Chapter 37: Cut in two
The Demon King’s calendar year is 648.
April 11th, morning.
A carriage stopped in front of Lord Leon's villa. The knight Xuelin jumped from the seat next to the coachman and placed the wooden feet under the door. Princess Viola walked under the protection of two other knights. Get off the carriage.
Different from the armor she usually wears and the robe she wears when praying, Viola is now wrapped in a thick skirt that looks particularly stuffy. The skirt is so high that it can be lifted so that it does not touch the ground.
Earlier, Lord Leon sent an invitation. Since it was a formal visit, even though the castle was only a fifteen-minute walk from the villa, a carriage still had to be sent over.
It's not that I don't want to walk, it's just that I want this style.
The soldiers guarding the door bowed their heads and saluted when the princess got out of the car. Princess Viola also put on some princess airs this time and slowly approached the door.
"Welcome! Welcome to your visit, Your Royal Highness, Princess."
Lord Leon went out to greet him with a warm face. The civilians who were watching the excitement from a distance once suspected that Lord Leon had taken the wrong medicine. He was not usually so enthusiastic.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Lord Leon."
"It is a great honor for me and my family that Your Highness the Princess is willing to come. Come in quickly."
As Lord Leon led Viola and the accompanying knights inside, he was talking about the glory of the family and the glory of the family.
At least so far, this is the normal reaction for a royal family to visit a noble house.
The spacious dining room was newly decorated, and the long table was filled with tempting fruits and pastries. Lord Leon specially asked Princess Viola to sit on the main seat, and he sat next to her.
"Your Highness, please allow me to introduce you to my family's collection of fine red wine."
The lord snapped his fingers, and the butler hiding behind the door immediately poured the fragrant wine into the gold cup with a decanter.
According to the etiquette rules of the nobility, although the princess has a high status, this is Lord Leon's place after all, so the butler first pours wine for the lord, and then fills the princess's golden cup with wine.
"Your Highness, it has been almost half a month since you came to Leon's territory. I see that you are busy with official duties and have not been embarrassed to disturb you. Please allow me to welcome you to my territory today."
There is indeed nothing wrong with what the lord said. The high-ranking nobles should have welcomed her to the territory of the lower-level nobles as soon as possible. However, Viola was attacked by bandits on the first day she came, and a series of things happened next.
The lord picked up the wine glass:
"Please try it. Although you are certainly not short of good wine in the capital, I believe you will like it."
Lord Leon deliberately drank half the glass first to show that it was okay.
But Viola still didn't touch the wine glass, but stared at Lord Leon. The look in her eyes made the Lord feel uncomfortable.
"Your Highness?"
Viola exhaled slowly and her eyes became firm again.
"Lord Leon, I know you may not believe it. When we came to your territory, we planned to simply rest and wait for the soldiers to recover from their injuries, and then buy some supplies before leaving. I know your territory cannot withstand the devastation of war. , so we don’t plan to stay long.”
She said:
"I never expected to get the attention of the Demon King and the Lord. Everything I do after that is hoping to share the glory of the Lord with others, hoping that more people will believe in and worship Him. Even now, I There is no intention of taking away territory.”
Lord Leon's smile froze, and he tried his best to maintain the dignity of the nobles and said:
"Your Highness, what are you talking about?"
"I want to say that these things you are doing are meaningless and may even be self-defeating."
He pushed the wine glass gently, and the full wine spilled on the tablecloth.
"Your plan has been seen through by the king, and he conveyed the truth to me through the oracle. And you may not know that I am resistant to poison, and your poison has no effect on me."
High-ranking demons like the royal family have extremely high toxin resistance. It is a bit exaggerated to eat arsenic, but not just any poison will be useful.
Viola shook her head:
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I prayed to you to give up and returned the account book to you on purpose, hoping that you would be at ease, but you seem to have misunderstood my meaning. Since things have reached this At this point, all I can do now is maintain your last dignity."
For nobles, the so-called last dignity is to die suddenly due to illness.
Poisoning the royal family was a capital crime, and the whole family had to be hanged. It's just that hanging nobles has a bad reputation, so it's said that it was the last act of dignity.
And in this way, the title of Earl of Leon can still be retained. Although he has no son, if any relatives are alive, he can still inherit his title.
When Lord Leon saw what had happened, he simply stopped pretending.
"You're talking nonsense! You've been trying to take away my territory from the first day you arrived! This land has belonged to my family for generations!"
Lord Leon smashed the gold cup on the floor with a clang, venting his anger.
"Not to mention that you actually want that terrible monster, the Demon King God, to come back to this land! My family's ancestral teachings never allow the Demon King God to reappear in this world. We have guarded this place for generations and will never allow him to continue to interfere in the mortal world. ! But you! You dare to pray to the devil!"
