Free Web NovelThe black clouds thinned, and shafts of silver light from the round moon pierced through, illuminating Vieya’s figure. She stood in midair, arms crossed, doing nothing yet exuding unbearable pressure.
Jiele Xiyin no longer cared about the elf ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) who had been rescued. At this moment she was like a rabbit discovered by a natural predator, trembling under Vieya’s gaze, a vast terror rising in her heart.
Impossible.
She, a Demon King, feeling fear before a white-haired girl who still looked wet behind the ears?
And in her memory, there was no impression of this face—yet there was something about the aura, something painfully familiar...
She remembered! That aura, that sense of déjà vu!
Years ago, not long after she had inherited the throne of Demon King, she heard that in the neighboring Monster Forest another Demon King had risen. A Demon King who, in only a week, had unified the entire forest.
In less than a month, that Demon King’s renown had spread through all demonkind.
Jiele Xiyin, who had ascended around the same time, was always overshadowed. Even in her own Demon King castle, people spoke more of that one than of her.
Furious, she had gone to challenge her.
In that battle, Jiele Xiyin had fought with everything she had, yet could not even brush the hem of her opponent’s clothes. That one had not even bothered to remember her name. Utter humiliation!
“It’s you! It’s you! It’s you!” Jiele Xiyin pointed at Vieya, her voice shrill with rage. “You are... Flaviel?” freēwēbnovel.com
“?” Vieya tilted her head in puzzlement, then her doubt quickly turned into a smile. “Who I am doesn’t matter. What matters is that this time you don’t get to run.”
On the ground—
The black-masked group noticed the anomaly in the sky. The dark clouds melted away like snow under the sun, revealing the silver moon and a river of stars. Yet where the Demon King hovered, the world seemed frozen, as if painted into a colorful oil canvas.
“Miracle! A miracle!” the gaunt first mate shouted, pointing skyward. He had been watching the battlefield closely. He didn’t know who this sudden intruder was, but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that the fated defeat had been overturned. They were saved!
“First mate! The barrier in the sky is gone! We’ve re-established contact with the Royal Capital and with Deerhorn City!”
“What about Fengxiang Town? Can we get through there? With such a huge incident, not a single response from them?!”
“Still trying! Still trying! Our signal has gone out... report! They’re not responding!”
The gaunt first mate slammed a railing with his fist, cursing, then dashed down the passageway in search of the captain.
Deerhorn City, atop Cangyuan Mountain.
The Tribunal.
“My God... what is happening?” The director rushed to the watchtower, staring hard at the twisted clouds on the horizon. “All the mana in the air is gathering in that direction. How high a tier must that monster be to do such a thing?!”
“That’s...” Hua Shiyu’s heart sank. That was the route of the ark. “What happened? Not a single message... did they cut off the entire ark’s signal source? Within human territory... impossible.”
Every staff member on duty ran to the mountaintop to stare into the distance. The night sky seemed scorched with a hole, scarlet lightning almost reaching the docks of Deerhorn City. A terrifying energy reaction.
Yet that surge lasted only a fleeting moment—so short it was unbelievable—yet in that instant it lit up the whole night sky.
“Director! Minister Hua! Arbiter! Terrible news!”
“What is it?”
“The Starbell Lily reports they’ve been ambushed en route by a massive enemy force! And— and—they say the Demon King has appeared!”
“What did you say?! The Demon King appeared inside human territory?!”
“Yes, confirmed personally by the captain of the Starbell Lily!”
The Demon King had once more entered human lands.
The words detonated like thunder in the ears of everyone in the Tribunal. The director stared motionless at the sky’s clouds, as if thinking, or as if muttering a curse.
“Beautiful, isn’t it, the world of humans?” Vieya gazed at the brightly lit cities below. “Scenes like this always remind me of home.”
The sea of clouds surged at her feet, bathed in the warm orange glow of the sun slowly rising in the east.
“This world clearly holds so many things worth doing, so much beauty. Yet we always take them for granted, ignoring them. Only after losing them completely do we regret, sleepless with remorse. Isn’t that so... Demon King of Revelry and Jealousy?”
Chill ran through Jiele Xiyin’s entire body. She dared not speak.
She was a Demon King, towering above most life on this land. Yet she had once encountered monsters who could easily take her life—monsters that haunted her nightmares. But those monsters were dead.
Never again would they appear in this world, before her eyes.
Yet now, Vieya reawakened her terror of monsters.
“What are you?!” Jiele Xiyin’s whole body tightened as she roared, but the eight blood-stained spider spears at her back quivered with fear. “What in the hells are you?!”
Vieya did not answer. She simply smiled and lifted her hand. The power of the Fifth Authority and the Twelfth Authority converged and merged, forming in her grasp a golden lance leaping with high-frequency lightning.
Authority Fusion Art!
“It’s you! It’s you!” Jiele Xiyin froze for a moment at the sight of the golden lance, then flew into frenzy once more. “I know who you are! I never imagined that bitch Flaviel had such tricks. Out in the open she left a cripple with a single Authority to sit on the throne as a decoy, but in secret she hid away a true heir of complete inheritance!”
“I’ll kill you! If I devour you, I will become the greatest Demon King, surpassing that bitch!” Jiele Xiyin’s face twisted, madness in her eyes. “I am the greatest Demon King in this world!”
“So noisy.”
Vieya’s emerald eyes glinted with cold as she hurled the “Sunlance” in an instant.
The flying monsters shrieked, following the frenzied Jiele Xiyin as she charged at Vieya.
They clashed amidst the clouds, at a height even the magic crystal cannons could not reach.
To those on the ground, all they saw were thunderclaps colliding, bells of thunder rolling, and dragons dropping lifeless from the sky one by one. freeweɓnovel.cøm
This time, Vieya held nothing back. Even with hordes of monsters aiding her, Jiele Xiyin could not seize the slightest advantage.
She had fully monsterized, a towering black spider crawling through the void, her massive form showing no clumsiness at all.
“You’re Flaviel’s leftover child, aren’t you? Laughable. That other cripple’s strength isn’t even one ten-millionth of yours!” Jiele Xiyin drove her dragons like fodder to probe for weaknesses, all the while hunting for a moment when Vieya might drop her guard.
“So this is the so-called equal world? Heh. To me, the Demon King whom thousands of monsters praised as resplendent was nothing but a cunning liar, cruel and false to the bone!”
“A monster like you could never understand why all revere her, yet never you.”
Vieya dispatched the last dragon, shook the blood from her hands, and lifted her eyes to the maddened Jiele Xiyin. Her face held neither joy nor sorrow.
“And that is the chasm between you and her.”
