Chapter 678: Before Healing

demon world.

"Is even the land dead?"

Cecily half-kneeled on a piece of ground that had turned white.

This is the territory of the water element lord, one of the four dukes of the demon world.

After the crop land in the towns and villages around the Demon Realm gradually turned gray and withered, Cecily decided to open a new farm on this land.

But the ground under Cecily's feet had gray marks, and the soil was gradually decomposed into gray dust, losing any value.

This kind of graying began to spread like a plague in the demon world. Even if the prophet found countless human planting methods, there was no way to use it.

"What's the matter?"

Cecily looked at the rotting trees around her, and she felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

She was able to quell the uneasiness in the demon king's city, eliminate all uneasy factors that threatened the people in the king's city, and re-establish diplomatic relations with the human kingdom.

But in the face of this strange lesion, Cecily was helpless at all.

She looked for many books in the library of the Demon King City, but none of them recorded this situation.

A dark green portal appeared behind Cecily, and the petite figure of the prophet walked out of it.

"His Highness Joshua is back," the prophet said.

"Josh?"

Cecily stood up immediately when she heard the name.

The uneasiness caused by the corruption of the land was quickly and gradually resolved...

Joshua has brought too many miracles to the Demon Realm. From the very beginning, the human kingdom Faluoxi established diplomatic relations with the Demon Realm, and made some special products in the Demon Realm become "hot sellers" in Nolan. These were all things that Cecily could not have imagined before.

"Take me to him."

Cecily followed the Prophet into the dark green portal.

The location that the portal leads to is the center of the Demon King City, the center of power in the entire Demon Realm.

Cecily came all the way to the courtyard and saw Joshua who hadn't seen him for almost a month.

She immediately walked in front of Qiao Xiu, and began to look at him before he could speak.

"..."

Qiao Xiu could only be at the mercy of the elder sister. She held Qiao Xiu's cheek with both hands and looked at it for a long time, then looked at Qiao Xiu's hands again.

She was checking if there were any signs of injury on Joshua's body. Since he was very young, the Third Prince of the Demon Realm liked to toss some dangerous things, and then he was bruised all over.

But the third prince in the past had already died in an experiment, and it was just a memory copy for Joshua now.

Therefore, Qiao Xiu's affection for this elder sister was only an older friend, and a friend who needed to be avoided.

The reason why Qiao Xiu didn't go back to the Demon Realm very much was because he didn't want to see Cecily.

After all, Joshua needed to hide some cruel facts from Cecilie.

"Who are they?"

Cecily was relieved after confirming that her younger brother hadn't done anything to kill her, and she was injured all over again, and looked behind Joshua again.

"The old Chinese doctors I invited for you...no, they are high elves...have the ability to heal the gray mist."

Joshua pointed to the high elf priests standing behind him.

Although Shirley had been standing next to Joshua, Joshua didn't introduce her, because the eldest sister Cecily had heard about this human girl long ago.

"High elves?"

Cecily looked at the tall figures behind Qiao Xiu, and from the eyes of the high elf in the lead looking at Cecily, Cecily read something called 'hostility'.

But she quickly controlled that dangerous look.

"My name is Enya, and I am entrusted by the Children of the Forest to come here."

Elder Enya just briefly introduced his identity.

Cecily's knowledge of the elves is only limited to the "idols" that have been discussed very hotly on the Monet recently. These elves are beautiful and can sing and dance. Thinking about it, it seems that her own succubus also has this kind of skill point.

"Can they cure the ashes of the land?"

Cecily is not in the mood to think about things on the Devil's Web now. The incineration of a large area of ​​the Devil's land has gradually turned into a crisis that may "threat to the existence of the Devil".

Although the golden potion that Joshua gave Cecily could alleviate the spread of ashes, it still seemed a little... powerless in this vast land.

"The ashes of the land is still going on? It's a little tricky, Sister Cecily, have you...have you met your father?"

Joshua vaguely remembered that if he wanted to go to the top of the tower to meet Fuya, unless it was a special person allowed by the ruler of the demon world, such as the dark elf Thousand Faces...others must first obtain the permission of the ruler.

"Father, he hasn't come out of the altar for a long time."

Cecily looked at the tallest building in the royal city, Joshua's words reminded her of another thing she was worried about.

"Haven't... come out yet?"

If Joshua remembered correctly, the first time he saw the ruler was at the watchman's altar.

He hasn't left the altar since then... In other words, he has been inside for a whole year!

"Sister Cecily, haven't you knocked on the door?"

Qiao Xiu immediately walked quickly towards the direction of the altar, a feeling of uneasiness surrounded Qiao Xiu's heart.

"I asked my father, but he hasn't responded to me recently." Cecily said.

"Then you should just open the door and go in!"

What if your old father has another stroke!

Joshua endured the next sentence, Cecily is not the kind of woman who likes to joke.

"Forcibly breaking into the guard's altar violates the taboo of our family, and will be... given the death penalty." Cecily warned Joshua loudly.

"It's taboo again..."

When Qiao Xiu heard this word, he glanced at the high elves behind him. These elves also had a lot of clan rules, which made it uncomfortable.

"But the time for the king's election is approaching, and now I have enough reasons to ask my father."

Fortunately, Cecily is a flexible person. Under Joshua's gesture, she also understood that things were too abnormal and she couldn't wait any longer.

"We can't go in there, can we?"

Ciri looked at the water elemental servants walking in the corridor of the castle, approached Joshua and asked in a low voice.

Just from the name of the altar that Joshua mentioned, Shirley felt that this was another 'place where outsiders are forbidden to enter'.

"This...well, Ciri, you and the high elves wait here for a while."

Joshua glanced at his elder sister's serious expression, and could only make Ciri and the high elf priests wait in place, while he followed Cecily and ran all the way to the guardian's altar.

The gate of the watchman's altar was still locked. Cecily glanced silently at Joshua behind her, said "forgive me" silently, and pushed open the stone gate full of inscriptions with her hands.

The door was gradually pushed open... A strong smell of blood quietly permeated the entire corridor.

The guardian's altar was shrouded in darkness. Qiao Xiu took out a rough crystal for lighting to disperse the surrounding darkness. In the distance, there was a faint figure kneeling on the ground.

"Father!" Cecily wanted to go forward to talk to the ruler, but she stopped after taking a few steps forward.

Joshua came behind Cecily with the radiant raw spar, and saw the figure in the darkness.

The ruler of the Demon Realm, Notrein Arnorod.

But the ruler was half-kneeling on the ground, supporting his aging body with the long sword behind him, while holding a heart in his other hand.

This heart is the ruler's own...

The blood has dripped on the ground and gradually dried up, and the heart has completely failed and died...

A secret room murder case? This was the first thought that popped into Qiao Xiu's mind when he watched this scene.

But Cecily beside her was completely in a state of rage.

"Sister Cecily, there seems to be a scroll on the ground."

Joshua looked at Cecily's clenched fists. She was controlling her emotions. Joshua also took a deep breath and pointed to the ground. A scroll was placed in front of the ruler's long sword piercing the ground.

Cecily walked towards the ruler's corpse slowly, and then picked up the scroll on the ground. After confirming that there was no magic power or mechanism in the scroll, she opened it.

"This is... father's note." Cecily said in a low voice.