Chapter: Chapter 167
The next day, when the white-bearded old men saw Leticia, they were all startled by the Demon King’s expression.
Today, the Demon King had a gloomy face. The faint smile that had always been on her face had completely disappeared. Although she did not show any anger, everyone knew that the Demon King was probably not in a good mood today.
“Your Majesty, the answer to the question Miss Xue’er asked us yesterday has been found.” The oldest of the sages felt that it was time to deliver some good news to make Leticia happier.
There was an answer? This was indeed good news and it did improve Leticia’s mood a little.
“Tell me about it.”
“Yes.” The sage bowed slightly and handed over a yellowish book with both hands. “This is the record of the various connections we found with the Demon King. According to our identification, only one of them matches Your Majesty’s description.”
“When our demon race was first established, a bloodline once competed with the ancestor of the Demon King for the position of Demon King. In the end, they were defeated by the ancestor of the Demon King. Filled with jealousy and unwillingness, these people betrayed the demon race and fell into the embrace of an evil god.”
“They released the evil god and wanted to kill all the demons who refused to submit to them, but the ancestor of the Demon King stopped them.”
“That Demon King fought with the evil god for three days and three nights, and finally resealed that god in the vicinity of what is now the Demon King’s City. Those who betrayed the demon race were also executed by the Demon King’s order.”
“We originally thought that those people should have been completely eliminated by that Demon King, but we never expected that their bloodline would be passed down to today.”
Hiss, is it related to gods? Leticia gasped. Her guess was correct after all. That woman bringing Mo Zili over was indeed to use her as a sacrifice.
So long ago, Mo Zili’s ancestor was already involved with gods. This also seemed to explain one thing: the gods had always been seeking opportunities to break the seal.
The prophecy book had only appeared recently, but divine artifacts had always existed in this world.
Someone would always be tempted by the power of gods and do things that betrayed their own faction.
The only thing that surprised Leticia was that her ancestor was so fierce. She had actually forced a god back into the seal. This strength was too outrageous.
Anyway, Leticia couldn’t do it now. She would be defeated after fighting a god for half a day, let alone winning after three days and three nights.
The sages naturally knew about the gods, or rather, they were the first to know about the gods.
Kira was not good at clerical work, so translating prophecy books could only be left to these highly respected sages. Therefore, these old people probably had the deepest understanding of gods among the demon race.
“If the blood Your Majesty obtained was indeed taken from the descendants of those people, then we advise Your Majesty to execute that person immediately.” The old sage said to Leticia with a solemn expression.
“Yes, I know.” Leticia didn’t say anything like “maybe others are good people,” because she knew that as the Demon King, she shouldn’t say such things.
She needed to protect the entire demon race. She couldn’t take risks, especially on matters like this. She couldn’t let her personal emotions affect her decisions.
Yes, Mo Zili was innocent and cute. Leticia believed that this girl was not a bad person.
The ancestors who had died without even a trace of them could not affect Mo Zili. Or rather, Mo Zili should not be unfairly blamed because of the blood flowing in her body.
From Leticia’s perspective, she didn’t dislike Mo Zili. She even thought this girl was quite good. If they spent more time together, maybe they could even end up together.
And after knowing that Mo Zili’s ancestor might be a demon who had competed for the position of Demon King with the Demon King, Leticia didn’t feel anything was difficult. On the contrary, she found Mo Zili even more pleasing to the eye.
How noble was this bloodline? Someone who could compete for the position with the Demon King must not be weak, right? If she and Mo Zili had children, wouldn’t they combine the advantages of both sides?
How good.
But all of this was based on the absence of gods. The demon race’s greatest crisis had already appeared, and the best way to resolve this crisis was to keep Mo Zili firmly in her hands.
That woman could indeed use divine artifacts, but simply using divine artifacts was not enough. If she dared to cause trouble, Leticia would dare to bring the Heavenly King to deal with her.
Even if she could injure the divine messengers of the Divine Seat with divine artifacts, when facing Leticia, the Demon King, her strength would be insignificant.
Divine power was strong, but it wasn’t strong enough to allow a weak person to ascend to heaven and defeat Leticia.
She might be able to exchange a few blows, but victory? That was within Leticia’s grasp.
But if she had Mo Zili in her hand, it would be over. Her ancestors had released gods, so it wasn’t impossible for her descendant to do it again.
It wasn’t that she could definitely do it, but there was such a possibility. Moreover, this possibility was not small. Otherwise, why would that woman bring her here?
“Xue’er, you go make arrangements first. It would be best to have someone surnamed Bai bring Mo Zili over.” Leticia turned to Xue’er and said.
“Yes.”
After issuing an order, Leticia handed the blueprints she had obtained from Bai Ling yesterday to the sages. “Take a look at these things. What are they drawing?”
The sages respectfully took the blueprints and began to look through them.
Subtle discussions began to emerge, but out of respect for the Demon King, the sages deliberately lowered their voices.
This whispering made Leticia a little annoyed. She coughed twice and said to the sages, “Speak louder. You’re chattering so much that I think there are mosquitoes flying around here.”
With Leticia’s permission, the sages immediately stopped suppressing their voices and began to argue loudly. The hall went from having mosquitoes flying around to a marketplace.
Who knows how these old men maintained such vigorous energy.
Leticia’s eye corners twitched uncontrollably. She hadn’t expected the sages to be so noisy once they were allowed to speak freely.
But she had just allowed them to discuss loudly, and now she was asking them to speak softly. It was embarrassing. There was nothing she could do. Leticia could only cast a soundproofing magic on her ears.
