There was a moment of silence in the carriage. Eden thought of James's identity as a fugitive slave from Lazy City, and his face turned pale even though he knew that Wade had disguised him. Lucian emerged from his arms, staring at the door with round eyes.
He has not forgotten that he is worth a full 80,000 gold coins in the City of Laziness!
"Leave him to me." Wade said suddenly.
Eden quickly handed Lucian to Wade's arms. The long-haired cat meowed in complaint after it was in Wade's arms. When the voice approached the car door, Eden remembered something and kicked Lucian's clothes that fell on the ground under the seat as quickly as possible.
"Good morning," a mechanical voice came from the car door, "We are searching for a fugitive. Could you please open the door and check?"
"What right do you have to..."
James argued with them outside until Wade's voice came from inside the car.
"No need to argue, open the door and let them see." Wade said.
"… yes."
The car door was opened by Eden. Wade just lowered his head to warn Lucian, but found that Lucian had already obediently tucked his cat head into his arms.
The whole cat clung to him.
"Good evening, gentlemen." The person outside the door said, "I am sorry to disturb your journey."
The man's eyes stayed on Eden for a long time, as if he was trying to confirm whether Eden, the succubus, was the person he was looking for. The man didn't know what method he used to test her. Soon, he took off his hat and said, "I'm sorry to disturb your trip. Next, I wish you..."
"Since you have chosen to apologize, then..."
"How about showing some sincerity in disturbing others?"
An idle voice sounded in the carriage, and the next moment, there was the sound of blades breaking through the wind and heads falling to the ground!
Eden leaned back with a pale face, and then he heard Wade's sarcastic laughter: "What are you afraid of? It's just a puppet."
The young man who was snooping around in their carriage and looked no different from a normal human was actually a puppet!
The puppet's head fell to the ground. Its body also twitched on the ground. The movement in the carriage startled the puppets who were searching other carriages. Seeing the other two puppets approaching, James tensed up and was ready to fight them.
But what he didn't expect was that the puppet wearing a monocle, who was the leader of the group of puppets, simply walked to the carriage and ordered another puppet to lift up the decapitated puppet.
"I'm sorry to have caused you any inconvenience during your journey, sir." The puppet said politely, "I wish you a pleasant journey on the rest of your journey."
The carriage was narrowly escaped. James was still a little bit unbelievable until he reached the end of the road. He couldn't help but say to the carriage: "Lord Witt, why did you let us go like this? Will there be a trap on the road? We..."
He heard Vader's scattered voice in the carriage.
"Because in fact," said Vader, "it would be quite rude to search for a high-level demon who is capable of destroying a high-level puppet with one strike. Isn't it?"
After hearing this, James, the driver, remained silent.
He recalled how he was dying in the basement of Black Ice. Kane and his men regarded them as weak animals who could be humiliated at will...
And now, after he followed Vitt and became a subordinate of this mysterious demon, even the high-ranking puppet guards of Greedy City had to bow to them.
Following Vader might make him stronger and more capable of protecting his beloved prince.
"Lord Witt." James' voice came from outside the carriage again, "I'm beginning to think that it's a good thing to be able to follow you."
As he said this, he laughed heartily: "Perhaps as long as I follow you, I can see the day when you become the Lord of the Demon Realm."
"Drive your car well." Wade remained unmoved.
James laughed out loud. Eden in the carriage was not so optimistic. He said with a pale face: "That puppet wearing a monocular lens... that is the personal guard of the Lord of the City of Laziness! What is hidden in the City of Greed that even has come out to help?"
Wade glanced at him and didn't intend to reply. However, his hands felt a furry touch at this moment. Wade lowered his head and Lucian, who had buried his face in his arms, came out.
He is very sensible, Wade thought indifferently, knowing that he would be in danger, so he buried his face in his arms obediently.
It seems that Lucian did not intend to turn into 80,000 gold coins.
Lucian yawned with his teeth bared and furry, and then he meowed at Eden a few times. Eden looked at Lucian's expression and guessed, "Do you... want to know the information about the puppets in the Lazy City?"
Lucian nodded.
"Those puppets are unique to the City of Laziness. Most of them were created by the City Lord, and a few were transformed from punished demons. The legion they form is personally controlled by the City Lord of Laziness. The puppets that can wear monocular lenses are all the highest-level puppets transformed from demons, and are directly commanded by the City Lord."
A cold voice sounded in the carriage, and Eden shut up. Lucian didn't expect that Wade would take the initiative to answer the question. He looked up at Wade and slowly blinked his round cat eyes at him.
