Chapter 37: Cutting off

Year 648 of the Demon King's Calendar.

April 11th, morning.

A carriage stopped in front of Lord Leon's villa. The knight Xuelin jumped from the seat next to the coachman and placed the wooden feet under the door. Princess Viola walked under the protection of two other knights. Get off the carriage.

Different from the armor she usually wears and the robe she wears when praying, Viola is now wrapped in a thick skirt that looks particularly stuffy. The skirt is so high that it can be lifted so that it does not touch the ground.

Earlier, Lord Leon sent an invitation. Since it was a formal visit, even though the castle was only a fifteen-minute walk from the villa, a carriage still had to be sent over.

It’s not that I don’t want to walk, it’s just that I want this style.

The soldiers guarding the door bowed their heads and saluted when the princess got out of the car. Princess Viola also put on some princess airs this time and slowly approached the door.

"Welcome! Welcome to your visit, Your Royal Highness, Princess."

Lord Leon went out to greet him with a warm face. The civilians who were watching the excitement from a distance once wondered whether the Lord had taken the wrong medicine. He was not usually so enthusiastic.

"Thank you for your hospitality, Lord Leon."

"It is a great honor for me and my family that Your Highness the Princess is willing to come. Come in quickly."

As Lord Leon led Viola and the accompanying knights inside, he was talking about the glory of the family and the glory of the family.

At least so far, this is the normal reaction for a royal family to visit a noble house.

The spacious dining room was newly decorated, and the long table was filled with tempting fruits and pastries. Lord Leon specially let Princess Viola sit on the main seat and he sat next to her.

"Your Highness, please allow me to introduce you to my family's collection of fine red wine."

The lord snapped his fingers, and the butler hiding behind the door immediately poured the fragrant wine into the gold cup with a decanter.

According to the etiquette rules of the nobility, although the princess has a high status, this is Lord Leon's place after all, so the butler first pours wine for the lord, and then fills the princess's gold cup with wine.

"Your Highness, it has been almost half a month since you came to Leon's territory. I see that you are busy with official duties and have not bothered to disturb you. Please allow me to welcome you to my territory today."

There is indeed nothing wrong with what the lord said. The high-ranking nobles should have welcomed her to the territory of the lower-level nobles as soon as possible. However, Viola was attacked by bandits on the first day she came, and a series of things happened next.

The lord picked up the wine glass:

"Please try it. Although you are certainly not short of good wine in the capital, I believe you will like it."

Lord Leon deliberately drank half the glass first to show that it was okay.

But Viola still didn't touch the wine glass, but stared at Lord Leon. The look in her eyes made the Lord feel uncomfortable.

"Your Highness?"

Viola exhaled slowly and her eyes became firm again.

"Lord Leon, I know you may not believe it. When we came to your territory, we planned to simply rest and wait for the soldiers to recover from their injuries, and then buy some supplies before leaving. I know your territory cannot withstand the devastation of war. , so we don’t plan to stay long.”

She said:

"I never expected to get the attention of the Demon King and the Lord. Everything I do after that is hoping to share the glory of the Lord with others, hoping that more people will believe in and worship Him. Even now, I There is no intention of taking away territory.”

Lord Leon's smile froze, and he tried his best to maintain the dignity of the nobles and said:

"Your Highness, what are you talking about?"

"I want to say that these things you are doing are meaningless and may even be self-defeating."

He pushed the wine glass gently, and the full wine spilled on the tablecloth.

"Your plan has been seen through by the king, and he conveyed the truth to me through the oracle. And you may not know that I am resistant to poison, and your poison has no effect on me."

High-ranking demons like the royal family have extremely high toxin resistance. It is a bit exaggerated to eat arsenic, but not just any poison will be useful.

Viola shook her head:

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I prayed to you to give up and returned the account book to you on purpose, hoping that you would be at ease, but you seem to have misunderstood my meaning. Since things have reached this point, At this point, all I can do now is maintain your last dignity."

For nobles, the so-called last dignity is to die suddenly due to illness.

Poisoning the royal family was a capital crime, and the whole family had to be hanged. It's just that hanging nobles has a bad reputation, so it's said that it was the last act of dignity.

And in this way, the title of Earl of Leon can still be retained. Although he has no son, if any relatives are alive, he can still inherit his title.

When Lord Leon saw what had happened, he simply stopped pretending.

"You're talking nonsense! You've been trying to take away my territory from the first day you arrived! This land has belonged to my family for generations!"

Lord Leon smashed the gold cup on the floor with a clang, venting his anger.

