Demonic world.
The sky here is always dark, and the phoenix flies roaring in the distance, leaving behind ripples with the breath of death. In the middle of the endless plain, a tall and gloomy castle stood abruptly, and no intelligent devil creature could be seen within a ten-mile radius.
This is the castle of Lotgar, the Grand Duke of Hubiris, one of the five Grand Dukes of the Abyss in the Demon Realm. No one dares to approach it.
Suddenly, the calm was broken, a teleportation array glowing with light purple light spread out over the castle, and two hugging figures emerged from the teleportation array.
But as soon as the man and woman appeared, dozens of black flames rushed towards them like sharp arrows, with an aura that threatened to pierce through the people in the future.
The shoulders of the man with the two horns on his head moved slightly, and the thin wings behind him suddenly wrapped the two of them. The black flames hit the thin layer of flesh, but they were all bounced away and dissipated.
"Hey, Lot, is this how you welcome me?" The man spread his thin wings and shouted dissatisfiedly below.
A tall figure flew out of the castle with huge fleshy wings. His long black hair was fluttering in the wind, and there was a black curved horn on top of his head. The face under the horn was handsome and evil, pale and cold, and his slender eyes narrowed in displeasure. He stood up, his ruby-like eyes filled with sarcasm, he grinned, showing his white teeth and said: "Balan, when did I welcome you?"
"Oh, we have been old friends for thousands of years, why are we so careless?" Balan didn't mind Rotgar's attitude and said with a smile, "I'm getting married, so I'll personally send you an invitation!"
He flicked his hand, and an exquisitely crafted invitation fell into Rotgar's hands.
Lotgar held the invitation between the two fingers of his right hand, and his eyes fell on the woman Balan was embracing.
With just one glance, he knew that it was a human woman.
The human woman had rich, long golden hair, delicate and beautiful facial features, but her expression was like a timid elk in the forest. At this moment, she was shyly hugging Balan's waist tightly, as if she was afraid of falling.
Lotgar is a demon. In fact, the five Abyss Grand Dukes in the demon world are all demons who climbed up from the abyss. Demons, on the other hand, are born racists and look down on other races, especially humans with weak bodies. In their eyes, they are representatives of filth, incompetence and hypocrisy.
Rotgar always mocked Balan every time he met, but for thousands of years, he had indeed regarded Balan as a friend. Now that he heard that he was getting married to a human woman, he thought his friend was joking. : "Are you crazy? A human woman is dirty even if you touch her, so you want to marry her?"
"Hey, don't say such things in front of my future wife. Catherine is different. She is a pure and beautiful unicorn. I fell in love with her." Balan stopped Rotgar first, then looked down. He held his future wife in his arms, lifted her chin, and kissed her tenderly.
A blush appeared on Catherine's face, and she put her arms around Balaam's neck, looking intoxicated.
Rotgar frowned fiercely, wanting these two annoying people to get out.
After all, taking into account the mood of his friend, Balan quickly ended the kiss, looked at Rotegar in a great mood, and said with a smile: "Rote, in the past, I was only addicted to sensory stimulation, and thought that was the most beautiful thing in the world. It’s only now that I discovered that the taste of love is the sweetest. Don’t you want to stay in your castle all the time and taste the beauty of love?”
Rotgar snorted coldly: "Love? Is your love a hypocritical and lowly creature like human beings? Balaam, you are a disgrace to the devil. I think you will be destroyed at the hands of a human woman sooner or later."
"Don't speak so harshly, Lot." Balan said dissatisfiedly, "There are some hypocritical and annoying humans, but there are also little lambs like Catherine."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and smiled tenderly at Catherine.
The blush on the petite Catherine's face has not gone away, and Balan's handsome face is reflected in her green eyes.
Rotgar couldn't stand it anymore. He turned away his eyes in disgust and said coldly: "It's up to you. I won't go to your wedding."
Black flames ignited in his hands, and the invitation was burned clean in an instant.
Balan said before Lotgar flew back to the castle: "Lot, let's make a bet."
Rotgar paused and looked at Balan, his blood-red eyes a little more interested: "What bet?"
Balan said: "Don't you look down on human women and think they are all vain? You still have half a year before the wedding. As long as you can get a hundred human women to agree to your proposal within half a year, then you will win. But if you can’t do that, you have to come to my wedding.”
"If I win, will you kill your love?" Rotgar sneered. Although he thought the bet was ridiculous, he was indeed a little competitive.
Catherine flinched when she heard Rotgar's words.
