldn't that make this an unfair solution?" she asked, brushing her hand on his chest while biting her lip.

Alex slapped the hand away, making her moan in delight.

"Keep your hands to yourself, vixen. I already thought of this. This is why Sangis will be letting you into it one at a time, with a very limited amount of time to question him. No peering into his mind, Sangis will know. Torture him, tear him apart, as long as you leave the soul intact for the one after you; I don't care about your methods," Alex said.

He looked at Paimon and scoffed.

"Hell, you can even fuck his brains out if it gets you the answer," he added.

The demon smiled in glee, thinking of all the pent-up tension she would be allowed to release.

"Then who gets to go first?" Sangis asked, his gritty voice making Alex wince in displeasure.

He looked at the Nephilim and smirked.

"You chose. This space is as much yours as it is mine, so you are the boss. Whatever you do, though, do it fast. I don't want to get surprised by Damien's arrival," he ordered.

Sangis nodded, as did the demon kings, before Alex vanished from the soul space.

And before Sangis could even turn to the demon kings, Paimon was already standing behind him, her hands wrapped around him and clutching his dick through his tunic.

"How about you let me go first, and I give you a bit of my time later, lovely?" she asked, nibbling on Sangis' neck.

"You vixen! That's cheating!" Bael cursed, looking at this whore give herself away so easily.

"You're just jealous I didn't offer myself to you, Bael," Paimon mocked.

"Hah! As if I would be attracted to a being like you, you ugly pig!" Bael rebuked, turning his head away.

But Paimon wasn't done teasing him.

Then, if they hired locals, how were they to convince these hired hands to follow their orders and not go rogue on them? This could set them back big time if these hired locals suddenly got themselves killed.

It was a hassle either way.

"Wait... Isn't Athena Korean?" Alex remembered.

If he could get her to guide them, and act as their local face, then that would save him trouble. But he wasn't sure she'd say yes.

Last he checked in with her, she was having family troubles, and was practically under house arrest by her parents.

"Not that they can keep her there, if she doesn't want to," he mumbled, imagining she had already started changing.

But he knew filiality played a much heavier role in Eastern cultures. If Athena refused to go against her parents' words, he couldn't force her.

He doubted they would listen to the pleas of a Westerner like him, especially one who wasn't a hardworking person by their standards.

"Why is everything always so complicated?" he grumbled, stepping back inside the bedroom.

"Because life isn't supposed to be easy, love," Kary mumbled from the bed, half awake.

"Did I wake you up?" Alex asked, looking at her apologetically.

"No. It was the freaking mana waves from across the street. Do you know what happened?" she asked, looking at him with tussled hair.

He chuckled at her appearance, finding it delightful, before laying down next to her.

"It was nothing—an argument between two awakened in the hotel across the street. I dealt with it already," he said, hiding the fact he had killed one of them, and the other was David.

"Mm," she groaned, cuddling up to his chest.

"Can we sleep a bit longer?" she asked, sighing tiredly.

"Sadly, we've been sleeping all day already. We shouldn't extend that much further, or we'll fuck up our sleep schedule even worse," Alex chuckled, brushing her hair with his hand.

Kary moaned in pleasure as the hand softly stroked the top of her head and the base of her nape.

"Fine, I'll get up. In a few minutes, though. Let me enjoy this moment first," she said, wrapping her arms around him.

"Sure. We can stay like this for a few minutes," Alex replied, smiling warmly.

They lay in bed for a while more, going way past the couple minutes Kary had requested, as she practically fell asleep in his arms again, while Alex thought about the coming times, softly brushing her hair with his fingers.

'I wonder how long we will be able to enjoy such a calm rhythm of life...' he mused, his smile dropping sadly.

Even if the merging didn't happen anytime soon, a genuine threat was still looming above their heads.

That alone was enough to cut their calm lifestyle...

"Let's hope it's longer than a few weeks..."