After finishing breakfast, Leticia and Qila hurried to the Demon King Palace together.
The recalled Aina was already waiting outside the palace early. As soon as she saw Leticia and Qila's carriage approaching, she jumped into the middle of the road and waved frantically at the carriage.
"Your Majesty!"
Hearing the girl's energetic voice, Leticia helplessly lifted the curtain. "Aina, let's go inside to talk."
That shout of "Your Majesty" from Aina had drawn quite a few passersby's gazes toward them.
"Okay!" Although she couldn't understand why Leticia seemed unhappy, Aina never considered such things. She just needed to execute Her Majesty's orders.
After entering the Demon King Palace grounds, Leticia parted ways with Qila.
The sister went to handle daily miscellaneous affairs, while the older sister dealt with current emergencies.
"Aina, you should roughly understand the current situation, right?" Standing in a thriving garden, Leticia asked Aina.
She hadn't chosen to discuss these matters indoors this time, but selected this back garden she rarely visited. Perhaps she wanted to breathe some fresh air while she was at it.
"Ah?" Aina looked completely bewildered.
"Uh, you don't know?" Leticia's expression fell. "Didn't the messenger tell you the specific reason?"
Aina shook her head: "I only know Your Majesty had urgent business summoning me. I don't know anything else."
Good grief, Leticia had thought Aina already roughly understood the current situation, but she knew absolutely nothing about it. This was too difficult to handle.
She'd have to waste her breath explaining the current situation to Aina.
"Cough cough, the situation is roughly like this..." Leticia gave Aina a brief explanation of the current circumstances, then stated her purpose for calling Aina back. "I want you to assist Lance in completing the mission—pursue those two escaped traitors."
"Yes!"
This response was very much in Aina's style. She accepted Leticia's mission without even asking more questions.
If it were other Heavenly Kings, they might ask about other circumstances. Only Aina, this simple girl, was different.
"Good, go find Lance now. Don't disappoint me." Leticia heavily patted Aina's shoulder.
Aina straightened up, feeling very proud of Leticia's reliance on her. This was the Demon King's trust! Did the other Heavenly Kings have this kind of treatment?
Probably not.
What did this prove? It proved that only she was the Demon King's confidant!
Watching Aina streak away like lightning into the distance, Leticia thought for a moment and called out Tōri.
"Um, arrange for someone to guide Aina. I think she'll definitely get lost."
"Understood."
After dispatching Aina, Leticia hadn't been idle for long when news came from Candice—that Divine Throne girl had awakened.
This was fantastic news! As soon as Leticia received this news, she hurried to the hospital room.
The girl she hadn't seen last time was now leaning against the bed. Hearing the door open, she looked up toward the entrance. After discovering that the person entering was a black-haired girl, she showed a look of sudden realization.
"You must be Demon King Leticia, Your Majesty?" Before Leticia could introduce herself, this girl had guessed Leticia's true identity. "It's an honor to meet you."
Being recognized wasn't strange. Before she met with her, Qila and Xue'er had already spoken with this girl a few times. She should have learned Xue'er and Qila's identities then.
Leticia and Qila were the type of biological sisters whose blood relationship could be seen at a glance. The current Demon King only had one sister. If she'd seen the younger sister last time, then this time it was definitely the older sister.
"Hah, unnecessary pleasantries can be skipped. You should know what I most want to know right now, right?" Leticia pulled over a chair and plopped down beside the girl. "Tell me everything you know related to that god."
"Your personality is more direct than I imagined." The girl's expression gradually became serious. "I assume Your Majesty the Demon King knows what organization I belong to?"
"Divine Throne. Speaking of which, I've had some contact with members of your group." Leticia nodded.
Well, she'd just disrupted one of Divine Throne's plans once and snatched the person Divine Throne had their eye on. Divine Throne people surely wouldn't mind such a small matter.
"I'm not aware of this. I've been on the demon side these past few years but haven't heard of anyone from our side having contact with you."
"Not the demon side—the human side." Leticia had no intention of expanding on this topic. "It wasn't a good experience, for you people."
"I see... Forget it, let's talk business first." The girl was silent for a while before continuing. "You can call me Sasha. My primary objective in the Demon Realm was to take away the divine artifact from that church, but due to various reasons, after discovering the divine artifact, I tried numerous methods but couldn't remove it."
"During my attempts to take the divine artifact, I noticed another group plotting against it. Their goal was much purer than mine—to release the deity sealed within the divine artifact and let it destroy the entire Demon Realm."
"Speaking of which, this matter might be Your Majesty's fault. The reason those people developed such thoughts was almost entirely due to your cruel persecution of them over the years."
Wait, when had she persecuted anyone over the years? Leticia's eyes widened. She felt wronged.
She'd clearly been slacking off! How could this blame be thrown on her head?
As for those who suffered family destruction due to power struggles in earlier times, Leticia had very thoughtfully given them all one-way tickets to hell.
"Are there fish that escaped the net?" She pressed her temples somewhat distressedly, muttering to herself.
"They're not numerous, but they're exceptionally united. Through our investigation, they have obvious connections with a human. I think Your Majesty should have guessed who that human is?"
A human? Besides that woman who injured the girl in the bed, who else could it be?
"What's that woman's identity?"
"Her identity is well hidden. Even we couldn't get more information, but I can confirm her connection with the demon race was established very early—definitely no shorter than the age of the girl she adopted."
