01.
"Which do you love more, your queen or your power
But with the Pope of Light around, you can't keep any of them. "
This is a whisper from the Demon King.
Of course, King Eutin had seen demons before, and the Pope let him see the demons who were about to be executed. In King Eutin's memory, the demons were ferocious, bloodthirsty, and perhaps brave—King Eutin had never seen a demon begging for mercy because of fear of death.
According to the scriptures of the church, the devil is cunning and cruel.
Those demons sometimes tried to confuse King Eutin before they died. Some of them possessed spiritual magical abilities, but King Eutin wore a lot of magic protection treasures, and he could know them through the heat of those defensive treasures. The opponent cast a spiritual spell on him.
Now that King Eutin listened to Hill's words, he felt that his heart was shaking, but he didn't feel the heat of the cross in his chest at all. The opponent did not use magic. This fact made him shudder. If possible, he would rather be shaken by the other party's use of spiritual magic.
King Eutin suddenly recalled a feeling, which was a kind of primitive human fear of demons.
He wanted Hill to say more while the iron was hot, to make him lean more toward one side. Was it temptation that made him lean towards the Demon King camp, or fear that made him return to the blessing of the Church of Light.
But Hill just smiled slightly after finishing speaking, turned and left.
The feeling of hanging like this is really too bad.
"You haven't wavered, have you?" Hill walked to the door and said with his back to him.
King Eutin repeated in a trance: "Am I not shaken?"
"You can't be shaken." Hill turned his back to him, and the smile on his face was a typical ferocious smile of a demon king. If King Eutin saw it, he would immediately be afraid of being shaken. Too bad he couldn't see it. "At least not now." When Hill said this, his voice was quite gentle. After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the other party's response, and left the queen's bedroom directly.
King Eutin sat on the sofa for a while, his mind was a little confused now, he wanted to calm down and think for a while, but he knew he couldn't. If he was still alone in a daze in the palace after the devil left, it would arouse the suspicion of the church. He's very experienced with it. So he forced himself to calm down, and left the bedroom before twilight enveloped the room to find the Pope of Light.
He can basically see the Pope of Light at any time, which is a useless privilege.
King Eutin completely calmed down the moment he saw the Pope of Light. This is an ability he has trained for decades. He first made the necessary greetings with the Pope.
"He should have seen through it," King Eutin reported to the Pope Guangming, "and didn't give me any promises. He kept saying, uh, bad things about you during the meeting with me."
The Pope of Light asked, "What else?"
"He also said that he could give me a sum of money so that I could buy some desperadoes to be my own strength." King Eutin replied truthfully.
"Your heart is moved." The Pope of Light said.
"There are some, but I also know that those are not enough for you." King Eutin said.
The Pope of Light stared at King Eutin for a while, and suddenly said, "Did I trust you too much?"
King Eutin lowered his eyes: "How is it possible, our relationship is impossible to have trust."
The Demon King is right, he cannot be shaken yet, and he is not qualified to be shaken yet.
On that day, the Pope destroyed all the gifts Hill had given to King Eutin.
King Eutin did not resist as before. He remembered that there was a book with a beautiful cover, which was the silhouette of angels and elves in the ruins. That cover was much more beautiful than the illustrations in the church ceremony.
I heard that the demons use many novels and something called movies to lure human beings to degenerate. The pictures in that book are so beautiful. King Eutin thought. Unfortunately, he couldn't see what was inside.
02.
After converting the Pope's attack into a dark nail, Hill began to sort out the cultural industry of the Demon Realm.
Movie. Magazine. cartoon. game. variety show. There are also unique products. The cultural industry has been gradually built up now, and Hill has handed over most of these things to other people to manage. He is currently only responsible for providing some original ideas, and the other is supervision and final inspection.
Recently, under the auspices of Hill, the 1st Demon King Cup Singer Contest kicked off the audition with great vigor.
In the past few years, Hill has greatly impacted the music field of the other world with modern pop music and traditional music on the earth, directly opening the door to a new world for people with musical talents in the other world. Now that the Demon King Cup Singer Contest is being held, it also happens to provide a stage for these people to show themselves.
After hearing the news, they immediately cheered.
There are a total of seven judges, including the five elders of the Demon Realm and the five ambassadors of the Dark Holy See. Of course, they will not appear together, twenty one by one. In addition, there are two important figures from each of the three empires, as well as Super Girl and the Hell Front Rock Band. , the last one is a movie star. After entering the quarterfinals, Hill himself will serve as a judge.
