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Dian seed to be joking, but in fact, the Sorcery Demon was very confident in his gamble.
From the mont Reji communicated with the demon realm through Eileen's pendant, the Sorcery Demon had already glimpsed a bit of Reji's power. That amount of magic power far surpassed all of their apostles.
So at that ti, Dian had already judged that the Hero's power was probably even above Lordan's. So while Lordan was gathering all of their apostles to surround and annihilate the Hero, the Sorcery Demon took advantage of the situation.
He openly and directly teleported all the apostles over at once, except for the most special Breeding Demon Ulala. Since they were going to defect anyway, he might as well be decisive about it.
No, it couldn't be called defecting.
The Sorcery Demon now looked at the little succubus, who seed to have been tricked and was angrily questioning Reji while stomping her feet in the air. Dian shook his head.
He found it hard to imagine how Eileen, with her personality and abilities, managed to gain so much favor from the Hero.
Could it only be attributed to luck?
Or perhaps...
Fate?
Moreover, even with ntal preparation, Reji's battle against the apostles just now still exceeded Dian's expectations. Although the Sorcery Demon knew the Hero was very strong, he didn't expect him to be strong to this extent.
His original plan was for the Hero to be able to delay the Great Demon and Sword Demon, who were most severely corrupted by the Evil Blood. Your next chapter awaits on empire
The remaining Eris would be held back by him and Shern.
But unexpectedly, even the two strongest demon race combat forces enhanced by the Evil Blood were directly defeated by the Hero in just one move.
This might no longer be a matter of power.
Dian believed that Leo must have also noticed so clues.
The shadow power that should have belonged to Shern instead helped Reji.
The Great Demon's hellfire instead burned himself.
Moreover, the Sword Demon, Decay Demon, and others, it seed that each apostle's corresponding authority completely failed in front of Reji, the Hero, and even turned towards Reji instead.
Such authority didn't seem like sothing the Hero possessed.
Rather, it was more like...
The Demon King.
The apostles' power could never harm the true Demon King.
This was also another reason why Lordan, who had usurped the throne and beco the king, was so furious and wanted to slaughter the Succubus Race after being rejected and injured by the Succubus Apostle.
From the mont he was hurt by the succubus, every apostle knew that Lordan had only inherited a "false" throne.
What was a true demon king?
One was being able to suppress each apostle's Fate Track, as just demonstrated.
The second, and another even stronger piece of evidence, was...
That's right, Eileen's attitude towards Reji.
The little succubus might be lost in the situation.
Still clamoring to find the Demon King.
But as a bystander, Dian was very clear about the Succubus Race. It was true that they were good at toying with emotions, but the one the Succubus Apostle truly got close to would always be only one person - the Demon King.
Especially now that only Eileen was left in the Succubus Race, she was undoubtedly the absolute next Succubus Apostle. Eileen herself hadn't realized it yet, but the degree of dependence she showed towards Reji had already far surpassed the simple brother.
All signs seed to point the Hero towards the true identity of the Demon King.
But this raised many contradictions.
Why would the Hero have the Demon King's authority?
If the Hero had this power, why didn't he stop the demon race before Lordan's descent?
Even after the demon race descended, he still didn't take the initiative to attack and maintained a defensive stance.
Giving the feeling that he was waiting for sothing...
What exactly was the Hero waiting for?
Or could it be that the Hero was plotting sothing even bigger?
Dian knew there must be so secret in the middle of this.
And this secret between the Hero and the Demon King was likely related to the Evil Blood, the Wicked Demons, those bizarre flesh and blood monsters, and even the very existence of the demon race.
However, the Sorcery Demon quickly put all of this aside.
After all, these complicated matters that required using the brain would always have soone else solving them for them.
Dian believed in Leo.
Don't underestimate the tacit understanding between the Wisdom Demon and the Demon King. This had been the inheritance of the demon race since ancient tis.
No demon could understand the Demon King better than Leo.
The fact that Leo hadn't pierced through this layer of paper with the Hero ant there must be a deeper aning. As the Sorcery Demon, he had even less need to do so.
While Dian was lost in thought, Reji had already made Leo co over and get beaten up as well.
The apostle family had to be neat and tidy.
Reji had to "battle" the Demon of Wisdom with the little branch. This was not only to restore the plot but also to let the Hero's "Sweep" ability record it.
In this way, the "Battle Records" of the several major apostles were successfully recorded.
Reji deliberately always using a small branch was not for show.
It was also to "record" the small branch.
This way, when the future Emperor used the Sweep relic to turn all humans into faceless people imitating the Hero, he would be able to easily deal with it.
Because he had changed history.
Now the Hero in history was one who always used a small branch to fight. At that ti, the faceless people would do the sa.
But the problem was that the small branch itself was not so divine artifact at all.
It was just an ordinary, average branch.
In essence, it still relied on his own LV99 Demon King and Hero dual powers obtained in the second playthrough, using a cheat-like strength to break through all techniques.
Then, at that ti, the faceless people who only used small branches would inherit combat skills equivalent to zero.
He would be able to easily dismantle the Emperor's greatest killer move.
Reji calculated the historical progress. His rewind journey using the Philosopher's Stone should be coming to an end.
Node one, the descent of the demon race, had been completed.
Node two, the defeat of the apostles by the Hero, had also been completed.
The two key nodes remaining now were...
Three, the Hero kills the Demon King.
Four, the Hero "disappears" from the world.
For these last two points, Reji had no intention of completing them alone.
On the contrary.
From here on, he had to retreat and fade into the background, becoming the supporting role of the story.
After all, the one who tied the bell had to untie it.
The purpose of him going through so much trouble to rewind from the future to the past was to change the Emperor's past, save Freya who had beco the vessel for the Evil God's revival, and find a way to dismantle the dinsional pollution.
So for this part of the journey ahead, Freya still had to walk it alone.
Reji saved and recorded the battle footage just now and transmitted it. Then he looked up at the distant sky, which was the location of the demon race.
And there, Freya, who had received the footage, had already begun to act according to their script.
…
Inside the Wicked Demon Palace.
While Lordan was still fantasizing about the apostles capturing the Hero and him absorbing the Hero's authority to beco the vessel for the Evil God's revival, a figure that was completely out of place with the dark style here had already quietly arrived.
"Still daydreaming?"
"Lordan, you have already been abandoned by Master."
Accompanied by a cold voice.
The expressionless Freya walked out from behind a pillar in the Wicked Demon Palace, calmly looking at the shocked Lordan.
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