บท 112: Flying Serpent

Luding Continued "Your objective aligns with mine. So, I won't consume your essence, as tempting as that may be at this moment." 

He pulled back his staff

"My cousin warns me never to trust you. You're just another human, regardless of the form you take," Nixi rose to his feet, embodying seamless elegance.

"Regardless of what I am, without my aid, you stand no chance against those humans. You'll never regain your homeland," Luding responded.

"Men are feeble," Nixi sneered.

"Yet men have repeatedly vanquished your kind. They set fire to the forests, fell the trees, construct settlements and bridges, muster armies, and your kind continues to lose," Luding realized he was attempting to reason with an immature being. 

"Nixi," he said, seizing the young daemon's spiritual core, "heed my command. Go, observe those men, and return to inform me."