Chapter 598: The Demon in the Countryside Is So Terrifying!

At this very moment, the elated Vivian had no idea of the severe punishment awaiting her.

But those things were actually not so bad.

Those who knew the Demon King understood that he never laid hands harshly on those close to him, especially not on Vivian.

The real threat came from her hometown, the Demon Capital—

The Padrich family's reinforcements had arrived!

Above the Great Cemetery, the teleportation array in Beifeng City shimmered with warped space-light as the chanters' low hymns echoed.

As two graceful figures descended onto the array, the emerald glow quickly faded…

"Is this the Great Cemetery?"

"Gigglegiggle, Nana, our era has arrived!"

The two succubi glanced around curiously, realizing no teleportation malfunction had occurred, and excitedly embraced each other.

Watching the succubi posing atop the array, the robed death priest cleared his throat and spoke in a dry, hollow voice.

"Welcome, envoys from the Demon Capital. This is the Great Cemetery, the domain of His Majesty Luo Yan. We hope you will adapt to local customs and abide by our rules during your stay."

Hearing the voice from below the array, Qiqi and Nana blushed instantly, released each other, stood straight, and saluted with exaggerated military precision.

"Understood! Demon General!"

"Don't worry! We've studied hard!"

"I am not a Demon General—only a former servant who once received the Demon King's grace. Still, I sincerely wish you a pleasant stay… you'll find this a good place." The priest nodded slightly, then stepped aside to clear the descent stairs, leaving with his colleagues for the day.

Today was the last run.

Carrying the nervousness of recent graduation and boundless hopes for the future, Qiqi and Nana linked arms and stepped down the stairs, setting foot upon this legendary land.

In their imaginations, the Thundering County Labyrinth should have been a paradise filled with screams and whippings.

After all, its master was the famed "Human Tamer," Senior Luo Yan—the most demonic man in the entire Demon King Academy!

Legends said his methods were brutally cruel; the adventurers he broke reached a staggering six-digit number. Not just quantity—the quality was astonishing. Even the Campbell family, which had suppressed the Thundering County Labyrinth for nearly a thousand years, had been toyed with at his whim!

His power was utterly unfathomable!

To avoid dragging down His Majesty, the sisters had prepared thoroughly—even secretly stuffed a few spiked leather whips into their suitcases.

Thinking they could finally put into practice the theoretical knowledge learned from Professor Lilith and fully unleash their succubi racial talents upon humans, they had been too excited to sleep for several nights, even preparing for a personal interview by the Demon King himself.

Yet the moment they stepped out of the teleportation chamber, before even adjusting to the side effects of the subspace, their beautiful fantasies shattered beneath the sight before them.

There were no mountains of corpses or human screams—only deafening mechanical roars and swirling clouds of coal dust.

"Th-this is the legendary Thundering County Labyrinth?" The elder sister, Qiqi, stared blankly around, swallowing nervously.

It felt like a replica of Black Wind Fortress.

The younger sister, Nana, was slightly more composed—but only slightly—her face etched with pure bewilderment.

"It… it feels a bit off…"

It was more than just a bit off.

The sisters gazed around in confusion, seeing distant hills where massive industrial chimneys stood like the fangs of beasts, and factories in Hellish dwarf style greedily spewing thick black smoke into the sky.

These were brick kilns running nonstop, steel mills, and many other factories whose names they didn't even know.

What terrified the sisters even more was the scene before the factories.

Swarms of skeleton soldiers and death priests were sprinting through muddy roads, shouldering heavy rails and sleepers, frantically loading cargo onto carts.

Like tireless machines!

The air carried no scent of blood, but a suffocating pressure that even demons found unbearable—the kind of odor that made demons' livers ache.

Where was human exploitation?

Clearly, the demons of Hell were being worked to death!

Watching a passing skeleton soldier, who had jolted two of his own ribs loose from running too fast, ignore them and keep sprinting with bricks on his back.

From their agile movements, they were clearly not puppets summoned by necromancers, but "Hellish Beings" driven by self-awareness.

If you insisted on being pedantic, you could call them Hellish Dead.

Qiqi's cheeks turned pale, and she unconsciously gripped her sister's hand tighter.

"Na… Nana, did we get on the wrong teleportation array? There's… there's no labyrinth here."

She was already considering retreating!

Seeing the demons reduced to mere bones, Nana also swallowed hard, her once-lively heart-shaped tail now clamped tightly between her legs.

At that moment, a long-standing urban legend from the Demon Capital suddenly flashed into her mind.

"I… I heard the Colin family's vampires have a peculiar taste—they don't drink human blood, they prefer succubi blood… because it's sweet."

If Vivian heard this urban legend, she'd surely fly into a rage and demand punishment for the rumor-monger.

Undoubtedly, this damned rumor was made up by succubi themselves!

But precisely because it was made up by succubi, Qiqi beside her instantly believed it, her eyes widening as she turned to look.

She stared at her sister as if she were a traitor who had betrayed their team.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

Nana replied with a voice tinged with tears.

"I—I thought it was just a rumor made up by losers who didn't get selected! I never thought it was true!"

That was the truth.

The Colin vampires did indeed drink succubi blood—it was invented by an Ifrit named Brand. The reason? Simple: half the trainees sent to the Thundering County Labyrinth were succubi—it was infuriating!

Even though he hadn't been selected had nothing to do with his Ifrit identity—it was purely because he was incompetent, couldn't even read a map of the human world.

But looking at the hellish labor scene before them, Nana found the legend terrifyingly plausible.

These two powerless, background-less little snacks entering here—wouldn't they be devoured whole by the great Demon King named Luo Yan?

