Chapter 142

"——No, but! Normal big demons shouldn't move in groups, right? And they are among humans..."

"The demons are hiding among humans, haven't they existed for a long time? And cooperation among big demons is not uncommon. After all, there are only a few people around me? Let's not talk about humans... But look at my sister and Solitier, they seem to follow me, like my subordinates?"

"Hmm..." Flillian calmed down and thought for a while: "I always feel like friends?"

"Yes, we don't have a dominant relationship with them, but the relationship between the Demon King and the demons..."

"But! Didn't Celia say that it's not just controlled by fear? It should be controlled by something else, right?"

"Then do you feel the control? We are just friends. Friendships among demons are not normal. Mahat and the corrupt sage are like this. We are also friends. If I am the demon king who saved the corrupt sage as you speculated, why would I fight Mahat? A friend of a friend should also be a friend? And the corrupt sage will be angry, right? "

Faced with the girl who quickly wavered, Ash refuted with reason and evidence, and directly threw a basin of dirty water on Celia: "After all... Don't you understand the relationship between Celia and me? What kind of personality Celia has, I don't need to say it, right?"

"... She has always been like a child, making trouble..."

"That's it, so she just wanted to slander me. After all... Celia will personally deal with Mahat. If I will be the new demon king, even to the extent that you want to deal with me, will she stand by and watch?"

.......

After Ash's whole set of theories, Fulilian was stunned.

It always feels that what he said seems to be true. Instead, Celia is trying to sow discord with ulterior motives.

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Although it is a bit unbelievable for a person who may be thousands or tens of thousands of years old to do such a thing, judging from Fulilian's character, it seems that something like sowing discord between them is really something that Fulilian would do.

There is no way. She has only met Fulilian a few times. The two of them have different personalities and are not close friends. She only knows that Fulilian has a bad personality and is like a child. Anyway, she can't get along with her.

This made her look at Ash carefully after the situation was sorted out, and asked tentatively: "Could it be that... I was deceived?"

"... Would you rather believe someone you haven't met a few times than someone who has been with you for so many years?"

Ash sat down on the broken wall next to him, looking like he was seriously injured. He patted Fulilian's thigh, which appeared next to him after she sat down, and shook his head repeatedly: "Ah... It's really hurtful. The feelings have faded, the feelings have faded."

At this time, Fulilian was panicked God, he immediately ignored his legs that were hurt, tried to force out an awkward smile, and apologized repeatedly:

"--I'm sorry! I just...how do I say that? Just, that is to say...in short, I'm wrong, don't you do this!"

"...When you apologize normally, don't you just say it verbally? Didn't I always treat you to dinner, dessert, etc. in the past?"

"This, this is for sure! I um...walnut? Want one?" Fulilian fumbled around her body, and once again found the walnut with thread stuck on it, and handed it over with a smile.

"...You should eat this yourself."

"Really?...By the way! When Duncan gives the reward, I'll treat you this time! With my own pocket money!"

"Well...this is good, let's do it!"

He nodded reluctantly and agreed, and finally let go of her thigh, and unconsciously touched her head, and couldn't stop sighing in his heart.

This child is really slow, and he was fooled so easily? No, it may also be because he trusts me? But thinking about it this way... I always feel a sudden pang of conscience - Ash rubbed her head while worrying in his heart.

Fulilian, who didn't like being patted on the head, rarely resisted, and just let him touch her honestly, while... rubbing her thigh that was hurt by his pat.

I don't know why, she just breathed a sigh of relief and always felt that the development of things was a little wrong, but at this time, she suddenly remembered the question she thought of when she was on the way back to the wooden house after being punched on the head before, and couldn't help but raise her head and asked:

"Speaking of it... Philen is a slow kid and must not have discovered it, but I am different! In fact, I discovered it a long time ago - Philen's ancestor was a person who lived more than 500 years ago, why was Philen's ancestor the first friend? We obviously knew each other a thousand years ago? I am the second? Could it be..."

"This..."

"Sure enough... there is only one answer!"

Fulilian, who was still feeling guilty, said halfway, and the guilt quickly dissipated.

"Huh? You figured it out?" Could it be that this guy had discovered something about my system? ——Now, Ash really looked at me with new eyes, but...

"You...you are definitely looking down on me again and treating me differently, right!"

After frowning for a moment, Fulilian quickly thought of the answer, and followed suit, slapping him on the thigh, making a "Pa! Pa!" sound.

But he had a numb expression on his face, and after a long silence, he slowly said: ".... You are still Flillian."

".... What?"

