“Hmm, these few books are missing?” In the archive room, Laetitia quickly found out what books had been on that bookshelf. After comparing them one by one with the books on the bookshelf in her memory, Laetitia obtained the titles of the missing books.
However, that was all. The content of the books was not recorded because those books were ordinary books that could be easily bought on the market.
In fact, their originals were still kept in the Grand Library of the Demon Race.
It was normal for a noble’s house to have these books. Even if they didn’t read them, they had to place them there to save face and show that the owner of the house was a scholar.
“Why would they specifically take those few books? Is there some secret in them?” Laetitia mused, touching her chin. This possibility was very high, otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why those two mysterious figures took these books.
Wait, weren’t there three sets of footprints on the ground?
Why did only two people in black escape at that time?
Something was wrong. There should have been another mysterious person there, but only two people in black ran out.
The one in the front was probably the one who took these books away.
The timeline should be like this: first, a mysterious person came here and took the books, and then shortly before Laetitia arrived, those two people in black came here and summoned that giant monster using some unknown method.
Laetitia was the last to arrive and the most confused. She didn’t know anything, only felt that the place was problematic.
It turned out that the place was indeed problematic.
That giant monster was proof. Would a place without problems hide such a powerful weapon?
Even under Laetitia’s Demon King’s Palace, there wasn’t such a thing.
“Your Majesty, I heard you were attacked?” Hearing that Laetitia was attacked by a monster on this trip, Xue’er hurried to inquire about the situation.
She did not follow Laetitia for two reasons: first, Laetitia said she did not need her company, and second, she was still working hard to find Mo Zili’s parents in the complex blood bank.
Yes, almost all demon nobles had their blood taken by people from the Demon King’s Palace unconsciously and stored in the deepest room of the Demon King’s Palace.
They were the Demon King’s last trump card against the nobles. Only Laetitia and a few of her close subordinates knew about this place.
Yes, even Kira didn’t know.
“It’s nothing, I dealt with that thing in a few moves,” Laetitia said proudly. She was super strong, okay? “Xue’er, how’s your progress?”
This question made Xue’er’s expression worsen. She sighed and shook her head, “There’s nothing to match. She’s not the child of any noble.”
Not a noble’s child, yet possessing such beauty and talent, this was somewhat incredible.
It wasn’t that Laetitia felt nobles were naturally nobler than commoners, but that was how it was with the demon race. Bloodline, while not dictating everything, basically dictated ninety-nine percent.
“Hiss, could it really be a bastard?” Laetitia muttered softly.
“Your Majesty, you can’t say such things,” Xue’er said helplessly to Laetitia. Calling others bastards was a very insulting act.
The Demon King girl held a different opinion. She felt it was just a simple adjective. Besides, even if she was cursing, as the Demon King, she had the right to do so.
Just scold, if you have the ability, hit her.
“But she really doesn’t seem like a child born to a commoner. Xue’er, I have a bold idea.” Laetitia’s eyes rolled, and she proposed a guess, “Could she be related to me?”
“Uh, the former King only had you and Princess Kira as children. This can be confirmed,” Xue’er denied Laetitia’s guess. Moreover, the characteristic of the Demon King bloodline was to make the possessor develop slowly. That Mo Zili had clearly developed quite well.
This typical young girl could not be a possessor of the Demon King bloodline, and although her talent was good, compared to Laetitia and Kira, it was far inferior.
The Demon King bloodline was not that weak. It was passed down as the ultimate bloodline that could elevate ordinary talent to top-tier talent with just a touch. Its manifestation was not as ‘ordinary’ as Mo Zili’s.
But Laetitia didn’t mean that. She didn’t mean that Mo Zili was her full sister. Instead, she wondered if her father, whom she had never met, might have left some offspring outside.
It wasn’t that Laetitia maliciously speculated about her father, but rather that Mo Zili really didn’t look like offspring that ordinary demons could produce.
Either her father or her mother must be very powerful. And now all the nobles were excluded from suspicion, leaving only a few suspects.
Among those few were a few distant relatives of Laetitia, but they were mostly confined to their own territories and it was unlikely they would abandon their children on the battlefield.
As for Laetitia’s father, since he was able to get Laetitia’s mother to have two daughters, he must have had his own extraordinary qualities.