She dared not think further!

Just as the sisters hesitated whether to flee before the teleportation array shut down, a sly, cunning voice drifted down on flapping wings.

"Ooh, new faces?"

The sisters jumped, looking up to see a small demon hovering above them, appearing from nowhere.

"Who?!"

"Mixi! The small demon of Nightmare Village, messenger of the Audience Hall, the best gossip-bearer in the Great Cemetery… and the last title was granted by His Majesty the Demon King!"

Mixi held a clipboard, puffed out his chest proudly, and sized up the two succubi from the Demon Capital like a merchant inspecting goods.

"Let me see… you're the reinforcements Padrich brought from the Demon Capital? Qiqi and Nana? Tsk tsk, is this the standard of succubi in the Demon Capital? They don't even compare to Yuxi."

Hearing the name Mia, the sisters seized it like a lifeline, exchanged glances, then nodded nervously.

"Yes…"

"Yes, we're Qiqi and Nana!"

In the Demon Capital, they would never have tolerated a small demon's mockery, let alone let some backwater demon insult them.

But the atmosphere here was too hellish—they dared not utter a word, afraid of offending this backwater demon.

Mixi circled them once, confirmed the cargo matched the order, then nodded in satisfaction and scribbled two marks on his clipboard.

"Alright, follow me. I'll take you to your workplace."

Mixi tucked away his clipboard, turned, and flew toward the labyrinth entrance, waving his tiny arm without looking back.

"Keep close! Don't get eaten by cave spiders!"

Seeing Mixi about to fly off, brave Nana shouted out.

"Wait! What… what exactly is our job?!"

Mixi, flying ahead, answered impatiently.

"You'll find out when you get there. Don't worry, His Majesty won't eat you!"

Looking at the gray sky and the bustling skeleton army around them, the sisters remained uneasy—but since they'd come this far, it was too late to run.

They gritted their teeth, picked up their two suitcases behind them, and trudged forward with heavy steps, heading toward the abyss called "workplace."

It just felt…

Too hasty to come.

…

Passing through the smoky industrial zone, Mixi led the two terrified succubi sisters to the central plaza on the outskirts of the Great Cemetery.

It was a relatively open gathering area, with a granite fountain standing in the center and variously shaped buildings lining the stone-paved ground.

Moreover, the Demon King's generals were active here.

They were a group of skeleton soldiers called "players," along with all sorts of oddities—undead rats, cave spiders, and more.

Some sat on the ground staring blankly, others punched the air, and a few even took off their own heads and kicked them like balls—clearly new to the game.

Those who'd played longer were either on missions outside or accumulating contributions in the nearby factories—they wouldn't waste time loitering here.

The instant Qiqi and Nana entered the plaza, every player froze in perfect unison, their eye sockets slowly igniting with green flames.

"Holy shit! New NPC!"

"Succubi! And twin sisters!"

"Hehehe, the game devs finally became human! Finally, the Great Cemetery isn't full of bone spirits and lizard men!"

"Fuck you! Who's a lizard man?! I'm a reptilian!"

"Pfft, same ugly mess, what's the difference!"

All kinds of players surged forward, shouting excitedly amid strange jargon the sisters couldn't understand.

From their perspective, they were surrounded by a mob of undead with glowing green eyes and clattering bones, babbling nonsense like they were possessed!

Even more terrifying was the behavior of this group of monsters.

Some skeleton soldiers suddenly began convulsing wildly in place, their limbs twisting and flailing at unnatural, joint-reversing angles, as if cursed by some vile spell and writhing in agony.

Others crawled shamelessly on the ground, desperately thrusting their skulls toward the girls' feet, trying to squeeze through the invisible wall of air.

Their lewd posture was enough to make any girl scream in terror—even a succubus wouldn't fare much better.

After all, succubi are drawn to looks, and these skeleton soldiers were simply too horrifying: ugly, inedible, and foul-smelling.

"Sister… I'm scared…"

"Don't be afraid, Qiqi… I, I'll protect you!"

Nana clung tightly to her sister's arm, tears swirling in her eyes. Qiqi comforted her younger sister, but despair was already etched onto her tense face.

At that moment, the crowd suddenly parted as a tall lizardman squeezed through.

He was a veteran player from the "Dragon Walks the World" guild: 【Dragon Walks·I Eat Well】.

To gain the first wave of favor with the new NPC, he immediately pulled from his backpack his long-hoarded delicacy—

A roasted cave spider leg, crispy on the outside and tender within, still sizzling and dripping oil!

He grinned wide, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth, forcing a friendly expression as he held the furry, thick leg out toward Nana.

"Heh heh, little sister, try this? Just roasted!"

Yet his self-assured smile looked to Nana exactly like Professor Enoth's class in the Demon Lord Academy.

There stood a scaled monster grinning wickedly, extending a clawed hand holding a severed limb ripped straight from some giant creature, its tail behind it swaying greedily.

By Baelith, even the Demon Lord Academy never taught such a terrifying trick!

"Aaaah—!"

Nana let out a piercing scream, nearly fainting on the spot.

Mixi, who had just turned back from the front, lit up instantly, snatching up the crispy, succulent offering and crunching down half of it in one bite.

Flapping her wings, she chewed happily, speaking through a mouthful.

"See? They're all good demons… burp."

Watching the little demon devouring it with relish, the sisters glanced at the grinning monsters around them and felt a chill crawl up their spines.

Good… demons?

What's good about a creature that eats its coworkers' body parts?!

The sisters exchanged a glance and silently reached a mutual understanding.

Rural demons—

Are truly terrifying!