A Demon's Journey

Rueben was truly startled by Tiana's reasoning. In reality, their teacher did assign them a mission. It was to gain sufficient renown while guiding the people near their location.

Rueben frequently did this by giving speeches to the local people. He was teaching them how to live a better life.

People in the Pinhian Republic were a bit too dependent on the blessings of the Church of Mubesni. Meanwhile, Rueben and his fellow brothers were guiding people to live autonomously.

The Vicious Lightning Paragon had informed his disciples that they had to take all the help they could get. Their power must be used to protect the citizens of the Pinhian Republic while guiding them on the right path.

Rueben and his brothers constantly thought of how they could help out people. They didn't use their authority to force people to follow their wishes. They merely provided knowledge.

The choice still remained with the citizens. The Vicious Lightning Paragon and his disciples could only hope for the best.

Rueben felt that if he had Tiana's assistance, it would be easier to spread this knowledge. She was intelligent and clever, with a commanding aura around her. If she talked, people would definitely listen.

Moreover, Rueben didn't want to admit it, but he had fallen for Tiana. It wasn't just because of her beauty. It was her kindness and sincerity, which were very hard to find these days.

"…I will help you. But not because of an ulterior motive," Rueben spoke with a gracious smile.

"I understand," Tiana spoke out.

"… Let's leave next week. I will be free for some time after that," Rueben spoke as he stood up and left the hall.

Tiana nodded in response as she watched him leave. She soon contacted Yrellea and spoke, "…The target has fallen into our trap."

Yrellea responded, "Got it. I guess it's my turn then."

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At this moment, Yrellea picked out a carrier bird. This was pure black in color, and Yrellea tied a message to its limb. She filled that message with tremendous Demonic Ardor.

The bird was clearly uncomfortable as it was exposed to such substantial Demonic Ardor. Yrellea gently patted its head while speaking, "Fly in that direction."

The bird stared in the direction Yrellea was pointing and started flying immediately.

Yrellea knew that this message would definitely reach the demons in the second or the third layer.

The demons in the first layer would ignore it since they can't sense the Demonic Ardor that accurately.

However, the second layer had many Demon Lords. They were bound to hunt this bird to check out the message.

On the outside, Yrellea had mentioned that this message was for the Demon King. The Demon Lord could open this message at his own risk.

A Demon King would naturally not like his subordinates reading some secret messages. Normally, a Demon Lord would leave it alone. But if it was an arrogant Demon Lord, he would still contact Yrellea soon.

Yrellea's Mystical Spiritual Connection Ring started buzzing.

"…Who are you?" The other person spoke. His tone was a bit gruff.

"Who might you be? The Demon Lord or the Demon King?" Yrellea asked.

"…The Demon Lord," the other side responded coldly.

"Merely a Demon Lord, huh? Go and pass this message to the Demon King," Yrellea coldly replied.

"You mentioned that you have a method of gaining more renown quickly. What is it?" The Demon Lord, on the other side, asked.

"…Go and pass this message to the Demon King," Yrellea responded coldly. She cut off the connection.

It was only natural since this Demon Lord might be on his way to the Demon King, or he was probably too afraid to approach the Demon King's territory.

Yrellea decided to send another carrier bird with her message. She sent that bird in the same direction.

Yrellea was sure that the Demon Lord, in her way, might have guessed that this carrier bird also belonged to her. He shouldn't try to hunt this carrier bird any longer.

The carrier bird soon entered the Demon King's territory. The Demon King's subordinates hunted this carrier bird and noticed that it was a message for the Demon King.

The Demon King's personal subordinates brought that message to him.

Even the Demon King was startled upon reading the message. Fame was extremely important for a demon.

Just like faith and devotion to a particular religion were helpful to a Celestial, fear and terror across a community gave strength to a demon.

There were many attributes that strengthened a demon. Azaroth typically used the strongest one of these. Death.

This was why Azaroth didn't need to spread his fame across the continent to increase his demonic prowess. His demonic powers were extremely strong because he cultivated them using deathly laws and souls.

However, the other demons were different.

Their cultivation speed increased dramatically if they spread their terror among the humans. Thus, all the demons wish to increase their fame.

But the Demon Kings were also aware of the consequences of leaving the third layer. They knew that if the humans found out that the Demon Kings had started to leave the third layer, they would definitely send their top experts to kill them.

Humans didn't dare to venture into the third layer because it was extremely close to the heart of this Forbidden Forest.

A terrifying Demon Emperor resided in the heart of this Forbidden Forest. However, this Demon Emperor didn't terrify the human experts in these kingdoms or empires that greatly.

In fact, this Forbidden Forest shared its borders with the Great Qin Empire and the Empire of Qian Guo. Both of them possessed God-Ranked Experts.

If they were truly determined, they could definitely kill that Demon Emperor.

However, this Demon Emperor held something that prevented these God-Ranked Experts from acting against him.

The Demon Emperor possessed a special artifact that allowed him to curse his enemies. This curse's ability was to suck the life force of its enemies.

This was no simple ability because the rate of life force depletion was dependent on the opponent's cultivation level.

The higher the cultivation level, the faster the life force would be depleted. In other words, if an Emperor Ranked Expert and a God Ranked Expert was cursed at the same time. There was a high chance that the God-Ranked Expert would lose his life first despite the vast difference in life force between the two.

The Demon Emperor could instantly curse his opponents as long as he could sense them.

This terrifying artifact originally belonged to an ancient Demon God known as the Death Inducing Devil God. A part of his spirit lingered in this artifact, boosting the Demon Emperor's ability to sense his opponents.

Thus, not a single expert dared to attack this Demon Emperor in these thousands of years. He was now known as the Death Inducing Demon Emperor.