Chapter: Chapter 141
“Ah, it’s evening already,” Leticia muttered, looking up at the moon hanging in the sky.
She had been wandering the wilderness near the town for the entire afternoon, hoping to find Lin Qingyu’s whereabouts before Bai Ling.
However, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The wilderness was so vast, and trying to find an ordinary half-elf girl here was indeed very difficult.
Should she search in the dark?
Never mind, searching randomly like a headless fly was too inefficient. She should have cast a tracking spell on Lin Qingyu.
Piling up some dry wood she picked up at random on the ground, Leticia summoned a small flame and lit a campfire.
The warm yellow light added a touch of life to the desolate wilderness, but it also displeased some predators that preferred to be active in the dark.
They hated light, and when a campfire was lit in the wilderness, they would try their best to extinguish these annoying flames.
If the creature by the campfire was not easy to provoke, they would leave as quietly as possible. But if the creature was weak, they would not be polite.
“They’re here,” Letisia heard rustling sounds from the darkness. She sighed, thinking these creatures would be a bit smarter, but they were still as foolish.
Did they really think she was weak?
Releasing a bit of her aura, Leticia leaned against a dead tree, bored, and looked up at the vast, boundless starry sky.
She couldn’t see such beautiful starry skies in the central city. The ubiquitous light pollution in the city made the stars hide their brilliance. Only in this uncivilized wilderness could she see so many stars.
The human world was once very prosperous, but decades of war had caused humanity to lose all control over the wilderness. There used to be special trains that traveled through the wilderness, but now, only messengers risked being devoured by beasts and natural disasters when crossing the wilderness.
Leticia used to love stars. When she was a child, her favorite thing to do was to sit on top of the Demon King’s palace and look up at the starry sky alone.
Recalling her past life, she didn’t know if she had lost or gained.
When joking with her friends, she always said she wished she could be a girl. But after she actually became a girl, she missed her old days.
Although she had become much more pleasing to the eye than before, she also had a lot more trouble.
As the princess of the demon race, she had been surrounded by conspiracies since birth. She had no friends, just like her mother.
The pure friendship of the past was what Leticia missed the most. She knew that in this lifetime, she might never be able to obtain such friendship until death.
Later, after inheriting the position of Demon King, Leticia no longer had time to look at the stars. She was very busy, so busy that she was mentally exhausted every day.
After that, she even didn’t dare to look at the starry sky anymore.
Because she was almost killed by the starry sky.
Bai Ling’s face appeared in the starry sky. The Demon King小姐 rubbed her eyes and realized it was her hallucination.
However, seeing the stars did remind her of Bai Ling.
Star River Sword Saint, her attacks were always related to stars, and Bai Ling fighting was indeed somewhat pleasing to the eyes.
Beautiful starlight, surrounded by foggy nebulae, ignoring the blinding glare that could blind people’s dog eyes, it was still quite beautiful.
It was just that this beauty hid endless danger.
Leticia would never forget how embarrassed she was that day. She thought she was the protagonist of this world, but Bai Ling’s appearance completely shattered her confidence.
She felt so stifled during that battle. All her attacks were ineffective, and a single casual sword strike from the opponent destroyed her meticulously constructed defenses.
Leticia’s mentality collapsed at that moment. If she hadn’t been thinking about her sister, she was afraid she would have given up resisting and died there.
“Alas, she’s actually very beautiful, but we can’t be together.”
Leticia didn’t really hate Bai Ling that much. They were strangers at the time, and true mortal enemies. Bai Ling’s deadly attack was not unreasonable.
She had lost because she was not as skilled as the other person, and there was nothing wrong with admitting it.
She rejected Bai Ling’s feelings because Leticia knew that their identities were like angels and demons, and it was impossible, nor should they, develop feelings for each other.
If she were an ordinary demon, and Bai Ling were an ordinary human, then Leticia might have accepted Bai Ling’s intentions.
Even if only one of them had a less awkward identity, Leticia could have accepted it.
