◎My Lord! Pinch me!◎
After more than a month of hard face-to-face tutoring, Molong finally passed the math test and even achieved good results in the magic test.
Warren, who was the first to get the Dragon test paper, was filled with mixed emotions. At this moment, he finally understood how Feiwu felt when he was sitting at the gate of the Nightmare Village and crying loudly - tutoring mathematics is really not easy!
Feiwu is still the captain of the army commando team. He plans to leave the army after the Demon Clan Feast, but he has not slacked off at this time. Instead, he has trained more strictly and is committed to training all the team members into powerful demon soldiers who can stand on their own before he leaves.
The members of the commando team were very sad when they knew that their captain was leaving. They all expressed their desire to follow their captain to work in the research team. Until they learned about the recruitment requirements of the research team, all the poor students fell silent and continued their training honestly.
In recent times, except for the fire weasel pigs, roasted chickens and magma slimes raised in the Demon King's Palace which have been repeatedly attacked by the demons, the entire Demon King's Palace is calm and peaceful, and all work is carried out in an orderly manner, waiting for the upcoming demon feast.
The broilers were so frightened by the demons who were trying to train them into Pokémon that they stopped eating and laying eggs, so much so that the demon keepers Hulu and other demons angrily complained to the king, and successfully got the king's order that "any demon who wants to train Pokémon should catch them in the wild themselves."
"I remember when I first came here three years ago, this place was still a desolate Gobi desert with only a gloomy castle made of stones," Warren knocked on the Demon King's crown and sighed in a low voice, "Now the Demon King's Palace has become our common home."
The newly built magnificent Demon King's Palace stood in the center, surrounded by Nightmare Village, Dark Iron Dwarf Stone House and other residential buildings and many factories. Potato farmland was connected in the shape of a field, surrounded by bushes growing black beans. A goblin stone house was located here, and behind the stone house was a breeding ground for fire weasel pigs and roasted chickens.
A lush redwood forest grows on the other side of the Demon King's Palace. These redwoods were brought back from the distant Flame Forest by the demon soldiers and transplanted here. They were ripened by magic power, and now they have grown lush branches and leaves. From a distance, they look like a large red flame.
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I don’t know if it’s because of the different environment, but the firewood in the Fire Forest will release high-temperature flames from time to time, but it grows here without any movement, so everyone changed the name of this tree from firewood to redwood.
Dozens of exquisite tree houses were scattered in the redwood forest. The winged demon cubs were playing hide-and-seek with laughter, and two nightmare demon cubs were leaning on the branches and yawning.
Next to the lava pool that houses thousands of lava slimes and a giant red whale is the most spacious and beautiful lava square in the Demon King's Palace. Walking further along the flat gravel road in the square, passing by the neatly arranged military camps and training grounds, you will find an open-air cafeteria, a large arched kitchen, and several snack stands.
Further away are densely packed row houses. This was once where the wandering demons participating in the rescue program lived. Later, most of the wandering demons saved enough money to move closer to their workplaces, and the wooden houses became empty. They are currently being cleaned up in preparation for raising some magical beasts here to see if they can be tamed, or renting them out to demons coming to attend the demon feast.
"We're still doing pretty good, right?" Warren poked the system, praising himself with a sense of accomplishment. "Can we change the name on the ID card? The name 'Unlucky Devil' is really ugly."
The system ignored him.
Warren didn't force it.
He was just bored and wanted to express his sudden emotion, and at the same time see if he could trick the system into giving his ID card a nicer name.
The identity card that was full of holes at the beginning has now changed the buff of Rebellion X3 into Rebellion X1. He still has no idea about the content of the [Curse of the Blood Wolf Clan], and there is no sign of completion of the [Save the Shattered Savia Demon Realm] signed with the system. It is far from time to relax.
Seeing that the system was firm in its attitude, he just spread his hands in a Buddhist manner and prepared to return to the Demon King's Palace to continue processing the documents accumulated in the accounting board.
"My lord!" Captain Sur, the captain of the trade team, ran over and used magic to transmit his voice from a distance, "My lord, the slimes are coming!"
As the tribe closest to the Demon King's Palace and the first tribe to pledge loyalty to the Demon King, although the Slime Tribe has not joined the Demon King's Palace openly, it has always maintained close ties with the Demon King's Palace, so much so that more than half of the tribe members have passed the mathematics and magic exams, and usually eat, live, and work in the Demon King's Palace, and even the tribe's land has almost become a decoration.
The demon feast is about to begin, and they come with their entire clan, even bringing their cubs along, expressing their submission without reservation.
Of course, if that were all, there would be no need for the Demon King to step in, Sur could handle it himself.
But when she saw those soft slime cubs that looked very nice to the touch, she thought that her king would definitely like to come and take a look and take one home to use as a hand warmer, so she hurried over to ask the king what he thought.
Sure enough, Warren's eyes lit up and he rubbed his fingertips subconsciously: "Let's go, let's go together."
Knowing that the king would come in person, all members of the Slime Tribe waited respectfully in front of the main gate of the Demon King's Palace. Even the slimes who were working were pulled over by the Slime Chief and made to kneel together. Behind them were ten neatly arranged rattan baskets, which were full of food, herbs and other precious items accumulated by the Slime Tribe.
Although they have a close relationship with the Demon King's Palace, as the first demons to come and pay a visit, they must not act too casually, otherwise they will bring down the king's prestige.
The Slime Chief was thinking calmly, and saw the Demon King's boots from the corner of his eye. He was about to kowtow and shout "Demon King is wise", but the few slime cubs around him suddenly turned into crystal mud and jumped in front of the Demon King one after another.
"Puff! Puff, puff!"
Slime Chief: “!?”
