CHAPTER 220: 220. INTERROGATION

Jake corrupted the summoners one by one and allowed them to heal themselves. Behind him, the five elves who were still chained to tall stone pillars seemed defeated.

However, one still had some spark in his eyes. He wanted to say something but hesitated and ultimately sighed, looking down at the floor.

"Commander..." One of the squad captains saw Issac’s plight and couldn’t help but shake his own head.

Suddenly, the demon turned its head toward them and disappeared from his location. He teleported in the middle of these chained elves, surrounded by those he’d earlier corrupted.

"I just realized," Jake conjured a small Dark Fire on his fingertip and continued, "I haven’t asked you guys. Why did you really come to my dungeon?"

Hearing this question, the four squad captains looked at each other and then at their commander. When he didn’t speak, they also kept silent.

Seeing this, Jake obviously knew they were too loyal to their leader. Actually, he had a hunch about what these elves really wanted.

Letting out a smirk, Jake retrieved an item that had been laying in his inventory for quite a while.

"Remember this?" He held the gourd that had the Life Elixir in front of the elves.

’T-That!’

’How could it be?!’

The elves were gobsmacked and no matter how hard they tried to hide their expressions, they couldn’t hide their emotions from Jake.

He could taste it, the sweet happiness which adopted a slight twang of sourness the moment he stored the item.

"Is it really worth so much?" Jake floated up and turned to an old elf who tried his best to avoid locking eyes.

"Tell me, now. Edgar." He created a dark fire again.

"I-I..."

"Don’t you remember me?" Jake gently tapped the druid’s shoulder and the fire began eating his robe.

"Aaaahh!" The old man cried as his fresh started burning. The pain he felt wasn’t through his body but through his soul.

Still, he stubbornly kept refusing to answer the questions. However, this only irritated Jake more. He began torturing the other squad captains in the same fashion.

Ultimately, Issac couldn’t bear to see this and finally answered.

"Yes, we are here for the Life Elixir."

"Oh?" Jake smiled, healing their wounds. Just as these elves thought it was over, an even larger dark fire burned on Jake’s hand.

"No!" Their leader yelped, "Don’t hurt them. It’s my fault! I organized this raid."

"Lord Issac!" The elf captains desperately tried to break the chains binding them, but to no avail.

Jake ignored them and stretched his right hand at their leader, using [Demonic Grasp] to pull his neck downward.

"Speak, what do you need this Life Elixir for, and how did you find that it’s in my dungeon?"

No answer. A hesitant glance and silence again. Jake wasn’t going to have any of that, so he began using his best method to make someone speak. Torture.

However, even an hour of agonizing pain couldn’t crack this elf swordsman. In the end, Jake had to resort to using a complete soul search.

The reason Jake hadn’t done it sooner was because 4th Circlers were far more resistant against deeper searches.

Seeing recent surface memories was easy but deep held secrets required extreme focus and willpower, even for someone like Jake whose mental attributes were at the 5th Circle standard.

About two and a half hours later, he finally learned the truth. In the end, love had compelled this foolish elf to come here.

"A trifling little princess..." Jake’s eyes glowed red.

Considering what he’d seen in the elf’s memories, there was a certain chance that both were in love, but didn’t have the courage to come together.

"How sweet..." Jake chuckled at Isaac whose eyes looked extremely tired. There was deep regret and worry in those eyes.

This was a merciless demon who enjoyed violence. Nothing good could come now that he’d learned about his village.

Jake could somewhat guess what Issac was thinking and an idea brewed in his mind.

At first, he’d thought about simply corrupting everyone and sending them back to their village with the sole purpose of destroying it. But so what? That couldn’t satisfy his anger.

Jake grabbed a female druid who was constantly struggling and used [Degeneration Halo].

Within five minutes, Linda’s eyes turned white and multiple dark patterns appeared on her face. The beautiful wood elf who seemed to be pure and righteous suddenly began emitting an evil aura.

The others could feel it. This demon was corrupting her!

"S-Stop!"

However they cried, it was useless.

As the demonic tattoos coalesced together to form an ethereal seed, it went through Linda’s forehead. Jake then freed her and the elven woman fell on the floor, letting out a strange laughter.

Moments later, she began crying, wailing like a banshee. Linda’s blonde hair became bright red, and her lips as well as irises turned darker.

"What is your name?" Jake pinched her soft cheeks, popping her mouth open.

"L-Linda Sylstina, master..." The newly corrupted elf spoke.

"Show me where your Princess Valerie is right now." Jake slowly pulled her up and the corrupted druid quickly grabbed her 4-foot-long staff.

As she closed her eyes, the divination crystal that was embedded on the magic staff became cloudy.

Seeing this, the others realized what the demon’s intention was.

"No!"

"Linda, you can’t do this!"

While the girl was busy, Jake began corrupting the others as well. This, however, proved to be much more difficult than earlier.

Although he had high stats, corrupting so many 4th Circle beings took a toll on his subconscious, which managed the link between him and the corruption seeds.

At the moment, Jake had placed such seeds in the minds of more than 20 Fourth Circlers and hundreds of other 3rd and 2nd Circlers.

There was also Yvonne, who was at the 5th Circle. Not to mention the unranked individuals.

It wasn’t far-fetched to say that he was close to his limits, despite having recently increased his attributes.

Thus, after he finished corrupting the three remaining squad captains, he didn’t go for Issac. Actually, Jake had a much different plan for this swordsman.

"Master!" Linda called at this moment.

Jake turned around and he could see that the divination was a success. Coming beside the corrupted druid, he fondled her perky breast while peering at the scenes flashing on the crystal.

"Master, she seems to have just left the village. She is heading northeast." Linda informed him.

Jake snaked his arms below her waist and asked, squeezing her shapely buttocks. "Do you know where she wants to go?"

Linda let out a rough breath while thinking but ultimately couldn’t answer.

"Tsk." Seeing her confused expression, Jake scoffed and slapped her tight, bubbly ass.

"Anhh~" The elven woman immediately plopped on the floor and tearfully grabbed his leg.

"I’m sorry for my uselessness, master. P-Please forgive me!"

While Linda was begging, Jake heard Edgar’s voice from behind.

"Master, the princess might be coming to this dungeon."

"Someone with brains." Jake said, "She probably doesn’t know where my dungeon is. One of you should go and intercept her. Guide the little princess to her lover..."

After Jake finished ordering, he unbuttoned his pants, letting the tearful elf below him see his fat meat. Linda’s mouth watered.

"Well, go on, make yourself useful."

A moment later, she put it into her mouth and began obediently sucking.