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The aura of authority lingered in the air, and strands of rich magic, imbued with the power of time, were drawn into her body. Kletina closed her eyes slightly.
The fluorescent hair seemed to come alive, growing outwards incessantly, its cascading, smooth strands covering the entire hall.
The rich and rustic fragrance of roses quietly permeates the air, as if it has been mellowed by a long period of time.
The rose-colored gown, as black as night, was tinged with pure white, as warm yet lonely white fluorescence spread outwards endlessly, carefully protecting the center... the black-haired, black-eyed infant on the throne.
When she opened her eyes again, the girl possessed almost godlike power.
Lowering her head, Kleinna gazed gently at Mia, who had woken up at some point, sitting on the throne, smiling carefree at her.
She is as powerful as a god.
She is as fragile as a rose.
This has been the case for the past thousand years...
"Lady Mia, please be patient a little longer." Kleinna gently stroked the tender face, the little cub rubbing its fingers contentedly, making a reassuring sound:
"Awoo~ Awoo awoo~"
"I'll be back soon." The woman in the white gown turned around, her back to the young demon on the throne.
Klaitina's eyes shone with a dazzling light, deeper than the night sky and brighter than the stars, behind her was everything she wanted to protect.
A surging and terrifying power flowed through his body.
At that moment, she transformed from a rose into a deity.
For millennia, he has brought profound fear to humanity, extinguishing the dreams and lives of countless heroes who slayed dragons. The ruler of all demons in the Demon Realm, the strongest demon king who has lived for a thousand years—the "Demon King of Time"—stood in the arena.
"Then, Demon King, I'll go first..."
Kleidina's emotionless voice trailed off, pausing slightly as she raised her chin, her brow furrowing slightly, as if sensing something: "That is...?"
A dazzling light completely enveloped the Demon King's castle, then vanished in a flash.
The divine light receded like the tide.
Before the throne, Kleidina's body suddenly stiffened.
The light deep within her eyes suddenly vanished. She lifted her dress, letting the uncontrollable fear tremble within her body, and turned slightly away—
The throne was empty...
The girl's eyes were blank.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely, and memories retraced back a thousand years, materializing before my eyes: on that day, she stepped into the Demon King's castle, and she wept on the throne, their fates intertwined.
She lifted her from the throne.
She witnessed her growing up time and time again from the throne.
At first, she could only be lifted onto the throne by herself. Slowly, she learned to crawl, kicking her little legs with little strength, but soon, she could walk...
The identity of the Demon King is not important to her, nor is the position of the First Secretary who assists the Demon King. She has been watching the figure on the throne grow step by step to this day, through thousands of years.
Clinging, curled up, weeping, laughing, all accompanied by the passage of time... a thousand years of memories have accumulated on the throne.
And now, the being on the throne has vanished.
Kleidina's pupils gradually dilated.
The first demon, possessing divine power, transforms once again into that lonely and vulnerable girl.
"Lord Demon...?"
Kleidina's voice trembled.
The empty hall was so desolate that not a single sound echoed.
Chapter 336 [The Darkest Thing]
The fluctuations of light magic washed over the entire Demon King's castle.
Inside the cell, demonic energy erupted menacingly.
The pages of the book by the demon strategist Swell suddenly lit up, and countless dense and condensed magical patterns stretched endlessly in the extremely subtle blank spaces!
The entire Demon King's Castle trembled slightly, and an ancient aura instantly connected with Svir, then swept across the entire Demon Realm—!
"Where is he...? How did he even appear?!"
Swell angrily surveyed his surroundings.
But all that could be vaguely discerned was a hidden trajectory rapidly moving away from the Demon King's city. Only the lingering magic in the air told him that the holy archmage had successfully deceived all the demons.
"Lord Apophis, open a spatial rift to prepare for pursuit!"
"Lord Migo, please fully activate the spiritual power of the Horned Demon Clan. The defensive array of the Demon King's City is no longer safe!"
"Lord Fim, prepare to face the enemy...!"
Swell's pages were somewhat soaked, and he gave an urgent command:
It vaguely sensed that an unprecedented crisis was about to arrive. Since the strongest hero in human history had been rescued by the kingdom's morning star, the demon race would face annihilation.