The sages’ intense discussion lasted for about half an hour. After half an hour, they finally reached a consensus.
“Your Majesty, according to our discussion, these blueprints are only partial parts of a complete set of blueprints. We cannot see anything useful from them.” The old sage respectfully returned the blueprints to Leticia. “However, we can be sure that this should be an attempt to use some mysterious means to create a powerful monster.”
A powerful monster? Was it that guy she had stomped under her feet in three moves?
If the quantity of these things could be accumulated, it would be somewhat useful. But something of this size did not look like ordinary cannon fodder, right?
If elite monsters were only this strong, then Leticia truly didn’t believe her army would lose to it.
“What do you think such a monster is used for?” Leticia leaned on her throne, gently tapping the dark gold armrest with her finger.
Speaking of which, she remembered that this dilapidated chair was also a divine artifact in legend, wasn’t it?
If she had a divine artifact, wouldn’t she be able to press Bai Ling to the ground?
She couldn’t defeat Bai Ling now, but with the power of a divine artifact, it seemed very hopeful to be able to stomp Bai Ling under her feet and torment her properly.
But it was just a thought. She had been sitting on this chair for so many years, and this divine artifact didn’t even move. She guessed the legend was just a legend and not worth believing.
“It’s hard to say the purpose, but it’s definitely not a good purpose.” The sage replied, “From just these scraps of information on the blueprints, we can feel the evil and strangeness of this method. The monsters created by it will only be more evil.”
Evil? It was indeed evil. That monster looked like a very evil one.
It would not be out of place as a big boss in a superhero movie, and one that would be beaten by a group of superheroes.
Looking at it, Leticia felt that she would have no appetite for the whole day, so she couldn’t be bothered to spare the monster’s life and directly cremated it to avoid dirtying her eyes.
“Is that so? I understand. You go find information about that sealed god now. I urgently need it.” Leticia skipped the topic about the monster. With only a few clues, dwelling on this issue was truly seeking trouble for herself.
That monster’s combat power was only five. The threat from a god was much greater.
Perhaps this monster was the sinner’s original trump card, but he didn’t expect Leticia’s actions to be so decisive. He was captured and had his head cut off before he could reveal his trump card.
“Yes, we’ll go look immediately.”
“Alright, you can leave now. Report to me immediately if you find anything.” Leticia waved her hand, letting the sages withdraw first.
After the sages had all left, the head of Leticia’s hidden guards immediately sprang out from the shadows.
“Your Majesty, as per your command, Lord Aina has been recalled from the front lines and is expected to arrive at the Demon King’s City tomorrow morning.”
“Okay, but why are you the one reporting this? Where is Xue’er?” Leticia asked with some curiosity.
This person usually did not show herself. Her position slightly overlapped with Xue’er’s. Normally, Xue’er should be the one to report such matters.
However, she came today.
“Lord Xue’er is busy with matters Your Majesty assigned, so she asked me to convey the message.” The black-haired girl replied expressionlessly.
She did not have the slightest dissatisfaction with the incomparable trust Xue’er received, as if for her, as long as she could do things for Leticia, it was enough.
Xue’er had also told Leticia that in the entire demon world, no one could be found as pure as this girl.
“She is trustworthy.” This was Xue’er’s only evaluation of this girl.
“Then I won’t disturb her. Uh, what’s your name again?” Leticia was about to give the girl an order, but she thought about it and couldn’t recall the girl’s name.
“Tori.” The girl replied in a flat voice.
“Oh, Tori, can you ask Candice for me when that person from the Divine Seat will wake up?”
“Yes.” The girl nodded, turned, and disappeared into the shadows in the corner of the wall.
After the girl left, Leticia began to softly murmur the girl’s name, “Tori, Tori… Hiss, Tori, what was it again?”
In just a few breaths, the simple name seemed to be covered in a mist. No matter how Leticia tried to recall it, she couldn’t remember the girl’s name.
“How strange.” Leticia hit her head. Had her memory deteriorated to this extent?
It was just a name, why couldn’t she remember it?
When the girl reappeared before Leticia, the Demon King had still not recovered from her self-doubt.
“Um, I forgot your name again.”
“Yes, this is the curse I bear. Even someone as powerful as Your Majesty cannot avoid its influence.” Tori was not surprised by this outcome. In fact, Leticia had asked her name many times before, but each time Leticia could not remember it.
Only she herself could remember her name. Others, even if they mentally recited her name a hundred times, would forget this simple name the moment she left.
Leticia being able to remember it for a few seconds was already a very rare thing.
“Ah, who cast this curse on you?” Leticia never expected such a situation. Even she couldn’t avoid being affected. This curse was a bit too high-level, wasn’t it?
She guessed that the one who cast the curse must be a god?
“I don’t know. I’ve lived in the Demon King’s Palace since I was young. I don’t know the source of this curse, but my teacher who taught me combat skills said that this might be a curse passed down through the bloodline.” Tori replied.
She was an orphan, a real orphan. From the time she had consciousness, she had lived in the orphanage established by the Demon King’s court.
And she was chosen to be the Demon King’s hidden guard precisely because of the curse she bore. A person whose name could not be remembered was very suitable as a hidden guard.
As for whether the curse would have any effect on the people she protected? That’s a good question. Anyway, Tori’s friends from the orphanage were basically all alive and well. Her curse seemed to only make people unable to remember her name.
“Is that so? I’ll help you find a way to solve this in the future. It’s not good to always forget your name.”
“Um, I actually think it’s quite good this way.”
“No, I don’t think it’s good!”