When the program first advertised, many people were not optimistic about it. They thought it was enough to listen to those famous singers, why should they listen to folk songs? They have also heard folk bards singing and so on, so it feels like a group of chickens pecking at each other, which is meaningless.
As a result, after a few passionate promotional videos were released, everyone immediately became "it looks pretty good".
This audition is not limited to race and age, and the scope of the audition includes the entire territory of the Plague Islands, Magnolia Continent and Demon Realm. At first, Hill wanted to separate the demons from the humans, but later he felt that it was unnecessary. The demons definitely have a racial advantage, and the human beings who stand out under such circumstances appear to be more advanced.
The competition is divided into countries first, and the judges have one vote to pass, and then the audience votes. This kind of interaction instantly turned everyone from "seems to be good" to "very interesting".
And some people who pay attention to the game itself admire Hill's creativity again.
"Sometimes it really feels like Lord Demon King's brain is connected to another planet." A human being in charge of this matter said so.
Not long after, the Devil's Cup announced that the audience could vote for the eliminated contestants, allowing them to "resurrect" and participate in the competition again. Each competition area can "resurrect" a player and directly enter the channel of the top 18.
From now on, you can get a vote for every 50 gold coins spent in the Demon World Mall.
After this rule came out, the dark knight Gordenia was a little puzzled: "My king, will they vote?"
"Why don't they vote for their favorite player?" Hill asked.
"They used to pay for records because they owned them after they bought them," Goldonia said. "But this one doesn't get anything even if you vote."
"Your analysis makes sense. Most people do have such a mentality at the beginning." Hill said, "But they will also spend in the Demon Realm Mall to get some votes, and then there will be people who don't vote for nothing. idea."
"Then they can 'resurrect' their favorite players." Gordenia seemed to understand something: "In this way, they and their favorite players will have one more kind..."
"It's a fetter, at least it's the fetter they think they are." Hill said, "Then they will continue to support and really spend money for the players they like."
"Are you planning to introduce audience votes in future games?" Goldonia obviously grasped Hill's thinking.
"Proportionally." Hill snapped his fingers, "It would be unfair if the votes accounted for most of the votes, so fans' votes accounted for 30%, and the rest were scored by the judges and guest groups."
After Hill specified a detailed plan for the Devil's Cup, he handed over the matter to Gordenia and the Lich Alighieri. He spared time to watch a few episodes of the show. Among other things, the stage effect was enough to scare him to death. personal.
In addition, some interesting things happened. The singer performed on stage with a backing dancer. Most of the backing dancers were provided by the Mozu. When the Succubus Dance Troupe came on stage for the first time, the human who participated in the competition stood on the stage. , Then he was fascinated by the succubus and forgot to sing, which caused boos from the audience. This incident was later defined as a program accident, after which the contestants would wear officially issued anti-magic props when they stepped onto the stage.
Not long after, there was another performance accident. The black dwarf singer swung the hammer excitedly while singing a rock song, but the stage was pierced, and he fell into the stage, and it took a long time to climb out.
Another time, the lich who was in charge of the stage effect accidentally sprayed out too much flames. Fortunately, most of the people sitting there were demons, and a group of demons ran out alive and kicking. People hurried to put out their clothes to put out the fire. Afterwards, Gordenia immediately studied with the Lich Alighieri, and established a formation for filtering damage spells in the audience area. Normal spells are not filtered, like a drizzle or something.
There is magic, and the stage effect of the singing competition is eye-catching.
Fog on the stage, light effects, and flames are all the most basic. You don’t need to be shocked when a phantom of a magic dragon suddenly flies out. It is normal for a singer to suddenly shine brightly. In short, this game was played by Gordenia and Lich Ali Gaili.
After one and a half months of competition, the quarterfinals were decided. Five demons and three humans. In fact, many human beings rely on the advantage of the votes of fellow human beings to come up. There are also demon shopping malls in the demon world, but the enthusiasm of demons to vote is far less than that of humans. In other words, the demons are not as rich as humans... All the money of the demons is in Hill's hands.
Although humans have the advantage in voting, in the end it was the Mozu singers who took the majority.
The Demon King Cup competition has also greatly increased the communication between the demons and humans. After the quarterfinals, the games were all held in the demon world. The zero-distance contact made many people excited.
Under such circumstances, the Devil King Cup Quarterfinals began.
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