We must mobilize everyone's strength!
"And what about me? What should I do?" A familiar, slightly comforting voice drifted from beside me.
Swell gave the order without hesitation:
"Mino Warrior, you immediately... um?"
The pages of the book suddenly shifted, startling Swell, who was floating in the air.
The pages of the book heaved violently as it stared intently at the person beneath it—a seemingly ordinary, somewhat useless human dressed in prison garb.
"—The Hero Mino?!!"
The Book Demon Swell, as if seeing a ghost, spoke in utter shock:
"Why are you still here?!"
"Ok?"
Mino looked puzzled. "This is my territory! If I'm not here, then where should I be? Guh!"
As she spoke, Mino convulsed violently a few times, emitting an unusually seductive sound.
The Rose Shadow Insect was still traversing Mino's body, its movements visible through the blood vessels throughout his body. As the vibrant rose petals, nourished by the insect, sprouted on the surface of his body, Mino experienced an extremely strange and intense sensation!
Barely suppressing her physical reaction, Mino continued in a carefree manner:
"Even if we were going to run away, we should have done it late at night, packed all our belongings and the shrine under the bed, and then taken my personal maid, Fim, with us in private... Oops, that was close! I almost let it slip!!!"
Looking guiltily out the window, the hero quickly changed the subject:
"By the way, was that light you guys set off? It was quite beautiful."
They put it there? How could that be?!
Swell clicked his tongue inwardly.
That terrifying magic array, which was completely beyond its comprehension and even broke the greatest shackles of human magic, completely separating the magic circle from the array core and infiltrating the Demon King's city's restrictions at a higher level—even if all the Book Demons were to research it for another thousand years, they would still find it difficult to touch that realm!
That was a magical realm that was almost miraculous!
That morning star of the kingdom could already be called a god of magic!
It's no wonder that an improved goddess blessing ritual could give birth to Minotaur, this monster of the century.
Swell then realized that the real threat to the Demon race's status was never the heroes, but the terrifying archmage who seemed to be hiding something and deliberately minimizing his presence.
Humans are truly incredible creatures. With just their individual limits, they can surpass the inheritance and talents of these demons generation after generation, and even rise above the Demon King.
but.
If that's the case, why didn't the mage take Mino away...?
Swell was filled with doubt.
Although the "super-magic array" that has completely reached another realm of magic is difficult for even it to analyze and reproduce, the effect analyzed in that instant using the authority of "knowledge" should be absolutely correct.
That was a terrifying teleportation magic that could ignore all the restrictions of the Demon King's city and teleport any living creature within a hundred miles of the magic array to the location of the magic circle!
No matter how you look at it, the only place around the Demon King's castle that meets the criteria is rice...
boom!
His heart skipped a beat, and Swell froze in mid-air as the pages of the book grew increasingly cold.
Light, life?
My soul began to tremble.
Svir recalled that secret buried deep in his heart, a guess he had never dared to utter to any demon:
Lady Mia's strange constitution has never occurred to any Demon Lord before.
Since she is the offspring of a hero and a demon king, is it possible that there is another power within Mia, who possesses the power of the demon king?
A kind of... the power of a hero.
boom--! ! !
Terrifying demonic energy and oppressive aura filled the entire cell in an instant, causing all the great demons present to feel suffocated.
The damp scent of roses rose slowly, as if mixed with the soft sobs of a young girl, quietly growing in everyone's hearts... No great demon could react in time before a despairing figure, imbued with terrifying aura, appeared before them.
"K, Kleinna... Lady."
Swell collapsed to the ground with a thud, and Apophis, Migo, and Fim, who were beside him, were all irresistibly corroded into their bodies by the neurotoxins that overflowed from the Demon King-level being.
Oops?
Swell knew that his worst fears had come true.
Otherwise, the power of the "Demon King" before us could not have spiraled out of control to such an extent—
In the quiet cell, only one figure remained standing.
"Huh, why are you back again? And what's with this look...?"
Mino let out a soft exclamation, then immediately noticed the change in Kletina. Her pure white hair, shimmering with fluorescence, paired with the rose-colored dress that had changed from black to white, was hard to ignore.