◎This story started a hundred years ago◎
After finally getting the two liches to stop crying, Warren felt a dull pain in his temples. He couldn't help rubbing his forehead and threatened angrily, "You'd better say everything you need to say, or you won't be able to speak again in the future."
The lich sobbed and wiped away tears.
He obviously didn't hold out much hope for the little lich Tok. Hearing Tok speak was already a pleasant surprise. He looked at the Demon King and frankly told him everything:
"In order to make the young patriarch recover faster, the current patriarch of the Lich Tribe, Feco, sent him to unite with the middle-level demon tribe. As a result, Toke didn't come back for so long. We went to several middle-level demon tribes to look for him, and then we found out that the young patriarch was here. Feco said that you killed the young patriarch, so we were ready to seek revenge on you, but we were caught as soon as we arrived at the Demon King's Palace."
After he finished speaking, the demon soldiers who were listening curiously nearby looked at each other in bewilderment.
The Lich Chieftain sent Tok out to restore him to normal? This is different from the plot they knew!
The demon soldier Alex stared at them in confusion, then turned to look at the Demon King - his own king remained calm and composed, but Alex, who was already very familiar with the king, quickly caught a glimpse of helplessness towards the idiot from those purple eyes - there was nothing else to it, the Demon King had also looked at him that way before.
It's just that he and the liches are treated differently, Alex thought happily, the king always looked at him with indulgence and doting, but was particularly cold to the two liches, with murderous intent revealed in his dark purple eyes.
Although the king looked very handsome like this, the two liches who were trembling with fear obviously did not think so.
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Under Alec's expectant gaze, Warren sneered: "Your chief has tortured Tok for so many years, but you think Tok is abnormal. You even listened to the chief and let an underage lich cub leave the tribe alone without any food supplies?"
The two liches were stunned.
They really haven't thought about it from this perspective.
"That's not the case," one of the liches blushed and explained hurriedly, "When the young leader was still in the egg, he fell into the lava lake due to some unexpected events and was almost cooked. He was born with a deficiency and his reaction was slow. Letting him leave the tribe is also to find an opportunity to recover. Our former leader also became stronger after leaving the tribe."
The other lich was obviously smarter. He looked at his companion, his face pale, and asked in a trembling voice: "If the young patriarch was born with a defect... why can he speak now?"
The lich who was still explaining himself suddenly stopped talking. After a moment's reaction, he looked at Tok behind the Demon King in disbelief: "Little Patriarch, is Feko really not good to you? Come back with us. If Feko is wrong, we will never forgive him!"
When the hot-tempered Feiwu heard this, he couldn't help it.
He looked at the Demon King, who smiled and winked at him, then he immediately jumped out, rolled up his sleeves and punched the lich on the head with a curse.
"You're still born with a deficiency. How could your child be so skinny? It's obvious that he's often hungry! I warn you, Tok is now a child of our Demon King's Palace, no one can take him away!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the corner of Warren's clothes sank.
He lowered his head and saw that the corners of the little lich's usually flat mouth were slightly raised, and shallow dimples appeared on his cheeks.
"I'm not, I," the two liches were also bewildered. They were really willing to protect the young chief with their lives, but now they suddenly realized that the past ten years were all a lie, and the child they were supposed to protect was actually living in misery and torture. They almost collapsed, "If the young chief doesn't leave, then we won't leave either!"
Fei Wu was about to continue beating the two guys, but when he heard this, he paused, his eyes suddenly lit up, and turned to look at the Demon King: "My lord, our team is still short of demons! I am willing to accept them both, and I guarantee that they will obey me completely!"
What the Demon King's Palace lacks most now is labor, and the military camp is no exception. Feiwu's biggest worry every day is that there are not enough demon soldiers. Hunting and training are not so bad, but patrol shifts are often not arranged, and reducing the number of demon soldiers on patrol makes people worry that they may encounter danger.
He was so happy to pick up two hardworking guys for free!
"Wait, how can you accept this?" Lier stepped forward hurriedly. "My king, the identities of these two liches are unknown, and they cannot be placed in such a critical place as the military camp! Our logistics team is more suitable. It happens that the liches have good magical abilities and can be dedicated to helping clean the Demon King's Palace!"
Fei Wu was so angry that he jumped up and down, and was about to refute, but was stopped by Arabella. Arabella coughed lightly and said with reason: "Your logistics team is more important, and you can also touch the food. The lich is good at cursing, and it will be very dangerous if something goes wrong. On the army side, the strength of the demon soldiers is generally stronger. If the two of them dare to resist, they can be beaten and suppressed immediately. King, do you think what I said makes sense?"
Lill also looked at the Demon King eagerly: "My Lord, the logistics team is really short of demons."
Arabella echoed him: "Or we could have a lich for our team."
Warren: “…”
Warren gave up carrying the water and decided to just flip the basin over. "You wish! Send them both to the Demon King's Palace. I haven't finished asking them questions yet."
He felt that there were still many suspicious points about these liches.
These two liches seemed to have no respect for the current leader of the lich clan. Not only did they call their leader by his name, they also kept emphasizing "current leader", as if they were impatiently waiting for the leader to step down.
But if that's the case, why are they so devoted to the little lich Tok? In comparison, how can a little lich who was only chosen by the cursed magic book, with no power or achievements, and even defined as "congenitally deficient" and "abnormal" be an ideal patriarch in the eyes of the lich clan?
Moreover, in the demon clan’s territory, all the demons live and eat together. The lich chief has been torturing Tok for so many years, not giving him food and locking him in a dark cave for several days. Did the other liches really have no idea?
The two liches were tied up and brought into the hall of the Demon King's palace.
