[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress":3,"chapter-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-266":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Evolution: From Little Devil to Devil Empress",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1080052,1395,"Chapter 266: Extortion","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-266",266,"\u003Cp>\"Okay...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since Your Excellency has already agreed, I believe that your grievances with the Violence Lord have now been resolved.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We won’t keep you busy for any longer...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, the Slave Lord looked at Liora and spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although her tone was polite and her words said otherwise, the annoyance and anger on her face were abundantly clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only her, but the several True Devils behind her were also the same, looking as if Liora had murdered their parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora was hardly surprised by their reactions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She understood that the conditions she had put forward had been excessive and were disproportionate to the events that had transpired earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, even if she had nothing to do with the Graveplate Devil’s interference, neither she nor her subordinates had suffered any harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than say that she was seeking compensation, it would be more accurate to say that she was using this event to extort things from them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Liora could understand why these people were angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she didn’t mind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, these people are even richer than I expected.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although they look angry and unwilling right now, they still forked out everything I requested.\", Liora thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, she couldn’t help but wonder if the conditions she had set were too light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, she shook her head and didn’t speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already obtained a lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no reason to push several True Devils any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it was unknown whether they would go insane and bombard her with all their trump cards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Liora put away the items she had obtained and remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the True Devils took her silence as agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they glanced at her one more time, as if to engrave her appearance into their memories, they carried the injured Violence Lord away and rushed towards Bloodflower City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora keenly noticed that Kazrien took one more look at her before leaving, seemingly wanting to say something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the end, he remained silent and followed the rest of the True Devils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora did not believe that he was saddened by the sudden fracture in their \"alliance\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devils would not be emotional about things like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, Kazrien felt conflicted about the fact that someone whom he had previously regarded as an equal had not grown strong enough to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Liora watched these people go away, she was also about to move, planning to return to Bloodflower City and deal with the battle’s aftermath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just then, she halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora’s senses suddenly captured some changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in the real world, but within the Space Orb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t require much thought to understand what was going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coupled with the earlier events, Liora immediately guessed that the person responsible for these changes was Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, it was Alpha’s advancement and transformation that had caused those changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing this, Liora did not stay still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a move of her mind, a gap opened in the air in front of her. By taking a step forward, she walked into the cloud-filled demi-plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>--\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she walked into the Space Orb, Liora confirmed her previous suspicions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting at the center of the space was Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment, her aura was surging, and she was accumulating momentum, while a fist-sized, gray orb was floating right above her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemingly responding to the increase in Alpha’s strength, the glow on the orb’s surface grew increasingly intense, as if it were working hard to illuminate this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora had never seen this orb before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the moment her eyes landed on it, she realized that it was the mechanical core that had been born inside Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During their days on the Crucible, Liora had allowed Alpha to devour the ashes of the Unknown, a Bamboo Devil famous for his puppetry skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boosted by Alpha’s own nature, she had awakened several abilities, among which was the birth of this mechanical core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Acting as if it were her heart, Alpha could now remain alive as long as her core was not broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was based on this ability that she could sever her own body and suffer no harm in the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Alpha was advancing again, it was obvious that the mechanical core was transforming one more time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alpha’s advancement had been going on for quite some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, it didn’t take long since Liora entered the Space Orb for it to complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One moment, the continuous sound of clicking and gears turning was everywhere while Alpha’s aura was rising, and the next, everything subsided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The noises quieted down. Alpha’s aura retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, the mechanical core shimmered faintly. Following a swoosh, it entered Alpha’s body and became part of it once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This seemed to have fully completed Alpha’s transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, she opened her eyes and got up from the floating clouds, only to see that Liora was next to her and sizing her up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord.\", she immediately called out and saluted respectfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora nodded, but was in no rush to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her consciousness spread out and washed over Alpha, conducting a thorough investigation of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, she discovered that although Alpha had no changes in appearance, this was not true for anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength of her mechanical body had improved, quite obviously, but more importantly, she had undergone some bigger, more essential changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if she had taken a leap forward in her life level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For other people and even Devils, such an occurrence was quite common and nothing unexpected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to see Alpha experience them, it was inevitable that Liora would be surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although Alpha looks and acts like an ordinary person, it doesn’t change the fact that her nature is that of a mechanical puppet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, since she was created during my stay in the Crucible while I was still weak, the materials used during her creation were hardly of any value.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Liora believed that such circumstances would have imposed a certain limit on Alpha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she was surprised to find that this was not true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that Alpha had leapt in life level meant that she was considered a real creature, and the materials used to create her would not limit her future achievements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this because of the ashes of the Unknown? Or did some kind of change occur during Alpha’s life?\", Liora couldn’t help but wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>",1079,"2026-06-03T10:39:03.948Z",1,"novelbin.me","060c95384894dec4a7bb9329ceb527af0fe8c386f122f5d24ac87cff249d2ff5","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-367","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-366",482,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fevolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-cover.jpg"]