◎My King! It's born!◎
The Demon King's Palace captured a dozen more troublemaking liches.
Warren was calm this time. He questioned them briefly and confirmed that their confessions were basically consistent with those of the two liches before. Then he threw them into the temporary living room of the two liches and sent Feiwu to guard them as well.
The surprise of knowing that Tok was safe and sound was soon replaced by the terrible truth told by the two liches, and more than a dozen liches broke their defenses at the same time.
But the facts were starkly before their eyes, and the details that they had previously overlooked gradually surfaced. The liches huddled together and broke down in tears. When they wiped their tears and came out of the room, they all said that they would stay in the Demon King's Palace.
"We will do what the Demon King asks us to do, and repay the Demon King for his kindness to the young chieftain," the liches said with red eyes, in pain and self-blame, "We will protect the young chieftain until he grows up, and then return to the tribe. Even if it costs our lives, we will die together with that bastard Feko!"
Warren certainly had no objection to having a dozen extra workers.
The magic exam happened to be over at that time, so he called the captains of the five teams to the Demon King's Palace and assigned the liches to each team as temporary workers.
Since the liches tried to attack the demon soldiers when they first arrived, the Demon King's Palace paid them much less than other demons, only seven copper coins a day, and they could only eat the cheapest two-copper basic meals for three meals. The remaining coin could be saved for a few weeks and perhaps they could buy a cotton coat.
"You are now in the punishment period," Warren glanced around sternly and warned the liches, "If you deliberately attack other demons or even curse other demons during the punishment period, you will be killed without mercy. Of course, if you perform well, I will consider raising your salary standards to the same level as other demons after a while."
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The liches were already prepared to do hard labor all day without food, but they were still stunned.
There are three meals a day and new clothes every once in a while, but the devil actually calls this treatment a punishment period?
They followed their respective captains away in a daze, and then found that the demons working with them did not exclude them as they had imagined. They were not very enthusiastic at first, but after they realized that they were not intentionally abusing the young liches, their attitude gradually improved. When they found out that they could only eat a basic meat meal, they would occasionally give them a few pieces of dried potatoes as snacks.
The liches were flattered but felt unworthy, so they worked even harder.
Although the Liches are best at curse magic, they are also quite proficient in other magics, fully worthy of being one of the four major clans. Even the pottery jars, rattan baskets and other items produced by the industrial team can be enchanted with solid magic, and their durability instantly increases several times.
"Our clan leader taught me this," the lich said with pride and nostalgia when praised by the captain. "We didn't know anything before, until the clan leader returned from his travels in the Demon Realm and saved the lich clan from the brink of extinction."
In fact, the lich seldom communicated with other demons in the Demon King's Palace. The guilt towards Tok and the condemnation of himself almost overwhelmed him. He worked almost non-stop. In addition to wanting to repay the Demon King's Palace, as long as he stopped, Tok's former appearance would emerge in his mind, and his heart would be constantly whipped by regret.
But when talking about their leader Pikachu, the lich's eyes were full of stars, and he almost danced with joy as he told the demons about his memories.
He said that the chief had taught them how to use magic, accompanied them to practice basic magic over and over again, and encouraged them to fight against powerful monsters. He said that when he was a cub, he liked to huddle with other cubs next to the chief at night and listen to the chief's gentle stories about his travels in the magic realm. He said that the chief cared about every member of the tribe. Once, when a volcanic eruption caused famine in the tribe, the chief brought out emergency food for everyone to eat, but he himself did not eat a single bite.
The demons quickly sympathized with him—they remembered their own king.
"Don't you want to go to the Demon King's Palace to see little Tok? The King will allow you to go in," a Nightmare Demon asked him, "He is the cub of your chief."
The light in the lich's eyes disappeared.
He lowered his head and sucked out a bloody smell from his dry throat.
"The young chieftain would not want to see me," his voice choked, "and I don't deserve to see him again."
All the demons fell silent.
There were many demons who heard the Demon King interrogating the two liches. The Demon King's Palace and its people had long known the whole story of the Lich Clan. While they were indignant and spurned the current clan leader, Feko, they also felt that the other demons of the Lich Clan were not without fault.
What's more, this was an internal matter of the Lich Clan and they had no reason to get involved, so they didn't ask any more questions and considerately didn't disturb the emotionally broken lich, and soon dispersed.
However, what no one expected was that the liches did not go to find Tok, but Tok came to meet them.
At that time, all the liches gathered in the room, spread out rattan mats and prepared to go to sleep. When they heard the sound of the door opening, they looked up in surprise and saw the little lich standing at the door.
