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After one last tour of the barracks, the Demon King Crewe returned to his makeshift office.
Sitting quietly in his chair, letting the darkness expel all the light in the room little by little, the demon king Crewe remained motionless.
Once he calmed down, he couldn't help but reminisce, reminiscing about the time when his wife was alive in the past, and recalling the days when those daughters had not yet become demon kings.
His wife, Eloria's mother, is a very ordinary demon with one-eighth human blood, with ordinary talents, ordinary appearance, and ordinary personality, nothing outstanding, but Crewe likes her very, very much.
Because she accompanied him through his most difficult time, she witnessed how Crewe grew from an ordinary demon civilian to a demon king.
The position of the demon king is not hereditary, whether it is the demon king of power or the demon king of power.
Crewe, like countless demon kings in the past, grew up from an ordinary person, and his wife accompanied him to witness everything. She comforted him when he was frustrated, reminded him when he was proud, and encouraged him when he was desperate...... They've spent so much time together that they're used to leaning on each other, like one person's hands—no one cares when they're both, and once one is lost, the importance is discovered.
When he first realized this, it was when Eloria was born.
Eloria is a genius, or rather a genius who was inadvertently created by the power of the Demon King.
Eloria's mother was a scholar of magic techniques, but it was only at the level of ordinary amateurs, and when Crewe became the Demon King, her resources improved, so she began to try some higher-level magic experiments, and even after she became pregnant, she did not stop her hobby.
However, she is not an ignorant person, and every experiment chooses Crewe's leisure time, with the Demon King by her side, and the experiments of the level she can carry out will not be dangerous in any case. But that's how accidents often happen, and during one experiment, a special liquid breaks through the protection of Krewe's power and infects her body.
The Demon King worriedly used his magic power to check his wife's body, but found that part of his power had been sucked away, and other than that, his wife's body was not abnormal.
Despite their great fears, the two of them, who had used all means to find no anomaly, could only put the matter behind for the time being until they ...... Eloria was born.
Eloria was born with the power of the Demon King, and the powerful power eventually led to a difficult birth, and the baby's instinctive use of power to absorb the life force of the mother made her mother's condition even worse.
The Demon King was helpless, and for the first time in his life, he faced such a cruel choice.
Fortunately, all this did not last long, the power in Eloria's body settled, and his wife finally gave birth safely, and the mother and daughter were safe.
Since then, Eloria has not shown any abnormalities, she has grown up healthy like an ordinary child, but Crewe knows that the power from him in his daughter's body is still latent and has not completely dissipated, and with his power, his daughter is destined to have extraordinary achievements in the future.
It's just that every time he sees Eloria, he thinks of the scene when his wife had a difficult birth, and he can't help but think that if his daughter's experience suddenly goes berserk and hurts other people, especially her mother who gets along with her day and night......
These thoughts tormented him, and even caused him to occasionally have the idea of frightening himself - to kill this scourge, a hundred!
These thoughts prevented him from facing his daughter, and he did not dare to approach her because he was afraid that he would hurt her on the spur of the moment. He hates his daughter on the one hand, but he can't help but care about her. He couldn't help but think of his wife's suffering when she laughed, and he couldn't help but want to go up and comfort her when she was sad.
It's just that in the end, none of those caring ideas are put into practice.
Even if his wife was always dissatisfied with his daughter's coldness, he did not change, he felt guilty about his wrong thoughts, but as long as he remembered the suffering of her wife, and the harm she might have done to her, he could not smile at her, so he could only treat her coldly.
Until one day, he no longer needs to choose.
Because his wife died, Eloria's mother died.
In his palace, in front of Eloria, he was killed by the Assassins.
He no longer needs to think of the pain his daughter inflicted on his wife when he sees her together, because they will never be together again.
Now he needs to rely on the existence of his daughter to remember the time when his wife was alive, which is really ironic.
After losing his wife, he suddenly realized that he was too cold to his daughter in the past, he didn't want to lose his daughter again, and now he didn't dare to imagine what would happen without his daughter.
He decided not to dwell on the past anymore, after all, he had already lost a loved one, and he could not afford to lose another.
