God-Tier Villain

Chapter 18: Chapter 18

"I like straightforward women."

Victoria caught the jade vial and harrumphed.

"Soren, the matter between us is not finished!"

"We’re leaving!"

She summoned the two Demon Venerables and swept away, her long skirt trailing behind her.

Once they’d cleared the bottom of the cliff, the two Demon Venerables could hold it in no longer, their voices dripped with resentment.

"Fairy Great Demon Emperor? We’re just leaving? Like this?"

"That bastard Soren killed one of our Upper-Tier Demon Venerables!"

"He even dared to take liberties with the Fairy Great Demon Emperor! He should have his tendons drawn and his skin peeled, his corpse hung in the Violet Jade Immortal Domain as a warning!"

Victoria’s expression went arctic, like a blood lotus blooming in the void, even her voice carried an eerie chill.

"The World-Destroying Demonic Lotus is in his hands. If we don’t leave, what would you have us do? Fight him to mutual death?"

"As for the liberties he took with me, I will settle that account myself. I don’t require anyone’s concern."

"And if a single word of what happened today gets out, the two of you..."

The two panicked instantly.

"We are the Fairy Great Demon Emperor’s faithful hounds! A knife at our throats couldn’t pry half a word from us!"

"Yes, yes! If word leaks from our mouths, we volunteer to be slapped to death by the Fairy Great Demon Emperor personally!"

"Good." Victoria mostly just wanted them to shut up.

Of course she wasn’t going to let Soren off easily.

But then, what was this inexplicable throbbing in her heart?

Soren recalled the World-Destroying Demonic Lotus and left the Ten Thousand Demons Cliff with Arnold.

"The young master’s performance back there truly frightened this old servant into a cold sweat."

"Though this old servant never expected the Fairy Great Demon Emperor, the famous demoness who butchers her opponents, to simply endure it."

"Could it be she was truly deterred by the young master’s Demonic Lotus?"

There was a sly thread of teasing in Arnold’s voice, he was a shrewd old man, he knew things were not that simple.

He had seen everything, faced with Soren’s forceful advance, Victoria hadn’t pushed him away, she had closed her eyes.

If one were to say there was nothing fishy going on there, who would believe them?

But though Arnold saw through it, he limited himself to one small tease.

The Master was the Master, the old servant was the old servant, he knew when to speak and when to hold his tongue.

Soren paid the teasing no mind. "We head for Black Dragon Mountain, barring surprises, that will be our main stronghold."

"Black Dragon Mountain, is it, very well."

"Something you want to say?"

Arnold smiled bitterly. "Black Dragon Mountain is a lawless buffer zone riddled with unknown dangers, one of the three great forbidden grounds of the demon race."

"Is the young master planning to visit two forbidden grounds in a single day?"

"This old servant only means that while Black Dragon Mountain holds no doomsday weapon like the Demonic Lotus, its danger is no less."

"Of course, I trust the young master completely. If he has chosen Black Dragon Mountain, he surely has a countermeasure."

"And if we truly can take it, we will hold a stronghold easy to defend and brutal to attack."

"Even the Great Demon Emperor could not march through the Violet Jade Immortal Domain to strike at Black Dragon Mountain, Victoria would never permit another Upper-Tier Demon Emperor to stroll across her territory."

"And with the lotus so newly acquired, charging the Great Emperor Palace to rescue the Sixth Matriarch now would be unwise."

"The Lotus can deter the Great Demon Emperor, and we can trade Althea’s group for the Sixth Matriarch besides. But if the situation turns, we would be standing in a dead end with no retreat."

"After all, Master cannot actually detonate the demonic lotus."

"Ah, I understands now."

"So that is why Master did that just now. If Master can win over the ruler of the Violet Jade Immortal Domain as an ally, she is an extraordinarily formidable fighting force."

Arnold tactfully declined to finish the thought.

If Soren wanted to leave the Endless Demonic Domain, he had to pass through the Ice Heaven Demonic Realm, because Ice Heaven sat on the Domain’s very border.

Between domains stood barriers raised by Upper-Tier Emperor Realm experts.

At his current strength, Soren couldn’t tear through those, void travel only worked within a single domain.

The border they would have to cross by flight.

Soren felt no attachment to the Ice Heaven Demonic Realm, but just as they were about to cross out, a commotion flared near the demonic palace, firelight blazed, and a column of dust punched into the sky, his eyes narrowed.

"Young master, it seems the Great Emperor Palace could not keep its composure, someone has attacked the palace."

"Which proves the Great Demon Emperor’s spies were planted among those servants. News of the young master’s departure has long since reached the Great Emperor Palace."

"They know Master has left but not where, the legions must be losing their minds."

Soren smiled thinly. "Since they hate me so much they won’t spare an empty palace, I’ll send them another grand gift."

He opened his independent spatial dimension, and he and Arnold vanished into the warping sky.

The independent space was truly his own, but its capacity was limited. Fine for riding out danger, useless as a base, and it carried restrictions, trapped inside a sufficiently powerful barrier, the space could not be opened.

Soren led Arnold through the corridors.

As they passed one room, a rhythmic pounding reached them, like a smith hammering iron.

Bang bang bang. Bang bang bang.

Arnold caught on immediately, cleared his throat, and his old face colored. "That boy Bruce, hundreds of years without touching a woman. Is he planning to make it all up in one sitting?"

At another room, Soren channeled demonic energy, unlocked the formation sealing the iron door, and pushed inside.