Balan quickly hugged her to comfort her, glared at Lotgar before saying, "If you win, I will give you the abyss tree I just got some time ago."
Rotgar's eyes changed. If he was only a little interested in Balan's words before, now he is determined to win.
He has been searching for abyss tree species for thousands of years, but has only found two so far. He wants to decide on Balan's one!
"Deal," Rotgar raised his eyes and said, "You will keep it safe for me for the next six months."
Seeing that Lotgar agreed, Balan didn't care that he had regarded the abyss tree species as his property, and added maliciously: "However, you can't force them to agree to your proposal, let alone kidnap them. Come from the demon world. You have to be in the human world and use your personal charm to conquer their hearts!"
"It's just a human woman, there's no need for me to force her." Rotgar agreed nonchalantly.
"Then I'll be waiting for your good news!" Balan smiled and unfolded the teleportation array. Finally, he gave Rotgar a meaningful look and happily teleported away with Catherine.
Catherine waited for the light of the teleportation array to disappear before quietly asking Balan: "What if he wins?"
Her voice was soft and gentle, like silk across the skin, which made Balaam's heart tremble slightly. This was the reason why he didn't allow her to speak in front of others. Only he could hear such a voice.
Balan anxiously carried her back to their bedroom, and said nonchalantly: "He is destined to lose. With his broken mouth, he can't even say a good word. Which woman is willing to marry him?"
"But… "
"Shh, stop talking about him, I'll get jealous. Call me by my name, baby."
“…Bal, Balaam…”
On the other side, Rotgar returned to the castle, put away his thin wings, walked through the deserted corridor, and came to the underground of the castle.
Rotgar knew very well that Balan took out the abyssal tree species as a bet, firstly because Balan did not care about the abyssal tree species as much as he did, and secondly because Balan thought he would lose.
As an old friend for thousands of years, Balan has said more than once that even if he really fell in love with a woman, he would not be able to pursue her because he could not say nice things at all and could make a woman who loves him madly just by speaking. From love to hate.
But even Balan, who is his friend, doesn't know that his natural skill "Possession" will have the effect of obtaining part of the opponent's memory when used.
Each Grand Duke of the Abyss has an innate skill, which is a gift from the abyss to them when they climb out of the abyss.
Rotgar's innate skill "Possession" allows him to dematerialize his body, inhabit the body of an intelligent creature in a soul-like form, and perfectly control the other person's body. This is what Balan knows. What Balan doesn't know is that he can also randomly obtain part of the opponent's memory.
Therefore, the bet with Balan seemed to Rotgar as simple as finding a playboy and using his memory to gain the favor of a human woman. Human women are vain and greedy, and he will definitely win this bet.
There is no direct passage between the demon world and the human world. The environment on both sides is highly toxic to creatures on both sides. Only a few individuals from a few races can survive in the other world by themselves or by using foreign objects, secret techniques, etc.
But even so, the strength will be weakened.
In order to relieve the curse of the abyss on himself - which is the price of the gift from the abyss - Rotgar often goes to the human world to look for clues. There is a cross-border teleportation array erected under the castle.
He stood in the center of the teleportation array, flicked his finger downwards, and a black flame hit the center of the teleportation array, instantly filling the entire teleportation array. After a burst of purple light, he appeared in the forest ten miles away from a certain city in the human world. .
The light unique to the spell quickly dissipated, and Rotgar frowned. Every time he came to the human world, it made him very uncomfortable.
Even though he is the Grand Duke of the Abyss and can resist the poison of the human world's environment, it is not without any impact. At this moment, his strength was suppressed to less than half of its original strength.
There was a voice diagonally ahead, mixed with screams and wild laughter. Since Lotgar made no attempt to conceal himself, they spotted him as he approached.
"who are you!"
Lotgar didn't even glance at it, and went his own way.
A female voice screamed: "Help me, please help me!"
"Shut up!" There was a slap, and then a rough male voice shouted, "I'm asking you! Stop for me! Damn it! Come on, brothers, leave him to me!"
Several men picked up the weapons that were thrown aside and rushed towards Lotgar. Because it was a little dark in the forest, there were branches that blocked half of Lotgar's figure. It was not until they surrounded him that the men discovered him. Not a human, but one with goat horns on its head...
"Devil! It's the devil!"
The men screamed in horror, turned around and wanted to run away, but it was too late.
Rotgar raised his hand and flicked it, and black flames appeared out of thin air. After touching the bodies of several men, they spread instantly as if they were stained with oil. The blazing black flames enveloped them and instantly enveloped them. Burn to ashes.
