◎The Lich's Journey of Atonement◎

[Help in times of crisis]

[Extracted: Ordinary Task 12]

[Task content: Create a crisis and gain the gratitude of the demons.]

[Time remaining: 50 days]

[Mission Reward: Magic Crystal X5]

At night, Warren returned to his bedroom and picked an achievement task that he had not drawn before. After reading the task introduction, he almost dropped the Demon King's Crown on the ground.

"Create a crisis?" He read the mission content out loud in disbelief. "Isn't this a bit too outrageous?"

The system didn't say anything, not even a perfunctory pop-up window, just pretending that it didn't hear anything.

Ever since the blood array at the foundation of the Demon King's Palace was destroyed, the system seemed to have fallen into autism again. Apart from the necessary card drawing and extraction tasks, it was completely silent at other times, so much so that Warren almost forgot its existence most of the time.

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Having anticipated that the system would ignore him, Warren shrugged and called up the memo in the system log. He looked at the long list of plans he had written and wondered if any of them might be related to this task.

As he was used to writing down ideas as soon as they came to him, his memo was filled with all kinds of messy plans. Some of them were just a few short lines that had not yet been implemented, such as "establishing a special festival for the Demon Realm to enhance cohesion" and "researching the taming and reproduction of combat and mobility monsters". There were also some that had long implementation plans and even solutions, such as "Magic-integrated Demon Realm buildings", "Using the communication function of account books" and "How to knead the slimes for the best feel".

After carefully looking around, his eyes fell on the item "Using [Psychic Illusion] cards to trick the four major clans of the Demon Realm into participating in the Demon Feast". He tapped the Demon King's crown thoughtfully: "Is it enough for everyone to think that a crisis is coming, or does it have to happen in reality?"

The system replied to him this time.

[Neither the reality nor the severity of the crisis is required.]

"That's easy," Warren clapped his hands happily. "Although I only have one chance left to use my mental illusion and can't use it here, there are other ways."

The deadline for this mission is only fifty days, and it is not yet the best time to use [Spiritual Illusion] to intimidate the four major clans - considering the increasingly loud reputation of the Demon King's Palace in the Demon Realm, and if he sends troops right after the Demon Feast he has released is over, they will inevitably become more anxious the closer they get to the Demon Feast, and only then will his push have the ideal effect.

Besides, it’s too easy to just make the demons feel the crisis.

"Demons living in the Demon Realm should always be aware of danger," he said to himself, "It's time to test everyone's magical abilities."

The light of the blood moon shone through the wooden window onto the cotton blanket. The Demon King chuckled and placed the Demon King's crown on the low table beside the bed. He did not fall asleep immediately. Instead, he leaned against the head of the bed and looked at the dark clouds scattered across the sky.

I don’t know how long it took, but the thick dark clouds gradually became light, and the blackness faded away silently, leaving behind white stained with light blue, revealing the dazzling sunlight.

Under the sky, the Demon King's Palace is bustling with activity.

It was breakfast time, and many demons were already sitting in the restaurant, rubbing their empty bellies after a night of hunger, and eating fried meat and rolls with grunts. A few cubs were running around happily, holding red stones sifted from the mud beside the lava lake, ready to give them to the roast chicken breeding team in exchange for small pieces of jerky.

Dozens of liches limped into the restaurant, all with bruised faces and noses.

The Nightmare Demon sitting at the same table looked at them in surprise: "Are you going to hunt monsters?"

"No," one of the liches named Lawton said happily, "We just had a fight."

The Nightmare Devil gasped, "You guys fought? You'll be punished for that!"

The lich Laodun waved his hand and swallowed the hot fried eggs in one gulp. The whole demon city relaxed: "It was allowed by the king. The king wants to send a lich to do a secret mission, but we all want to go, so we had a competition. Whoever wins goes."

He spoke with great excitement, and the stool he sat on kept shaking, as if he had pressed on the bruise on his butt, and he hissed in pain several times - it was obvious that he was the lich who won the group battle.

When the Demon King asked them who could bring Tono back to the Demon King's Palace, he analyzed the risks of this trip in detail, including but not limited to the fact that if something went wrong there would be no support, that they might run into many liches and be beaten up, that they would be identified as traitors by the liches, and even be cursed. In other words, if they were not careful, they might die on the spot.

None of the liches retreated.

To them, life in the Demon King's Palace was indeed incredibly beautiful, but in their daily happiness, they also suffered from heart-wrenching torture. That was the cry of their conscience, warning them not to forget the irreversible harm they had caused to the clan leader's cubs.

The liches felt that saving Tono at the cost of their lives was a chance for redemption given to them by the great demon king. So they refused to give up this spot, and finally fought each other passionately until they all fell to the ground exhausted, and the shaky but always standing Lao Dun became the final winner.