But reality was so cruel. Leticia was the Demon King, and Bai Ling was the Sword Saint. They bore the burden of two races on their shoulders.
This was the responsibility they had to bear.
Rustle… rustle… Soft footsteps came from a distance. The white-haired girl, sword in hand, walked out of the dark wilderness.
Leticia made no move, only pouting slightly with dissatisfaction, “You’re not slow.”
Bai Ling walked to Leticia’s side and sat down cross-legged, “Seeing the firelight, I thought I’d come and take a look.”
When she arrived at the town, Leticia had just left not long ago. After asking the town residents, Bai Ling chased after her.
However, until night fell, Bai Ling did not find Leticia.
It wasn’t until Leticia lit the campfire that Bai Ling seemed to find her direction and moved closer. She hadn’t expected to find Leticia so easily, but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
“Um, do you want some roasted sweet potatoes?” Yiyujun, looking embarrassed, sneakily sat in a spot a bit further away.
She didn’t dare to move around randomly, fearing that if she moved, Bai Ling might cut her down with a single sword stroke.
“She’s the one who attacked you a few days ago,” Bai Ling introduced concisely.
“Nice to meet you.” Leticia raised an eyebrow. What a coincidence. “How did you two meet?”
Could it be that this girl actively sought trouble with Bai Ling?
“I was eating a sweet potato, and she blocked my door,” Yiyujun replied weakly.
She was truly wronged this time, okay? She was honestly hiding in a cave eating sweet potatoes when a troublemaker blocked her door. Her luck was truly something else.
“Pfft, what a fate.” Leticia chuckled, “You’re also from the Divine Council, right?”
“Uh, you met that priest?”
“Mmm, he’s probably still hanging on the wall,” Leticia nodded. “Since I finally have a chance to be alone, why don’t you give us some space for a bit?”
“Ah?” Yiyujun scratched her head.
“I have something to talk to her about and don’t want anyone else to hear,” Leticia pointed to a conspicuous large stone in the distance and said to Yiyujun, “So, could you go sit over there for a while?”
“What do you want to tell me?” Bai Ling asked proactively after Yiyujun had walked away.
She felt that the current Leticia seemed to have changed. The girl before was spoiled and willful, while now, Leticia gave people a quiet feeling.
“I just want to chat. It’s rare to have just you and me here, isn’t it?” Leticia said, looking at the starry sky without looking at Bai Ling.
“Mmm.”
“I’ve always wanted to ask you a question: why are you so strong?” Leticia’s eyes looked at Bai Ling, this was what she couldn’t understand the most.
Her title in the demon race was a super genius that appeared once in ten thousand years. Coupled with the vast cultivation resources brought by her status as the Demon King, it was reasonable for her to be so strong.
Besides, she was a transmigator. Although she was just an ordinary boy in her previous life without any special abilities, anyone, even the most ordinary person, would become extraordinary when associated with transmigration.
Before Bai Ling appeared, Leticia had always been full of confidence, believing that she was the protagonist of this world and the monarch who would lead the demon race to its peak.
In fact, she had become so arrogant at that time that she was already considering how big a harem she would have after unifying the world, and how many beautiful girls she would find as wives.
Then, reality slapped her hard. Her pride was completely shattered by Bai Ling. Leticia really couldn’t understand what she had lost to.
This was not how cheating should be done.
“It’s natural.” Bai Ling looked up at the sky and replied softly.
“Are you serious?”
“Do I have any reason to lie to you?”
“Tsk, comparing oneself to others can kill a person.” Leticia gave Bai Ling a middle finger.
She had worked so hard to train, but this person defeated her so easily with just a single sentence, “It’s natural.” This was too frustrating.
Was Bai Ling an illegitimate daughter of God? Her cheat was even more outrageous than hers, a transmigator.
“Actually, you’re not weaker than me.”
“Do I look like I need your comfort?” Leticia retorted. Was she weaker than Bai Ling? Did this question even need to be considered?
