"I hope those people's brains are stupid enough to charge straight over and deliver their heads, sparing themselves and us the tornt." The next day, Leticia returned to her Demon King's palace and began making preparations to deal with the enemy.
The good news was that Miss Sasha from Divine Throne had successfully recovered so combat ability after several days of rest, and she should be able to play so role in the upcoming battle.
Now, Leticia was discussing with Sasha how to catch all those villains in one net.
"Hide your strength and make yourself seem like an ordinary person—is that possible?" Leticia asked.
If this was possible, she could go back and be a second insurance policy.
"It's possible, but that woman has a divine artifact, and the god in the artifact might alert her that sothing's wrong." Sasha indicated that while gods were theoretically unable to perceive the outside world through their seals, currently all gods seed able to sense the outside world—nobody knew what was going on.
Anyway, it was best to assu all gods could perceive things in the outside world.
"I think we should just dig a pit and hide in it. That way we're less likely to be discovered, and if anything happens, we can imdiately rush out to provide support." Sasha suggested this approach.
This thod wasn't impossible either. Digging a pit to hide people was sothing Leticia, who mastered various magical systems, could do easily.
If digging under the house might negatively affect the building's structure, they could dig in the backyard or front yard—anywhere that could hide people would work.
"Oh right, there's sothing I'd like to ask you to look at." Leticia said to Sasha. She was still curious about that chair she rarely sat in, and now that she had Sasha, a professional from Divine Throne, she might as well consult her.
"I naturally won't refuse Demon King's request, but what specifically would you like to look at?" Sasha showed no particular reaction to Leticia's request. She was currently dependent on others' hospitality—where did she get the right to resist?
Better to appear cooperative and leave a good impression with the Demon King, which could lay so foundation for possible future cooperation.
"It's nothing important, just that we've always had a rumor here saying the Demon King's throne is actually a divine artifact, but I've sat in that position for so long without feeling anything special about it, so I want you to help take a look." On the way to the throne's location, Leticia explained.
"I see. I've heard of this legend too, but within Divine Throne, we're skeptical about the truth of this legend." Sasha indicated she had heard of this but didn't really believe the Demon King's throne was actually a divine artifact.
No matter how strange other divine artifacts were, they were still like accessories, because gods were incredibly proud. Making them beco chairs to be sat on by people every day would be worse than killing them.
Among the information Divine Throne had collected about divine artifacts, there wasn't a single chair-type artifact—they were basically weapons or ornants.
"Maybe the god here just likes beautiful girls' butts?" Leticia joked.
Sasha's expression beca sowhat speechless. Gods definitely wouldn't be such shallow beings—after all, they were gods.
"You should have reverence for the gods, Miss Leticia."
"Your Divine Throne didn't show much reverence when using divine power to cause trouble."
"But we're still very reverent toward the gods who grant us power, and the divine lords are quite willing to grant us power." Sasha argued. Divine Throne had now reached cooperative relationships with several good-natured gods, and all they needed to do was spend so ti each day chatting with the gods or give up control of their bodies to let the gods breathe the outside air.
Ah yes, with mutual consent, gods could project their consciousness into believers' bodies, though this provided no combat enhancent. On the contrary, gods generally couldn't bring out believers' full power.
After all, it wasn't their own body, so there would definitely be awkward aspects to controlling it.
"According to what you're saying, gods are quite reasonable?" Leticia raised an eyebrow.
"Reasonable gods are only a tiny minority. We were able to reach cooperation with so gods because our leader painstakingly persuaded them to adapt to the current era." Sasha spoke with obvious admiration—clearly, that leader held a very high position in her heart.
A leader, huh? Seed like soone worth paying attention to. Being able to convince gods to offer their power for her use—that person was very capable.
"How many gods are helping you now?" Leticia probed for information about Divine Throne.
But this question was clearly beyond scope. Sasha indicated she didn't know, and even if she did, she couldn't tell Leticia—this was classified information of the highest level.
"Should be quite a few, I think." Sasha smiled.
During their conversation, the two had reached the Demon King's throne. Looking at the throne that seed sowhat plain by current standards, Sasha felt this thing didn't look like a divine artifact.
Divine artifacts were inherently very special existences. Soone like her, bearing divine power, could tell the difference between divine artifacts and ordinary objects at a glance, and the Demon King's throne didn't look like a divine artifact to her.
"Although the materials and such et divine artifact standards, its essence is still an ordinary chair, not a divine artifact." After circling the throne several tis, Sasha gave her assessnt.
She couldn't say with complete certainty, but was pretty confident—this throne was just a quite normal chair, not as mystical as the outside rumors claid.
As for why such rumors existed outside, it was probably spread deliberately by so forr Demon King trying to add drama, or concocted by so bored traveling poets to sing the Demon King's praises.
Such things happened all the ti—nothing to speculate about. Even human emperors used to like claiming they were children of heaven. Was that true?
Obviously false.
"I knew this piece of junk wasn't a divine artifact." Leticia pursed her lips. This news was neither good nor bad.
If this position really was a divine artifact, she'd have to rack her brains to get along with the god inside—how troubleso.
......
"Starting from here to dig the hole shouldn't affect the house over there." Standing in the manor's backyard, Leticia used a wooden stick to draw a circle on the ground.
