Chapter 134: Lesson

"Ah—!!!"

A shrill scream resounded through the entire hall, and the blood scab condensed on Vivian's fingertips instantly dissipated into rusty blue smoke.

Bathed in the holy light, she was like a bat diving into a brazier, every inch of her skin burning, even emitting sizzling black smoke.

That kind of pain could not be described in words.

If the torture suffered by ordinary undead or demons was the pain of ten million needles piercing into the bone marrow from the skin, then she, who was both undead and demon, suffered the pain of one hundred million needles piercing through every neuron in her body.

That scorching light seemed to burn to the depths of her soul.

Soon, Vivian, who fell to the ground, couldn't even make a scream, and could only open her mouth to wail silently, curling up into a ball and trying to shrink herself smaller.

The eyes full of killing intent and sharpness had disappeared from her blood-red pupils, leaving only fear and begging.

Luo Yan looked at her expressionlessly, the holy light blooming at the tip of the staff was like a long sword held in the hands of a judgment angel.

He had to admit, this was a bit BT.

After all, the one being "roasted alive" was his half-sister.

But precisely because of this, Luo Yan had no intention of letting go, but instead increased the output of the magic wand in his hand.

He had to give her a lesson deep enough.

He had to carve fear into the depths of her soul.

Otherwise, she would dare to do it next time! "Soul Extraction!"

While driving the holy light, Luo Yan activated the Golden-tier magic device given to him by Professor Lilith, and also extracted Vivian's remaining magic power.

That seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Bathed in the holy light, she no longer emitted black smoke, and her throat could no longer make a single sound.

So much so that even the look of fear and begging gradually dimmed in those ruby-like pupils.

If according to the standards of human priests, that was purification success, and what was curled up in the shadows was just an ordinary girl, no longer having any evil energy to do evil.

But if it is according to the standards of the Underworld...

She was not far from death.

Luo Yan stopped casting the holy light magic, took a blue bottle from his arms and drank half of it, then handed it to the faded pupils and shook it.

"Want it?"

Those ruby-like eyes gradually regained a glimmer of light.

Driven by the instinct to survive, Vivian moved her head with all her strength, a dry and hoarse sound came from her throat, and her face, which she tried hard to lift, was full of desire.

"Want..."

"The voice is too small, I can't hear it."

Luo Yan sneered, the test tube in his hand tilted slightly, and in front of her, he poured the blue liquid onto the ground.

Drip—

At this moment, Vivian's consciousness was no longer clear, and her vision was blurred, so how could she care about the image of a young lady.

She was like a traveler fainting in the desert, with only that pool of spring water left in her eyes, flashing away from the darkness and falling on the scorched gravel.

No—

Watching that pool of spring water about to disappear into the cracks of the dirty floor, she struggled to move her slender arms and legs, and rushed up regardless, licking the last pool of sweet spring water desperately, wanting to drink more before it disappeared.

However, before she could finish this, a hand suddenly grabbed her back neck and lifted her from the ground.

Without giving her any chance to react, that hand pressed her against the cold granite wall, and then buckled a silver collar around her neck.

Vivian, who had just regained a trace of consciousness, was about to chant a spell, but was terrified to find that her perception of magic power had been cut off.

Magic-prohibiting collar!

That kind of thing she could tear off with a slight force, but at this moment she was so weak that she couldn't even lift her arms, and her toes, which couldn't exert force, couldn't reach the ground.

At this time, she finally saw the man in front of her clearly.

And at the same time, the humiliating memory played back in her mind like a slide, and fear soon filled her eyes.

That guy...

Simply a devil! She bit her lip tightly, her voice trembling.

"You... what have you done?"

With an elegant and decent smile on his face, Luo Yan said in a kind voice.

"Everything that could be done has been done, it's your turn."

Vivian looked at him in horror, looking at this devil who pretended to be elegant and decent... She had never felt so nauseated by that gentlemanly smile as she did today.

She struggled desperately, wanting to kick him, but couldn't reach anything.

She finally began to realize that it wasn't just the magic power of her whole body, but even her vitality had been drained by some unknown force.

"Let me go..."

