Chapter 106 Storm: Shadow of the Demonic World [VIP]
What tore through the magic barrier and landed directly on the bedroom carpet was a human head.
To be precise, it is a huge human head and a long strip of human skin that has shrunk into a hemp rope and is connected to the head.
"--ah!"
The sudden arrival of the head made the servants scream involuntarily. Of course, as they were well-trained, they covered their mouths the next second.
Lance also instinctively prepared to draw his sword in defense.
"What is this thing!"
"Wait a minute! This guy is someone we know!"
Xiao Yun spoke in time to calm everyone down.
"Someone you know?"
Yaris narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the head dragging human skin, which bounced twice like a ball and rolled several times before finally coming to a steady rest on the blanket.
"It looks... indeed... like..."
The head then opened its eyes, took in its surroundings, and shouted excitedly, "Great! I'm still alive! I escaped!"
Afterwards, the head greeted Xiao Yun and the others: "Master Lucien! Your Highness the Princess! I'm so happy to see you! I've never been happier than I am right now! Okay, I admit I do look a little weird right now..."
"You look more than a little weird right now..."
(A real flying head barbarian or a human head balloon...)
Xiao Yun muttered inwardly, explaining to the shocked crowd, "Don't worry, everyone. This guy is Romila, the familiar of the 'Dark Night Mentor.' Although he looks a little strange right now..."
“…”
When everyone heard this, they all looked at the human head balloon with only the head left with indescribable eyes.
Romila felt uncomfortable being stared at. She swayed on the blanket, her head dragging her body, which had shriveled like a hemp rope, and shouted, "Can you please stop staring? Sir! Please find two men for me! I can return to my original form by absorbing their essence!"
“…Sorry, I can’t do that.”
Xiao Yun flatly refused.
"Can't you just pity me for once? I became this horrible form just to help you deliver the letter..."
Romila looked at Xiao Yun aggrievedly.
Xiao Yun ignored him.
Lance couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he bent down to pick up the human head balloon.
"Lance, hold him in your arms for a while. His body will recover."
Yaris suddenly spoke.
Hearing this, before Lance could express his opinion, Romila's eyes flashed with anger: "Princess, you will rape me sooner or later."
"If you keep swearing, I'll throw you to the ground!"
Lance threatens Romila.
Romila stopped cursing immediately. Her shrunken body, which had shrunk to the size of a hemp rope, wrapped itself around Lance's arm obediently. It quickly swelled up like a tendon soaked in water, turning into a white snake. She took the opportunity to rub her head against Lance's neck: "Ah, it feels so good, so good... Let me suck a little more, a little more--"
Bang!
The succubus in the form of a human-headed snake was thrown to the ground by Lance.
"Hello!"
Romila yelled indignantly, looked up at the crowd's cold gazes, and couldn't help shrinking her neck, muttering, "Okay, that's it... Please get me some wine... Stronger, the better..."
"Give him some wine."
Xiao Yun gave the order.
"yes."
Lance untied the cowhide bag and poured the liquor into a crystal clear crystal plate.
Romila immediately rushed to the crystal plate and buried her head in the drink.
As the alcohol entered the body, the slippery snake body grew limbs, and the head changed from an uncomfortably swollen balloon to a size that matched the body's proportions.
"Ah... I'm finally alive again..."
Romila looked up, sighed deeply, and looked at Xiao Yun with watery eyes. "Although I almost died this time, when I think about how much I suffered for you, and how I successfully brought back important information... I suddenly feel that this misfortune may be a test of fate for me..."
"If you could give up your succubus ways, I would be more impressed with you."
Xiao Yun said helplessly.
"What! What! What did you say! You have a crush on me?! You are—"
"Romila, I'm very grateful for your efforts, but I would like you to tell us immediately about your experiences in the capital and the information you brought back."
Xiao Yun said somewhat coldly.
He didn't want to get entangled with the succubus, even though Romila seemed to have real feelings for him.
Romila rolled her eyes and curled her lips, saying, "Since you're so sincere, I'll satisfy your curiosity. But don't let the old man know about this. I've worked so hard to clear away all the messy restrictions he put on me."
"I understand what you mean."
"Anyway... last night at midnight, I arrived at the Capital of Light with the letter you wrote, imitating the Grand Duchess's handwriting and tone. I easily broke through the barrier and sneaked into the palace. I had originally planned to sneak along the windowsill into the dog emperor's living room, place the letter on his desk, and leave... Well, this kind of thing is not difficult for me, but..."
"An accident?"
“Yes, it happened.”
, and strive to muster up courage.
"...After putting the letter away, I sensed a strong scent of desire. I followed the scent to the Dog Emperor's side and saw him having sex with a black-haired woman. I was curious and hid in the corner to peek, but I found that the Dog Emperor's shadow projected on the wall was actually... actually..."
