“Huh?”
Hiding in the back of the crowd, Theresa sniffed in disdain. She thought to herself, The guy has a lot of friends. Does he have an affair with Queen Medusa of the demon world? Well, it’s very likely. The guy is a male dog in heat. There’s no reason why he wouldn’t conspire with Queen Medusa. No wonder he is fearless. He has an old lover here!
Black Jack smiled and gestured for the two Medusa Demons to dispense with the formalities. Then he asked, “What’s going on? The soldiers of the Hell Exterminator seem to be much stronger than when I was in the demon world. Besides, he dared to attack the Thousand Gates Mountain and piss off the six demons at the same time?”
“Yes.”
The two Medusa Demons looked at each other and seemed to trust Black Jack, the ‘distinguished guest’, very much. They said, “In the years when the distinguished guest was away, Grand Master Cooper excavated several ancient arsenals that had been sealed for thousands of years and armed his compatriots with the ancient demon soldiers inside. Then, he drove a wedge between the six demon clans and lured us to attack each other. When we were all weakened and lowered our vigilance against the Exterminators, he suddenly marched toward the Thousand Gates Mountain.
“It was not until we discovered that the strength of the Hell Destroyer Clan had soared and that countless unprecedented ancient demon soldiers had appeared that we realized the ambitions of Lord Kuba, but it was already difficult to stop him.
“I see.”
Deep in thought, Black Jack glanced over the green and purple faces of the two Medusa Demons and seemed to have noticed something. He asked, “Is it really that simple? Is there no trigger or a deeper reason?”
“Well…”
The two Medusa Demons were hesitating.
“I am a distinguished guest of your queen and have done the Medusa Clan such a great favor. Can’t you trust me?”
The black ripples inside Black Jack’s eyes spread out again. His voice was both mysterious and irresistible. “You know that I am a pacifist of the unification of the world. I have no prejudice against human beings or the demon race. The harmonious coexistence of the human world and the Blood Demon Sector is what I like most. It is exactly because your Queen Medusa thinks so that we can be best friends.
“Therefore, you can’t tell me anything yet. Chances are that I can help your queen. Or are you going to report to the queen first?”
Theresa watched Black Jack’s every move from behind.
She found that Black Jack’s brainwaves were weird again.
Just like how he hypnotized the girls in his harem.
Black Jack seemed to boast weird abilities. As long as it was a woman—no, as long as it was a female—from the age of thirteen to eighty-six, regardless of whether it was a human being, a beast race, a dragon race, or a devil race, he could release the special hormones known as ‘manliness’ and charm them into submission. They would listen to his every command until they became his slaves.
Besides, the weird hypnosis could attack the enemy’s soul directly without alarming them. No matter how strong the enemy was, they would definitely be affected.
In other words, no woman in the world could resist the temptation of Black Jack.
—Other than Theresa.
The two Medusas were both Witches.
Naturally, she was hypnotized by him.
Confusion flashed on their faces, and their eyes rippled as they followed Black Jack’s gaze.
“It doesn’t matter if you tell Lord Black Jack. After all, it has become a well-acknowledged matter in the entire Blood Demon Sector. Even if we don’t tell you, you can capture any random devilized person and tell them everything.”
One of the Medusa Witches said, “There is indeed a fuse. An elder of the Turing Clan received a revelation in his sleep that the ‘crimson palace’ was about to rise from the abyss again thousands of years later. A new ‘Empress of Crimson Blood’ was about to be born!
“Besides, according to the enlightenment, the elders of the Turing Clan found the way to the ‘crimson palace’ in the secret treasury that had been sealed for thousands of years and drew a detailed map.
“However, the Turing Clan is weak, and they do not have the ambition to dominate the Demon Realm. It is even more impossible for them to pass the test of the Crimson Queen. They are looking for someone who is qualified to accept the legacy of the Crimson Queen and sit on the Crimson Throne.
“But as it turned out, the news leaked out and was known by Lord Kuba. Lord Kuba was too ambitious to allow the Red Queen to show up and become his mortal enemy. Therefore, he sent an army of the Hell Exterminators to hunt down the elders of the Turing Clan. The six demon clans all knew that the Red Queen’s legacy was our last hope against the Hell Exterminators. How could we allow Lord Kuba to destroy it so easily?
“We found the elders of the Turing Clan in time and protected them, but the army of the Hell Exterminators arrived soon after. The two parties engaged in a fierce battle in the Thousand Gates Mountain.
“In the beginning, it was just a small-scale encounter, but both sides continued to send more soldiers. The more they fought, the more intense it became. That’s what the honorable guest saw.
His words raised whispers and discussions in Black Jack’s harem.
Theresa was confused, too. What was ‘the Crimson Queen’?
Black Jack said, “I’ve heard the legend of the Crimson Queen before, but it was a long time ago. Can you please explain it to us?”
“The Crimson Queen is a hero in the legends of the demon race,” Medusa said. “No. Not just a hero. She is the saviour of the entire Blood Demon Sector. Before she became the queen, she had been active on the battlefield as ‘Witch Kelly’.
“Witch Kelly!”
Princess Summer exclaimed. There was fear on her face.
Theresa bit her ear. “Sister Summer, what is ‘Witch Kelly’? Is she very good?”
Princess Summer looked at her weirdly, as if she was confused that she had never heard the name before. But she still explained, “Witch Kelly was the female commander-in-chief of the army of the demon race in the middle and late stages of the ‘Battle of the Demons’ thousands of years ago. It is said that, after the death of the first commander-in-chief of the demon race, she reorganized the army of the demon race, which was on the verge of collapse, and made the defeated soldiers sharper and more brilliant than before.
“Other than her talent in commanding an army, she was a strong warrior herself. Countless warriors, generals, magisters, and even kings of the human world were killed by her in person.
“Her existence prolonged the ‘battle of the apocalypse’ for many years. In the end, countless martyrs and seven heroes were sacrificed in order to kill Kelly.
“She was the most terrifying nightmare of the Jadeite Continent. She was the well-deserved ultimate enemy in the epics of all the bards. I didn’t know that she left a ‘crimson palace’ thousands of years later!
