“Enough, Pipi. I know you don’t get angry without reason. And Your Majesty, stop this. There’s no need to fight with Pipi.”
Rescal rolled his eyes.
It meant he felt awkward. And it also meant that she shouldn’t look down on him too much.
“We weren’t fighting.”
“You were.”
“I was just giving the noisy bird some attention.”
“Yes, to Pipi that’s equivalent to fighting.”
“…That wasn’t my intention.”
“I understand. Now let go.”
His eyes rolled again, slowly.
“Really… must I let go? You sought me out.”
“Don’t we still have things to do?”
“…True.”
Slowly, his hand loosened.
Rasilia walked forward, facing the devastating scene around her.
“The damage is severe. It will take quite some time to rectify this.”
“No, we can mobilize the magicians. First, we’ll find the injured and use healing magic.”
“Ah, there’s that option. That’s good.”
It took a couple more hours to find all the injured. Pipi was able to save a lot of time by calling other birds to help.
After that, all the guildaffiliated magicians rushed over and drew restoration magic circles.
By dawn, the central plaza had regained its original appearance. But there was no way to bring back those already dead. In the seemingly restored central plaza, sorrow and sighs filled the air.
Among them, some moved faster than anyone else.
The Silver Shield and the elite knights led by Ryan headed towards the Harios Temple. It was a response as quick as a surprise attack.
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The surprise attack failed.
“I couldn’t believe it, even seeing it with my own eyes.”
Attacking a temple from the royal family involved a great deal of political burden.
The nobles associated with the temple would strongly oppose, and it would make the devout citizens of the empire angry.
Still, they couldn’t just stand by with the appearance of demons. They believed that raiding the temple would provide evidence confirming the connection between the demons and the temple.
But it was a failure.
“Those bodies… are those demons?”
Ryan clenched his empty fist tightly.
What they found at the Harios Grand Temple was not a trace of demons but a heap of corpses.
The clergy were dead. Bodies were tangled all over the temple, and there were no words to describe it other than brutal.
“They must have had their rituals taken from them before leaving the temple. Forced to kill each other.”
Dekan, who had visited the temple with Riyan, could not erase the lingering shock from his expression.
“Did they seal the mouths to prevent any clues from being found?… Still, it’s incomprehensible as a human act. The way of the demons.”
Rescal brushed back his disheveled hair.
Thinking of the demonic instincts awakening at Bluemoon, he couldn’t forget he was a demon too.
However, his blood had an owner. The thirst for the companion who had subjugated him suppressed all other instincts.
The suddenly appearing demon seemed to want to remove the existence of the companion from him. It was inferable from the beginning when they implicated the empress with an accusation.
He wanted to keep him just as a demon.
He didn’t know the reason yet.
“……I will go to the Empress.”
The thought of someone touching his companion made Rescal’s blood boil.
He only wanted to tie his body somewhere and keep him beside him.
And he wouldn’t close his eyes. He wouldn’t know what would happen the moment he closed his eyes.
“The Empress’s palace is safe. The magic circle has been further reinforced. I’ve also completed two layers of protection spells.”
“Good work. Do everything you can.”
However, Rescal was already rising.
Riyan and Dekan silently followed behind Rescal.
“What else would you like us to do? If we try to trace a place that could be a demon’s base……,”
“No need for that. Demons can’t be traced by magic.”
“So, we wait for them to appear again?”
“Maybe… …No, chase their humans. It should work if they are human.”
“Ah? The humans of the demons? We didn’t kill all the priests.”
Rescal’s golden eyes began to shine strangely. Every time it happened, the shadow knights were reminded anew that he was half another being.
“Malik’s knights.”
“Eh, what?”
At the unexpected words, Riyan and Dekan almost stumbled.
“Malik’s knights? Aren’t they remnants of Malik who fought the demons? They have no reason to collaborate with the demons.”
“It’s an old story. Seven hundred years are more than enough time for useless hostility to vanish.”
“But still…,”
“Check the corpses again. There should be something to distinguish between the priests and Malik’s knights. If all the corpses are priests, it’s a matter that can determine the relationship between the demons and the knights.”
Riyan rubbed his forehead and chin.
“Ah, that should do it. I understand. But if those snakeheads have allied with the demons… Of course, they may have lost their senses, but they might also use some weird ancient magic.”
Dekan added to the conversation.
“A record will be needed. Anything we can know about ancient magic and Malik.”
Rescal nodded.
“Prepare the royal guards. We don’t know what we’ll face.”
“Uh… understood.”
As the tensionfilled conversation came to an end, Rescal’s steps also stopped.
It was in front of the Empress’s chamber.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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