"Wow, a secret mission!" The Nightmare Demon didn't understand what he heard, but he thought it looked very impressive and couldn't help but stand in awe. "Keep up the good work! When you come back, I'll treat you to French fries!"

The lich Laodon was stunned for a moment, and agreed, but he didn't actually hold out much hope for his return.

He had to travel thousands of miles, through the dangerous lava swamp and the Bone Thorn Mountains full of monsters, to reach the Lich's homeland. When he brought Tono back, he had to resist the Lich's pursuers behind him and the attacks from the other three tribes that might be mobilized by the Lich.

In such a difficult situation, he could only promise that he would send Tono to the Demon King's Palace safely no matter what, but it was probably unlikely that he would be able to save his own life.

Thinking of this, he had dinner, said goodbye to his fellow tribesmen who were gritting their teeth, and found the captain of the logistics team, Lille.

"I'm Lawton, and I'm going back to the Lich Clan to rescue the youngest son of the Lich Clan leader," he said a little stiffly, as he had never dealt with Lil before. "The King told me to come to you to arrange my future work transfer and what I need to prepare."

Lill was busy discussing with the members of the coin distribution team what price to set for the potato and beef soup that had just been put on the kitchen shelf. When he heard what Lawton said, he smiled at him embarrassedly: "Can you wait a moment? It will be ready soon."

Lawton nodded.

What he actually wanted was to just send a demon from the logistics team to give him food for the journey, or not to give him any, which would be fine too. He had saved up a lot of money, and originally wanted to buy a gift for the young chief Tok. If he exchanged it for bacon jerky, it would be enough to eat for more than ten or twenty days.

But the atmosphere of the meeting was so serious that Lawton opened his mouth several times but couldn't find a chance to interrupt. After he had finally prepared himself mentally, their discussion was over. Lil stood up from the table, waved to Lawton, and strode out: "Come on, I'll take you to get the equipment."

Lawton hurriedly followed him, a little confused: "Get the equipment?"

"Yes, there are quite a lot of equipment," Lil said as a matter of course, "Some of the equipment is quite valuable and not suitable to be left outside for too long. Some of the equipment needs to be customized, but you guys fought so chaotically, so the king asked me to keep it for now and equip you after you decide who will set out."

He took Lawton through the kitchen and headed towards the logistics team's office hut not far away.

This kind of place where many account books and key materials are placed is protected by magic. As a lich who is also proficient in magic, Lawton is very clear about the function and danger of this kind of magic circle. Therefore, he stopped behind Lille cautiously and watched Lille raise his hand and emit magic fluctuations. The magic circle that captured the magic fluctuations opened automatically, and the wooden door creaked open and shook back and forth.

"Everything is here. Try them on first." Lil opened the top cabinet door and took out a gorgeous snow-white bow and arrow, a pair of gloves, and a strange black mask. "There is also an enchanted armor that can protect you from curses. But I need to measure your size before making it. It will be troublesome if the armor doesn't fit you."

Lawton looked at the pile of magical equipment in shock: "For me?"

Although he had stayed in the Demon King's Palace for so long and could feel the Demon King's care for the demons, and sometimes even thought in his heart that the Demon King was as great as their leader Pikachu, but in the final analysis, he did not regard himself as a member of the Demon King's Palace, nor did he think that the Demon King would take special care of him, and he did not think that his life could be compared with so many expensive magic props.

"Of course it's not for you." Lil looked at him in surprise. "You have to return it when you come back. Oh, the king said that you can keep the armor. After all, it was customized according to your size."

Lawton nodded dazedly.

"This is the Mist Demon Bow, a new weapon made by the forging team," Lil introduced them one by one. "It has a stun magic that can make the demons hit faint. There is an unobstructed magic circuit inside the bow, and you can also add other magic when shooting. The offensive power is not very strong, so you don't have to worry about causing permanent damage to the lich tribe. It is very suitable for your operation this time."

"The Black Armor Mask is a treasure from the King's arsenal. It can change the wearer's appearance so that the Lich Clan won't discover your true identity."

"And this, the teleportation gloves, this is the most precious thing, don't lose it. Wearing this pair of gloves, you can teleport to any place you want to go, but you must be very familiar with the place to teleport, otherwise you may be separated or stuck on the wall. If two demons wear a pair of gloves respectively and hold each other's hands, one of them can also teleport. Also, teleportation consumes a huge amount of magic power, you'd better try it a few more times in the Demon King's Palace, and then go to the Lich Clan when you are almost familiar with it."

Lich Lao Dun: "..."

He was completely stunned.

Magic bow, mask, teleportation gloves, and armor that can deflect curses - didn't the king say that this journey was extremely dangerous? With this god-level equipment, he could kill his way in and out of the Lich Tribe's territory!

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