Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 37: Cut in two
The 648th year of the Demon King Calendar.

April 11th, morning.

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

Unlike the armor she usually wore and the robe she wore when praying, Viola was now wrapped in a heavy skirt that looked particularly stuffy. The high skirt had to be lifted up to avoid touching the ground.

Earlier, Lord Leon sent an invitation. Since it was a formal visit, even though the castle was no more than fifteen minutes' walk from the villa, it still had to be delivered by carriage.

It’s not that I don’t want to walk, I just want to show off.

The soldiers guarding the door bowed their heads and saluted when they saw the princess getting off the car. This time, Princess Viola also put on some of her princess airs and slowly approached the door.

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

Lord Leon went out to greet them with great enthusiasm. The common people who were watching the excitement from afar once suspected that the lord had taken the wrong medicine, because he was not usually seen to be so enthusiastic.

"Thanks to Lord Leon for his hospitality."

"It is a great honor for me and my family that Your Highness is willing to come. Please come in."

Lord Leon walked in with Viola and the accompanying knight guards, muttering something about family glory and the glory of the humble family.

At least so far, this is still the normal reaction of the royal family visiting the nobles' homes.

The spacious restaurant was newly decorated, and the long table was filled with tempting fruits and cakes. Lord Leon specially asked Princess Viola to sit in the main seat and sat next to her.

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

The lord snapped his fingers, and the butler hiding behind the door immediately took the decanter and poured the mellow wine into the golden cup.

According to the etiquette of the nobility, although the princess had a high status, this was Lord Leon's place after all, so the butler poured wine for the lord first, and then filled the princess's golden cup with wine.

"Your Highness, you have been in Leon's territory for almost half a month. I saw that you were busy with official duties and I didn't feel comfortable disturbing you. Please allow me to welcome you to my territory today."

What the lord said was indeed correct. A high-ranking noble should have been welcomed immediately when he came to the territory of a lower-ranking noble. However, on the first day Viola arrived, she was attacked by bandits, and then a series of incidents happened one after another.

The lord picked up the wine glass:

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

Lord Leon deliberately drank half a cup first to indicate that everything was fine.

But Viola still didn't touch the wine glass, but stared at Lord Leon, and that look made the lord feel uncomfortable.

"Your Highness?"

Viola exhaled slowly, her eyes becoming firm again.

"Lord Leon, I know you may not believe this, but when we came to your territory, we planned to simply rest and wait for the soldiers to recover, then buy some supplies and leave. I know your territory cannot withstand the ravages of war, so we did not plan to stay for long."

she says:

"I never thought that I could get the attention of the Lord of Demons. Everything I did afterwards was to share the Lord's glory with others, hoping that more people would believe in and worship Him. Even now, I have no intention of taking away the territory."

Lord Leon's smile froze. He tried his best to maintain his noble dignity and said:

"Your Highness, what are you talking about?"

"I want to say that what you are doing is meaningless and even self-defeating."

He pushed the wine glass lightly, and the full bottle of wine spilled onto the tablecloth.

"Your plan has long been seen through by the Lord. He conveyed everything to me through the oracle. And you may not know that I am resistant to toxins. Your poison has no effect on me."

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

Viola shook her head.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I begged you to give up, and I deliberately returned the account book to you in the hope that you would be more peaceful, but you seem to have misunderstood my meaning. Now that things have come to this, all I can do now is to maintain your last bit of dignity."

For the nobility, the ultimate dignity is to die suddenly from illness.

Poisoning the royal family was a capital crime, and the whole family would be hanged. It was just that hanging aristocrats had a bad reputation, so there was a last resort of respectability.

And in this way, the title of Count Leon can be retained. Even though he has no son, if there are any relatives alive, they can still inherit his title.

When Lord Leon saw that the truth was revealed, he simply gave up pretending.

"You are talking nonsense! You have been trying to take away my territory since the first day you arrived! This land has belonged to my family for generations!"

Lord Leon slammed the golden cup to the ground with a clang, venting his anger.

"Not to mention that you actually want to let that terrible monster, the Devil God, come back to this land! My family has a hidden ancestral precept that will never allow the Devil God to reappear in the world. Generations of people have guarded this place to never allow Him to continue interfering in the mortal world! But you! You actually dared to pray to the Devil God!"

This made Viola raise an eyebrow. She had never heard of this matter.

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

"You have already 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 take everything into his hands! He will take all the living beings in this world for himself!"

Although the question was somewhat irrelevant, Viola folded her hands and said calmly:
"What's wrong with greed? We in the Avarus Demon Kingdom are also a greedy clan. We want to get everything. But it is precisely because of greed that we cherish everything we have."

The secret hidden in Lord Leon's house cannot be revealed to the Avarus royal family. Once they discover the location of the Demon King's Ring hidden in their family, this group of royal family members who worship the Demon King will definitely do everything they can to make the Demon King come back.

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

"Roy! Do it!"

A sharp gust of wind leaped down from the beam and hit Viola's back!
A string of fine sparks exploded, accompanied by a fierce metal collision, and the Guard Knight Shelley used his sword to block Roy who was jumping down.

"Your Highness! Are you okay?"

"Oh! Isn't this the little one? We meet again."

Roy whistled and seemed to be in a good mood.

A powerful healing potion healed all his injuries within minutes, allowing him to appear on the rafters and launch a sneak attack.

"What are you doing! Kill her!"

Lord Leon shouted in rage, and the guards who heard the voice rushed to the restaurant.

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

Although these guards were loyal to the lord, they did not dare to fight with the princess and they all froze in place.

When the butler saw this, he picked up the decanter and quickly went back to the kitchen.

"Forget about it, Lord. Haven't you realized it yet? Your plan has been exposed from the very beginning."

Roy parried Shelley's sword and did a backflip.

It looked like an acrobatic performance suddenly, but just as Roy fell behind the low wall of the restaurant, he heard three muffled sounds, and three black feather arrows pierced the wooden wall on one side. If Roy had not dodged just now, there would be three holes in his body.

"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 indicated that the arrow just now was shot by her.

Her meaning was very clear. It wasn't my fault and my salary could not be cut.

Roy glanced at her quietly:
"Your torture technique is great, but I didn't expect your stealth ability is so strong too. I almost fell for it."

Viola stood up from her chair and said to Lord Leon:
"You no longer have any cards to hide. My guards have already secretly surrounded this villa. I can still give you one last decent chance."

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

"Kill her now! Don't you understand my orders? Kill her!"

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

"It looks like there's nothing for me to do here. Thank you for the potion, my lord."

"Roy! You!"

Roy didn't even go to see the lord, but said to Viola frivolously:

"I have to go now, but I may 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 kind of special teleportation ability, and no one present had time to stop it.

"Goodbye, my dear Princess... Ugh!"

At that moment, Roy only felt a chill in his waist, and at the same time 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 getting lower and lower, and finally he fell completely to the ground.

Unable to move even his fingers, Roy saw that in the darkness behind him, a rectangular blade almost as big as a door panel was sticking diagonally into the ground. His lower body was stuck to the back of the blade, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, lubricated by blood.

It was a silent, giant blade that seemed to shoot out from the void.

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

"This is... the Devil God. What a cruel... god..."

The blade sank into the darkness, leaving a trail of ripples in the air before disappearing completely.

(End of this chapter)