Leticia driving Elsa Priestley away naturally had her own considerations. Well, let's actually listen to this.
Actually, she just felt that her Little Ya sister sitting outside alone was too lonely. Elsa Priestley sitting here served no purpose, so it was better to drive her out to accompany Little Ya home.
As for what Elsa Priestley thought?
Leticia, who had reached the peak of being trash, expressed that Elsa Priestley wasn't as important as Little Ya. Besides, Elsa Priestley was an adult who could control her emotions. How could she get angry over such a small matter?
"Sister, why did you make Miss Elsa leave? This Divine Throne member was brought back by her. She must have many doubts in her heart right now." Qila stood to the side and spoke. She was quite puzzled by her sister driving Elsa Priestley away.
"Matters involving gods aren't suitable for Elsa to know." Leticia explained. "Although Elsa has a good relationship with me, she is ultimately a Grand Duke by status. With her position, it's inappropriate."
Currently, Elsa Priestley was in a state of confusion. She knew some things but not completely, which gave Leticia room to maneuver.
"You didn't discuss god-related matters in front of her just now, did you?" Leticia asked.
Both Qila and Xue'er shook their heads. "No."
That Divine Throne member was now lying in a heavily guarded small room, with Candice treating her.
Before this, Qila and Xue'er had spoken with her for a while.
"I think what she said has high credibility." Xue'er gave her judgment. "Her behavior is very logical, and her motives are impeccable. I think she's not lying."
That Divine Throne girl hadn't concealed her purpose for coming here at all—to prevent disaster and recover the divine artifact here.
As long as she accomplished the latter, the former would naturally be completed.
After Divine Throne obtained the divine artifact, they wouldn't do anything heinous either. Their methods had always been relatively peaceful, at least compared to those who wanted to destroy the world at every turn.
It just didn't sound very nice—sneaking into demon territory and taking away demon artifacts. Didn't this sound like something only thieves would do?
Although she was trying to stop bad people from doing bad things, from the demons' perspective, she was also a bad person.
Now that she'd been beaten up like this, Leticia could probably laugh out loud. Dogs biting dogs—of course she was happy to watch.
Laughing aside, the message the girl brought still needed serious discussion. After all, she was so severely injured that she must have experienced a great battle.
In Candice's words, it was truly a miracle that she was still alive.
Anyone else would have died long ago. How could they maintain such clear consciousness to communicate with others?
Perhaps this really was a miracle. She was from Divine Throne, a Divine Envoy of an organization that walked alongside gods. She definitely had divine power within her.
It should be the divine power within her that was keeping her alive, allowing her to convey messages even while so severely injured.
"The Princess and I have already sent people to the place that person mentioned. Calculating the time, we should have a report soon." Xue'er looked down at her watch, mentally calculating, and said to Leticia. "That place isn't far from Demon King Castle. If our people rush at full speed, they can make a round trip in ten minutes."
Even counting the time to investigate the situation, twenty minutes would definitely be more than enough.
Facts were just as Xue'er said. Not long after Leticia returned, the people she had sent to verify the situation came running back in a hurry.
The Divine Throne girl hadn't lied. That place had indeed experienced a great battle. The dilapidated church that had originally stood there was torn to pieces by the battle's aftermath. As for the divine artifact the girl mentioned, it should have been taken by the bad person she spoke of.
This was quite troublesome. The divine artifact had already fallen into evil hands. If she really wanted to release a god to destroy the demons, what should they do?
That person's whereabouts were now unknown. Searching like a headless fly definitely wouldn't find her. The Demon Realm was simply too vast. Without clues, trying to find one person was no different from finding a needle in a haystack.
Basically impossible.
"Sister, I think we've met the person who took the divine artifact." But Qila's next words made Leticia's eyes light up.
Although the Divine Throne girl couldn't move and had no way to draw what her enemy looked like, she still verbally described that person's characteristics.
The two most important characteristics were: first, that was a human; second, she was like an old governess, always keeping a stern face, obviously difficult to get along with.
When these two characteristics were combined, an image appeared in Qila's mind. Coincidentally, she had just seen such a woman at the ball hosted by Elsa Priestley not long ago.
She was Mo Zili's teacher, who had brought Mo Zili to the Demon Realm to search for her parents. Not long ago, she had left Mo Zili with a teacher at the Magic Academy who had connections with her, while she herself disappeared without a trace.
This suspicion could practically be described as having the four big words "I am the criminal" written on her head.
The timing of the crime perfectly matched her disappearance time. Leticia didn't care about motives or anything like that—she just needed to know who the bad person was.
There were already few humans in Demon King Castle. The characteristics described by the Divine Throne girl immediately exposed that woman.
"Mo Zili, Mo Zili is definitely the key!" Not only that, Leticia also said loudly.
If that woman was merely seeking revenge against the demons, then she had no need to bring Mo Zili along. Wouldn't it be better for her to sneak into the Demon Realm alone?
Why bring Mo Zili? There must be a reason she had to do this—such as needing Mo Zili as a sacrifice to release the god.
Releasing a god from a divine artifact wasn't an easy task. If it were really that easy, why would the previous Fog God be so excited upon seeing Leticia?
According to the Prophecy Book, accepting divine power wasn't actually difficult. Any intelligent life with some talent could do it.
But to release a god from a divine artifact required at least one sacrifice.
The quality requirements for sacrifices were extremely strict. For example, Leticia—her quality was very high, almost able to break the seals of all divine artifacts.
Of course, there was absolutely no one who could use her as a sacrifice.
But Mo Zili was different. That little girl trusted her teacher too much. If sold out, she'd probably help count the money.
