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After making a fuss, the three reluctant Demon Kings finally sat down peacefully.

“Really, I’m almost confused…” Ansel held his forehead, and then said with a serious expression, “It’s an urgent military situation. Saros’s decision to abandon the prince to severely injure the Emperor was correct, as a result, there was internal strife among the monsters at this time. According to the statistics of the magic mirror, the internal strife has cost them about 300,000 monsters.”

He turned on the magic projection to show the enemy’s central region. Countless magic mirrors are rolling vigorously under the monster’s eyes, serving as the most competent and efficient scout, bringing back first-hand intelligence.

The corner of Saros’s mouth moved slightly, he could now understand why Ansel could come up with so many genius tactics. An angel who even dared to break off his own halo, what else could he not do? !

“The death of the Empress stopped the numbers of the entire monster population from rising in the short term, but this will not last long. Our soldiers found that some monsters began to exhibit female characteristics. Most likely, the Empress does not need to go through a process similar to【Prince】, and will be reborn on the battlefield at some point.”

“Our guerrilla troops are also cutting off the supply line of monsters, that is, those white worms of the messenger-level. The number of monsters on this front will drop to the lowest point tonight.”

Having said that, Ansel raised his eyes, and his sharp sunset-coloured pupils swept across the other two Demon Kings.

“So tonight, the three Demon Kings should lead their elite soldiers into the depths, and behead the high-ranking enemy regardless of the cost!”

Saros looked solemn.

“It should be so. No matter who wins, the Emperor or the Prince, it will not affect our plan to kill them all.”

As soon as he finished his statement, Ansel smiled slightly, agreeing. In those beautiful eyes, the sunset-coloured vertical pupils looked slender and sharp, and softened by the smile, they naturally brought out a bit of angelic brilliance.

Saros: “…”

He now realised that Ansels’s so-called demon’s vertical pupils are actually contact lenses.

Levi couldn’t sit still, staring at the military deployment map on the table, wondering if he could find a reason so as to not let the Demon King go to the battlefield. Of course he knew that Ansel’s judgement was extremely accurate, but he didn’t want to go to the battlefield at all, and it was such a dangerous mission to go deep into the enemy’s rear.

As soon as Saros saw Levi’s eyes light up, he knew that he must want to cheat and play tricks again.This is the inherent bad nature of many demons. Saros didn’t pay much attention to it before, but now, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ansel, an angel, who was pointing to the defence map and instructing the generals beside him, he seemed so dedicated to the demon realm, and his judgement was decisive…

Levi really sucks! He is a disgrace to the devil realm!

I really want to twist his head off!

Levi: “…?”

He looked at Saros fearfully, then at Ansel, suddenly realised, and then became angry. These two clearly discussed the strategy in advance, and Ansel was responsible for speaking. He, Levi, was just a puppet nodding his head from beginning to end!

The puppet still has three points of aura! He has to… he has to…

“Do you have any other comments?” Ansel raised his eyes coldly.

“Do you have any other opinions?” Saros asked, but his tone was even more threatening than Ansel’s.

Levi: “…”

He is not a puppet, but a mud man!

Seeing that Levi was no longer intended to be sneaky, Ansel made a final decision.

“We can prepare lightly, just bring the most powerful and trustworthy generals with us. Don’t wait too long, we will set off in one magic hour!”

“What…” Levi lost his voice, “Why are you in such a hurry? Hasn’t the number of monsters dropped to the lowest point yet!”

“My intuition.” Ansel gave the most subjective reason. He closed his sunset-coloured vertical pupils, and the faint and lingering sense of unease followed him like a shadow. He almost wanted to rush to the battlefield to fight the monsters immediately to alleviate this anxiety.

Same reason again! However, after previously experiencing the incident of larvae mixed in the rainwater, Levi could not refute it. Saros naturally has no objection. If it were him, he would make the same choice now, but he would not act so quickly.

The opinions of the three Demon Kings were once again forcibly unified.

“Then, go back and prepare.” Saros said in a deep voice, “This operation must be kept secret from everyone, so as not to be caught by the monster’s eyes and ears.”

When he said this, he took a special look at Levi, as he was the easiest link to fall off the chain.

“I know!” Levi didn’t have a good voice, “I will only take Sidi on this trip. After one magic hour, we will meet in the valley on the west side of the camp.”

In addition to their elite generals, Saros and Ansel will definitely bring the silver-winged dragon and the phoenix together. Levi hated them secretly when he thought of this. He was unlucky and failed to get such a powerful abyssal creature to follow him.

If only he could get one of them…

The silver-winged dragon moved its ear fins, he looked up at His Majesty, and got a slight shake of his head. Then he looked at the happy and carefree golden red bird standing on the shoulder of the white-haired Demon King again, and sighed.

Silly bird.

It really has a good King.

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The itinerary has been decided, and even Levi wasn’t late. Three Demon Kings, three generals, and two creatures from the abyss marched deep into the monster’s formation together. Because it was an urgent situation, the personnel were extremely streamlined, and they reached the extreme depths in half an afternoon.

“Here, it is already on the same level as the monster palace I saw with my own eyes a few days ago.” The Demon King with dark blue pupils pointed out on the map, which can only be shown briefly, because the map of this area is nearly blank.

“At this depth, the intelligence that the magic mirror can provide us is also very scarce.”

Ansel’s expression was a little heavy.

“I was thinking, in the previous records about the Seventh Abyss, it was mentioned that the centre of the Seventh Abyss should be a network of saltwater lakes, but we have already gone so deep… What about the saltwater? Did it evaporate overnight?”

Saros also has deep doubts about this as monsters hardly eat, and they only feed on their own kind. There are demon officers in the camp who have done experiments and if these monsters consume ordinary drinking water, they will quickly die in pain, so they will not drink salt water.

