Chapter 537: Lao Gu: Xiao Di, Did You Add Extra Lines to the Script?

As Shengzai and Xia Tiya clashed, Dimiugos, after performing a staged act with Lao Gu, followed the script and directly summoned a vast number of demons to attack the royal capital.

To demonstrate his power, Dimiugos also used “Ji Han Na’s Fire” to completely engulf a section of the capital.

With the sudden appearance of countless demons, the entire capital plunged into panic; ultimately, under the cowardly inaction of Crown Prince Baburo and Prince Lazana, Princess Lana took charge, directing adventurers to coordinate with guards and repel the demon assaults repeatedly.

“Princess Lana, you say everything you’ve done was arranged by Prince Shengzai—then where is Prince San right now?”

To resist and repel the demons in the capital, hired adventurers alone were far from sufficient.

To command more royal soldiers, Lana used Shengzai’s name.

Although Shengzai, as a prince born of a concubine, held no military authority, he possessed considerable prestige within the kingdom’s army.

“As for Prince San, he has already gone with my personal guards and Brian Anglous to rescue the citizens who were captured.”

Moreover, His Majesty knows I’ve mobilized these personal guards, so you need not worry.”

What we must do now is gather all available forces and drive those demons out of the capital entirely.”

“The enemy’s leader is the mighty Demon Emperor Adabaw. To oppose him, we’ve hired the Steel-Rank adventurers ‘Azure Rose’ and the ‘Black Duo.’”

As Lana directed the battle, in the royal palace, King Ramboza III, after hesitation, ultimately decided to lead the campaign in person.

The area engulfed by “Ji Han Na’s Fire” did not include the capital, so the palace itself had not been attacked by demons.

Precisely because of this, the kingdom’s nobles refused to risk themselves and hoped their supported Crown Prince and Prince Lazana would take the danger.

Prince Shengzai and Princess Lana were one thing—they were a prince born of a concubine and a princess who always showed deep concern for commoners—but for other nobles, it was unthinkable that their precious persons should risk themselves for a crowd of commoners.

“I simply can’t understand—never thought even His Majesty cared so much about the lives of commoners.”

From the palace’s floor-to-ceiling window, Crown Prince Baburo watched King Ramboza III and Gajef lead their guards out of the palace, his face twisted with clear displeasure.

In Baburo’s view, Shengzai fighting the demons was a good thing.

After all, if Shengzai died, one of his strongest rivals for the throne would be gone.

But if Ramboza III also died, his struggle for the throne with Lazana would truly become a bloody, brutal fight.

Though he was the eldest son, the nobles supporting Lazana were powerful figures—like Marquess Lei Buen, for instance.

If the kingdom’s king died unexpectedly, the throne was by no means guaranteed to be his.

On the other side of the palace, Prince Lazana stared at the departing Ramboza III, his brow deeply furrowed.

“Marquess Lei Buen, do you think I should follow His Majesty into the war zone?”

Even if, as you say, Shengzai has no interest in the throne, my little sister has devoted herself entirely to her beloved brother Shengzai.”

My idiot brother probably still thinks he’s clever for being pleased that Shengzai and Lana voluntarily went to the front.”

But he never considered that Shengzai and Lana’s actions have now won the approval of most of the capital’s citizens, the army, and even His Majesty.”

True, facing demons was extremely dangerous—but in Lazana’s view, becoming king required a certain boldness.

Moreover, unlike Baburo, Lazana desired the throne but had not sunk to the level of sacrificing kin for power.

No matter what, Ramboza III was his father; Lana, though cunning, was still his sister.

As for Shengzai, though not his full brother, Lazana had to admit Shengzai had helped him greatly.

Not to mention, with Lana’s scheming nature, if Shengzai hadn’t kept strict control over her, he and his idiot brother Baburo would have been dead countless times already.

“Prince Lazana, rest assured on this point—I’ve already dispatched my own adventurers to aid Prince Shengzai and his group.”

Though this may sound impolite, fighting demons carries mortal risk—if something happens to Shengzai and his party, do you really intend for Prince Baburo to inherit the throne?”

With Prince Baburo’s abilities, the Kingdom of Ries Tijie will be ruined under his rule?”

Meanwhile, the kingdom’s adventurers clashed violently with the demons under Demon Emperor Adabaw across the capital’s streets.

The demons summoned by Dimiugos were mostly low- to mid-tier: Soul-Eaters, Demon Hounds, and others.

Yet even these low- to mid-tier demons were formidable foes for royal soldiers and adventurers alike.

Soldiers and adventurers had limited stamina, but demons kept pouring forth endlessly, as if impossible to kill.

Thus, everyone present understood clearly: victory in this battle depended entirely on the outcome of the high-level confrontation.

The so-called high-level confrontation was, of course, the battle between Demon Emperor Adabaw and his maid squad versus “Azure Rose” and the “Black Duo.”

Demon Emperor Adabaw fought the black hero Mo Mo, while the other Pleiades maids faced the rest of the Azure Rose.

Just as Lao Gu and Xiao Di were staging their fake fight and pondering whether the performance should end, a figure suddenly plummeted from the sky.

The immense impact shattered the ground around it, causing everyone present to feel the earth shake violently; the falling figure even carved a deep trench across the battlefield, splitting it cleanly in two!

Such a massive disturbance naturally drew everyone’s attention—and when they saw the figure emerge from the rubble,

Lao Gu, Dimiugos, and the others, who had already planned to end the performance, were utterly stunned!

For while “Azure Rose” and the others were confused, the Nazarick Necropolis group all recognized this figure immediately.

Clad in brilliant red armor, wielding the unique divine artifact that restored HP upon striking enemies—this figure who had just crashed from the sky was none other than Shatia Bradforn, one of Nazarick Necropolis’s Floor Guardians!

(End of Chapter)