Her teacher bringing Mo Zili here—Leticia didn't believe this was without purpose. There must be some use for bringing Mo Zili here.
As for the reason, it was nothing more than using Mo Zili as a sacrifice.
Could there be other reasons? Of course there might be, but that wasn't something Leticia would consider. She hoped things were as simple as she thought.
In that case, she could just wait by the stump for the rabbit.
By guarding that stump, she could wait for the rabbit to crash into it. Whether she could make it crash to death was another matter, but at least Leticia could wait beside it with a hunting net.
If it didn't crash to death, she'd go up and finish it off, and conveniently retrieve that divine artifact.
"Immediately send people to stake out the place where Mo Zili used to live, then capture that teacher and interrogate him properly about what relationship he has with that woman." Leticia decisively gave the order.
"Right, I'll arrange it immediately." Xue'er immediately turned and jogged away to execute Leticia's command. The maid's execution ability was always trustworthy.
After Xue'er left, Leticia planned to meet with that Divine Throne girl and ask about the situation in more detail.
However, Candice firmly pushed Miss Demon King out of the room after Leticia opened the door. "The patient has lost consciousness. Your Majesty should come back tomorrow."
Lost consciousness? Wasn't she fine just now?
Leticia opened her mouth, feeling that something incredible might have happened in that room during that time.
Candice's expression was somewhat embarrassed. She rubbed her hair and said quietly with a red face, "I didn't expect her resistance to magic to be so high. The moment I applied force, she fainted."
She really had good intentions, but the demons' magic seemed to have quite a bad effect on that girl. After one healing spell, that girl directly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Candice panicked immediately and quickly cast another healing spell. As a result, that girl fainted directly. Fortunately, the girl's condition didn't worsen but began to improve rapidly.
It was probably because Candice's magic was too intense for the girl to bear.
"Tomorrow, she'll regain consciousness tomorrow, and according to my calculations, she'll also recover some mobility." Candice patted her chest, making it surge like waves. "Trust me, Your Majesty."
Given the circumstances, what else could Leticia do? She could only trust Candice.
This court physician had earned quite a bit of trust from Leticia. At least Leticia didn't suspect that Candice had any ulterior motives.
Tomorrow then. Anyway, tomorrow she also had to come to the Demon King Palace to discuss things with those old sages. Oh right, she also had to have them look at the diagrams she had just obtained.
The things Bai Ling left behind were definitely quite important.
"Want me to thank you? Hmph, disobeying me and sneaking in secretly—I'll settle accounts with you sooner or later." Thinking of Bai Ling, Leticia began muttering to herself.
Thanks? Thanks were impossible. If Bai Ling hadn't interfered, she would definitely have obtained more useful materials than these things.
The moment she got involved, all she got were these few thin pieces of paper. Hmph, she was quite displeased now.
"Your Majesty?" Leticia's muttering made Candice somewhat confused.
Leticia immediately shut her mouth. "Nothing, don't overthink it, don't ask."
"Oh, then I'll go back and check on her condition." Candice tactfully didn't pursue the matter further and turned to go back into the room.
This girl wasn't waking up, so she didn't dare leave. If something happened, at least she could handle it directly if she was there.
If she wasn't there, by the time someone brought her a message and she hurried over from her residence, how much time would that take? The person might die because of that little bit of time.
The person was recovering well, but after she cast two spells, the person fainted. If something else happened later and she wasn't on the scene, letting this girl die, Candice felt like Leticia might beat her to death.
So she decided to live here until this girl woke up.
With Candice being so dedicated, Leticia couldn't say much. She couldn't dampen this girl's work enthusiasm.
"Well then, keep it up." In the end, Leticia could only give Candice verbal encouragement. "I'm going back first. I'll come again tomorrow."
"Your Majesty, take care!"
The busy day was finally over. Leticia felt this was the busiest day she'd had in years.
Clearly she was a Demon King, yet because she was worried about certain matters, she insisted on going to the front lines herself. From some perspectives, Leticia and Qila were indeed a pair of biological sisters.
"Actually, sister doesn't need to run around everywhere herself. There are many trustworthy warriors among the Demon King Court's guards and the imperial army. They all want to share sister's burdens." On the way back to that manor, Qila said to Leticia.
Sister running around here and there—where did she look like a Demon King? What Demon King went to the front lines personally?
If the Demon Kings in those stories were all like Leticia, where would heroes get the chance to slowly level up?
With Leticia's attitude of being extremely concerned about major matters, if she learned news about heroes, she'd probably call up the Four Heavenly Kings and run over to give the still-leveling hero a surprise.
Then the story's name could be changed to "What Should I Do When the Demon King Blocks My Newbie Village While I'm Still Leveling?"
"I'm not at ease. I feel more reassured when I go myself. Anyway, I don't have anything else to do, so I might as well go take a look at those places." Leticia supported her head, looking at the slowly retreating street scene outside the window, and replied quietly.
"Only at times like this does sister have a bit of the bearing of a Demon King." Qila covered her mouth and laughed.
Leticia glared at her sister somewhat indignantly. "What do you mean by that, Qila? When don't I act like a Demon King?"
"Sister should ask which day besides today you acted like a Demon King." Qila had no intention of saving face for her sister. She showed a cute smile while saying hurtful words. "And my answer is, not a single day."
"Qila! I'm going to break off our sisterly relationship!" Leticia shouted loudly.
But this soft threat really had no threatening power. Qila's light response made Leticia surrender immediately. "Then sister will have to handle all those documents by yourself."
"Ah, this..."