"Lord Xu Mo, I'm sorry to delay you for so long, according to the results of the emergency meeting held by the upper echelons to discuss, your candidacy has been privately recognized by the five major forces, and you have entered the second stage of the assessment."

"I'm sorry to interrupt, what do you mean by private admission?"

"As the name suggests, the five major forces of the Demon Realm agree that you are the candidate for the next Demon King, but they will not make a public statement, at most, they will secretly give you some care for the forces you currently belong to, such as the right of preemption in the policy and tariff reduction, etc., and at the same time, the channels to dredge the relationship will be more convenient." Without hesitation in making a gesture of bribery, the expression on the fox clan elder's face remained unchanged, and he gave a truthful example: "For example, the sightseeing amusement park you plan to build in the near future, if you follow the normal process, it will probably take nearly half a year to review it alone, and if you add environmental assessment and fire insurance inspection, even if you are forced to stop work during construction, it is commonplace."

"I think you're implicitly suggesting something, but maybe it's my delusion, right?" I remember that some time before I crossed, there was a similar construction case that was in an uproar, I remember that it seemed to be a giant dome or a shopping mall, and I learned from my friends that the evaluation process that often took months to run down seemed to take only one day to finish.

Despair! I'm completely hopeless of this society full of crimes everywhere!

Out of the psychology of being a small citizen in the market, staring at the fox clan elder who was talking, I slapped him with an expressionless face.

"Lord Xu Mo?!" Since I didn't use much force, the Fox Clan Elder didn't feel any pain, and he was even more surprised than an inexplicable slap in the face.

"I'm sorry, my fault." I made a gesture to wipe my face. I sighed deeply: "I used to be a down-and-out aristocrat, and I suffered a great loss in the part where I didn't unblock the pipes, and if I hadn't been able to unblock the pipes, I wouldn't have been displaced to become a bard, and I'm afraid that topics like this have become similar to psychological trauma, and I'm very sorry for the rude behavior just now."

"It turns out that there is such a reason in it, and it was my negligence that I didn't investigate it in advance." To put it mildly, I used one sentence to expose the embarrassing situation just now. The Fox Clan Elder also understood that it was not suitable to continue to deepen the topic in this regard, and immediately turned the main topic back to the final discussion results of the five major forces, and relayed: "Back to the main topic, although your current identity has been recognized, but if you want to truly succeed to the throne and become the new Demon King, you must first take back the symbol of the Demon King's status, that is, the Demon King's Scythe whose whereabouts are unknown at this stage, Lord Xu Mo, do you still remember the bead fragment you hold? In fact, the blue orb is a navigation device, and once you have all the pieces together, it will guide you to the location of the Demon King's Scythe."

"So what I should do is visit the major forces to pass the test of their leader, and collect the fragments. Then take the map and go on a treasure hunt?" These contents have already been told by the artificial AI of the previous Demon King, but there is another thing that puzzles me: "Speaking of which, since the five major forces in the Demon Realm all know that the Sphere Fragment is a treasure map, why didn't they even think about simply gathering an army and getting the scythe back before the new Demon King candidate appears?"

"Because this is the Demon King's assessment for the next successor." As for what I was suspicious of, the Fox Clan Elder took it for granted: "Before the appearance of the third Demon King, the forces of the Demon Realm were in a rather chaotic state, and although the five major forces were not incompatible with each other, there were always frictions between large and small forces. It should be said that if there is no third-person demon king in the middle, I am afraid that the demon world will never be able to complete the unification in the true sense."

"Nope. It's said that it's the third term, didn't the first two demon kings unify the demon world?" Hearing the subtle meaning hidden in the words, I couldn't help but ask again.

"Formal unity and substantive unity are two completely different situations." The Fox Clan Elder said succinctly, "Secretly setting up a small stumbling block or violating the yang and yin was a common thing at that time, and comparing the chaos during the tenure of the first Demon King and the second Demon King with the wise governance of the third Demon King, the gap between the two cannot be described in words alone."

When the first two demon kings are called, they are called titles, but the third one adds the honorific predicate of adult at the end. It can be seen that the difference in respect is indeed like mud.

"It is not just the use of force to suppress it, but it is necessary to obtain the approval of the forces from a more fundamental place, so that they can sincerely assist the new king. With this in mind, the third Demon Lord left behind a succession ritual for candidates to travel around the Demon Realm to collect shards before he disappeared."

"Well, please forgive me for always having so many questions. But what if someone shows up with the Demon King's Scythe one day?"

"Don't you understand? At the moment when the inheritance ceremony is confirmed, the symbolism of the Demon King's Scythe is no longer the highest position, and if it is not the last part of the inheritance link designated by the third Demon King, the Demon King's Scythe must be retrieved, otherwise as long as the fragments are gathered, the heir will be able to directly ascend to the position of the new Demon King." Forcefully let out a breath through his nostrils, and the fox clan elder's flat tone seemed to be mixed with some complex emotions: "Fate has chosen who has the potential to be a demon king, but whether or not he has the strength to be a king is not decided by those untouchable ethereal beings."

I opened and closed my mouth like a goldfish, what should this play count as now, the rise of the consciousness of otherworldly democracy?

"Young Demon King Candidate, this is the first and last time I've spoken to you in such a tone." Stripped of the formal etiquette, the Fox Clan Elder looked at me with the eyes that looked cloudy due to old age, but were full of wisdom, and said word by word, "Are you mentally prepared to carry the entire demon clan forward?"

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"Please give me a child ticket."

After paying for the visit, Daofeng easily entered the exhibition room with the huge display of the dragon's head bones, in order not to deliberately attract the attention of others, she even deliberately chose the most crowded time to enter, although the number of visitors will affect the quality of the exhibition, but because today is only the first to step on the point, so this part of the obstacle will not pose too much trouble.

Moving together in the crowd, Shima Feng soon approached the display where the dragon's head skeleton was placed, but before she could stop and look closely, her instincts as an intelligence agent made her feel an unnatural gaze.

Targeted?

Accompanied by two skeletons dressed in black and sunglasses, a petite flower fairy came from the other end of the exhibition room, and at the same time, the aura she exuded also made the nearby audience subconsciously give way to a way, just like Moses divided into the sea and went straight to the island wind.

At eye level with the island wind, Beatrice used not an inquiry but a command: "Come with me." (To be continued......)

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