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He instinctively reached out to brush the slightly messy strands of hair from Kletina's forehead.
Swish.
The next moment, Mino's wrist was gripped tightly.
"So fast?!" Mino's pupils contracted sharply.
Even though his power is currently restricted, his insight as the strongest hero is not much worse. He clearly sensed that this was a speed that even he in his prime and the great demons could not react to, almost cutting off time itself!
This woman... her power seems even more terrifying than the legendary Demon King.
For a moment, Mino felt a chill run down her spine. Could it be that her plan to escape the Demon King's castle had been discovered and that he was now trying to silence her?
"Wait, calm down. I swear, I am completely loyal to the Demon King's Castle and have no other intentions!"
Mino was terrified and immediately swore an oath to the heavens:
"Otherwise, Altottai will be castrated on the spot!"
"Hey!" In the corner, Altottai collapsed to the ground, protesting.
"Mino... Mino..."
Her white hair trembled gently on her shoulders, and her hands, which were tightly gripping her wrists, were so weak that they had no strength at all.
Mino quickly realized something was wrong.
The Rose Shadow Fiend's voice sounded so desperate and helpless for the first time, with a heart-wrenching sob in its tone.
A few glistening tears slid down her delicate face.
Kleidina raised her head, all the nobility and power she once possessed as the first secretary of the Demon King's castle vanished, her eyelashes were covered with fine tears, and her sorrowful eyes looked helplessly at herself.
It was as if she were looking at the last... hope deep in her heart.
"Help me...it's gone...help me..."
Her voice was broken and intermittent, as if each word had drained the last bit of strength from her body.
With a thud, her limp body was about to collapse.
"Hey! Calm down!" Mino supported Kletina's body, his eyes wide:
"What happened? Tell me calmly—!"
Her soft, boneless hands gripped Mino's collar tightly. Kletina raised her tear-streaked face, looking like the most vulnerable girl in the world.
"It's Mia... Lady Mia... she's gone..."
For a moment, Mino's mind went blank.
A chilling emotion washed over him, making the Rose Shadow Insect's throbbing body feel extremely cold, and he stood frozen in place.
On the ground, Swell struggled against the soft pages of the book, trying his best to expel the toxins from his body, and managed to utter a weak, desperate voice: "It's that teleportation array... Damn it... Their target is... Lady Mia."
"Lady Mia...I'm going to die..."
Mia?
die?
Mia...ya?
Mino seemed to have lost her soul, her mind blank and unable to stir even a ripple.
That cute, innocent face kept replaying in my mind, but I just couldn't connect the ending that Swell had mentioned with such a young demon.
Her lips gradually turned pale, and Mino's hands trembled violently.
Mia, dead? By whom? What happened?!
The ones that Swell mentioned are...
? !
Mino suddenly tilted his head back, and his pupils suddenly dilated!
The words Klaitina had mentioned not long ago suddenly echoed in my mind:
"...Demons in their juvenile form...are the most vulnerable to torture and slaughter..."
"...Childhood demons who are accidentally abducted or lose their protection...will only suffer...a miserable end..."
"...Recently, within the demon territory...young demons have frequently been brutally murdered...in human terms, demon traffickers...are not uncommon..."
At the heart, the fragile fingernail scratched the skin, bringing a sharp pain.
Mino snapped back to reality, drenched in cold sweat. She lowered her head, gazing into those pale, sorrowful eyes, and pleaded with herself, the hero who symbolized hope:
"Mino...save her...save Mia..."
Click——!
The next moment.
The air vibrated like never before.
On the ground, Swell stared in astonishment at the frail human in front of him, who seemed to be unleashing an unprecedentedly terrifying aura.
Mino clenched his fists, his eyes burning with near-mad rage. His voice, filled with gritted teeth, pounded through the air, as if the whole world trembled.
"Holy crap, you fucking... you drug trafficker!"
Chapter 337 The Hero Mino Has Defected?!
The volcanic eruption-like momentum grew stronger and stronger.
Inside the cell, Swell stared at Mino with trepidation, glimpsing for the first time an emotion called "anger" on that otherwise radiant face.
