Chapter: Chapter 541
“So, is the God Seat’s plan essentially useless? Don’t they know that?” Hearing Infernal’s words, Leticia found it hard to believe. The white-haired woman from the God Seat seemed so confident, could she really make a mistake in such a small matter?
If that woman only wanted to protect the human world and not the other three worlds, Leticia would have believed it. If she were in that position, and could only protect one world, she would definitely prioritize protecting her own world.
But to let the world fall into eternal darkness was truly terrifying.
“Who knows? Anyway, we can’t afford to gamble,” Infernal chuckled twice. She wouldn’t agree with the God Seat’s plan given such enormous risk. “Let’s go, there’s no time to waste here. We need to stop them quickly.”
“Mm!”
Withdrawing her gaze from the large glass orb, Leticia and her companions continued towards the demon realm. In no time, the exit of the spatial通道 appeared before them.
Stepping out of the spatial通道, they were met with the familiar night sky and the river of stars that spanned across it. It seemed even the demon realm was affected by the God Seat’s plan.
There was no need to even check on the beastmen, it was surely the same there. All four worlds were probably shrouded in this same night sky.
Yin’s chosen landing spot was quite good. At least it was near a city that Leticia knew, allowing her to immediately orient herself and lead the group in a hurry towards the Demon King’s castle.
It took a little over half a day to travel, and Leticia returned to her city. She immediately spotted the black-armored soldiers standing guard on the city walls, fully prepared for battle. This made her curious. Why were these guards so vigilant?
“Huh? Your Majesty?” a voice called out from the city walls.
Leticia looked down and saw Miss Aina, one of the Four Heavenly Kings whom she knew, standing on the city wall and waving at her excitedly.
Even a Four Heavenly King was guarding the city wall? What were they doing?
Leticia was now truly curious. She turned and said a few words to the other goddesses beside her, telling them to wait for her in the Demon King’s palace, and then landed on the city wall alone.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty! You returned so quickly! Your Highness said you wouldn’t be back for many more days!” Aina ran up to Leticia with a silly grin. It seemed that even after not seeing Leticia for so long, her loyalty to the Demon King had not changed one bit.
Alas, it felt really great to have such loyal subordinates. Leticia’s lips curved upwards slightly, her mood improving a little. “Aina, why are you guarding the city wall too?”
She remembered that the Demon King’s castle had specific generals for guarding the city walls. Such a small matter shouldn’t have concerned the Four Heavenly Kings.
However, what Aina said next surprised Leticia greatly.
“I’m guarding against spies escaping from the Demon King’s castle. Miss Xue’er personally gave the order, telling me not to let any suspicious person leave until she rescinds the ban.”
Good heavens, not letting anyone out of the Demon King’s castle? What was Xue’er doing?
Leticia didn’t suspect Xue’er of doing anything bad. If she wanted to do something, she’d have plenty of opportunities. Leticia’s trust in Xue’er was even higher than her trust in Kira. In her heart, Xue’er was someone who would never betray her.
When she went traveling, she dared to leave Xue’er alone in the Demon King’s castle to handle affairs on her behalf. Later, when Kira came to find her, she also handed over all matters to Xue’er.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Xue’er was now the acting Demon King. If the Demon King sisters never returned, she could probably hold this position until the end of time.
“What happened? I don’t know. It seems there were some people in the city causing trouble, and Miss Xue’er is catching them.” Leticia’s question made Aina scratch her head. For this pure and reckless young lady, such matters were too complicated.
Didn’t she see that even Xue’er only assigned her the simple task of guarding the gates?
“Alright, then you continue guarding the gate. I’ll go back and ask Xue’er directly.” Leticia rubbed her temples, feeling foolish. She actually wanted to get some information from Aina, that silly girl. Did she not know what her little fan girl was like?
She was good at executing orders, but expecting her to figure things out would be a bit difficult for this young lady.
“Goodbye, Your Majesty!”
After bidding farewell to the guarding Aina, Leticia quickly arrived at the Demon King’s palace. Xue’er and Kira, who had already received the news, were waiting at the entrance. The moment they saw Leticia, Xue’er’s face showed a look of displeasure.
“Your Majesty, you’ve been gone for a slightly long time.”
“Cough, cough, an accident, all accidents. Who knew so many things would happen in such a short time?” Leticia awkwardly scratched her face and explained in a low voice.
She had originally just wanted to go on a nice vacation. Who knew the world situation would change so quickly? The world passage closed, she was thrown to the beastmen, and now the world was about to be destroyed.
It was hard to adapt to this rhythm, it was too fast and too intense, leaving no time to react. Even Leticia, the Demon King with super strong adaptability, felt that this period of time had passed like a dream.
“Alas, I already know most of what happened. The anomaly in the sky should be Miss Bai Ling’s doing, right?” Xue’er pointed at the sky, indicating that she understood most of what had happened, except for this starry sky that she couldn’t comprehend.
In short, the Demon King Your Majesty had now become a god, become very, very powerful, and was going to save the world.
So what if she became a god? She was still Leticia after becoming a god, just with increased strength.
However, Your Majesty was now full of energy, a stark contrast to her previous lazy and unwilling-to-move demeanor. It was unclear whether it was due to the approaching crisis or because she had realized she needed to step up.
“This matter is a bit complicated to explain, so I’ll make a long story short. Bai Ling was captured by her mother, and her mother plans to use her as a consumable to forcibly separate the four world that are about to merge by manipulating stellar energy. If that woman’s plan succeeds, the human world is uncertain, but our demon realm will be completely destroyed!”
“Of course, we’re not the only ones who will be destroyed. The elves and beastmen are similar to us, and they’ll also be destroyed. Bai Ling and Xiao Ya will also suffer the same fate. That woman doesn’t care about familial affection at all.”