He was of commoner birth, and his parents had passed away when he was young. This was also the reason there was no blood of his relatives in Laetitia’s blood bank.
Of course, the main reason was that Laetitia herself could obtain the blood of people related to him.
That was herself.
“I’m talking about my father,” Laetitia spread her hands and pricked her index finger with magic, drawing a drop of blood.
The round blood bead was controlled by Laetitia and floated in mid-air. Even after leaving her body, Laetitia could still control this drop of her blood.
Xue’er took out an ice cube, and then she was surprised to find that the blood sealed in the ice cube began to stir.
Yes, stir.
“This reaction, it’s the first time I’ve seen it,” Laetitia’s eyes widened in surprise. “It’s not a blood-related reaction, but more like… mortal enemies?”
Did Mo Zili’s parent have enmity with the Demon King?
What a shocking development this was!
“Xue’er, do you have any guesses?” Laetitia cast a questioning gaze at Xue’er. When she encountered something she didn’t understand, her first thought was always to ask Xue’er.
In her eyes, the maid understood more than she did.
However, this time, even the knowledgeable Xue’er was baffled. “I don’t know either.”
“How strange, this situation has never happened before?” Laetitia fiddled with her hair and muttered to herself. She had considered the possibility of Mo Zili being her sister, but this situation was truly beyond her expectations.
Enemies’ bloodline, but where did the Demon King have enemies? At least in the history that Laetitia knew, the Demon Kings had no enemies.
Most Demon Kings were quite dedicated, diligently maintaining the power of the demon race, and working tirelessly to make the demon race stronger.
Laetitia and her mother were anomalies among Demon Kings. Both of them were more about slacking off.
In comparison, Laetitia was at least a wise ruler in her early days. Her mother, on the other hand, was completely focused on chasing the rich and handsome.
So, the reason Laetitia is slacking off now is entirely due to her mother’s genes. That’s right, that’s it!
Absolutely no reason of her own.
“Do I need to summon the sages?” Xue’er asked.
Once they encountered something the Demon King didn’t know, those wizened sages would come in handy.
“Yes, first summon those who are knowledgeable about history. I think this might involve a very, very long time ago.” Laetitia nodded. After she took the throne, the sages had almost all fallen into a state of passive existence.
Although these old people were basically in this state, before Laetitia’s mother was in power, they were even more idle because Laetitia’s mother completely ignored these matters.
However, it would take quite some time to summon them, as these old folks were not always on standby. Generally, if Laetitia gave the order at this time, she would see the sages in the Demon King’s Palace tomorrow.
So now, Laetitia was idle.
The clues were cut off, and she could only wait for the sages to arrive and see if they had any leads.
“That’s it. This blood… wait, am I stupid? Her blood is all with me, why don’t I just track her?” Laetitia waved her hand, intending to go back and lie down. After Xue’er turned around, she suddenly remembered that she still had a powerful weapon that she hadn’t used.
Mo Zili’s blood was still with her.
With blood, finding the owner of the blood could only be described as easy.
At least in Laetitia’s opinion, it was as easy as drinking water.
Not to brag, but if you gave her a drop of blood, she could find out the person’s current location within thirty seconds.
She hadn’t thought of this method before because she had forgotten that she still had this method. Since she had rarely used this method to find people over the years, it was normal that she didn’t react immediately.
And now, she had reacted.
“Oh, right.” Xue’er also exclaimed softly, following Laetitia. She had actually forgotten about this.
Mo Zili was missing, and after she disappeared, that house was invaded, and a giant monster appeared. Although she couldn’t find the connection between these two events, Laetitia had a feeling that Mo Zili was inseparable from this matter.
Reaching out and taking the ice cube from Xue’er’s hand, Laetitia gently tapped it, melting the ice. The blood that was stirring just now immediately became calm as it landed in Laetitia’s hand.
A small magic circle appeared below the blood. With the consumption of magic power, a faint red light pointed to the distance.
“Found the direction!” Laetitia smiled with satisfaction. Her magic had not disappointed her.
What should be done after finding it? Naturally, it was to chase after it.
“I’ll go chase, Xue’er, you stay here and continue looking up information,” Laetitia said, then rushed out of the archive room without looking back.
