After Silveria flicked her fingers, the demon was brought toward them.
Finally, the demon was able to see their faces, because back then Leena had appeared like a ghost behind him and insta KO-ed him he was not able to see her features and now that he was able to have a look at her face, she was indeed a beauty, however, her beauty was lacking compared to the silver-haired maiden on the left, if Leena's beauty was comparable to top-grade mortal beauty than Silveria's beauty was on another level, she transcends the mortal realm to stand at the God realm, she was like a Goddess.
However, she was the most dangerous among the two, the demon was more afraid of her than the elf lady.
''Let's start the fu- I mean interrogation.'' Silveria started talking but corrected herself midway.
Both Leena and the demon rolled their eyes as they knew that she was planning to say fun instead of an interrogation.
''Torture me all you want. I won't say anything.'' the demon announced acting tough.
''Well, I knew you would say some cliché line. However, you don't have to worry, they all said that but in the end they spill everything they know, believe me.'' Silveria said while wearing a wicked grin on her lips, the demon shuddered when he saw this.
As Silveria was about to start her interrogation she was stopped by Leena who approached her and whispered something into her ear.
''I see. However, we don't know know if what that demon said before dying was true. We must interrogate this one first to hear his story. His version plus the one you've heard will help us understand more what's going on.''
''Indeed.'' Leena nodded her head at Silveria's words.
Meanwhile, as the two were talking, the demon overhead them, especially the part where Silveria said the other demon was killed, even though he was expecting this outcome, somehow he had hoped that the other demon, the leader of this mission to be alive to go tell their leaders to better rethink twice before making another move, unfortunately, the other demon was slain probably alongside the other demons they have brought, this mission was a total failure.
''Let's start shall we?" Silveria said before scanning the demon's body, the latter shuddered as he felt naked in front of these silver eyes.
Smirking Silveria flicked her fingers and a silver small ball was created and launched at the demon, being tied up the demon could only helplessly watch as the small silver ball entered his body, however, the pain he thought would feel never came, bewildered he asked.
''What did you do to me?"
''That? Well, you will find out soon enough.''
Silveria said not going into the details, even though Leena who was standing beside her was also interested, she decided not to ask because she knew she'd get the answer soon.
Flicking her fingers once more, a silver light manifested into Silveria's hand, this time it was not a ball instead the silver light transformed into a small sliver lighting dragon (Eastern type).
Leena and the demon were both surprised as they had never heard about silver lightning before, it was their first time seeing something like this.
Suddenly, the small silver lightning dragon disappeared, and when it reappeared it was already in front of the demon's chest.
Zila~
The small silver lightning dragon entered the demon's body through his chest when abruptly the demon's whole body became covered in silver lightning.
''Gugiahhhh!"
''Abababaa?!"
The demon's started muttered some incoherent words as his body kept twitching incessantly, foam started to come out of the demon's mouth.
Leena was looking at the scene interestedly as she had probed the silver lightning strength, although it was stronger than regular lightning, it was not to the extent that could make a Rank 8 expert screaming of pain with just that, they must be something else at work that was making the demon feel more pain. Leena thought as she glanced at Silveria, the latter smiled as though she had been waiting for Leena, she said.
''You seem curious. Allow me to quench your curiosity. I multiplied his pain receptor by Ten and prevented his brain from stopping his heart when he deems the level of pain beyond bearable. He will not die he will suffer unbearable pain until I decided otherwise.''
Hearing Silveria's explanation, Leena finally understood what going on she could only look at the writhing demon with pity.
Unbeknownst to her, Silveria hadn't told her the whole truth, not only the demon's pain receptor had been multiplied by ten but every pain he received would be sent toward his soul as well but by a reduced amount not to inadvertently destroyed it. It was to say that he would feel the pain even with his soul.
[Cruel as ever with that fake angelic smile of yours.] Ignia commented as she knew what Silveria had done.
'I'll take it as a compliment.' Silveria responded in her head while outwardly maintain her smiling face.