If she could have resisted even a little, she wouldn’t have been unable to resist at all.
That time, Bai Ling completely dominated her. Their strength, if not ten to zero, was at least a complete crush.
Anyway, Leticia couldn’t see any possibility of her winning.
Bai Ling said very seriously, “I’m serious. There was no qualitative gap between me and you at that time. You lost simply because you chose the wrong method.”
Going head-to-head with someone like Bai Ling who had explosive attack stats was like carrying a lamp into a toilet.
If Leticia at that time had fought and retreated, not giving Bai Ling a chance to attack with full force, just for a moment, Bai Ling would have retreated due to lack of stamina.
Moreover, even if Leticia chose the most disadvantageous combat method, the outcome of the battle was not as different as Leticia had imagined.
Bai Ling was also not lightly injured. The two streaks of Star River Sword Light had almost depleted her body. She had to rest for a month before she could recover.
It was much better than Leticia, but if Leticia had intended to trade her life for Bai Ling’s at that time, Bai Ling wouldn’t have been able to escape.
But Leticia’s mentality had collapsed, and she escaped without fighting back.
Her personal guards sacrificed their lives to block Bai Ling’s pursuit. Otherwise, with the demoralized Leticia, it wouldn’t have taken much effort for Bai Ling to kill her.
“Forget it, forget it. Let the past be the past. We can’t fight again to see who is stronger,” Leticia shook her head, not wanting to discuss this sad matter anymore. “I originally wanted to have a huge harem, but after you caused trouble, my hope of having a harem was shattered.”
“You?” Bai Ling raised an eyebrow. “Can you make girls happy?”
“If it weren’t for you, I would be the King of the World, understand? Then I would pick a few beautiful girls from each race and stuff them into my harem, and randomly choose one to serve me every day.” Leticia closed her eyes, talking about her past dream. “Whether they like me or not is not important. As long as I can have them, it’s enough.”
Bai Ling reached out and gently tapped Leticia’s head, “If you say that, I’ll get jealous.”
“You’re not mine, so why would you be jealous?” Leticia rolled her eyes at Bai Ling but didn’t react in any other way. “And then, my dream was destroyed by you.”
“Speaking of which, your human intelligence work is really good. I always thought you were a man.”
Another reason for Leticia’s mental breakdown was that she thought Bai Ling was a man.
Being defeated by a beautiful young lady wouldn’t have caused her mentality to collapse so much, but being defeated by a man made Leticia a bit distraught.
She had quite a bit of strange knowledge in her mind, and she was very clear about the fate of female demon kings who were defeated by male heroes.
If such a situation really occurred, Leticia would choose death without hesitation.
Before dying, she might even send Qila away first. In any case, she couldn’t accept being possessed by a man along with her sister.
This was her obsession.
“But after knowing that you are a girl, I feel that the failure back then doesn’t matter anymore,” Leticia said softly. “Actually, thinking about my past self, I was indeed possessed. The demon race’s strength wasn’t enough to flatten this world. Being too sharp would only lead to being targeted by other races together.”
At that time, other races were already showing signs of uniting against the demon race. But Leticia was very arrogant. She thought that with her presence, even if those guys teamed up, they would only be minor troubles that required a bit of effort to solve.
But after being awakened by Bai Ling, Leticia thought about it again and realized that if the demon race faced the coalition of other races, one mistake could lead to eternal damnation.
After all, there were traitors within the demon race.
Those who did not want the Demon King to be too powerful even wanted to imprison the Demon King and seize power when Leticia was severely injured and recuperating.
However, although Leticia was injured, she still had a lot of loyal forces under her command. As soon as she discovered the signs of rebellion, Leticia did not hesitate to send people to exterminate those who were wishful thinking.
“So, you have to thank me, don’t you?”
“Yes, thank you for beating me half to death and making me understand better what kind of people those under me are.” Leticia sighed. Not all nobles were like that, but one bad apple spoiled the bunch. She really didn’t have the mood to lead those guys forward anymore.
