◎A question mark slowly appeared on the face of the God King◎
The puppet stage play was about to begin. The Lava Square was bustling with people. The demons lined up to buy tickets and then walked into the theater, discussing this unique stage play with anticipation.
The vampire Chrissie sat backstage in a stage play, nervously hugging her puppet doll, with her long black hair cascading down over her shoulders. A heavy shadow cast down on her, making this usually introverted but opinionated vampire look a little more fragile.
The little lich Tono came in with a lollipop in his mouth, jumping and patting Chrissy's shoulder happily: "The theater tickets are all sold out! Everyone is very interested in the puppet stage play!"
"Everyone is interested in the conflict between me and the vampires," Chrissy pointed out the key point directly, with her eyes drooping as she continued to apply delicate makeup to the puppet doll in her arms. "If this stage play cannot attract everyone's attention, then this puppet stage play will still be a failed attempt."
Tono wagged his tail helplessly at him and said, "Don't be so depressed. Look at my brother. He even hid it from the king and risked his life to do something wrong, but now he is doing well."
Chrissy suddenly opened his eyes wide, looked at Tono warily, moved his lips, and leaned back: "You know I won't hide it for you, right? If your brother does anything that the king doesn't allow, I will tell the king immediately!"
"Really?" Tono stared at him darkly and threatened, "Then I'm afraid I'll have to take some coercive measures."
Chrissy swallowed hard, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
His puppet-making skills were superb, and his healing magic was also passable, but his fighting ability was appalling. If they really came to a fight, he might not even be able to defeat the roasted chickens raised in the royal city, let alone this lich who was rumored to have single-handedly destroyed the former chief of the lich clan.
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But he did not back down. He straightened his back with great effort, holding the puppet doll against his chest, and said in a trembling voice: "I will not help you hide it from the king!"
After staring at him for a few seconds, Tono suddenly laughed out loud: "You are not nervous about the puppet show now, are you?"
“Ah? Ah…”
Chrissy responded dazedly and wagged his tail. Then he realized what Tono was doing and glared at him in embarrassment.
"You scared me to death! I really thought you were going to kill someone to silence them!"
Tono smiled and said, "How could I possibly tell you my brother's secret?"
He patted Chrissie's shoulder again, and seeing Chrissie's expression gradually calm down, he curved his eyes happily.
"Almost all the actors in the art troupe have been scared by me. A succubus even sneaked into my house to threaten Tok, forbidding him to deceive the king. Tok's expression at that time was so funny! The funniest thing is that this incident is actually true!"
Chrissy choked: "What?"
"Just kidding," Tono winked at him, "Do you think Tok will be blocking the door and ready to beat me up?"
After sympathizing with Tok for a second, Krissy took a deep breath and was indeed not as nervous as before. He knocked his head hard, closed his eyes, and controlled the puppets to walk to the front of the stage.
Compared to real-life performances, puppets' performances are freer and more casual. They can follow the magic circle to appear anywhere on the stage. They are made to look like characters, and their speaking voices are transformed by magic, so they don't sound like set lines but more like some kind of improvisation.
More importantly - these puppets are just so beautiful.
The crazy vampire scientist who was doing experiments to slaughter demons, wore elegant gold-rimmed glasses, his suit pants showed off his perfect legs, and his gray hair made his gentle and gentlemanly demeanor look even more mature.
The vampire murderer who likes to drink the blood of demons is breathtakingly beautiful. He looks slender and fragile, similar to the fallen angel Silvester, but more holier than Silvester, which forms a sharp contrast with his ruthless behavior of biting the throats of demons.
Knowing that these were all scripts, the audience laughed so hard that they fell over. When they saw these good-looking puppets, they all opened their eyes wide and exclaimed at the puppets' stunning looks.
"Don't suck his blood, suck my blood!" A succubus screamed softly, "If there really is such a good-looking vampire, I will definitely wash my neck clean and wait for him to bite me!"
The God King who was sitting next to the succubus couldn't help but pursed his lips and frowned hard.
She couldn't figure out what these demons were thinking - the vampires who controlled these puppets were clearly risking betrayal by revealing the inside information of the vampire clan to them! Why were these demons not only indifferent, but even laughing out loud?
The ending of this stage play is relatively happy. The conspiracy of the bad vampires was exposed by the detective Winged Demon and the undercover Fallen Angel. The demon soldiers surrounded the vampire’s base, brought the vampires to justice, and drove them out of the demon realm forever.
Except for the vampire patriarch who was almost out of breath at the outermost edge of the audience, everyone was extremely satisfied with the puppet show. Thunderous applause and cheers rang out at the scene. Chrissy and Tono also walked to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience with the puppets.
The God King's expression looked better.