"I'm letting you play your cards, not begging for mercy, you weren't going to say goodbye to me forever... By the way, this dress should be prepared for me, right?"

Looking at the rather secondary funeral dress, Luo Yan mocked with a smile, poking at the little thoughts in someone's heart.

Vivian's face turned red instantly.

That was the red warmth of shame and anger.

Unable to resist, she could only vent her anger on language.

"You, why can you use holy light magic?!"

Luo Yan said with a smile.

"Is there any problem? Isn't doing whatever it takes the common sense of the Underworld?"

Vivian gritted her teeth and said.

"You guy... clearly enjoying the protection of the Demon God, but secretly praying to Saint Xisi..."

Luo Yan chuckled and said.

"Who said you have to pray to Saint Xisi to use holy light? Did you pray to the Demon God when you used blood magic? I see that your faith in the Demon God is not that firm, otherwise you wouldn't have attempted to assassinate the Demon King."

"But... those who can use holy light are... servants of Saint Xisi..."

Looking at Vivian who was still stuttering and chanting, Luo Yan lightly tapped her lips with his magic wand and made a gesture of silence.

"This kind of thing doesn't matter at all, my dear sister... Just like you said yourself, at this point, what do you care about duels and rules?"

Divine-type spells are indeed not his area of expertise, otherwise he wouldn't even need to chant the auxiliary spells, just like bone spears.

Looking at Vivian whose face was blue and white, Luo Yan lightly moved the magic wand away and continued in the tone of telling a bedtime story.

"The ghost bird flying in the sky couldn't see this place at all, and you saw this point before you did it. As for those goblins, let alone they all hid, even if they saw it, it didn't matter, their testimony didn't matter to anyone, let alone they were all my things. There is only one witness here, and that is you... my half-sister, the stupid donkey who even prepared coffins and mourning clothes."

Vivian looked at Luo Yan in horror.

That pretty face, which had just regained a bit of color because of the red warmth, lost its blood color again, but the terrified eyes still contained a bit of disbelief.

"You... want to kill me?"

Luo Yan did not answer her question, just smiled and said.

"No one will even know that I killed you, and no one will even know that you died here."

"No, wait a minute..."

"Why? You even thought about murder, but don't have the consciousness of being killed? Or do you think that killing someone outside the rules is like completing a homework assignment given by a professor, just write an answer and it's done?"

Luo Yan leaned close to her face, staring at her eyes, the smile on his face more and more like a devil.

He continued in a slow and orderly voice.

"Let me guess, you must think your plan is very thorough, and even smugly wrote it in your diary. You think you successfully used the personal grudge between the Dragon family and me, the whole plan is flawless, as long as I die, it's an accident in the duel, no one will know this has anything to do with you, everything is fine... Am I right?"

Vivian's dodging eyes seemed to be an admission of this.

Luo Yan was not angry, but laughed, but his eyes gradually became cold.

"So I said you are a stupid donkey, there is no problem at all."

"What reason does the Dragon family have to cover for you? To return a favor to someone who may not even remember after more than a hundred years when you become the head of the family? Not to mention that there is a father in front of you, before waiting for your favor, they must first bear the anger of your father."

Looking at Vivian's unacceptable expression, Luo Yan continued with a smile.

"Of course, maybe as you said, our father is a seedless thing, and doesn't care about the life or death of an illegitimate child at all. But then you considered that I am a Demon King? Even the Dragon family itself dare not say that they can kill me in a duel, guess if those mercenaries dare?"

"If I accidentally die, they will push the problem to you for the first time, and publicly admit that they cheated, and it was cheating under the threat of the future successor of the Prince Prince Kelin family, and even generously let the victory to me... Anyway, what does it matter? Even if I win, I'm a dead person, and no one will blame them in the end. Only one person will bear all the responsibility, guess who that person is?"

Vivian's face finally changed.

And it turned pale.

Just as Luo Yan thought, this kid's growth trajectory was too smooth, so that her thinking had formed a diode, and she didn't consider another situation at all, thinking that the whole world was operating according to the rules she set.

However, this is impossible.