The once weak, skinny, and strange child who was always wrapped in a black robe, had turned into a tall and handsome boy in just a few months. He wore an off-white short robe, his hair was tied into a small bun at the back of his head, and there was a colorful string tied around his wrist - it was a bracelet woven by the Demon King himself with cotton thread.
Although the liches had secretly seen their little leader from afar after work, they still burst into tears when they saw Tok face to face and saw his face that looked very similar to that of Chief Pikachu. They were stunned where they were, and after two seconds of reaction, they walked silently to Tok and knelt down on the ground together.
Tok remained expressionless.
There was almost no emotion in his gray eyes. He obviously didn't care about the group of liches in front of him. He said indifferently: "If you cause trouble to the king, I will kill you."
The liches nodded with tears in their eyes.
Tok had no other thoughts, he just came to warn the lich.
Although he had been locked up in the tribe leader's cave since he was a child and didn't know much about the liches, his excellent talent and several experiences of escaping when Feko was away allowed him to learn most of the curse magic. He knew how much trouble the liches could cause if they wanted to cause trouble.
Before leaving, looking at the liches crying miserably, he paused slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he turned around and left the room without saying a word.
The wooden door closed gently.
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With a bang, the door was knocked open.
Warren, who was sitting on the throne, suddenly looked up. In the corner, the lich Tok looked over vigilantly.
The butler, Lille, rushed into the hall happily, dancing and saying, "My lord! It's born!"
Warren couldn't help but stand up with a smile in his eyes.
"It's a big, round egg!" Lill gestured excitedly, "It's round and plump, and it looks like a very lively cub!"
This was the first egg in the Demon King's Palace since Warren ascended the throne, so it naturally attracted unprecedented attention.
For the demons, being pregnant is not a difficult thing. It only takes about three or four days from pregnancy to laying eggs. Like the demon soldier Jesse who laid eggs this time, she didn't even realize she was pregnant until the day before she laid eggs.
Compared to the easy egg-laying process, the difficulty of hatching eggs increases sharply. Not only do you have to guard the eggs day and night to prevent them from being stolen by foraging monsters, you also have to ensure that the eggs are at a suitable temperature. The incubation period can easily be several years, sometimes even more than ten years. Any carelessness during this period will result in the death of the eggs.
It is for this reason that most demons choose to hatch eggs together in their tribe and arrange several tribesmen to guard all the eggs to ensure their safety to the greatest extent possible.
The hatched demon cubs are treated equally and cared for uniformly by the tribe. This is why demons have almost no concept of parents, but have deep feelings for their own tribe.
Of course, there are exceptions to this situation. For example, little Tok and his younger brother Tono received special treatment from the Lich Tribe because of their dead father, the patriarch - although for them, this treatment was not a good thing.
In order to prepare for the first egg in the Demon King's Palace and other eggs that might arrive later, Warren planned to build a special incubation room.
He cleared out a room in the Demon King's palace, dug a lava pool underneath, and used vines to make a bird's nest-like nest, padding it with cotton to ensure the right temperature and the safety of the eggs.
It's just that the eggs came too quickly. He only found out about the situation the day before. The hatching room had just been planned but not built yet. Now he could only use the place where the Dark Iron Dwarves hatched eggs.
"The Dark Iron Dwarves haven't had new eggs for several years," Tiechui led the way. Behind him, Warren carefully held a light blue egg. Beside him were the familiar Liel and the magic soldier Jesse. "Our last egg hatched two years ago, and we haven't taken care of the hatching area since then."
Although he had been to the Dark Iron Dwarfs' foundry several times before, he had never been to the place where the Dark Iron Dwarves lived inside the foundry. Warren looked around.
The place was quite small, with seven or eight bamboo mats laid out and a few hammocks hung on them. In the very center, a few small flames were jumping in the air, and the crackling sparks were tinged with gold, obviously having just flown in from the forging place.
"It's a mess here, I'll let everyone clean it up now," Tiechui scratched his ear, a little embarrassed, "These flames can keep the eggs warm."
He looked towards the King and was shocked to see Warren's guilty expression.
"It's my negligence," Warren said sadly, "I only remembered that you had a house, but forgot that it was too old and it's time to replace it with a new one. Tiechui, please arrange a construction team to plan a new residence for the Dark Iron Dwarves."
This small house was not even as big as a house in the Nightmare Village, but it was crowded with dozens of Dark Iron Dwarves. One could imagine how difficult the living conditions were. Thinking about the fact that the Dark Iron Dwarves had never raised any objections to this, Warren couldn't help but feel guilty.
Tiechui was stunned and almost jumped up on the spot. He reacted violently: "This is not your fault! No one can say that you are wrong, my king!"
Warren retreated tactically: "..."
...Can't he say it himself?
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