As soon as the attendants outside, who were slacking off, saw the Demon King running away, they quickly dropped their playing cards and hurried to follow her.
Xue’er couldn’t help but shake her head watching this. Nowadays, even Laetitia’s attendants had learned from her. Their slacking attitude and the speed at which they switched back to work mode were truly unparalleled.
Here, Laetitia was leading her four-person team to chase someone, while Xue’er still had other things to deal with, or rather, she had a lot of things to deal with.
And there were often sudden incidents that required her to handle them, such as now.
…
Not long ago, on another side of the Demon King’s City, Bai Ya and Elsa were aimlessly wandering the streets. Without Sister Qianqian’s company, Xiao Ya felt that her journey today was missing something.
This also made her somewhat unenthusiastic.
Elsa naturally noticed that the girl beside her was a little down, but she didn’t particularly like Bai Ya, after all, her sister was her love rival.
When these two people got together, the atmosphere could be imagined, it must be quite awkward.
“Our next stop, we’re going to that place.” Elsa looked at the itinerary in her hand and said to Bai Ya with a pair of dead fish eyes.
Bai Ya also nodded, without saying anything else.
Anyway, it was arranged by Sister Qianqian, she just had to accept it.
“I remember there’s a small path here that’s faster. We should go from here.” Elsa put the itinerary back into her pocket, then looked around, her gaze falling on the path not far away.
If there was a shortcut, there was no need to take a detour. Although this path was literally small, barely wide enough for two people to pass side by side, it was surprisingly clean inside.
There was no trash or anything. It seemed to be cleaned regularly.
Perhaps at night, there would be some energetic young men wandering around here, but it was daytime now, and the security in the Demon King’s City was quite good.
Although it was called the Demon King’s City, which sounded like the stronghold of villains, in reality, it was no different from the central city of the human race, except for the difference between technology and magic. In other aspects, they were basically the same.
For example, sometimes in the alleys of the central city, there would be a girl lying there, whose life or death was unknown.
“Eh?! Miss Elsa, why is there a girl lying here!” Bai Ya, who almost tripped over the girl on the ground, asked in surprise, “What’s going on?”
What’s going on? Elsa also wanted to ask what was going on!
Why was there a human girl lying in the alley of the Demon King’s City? This was too weird.
Don’t ask Elsa how she knew the girl on the ground was human. The energy fluctuation within this girl was definitely not something a demon could possess.
This was human psychic power, so this girl was human.
“Cough, cough, someone actually came over.” As if hearing the movement around her, the girl opened her eyes and paused for a moment on Elsa and Bai Ya’s faces.
Then, she seemed to remember something. “You are Elsa Priestley?”
“You know me?” Elsa asked with a frown.
Her name was not exactly a secret. Basically, anyone with status in the Demon King’s City knew her name.
But hearing it from a human’s mouth always felt a bit out of place. Why would this human know her name?
“You are a big star over there, second only to the Four Heavenly Kings.” The girl chuckled weakly, “Your Grace, the Grand Duke, could you please relay a few words for me to Her Majesty Laetitia Infino?”
“Eh?” Elsa was stunned. What kind of unexpected development was this?
Relay words to Laetitia, why?
Why should she believe this suspicious girl? She was here, seriously injured. Who knew why she was injured.
Perhaps she was caught for doing something harmful to the demon race and severely injured.
She couldn’t just believe her because she looked like she was dying, right? Elsa wasn’t that naive.
“I don’t have the strength to argue with you, listen to me now.”
She paused, seeming to adjust her tone. “I am a high-ranking divine envoy belonging to the Divine Seat. The Demon King’s City is facing a great crisis. Someone plans to awaken and release a god who is not friendly to the demon race. If their conspiracy succeeds, the Demon King’s City will be razed to the ground, and even the entire demon world will be destroyed.”
“I tried to stop her, but I didn’t expect that the goddess had already gained a certain ability to interfere with the outside world. With the support of the opposing goddess, I barely escaped.”
After saying this, the girl took a few more breaths. “Tell the Demon King, it’s okay if she doesn’t believe me, but this is a matter of great importance concerning the fate of the demon world. She wouldn’t want to see the demon race destroyed by her own hands, would she?”
