Chapter 223: Wise Man
"Mu Yanxue, you—" Su Yue looked at Mu Yanxue in horror, but the latter did the same to the guy with her, resulting in both of them becoming a normal human.
Even the Human Kings were stunned for what she did.
The Brave King was the first one to raise his voice. "What did you do? Is this the reunion you spoke of? As expected, you’re a demon!"
Lilith didn’t care about his opinion as she slowly rose from her seat and moved toward Su Yue.
"This is what happens when you believe in the demons!"
"Do you know—"
The Brave King continued his mumbles until Lilith reached Su Yue and hypnotized her with her charm spell.
"Shut up. Now..." Lilith smirked and asked while showing Su Yue to all of them. "What is the real deal between you and the Brave King?"
"What? You!" The Brave King slammed his table again, trying to stop them. "Edward. Stop her!"
Edward was planning to do it, but the Dragon Queen suddenly released all her strength as she stated with killing intent. "Stay there. Just listening to this should be enough for you to know who is the traitor that wants to sell the inhabitants in this place."
Even Raisa had raised her sword, preparing to make her move if they dared to attack her queen.
Without waiting for their reaction, Su Yue had already blurted out the agreement.
"In exchange for the information of this continent along with their strength, I agreed that the royal family will be spared."
"Huh?"
"Spared?"
"The Royal Family?"
"The information of this continent?"
The four human kings were startled by this truth. There were so many questions in their mind, but they certainly wanted to ask one thing.
"Why?!"
Lilith asked the same question so that Su Yue would give the answer they had searched for.
"Because in one year, the Joyful Union Sect will launch a massive invasion to take control over this continent, turning it into a special region for us to cultivate."
Unlike Mu Yanxue, Su Yue had a good understanding of the common knowledge since that was the first thing she did when coming to this place. That was why her words were clear without anyone to translate it like Albert or Gin.
"Joyful Union Sect?"
"A massive invasion?"
"Take control over this continent?"
"What does she mean by turning this place into a special region?"
Before continuing the interrogation, Lilith turned to the other six Demon Kings. "Now you fully believe me, right?"
All the Demon Kings were truly convinced that Lilith didn’t put any spell to alter their mind. After all, this person had been staying in the human kingdom this whole time, there was no way for Lilith to be able to capture her.
Hence, what Su Yue said was the truth.
"Lies!" The Brave King slammed the table with a pale expression. He realized that the moment she talked about this, his reputation had crumbled.
"What lies? Do I need to even spell it for you?" The Wise Man widened his eyes as he rose from the seat, staring at the Brave King coldly. He looked at Edward next to the Brave King and said, "Your King has sold the country to someone else just for himself. Is there a need for you to serve that man anymore?"
It seemed the others also had the same opinion. Their assistants started making their moves, surrounding the Brave King and Edward. No matter what, they needed to prevent the Brave King from doing anything.
And the Demon Kings seemed to have known about this matter beforehand.
Seeing that the Brave King had been suppressed, Lilith smiled and explained. "Approximately a month ago, I found Mu Yanxue along with someone else as a spy like this woman and this guy.
"I interrogated them and found out that our world was nothing but a continent. I believe the braves can tell us something about this world that you call planet and the existence of many continents?" Lilith smiled before adding, "After all, Gin... I mean, the great sage said the same thing. He’s been assisting me in getting the information from the spies before turning this female over here my slave."
"Gin?!" All the braves as well as the Wise Man were shocked. Instead of the interrogation, the Wise Man cared more about Gin, so he asked, "Is he well?"
"He is living peacefully with his Teacher... I mean, my husband." Lilith smiled. "Though, I doubt he will return to your side, considering he’s always treating my husband like God. Mhm, I don’t remember the details, but he always say with the power of anime, manga, and novel, the bonk shall reign supreme or something."
"..." The three braves’ expressions darkened as they certainly recognized all those words. The Saintess, who had expected Albert to have that kind of power, couldn’t help but say with a wry smile. "Bonk... It’s truly the power of bonk? No wonder that guy is excited to live there..."
The Wise Man furrowed his eyebrows and asked, "Do you know something about it?"
"Well, you can say that it’s like a dream becoming reality." The Saintess gave the conclusion since it was too much to explain.
"I see. I guess he’s living well then..." The Wise Man let out a sigh of relief. Instead of trying to get Gin back, it seemed he had completely let him go as long as Gin was happy.
"You’re not going to force him to return?" Lilith narrowed his eyes.
"Don’t look down on me, Lilith." The Wise Man snorted. "Gin is a wise and quiet child. In front of his energetic front, there’s always a darkness in his heart... Even I couldn’t remove it. That’s why if your husband could erase that darkness, I don’t care where he lives... As long as he is happy."
"It seems I have underestimated you." Lilith squinted his eyes.
"Besides, we’re going to be allies from now on." The Wise Man smirked as if he had seen through Lilith’s plan.
"Huh?" The other kings were obviously confused by that statement.
However, Lilith closed her eyes and smiled. "As expected of the Wise Man, with only those information, you already understand what I’m planning to do."
"There are a few catches in that information as well as this meeting. First of all, it’s the invasion. The Demon Kings are strong, but the fact that you’re holding the meeting must be because you’re afraid of the enemy.
"It’s enough to get a conclusion that the enemy this time is far stronger than you. That’s why you want us to unite to resist them.
"Second, you’re saying about the continents... That means, there are more people like them from other places. And what this lass said is her own organization... if a single organization is all it takes for them to conquer us, that means, we will be destroyed if we fight them alone.
"Third, you might send people to the other continents by using that slave over there, destroying them from within. After all, it’s impossible for us to launch a full scale attack against such an opponent.
"In the meantime, we’re going to prepare more about what’s going to come. I don’t know much about the other party, but I’m pretty sure that they’re a quite big influence or else they will bring another backer or unite with other organizations.
"And if they do that, we will be hopeless. The people you sent will become the beacon of hope to delay if not destroy their plan.
"Due to that, they need to be able to become stronger as fast as possible to match their strength and infiltrate deep into their organizations like our braves here.
"And I am pretty sure that Gin will come to the other continent too since he must be excited about this.
"With all those facts, I can finally understand who your husband is." The Wise Man smirked and stated with a deep tone, showing the severity of his words. "Your husband is a person from another world too.
"Even us don’t have any information about that guy as if he appears from out of nowhere. His fame only bloomed at the same time of the hero summoning, so I’m pretty sure that he’s summoned at the same time.
"Just like the braves, he has a purpose in coming here. It’s to protect the demons. And since he’s the only one, there is only one person that can match such description. He is none other than..." The Wise Man paused for a moment, raising the tension as they were dying to know who that guy was. After a minute, the Wise Man finally said, "...The Demon Lord."
"The Demon Lord?!" The pope and the other kings were stunned when they heard about Albert’s identity.
"As expected of the Wise Man, no one can surpass your wisdom as well as your insight." Lilith smiled, impressed by how the Wise Man deducted the entire reason for this meeting to happen as well as Albert’s identity with just two pieces of information from Su Yue. No wonder he was called the Wise Man.
