Chapter 682: Chapter 706: Three Desires
Lancelot and his companions exchanged surprised glances. The attitude of the succubus nad Ilina towards Visuvius seed sowhat different from the rumors.
“We are rcenaries, fighting is our job.” Lancelot chose his words carefully, due to the ambiguous attitude of the other party, working hard to keep the conversation going. “Surely, you are aware this place is the Abyss, where demons killed in battle do not truly die but resurrect in their native plane…”
“Hmph, sending a demon back to Barto Hell in that manner is not much better than actually killing them.” The succubus rolled her head around in boredom, “But you are correct, in war you either kill the enemy or get killed by the enemy. It’s not your fault that my kin failed to kill you.”
“Thank you for your understanding.” Lancelot let out a slight breath of relief, “Before we ca, we’d heard that Lord Destruction Fla was very fond of you…Maybe that is just what people perceive?”
“Appearances? Are you questioning ?” The fallen angel sat up straight, showing off her impressive figure and delicate features to the people below, “Tell , what have you seen?”
“Your beauty is beyond reproach.” Lancelot admitted generously, “I an, your view of Visuvius may differ from what people believe.”
“Hmph, in the great eyes of Destruction Fla, I am a beautiful, shiny, unique trophy, sothing to flaunt his achievents and power. With just a little more pandering, that egomaniac would obviously like all the more…”
“But as I understand…” Lancelot crossed his arms in front of his chest, “Visuvius later had nearly no restrictions on you, if you wanted to escape, there seed to be plenty of opportunities.”
“I have my reasons for staying, and they are none of your business.” The succubus glared at Lancelot coldly, then stood up from her seat. Suddenly, she emitted an imposing aura. The previously seen despondency and negativity had vanished, replaced by an aggressive fighting spirit, as if she had transford into a gleaming longsword.
“Let guess your intention in seeking out… Is it to ask how to infiltrate the Fla Palace to destroy the defensive formation subrged in the Lava Lake?” The succubus flapped her wings, leaping from the spectator’s seat into the center of the arena, “Too few demons have made it into the city. Once that formation is broken, with the current numbers, it will be impossible to withstand the demons’ assault…”
“It appears you have foreseen this.” Lancelot spoke slowly, “If you are willing to help us…”
“I am not.” Irina refused him bluntly, “Helping you holds no benefit for .”
“I don’t understand.” Lancelot shook his head, “You didn’t leave when you had the chance to escape, and after the city was besieged, you didn’t seek out your own kind. May I assu, the demons who breached the Volcano Fortress are not your friends?”
“Of course not.” The succubus’s lips curled with a mocking smile, “You have no idea how brutal demons can be towards ‘fallen’ kin… especially when the fallen one is an Enreyes.”
“If that’s the case, why not help the alliance reclaim the Volcano Fortress?” Lancelot spread his hands earnestly, “Although it’s unlikely the demons will find this place for now, if the city remains in their hands, you will eventually be captured.”
“So what if I am?” The succubus stood in front of Lancelot, looking directly into the human knight’s eyes, “Helping you holds no benefit for .”
“Alright.” Lancelot finally understood her implication, “What do we need to do for you to be willing to help?”
“This is the correct attitude when asking for help,” the Demon of Desire said with a weird smile, turning to walk to one side. She continued, “Satisfy my three desires, and I’ll give you the information you seek. How does that sound?”
“Desires?” Lancelot and his companions exchanged glances. “What kind of desires?”
“Desires I can’t satisfy in this city,” Irina replied as she patted a giant weapon rack in the corner, which was filled with various training weapons. “What do you prefer? A hand-and-a-half sword?”
“Yes, thank you.” Lancelot nodded, catching the weapon thrown to him. “So the first challenge is to defeat you, right?”
“Not necessarily. It’ll count if you make happy with the fight,” the Demon of Desire shrugged and adopted a battle stance. “But if you die before I’m satisfied, then I’ll kill your companions one by one until I’m content. If anyone is still alive at that point, I’ll tell them what my second desire is.”
“You!” Bruto couldn’t hold back and a warhamr appeared in the Dwarf’s hands. “Big brother, let’s take her on together, and after she’s beaten down, we’ll see if she talks!”
The others also drew their weapons, and the atmosphere suddenly beca tense. Lancelot opened his left hand and pressed down in the air, a gesture for everyone to relax.
“I want to challenge her alone. Bruto, Alamir, you must rember that I once had an encounter with Enruiyesi. That was pure luck that I barely escaped,” he tapped the heavy blunt sword with his heel, placing it on his shoulder. “Although it didn’t beco a psychological shadow for , I keep recalling the fight, thinking about whether there was a better choice for a certain attack or a defense…”
“Big brother, no need to say more, I understand,” Bruto put away his hamr and turned to walk towards the stands. “You’ll be fine. We’ll just enjoy the show from up there!”
“Thank you.” Lancelot nodded to his companions, then turned to look at the Demon of Desire dozens of feet away and said in a polite tone, “Ladies first, please begin.”
The impatient Demon of Desire answered with an attack. With a light leap, she jumped more than ten feet into the air and with a flap of her wings, pounced like a cheetah leaping from a tree. Lancelot was familiar with this signature dive-bombing attack. Back then, the Demon used this strategy repeatedly to charge at him, and due to his lack of strength, he would be overwheld in the subsequent changes of the assault, even getting hit so hard that he spat blood.
But tis have changed!
Facing the Demon’s stunning blow, Lancelot stood his ground firmly. A moderate amount of True Yuan flowed from his Dantian into his ridians, and the blunt sword in his hand traced a near complete counterclockwise arc before crashing with a loud boom against the enemy’s weapon.
The force of the Human Knight’s sword obviously exceeded the Demon’s expectations. She shook violently in the air, while the Human Knight had already rotated his sword and stabbed again at her abdon. The speed of this thrust was so fast that the Demon had no ti to defend and could only struggle to twist her body aside.
At that mont, an unexpected change occurred. The Human Knight’s thrust clearly missed, but his body followed the montum and leapt up, letting go of the sword, allowing it to skewer the ceiling. Irina was startled by his strange behavior, but her complexion changed dramatically the next second—
An icy iron hand had already grabbed her ankle, followed by an imnse force she couldn’t resist.
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