“What do you mean?” Elsa felt her brain was not working enough. Why couldn’t she understand what this girl was saying?
What goddess, what Divine Seat, Elsa didn’t understand, really didn’t understand.
“I’m quite lucky, meeting you who can talk to Laetitia. Otherwise, by the time I recover my ability to act and find her, it might be too late.” The girl leaned on the wall and slowly stood up. “If you don’t want to become a sinner of the demon race, relay my words to Laetitia, or take me to see her.”
Saying that, she tried to take a step, but the wounds on her body did not allow her to perform such strenuous movements. After gritting her teeth in pain, she gave up her action.
“Alas, I believe you will make the right choice.” Lying back on the ground, the girl said dully.
Elsa was still struggling with what to do. Bai Ya, on the other hand, had no psychological burden and squatted beside the girl, asking her questions, “Miss, you look severely injured. Isn’t it very dangerous lying here?”
The girl raised her eyelids and glanced at Bai Ya. “I am not an ordinary person. My body recovers much faster than ordinary humans and demons.”
As a fellow human, she didn’t mind chatting with this lovely little girl.
Anyway, Elsa was still struggling with whether to agree to her request. She had nothing to do at the moment, so she might as well chat with this little girl who was also human.
“Miss, are you a hero from the Hero Association?”
“Hero? I am not a boring thing like a hero.” The girl snorted coldly, clearly showing strong dissatisfaction with the heroes Bai Ya mentioned. “I am a divine envoy, a person with divine power!”
“Hmm, I don’t understand.” Bai Ya tilted her head. Gods, it felt like something from a story. She didn’t think there were any gods in this world.
Perhaps this girl was a chuunibyou? Immerse herself in her own world all the time, so she became like this?
“Tch, if you don’t understand, ask less. You’re quite lucky to be friends with demons, you ordinary human.” The girl snorted coldly. “Hey, you over there, have you decided?”
“I will help you deliver the message, but I think it would be better for you to tell them in person,” Elsa finally made a decision.
She didn’t believe this girl, or rather, no demon would believe such a human. However, what she said made Elsa have to treat it seriously.
It concerned the safety of the demon race. It wasn’t that she could choose not to believe it if she wanted to. As a Grand Duke, she didn’t have the ability to solve matters concerning the safety of the demon race.
The best option she could choose was to bring this girl to Kira and Laetitia to ask them personally, then she wouldn’t have any responsibility.
This was called risk transfer.
“Ah, I couldn’t ask for more, but in my current state, I’m afraid someone will have to carry me,” the girl said with a grin.
This was not a big problem. Elsa clapped her hands and summoned the hidden guards who were following her.
Some belonged to her family, and some were sent by Laetitia to protect Bai Ya.
These two groups of people exchanged glances, then their gazes fell on Elsa. No one wanted to carry this human girl, so they let Elsa, the current leader, decide who the unlucky one would be to do this work.
Elsa blinked her eyes and casually picked one from her hidden guards. “It’s you. Carry her, and we’ll go to the Demon King’s Palace.”
Laetitia had told Elsa before leaving today that if Elsa wanted to find her during the day, she could go directly to the Demon King’s Palace. Laetitia might not be there, but Kira and Xue’er would definitely be there.
With these two people, it was enough to make decisions in Laetitia’s absence.
The hidden guard somewhat unwillingly carried the girl and followed behind Elsa towards the Demon King’s Palace.
At this moment, Bai Ya felt a little uneasy. The Demon King’s Palace, wouldn’t that mean meeting the Demon King?
The Demon King hated humans, didn’t she? If the Demon King knew that she was invited by Sister Qianqian, would it have any impact on Sister Qianqian?
“Um, Miss Elsa, should I avoid it?” So, Xiao Ya tugged at Elsa’s sleeve and asked softly.
Elsa was also stunned, and then she realized that this little girl didn’t know Laetitia’s true identity. In her opinion, Laetitia might just be a noble lady.
Now that she had to face the supreme ruler of the demon race, the Demon King, the little girl was surely uneasy.
“Hmm, but if I let Xiao Ya go back alone, I’m a little worried,” Elsa smiled. “Don’t worry, His Majesty the Demon King doesn’t like seeing outsiders. I’ll take her in, and Xiao Ya can wait outside.”