"Is there something wrong with Shadow?"
"The Dog Emperor's shadow on the wall has a human body, a brain lizard monster, and the head of the woman he exercises with, while his attendants are all goats... and everyone's shadow is gray, not black."
"this--"
Xiao Yun frowned: "Brother,"
"No."
Yaris said distressedly.
"Besides the shadow mutation, is there anything else unusual?"
"have!"
Romila said without hesitation, "The Dog Emperor's lower body is no longer a normal biological form. Not only is it split into eight petals like an octopus, but between the petals there is a large amount of translucent, viscous, filamentous substance... In the middle is a strange thing with a top densely packed with eyeballs the size of fish eggs..."
"...Good boy, disgusting!"
Lance couldn't help but say.
Romila: "You're right. That scene was truly disgusting, even a succubus like me felt sick. But that woman loved it. She hugged the Dog Emperor like she was completely broken, revealing an intoxicated and obsessed expression. And... the woman's body was also mutating. I could clearly see tiny things like tentacles and hyphae constantly emerging and sinking from the surface of her skin... I suspect the flesh and blood beneath her skin was also being gradually replaced by something else..."
"And then you were discovered?"
"Not really."
Romila shamelessly said, "After discovering that the Dog Emperor and those around him were unnatural, I turned and left. Strangely, the Bright Palace was unusually empty and quiet at night—as the most magnificent and expansive palace complex in the Western Continent, it shouldn't be so deserted even at night. Furthermore, all the buildings were lit, yet I couldn't see a single soul, nor hear a single sound. It was as if I had fallen into a ghostly city of the dead."
"I started to get scared. I wanted to get away from this strange place immediately. But for some reason, I walked around the abnormally empty palace for a long time and still couldn't find the exit. I even ended up back at the starting point!"
"Sealed by a barrier?"
"Yes, I'm trapped by a barrier! I'm someone who can easily pass through most barriers, but I'm trapped by one!"
Romila screamed in pain: "After realizing this, I was trembling with fear. At this time, I heard a voice, a very terrifying voice. It told me that it would open a crack to let me out, but after I escaped successfully, I must bring you a message -"
"What?"
Xiao Yun and Yaris asked in unison.
“He said—”
Romila took a deep breath and said in a voice as loud as the wind: "I'll wait for you in the capital!"
"—So, you couldn't escape the barrier with your abilities, and He deliberately let you go, asking you to bring us what you saw of the current state of the Palace of Light and His message?"
"Yes……"
Romila lowered her head in frustration. "I don't want to say such discouraging words, but He is indeed stronger than I could have imagined. My master is as weak as a junior apprentice in front of Him! I don't even dare to think carefully about the moment He spoke to me, for fear that my brain would explode from the terrifying shock of that moment..."
"Even the crack He opened gave me a chill! After crawling through, I unexpectedly arrived at a dark, empty place... There was no time or space, no inside or outside... It was completely still... Fortunately, I passed through that terrifying place and landed in Her Highness the Princess' bedroom like a human head balloon..."
"Wait a moment!"
Xiao Yun interrupted Romila and asked, "You fell directly into your brother's bedroom after passing through the gap?"
"Yes...isn't this abnormal?"
Romila, who was not very smart, looked at Xiao Yun in confusion.
Xiao Yun took a deep breath. "Of course it's not normal! He's demonstrating to us, hinting to us that he can appear in our bedroom at any time!"
"I don't think so."
Yaris said, "If the connection point between the barrier and the outside world is truly, as Romila said, a void without time and space, without inside and outside, then even if he possesses the powerful power to safely pass through the void, he will still be affected by the turbulence of time and space if he is not careful, and end up in the wrong place or at the wrong time... He may even lose both time and space, remaining in that world forever, becoming an eternal corpse drifting in the void..."
"Then am I not very lucky?"
Romila exclaimed, "Not only did we arrive at the right place, but we also arrived at the right time!"
"Romila, it wasn't luck that brought you back safely, it was fate."
Yaris looked up and looked at Xiao Yun.
"Whether it's luck or fate, I'm back safely!"
Romila was immersed in the joy of returning safely and did not understand what Yaris said at all.
Yaris had no intention of explaining in detail and turned the topic back to the Bright Palace shrouded in a mysterious barrier. "Besides asking you to deliver a message to us, did He explain why He set up such a strange and bizarre barrier?"
"He didn't say anything. He just asked me to tell you to come to the capital to see Him as soon as possible, otherwise—"
"What else?"
"Everyone in the capital could become food for Edmund's lizard monsters."
"What!"
Xiao Yun was furious: "Has Edmund become a complete puppet?"
"Maybe..."
Yaris was worried.