Wade's face became gloomier and he turned his face away.
Lucian became more and more curious about the Lord of Lazy City who was willing to shed blood to find him.
The Lazy City is a long way from the Luna Mountains. According to legend, the Luna Mountains are a cursed mountain range. There is no sunlight in the mountains, only darkness. On red moon nights, the entire mountain is illuminated in deep red. It is said that a group of people once passed through the Luna Mountains on a red moon night, and the last person in the group said that he heard the howling of a witch. When the person in front turned around to look for the person who spoke, he only saw an empty back - the person who spoke had disappeared without a trace.
This is just one of the many horror stories that happened on the front side of the Moon Goddess Mountain. Even more sinister and terrifying is its back side, the side that faces the Sea of Silence. The Sea of Silence is a black ocean. There are no waves or tides in the ocean, just silence. No one knows what is hidden under the ocean.
But the map shows that the red dragon Edith's lair is just behind the Moon Goddess Mountains.
The Moon Goddess Mountains are close to the triangle area of the Dragon Territory, the Demon Territory and the Human Territory, and on the other side is the Sea of Silence, so all kinds of strange things always appear. Many terrible wizards who are not tolerated by the world also like to hide here.
They walked for a long time, and the population gradually became sparse. In addition to the main city, there are many small tribes or nests in the Demon Realm, but the closer to the Moon Goddess Mountains, the more desolate it is. But this is not a big deal, Wade brought enough supplies for this trip. And Eden and James are also reliable and experienced adventurers.
They also encountered many robbers along the way, but most of them were dealt with by James and Eden and were not worth mentioning. The only thing worth mentioning was that they also encountered a ferocious golem made by someone unknown. Golems are puppets that move freely by infusing witchcraft with a certain material. The most common material used is clay. But the material used by the golem is human flesh and blood.
"It seems he was a human in his lifetime," said Eden.
It can be seen that this golem must have been quite beautiful before it was ravaged by wind and rain. Unlike other strange-looking golems, it looks like a young woman. On the golem's forehead is a spell that gives it the ability to move. It violently destroys everything it sees, muttering simple words.
"Have you seen my husband?" she asked dully to everyone, holding in her claws a heart that she had ripped out of the chest of another unfortunate traveler.
After saying this, he swallowed the heart and chewed it into pieces. While chewing the heart, he looked at everyone, with a faint light flashing in his dull eyes.
"Have you seen my husband?"
He grinned and tilted his head, as if imitating a smile.
The claws of the golems were as fast as lightning, and they wanted to dig out the hearts of people. It seemed that the hearts of living people were the nutrients they needed to maintain their activities. The flesh golems needed to consume fresh flesh and blood to keep themselves from rotting. Of course, even if they were already rotten, they could still walk.
The Flesh Golem was very powerful, and James was able to kill it with a little help from Wade. Until it was completely destroyed, the golem was still repeating some simple words, including "Eliza", "my husband", "I am" and other single words that could not form a meaning. After killing the Flesh Golem, James sat on the ground and wiped his forehead and said: "Flesh Golem? This kind of thing belongs to wizards and human mages who have sold their souls... I heard that only black-robed mages who study black magic and the most evil gray-robed mages who study necromancy can make such a thing. Oh, actually I don't quite understand the definition of the human mages' classification of robe colors."
Wade got out of the car, holding the long-haired cat Lucian, who was taking a nap in the car, in his arms, and stared at the flesh-and-blood golem on the ground.
"It's a very good golem." Wade said, "Your master even taught you to speak some simple words, which is almost impossible for a golem to do. Your master is an extremely powerful wizard."
"!!" James stood up instantly, ready to fight, "In that case, let's quickly..."
"The owner of the golem should be dead." Wade said in a voice without any emotion. "It is very difficult to preserve her appearance when making the golem. If so, the owner would not let his creation wander in the wasteland when he was alive."
"Maybe later on the road, we can find the place where its owner lived." James was relieved to hear that no powerful wizard would come to cause trouble, and he even laughed.
The group continued forward. After a while, they found an abandoned hut. In the hut lay a skeletonized body, as if it had died many years ago. This hut was a standard place for wizards to stay temporarily. There were many witchcraft materials in it, and they found a notebook here.
The owner of the notebook was the dead man on the ground, and the creator of the flesh golem. But surprisingly, the owner committed suicide.
—Committed suicide after he found the human wizard "Gray River" who had been in seclusion for many years.