Chapter: Chapter 148
Actually, such matters generally wouldn’t require Leticia to personally investigate. Under normal circumstances, humans would definitely be accompanied by scouts from the Demon King’s Court. Leticia only needed to summon them and question them to learn pretty much everything.
As for why she didn’t do that… well, because she forgot.
Yes, that’s right, she forgot.
After all, there were very, very few outsiders on the demon side. Even Leticia herself had forgotten that the Demon King’s Court scouts would follow these outsiders and monitor their every move.
“I heard His Majesty attended Miss Elsa’s ball today?” As night fell, Sherry returned to Leticia’s side after finishing her day’s work.
After Leticia officially returned to the demon race, Sherry returned to her post. Her work was relatively leisurely, mainly training the maids in the royal palace.
However, due to Leticia’s disappearance in the previous years, the number of people living in the royal palace had halved. Kira, with the mindset of “enough is as good as a feast,” had laid off some maids. As a result, now that Leticia was back, Sherry had to retrain a new batch of maids.
As for why she didn’t find the maids who were laid off?
Come on, after so many years, people have either changed professions or gotten married. It would be easier to train a new batch from scratch than to find them.
Anyway, as long as they were good-looking and devoted to the demon race, their professional skills could be trained. Sherry was very patient.
“Mhm, quite boring,” Leticia replied, taking off her headphones. “But it’s better than constantly talking about fighting and killing.”
“For nobles, this is their battlefield,” Sherry added with a smile. “By the way, Your Majesty, Your Majesty Evangeline has been showing great power recently.”
“Oh? Tell me about it, how has she been showing great power?” Leticia’s interest was piqued. Although she had sent some strategists skilled in conspiracy and trickery to assist Evangeline, she held a rather pessimistic view of Evangeline’s future.
The Elder Court’s foundation was too stable; its existence predated even the Elven Emperor.
Every Elven Emperor was restrained by the Elder Court. It wasn’t that no Elven Emperor wanted to break free from the Elder Court’s control, but even the most ambitious monarch had failed to achieve this.
The Elder Court was like a towering ancient tree, deeply rooted in elven society. The power of a single empress was insufficient to shake this behemoth.
It should have been like that.
But judging by Sherry’s words, Evangeline seemed to have achieved some results?
“Yes, after returning to the elven race, Your Majesty Evangeline was silent for several months. She only revealed her fangs about a month ago, catching the elders who had relaxed their vigilance off guard,” Sherry said, unable to help but laugh. “I don’t know whose idea it was, but Your Majesty Evangeline actually blamed the invasion of the Fire Moths on an elder. Now the elven race is in chaos.”
“Does anyone really believe it?” Leticia thought the elven elders with their long beards wouldn’t believe Evangeline’s words.
After all, Evangeline had fled a few months ago and even took the elven scepter with her. She should be completely untrustworthy now, shouldn’t she?
“In fact, whether they believe it or not doesn’t matter. What matters is the evidence provided by Your Majesty Evangeline,” Sherry explained. “This evidence corroborates Evangeline’s previous claims and gives some elders hope of taking down a competitor.”
There was only so much cake to go around. It was better for one less person to share it than one more.
Even if Evangeline was lying, what did it matter? The evidence she provided was detailed and convincing enough.
That was enough.
“Driving tigers to swallow wolves; the elven race will be lively for a while longer,” Leticia was also happy to see this situation.
While they were secretly developing themselves, they could also send people to sabotage other places. With the diminishing of one and the growth of another, the demon race would inevitably become stronger and stronger.
Then, it would be a battle of attrition, seeing if Leticia could outlive Bai Ling or if Bai Ling could outlive Leticia.
Although by the time Bai Ling died of old age, Leticia would probably be a white-haired old lady, she didn’t mind getting one last thrill in her old age.
Conquering the entire world, how romantic!
“And, Your Majesty, the number of spatial channels at the border has exceeded four digits. We no longer have the ability to monitor all of them.”
It had been mentioned earlier that the demon realm, the human world, and the elven world were not in the same world. They were connected by spatial channels, which appeared decades ago.
Initially, there was only one, but then they gradually increased until they became so numerous that it was impossible to know how many there were.
Four digits was the currently known number of spatial channels; who knew how many were unknown.
The spatial channels of the demon realm did not only lead to the human world. In fact, the elven world could also be considered adjacent to the demon realm.
However, the beastmen were not adjacent. To go to the beastmen, demons had to make a detour through the elven world or the human world.
“Do your best to manage them. As these channels increase, if one day they connect into a single network, will our world truly border the human and elven worlds?” Leticia did not know what the outcome would be.
“Perhaps, we know very little about this world, and can only glimpse a corner of the truth from fragments in ancient books,” Sherry sighed. The unknown was always frightening.
Leticia was not that worried. She was worried about something else: “Have the prophecies mentioned in the book of prophecies yielded any clues now?”
“Deities are still an unavoidable threat, but the dates in the book of prophecies are vague, and we haven’t found any valuable clues,” Sherry shook her head.
The demon race’s book of prophecies foretold the resurgence of a tyrannical deity in the demon realm. When it revived and broke through the ancient seal, it would be a catastrophe for the entire demon race.
Kira had been searching for clues for a long time. After Leticia returned, she had also been concerned about this matter.
But until today, the prophecy was still just a prophecy.
“Keep searching. Don’t let any suspicious signs go unnoticed. We cannot gamble with the future of our demon race,” Leticia waved her hand majestically, displaying her commanding aura as the Demon King.
“Yes… and, Your Majesty, you don’t actually need to float to enhance your aura.”
“Shut up!”
…
Life in the demon realm was as quiet and peaceful as ever. The master and disciple found no anomalies after their investigation. According to the public statement, the woman brought Mo Zili to the demon realm to find her relatives.
