Chapter 706: Among the Four Heavenly Kings, I'm the Only One This Strong

At the edge of the Black Forest, Tang Luo and his two disciples watched as the demon king fled with his sister-in-law.

The spatial ring originally in his hand was handed over to Ao Yulie.

Moreover, this spatial ring is actually a piece of equipment:

Spatial Ring

The spatial ring possessed by the demon king in legend can hold many things.

The introduction is simple, with no special skills—just take it and use it.

It is basically consistent with the equipment and item collection ability of walking with gods and demons, and the speed of taking it out is even faster.

However, the items inside are not equipment or items, and cannot be brought in and out of the mission world via the spatial ring.

This is the same as Zhu Bajie's mustard seed mustard seed art of storing things.

Some things are just stored plainly and cannot be taken out or brought into the mission world.

Unless it is the nine-toothed rake or the merit jade lotus, these treasures.

Ao Yulie squatted on the ground without any image, and poured out all the things in the spatial ring.

There really are quite a lot—besides the Sauron armor, there is also a large sword emitting a chill, called the Blade of Eternal Night, which Ao Yulie called the Filial Son Sword.

A large shield named "Mars Battle Shield".

Various kinds of magic scrolls, from attack to defense, very comprehensive, none missing.

There are also some healing potions that look very much like online game items.

Akemon originally wanted to escape, and his preparations were fairly complete, now all of it has become cheap for Ao Yulie.

He put the things back, put on the armor, and now looks like a standard demon king.

Although the helmet's face is normally hollowed out, the inside is pitch black, and only two red eyes can be seen, full of oppressive power, the shape is very "traditional demon king".

"Master, what position do you want?" Ao Yulie looked at Tang Luo and asked.

Already from Akemon learned the current basic situation inside the demon race.

The demon king is the supreme leader of the demon race, without exception.

But because the demon king's average lifespan is short, the demon race generally lives longer instead.

In the demon race, there exists a council of elders, which is the highest power organ of the demon race, currently consisting of thirteen powerful demon elders.

Even Akemon has not seen all of them, only seen six of them.

Below the demon king are the traditional Four Heavenly Kings positions, among which three were once the old demon race of the previous demon king, and one was promoted by Akemon.

Not Akemon's confidant, but arranged by the council of elders, Akemon just followed along.

Although he is revered as the demon king, and everyone appears respectful on the surface and will obey Akemon's orders, such as everyone jointly reinforcing the demon king's city.

But in the end, the demon king is somewhat like a puppet monarch, and truly in conflict with the council of elders.

The demon king just can't handle it.

From Akemon to now, not having mastered the key to the demon race's treasury shows this.

As for this, the council of elders' explanation is that Akemon is not strong enough; as the demon king, he must be strong enough to have the qualification to control everything of the demon race.

This is also quite a true statement.

We will first cultivate you, see if you are capable.

If you are capable, we will then all listen to you in the future; if you are not capable, we will only listen to you on the surface.

If a truly brave hero comes to kill us, we will just throw you out to die.

Heroes who kill the demon king gain both fame and profit, and generally will take the win and leave, not play a deadly chase after the demon race remnants.

Ao Yulie's intuition is very sharp; the demon king is indeed an unlucky profession.

No wonder Akemon wanted to flee with his sister-in-law.

"Just be a Four Heavenly King." Tang Luo said casually.

"The Four Heavenly Kings are already full." Ao Yulie said.

"Isn't it common sense that there are five Four Heavenly Kings?" Tang Luo said there was no problem, "Our master and disciples four people, don't we also have five?"

Ao Yulie widened his eyes, indicating he could not refute.

"Then I'll just be the demon king's personal guard—what, the mighty demon king doesn't even have a personal guard? Is that reasonable?" Zhu Bajie said.

"Shouldn't personal guards generally be those big older sisters?" Ao Yulie hid his face, furrowed his brow.

He tried to recall Akemon's instructions.

It seemed he said that beneath the demon king's city, where they truly reside, there are many demon maidservants, which one can look forward to.

"Get familiar with Akemon's abilities, don't expose obvious flaws." Zhu Bajie reminded Ao Yulie, "Otherwise, if you leak and start fighting, you might accidentally destroy the demon king's city, and the mission will fail."

"Don't worry, Akemon mainly fights in close combat, knows only a little magic, very easy to imitate." Ao Yulie said.

Regarding the demon king's aura and appearance, they can be faked with illusion techniques.

Akemon's main combat style is also close combat, as can be seen from the Filial Son Sword and the Benevolent Father Shield (still named by Ao Yulie).

Assisted by some simple magic, like wind blades, ice cones, etc.

It just matches the skills Ao Yulie knows.

By the way, the supernatural ability possessed by the natives of this world is called "spells".

Whether you release an "ice cone" or wield an axe for a "earth slash", both fall under the category of spells.

The demon race's is called "magic".

There is no occupational restriction, and it is actually quite similar to walking with gods and demons.

Because the adventurer profession is evergreen, various adventurer teams are the star protagonists on the continent, naturally giving rise to professions such as long-range mages, archers, warriors, heavy-armored warriors, etc.

These professions are artificially defined divisions.

By the Adventurer's Guild assessment, issuing adventurer profession certificates—similar to an ID card, facilitating adventurers' actions.

Don't assume that just because this person dresses like a warrior, he won't unleash some long-range attack spell.

Behind the Adventurers' Guild stand the state, several families wealthy enough to rival nations, and merchant associations for support.

It undertakes multiple functions, including but not limited to quest issuance, mediation and reconciliation, completion verification, class certification, adventurer rank assessment, and so on.

To put it simply, it can be understood as a bank of the other world.