Bai Ling was captured by her mother? This matter was related to Xiao Ya too? What was going on?
After hearing Leticia’s words, Kira’s brain instantly overloaded. She remembered that it hadn’t been many days since she left the human world, and so many things had happened so quickly?
The starry sky above her appeared the day after she returned to the demon realm. She had initially considered that something might have gone wrong with Bai Ling, but she couldn’t do anything about it even if she knew. Yin had left directly after sending her back to the demon realm, and Kira had no way to go to the human world.
Besides, what would be the use of going to the human world? Her strength was practically nothing in front of these great gods. It was better to honestly help her sister stabilize the rear.
Kira didn’t believe her sister wouldn’t take action after seeing the starry sky above. When it came to concern for sister Bai Ling, her sister’s concern was no less, and Leticia’s words now confirmed Kira’s guess.
Leticia had indeed returned to the demon realm after understanding the situation. It was just that the situation was a bit difficult for Kira to comprehend.
“Simply put, Bai Ling’s mother plans to use her two daughters as sacrifices to save their human world. As for the other three worlds, they are sacrifices like her two daughters,” Leticia stated that Kira didn’t need to fully understand that woman’s thinking. Anyway, as long as she knew that the woman’s plan was something they absolutely couldn’t accept.
Whether as Leticia or as the Demon King, this plan was unacceptable to Leticia!
“If I had enough power, I would definitely rush in and rescue Bai Ling. But unfortunately, my strength is not that great.” Sighing, Leticia’s expression became somewhat regretful.
She was never a pacifist, but the current situation forced her to choose a more peaceful method to solve the problem.
First of all, there was the gap in combat power. With all calculations made, the divine-level combat power she could mobilize now was only five. Even if You Ming could be released from her seal to assist in a short time, they would still be outnumbered by the gods on the God Seat’s side.
That white-haired woman’s combat power was not bad. During the previous confrontation with the white-haired woman, Leticia had felt the surging power within that woman’s body. It was a terrifying power that was no different from Bai Ling’s stellar power.
The combat power of this white-haired woman was most likely not much weaker than Bai Ling’s.
The gap of two full divine powerhouses was a chasm that Leticia could hardly overcome at this stage. Now, they could only wait and see if Evangeline and her side could release Qing and You Ming as soon as possible.
Moreover, even if she had the strength to rival the God Seat, she couldn’t really fight the God Seat to the death. The gods wouldn’t dare to fight carelessly, for fear that their actions might inadvertently further damage the already collapsing world.
Therefore, the best way was to find another viable plan that was better than the God Seat’s plan, and then persuade those people from the God Seat to stand on her side and abandon their flawed plan!
“The only plan I can think of now is to gather the four books and ask that existence what method she has. Since she told me about this matter, she must have a plan in mind. I am willing to believe that her plan is better than the God Seat’s plan!” Walking on the road to the underground treasury of the Demon King’s palace, Leticia said to Kira.
The first thing Kira did after returning to the demon realm was to quickly hide the demon realm’s prophecy book in the underground treasury. She also assigned trustworthy demons to guard the treasury entrance day and night, for fear that this important book might experience any accident.
Well, perhaps she assigned a bit too many people?
Looking at the black-armored knights standing a few steps apart in the narrow passage, Leticia’s eyes twitched.
She remembered that these black-armored knights seemed to be the demon realm’s most elite imperial guards. Kira had transferred all of them to guard the warehouse, hadn’t she?
And they hadn’t even reached the treasury area yet. Stationing guards here was completely useless!
“Perhaps someone wants to tunnel in?” Kira spread her hands. The prophecy book was the most important thing, and no matter how strict the guard was, it was not excessive. She didn’t want any mistakes to occur at the most critical moment.
As her sister’s considerate little cotton-padded jacket, she couldn’t afford to make such a low-level mistake.
Although she didn’t really believe that any petty thieves would dare to come to the Demon King’s palace to steal things.
“Indeed, it’s better to have tight security. Speaking of which, why is Aina guarding the city gate and not letting anyone out?” Leticia thought of another matter and asked it as there was nothing else at the moment.
“It’s nothing serious. It’s just that you two went missing before, and some fools in the Demon King’s castle wanted to cause trouble. Sister Xue’er originally planned to catch this big fish with a long line. After I returned and told Sister Xue’er about the current situation, she felt that there was no need to catch this big fish anymore.” Kira shrugged, indicating that this matter was for her sister to ask Sister Xue’er. She, the princess, didn’t quite understand the inside story.
In short, it seemed that Xue’er was currently going on a killing spree.
“I’m really troubled Xue’er. Alas, when this is over, I’ll give her a long vacation.”
“She should have gotten one long ago! Sister Xue’er has done so many things for you!” Kira strongly agreed with Leticia’s idea. She felt that the maid should indeed get a long vacation to rest properly.
After saving the world, there shouldn’t be many things for her to worry about. Kira could handle most of them herself, and the remaining ones could be left to Leticia.
After slacking off for so long, this Demon King lady should also get up and work.
As they spoke, the two arrived at the entrance of the underground treasury of the Demon King’s palace. Kira flicked a spell at the door, and the door let out a rumbling sound, slowly opening.
The demon realm’s treasury was much more luxurious than the elf realm’s, spanning as many as several floors. Kira placed the prophecy book on the lowest floor, which was also the most secure layer.
On that floor, the security measures were so strict that even taking a wrong step would result in a forbidden spell-level magical attack. It could be described as a place that no one could infiltrate.
However, for the owners of the two Demon King bloodlines, these security measures were useless… probably?
“Eh? This magic actually locked onto me?” Looking at the ice-blue magic array that suddenly appeared above her head, Leticia was stunned.
I, the Demon King, am being identified as an intruder by my own treasury? Is that true or not?
