mtl008 Chapter 256 Paladin 20
Chapter 256 Paladin 20
"Alsop Norma".
Having driven away all the annoying demons who wanted to disturb his date with Yi Yi, Sereos stood in this unknown desolate mountain, holding Ling Yi's hand, slowly chewing on the new name he knew, his purple eyes full of accusation.
"Such a beautiful name, Yi Yi, and I only learned about it from someone else." He clutched his chest sadly. "I thought we were already lovers who could talk about anything, but Yi Yi..."
"That's enough." Ling Yi covered the actor's mouth, stopping his clumsy drama, and he lied without blinking: "This is the name the Vatican gave me. I don't like it, but I'm telling you the name I chose myself."
She learned Celeos's method of moral blackmail and quickly shifted the blame back onto him: "Or do you only like how others address me, and not how I address myself?"
“Of course I like the way you address yourself, I like everything about you.” A hint of regret flashed in Sereos’s eyes.
It's a pity that I can't take this opportunity to ask him for something he wants, like a kiss.
"Where are we going now?" Under Ling Yi's accusing gaze, he decisively changed the subject: "This is my first time in the human world, Yi Yi, you must give me good directions, don't sell poor me."
Ling Yi was amused by his words. Sell him?
What kind of unlucky person would buy the Demon King into their home?
She picked up a lock of her hair and waved it in front of Sereos: "Let's wait here for a few days until my hair returns to its original color, then we'll head back to the Holy See."
Returning from the demon realm with her hair looking like this, she's clearly revealing her traitorous nature. It's no wonder the Vatican wants to kill her.
Ling Yi still has a small plan, and she doesn't want to die before she can make the Holy See great again.
Of course, what she fears even more is that the Papacy will be slapped to pieces by some demon king before it can regain its greatness. In that case, she'll make the devil great.
"Okay, as long as Yi Yi doesn't abandon me, I'll do anything." A dramatic girl said pitifully beside Ling Yi.
A panic-driven escape suddenly arose everywhere around Ling Yi.
The moment the Demon King invaded, the human realm used all its power to warn its people.
The demon king's sinister horns, spiraling upwards, slowly probed into the human realm, followed by his enormous, indescribable body.
Behind him, there was something like a steel whip, lashing heavily against the barrier that belonged to the human world, making all the powerful humans with magic vaguely hear the groans of the world.
A pair of purple pupils slowly opened in the sky, then disappeared into the air.
This is the kind of prestige the human world bestows upon the Demon King; both Ling Yi and Sereos saw it and forgot about it immediately.
However, those immortal beings who had experienced the Demon King's invasion, or families and forces with a long history, were plunged into panic at this moment.
Good news: the old demon king's fatal blow, which they had been guarding against, will not happen again; the demon realm has a new king.
The bad news is that the new king needs a war to demonstrate his authority, and the human realm may become the new battlefield.
In terms of high-end combat power, the human realm is not much inferior to the demon race.
Born into harsh environments, demons possess naturally powerful bodies that are incomparable to those of ordinary people who have never learned magic.
The foundation of this world is precisely these ordinary people.
Perhaps some magical families don't care about the existence of ordinary people, but no magical family would be foolish enough to let the demons kill all the ordinary people.
Without ordinary people, who will serve them like slaves? Where will their desires be satisfied, and where will they demonstrate their nobility?
There are no ordinary people around; everyone around you is from the same social class. Not to mention how rights are displayed, even reproductive issues would be a huge problem.
After humanity moved beyond the ignorant blue-blooded era and discovered that inbreeding could lead to infant mortality and deformities, nobles were forced to form marriage alliances with outsiders.
Without ordinary people, the nobles would rise and fall among themselves, and who knows, they might all die within a few decades, leading to the functional extinction of humanity.
Driven by the fear of impending world destruction, humanity has displayed unprecedented cohesion and efficiency.
In almost a single day, countless spaceships and magical beasts raced across the sky and the continent, heading towards the holy city at the very center of the continent with an atmosphere of tension.
That place is the faith of everyone on the continent, the seat of the Church of Light.
The priests and paladins there repeatedly combined human fighting power to lead humanity in repelling the Demon King's invasion.
Tension and fear have begun to spread within the Holy See.
The priests and paladins, who had never experienced a brutal battle, followed orders with some confusion and assembled in the sanctuary.
They dared not even imagine a war against the demon realm.
A low-ranking priest murmured, "We're fighting the demons, but I don't know any combat magic. I'm just an ordinary priest."
Becoming a priest can exempt you from taxes and allow you to enjoy more prestige.
His initial motivation for joining the Papacy was these things; he had no real piety whatsoever, and he didn't believe that many people in the Papacy at that time possessed such piety.
Aside from the orphans who were raised from childhood and controlled by the Pope, the Papacy was filled with countless people like him.
Some cardinals even inherited their robes from their fathers, and aside from their powerful magic, they have absolutely no loyalty to the Papacy. Their greatest pleasure in life is undermining the Papacy to make their families richer.
Should we send people like these to fight?
Haha, stop joking!
when……
The Vatican bells rang, the cathedral doors closed behind him, and the Pope's solemn voice echoed in his ears.
"Gentlemen, we are facing an unprecedented crisis..."
"I bet the Vatican is in a real mess right now."
As the source of all the tension, Lingyi captured a magical beast and roasted it over a campfire.
These magical beasts were born from the mating of local wild animals with those left behind during the invasion of the demon realm. They are not as ferocious as the magical beasts of the demon race, but they are just as powerful as those that have adapted to the human world.
The golden-brown monster meat sizzled under the lick of the campfire, and occasionally a drop of oil would fall into the fire, bursting into beautiful sparks.
Ling Yi leisurely made two cuts on the monster meat to make the roasted meat more flavorful, and said regretfully, "It's a pity that there are no monsters in the human world as delicious as the Gulu Beast."
After all, level one magical beasts are never in the battle ranks of the demon realm, so naturally they cannot leave their offspring in the human world.
Sereos was eager to try: "I've heard that there are dragons in the human world."
They're all dragons, and although they might look a little different from the demon dragon, their cheek meat must taste just as good, right?