And Rotgar didn't even stop.
The woman who witnessed this horrific scene was left shivering in fear, hugging herself and crying silently, not daring to make a sound, and praying desperately to the goddess of light in her heart.
After saving a small life, she quickly decided to treat everything she saw today as a nightmare and not tell anyone.
Rotgar quickly found a suitable target for possession, not far away, Parrish Wilson, the son of the Lord of Blue Stone City, was returning to the city in a luxurious four-wheel carriage.
Parrish Wilson was not a mage and had weak mental power. Apart from him, the only people on the carriage were the coachman and his manservant, who were also weak ordinary humans. Rotgar successfully "possessed" him easily. This body looked young and handsome, and he was able to get at least ten human women to agree to his proposal in one day.
Rotgar's possession will not cause the original owner of the body to die. The original owner's soul will be forced to curl up into a ball and fall into a deep sleep, with the body under his control.
The carriage slowly drove into Blue Stone City. Rotgar opened the window and looked outside indifferently.
These despicable, incompetent, and weak human beings are still just as annoying.
The carriage suddenly stopped, and the coachman shouted angrily: "Untouchable! How dare you stop Master Parrish's carriage! Do you want to be hanged?"
Rotgar looked away and heard a frightened, weak female voice saying: "I'm sorry, someone pushed me... I'll get out of the way right away!"
Lame excuse.
Rotgar remembered that he had seen such a scene many years ago. A poor, weak and beautiful girl fell in front of a rich young master's car, trying to reach the sky in one step.
Tsk, woman.
Rotgar opened the carriage door and got out of the carriage, and saw the girl lying in front of the carriage trying to stand up, but due to her knee injury, she lay back down in pain as soon as she half-propelled her body.
There are already good people around who stop and whisper.
Pretty decent acting.
Rotgar thought so maliciously, walked up to the girl who couldn't stand up after falling, and bent down to pick her up while the other party looked at her in shock.
Because of his actions, the onlookers let out exclamations of surprise.
Most of them recognized their lord's son, and a noble actually picked up a commoner. This scene surprised them.
In Rotgar's eyes, humans are inferior to the lowest slimes in the demon world. If he were his true form, he would not let this human woman touch a corner of his clothes.
But for the sake of the abyss tree species, he didn't mind enduring it.
Rotgar mobilized the memory of Parrish Wilson, smiled with this body, looked at the girl who was only sixteen or seventeen years old affectionately, and said: "Beautiful lady, I fell in love with you at first sight because of your beauty. , your injury makes my heart feel like a knife, how can I bear to see you like this? Please come home with me, I will take good care of your injury."
Due to his unique family background and personal conditions, Parrish became a playboy popular with women. His mind was full of sweet words, and there was enough content in the random memories Rotgar saw for him to choose from.
The girl has long reddish-brown curly hair. She is sixteen or seventeen years old. Her skin is fair and tender. Her sky-blue eyes have a shallow layer of physiological tears due to pain. Her lips are full and healthy red, but she has a little bit of redness on her body. The small smoky gray old skirt made her look like a dusty pearl.
Rotgar didn't wait for the girl to react, then carried her into the carriage, causing the onlookers to whisper one after another.
"Wow, Master Parrish is so gentle. I really hope it's me who falls in front of his car!"
"That girl is so lucky, kind goddess, why is it not my daughter who encounters such a good thing?"
“…”
When Rotgar heard those envy, he sneered with understanding and disgust in his heart.
These inferior humans never let him down.
Contrary to what he thought, he gently placed the girl on the seat, sat opposite her, looked at the girl who was wiping away her tears with tender eyes, and said in a magnetic voice: "Beautiful lady, You are like the rising sun to me, lighting up my future. Without you by my side, I don’t know where to go. Please marry me!"
Rotgar took a quick approach. Since this human woman fell in front of Parrish's carriage with the goal of reaching the sky, when he proposed, she would only happily agree.
He saw that the hand of the girl opposite who had just wiped away her tears froze. She looked up at him. She must have been too surprised. Her eyes widened slightly and her lips trembled slightly.
The disgust in Rotgar's heart increased even more, and this ugly appearance made him sick.
Once she agrees, he kills her.
However, when Rotgar lowered his eyes slightly and placed his hand on the dagger at his waist casually, just waiting to hear the ecstatic answer before taking action, what he heard was that the girl was weak and a little certain. Voice: "I refuse."
Rotgar suddenly raised his eyes, and his reaction was unusually slow.
…She actually rejected him
This is impossible!