Even an experienced person like him will encounter all kinds of accidents outside the plan, and these accidents are exactly what truly test a leader's ability.

"If I didn't die, just like now, guess what I would do?"

"Kill me..." Vivian swallowed her saliva stubbornly, and used a trembling voice to bluff. "But if you do this... the Prince Prince Kelin family will not let you go, my grandfather will avenge me."

"Is that so?"

Luo Yan sneered, the hand pinching her neck exerted a little force, looking at the terrified face distorted by difficulty in breathing.

"Let me make an assumption, if you were an ambitious illegitimate child, and you were ambushed by a successor candidate of the main family in a glorious duel... what would you do?"

Before Vivian could answer, he continued.

"I'll give you two ideas. You can directly twist that guy's neck, then throw the corpse to that group of goblins, and pretend nothing happened. This is the best strategy, the people in the arena won't know what happened in the castle, it's enough to give the Prince Prince Kelin family face, and it won't be until the Dragon family comes back to clean up the mess that they will find that broken corpse... Now it's their turn to have a headache, how to let the Prince Prince Kelin family know about this decently."

Vivian looked at him in horror, unable to imagine that this devil in front of her could say such vicious ideas.

Especially when she thought that the corpse might be herself, those ruby-like eyes became more and more terrified, just like a fish pressed on a chopping board.

Although he was speaking in the third person, it was clear that the person he was talking about—or rather the corpse—was her.

"The Prince Prince Kelin family finally knew everything, but didn't feel sorry for this stupid successor for even a second, because this idiot not only did stupid things, took the initiative to be the knife in the hands of the Dragon family, but also messed up the stupid things. As for you, you can pretend that you don't know at all that you are an illegitimate child of the Prince Prince Kelin family, just pinched a vampire mercenary to death... Actually, if it wasn't for that stupid successor taking the initiative to tell you, you wouldn't have known it, right?"

"As for the second choice, you can directly twist that guy's neck, also pretend not to know its identity, and announce to the arena that the Dragon family violated the rules and automatically won the game. And that so-called successor will become the shame of the Prince Prince Kelin family, and it is a shame in the true sense. Compared with the first idea, the emotional intelligence of doing so may not be very high, and insulting your own main family does more harm than good, but it is enough to be relieved, isn't it?"

Looking at Vivian, whose eyes had become completely desperate, Luo Yan smiled, and directly changed the third-person tone and continued.

"Actually, there is a third choice, which is to let you live and endure this shame on the basis of the second choice. Although it is a trouble for you to see me use holy light, the burning of holy light and the burning of fire are actually no different, right?" "You can't prove that I used holy light at all, I can say that it was an illusion you saw when you were dying, and I can even say that you attempted to use holy water on me and ended up lifting a stone and hitting your own feet. Besides, I am a Demon King, and a winner who won uprightly, do you think people will believe me, or believe a ruthless brat?"

Luo Yan loosened the left hand pinching her neck slightly, and the other hand holding the magic wand pointed at her pale neck.

"Don't... don't kill me... I... I am your sister..."

"Finally remembered when you were dying?"

"No... want..."

"Go to hell, the Prince Prince Kelin family doesn't have a successor as naive as you, I am not a member of your family at all, your living is the greatest blasphemy against the Prince Prince Kelin family."

In the last second before sending her to see her great-grandmother, Luo Yan let go, watching her and that ridiculous mourning dress slide to the ground along the wall, just like a broken rag.

Vivian, whose knees touched the ground, sobbed while coughing violently, covering her red neck with both hands, just like a drowning person who had just been fished ashore.

"Woo..."

She, who hadn't cried once in sixteen years, finally cried out uselessly, bean-sized tears hitting her knees one after another.

Looking at the little girl crying like rain, Luo Yan felt no guilt in his heart.

He wasn't someone who cherished the weak anyway.

Not to mention he is a Demon King.

"For the sake of having the same father, you picked up a life, if it were an adventurer, I'm afraid it would have rotted in my dungeon. But I want to tell you, it won't be so lucky next time, because I will really kill you, instead of just beating your butt twice for your father."