Then where have all the lakes gone?

He didn’t have time to think for a long time, as there was another gentle touch on the back of his hand. Saros’s eyelids twitched, once he got too close to Ansel, he would inevitably end up touching the soft white hair, which stirred his heart like a butterfly flapping its wings.

But this time, Ansel soon found out. He froze for a moment, then brushed his hair back apologetically.

Saros: “…”

He suddenly became unhappy.

“It’s a bit of a hindrance, I’ll tie up my hair later.” Ansel said, noticing Saros’s gloomy face, he thought that the other party was still worried about the lakes disappearing, so he deliberately tried to make the atmosphere a little easier.

“You don’t still suspect that my hair is dyed, do you?” He said, and then he recalled the experience of his hair being pulled twice before, “You have already pulled my hair twice.”

“I only pulled for a moment.” Saros said slowly, “I still have doubts.”

This is ironic.

In the past, he might still consider that Ansel’s white hair was dyed, because there is almost no such hair colour among demons, but now…

Heh, isn’t it reasonable that angels would have white hair!

Ansel resisted the urge to strangle this guy with his hair.

“Then you touch it! You touch it whenever you want! If you touch it a little, I will not lose anything!”

Unexpectedly, Saros responded instantly.

“OK.”

Again and again, this time Saros finally seized the rare opportunity and vowed not to stop touching Ansel’s hair!

Aini, the demon snake of hell, watched from a distance the two majesties discussing the strategy nervously, and felt admiration. How can they have such two great majesties in the demon realm as guides.

Of course, in Aini’s heart, his majesty is the greatest, look at that majestic gesture! Look at that indifferent look! Look at the hands grabbing His Majesty Ansel’s hair…huh? !

Aini saw his majesty’s astonishing actions, and fell into a daze. It was the sound of “clattering” around him that woke him up, as if someone was picking soil with their nails. Aini turned his head in a daze, and saw Sidi of the Leopard race staring in the direction of the two Demon Kings without blinking with her ears pricked up, her half beast like claws constantly and excitedly picking at the soil.

Sidi: Hey hey! Hey hey! Hey hey hey!

Sidi was smoking like hell.

She knew it! She knew that good things would happen in this expedition! Sure enough, as she expected!

With three powerful majesties around, Sidi is not worried about any external threats at all, she just needs to follow orders. And in the process, she will undoubtedly be able to watch the love story she expected all the way!

This Leopard is so excited!

“Hey…be normal…” Aini had been greatly shocked at first, but Sidi’s strange appearance just made him startled, and he regained his ability to think instead. He looked at the dusty appearance under Sidi’s paws speechlessly, curled his lips, and thought that the orcs were really rude.

However, Aini suddenly discovered that under the claws of the leopard girl and among the flying dust, something that did not belong to the ground seemed to be exposed.

“Wait!” Aini frowned. He stopped Sidi’s paws that were still trying to dig the dirt, and carefully picked something out of the dirt with two fingers.

That is……

a fish?

He was suddenly shaken, and ignored his usual obsession with cleanliness, grabbed the fish and rushed towards the direction of the two majesties.

“Your Majesty! Please look at this!”

The mud-covered fish was quickly rinsed and spread out on the ground. Guxin squatted with his huge body, poked the fish bone with a short knife, then raised his head and said to Ansel.

“Your Majesty, if you look at the fish bones, the possibility of it being a saltwater fish is very high, but everything is not absolute.”

Ansel nodded slightly, which was actually enough. Combined with the current geographical location, they are indeed above the saltwater lake. The water has receded, and have been ravaged by the sand and dust weather of the Seventh Abyss. If Sidi hadn’t dug the fish out, they might not have discovered this until a little later.

“Moreover, the salty water doesn’t evaporate out of thin air, and the ground here seems to be tilted.”

Sidi came back from a run. She probably ran tens of kilometers towards where they came from just now.

“Although the degree of inclination is not very large, you can feel it when running at high speed… Didn’t your Majesty notice it?”

Leopard people are very talented in running. Not only are they fast, but they also have a balance system in their own bodies. They constantly interact with the outside world during high-speed running to adjust their own state. Sidi relied on this to detect something wrong during the journey just now.

The problem is that none of the three Demon Kings noticed it, which is horrifying.

“The ground inclined, the salt water flew out, and this area will also interfere with perception…” Saros said, “Now there is reason to believe that the monster Emperor may not be the apex either but there is something else.”

Levi’s face was ugly. He didn’t expect such a troublesome situation, and the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became a little solemn.

“…Then why are we still standing?”

It was Ansel’s voice that broke the heavy atmosphere. He walked in front of the crowd and turned his head, his sunset-like pupils seemed to be burning.

“When we go deep, we will know everything.”

“Change the target location from where the emperor was killed first, to exploring the depths.”

He never seems to be afraid, with only the responsibilities and the goals that must be achieved in his eyes. Thanks to him, Sidi’s spotted leopard tail began to shake again, and Guxin was already used to His Majesty’s behaviour, like every time in the past three hundred years, he would follow His Majesty’s without reservation.

“But…” Levi grunted from his throat.

Just as he was about to speak, he received a cold glance from Saros. He doesn’t know if he felt the death threat in this glance, but Levi actually understood the meaning of Saros in seconds.

Disgraceful.

Thought Saros.

Angels are moving forward fearlessly for the benefit of the demon realm, but real demons are dragging behind like weights.

Looking at the back of Ansel with fluttering white hair, Saros could almost imagine him standing in the array of angels, holding a bow and arrow. He should be as proud and fearless as he was then, with supreme brilliance.

In fact, he has always been a little puzzled.

Such Ansel….

Heaven is willing to send him out?

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