"Forget it, let's work first, and we'll talk about it after we go back." Ash silently withdrew his hand and planned to work well, but Flillian was in a hurry and blocked him again, asking with concern: "No, explain it now!"

"... You won't forget that you suspected me just now, right? At least feel sorry for a while."

"One thing is one thing, I treat you to a meal for a meal! This doesn't mean that I can turn a blind eye to this kind of differential treatment!"

"You are unexpectedly very fussy... Ah, no, it's not surprising at all, you are very grudgeful."

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Flillian, who was inexplicably picky, argued with him for a long time on this strange issue, and only after he was forced to admit that it was differential treatment, and he had to treat her in return, it became a mutual invitation, and the two things were temporarily over.

Perhaps because she felt guilty, she did not continue to ask why they wanted to destroy the city fortress, and continued the "search and rescue" happily.

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Not long after the conflict that started in the middle of the night ended, the soldiers of the kingdom also participated in the search and rescue work.

When the sky was slightly bright, the ruins of the entire city fortress had been turned over and everyone was found.

Fulilian also lifted the golden state of their forest, allowing these people who had been sealed for half a century to finally see this world again.

However, looking at the ruins in front of them, everyone was in an uproar, and they obviously didn't understand what had happened.

After all, for them, it was just a process of opening and closing their eyes, and the world changed.

It was obviously the territory of the empire, but now it was foreign soldiers who were maintaining order. The guards in the city had not had time to react before they were disarmed and pressed to the ground.

The change of the situation caught everyone by surprise, but it was inevitable that the kingdom would take over this place.

The lord was also forced to accept the current change of the situation in the words of his son-in-law Duncan... After all, even the fortress city itself had disappeared, so it didn't matter whether he accepted it or not.

But before everyone could despair of losing their homes, Ash put on a mask and changed his appearance, playing the role of the kingdom's military wizard again and stretched out his hand and pressed it on the ground, causing a torrent of magic to flow through the entire ruins.

The ruins of the buildings scattered everywhere, as well as various sundries, suddenly restored their original appearance bit by bit as if time was reversed.

The whole process lasted only less than a minute, and the ruined buildings were restored to the familiar appearance of everyone amid people's exclamations.

It was also at this moment that Duncan, who had originally suspected that he had deliberately destroyed the city fortress, immediately understood the purpose of his doing so...

Establish a good image of the kingdom, let everyone know that they were saved by the kingdom, and now even their homes were saved by the kingdom.

In this way, the kingdom will face much less resistance when taking over this fortress city, and it may even become quite stable.

After all, they were all abandoned by the empire, but now it is the kingdom that saved them and even restored their homes destroyed by war.

In this way, it is clear at a glance which side everyone supports, and this frontier fortress city will be directly stabilized.

It was after thinking about this that when Ash changed his clothes and came back, Duncan looked at him with a strange expression, and even couldn't help whispering: ".... Are you from the kingdom?"

"What topic?"

"Just..."

"Wait a minute."

Before Duncan could finish his question like Fulilian, he suddenly reached out to stop Duncan from talking, and when he showed a confused expression, he slightly widened his eyes and directly launched a mental attack by looking at him.

"——?!"

Caught off guard, Duncan's body trembled slightly, the defense of his brain was instantly defeated, and the whole person lost consciousness.

Just when he was about to fall to the ground, Ash was very kind to support him, put his hand on his head, and began to delete the memory of him seeing him take the initiative last night.

After all, he is also a member of the Empire. What if he goes back to report? And it is also good to let the Empire know less about him.

At this time, the noble old man with a cigarette in his mouth - the lord of this city, Duncan's father-in-law noticed this situation and walked over with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong with Duncan? No, wait, you are not..."

"--Just a little dizzy, don't worry, but you seem to have seen me before, so..."

Ash smiled and signaled him not to worry, but the next moment when his eyes met, he launched a mental attack on the old man who showed a vigilant expression.

At this time, the old man who was holding a civilized stick in his hand and was completely like an ordinary person was about to fall down like a kite with its string cut off. He was asked to start erasing the memories of these two old men with one on his left hand and one on his right.

But before people noticed that the two were unconscious, Ash had already disappeared, leaving only two old men lying side by side on the ground, which directly caused quite a commotion in the city.

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Before the two old men woke up again, Ash had already pulled Feilon and Fulian and walked quickly across the street away from the scene of the incident. He also took out the gold coins from his own pocket and lied that Duncan asked him to help deliver them. money.

Although she was very happy to receive the money, Fulilian looked at his expression... as if she was looking at someone suspicious.