"There is a secret passage to the outside in the basement of Black Wind Castle, behind a row of empty wine barrels, this is what the Padri family told me. Although I don't need it, you can try, or you have already thought of another way to leave here."

Speaking of this, Luo Yan paused for two seconds, his gaze falling on the collar around her neck and the red pinch marks.

He added another sentence behind.

"You can untie the collar yourself, and if our father asks where the injury on your neck came from, just tell him I did it."

Those three strategies, upper, middle, and lower, were prepared for ambitious illegitimate children.

And it just so happened that he had no interest in inheriting the Prince Prince Kelin family, he just wanted to live carefree in his own way.

Therefore, he chose the fourth one.

Just like he chose to be a Demon King in the frontier of the Underworld.

Picking up the flag dropped by the goblin, Luo Yan walked out of the hall, directly cast air-type magic and jumped to the highest point of the ruins.

He originally planned to look around to see if he could loot some spoils of war, but now he had completely lost this mood.

Looking at the back disappearing at the entrance of the hall, Vivian bit her white lips tightly, her red eyes filled with water.

That contained both fear and humiliation... and many, many things she couldn't say herself.

In the past sixteen years, she had no doubt that she was the pride of the Prince Prince Kelin family, a rising star in the Demon Capital.

After all, reaching the Golden tier at the age of sixteen is extremely rare even among high-tier demons...

You know, many senior students and even graduates of the Demon Capital Higher Demon Academy are only at the peak of Bai Yin tier.

Even her respected grandfather, the right-hand man of the Demon God—the semi-god-tier Caesar Prince Prince Kelin Prince, reached the Golden tier at the age of eighteen! Even the Minister of War of the Demon God's cabinet affirmed her ability and talent, who else is qualified to deny her correctness?

Think about it carefully, even the professors of the academy didn't seem to dare to disobey her, and everyone she met was talking to her in a tone of accommodation.

However, this guy whose strength was far inferior to her not only trampled her pride and self-esteem of sixteen years under his feet, but also threw her here like garbage.

The opposite of extreme self-confidence is extreme self-denial, Vivian even began to doubt whether she was actually nothing, just being held up to that high position by a group of people who spoiled her.

Perhaps she was not the most suitable successor at all, just because she happened to be the first to be born.

Otherwise, why would she, a Golden-tier vampire, not be able to beat a Bai Yin-tier necromancer, and even after being beaten, she didn't even fully understand what means the other party used.

Perhaps she is not even as good as her weak younger brother...

At least Nan Fu had rationally advised her not to provoke that big brother, but she just used the authority of an elder to block his mouth, and didn't listen to what he said at all.

And the final result was indeed beyond her expectations. The blood servant who swore allegiance to her didn't even see the Demon King's face and died in the shelling before the war started. And she personally took action and was treated as a child playing around, not even touching a hair of the other party.

Just as her big brother said.

She almost died.

Or if anyone else stood in the same position as him, as long as the ambition in that person's heart was a little more than human touch, she would have become a sacrifice for power struggle...

The flag of the Necropolis fluttered over Black Wind Castle, declaring the victory of the red attacking side.

Luo Yan stood on the teleportation array elegantly and decently, and returned to the Demon Capital Arena with a group of triumphant goblins, welcoming the overwhelming applause and praise.

After watching such an exciting fireworks show, even those who lost money were convinced and couldn't say anything too vicious.

Taking a group of goblins to capture such a dangerous fortress...

If it were on a real battlefield, this battle would definitely have a chance to be recorded in history!

In fact, the pattern of these ordinary demons is still too small.

Even if this is just a duel between nobles and nobles, that siege method that subverted the cognition of most demons also has a chance to be recorded in history.

From now on, it is not just demons above Diamond tier who have the ability to destroy fortresses, a group of goblins who have no power to bind chickens can also do it.

Before this, the concept of artillery, whether in the cognition of the Underworld or the surface humans, was just a support force on the battlefield, far from being the main force.

Although his heart was full of unwillingness, and his eyes were about to spray fire, Lord Kamu Dragon, sitting in the VIP box, had to accept such an ending.

Xino Dragon's side hadn't ended yet.

However, even if that guy won, the best result would be a decent draw.