Mino didn't utter a sound. He gently placed the unconscious Kleidina in his arms beside the bed, walked step by step to the wall, and slowly reached out his hand.
The holy sword, covered in thick dust in the corner, understood. Without saying a word, it stretched its body, leaped lightly, and drew a cold sword light in mid-air, landing in the thick and powerful palm.
Five months later.
The hero, imprisoned in the Demon King's castle, gripped his holy sword of light once more.
In an instant, Swell felt a terrifying aura completely envelop the humans before him.
Although the opponent's body was still bound by power and the longsword in his hand was drained of holy power, it was as indestructible and unstoppable as a pure white ice peak reaching towards the sky.
Swell's pages trembled, realizing that the human before him was no longer a prisoner of the Demon King's castle.
That was the most dazzling light on the entire continent.
He was the one most favored by the goddess, a being who received countless blessings atop the round tower.
He was the dragon slayer, a figure revered by all races and feared even by dragons.
That was... the strongest hero in human history.
Mino Lake.
Rumble——! ! !
A sound that seemed to tear through the void suddenly resounded within the prison cell. The entire Demon King's City seemed to be stirred by Mino's aura, its energy becoming more active than ever before, as if it had been waiting for this moment for thousands of years, or as if it was trembling with fear as it welcomed the return of some being.
The empty purse slipped from his hand.
The one hundred gold coins that were originally inside have disappeared.
Instead, a sinister, demonic gate stood blocking Mino's way.
"This... is impossible...?!"
Swell's eyes widened, once again stunned by this phenomenon beyond "knowledge," and the pages of the book began to shake violently:
"How could he possibly possess the contract technique that summons the gates of the Demon King's castle?!"
The Demon King's Castle, a castle that has been located in the Demon Realm since ancient times.
It is a divine existence that is no less than the founding artifact of the Kingdom of Kur, or even if the Holy Church and the Magician's Round Tower are included, it is difficult to match.
Even the authority to summon through the city gates is not something that ordinary demons can control; it requires at least the level of a demon official, let alone a mere human.
"When did he... no... from the very beginning... he said all along that he possessed the power to escape the Demon King's castle?!?"
The fear of the unknown filled the pages of Swell's book for the first time, and he quickly realized that simply mastering the art of contracts was not enough.
To open the door, you need a key.
A dazzling golden light suddenly burst forth in the cell, just like the light that shone from the depths of those long-silent golden eyes.
Before the shifting void could even take shape, Mino gripped it tightly in his hand, and with a burst of dissipating golden light, slammed it down on the door in front of him!
The magic dissipated like a tide, replaced by a rich spatial aura that rippled out from the portal before them.
The gates of the Demon King's Castle: lead to any part of the Demon Realm.
"found it……"
Mino's cold eyes seemed to be peering into some distant place, and a quiet killing intent slowly grew in his pupils.
The next moment, he crashed straight into the portal of light.
Violent air currents howled through the closed cell, endless demonic winds extinguished the last glimmer of light, and the frigid temperature plummeted, as if a force not of this world was unleashing a chilling wave for the first time.
A seemingly unreal breeze rustled through the pages of the book. Looking at the empty center of the cell, a thought suddenly flashed through Swell's mind:
"The hero Mino... has defected?!"
Before he could think too much, an unprecedented sense of crisis made the pages of the book tremble violently.
The scent of roses gradually evaporated and dried from the pages. As the second demon strategist, it was the first to break free from the neurotoxins caused by the out-of-control Kleinna and regain its ability to move.
"Lady Cletina, Mistress Cletina?!"
Svir, whose magic was still unstable, stumbled to the bedside and stared at the extremely weak Kleidina on the bed. Svir was shocked:
The white hair, transformed by magic, became somewhat withered and curly; the tender face was devoid of color; and the light deep within the eyes seemed to be on the verge of dissipating.
This is a sign that the magic has gone out of control!
Krytina's "nurturing" authority grants her ultimate control over energy. Therefore, on the day of the battle to defend the capital, Krytina was able to directly transfer magic into the bodies of other great demons, and that magic was even more compatible with their original magic.
However, to become the "Demon King of Time," one needs to control the full magic power of the most powerful demon king who has lived for a full thousand years.