These words made Viola raise her eyebrows. She had never heard of this matter at all.
The stories she had heard since she was a child all said that the royal family of the Demon Kingdom of Avarus were the true bloodline of the Demon King God, and that one day the glory of the Demon King God would surely return.
"You have already sent someone to get the Demon King's Ring that is sealed in the ruins of the Mythical Age! If you continue to increase the power of that monster, an unstoppable disaster will inevitably strike!" "What are you talking about?"
Viola really didn't know what was going on, because the ledger and the treasure map appeared together on the altar, not sandwiched in the ledger. So Viola naturally thinks that the ledger and the treasure map are two different things.
"The God you worship is the embodiment of greed. He will have everything in his hands! He will take all the creatures in this world as his own!"
Although the question was a little off-putting, Viola folded her hands and said calmly: "What's wrong with being greedy? We in the Demon Kingdom of Avarus are also a greedy people, and we will want to get everything. But. It is precisely because of greed that we cherish everything in our hands."
The secrets hidden in Lord Leon's family cannot be exposed to the royal family of Avarus. Once they discover the location of the Demon King's Ring hidden in their family, this group of royal families who worship the Demon King God will definitely let the Demon King God return at all costs.
But now that it’s over, there’s nothing more to say.
"Roy! Do it!"
The sharp gust of wind jumped down from the rafters and hit Viola's back!
A string of fine sparks exploded, followed by a fierce metal collision. Guards Knight Shelley used his long sword to block Roy who jumped down.
"Your Highness! Are you okay?"
"Oh! Isn't this little one? We meet again."
Roy whistled, appearing to be in a good mood.
A powerful healing potion healed all his injuries within minutes, so he could emerge from the rafters to launch a sneak attack.
"What are you doing! Kill her quickly!"
Lord Leon shouted in rage, and the guards who heard the sound rushed to the restaurant.
"Don't stand there, go kill the princess!"
Although these guards were loyal to the lord, they did not dare to take action against the princess, and they all froze in place.
When the butler saw this, he hugged the decanter and swooped back into the kitchen.
"Save it, Lord, haven't you noticed yet? Your plan has been exposed from the beginning."
Roy deflected Shelley's sword and did a backflip backwards.
It looked like he suddenly performed an acrobatics, but as soon as Roy fell behind the low wall of the restaurant, he heard three muffled sounds, and three blackened arrows were stuck in the wood on one side. On the wall, if Roy had not dodged just now, there would be three holes in his body now.
"Oh, Your Highness, this guy's escape has nothing to do with us. The soldiers in charge of the prison are the lord's men."
In the shadows on one side of the restaurant, Hill appeared like a ghost. The short bow in her hand showed that she had fired the arrow just now.
She also understood very clearly that it was not my fault and she could not cut my salary.
Roy glanced at her quietly: "Your torture skills are good, but I didn't expect that your stealth ability is so strong. I almost fell into the trap."
Viola stood up from her chair at this time and said to Lord Leon: "You don't have any trump cards anymore. My knights have secretly surrounded this villa. I can give you one last chance." Decent opportunity.”
Lord Leon gritted his teeth and wanted to say something, but what he said now could only be regarded as incompetent rage.
"Kill her! Don't you understand my order? Kill her!"
He was like a wounded lion, but could do nothing but roar.
"It seems like I have nothing to do here. Thank you for the potion, Lord Lord."
"Roy! You!"
Roy didn't go to see the lord at all, but said to Viola frivolously:
"I have to leave first, but I might take your head away at some point."
Roy retreated into the shadows, and for a moment his body seemed to melt into the darkness.
This is not stealth, but more like some kind of special teleportation ability. No one present can stop it in time.
"Goodbye, dear Princess... ugh!"
At that moment, Roy felt a chill in his waist and couldn't feel his legs at all.
He knew that he was being attacked from behind, but when he tried to turn around and look, he found that his upper body was sliding along a smooth slope, his vision was getting lower and lower, and he finally fell completely to the ground.
Roy, who couldn't even move his fingers, saw that in the darkness behind him, a rectangular blade almost the size of a door panel was poking diagonally on the ground. His lower body was stuck to the back of the blade, clucking under the lubrication of blood. Kneel down on the ground.
It was a huge blade that was silent and seemed to shoot out from the void.
Roy's consciousness was still awake, but his vision was getting darker and darker.
"This is...the Demon King God, what a cruel...god..."
The blade fell into the darkness, leaving a series of ripples in the air, and finally disappeared completely.
(End of chapter)