"Are you planning to dig a trap?" Bai Ling stood beside Leticia, asking curiously.
"Sort of, but not a trap for people to fall into—a trap to hide people." Leticia tossed the wooden stick aside and stretched out her hand to casually draw a few strokes in the air before her.
A yellow-brown magic circle appeared in mid-air, and then the soil in the area Leticia had marked quickly softened and piled to the side.
Before long, a large hole about two ters in diater was dug.
"Magic is truly amazing." Seeing this scene, Sasha sighed with so emotion.
If ordinary people without superpowers did this, it would probably take considerable ti to dig out, but under Leticia's magic, such a large hole was dug in less than a few minutes.
"Just a trivial skill." Leticia lightly snapped her fingers, and the soil she had dug out imdiately hardened, then turned into a pile of sand.
With another wave of her hand, a gust of wind blew this pile of sand into the distance, causing a tiny, negligible impact on the Demon Realm's environnt.
Her series of magic spells drew applause from the watching girls—after all, among this group of girls, only Leticia seed to be a proper demon.
The Bai sisters and Sasha were purebred humans, and Mo Zili, this creature written as "demon" but read as "human," had never seen such fluid spellcasting before.
"Wait for up there for a mont. I'll go down and take a look." Leticia condensed a bright little light orb and tossed it into the freshly dug hole.
Then she lightly leaped and jumped into the hole.
Using gentle winds to steadily lower herself to the ground, Leticia looked around and nodded with satisfaction.
"If we expand it a bit more, hiding several people should be completely no problem." She muttered to herself.
Reaching out to touch the sowhat moist earthen wall, Leticia slowly frowned.
Why did the soil in this direction feel wrong?
The magic content was a bit abnormal. Generally, this ant there was sothing with high magic concentration in this direction.
But this direction was toward the manor's main building. Why hadn't she noticed anything with high magic concentration here during all the ti she'd lived here?
How strange.
Flying back to the surface, Leticia told the girls about her discovery and had Tōri go down to sense it as well.
Tōri's result was the sa as Leticia's—the underground soil's magic content was abnormal, and the abnormality pointed toward the manor's main building.
"Does this house have an underground chamber?" Leticia stroked her chin, talking to herself.
Perhaps the manor's previous owner left behind a basent but didn't tell the buyer when selling?
Mm, really couldn't figure it out.
Leticia had found the person who bought this house to ask about the situation, but the answer was just that they thought the house was quite nice with appreciation potential, so they bought it as an investnt.
As for who the house's original owner was, the buyer indicated they weren't too clear either.
This house was listed with a real estate agency, and that agency had already gone out of business several years ago. Who knew who the house's owner really was?
Anyway, now it belonged to Leticia.
Using magic to hastily cover the big pit in the ground, Leticia hurriedly ran back into the house to tell Xue'er about her discovery.
After hearing Leticia's discovery, Xue'er imdiately sent people to begin a carpet search of the entire house, wanting to find the passage leading underground.
But like several previous search results, they found nothing unusual.
"The entrance might not be in the house." Leticia proposed a hypothesis. Perhaps the basent's main body was under the house, but the path to the basent was elsewhere.
This would explain why they couldn't find any secret passage entrance after searching the entire house.
"You stay here. I'll go out again with Sasha and Xue'er." Leticia's action speed was quite fast. As soon as she thought of this possibility, she imdiately planned to go outside to search.
But this ti she didn't plan to have Bai Ling and the others watch—after all, searching for things was very tedious and boring. Better to have them stay in the house.
Outside was also prone to attacks; the house was much safer.
"So why don't you just start digging from that hole?" Before Leticia ran out the door, Bai Ling spoke up to remind her.
If they couldn't find the path to the basent, Leticia could completely create a path herself to directly find the basent with her abilities.
The path wasn't important—what mattered was the basent. As long as they could find the basent, the thod didn't seem to matter.
"Right!" Leticia's eyes lit up. She hadn't thought of this just now.
Her thinking was still too rigid—thinking that to reach a secret room, they had to find the entrance. But she completely had the ability to create another entrance.
Whether the entrance was legitimate didn't matter—as long as it was an entrance, it was good.
"Didn't expect your little brain to be quite sharp. Thanks! I'll go dig the pit right now." At this mont, Leticia wasn't stingy with her praise either. She was a very straightforward girl.
Only straightforward at this mont, though.
Bai Ling seed sowhat happy after being praised by Leticia—it had been a very long ti since she'd received praise from Leticia.
In this happy mood, she looked toward Mo Zili and found this girl's complexion seed sowhat off.
That originally rosy cute little face had now completely lost its color. Her hand was tightly pressed against her heart, and her eyes showed very obvious confusion and panic.
"What's wrong?" Bai Ling adjusted her expression and walked to Mo Zili's side to ask.
Leticia had entrusted her with watching over Mo Zili, so she had to complete this task properly.
"It's nothing, just feel sowhat panicked." Mo Zili answered quietly. She didn't know why she was panicking either, but this definitely wouldn't be a good on.
"Relax. With us here, everything's fine." Bai Ling gently comforted the pale-faced girl. She didn't understand demon matters very well—this was all she could do.
"Mm." Mo Zili responded. With Miss Bai and Demon King as her protectors, she really didn't need to worry about anything.
It should be like that, right?
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