In the kingdom's garden, a girl with black hair draped over her shoulders sat by the pond, cradling an ice-blue slime. Her fair little feet stretched into the water, swaying incessantly, while she occasionally plucked a piece of delicate pastry from her hand and stuffed it into the slime's body.
"Flora, has something happened in the royal city?"
After stuffing all the pastries in her hand into Lu Minghao's body, Sally turned her head to look at Flora, the great demon girl who had been standing behind her. At this moment, she had become Sally's exclusive maid.
"Lady Sally, it seems that some of our compatriots in the royal city have suddenly gone mad. In addition, thousands of compatriots have mysteriously disappeared. Early this morning, Lord Edras left the palace for the royal city."
After hearing Sally's words, Flora quickly told everything she knew. However, she wasn't clear about the specific situation, and she only heard about it from other demons.
"Mad demons... it seems it has already begun."
Sally turned her head to look at the pond in front of her. Her gaze penetrated the surface of the water, seeing the fish at the bottom biting and tearing at each other. Sally knew what was happening to those demons who had suddenly gone mad. The sin of gluttony had begun to erode their bodies.
And this was just the beginning. As time passed, more and more demons would become increasingly frenzied and chaotic as the degree of erosion increased. In the end, they would either maintain their sanity with their own will or become completely new gluttonous monsters.
"Lady Sally, what's wrong?"
Behind her, Flora looked at Sally, who had been silent, and subconsciously stepped forward, asking with a hint of worry on her face. In her opinion, Sally must be worried because she heard about the madness and disappearance of the demon citizens in the royal city. After all, Sally was the next king of the Edras Kingdom, and those demons were all her people.
"It's nothing."
Sally raised her head and glanced at Flora, gently shaking her head to indicate that she was fine. However, Flora felt a strange sensation, as if Sally's purple pupils had seen through everything about her.
What Flora didn't know was that Sally was looking at the gluttony sin that was constantly accumulating in her body, the constantly mutating and twisting inner self.
"Sally, so you're here."
At this moment, a huge shadow suddenly enveloped Sally's body, and Edras's gentle voice came from above. Chris, flapping his dragon wings, stopped in front of Sally. Edras's handsome face wore a paternal smile as he jumped down from Chris's head, looking at Sally in front of him.
"Uncle, what do you want Sally for?"
As she spoke, Sally stood up and patted the dust off her skirt, while Flora on the side stepped forward to put Sally's shoes away, and also wanted to take the slime in Sally's hand, but Sally completely ignored Flora's actions.
"Sally, you already know that I want you to become the next king of the Edras Kingdom, awaken as a True Demon Lord, and lead the Edras Kingdom to become a top kingdom. And what I have to do now is to make you a Demon Lord Seed as quickly as possible, and then absorb enough souls to awaken."
After saying that, Edras subconsciously glanced at the slime in Sally's arms. However, in his opinion, a mere slime without even self-awareness, even if the color was a bit strange, was not worth paying attention to.
"Become a Demon Lord Seed as quickly as possible?"
Sally was stunned when she heard Edras's words, and then raised her head, her purple eyes staring at him intently, not understanding what kind of method Edras had to make her a Demon Lord Seed at the fastest speed.
"Sally, do you know what a demon needs to grow?"
Edras didn't directly answer Sally's question, but instead asked Sally gently, just like a father teaching his child, hoping she would learn to think for herself.
"Magic essence?"
After hearing Edras's words, Sally tilted her little head and thought for a moment, tentatively asking.
"Yes, magic essence. The growth of demons is just a matter of magic essence, at least before the upper demons. As long as there is enough magic essence, they can continue to grow. But the Demon Lord Seed is different. Every Demon Lord Seed must have its own unique skill, which is also equivalent to the threshold of the Demon Lord Seed."
As Edras spoke, he raised his hand. Golden light enveloped Edras's entire body, instantly doubling Edras's magic essence, physical strength, and recovery power. His entire temperament also became indifferent and rational, but also full of endless confidence and courage.
"This is my unique skill [Brave Warrior], which can double all my abilities and keep my mind in a state of absolute calm at all times, but also gives me courage and confidence."
As he spoke, Edras canceled the effect of his unique skill, and a paternal smile reappeared on his indifferent face as he looked at Sally.
"Sally, you have multiple skills, which means that as long as you have enough magic essence, you will directly become a Demon Lord Seed, and you can even directly increase the magic essence to the critical point of awakening to become a True Demon Lord. When the time comes, as long as you have enough souls, you will directly awaken... and I have already prepared the souls you need for you."