After going through so much trouble to get all the slime demons to learn the complicated procedures of paying homage to the Demon King, he actually forgot to remind the cubs. The Slime Chief hung his head in frustration. Although he knew that the Demon King would not be angry about this, he still couldn't help blaming himself for not giving the King the honorable treatment he deserved.
Warren was busy pinching the slime cubs one by one. When he looked up, he was shocked to find that all the slime monsters except the slime chief had turned into crystal mud balls. They were jumping around happily and cleverly changing into their most elastic and cute shapes.
With a slight chuckle, Warren simply half-knelt down, allowing the slimes to jump around him and chat.
The slime leader stood stiffly in place, crying bitterly in his heart and accusing his family members of being unreliable. After hesitating for two seconds, he squeezed over in human form, pushing all the people in his family behind him. When the Demon King looked at him, he turned into transparent crystal mud on the spot: "Puchi Puchi!"
King, pinch me! I am the most elastic!
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The news that the Slime Tribe was the first to go to the Demon King's Palace to pay homage was spread by word of mouth among the nearby demons and quickly spread throughout the entire Demon Realm.
Many demons gnashed their teeth, annoyed that the Slime Tribe had arrived at the Demon King's Palace so many days in advance and occupied the first place, causing those demons who had worked hard to prepare gifts to please the Demon King to fall behind again.
Now no one dared to delay any longer, fearing that if they arrived too late and the Demon Ceremony had already begun, they would be labeled as "rebels" by the Demon King.
After all, before, many demons were afraid that the four major tribes in the Demon Realm would launch a second rebellion, so they did not dare to trade with the Demon King's Palace. It was not until the Demon King subdued the Dark Night Dragon in one encounter that these demons were frightened.
Even those demons that were affiliated with the four major clans in the Demon Realm quickly drew a line with the Blood Wolf Clan, and then prepared an apology gift to the Demon King together with the Skeleton Warrior Clan and the Stone Demon Clan.
However, even though they had made a decision, they couldn't help but feel hesitant.
"Will the Demon King really let us go?"
The skeleton warrior patriarch, Gu Hu, stood in front of the clan's territory, looking up at the clan's territory where they had lived for nearly a thousand years, with a sad expression.
"When he ascended the throne, we returned to our tribe to express our disapproval, and spread the word that he ascended the throne by surprise. We almost became mortal enemies with the Demon King... Moreover, we once launched a rebellion. How could the Demon King allow us to continue to live?"
Dob, the chief of the giant stone demons, stood beside Bone Arc.
"He did steal the Demon King's crown by ambushing the severely injured Blood Wolf Chieftain. Who would have thought that he would be so ridiculously strong?"
Dob was equally depressed.
The Stone Demon Tribe originally supported Chief Blood Wolf in launching a rebellion just to overthrow the rule of the previous Demon King. Chief Blood Wolf was the only capable demon at the time. If they had known how powerful the new Demon King was, they would have definitely surrendered to him. How could they have let their tribe be tormented to the point it is now?
However, compared to the pessimistic Skeleton Warrior Chief, Dob felt that they still had a good chance of survival.
"With this man's strength, it would be a piece of cake for him to wipe out several of our clans. If he is willing to give us a chance, he probably won't let us exterminate our clan... But I'm afraid we have to show the most loyal and respectful attitude."
The two clan leaders looked at each other and almost simultaneously thought of how to show their so-called respectful attitude.
All we have to do is tie up the Blood Wolf Tribe and offer them to the Demon King!
Dob hesitated: "Is it too much? The Blood Wolf Tribe has always been our friend."
"The previous Demon King was the chief of the Goblin tribe, but he still let the Goblin tribe perish," said the Skeleton Warrior Chief, Gu Hu, with a disdainful curl of his lips. "We are doing this for the survival of our own tribe. Besides, the Blood Wolf tribe was betrayed so badly by their former chief, it is impossible for them to submit to the new Demon King. With the new Demon King's ability, they will be destroyed sooner or later."
Knowing that what Bone Arc said made sense, Dob nodded silently. He didn't hesitate any more. He just returned to the tribe of the Stone Demons and quietly made a detour to the Blood Wolf Tribe. In a hidden cave not far from the tribe of the Blood Wolf, he saw the Blood Wolf Chieftain sitting on a stone.
"You're here?" Gray Tail, the leader of the Blood Wolf Clan, looked at him. His angular face had become thinner, making him look even more fierce and stern. "Gu Hu was planning to capture the Blood Wolf Clan and surrender to the Demon King. You agreed to his request, but you're worried?"
Dob shook his head and said, "I have said before that if the other demons in the Demon Realm knew you, the title of the smartest demon in the Demon Realm would never go to that nightmare demon leader."
"The Nightmare Demons were the first group of demons to follow the Demon King. I heard that most of the Nightmare Demons now hold important positions in the Demon King's Palace, and the Blood Wolf Clan is on the verge of extinction," Gray Tail, the leader of the Blood Wolf Clan, laughed self-deprecatingly, "Do you think I'm smarter than her?"
"What else can you do?" The stone demon Dob said with some sympathy, "The last thing the former leader of the Blood Wolf Clan did before his death was to cast a blood curse on the new Demon King. He didn't want the Blood Wolf Clan to survive at all."
Graytail gave a wry smile.
"The Blood Wolf Tribe will follow you," he shook his head. Although he had made the decision long ago, he still looked depressed when he said it in person. "We will not resist. You can use us to gain the Demon King's trust... The premise is that all the cubs of the Blood Wolf Tribe leave and try to ensure their survival... I will sign the most stringent magic contract with you."
Dob nodded and tried to speak, but when he opened his mouth he couldn't help but let out a choked sigh.
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Slime Chief: I can't lead my people at all... Never mind, if you can't lead them, just join! Puji Puji!
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