Demon world.
"Is even this land dead?"
Cecily was half-kneeling on the ground that had turned white.
This is the domain of the water element lord, one of the four dukes of the Demon World.
After the land for growing crops in the towns and villages around the Demon World gradually turned gray and withered, Cecily decided to open a new farm on this land.
But the ground under Cecily's feet had already appeared gray-white traces, and gradually it had been corroded from soil to gray dust, losing any value.
This kind of graying began to spread like a plague in the devil world, and even if the prophet found countless ways of planting human beings, there was no way to use it.
"What's the matter?"
Cecily looked at the decaying trees around her, and she felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
She was able to calm the unrest in the Demon King City, eliminate all the uneasy factors that threatened the people in the King City, and re-establish diplomatic relations with the human kingdom.
But in the face of this strange pathological change, Cecily was completely helpless.
She searched for many books in the library of the Demon King City, but there was no record of this situation.
A faint green portal appeared behind Cecily, and the petite figure of the prophet walked out of it.
"His Royal Highness Joshua is back," said the Prophet.
"Joshua?"
Cecily stood up immediately upon hearing the name.
The anxiety caused by the corruption of the land has gradually disappeared...
Joshua has brought too many miracles to the Demon Realm. From the very beginning, the human kingdom Farosi established diplomatic relations with the Demon Realm, and some specialties in the Demon Realm became "hot sellers" in Nolan. It was something that Cecily could not have imagined before.
"Take me to see him."
Cecily followed the prophet into the dark green portal.
The location that the portal leads to is the center of the Demon King City, the center of the entire Demon Realm's power.
Cecily came all the way to the courtyard and saw Joshua, who had not seen him for almost a month.
She immediately walked in front of Qiao Xiu, and before Qiao Xiu could speak, she began to look at Qiao Xiu.
"… "
Qiao Xiu could only be at the mercy of the eldest sister. She held Qiao Xiu's cheeks with both hands and looked at them for a long time, and then looked at Qiao Xiu's hands again.
She was confirming whether there were any signs of injury on Qiao Xiu's body. From a very young age, the third prince of the demon world liked to toss with dangerous things, and then tossed him all over.
But the third prince in the past had already died in an experiment, and for the current Joshua, it was just a memory copy.
Therefore, Qiao Xiu's feelings for this eldest sister are only limited to an older friend, and a friend who needs to be avoided.
The reason why Joshua didn't go back to the Demon Realm very much was that he didn't want to see Cecily.
After all, Joshua needs to hide some cruel facts from Cecily.
"Who are they?"
Cecily was relieved after confirming that her younger brother hadn't done anything to kill her and injured her whole body, and looked behind Joshua again.
"The old doctors I invited you... No, they are high elves... with the ability to heal the gray fog."
Joshua pointed to the high elf priests standing behind him.
Although Ciri had been standing next to Joshua, Joshua did not introduce her, because the eldest sister Cecily had already heard of this human girl.
"High Elves?"
Cecily looked at the tall figures behind Josh, and the high elf at the head looked at Cecily, and Cecily read out something called "hostility".
But she quickly controlled that dangerous look.
"My name is Enya, and I came here on the entrustment of the Son of the Forest."
Elder Enya just briefly introduced his identity.
Cecily's knowledge of the elves is only on the "idols" that have been hotly discussed on the magic network recently. These elves are beautiful and can sing and dance. Thinking of this, her succubus seems to have this kind of skill. .
"Can they cure the ashes of the land?"
Cecily is not in the mood to think about the magic net now. The large area of ashes in the demon world has gradually turned into a crisis that may "threaten the existence of the demon world".
Although the golden potion that Joshua gave to Sehiri could ease the spread of ashes, it still seemed a little… powerless in this vast land.
"The ashes of the land is still going on? It's a little tricky, Sister Cecily... have you seen your father?"
Joshua vaguely remembered that if he wanted to go to the top of the tower to meet Fuya, unless it was a special person allowed by the ruler of the demon world, such as the dark elf Thousand Faces... Others must first get the permission of the ruler.
"Father, he hasn't come out of the altar for a long time."
Cecily looked at the tallest building in the royal city, Joshua's words reminded her of another thing she was worried about.
"Not yet... out?"
If Joshua remembered correctly, the first time he saw the ruler was at the altar of the caretaker.
He hasn't left the altar since then... which means he's been inside for a whole year!
"Sister Cecily, haven't you knocked on the door?"
Qiao Xiu immediately walked towards the direction of the altar quickly, a kind of unease surrounding Qiao Xiu's heart.
"I went to ask my father, but he has not responded to me recently." Cecily said.
"Then you should just push the door and go in!"
What if your old father has another stroke!
Joshua endured the next sentence, Cecily is not the kind of woman who likes to joke.
"Forcibly breaking into the altar of the guards violated the taboos of our family, and will be... given the death penalty." Cecily warned Joshua aloud.
"It's taboo again..."
When Joshua heard the word, he glanced at the high elves behind him with a big head. This group of elves also had a lot of clan rules that made it uncomfortable.
"But it's approaching Wang Xuan's time, and now I have enough reasons to ask my father."
Fortunately, Cecily is a person who knows how to be flexible. She also understands that things are too abnormal and can't wait any longer after Joshua's signal.
"We can't go in there, can we?"
Ciri looked at the water element servants walking in the castle corridor, approached Joshua and asked in a low voice.
Just from the name of the altar mentioned by Joshua, Ciri felt that this was another "place that outsiders are forbidden to step in".
"This... well, Ciri, wait here for you and the high elves."
Joshua glanced at his eldest sister's serious expression, and could only make Ciri and the high elf priests wait in place, while he followed Cecily all the way to the place where the altar of the guards was.
The door to the altar of the guards was still tightly locked. After Secili glanced silently at Qiao Xiu behind her, she silently said "Forgive me" and pushed open the stone door covered with inscriptions.
The door was gradually pushed open... A strong smell of blood quietly permeated the entire corridor.
The altar of the guards was shrouded in darkness. Joshua took out a primitive spar for lighting to disperse the surrounding darkness, and a figure was faintly kneeling on the ground in the distance.
"Father!" Cecily wanted to step forward to talk to the ruler, but she stopped just after taking a few steps forward.
Joshua came behind Cecily with the original spar that radiated light, and saw the figure in the darkness.
The ruler of the Demon Realm, Notrain Anorod.
But the ruler was half-kneeling on the ground, propping up his aging body with the long sword behind him, while holding a heart in the other hand.
This heart is the ruler's own...
The blood has dripped on the ground and gradually dried up, and the heart has completely collapsed and died...
Murder in a secret room? The first thing that came to Qiao Xiu's mind when he saw this scene was this idea.
But Cecily beside her was completely in a state of rage.
"Sister Cecily, there seems to be a scroll on the ground."
Joshua looked at Cecily's clenched fists, she was controlling her emotions, Joshua also took a deep breath and pointed to the ground, where a scroll was placed in front of the ruler's long sword pierced into the ground.
Cecily walked slowly to the ruler's corpse, and then picked up the scroll on the ground. After confirming that there was no magic or trap in the scroll, she opened the scroll.
"This is... my father's note." Cecily said in a low voice.