Although she was a bit curious why a human would pick up a demon infant on the battlefield, Leticia couldn’t just go up to the couple and grab the woman’s hand to ask such a question.
In any case, the reason given was plausible, and there were no other anomalies, so Leticia could only have her subordinates keep a closer eye on the two of them.
As for why they appeared at the ball, it was easy to understand. After all, in the eyes of that woman, and even all the demons present, such a beautiful young girl wouldn’t be an ordinary demon, no matter how you looked at her.
It’s not like she mutated out of genes, right?
Such a beautiful young girl must have parents with good genes. And in the demon race, which group had the best genes?
Needless to say, any demon would answer, nobles.
Demon nobles were not like humans in ancient times who only possessed a title; they truly had bloodline inheritance.
Demon nobles had a natural advantage in talent over ordinary demons.
As for Mo Zili, her talent was the kind that made even nobles marvel.
“Who left their seed outside?” Leticia muttered in confusion as she flipped through the roster of nobles.
This was the list of nobles who had gone on campaign more than ten years ago. Sherry had spent a lot of effort to retrieve them from the archives.
The woman claimed she found Mo Zili in a ruin, which meant the demon race had likely lost that battle, otherwise why would an infant be left in the ruins?
There weren’t many battles that met these conditions and this timeframe. Leticia quickly found the one that fit these criteria.
“It’s him… No way?” Leticia clicked her tongue lightly as she looked at the name crossed out in red ink on the roster.
“Your Majesty, are you busy?” Sherry’s voice interrupted Leticia’s thoughts. “Miss Emily delivered a letter from Miss Bai.”
Leticia closed the roster. If it was that person’s child, these two people probably wouldn’t be able to find Mo Zili’s relatives even if they stayed in the demon realm for a few years.
Alas, forget it, she wouldn’t think about these things anymore.
“Oh? Let me see.” A letter from Bai Ling, this was quite rare.
In the past six months, Bai Ling had only sent her two letters. One was to inform Leticia that Xi Mengyao had recovered very well and was now a big star in the human world.
The other was to inform Leticia about some information regarding the Divine Seat. Overall, this organization had a strong chuunibyo aura. If the factor of deities were excluded, they would probably be an unremarkable and not very threatening organization.
However, they were related to deities. From the fragments obtained from Yi Yujun, Bai Ling and the others had caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the Divine Seat.
The organization possessed multiple divine artifacts, each of which was no weaker than the Misty City.
The number of divine envoys in the Divine Seat was also quite large. There were at least a thousand divine envoys like Father Eden.
There were also about a dozen higher-ranking ones like Yi Yujun.
These people with divine power gathered together were undoubtedly an undeniably powerful force.
So, what did Bai Ling want to tell her this time?
“Xiao Ya wants to visit?!” Upon opening the letter, Leticia exclaimed softly.
Although she had told Xiao Ya before that if she wanted to visit Leticia, Leticia would warmly welcome her.
But at that time, Leticia was just being polite. After all, this was the demon realm. How could a human girl like Xiao Ya come here?
Humans were very strict with the supervision of spatial channels. If she could secretly give Xiao Ya a green light, what about the human side?
Did she expect Bai Ling to say to those who managed the spatial channels, “I’m good friends with the Demon King, and my sister wants to visit the demon realm. Could you be accommodating?”
Once that statement was made, let alone accommodation, Bai Ling would probably be arrested on charges of colluding with the enemy.
Currently, the few humans in the demon realm were mostly stowaways. But would Bai Ling do such things?
Certainly not. That blockhead wouldn’t think of such tricks, and even if she did, she wouldn’t do them.
This was Leticia’s trust in Bai Ling.
“Approved. I’d like to see how she sends Xiao Ya over,” Leticia folded the letter, placed it on the table, and said to Sherry.
“Do you need me to write on your behalf?”
“No, I’ll write the reply myself. I’ve written the last few times, so changing my handwriting suddenly wouldn’t be good,” Leticia shook her head. “It’s been half a year; Xiao Ya must have become even more beautiful.”
Although the two sisters showed no apparent blood relationship in their appearance, they were, after all, sisters connected by blood.
With Bai Ling as a precedent, Bai Ya was bound to be a great beauty when she grew up. Leticia never doubted that.
As for how Miss Bai Ya was doing now, it could only be said that she was pretty much as Leticia had expected.
Bai Ya, who was about to come of age, already had some of her sister’s beauty. Compared to the slightly immature young girl from half a year ago, she had shed her original greenness.
“Sister, sister, has Sister Qianqian replied yet?” However, she still acted somewhat childlike.
Bai Ling showed a helpless smile. She thought Leticia wouldn’t refuse, but there was indeed an unavoidable distance between the human world and the demon realm. Even for a demon messenger, a round trip would take a considerable amount of time.
The letter had been sent two days ago. Bai Ling estimated that by this time, Leticia should have just received her letter.
Adding the time for the letter to be sent back, “Xiao Ya, Sister Qianqian’s letter will probably arrive the day after tomorrow.”
“Eh, that slow?” Bai Ya’s eyes widened. “Does Sister Qianqian live in another major city?”
A round trip taking four days, it seemed that was the only possibility.
If it were a remote little place, it would take even longer than this. Only those cities connected to the central city by air travel would have this not-too-short, not-too-long time of four days.
“Ah, it should be… quite big,” Bai Ling nodded. The Demon King’s City, how could it not be big?
However, she hadn’t told her sister where Leticia’s home was. She planned to tell her sister her destination after receiving Leticia’s affirmative reply.
She was somewhat looking forward to her sister’s reaction upon hearing the news.