In order to let his daughter have the ability to protect herself when he is away, he set a series of plans to train his daughter, he knows that his daughter still has a part of his own power in her body, and with that part of the power as a seed, Eloria will soon grow up.
It was only one day that he suddenly looked back and suddenly realized that he had not had a conversation with his daughter like an ordinary family member for a long, long time.
Except for the training plan he formulated, his daughter stayed alone in the room and did not go out, neither went out shopping, nor talked to people, and lived a strange life that ordinary parents would definitely worry about. But Crewe didn't think there was anything strange, he felt that his daughter's safety not going out was greatly improved, and if it wasn't for the adjutant to remind him, he wouldn't even notice that his daughter's behavior was abnormal.
But that's when Eloria became the Demon King.
She no longer had to rely on his patronage, no longer had to strictly follow the various plans he had made, and she even moved out of his palace.
For the first time, the Demon King Crewe found out that he didn't know anything about his daughter, and he didn't even know why she didn't go out and talk to people, or even leave his side.
"Have I never fulfilled the responsibilities of a father?" the demon king, who entered his daughter's room for the first time after his daughter left, looked at the room that did not have the slightest smell of his daughter's home, and couldn't help but ask himself.
After his wife left, he missed his wife, and after his daughter left, he began to miss the days when his daughter was there.
Only this time, at least he didn't have to worry about his daughter's safety anymore. Because she is already a demon king, although in this era dominated by the human race, the demon king is no longer nothing, but in the territory of the demon race, the demon king still represents invincibility.
Then, once again, reality played with him.
He got the news from other demons that his daughter had left the Demon King's Palace where she was guarding, and he recalled the guards in his daughter's Demon King's Palace to confirm this, and in addition to that, he even got the shocking news from the guards that his daughter had gone to the Terran capital with the Brave.
Will Eloria be betrayed? What if her identity is discovered? Will she be in danger with the Terrans?
The Demon King Kru is like an old man whose children are thousands of miles away from home but have no news, and he can't help but think wildly.
Then he got the news from other demons that there was a demon king found in the human emperor.
In addition to his own daughter, which other demon king is in the imperial capital of the human race?
He decided to do something, to do something in line with being a father.
So he mobilized his army and prepared to put pressure on the Terrans to fear not to harm Eloria.
"Does this really work?" sighed with some concern, and the Demon King stood up and decided to go back to the palace. In the face of the increasingly powerful Terran, he didn't think this kind of behavior was of any use, the Demon King sneaked into the imperial capital, whether she destroyed it or not, it was a major event that could shock the Terran, and the Terran would definitely use a tough attitude to deal with this kind of thing. Because as soon as they show a little weakness, there will be a second or third demon king who will sneak into the Terran Imperial Capital and reproduce everything before.
But his attitude has already been expressed, so there is no need to think about it anymore, even if he thinks about it more, it will not help.
The only thing he could do now was to go back to the palace every night and look at the familiar sights and remember everything he had done when his wife and daughter were there.
While standing on the teleportation array, he received a message from his lieutenant: Lord Eloria had returned.
He didn't have time to read all the news, or even think about what it meant, so he hurriedly activated the teleportation array and returned to the palace, and came to the door of his daughter's room, which he knew would be in her own room—for he had never seen her stay anywhere else for long.
As he walked, he thought about what to say when he saw his daughter.
"Ellie, you're finally back, I miss you. "No, it looks too weird, isn't there no image of his father at all?
"Ellie, welcome back. "Wouldn't that be too cold, and would my daughter feel that she was just saying kind things and not being sincere?
Thinking so, he had already arrived at the door of his daughter's room.
"Sure enough, it's better not to be too anxious all at once, such as asking first...... Well, just ask her what happened, why she left, and how she ran back now. After all, Ellie is back, and I still have plenty of time to make up for my shortcomings......"
Without further thinking, he pushed open the door of his daughter's room: "Ellie, I heard that you are back......" Then he saw the man who was alone with his daughter, and a wave of anger instantly ignited his reason: "Who are you?!"