Not long ago, Nova secretly returned to Baifeng Town to take revenge with his own hands.

At this time, he was no longer interested in the identity of the Demon King, he just wanted to find a secluded place to spend the rest of his life.

This was obviously not what Cornes wanted to see, but he couldn't stop the Demon King, who was much stronger than him, so he laughed.

"I'm really sorry, Lord Mowang......"

Nova interrupted him.

"Cornes, huh? You don't need to call me the Demon King, I'm Nova Priest now, just call me Nova. ”

"But, I ......"

"Huh?" Nova immediately assumed the majesty of the Demon King.

"Yes, yes, I see, Lord Nova."

Cornes quickly lowered his head, acting submissively, but in his heart he was extremely displeased, he was tired of this guy.

"So, what else do you want me to do?" Nova asked solemnly.

At this time, the demon king is dominated by Nova's personality, and he is very grateful for the demon king's will to save him and help him avenge his hatred, so he decided to do something for the demon clan in order to repay this favor.

Cornes had so much to do, but he had only one request for the dazed Demon King.

"Hehe, it's very simple, you just need to go somewhere with me."

Nova thought that he was helping to kill some tricky human, and although he was very resistant to such a thing, he had no choice but to do so.

He followed Cornes through the dense jungle, and after a while, they came to a building.

Just a month ago, it was Roaini's stronghold, and since its owner was long gone, the building had been abandoned for a long time, surrounded by weeds and low bushes.

Cones frowned, then cleared the obstacles and led Nova inside.

After coming to the lowest hall, I saw an empty space, completely different from the demon lair outside Heitan Town, there were no eight pillars here, and there was no sarcophagus, except for a large stone throne against the wall at the end of the hall.

Cornes had his own way, and he summoned several invisible arms to easily dismantle the throne to pieces.

Then the fragments, driven by some magical force, reconstituted into new objects.

It was exactly what the eight stone pillars looked like, and there were eight reliefs of different shapes on them, representing the eight demon gods.

At the same time, in the demon lair outside Heitan Town, all those demon god reliefs disappeared.

The previously resurrected Kraken and Sargar were killed by humans, and Cornes collected their remains and restored Allison to his original relief.

The eight demon gods have been assembled, and the ritual of restoring the full power of the demon king can be started.

Afterwards, Cornes motioned for Nova to walk to the middle of the eight pillars, and although Nova didn't know what he was doing, he knew that Cornes, as a dark knight, could not have plotted against him, so he followed the instructions.

However, what happened next immediately dispelled the idea.

Eight translucent monsters suddenly emerged from the relief of the demon god on the pillar, they were of different shapes, and a certain part of their body emitted a dazzling red light, some were eyes, some were hearts, and those non-humanoid demon gods were tentacles or fangs.

The red light broke away from the demon god's body and converged on Nova's body, and the demon god illusions were like deflated balloons that quickly disappeared.

"My king, your faithful servant, the Dark Knight Knees, welcomes your return."

Cornes looked at the demon king greedily, and he was so moved that he sobbed, and then fell to the ground, slamming his head on the ground.

Nova wants to stop it, but there is nothing he can do, and the will of the demon king in his body is seizing control of his body.

That will was incomparably strong, and Nova, who was already careless at this time, could not defeat it at all, and could only be devoured in the end.

Next, all those red lights were absorbed by the Demon King's body, and he couldn't help but let out a low roar of pleasure, like a beast that had been imprisoned for thousands of years was released, and he wanted to control the whole world.

"My dear Cornes, it's been a long time."

The Demon King said in a voice full of majesty, his eyes were extremely fierce, and his whole body exuded an incomparable oppressive force.

"Yes, thank you for your thoughts." Cornes still didn't dare to get up.

"What? The other Dark Knights, why don't they come and meet me? The Demon King was a little angry.

"Please be angry, they didn't want to see you, but they fought the humans in advance to buy time for your return, and they were killed by those despicable ants." Cornes deliberately exaggerated the facts.

"Huh, human? It's really a shame for the demons to be easily killed by that kind of thing, and I think if it wasn't for the secret help of the elves back then, I wouldn't have been able to lose to humans, but you managed to survive, and you deserve to be the most powerful dark knight. ”

"You've won the prize, I'm just a little smarter than them." Cones hurriedly humbled himself.

However, the Demon King was immediately furious.

"Bastard thing! Can't even hear the meaning beyond the words? As the strongest Dark Knight, I should have prepared all the demon members to meet me when I recover, but what about you? Isn't it for the sake of status, uniting humans to kill them? ”

"No, no, no, there is no such thing," Cornes was frightened and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, "You know, I have always hated humans, how can I do that kind of thing, and I am the strongest dark knight, and it is even more impossible for the sake of status or something." ”

"Really?" The Demon King stared at him with a serious expression before nodding after a few seconds, "Okay, I'll trust you. ”

Cornes smiled when he understood that this was the end of the matter.

"Hehe, Lord Demon, I have something important to tell you."

"Say."

"Yes, look at this." With that, Cornes unleashed a summoning spell.

Immediately in front of them was an iron cage in which a thin figure was kept.

When the Demon King looked closely, he saw that it was an elf girl, who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, kneeling in the middle of the cage.

I saw that she was pretty, her long silver hair was messy, her eyes were rather dull, her clothes were thin, only a lilac dress, and her bare skin was dirty.

Strangely, in the face of the Demon King's coercion, the elf girl did not feel the slightest nervousness, but turned her lifeless eyes slightly to look at him.

"What's going on?"