Even though the demon was suffering he still refused to speak, grinning evilly Silveria licked her rosy lower lip.
''Let's get started. Serious things shall start as the warm-up is enough.''
''Stop playing around little Silvie and do your job properly,'' Silveria added.
Leena looked at her questioningly as she didn't understand what Silveria meant.
However before she could ask, something astonishing happened, the silver lightning covering the demon's body transformed into small sliver lighting dragons as though following Silveria's words, those lightning dragons started to enter the demon's arms, legs, and chest, they started wriggling under his skin like worms sending small silver lightning to the whole body, even toward the bones.
Biri~ Biri~
''Abababa!"
''Hiaaaaaah!"
The demon was feeling unbearable pain, he tried to bear it hoping for his brain to send the signal to stop his heart that would put a stop to this torture, unfortunately, his wishes never come true as the pain kept wreaking havoc inside his body until it he reached his tolerance limit.
''Hiyaah- ababaaba- I-will...talk... plea...se makes... stop... I'm begging you.'' the demon pleaded while rolling on the ground trying to find some kind of relief against what's happening to him, alas the more he struggled the more pain he felt, his body had started emitting smoke, his clothes were destroyed but strangely his underwear was still perfectly fine however the things underneath it were also suffering, his balls have been cooked.
''Sigh! It seems that I must increase the level of pain a little. This demon is a tough nut to crack. Who would have thought, I even started doubting myself. It seems that I've become somehow rusty.'' Silveria said with a pensive look on her face, she acted as if she hadn't heard the demon's pleas.
Leena was dumbfounded by this, this Silveria is sure interesting she thought.
''Oh?! I can use that idea and I hope this will work or else I'll need to come up with another idea.'' Silveria announced loudly after making a pon sounds using her hands.
The demon shuddered when he heard Silveria's cruel words, he started violently thrashing.
''P..lease...no...more... I... will..talk. no more.'' the demon shouted amidst the cries of pain.
''Tch!"
Silveria clicked her tongue in disappointment as the demon easily abandoned. She thought he would struggle a little bit more.
Leena could helplessly shake her head at Silveria's antics.
''Why are you after these two?" She asked.
Silveria had ordered her little Silvie (the original small silver lightning dragon who first entered the demon's body) to lessen her attacks.
''Ah-ah! Ah!''
While panting heavily the demon started talking.
''At first, it was because of that little girl sleeping over there, the Irregular.''
Leena's eyes widened when she heard this while Silveria was confused she had never heard of this hence her question.
''What is an Irregular?"
Leena almost looks at her strangely however she stopped doing so as she remembered that she was not from this world hence she won't know.
Sighing she decided to explain it.
''An Irregular is a someone who can step into the Demi-God Realm (i.e: Rank 15).''
Tilting her head sideways Silveria asked,
''So?"
Sighing Leena decided to further explain things for Silveria to understand.
''You know there are 15 Ranks known and Rank 15 is the Demi-God Realm. Starting from Rank 10 onwards it becomes harder to level up because the amount of XP is ridiculous and because of another factor which I won't name. Currently, only the Saint Realm is attainable if you work hard and are lucky. And those who can step into the Demi-God Realm are called Irregular. One should know that the amount of Demi-God present in this world can be counted on one's hand, this shows how rare they are and how difficult it is to advance into that realm.''
Hearing Leena's explanation Silveria understood what Irregular means.
Meanwhile, Leena had a melancholic expression as she murmured under her breath.
''How unfortunate, it was not like that in the past, we are one of the strongest of the Middle Realm's worlds with few Gods in our ranks, however because of that tragedy we fall back and all our Gods and Goddesses disappeared. And it becomes impossible to-" she stopped talking until there as she shakes her head with a sorrowful expression on her head.
Even if it wasn't meant for her to hear it, because of her good hearing, Silveria heard Leena's words she could only sigh as she felt her pain and had also noticed the curse present in this world.
'Those damned things.' she cursed before deciding to continue the Interrogation on her own, Leena doesn't seem capable of continuing in her current state.