The basic currency units are gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins; the exchange rate is not a fixed one-to-one-hundred-to-ten-thousand.

Different regions, different time periods — all see fluctuations and changes.

Even currencies issued by different countries differ in purchasing power and the like, possibly related to purity or craftsmanship.

In this regard, Tang Luo doesn't understand much.

If it were Kongming, he might pull off some special maneuver like a currency war.

Because the demon race has little contact with the outside world and their population is not large, being completely self-sufficient, the Demon King Akmon is penniless.

Poorer than when he was a peasant.

Fortunately he still has strength; he definitely won't starve to death.

"Let's go. First, head back and straighten out the internal relations," Tang Luo said. "As demons, yet implementing a constitutional monarchy — shouldn't a Demon King rule as a dictatorial tyrant? We must quickly restore the Demon King's former glory and carry out sweeping reforms; only then can the demon race achieve prosperity and flourishing."

"Master seems to have gotten excited," Ao Yulie whispered privately to Zhu Bajie.

"He's probably treating this mission as a strategy simulation game," Zhu Bajie said. "I've watched you play before, what was it called again."

"Civilization?"

"Right, just watched a few turns and then dawn broke."

The two walked and talked, and everyone headed toward the Demon King's Castle at a leisurely pace.

Not long after entering the Black Forest, a commotion came from ahead; several figures emerged from behind trees and from the treetops, landing before Tang Luo and the others.

All were elves, with typical demonic markings on their faces or arms.

The leader was a man in leather armor, handsome in appearance, with demonic markings on his neck.

"Demon King-sama!"

The handsome elf man dropped to one knee, yet lifted his head, staring at Ao Yulie. "Why are you here?"

This elf was one of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Assassination Heavenly King, Asasi, and also a newly promoted Four Heavenly King.

"Seeking companions," Ao Yulie replied in Akmon's listless voice.

"Companions?" Asasi froze for a moment.

"Yes. The Hero seeks companions; as the Demon King, shouldn't I stand on equal footing with the Hero?" Ao Yulie spoke with righteous conviction — though his voice and tone remained kidney-deficient.

That's just how Akmon is.

You can't expect a Demon King who fundamentally doesn't want to be Demon King and just wants to elope with his sister-in-law to speak with passionate fervor.

"But you already have us, and they are the companions you found?" Asasi pointed at Zhu Bajie and Tang Luo.

These two aren't demons!

"Yes, this one is... Monster," Ao Yulie pointed at Zhu Bajie. "From now on he's my personal guard."

"This one is the new Four Heavenly King, Anubis."

The name was improvised by Ao Yulie on the spot to better fit the art style.

Monster Zhu Bajie and Anubis Tang Luo didn't mind, accepting it directly — they couldn't very well undermine the Demon King's stage at a time like this.

"They are extremely powerful companions!"

On the basis of Akmon's voice, Ao Yulie raised his pitch as much as he could.

"No, Demon King-sama, what I mean is, they aren't demons." Asasi emphasized the key issue. "Moreover, the Four Heavenly Kings are already full."

"Five Four Heavenly Kings is basic common knowledge." Ao Yulie taught on the spot, having just learned it himself. "What do you know? Wait until the Hero defeats the Four Heavenly Kings, lets out a breath of relief, and suddenly a fifth one jumps out to deal a fatal blow."

And with his own understanding, he already counted as having graduated.

Asasi's mouth opened and closed; it made so much sense he couldn't refute it!

The Demon King-sama is actually so far-sighted — no! That's not the point of the problem.

"They aren't demons." Asasi emphasized.

"No, they are." Ao Yulie looked at Zhu Bajie.

Zhu Bajie opened his mouth; two fangs gradually extended, bestial features on his body gradually becoming distinct, reaching a level normal beastmen couldn't attain, even surpassing what normal demon beastmen could attain.

"Correct." Asasi nodded slightly, looking at Tang Luo.

Your turn, you brat hugging a cat with that look of utter arrogance.

Tang Luo let go, tossing Xiaotian Quan to the ground, and looked at Asasi. "Ready?"

Asasi froze for a moment, then spoke: "You begin."

Let me see your horns.

Powerful demons can indeed conceal their demonic features.

"Fine." Tang Luo answered, vanishing in an instant.

Asasi's eyes widened; he felt his movements completely unable to keep up with his thoughts — or rather, in this instant, his thinking had accelerated to the extreme.

Yet his movements had not accelerated.

He watched helplessly as a hand pressed onto his palm-sized exquisite handsome little face, then slammed downward.

Once, twice, thrice...

Even flipped him over, face down, once twice thrice...

In a daze, he still heard the other party asking: "Am I a demon, am I a demon. I'm this ferocious, I'm just asking you, am I a demon?"

Before passing out, Asasi remembered instinctively saying a single "Yes."

"Cough."

Ao Yulie coughed once, looking at the dazed subordinates of Asashi, "Alright, this time you believe they're demons, right? To dare doubt the Demon King, you've got guts, take him back to the castle."

On the way, those few elves carried the unconscious Asashi forward, trembling with fear.

"Master, why did you suddenly attack?" Ao Yulie asked.

"Of course to establish the position of the strongest among the Four Heavenly Kings," Tang Luo said.

Among the Four Heavenly Kings, I'm the only one this strong!

Wait for Asashi or whatever other Heavenly King to be defeated by the hero and his little companions, they lie on the ground spitting blood and sneering: "Defeating me means what, I'm the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings!"

Then the hero and companions defeat the remaining three.

Feeling that the Four Heavenly Kings aren't that strong after all.

Tang Luo reappears, and while they're shocked there's a fifth Four Heavenly King, he beats them up badly.

The beating under double shock is enough to make them doubt life.

The script is already written, perfect!