Chapter 5: The Duke of Hell

As Locke's words fell, the originally motionless demon statue began to vibrate, the stones peeled off, and the green flames gradually lit up, and when the stone shards clinging to its body were completely detached, the entire hall was instantly replaced by a burst of green light.

Everyone subconsciously blocked their eyes with their arms, and Locke was no exception, and when he slowly lowered his arms, what appeared in front of his eyes was indeed shocking:

The galloping green flames swirled around the demon, the blue crystal spear was grasped by it in its right hand and gradually lowered, the cyan lower body was a strong dragon body, the upper body of the humanoid type was wearing black heavy armor, and the runes on it were golden, and the two red dots in its black eye sockets were like two tiny fireballs that were burning brightly, which indicated its other identity - this guy was from hell.

Normal demon eyes are green, only the hell is fireball-shaped, from hell to the material world must be through the summoning altar to reach, of course, other simple magic arrays can also be summoned, but all they attract are small shrimp.

"Achras! Do you know who I am? Locke looked up at the demon in front of him, he was now completely gambling, betting that the demon in front of him was also like an elf, completely identifying with his lordship.

Anne consumes the least energy and is the manager, so she was the first to break the seal after Locke's arrival, and she has no memories of her past. It may be that the new lord's system mechanism is automatically erased by the new lord's mechanism, or the previous lord is worried that his remaining subordinates will not obey the orders of the successor, so he erases their memories by the way, except for those who keep them.

These are just Locke's personal conjectures, and there is no relevant knowledge, but in the complicated Castlevania encyclopedia knowledge, it is shown that each demon here has its own personality, and there are really a few of them who are suspected of wanting to rebel.

Because of this, Locke chose Aklas, a great demon with amazing combat power and not so many scheming, to make a bet.

In the face of Locke's question, the Duke of Hell, who was covered in blue flames, looked confused, as if he had just woken up, and pouted.

This made Locke frown.

"Big ...... The Great Devil? At this time, several third-order soldiers next to him, who originally wanted to take Locke to receive the reward, pointed at Aklas and screamed in horror, and sat on the ground.

The ninth-order Hell Grand Duke can suppress these guys without moving.

Hearing the shout, the war demon turned its head suspiciously, and at that moment, its pupils, which were originally just two small red dots, suddenly burst into flames, and the slightest flame broke through the eye sockets and rose upward, looking extremely angry.

"Human?!"

Akhras stared at the already frightened third-order soldiers on the ground, and roared as he walked out of the queue.

"Quick...... Run away......" The gold-rank soldier with great strength turned over with difficulty and crawled towards the priests behind him.

But how did they know that even the young priest who had a restraint effect on the demon was stunned in place at this time-it was not that he didn't want to go, and his legs couldn't move at all as if they were nailed to the ground.

This place shouldn't have been!

The green flames in the hall increased more and more, and the whole castle faintly showed signs of shaking, which made Locke frown and look up at the ceiling, and then looked at the figure of the Duke of Hell again - Aklas stopped after walking a certain distance, the spear in his right hand was flicked to the left, and then swept forward, the surging blue flames were like a huge wave, and all humans were instantly submerged in it, and almost did not have time to react, their flesh/body and soul were all reduced to ashes in this cyan hellfire.

The flames disappeared, but the tremors around them grew stronger.

The Duke of Hell turned to look at Locke behind him, slowly approached, its pupils returned to red dots, and he looked down slightly at the small second-order humanoid demon in front of him, his expression did not change at all, and his movements did not change much.

The castle began to make a loud noise, and just when Locke thought that this stupid big man would have to grind for a long time, he saw the demon duke in front of him slowly leaning down, putting his spear on the ground, making a half-kneeling position with his right legs, putting his right arm on his heart, lowering his head, and beginning to salute Locke.

"Whew~~!"

Locke finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Humans have invaded the castle before, and before Aklas was sealed, its memory was stuck in the battle with humans, so it was so angry when it saw humans.

In fact, demons do not hate humans or other beings like the undead, they are more inclined to enjoy than hatred, after all, humans sometimes summon them to the material world through formations, according to the contract, accept human sacrifices, enjoy their worship and fear, and finally fulfill their wishes for them, get rewarded, which has an insurmountable satisfaction for demons, and it is because of this feeling that they do not hate humans so much.

And seeing that it showed endless anger against humans just now, it is obvious that it still retains its previous memories, in that case, when it sees the lord replaced, it must not be upset.

But at this moment, seeing its surrendered appearance, Locke breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, began to wonder: does it still retain its previous memories?

The Duke of Hell in front of him looked up at Locke in a half-kneeling position, and was about to speak, when at that moment, Locke clearly saw that its whole body was once again wrapped in rocks - sealed.

"Are you running out of energy?" Looking at the half-kneeling demon statue, Locke turned his head to look around at the violently shaking palace.

"Master!" The elf appeared in front of Locke, his head lowered, and his expression was very sad, "The energy is exhausted, and you will have to rely on yourself in the future." ”

Locke smiled and reached out his finger and touched her little head.

"Don't worry, I know how to do it."

Just when the elf wanted to say something, Locke felt a change in the space in front of him, the elf disappeared, the palace disappeared, and the entire huge castle disappeared, and Locke himself stood in a super vast barren plain.

It's like a dream.

Locke looked around, for a moment in a trance, and looked up at the sky, the sun was setting, and it was almost dusk.

The castle was now in his body and waiting to be restored.

A way to get it back up must be found as soon as possible!

The castle is home, and going home has become Locke's primary goal, so how to go home?

"Collect energy, materials, building materials, and armaments and go home!"

Thinking of this, Locke immediately turned around and headed towards the west - when he found the symbol of the Buckmundi Empire, he used the illusory mirror to check the outer perimeter of the castle, and a kilometer away from here, there was a vast battlefield that had just ended the battle and was full of corpses!

Corpses, representing skeletons, representing flesh and blood, these are supplies and armaments, get them, then the distance home can be cut in half!

"Master, look over there." The elf's voice rang in his ears. (To be continued)