However, Ash pretended not to see it at all and just hurried on.

And this fortress city that has been restored to its original appearance has just experienced destruction and rebirth, but for everyone in the city, the rapid progress and changes are as unreal as a dream.

Even if they are told that they have been out of touch with the world for half a century, there is really no real sense of them.

Therefore, after returning to their respective homes, they quickly restarted their original lives.

After all, no matter what changes have taken place in the outside world, at least everything seems to be the same to them as it was half a century ago.

Only the guards on the street turned into soldiers of the kingdom, but since the other party was the one who saved them, they naturally did not have much resistance. At most, they were still a little unable to relax.

The three of them arrived very naturally. It didn't take long before they found a pub that was open for business and went in together for a meal.

Just the way the two of them were treating each other made Feilun a little confused. He didn't know what kind of strange game these two adults were playing today.

But Ash didn't care about this and planned to leave immediately after eating.

Although both Frillian and Fearon felt that they had to at least say goodbye to Duncan and the others before leaving, unfortunately they couldn't control him and were still forced to follow.

The towns along the way were taken over by the kingdom, allowing them to pass smoothly until... they arrived at the pass controlled by the empire.

At this tense moment, the review of entry into the country has become stricter, so they can only wait outside the customs for the time being.

"Just in time... I remember there is a goddess monument nearby. Let's go and take a look."

Although she could not enter the empire directly, Fulilian was still inexplicably happy at the moment. She walked quickly ahead in high spirits, planning to lead them towards the Goddess Monument.

This inevitably made Feilun, who followed subconsciously, seem a little distressed, but he still walked quickly to Ashus' side and asked in confusion: "...Is there a goddess monument nearby?"

"You actually know this too?"

"What are you talking about? Of course I know... Because according to the holy book, the heaven and earth were created by the goddess. Lord Haita also said before that in the legend, the goddess injected her magic into the stone tablet, and The ten identical monuments of the goddess were left on the mainland.”

Feeling that his professional knowledge was being questioned, Philon seemed a little dissatisfied, but as soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but said suspiciously: "But if I remember correctly, no one has successfully deciphered those ten stone tablets so far."

"You remember correctly, even I don't know if anyone has cracked it, or even if the cracking is not done by the stone tablet, it doesn't make sense, so it's almost time, just get angry and talk to Fulilian. Then drag her away."

"I have this plan." Fei Lun nodded in agreement without ceremony.

The conversation between the two people didn't feel like they were trying to hide anything from anyone, and Fulilian in front of her heard it so clearly that even the smile on her face became weird.

But she still shook her head vigorously to eliminate these external factors, and walked into the depths of the forest with great expectation.

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The goddess monument is located at the end of an open grassland in the forest, standing there alone.

When everyone saw it, the stone tablet with the ancient characters engraved on it had collapsed, and only less than half of the stone tablet was left.

"It's broken..." Fulilian looked at the stone tablet and was stunned for a moment, then she unconsciously knelt down and said, "But the magic power is still there."

"Although I want to remind you not to trigger troublesome magic...but this level is not a big deal."

"What, does Ash know anything?" Fulilian turned back curiously.

"The Demon King once asked Graosam...a member of the Seven Bengxians, a great demon known as the Miracle Grid, to send his men to observe the fluctuations of time and space and guard the goddess monument." He paused mid-sentence. Then he continued:

"But later, as the blockade of the planet was strengthened, the difficulty of traveling through time increased. As a result, the amount of magic power left by the goddess herself was not enough to travel through time and space, so the mission was later cancelled."

"...Traveling through time and space? Is this a bit too exaggerated? Are there actually demons observing the fluctuations of time and space? How to do it? After all...why do you know this? Wouldn't you and Do you know that Miracle character too?”

His two short sentences revealed too much information, which made Fulilian feel dizzy and felt that her brain was not enough.

This made Ash explain casually while fiddling with the fragments of the stone tablet.

However, this time, he directly attributed his return to the goddess's tablet.

The sudden disappearance was just because the goddess found that the person who sent back was a demon, so she forced him to return and strengthened the blockade of the planet.

As for the investigation, he didn't hide anything and said frankly that he heard it from Shulahat.

At least that was the last time Shulahat helped him observe the future before his death, and it was the most accurate prophecy.

The goddess's tablet is sealed with time magic, which is also the answer given by Shulahat, which must be correct.

However, because he caused the goddess to strengthen the rules, the elite demon who controlled space magic under Graosam, Zhat of the Shadow, did not find the fluctuation of time and space in the end.