"That's right, you just said that the reason why you were defeated by humans was because there was an elf who got in the way, so since then, the elves are also our enemies, and since you want to rule this continent, sooner or later you will have to destroy the elves and dragons, so you might as well prepare now and absorb the power of this elf, as for the dragon, I will prepare one for you immediately."

The Demon King finally understood his intentions, and he did not hesitate to praise him.

"You've done a great job, Cornes, it's really my most capable subordinate, it seems that the era that belongs to us is coming, look forward to it!"

"Yes, I will fight until the last moment for that day."

Cornes bowed his head respectfully, and an even more vicious thought came to his mind.

In fact, the idea had been around for many years, and it was only now that he had found the opportunity.

……

At the same time, on the battlefield outside the town of Blackpool.

"Damn it, where did you get my sister?" Alice rushed straight up with a punch.

The chest of the Cornes stand-in was pierced in an instant, followed by a large mouthful of blood.

Alice grabbed him by the neck and lifted the other person's entire body up.

And Cornes didn't resist the whole time, because within eight seconds of the White Dragon's reversal of time, anyone's movements would become extremely slow.

It wasn't until this effect wore off that Cornes understood what had just happened, but instead of panicking in the face of this desperate situation, he smiled strangely.

"Hehe, do you want to know? Then come to our supreme demon king. ”

Alice heard that this was not intended to tell the truth, and she lost her patience, so she immediately crushed Cornes' neck with all her might.

She was wondering why this guy was also a Dark Knight, so he was so much weaker than Knoi.

"Because he's just a stand-in." Ophelia told the truth.

"Cut, this bastard didn't plan to save me at all, wait for me, if I have the chance to go back, I will definitely break you to pieces." Knoy said viciously.

Alice next to her immediately choked angrily.

"Come on, I think I'll be ...... first"

However, in the middle of her sentence, something suddenly occurred to her.

"By the way, Emir, have you fought the Demon King?"

"Well, it's not actually a fight, but I've seen his terrifying strength." The emir replied with a wry smile.

"Really? I thought so, can we trade this guy for Lilith from the Demon King. ”

Hearing this, Ophelia obviously hesitated, after all, they had managed to control this dark knight with great difficulty, and if they let it go like this, wouldn't their previous efforts be in vain.

"Emile......" Ophelia looked at him, wanting him to decide.

Actually, she also felt that her idea was a bit too much, Lilith was their partner, and if they were exchanged, there was a good chance that they could be saved.

But she was inclined to pass up this opportunity, and how disqualified it was for an upright knight to sacrifice his partner in order to achieve his goal.

But Ophelia had to think so, because she was no longer the knight who had behaved, and her mission in life meant that she had to do whatever it took to do so.

It's just that she doesn't have the right to decide in this matter, which also saves her from having to do things against her will.

Emir spent some time with her, and soon understood what she was thinking, but he would not reproach her.

Because Ophelia was able to leave the decision to him, it was already the greatest mercy.

"Alice, don't worry, I will definitely save Lilith, after all, I have made a contract with her and must be responsible for her." The emir said with a serious face.

“……”

Alice was immediately moved, and at the same time changed the image of Emile in her heart.

In fact, she alone can decide whether to save Lilith or not, because Knoe was caught with the help of the White Dragon, and she can take Knoe with the White Dragon to replace people.

The reason why he asked Emile was just a test for him, and now that Emile had passed the test, it also proved that Lilith was not wrong.

"Very well, it seems that I can safely hand over my sister to you." Alice patted him on the shoulder.

This time she was careful not to hurt the emir.

Ophelia finally exhaled when she heard this decision, she had been telling herself that she had to learn to be ruthless when necessary, but for a person who had been educated as an orthodox knight since childhood, it was not easy to say.

Next, Ophelia pulls out a magic ring for storage, and locks Knoe inside.

Alice was also very eager, she didn't know what the demons were trying to do with Lilith, but she had to try anyway.

It's just that she has been worried deep down that if she can't get it back, her only relative will be gone.

Emile suddenly noticed that Alice, who had been irritable, had become quieter and frowned, and naturally understood her mood.

"Alice, don't worry, I've dealt with these demons, and they attach great importance to their partners, compared to what a dragon is."

Emir This is obviously lying, if you talk about the degree of unscrupulous means, if the demon race is called second, no one dares to call it first, and even every member of the demon race is willing to sacrifice himself for the great cause of exterminating human beings, or relatives and partners.

"Well, I believe you."

Thankfully, Alice didn't see through it, and she was comforted and smiled at Emir.

In order to rescue Lilith, they devised a simple tactic and agreed with Byron that he would manage the town during the Emir's absence.

Then the next step is to find the Demon King, however, Emir soon discovers that the appearance of Cornes' stand-in just now is not accidental, because there is a familiar trace of magic that happens to be within their perception range, and it should be Cornes's new stand-in.

The other party seemed to be leading them to the Demon King's side.

But he knew very well what Cornes was, so he had to be on guard, and as he approached the traces of his magic, he was ready to fight at any time.

Carried by the white dragon, they flew west of Blackpool, and each time they reached the location where the traces of magic emanated, Cones's new double continued to move farther away.

After about two hours, they no longer knew that they had flown dozens of kilometers, but they no longer felt Cones's stand-in, but a more majestic trace of magic power, which was undoubtedly the Demon King.

It's just more oppressive than what I saw in Baifeng Town that day.

They had reason to believe that the Demon King had gained the power of his heyday five hundred years ago.

"Maybe I made the wrong decision." Emir couldn't help but murmur.

Just now, because he was in a hurry to save Lilith, he didn't think much about it, but now he suddenly realized that the people present did not have the strength to fight the demon king at all.