"Not to mention that you actually want that terrible monster, the Demon King God, to come back to this land! My family's ancestral teachings never allow the Demon King God to reappear. We have guarded this place for generations and will never allow him to continue to interfere in the mortal world. ! But you! You dare to pray to the devil!"

These words made Viola raise her eyebrows. She had never heard of this matter at all.

The stories she had heard since she was a child all said that the royal family of the Demon Kingdom of Avarus were the true bloodline of the Demon King God, and that one day the glory of the Demon King God would surely return.

"You have sent someone to get the Demon King's Ring sealed in the ruins of the mythical era! If you continue to increase the power of that monster, an unstoppable disaster will inevitably come!"

"What are you talking about?"

Viola really didn't know what was going on, because the account book and the treasure map appeared together on the altar, not sandwiched in the account book. So Viola naturally thought that the account book and the treasure map were two different things.

"The god you worship is the embodiment of greed. He will hold everything in his hands! He will take all the creatures in this world for himself!"

Although the question was a bit irrelevant, Viola folded her hands and said lightly:

"What's wrong with greed? Our Avarus Demon Kingdom is also a greedy family. We will want to get everything. But it is precisely because of greed that we cherish everything in our hands."

The secrets hidden in Lord Leon's home cannot be exposed to the Avarus royal family. Once they find out the location of the Demon King's Ring hidden in their family, this group of royals who worship the Demon King God will definitely do everything to let the Demon King God come again.

But now that things have come to this, there is nothing to say.

"Roy! Do it!"

A sharp gust of wind jumped down from the beam and rushed straight to Viola's back!

A string of fine sparks exploded, accompanied by fierce metal collisions, and the guard knight Shelley used a long sword to block Roy who jumped down.

"Your Highness! Are you okay?"

"Oh! Isn't this the little one? See you again."

Roy whistled and seemed to be in a good mood.

The powerful healing potion healed all his injuries in a few minutes, so he could appear on the beam and launch a sneak attack.

"What are you doing! Kill her!"

Lord Leon shouted in anger, and the guards who heard the sound rushed to the restaurant.

"Don't stand there, go kill the princess!"

Although these guards were loyal to the lord, they didn't dare to fight with the princess, and they froze in place.

The butler saw this and hugged the decanter and went back to the kitchen in a flash.

"Forget it, Lord, haven't you noticed yet? Your plan has been exposed from the beginning."

Roy blocked Shelley's long sword and did a backflip.

It looked like he had performed an acrobatic trick all of a sudden, but just as Roy fell behind the low wall of the restaurant, he heard three muffled sounds, and three blackened feather arrows pierced the wooden wall on one side. If Roy hadn't dodged just now, he would have three holes in his body now.

"Oh, Princess, this guy's escape has nothing to do with us. The soldiers in charge of the prison are the Lord's men."

In the shadows on one side of the restaurant, Hill appeared like a ghost, and the short bow in her hand showed that the arrow just now was shot by her.

She also meant clearly that it was not my fault, and I couldn't be given a pay cut.

Roy glanced at her quietly:

"Your interrogation skills are good, but I didn't expect your stealth ability is so strong. I almost fell for it."

Viola stood up from the chair at this time and said to Lord Leon:

"You don't have any trump cards anymore. My guards have secretly surrounded this villa. I can give you one last decent chance."

Lord Leon gritted his teeth and wanted to say something, but what he said now would only be regarded as impotent rage.

"Kill her quickly! Don't you understand my order! Kill her!"

He was like a wounded lion, but he could do nothing except roar.

"It seems that there is nothing for me here. Thank you for your potion, Lord."

"Roy! You!"

Roy didn't even look at the lord, but said to Viola frivolously:

"I have to go first, but maybe I will take your head someday."

Roy retreated into the shadows, and in an instant his body seemed to melt into the darkness.

This was not stealth, but more like some special teleportation ability. No one present could stop it in time.

"Goodbye, dear Princess... Ugh!"

At that moment, Roy felt a chill in his waist, and he could not feel the existence of his legs at all.

He knew that he was attacked from behind, but when he tried to turn around to look, he found that his upper body was sliding along a smooth slope, his vision was getting lower and lower, and finally he was lying on the ground completely.

Roy, who could not even move his fingers, saw that in the darkness behind him, a rectangular blade almost as big as a door panel was stabbed diagonally on the ground, and his lower body was stuck on the back of the blade, and he knelt on the ground with a thud under the lubrication of blood.

It was a silent, huge blade that seemed to have shot out from the void.

Roy was still conscious, but his vision was getting darker and darker.

"This is... the Demon King God, what a cruel... god..."

The blade was retracted into the darkness, leaving a series of ripples in the air, and finally disappeared completely.