In order to prevent them from turning into mist and escaping, Feiwu even attached some confinement magic to the rope, making it so that the two liches could not even move their legs. They could only be picked up by Feiwu like a stick and flew to the Demon King's Palace, where they were curiously visited by the demons along the way.
However, they had no intention of thinking about these things. Their minds were full of the fact that their young patriarch was being abused.
The two liches were only blinded by one thing. After realizing the problem, they quickly recalled the countless doubts and discords they had experienced. They couldn't help feeling ashamed and blaming themselves. When they were thrown into the hall, they didn't even dare to look up at Tok.
The little lich Tok followed behind Warren.
I don't know if he was worried about being thrown away by the Demon King. Even though there were many demons present, he actually endured the discomfort and did not return to the corner. Instead, he moved out his wooden stool, placed it next to the throne, and sat upright, close to Warren's legs.
Warren patted his head to comfort him and looked at the two liches with his sharp purple eyes.
"You know what I'm going to ask. Just say it."
The two liches lay on the ground crying bitterly.
They did not trust the Demon King, but there was no other way now. Tok clearly did not intend to go back to the Lich Clan with them. Moreover, even if they returned to the clan, they could not defeat the clan leader Feko, and Tok might even fall into an even worse situation.
In other words, the Demon King's Palace is their only choice.
One of the liches stubbornly got up and wiped its sticky face.
He didn't dare to lie at all, and he didn't even dare to omit some key parts, because he didn't know how much information Tok had told the Demon King.
"This story started a hundred years ago," he whispered while hiccuping, "Our great leader Pikachu was going to assassinate the Demon King."
The lich's first words stunned all the demons present.
"Chief Pikachu is the most powerful lich. He discovered the curse power of the lich, created a new curse magic, and led the lich clan from the demon clan that was almost wiped out to become one of the four major clans in the demon realm." Speaking of the former chief, the lich's eyes were shining, "He is the chief respected by all liches!"
"The clan leader said that the demon who saved his life was imprisoned in the Demon King's Palace by the Demon King. He worked hard for seven hundred years and finally found the Demon King's weakness. He is ready to rescue the demon."
In order not to implicate his own tribe, the lich leader Pikachu left his tribe alone with the cursed magic book and set out on the journey to the Demon Palace to assassinate the Demon King.
The liches waited anxiously in their clan territory for a long time, until the lich Feko who went out hunting brought back the cursed magic book and told the other liches that the lich leader Pikachu had failed in his assassination attempt and was killed by the angry Demon King.
——It was precisely because of the anger and sadness over the murder of their chief that when the Blood Wolf Clan launched a rebellion, the Lich Clan was the first to respond. Countless liches rushed to the front lines, willing to self-destruct to inflict a few more insignificant wounds on the Demon King.
When they first learned that their leader had died, the Liches cried loudly, but they dared not speak out, fearing that the tyrannical Demon King would vent his anger on the Liches. Since Leader Pikachu had no children, the only thing left was an unhatched egg, so they let Fico, who had found the cursed magic book, become the leader.
Feko announced that he would treat the child of the Pikachu chief as his own child, so amid the praises of the liches, he took the egg back to his independent chief's cave in a dignified manner.
More than eighty years later, the egg still showed no signs of hatching. The liches thought that the cub in the eggshell was most likely dead, so they cried and wanted to bury the egg in the valley, but they accidentally dropped it into the lava lake - the egg actually cracked.
Not only did it split, but it also hatched two liches, Tok and his brother Tono.
Perhaps it was due to the different positions in the eggshell. Compared to Tok, Tono was much luckier. The burning of the lava lake made Tok thin and short when he was born, but Tono was not affected by the lava. He was gray and plump, a healthy lich baby.
If things went on like this, the liches should have placed their hopes of inheriting the patriarchy on Tono, but on the day they were born, the cursed magic book that had been silent for many years burst into light and flew directly in front of Tok.
"Feko told us that he was only temporarily taking over the position of clan leader, and that he would give up the position to Tok when he grew up, so he would take care of Tok," the lich said through gritted teeth, obviously realizing that this was just a lie from Feko. "We thought he made sense at the time, and even though the cursed magic book chose Tok, he was so weak that he needed the careful care of the demons to recover his health, so we didn't raise any objections."
For the liches, on one side is Feko, who loves and respects the former chief, brought the cursed magic book back to the tribe personally, and has worked diligently in the position of chief for so many years; on the other side is the lich cub who is born with congenital defects and always stays gloomy and autistic in the cave. Obviously, Feko's words are more trustworthy.
Therefore, when Feko sighed and said that Toke could not see the wind and had to stay in the cave forever, when Feko helplessly said that Toke felt he was too weak and therefore did not want to see other liches, when Tono cried and asked his tribesmen for help saying that his brother was locked up, they all unanimously chose to believe Feko.
Even when Toke, who was so thin that only a bag of bones was left, staggered back to the tribe from the Demon King's Palace, they still expressed with relief: Chief Feiko's approach is indeed reasonable. Look, the children who originally didn't want to leave the cave can now walk back to the tribe by themselves!
“A bunch of idiots,” Feiwu rolled his eyes and cursed unceremoniously, “Your leader Pikachu—tsk, how could there be a name like Magic Scream, it’s even stranger than Slurp—if he knew that his cubs were treated like this by you, he would definitely regret having trusted and protected you ungrateful wolves.”
Lil stood behind Warren, pouring tea and passing grapes to Warren while the two liches were telling the story. He stood up straight, looked at the two liches with scrutiny, and said calmly: "Although the previous demon king did a lot of bad things, he never imprisoned any demons, nor did he kill the lich chief. The previous demon king always killed the disobedient demons directly. If they dared to provoke him, he would definitely exterminate the whole clan."
"Your clan leader named Pikachu never assassinated the previous Demon King."
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