Romila added, "He said the lizard monster's feeding would begin in the lower city, first the homeless, then the thieves, prostitutes, and gamblers, and then the hardworking vendors and down-to-earth civilians... The scholars in the academic district are a delicacy to the lizard monster, so there's no need to worry about them being eaten for now, but they will be locked up and kept as captive livestock..."
"Stop talking!"
Xiao Yun interrupted Romila's narration: "Does He still have any humanity?"
"He is not a human, so why should he have humanity?"
The voice of "Dark Night Mentor" suddenly sounded, and then a withered and stale old man walked out of the darkness.
He walked up to Xiao Yun and Yaris, gave a cold look to the succubus who had secretly accepted Xiao Yun's orders to enter the Palace of Light, and slowly said, "In the True Human Empire under His rule, there is a system called the 'City Cleanliness Management Regulations.' Every night, the Emperor's personal guards, nicknamed 'Dragon Tooth Soldiers,' appear on the city streets, arresting the homeless and sending them to shelters until they die or are redeemed by their relatives."
"Doesn't this sound quite normal?"
Lance objected.
The Dark Night Mentor grinned grimly. "The most cunning thing about this rule is that it appears to be reasonable. In reality, those captured and taken to the internment camp only have twenty days to live. If they are not redeemed by their relatives or friends within twenty days, they will become a blood sacrifice called hard labor."
"Furthermore, the laws of the True Human Empire are extremely harsh. Crimes that would only require imprisonment in the Western Continent are often punished by death or various corporal punishments within the True Human Empire, thus becoming a disguised blood sacrifice."
"...Okay, son! Take that back."
Lance said glumly.
"—Why did you come here suddenly?"
Xiao Yun brought the topic back on track.
"I sensed my servant trying to escape my control. Come and add a chain to him."
The Dark Night Mentor spoke casually, and suddenly stretched out his hand to strangle Romila's neck, leaving a burning rune necklace on his neck.
"You are my slave, don't even think about escaping my control!"
“…Master, Master, Master!”
Romila knelt on the ground, wailing in pain.
Xiao Yun couldn't bear to watch this anymore and wanted to speak up for Romila.
Yaris was the first to speak: "Don't punish him. I sent someone to take the shackles off him."
"Why did you do this, Princess?"
"I need him to do something for our brothers that is inconvenient for you to know. This time, it is thanks to him that we were able to know in advance that the Palace of Light has become a den of demons."
"Good son..."
The "Dark Night Mentor" smiled sinisterly and let go of the wailing Romila.
Romila, who was freed, dared not say a word. Her eyes, covered by her hair, secretly glanced at Yaris with confusion and bewilderment.
…
…
"Mother--"
Yaris walked into the reception room of the Xiaoli Palace and helplessly told the black-clad noblewoman with her back to him, "I'm sorry for scaring you these past few days."
"Since you know everything, why don't you let them retreat!"
Archduchess Anna turned around and asked sternly.
Jarris sighed and said softly, "They are Lucien's subordinates, not mine. I have no right to order them around."
"Lucien is your brother!"
Archduchess Anna let out an angry high-pitched cry.
"Yes, he is my brother."
Yaris murmured as if he didn't understand what the Grand Duchess said, a faint ironic smile playing on his pale lips.
"——Don't you understand what I'm saying?!"
The Grand Duchess said angrily: "Or you don't think he is wrong!"
"Mother--"
"What on earth do you want to tell me!"
"I want to say something to you that I think is right but may make you feel extremely uncomfortable."
Yaris looked directly at the Grand Duchess's anger, his beautiful face pale and calm.
"As your son, no matter what you've done to me, I don't want to kill you or humiliate you, but I also have no right to ask Lucien to let go of his hatred for you. Fortunately, Lucien is a very rational and judgmental person. He knows what he is doing and whether it is right or wrong. If you continue to make a fuss, you might face the humiliation of being tied up with a rope."
"—You! You're so good!"
The Grand Duchess, who had not expected Yaris to say such words to her, took a deep breath and looked at him with eyes full of anger and resentment.
"sorry."
Yaris spoke gently, signaling the magician to set up a crystal mirror in the Grand Duchess's reception room for magical communication.
"——What are you doing?!"
The Grand Duchess asked angrily.
"This morning, the king sent a reply that His Majesty has received the letter inviting him to Maga City. Before making a decision, he wants to talk to us brothers through the magic communication method."
"It's your business to talk to him. Why set up a crystal mirror in my living room?"
"The letter we sent to the capital stated that my brothers and I will be conversing with His Majesty in my mother's reception room, under her witness. To demonstrate our sincerity, we three will naturally use her reception room for our magical conversation."
Yaris's voice was gentle, like the lake swaying in the breeze under the moonlight.
Upon hearing this, the Grand Duchess turned around angrily again.
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