Maybe the vampires had been caught long ago, and this was just a play arranged by the Demon Realm to educate the demons? She thought silently, and decided to keep this matter to herself for now, and when she went to negotiate with the Demon King, she would mention it to him, in case there were demons who were still being cruelly persecuted by the vampires.
On the stage, Chrissy's palms were slightly sweaty as he held Tono's. Seeing the audience's enthusiastic response, he was relieved to know that this puppet show was a great success.
"The vampire leader must hate you to death." Tono saw the vampire leader in the audience whose face turned purple with anger, and said with a smile.
"This is revenge for him killing Cristiano," Krissy gritted his teeth, with a hint of hatred still in his voice. "Since he trampled Cristiano, dismembered him and threw him into the lava lake, he should have thought about what he would pay for it."
The God King, who was about to leave, immediately pricked up his ears.
The vampire leader actually dismembered a poor demon? After this performance, will he become desperate and attack more innocent demons?
She frowned, her expression becoming extremely serious, and she turned around aggressively, following the fluctuations of the vampires' magic power, looking for the house where they lived, wanting to quietly check whether there were any demons imprisoned inside.
She did this not only for her own sense of justice, but also because the God King had already confirmed the Demon King's concern for the demons - if she could help the Demon Realm solve a major case of harming the demons, she would be more confident when negotiating with the Demon King.
With this in mind, the God King walked quickly, not even bothering to listen to the rest of the conversation between Tono and Krish.
"You gave all the puppets names?" Tono asked in surprise, "Can you remember so many puppets?"
"They are all my favorite friends, so of course they should have their own names," Chrissy nodded as a matter of course. "What happened with Cristino was also my fault. I trusted vampires too much and failed to protect them. So I spent a lot of effort some time ago to protect the entire room with magic."
Due to some childhood traumas, Tono and his brother Tok also put a lot of effort into protecting their rooms from being invaded. He clapped his hands in approval and talked enthusiastically about the protective formation he had set up around the house.
——As for the authenticity of the protective array that a certain evil-minded sesame dumpling said, Krissy obviously didn't know. The protective magic he used was basically derived from his own magic power. Because there were many arrays, it became the place where the vampire magic fluctuations were most obvious in the royal city.
The God-King, who was searching for the vampire clan's territory by following the fluctuations of vampire magic power, naturally found the door of Chrissy's house.
This place is quite ordinary, just a two-story wooden building decorated with flowers. There is a beautiful swing in the yard. On the tree stump next to the swing are seven or eight different daggers scattered around. They are the tools that Chrissy uses to carve puppets.
The God King hesitated for a moment at the door.
She felt that this place did not look like the place where perverted and gloomy vampires lived, but when she thought of the vampires in the show who had a huge contrast between their appearance and their behind-the-scenes behavior, she became a little uncertain.
After hesitating for a moment, the God King's reason of not wanting to break into other people's houses prevailed. He sighed, and a delicate white feather appeared on his palm. He decided to contact the Demon King first to ask him what he thought about the matter.
Then, out of the corner of her eye, she keenly caught sight of an arm buried at the roots of the swing tree.
If it was a real living demon, the God King would definitely be able to tell the difference between a puppet and a demon, but there was only one arm left, and the magic fluctuations had dissipated, so she could only identify it with her naked eyes - and Krissy's craftsmanship was so exquisite that even the inconspicuous lines and fine hairs on the arm were carved clearly.
The God King was now anxious, thinking that some demons might be being tortured in the house, so he walked straight through the protective formation, kicked open the door and rushed into the house, then looked at each other in bewilderment at the beautiful puppets that filled the room.
She stood there in a daze, a question mark slowly appearing on her face.
Farther away, Chrissy screamed, "My home has been invaded again! Damn it, it must be the vampire leader taking revenge on me!"
Tono's eyes suddenly became sharp.
He didn't really care whether Chrissy's puppet was destroyed or not. The problem was that the vampire chief actually dared to openly break into Chrissy's house. Wasn't this obviously a disregard for the rules of the Demon Realm and a damage to the king's prestige?
With a stern face, he quickly pulled over the patrolling demon soldier and said, "There's a vampire breaking into a private house. Let's go and catch him!"
When the demon soldiers heard this, they immediately followed Krish and Tono and rushed to his residence in a mighty force.
In Krissy's home, the God King stood there at a loss, and heard the footsteps of the demon soldiers getting closer and closer outside the door. She was struggling with which direction to escape from, and suddenly a demon king with silver hair and purple eyes appeared in front of her.
"Please come with me," Warren smiled, "I have been waiting for you in the Demon King's Palace all day."
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Later, the divine world completely banned the practice of puppet magic.
The cause remains unknown.
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