"As for that girl, I believe you've already brought her under control?" Sasha asked.
"She's currently placed somewhere safe."
Hearing this, Sasha breathed a sigh of relief. "Whew, good thing you didn't kill her directly."
Leticia was somewhat confused. Couldn't Mo Zili be killed casually? This Sasha hadn't warned her before.
If she'd really been ruthless and cut Mo Zili in half, wouldn't that be awkward?
"No no no, I think Your Majesty misunderstood my meaning. The best way to resolve this crisis now is indeed to kill that girl—there's no mistake about that." Sasha noticed Leticia's confusion and quickly explained. "It's just that I want to take her to our Divine Throne after this matter ends."
Wow, were Divine Throne people all this direct?
Poaching right in front of Leticia was quite bold.
"What do you want to do with her?"
"Her talent must be very strong. What else would we Divine Throne do? Just have her accept divine power and fight for a better tomorrow." Sasha indicated that Divine Throne was a good organization, a trustworthy organization.
Although they might not necessarily follow rules and laws, they all harbored sincere hearts!
Regarding this, Leticia indicated she wasn't an idiot. This group might not be causing trouble currently, but who knew if they'd cause trouble in the future?
If they really started causing trouble later, this group would definitely be a more troublesome enemy than the current woman.
That woman only had one divine artifact, but Divine Throne had more than one divine artifact. Their influence spread across the entire world—even Leticia didn't know how large this organization actually was.
If they took Mo Zili away, wouldn't that be like giving guns and ammunition to her enemies?
"I won't hand her over to you." Leticia directly refused Sasha. "I plan to make her my consort. Our bloodlines combining would definitely produce a child with extraordinary talent."
"Um..." Sasha blinked. Her intuition told her Leticia was joking, but pointing this out now didn't seem appropriate either.
So she could only remain silent.
After a long while, she continued: "Let's discuss that girl's matter later. Let me first tell you about the woman who injured me."
This was a wise choice. Currently discussing Mo Zili's matter indeed couldn't yield any results. Leticia couldn't easily hand over that girl.
So it was better for everyone to first kill their common enemy together, then properly argue about where Mo Zili should go.
If that girl really posed no threat, Leticia wouldn't mind letting her regain freedom and decide her own future.
After all, our Demon King wasn't some devil—she was a very gentle, very kind girl.
"You're both people who use divine power. Why were you beaten so miserably? Is your god weaker than hers?" Leticia asked rather bluntly.
Sasha's expression dropped. How could she say that—her deity was also very powerful!
"My deity isn't weak. I lost only because I didn't expect that woman to have that kind of power and was caught off guard." She explained.
If it were a fair one-on-one frontal battle without tricks, Sasha believed she definitely wouldn't lose as miserably as before.
Even if she couldn't win, she could escape gracefully.
The reason she was beaten so badly was entirely because she was too careless.
At the start of the battle, the situation was completely one-sided. That woman was beaten by Sasha to the point of running with her head covered, with no power to resist. But just when Sasha thought her next attack would secure victory, that woman suddenly used an ability she'd never used before.
Sasha hadn't expected such a twist at the end and was hit squarely by the woman's desperate counterattack.
Then the situation reversed. The injury Sasha received was much more severe than the scraping damage she'd inflicted earlier. After using divine power, that woman immediately began chasing Sasha around and beating her.
If Sasha's escape skills hadn't been solid enough, she probably would have been left in that godforsaken place.
"So you're just bad." After hearing the entire battle process, Leticia mocked. Being defeated like this, this Sasha was too pathetic.
If it were Leticia, she wouldn't make such a low-level mistake. Before the enemy was completely dead, she wouldn't let her guard down.
After all, as a Demon King—a profession that played the big boss role in many works—Leticia didn't doubt that the enemies she faced would be the cheating type.
So she was serious when fighting and never underestimated any opponent.
But the only problem was that some people were really too cheaty. No matter how careful Leticia was, she couldn't make up for the 'huge' gap in strength.
"I admit I was indeed careless. I hope Your Majesty won't make the mistake I made." Sasha didn't get angry either. After all, she had indeed failed and made mistakes. When you make mistakes, you have to stand at attention and take the beating. She wasn't someone who couldn't accept defeat.
"When I encounter her, I'll have the Four Heavenly Kings attack together while I support from behind." Leticia explained her plan. "If four people still can't beat her alone, I'll step in for a sneak attack and kill her."
This treatment was already the best possible—the five most powerful bosses of the demon race ganging up. Even Bai Ling probably couldn't handle this, right?
She probably couldn't handle it, right?
Although she had some doubts about whether Bai Ling could handle it, Leticia believed that woman couldn't.
"Mm, this should be a foolproof situation." Sasha also thought Leticia's arrangement was quite good. If that woman could still accomplish her goal facing such a lineup, then Leticia's reaction wasn't that important anyway.
The demon race had already brought out all the high-level combat power they could mobilize. If this couldn't solve the problem, there wasn't much else they could do.
"Her ability is rather strange. The external manifestation is tentacle-like black fog. Attack power isn't strong, but binding ability is very strong. You must be extremely careful of this when fighting her."
"Hiss, this deity couldn't be something very evil, could it?" Leticia complained. From all the current signs, the possibility that the deity she was about to face was a super big villain was very high.
"Deities have nothing to do with evil. What they possess is power itself. Whether power's external manifestation appears evil isn't something deities need to care about."