Speaking of this, Edras subconsciously looked in the direction of the royal capital. If Sally reached the critical point of awakening when she became a Demon Lord Seed, then for the sake of all the citizens of the entire Edras Kingdom, Edras would use the souls of 100,000 demons in the royal capital as nourishment for Sally's awakening.
"Which means, uncle, you have a way to help Sally quickly increase her magic essence?"
On the opposite side, Sally didn't pay attention to the strange look in Edras's eyes as he looked in the direction of the royal capital, but just looked at Edras with bright eyes. At this time, she completely understood that Edras in front of her could help her quickly increase her magic essence.
However, when she learned about this, Sally first looked at Lu Minghao in her arms. If there really was such a method, wouldn't it be possible for Minghao to come? Then Minghao could soon awaken to become a True Demon Lord.
Sally knew that Lu Minghao had long collected the most basic 10,000 human souls he needed to awaken to become a True Demon Lord. Moreover, besides that, there was also a hero's soul being digested in Lu Minghao's body and nearly 50,000 demon souls.
"Of course! Sally, come with me."
After saying that, Edras turned around with a smile on his face and walked towards the depths of the palace. Behind him, Sally hugged Lu Minghao tightly and followed, hopping and skipping.
Half an hour later, led by Edras, the demons stopped at the deepest part of the palace. A dark black door appeared in front of everyone, and countless magic barriers surrounded the entire place.
The next second, Edras stepped forward and placed his palm on the magic barrier. As the magic essence surged, layers of magic barriers were lifted. As the dark black door was pushed open by Edras, an instant of substantial magic essence poured out from the door like a tide, submerging the bodies of all the demons present.
"Come in, this is the treasure trove accumulated by the Edras Kingdom for hundreds of years."
Edras turned his head and looked at Sally, who was already stunned, with a hint of pride on his face, and then strode in. Sally, who had reacted, stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, like a little mouse that had drilled into a granary, and hurriedly followed, holding Lu Minghao.
"So... so dazzling!"
Just as she walked into the treasure trove, Sally's eyes were dazzled by the mountains of gold coins, and she couldn't open them. Her little mouth was wide open as she looked at everything in front of her. Rows of armor and weapons shining with magical light were neatly placed on the weapon racks, and on the side, mountains of gold coins and top-grade magic ore were piled up like mountains, and in the deeper position, various rare and precious magic herbs were placed there like weeds.
"Sally, come here."
At this time, Edras waved to Sally in front of him. At Edras's feet was a water pit with a diameter of 100 meters, and the colored liquid in the water pit exuded substantial magic essence. In the center of the water pit was an extremely huge magic crystal, shining with dazzling light.
"What is this?"
Sally blinked her big eyes, looking at the water pit in front of her. Crystalline liquid dripped down the corners of her mouth, and her body and soul were instinctively craving everything in front of her, wanting to devour it completely.
"This is the accumulation of the Edras Kingdom for hundreds of years, a magic potion made from various top-grade magic herbs, and that magic crystal is something condensed from pure magic essence. As long as you absorb all of these, Sally, you will definitely become a Demon Lord Seed, and even directly reach the critical point of awakening."
Edras pointed to the liquid and magic crystal in the water pit next to him and laughed proudly. These were all the accumulation of the Edras Kingdom for hundreds of years, the most precious things in the entire kingdom. Originally, Edras planned to keep it for the future, such as when one of his children evolved into a demon and possessed a unique skill, then he would bring it here to absorb a large amount of magic essence and directly become a Demon Lord Seed.
It was a pity that none of Edras's children had autonomously evolved into demons and obtained unique skills in hundreds of years, let alone the existence of Sally, who possessed multiple unique skills and had the potential to awaken into a Demon Lord.
But now, Edras had changed his mind. For the sake of the Edras Kingdom, he would hand this over to Sally, and use the accumulation of Edras for hundreds of years to directly push Sally to the peak of the Demon Lord Seed, and then use the souls of 100,000 demons in the royal capital as nourishment to directly awaken into a True Demon Lord.
"Uncle, thank you so much!"
After hearing Edras's words, Sally sincerely thanked him. It was the first time that Sally had a good impression of Edras, who had forcibly forced the so-called savior mission on her. At this time, she only felt that Edras was so handsome, and his whole body was shining with golden light.
"Sally, I'll leave this to you. The moment you awaken to become a True Demon Lord, you will become the king of the Edras Kingdom, and I will become your subordinate."
Looking at Sally, who was full of excitement, Edras smiled slightly, and then gave Sally a salute with incomparable seriousness. At this time, he had already regarded Sally as the king of the Edras Kingdom, the existence he was about to be loyal to.