A draw is followed by calculating the score, and under that nearly disparate score gap, the final winner is still Luo Yan.

This is beyond doubt.

At most, it sounds better for the Dragon family.

Just when Lord Kamu was seriously thinking about the aftermath, he suddenly thought that the little girl from the Prince Prince Kelin family seemed to be still in the castle.

And looking at Luo Yan standing in the arena accepting cheers and applause, he didn't look like he had experienced a great battle at all, at most he regretted not finding valuable spoils of war.

Lord Kamu's face was slightly pale, and a terrible possibility appeared in his mind.

Could it be that the brat died in the shelling? He was really panicked this time, hurriedly got up and left the VIP box, went all the way to the outside of the arena, and summoned his familiar.

It was an owl.

Before the owl could land on his shoulder, he grabbed the guy's stomach and caught it in front of him like catching a balloon.

"Go tell Sano, the leader of the Crown of Malice mercenary group! Let him go and see if the coffin boards in the hall are still there! If anyone is still alive, be sure to ensure their safety!"

If that little girl died, it would undoubtedly be the worst result for the Dragon family.

No matter how he argued that it was Vivian's coercion and inducement, he couldn't escape the anger of the Prince Prince Kelin family.

However, who could have thought that things would turn out like this?

Who could have thought that the Demon King actually hid such a trump card, and took out a pile of scary things from his crotch...

Until now, Lord Kamu hadn't figured out what that thing was! Just when the current head of the Dragon family was busy asking about the whereabouts of the Prince Prince Kelin family's eldest daughter, Luo Yan, who had finished accepting people's cheers, had retreated from the arena to the backstage.

The watching demons left the arena one after another.

There were also some demons who were unwilling to leave, wanting to see the end, wanting to wait until the blue side decided the outcome before leaving, but in fact, the outcome had been decided, even if the blue side successfully captured the fortress on the fifth layer of the labyrinth, the final result would not change, it would just not be so shameful to say it.

By the way, the cube cone floating in the center of the arena will last for twenty-four hours until it is interrupted tomorrow morning.

After the time is up, the game will be transferred to the small screen indoors, and the recording will be provided to various taverns for broadcast, which is considered an explanation to the demons who are curious about the follow-up results.

Looking at Luo Yan walking from the arena to the backstage, Mi Ya, who was waiting in the lounge, excitedly rushed up, hugged him, and cheered.

This hug caught Luo Yan off guard.

Mainly because he didn't feel that this duel was very difficult, and even those eighteen roasted whole lambs were more challenging for him.

Maybe it was because the host's atmosphere was better.

It seemed that she also felt that her behavior was a bit ambiguous, Mi Ya jumped back a step with a red face, coughed and said.

"Why did you stay in the castle for so long?"

Luo Yan said with a smile.

"I originally wanted to loot some spoils of war, but I didn't find anything."

Mi Ya suddenly sniffed and said suspiciously.

"Wait, there's the smell of a woman."

Luo Yan said speechlessly.

"Is your brain broken?"

Mi Ya glared at him unhappily.

"What, I'm worrying about you! Do you know how worried I am? Challenging the Dragon family with a group of goblins... you really thought of it."

Luo Yan looked at the angry Mi Ya strangely.

Did this guy get the wrong account?

Or was the account topped by someone else.

Without hearing that familiar "Hehehe", he felt uncomfortable all over.

Just when he was about to say something, "pa pa pa" applause suddenly came from the door of the lounge.

Luo Yan turned his head, only to see an acquaintance standing at the door, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Headmaster Aiwen?! What wind blew you here?"

This public is one of the people he planned to visit when he asked for leave to return to the Demon Capital this time!

Or rather, a lich.

However, compared to his surprise at Headmaster Aiwen, Mi Ya seemed more surprised at the old man standing next to Headmaster Aiwen.

That angular, majestic face was quite like a king, and the handsomeness between his eyebrows was somewhat similar to him... I think he was also a romantic hero when he was young.

Luo Yan was planning to get to know him, but Mi Ya was the first to call out.

"Prince Prince Prince Kelin?!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 135 =====