Scepter of Thorns

The God of Darkness held up his scepter, but the originally supreme Demon Lord stood aside with a mask, silent, like a puppet on a stage.

Orion wrapped his hands around the flail of the Reverse Cross, a deadly weapon softer than silk.He paused in mid-air, his black hair flying wildly, the bone wings on his back were almost twice the size of ordinary demons, and the film was covered with a tough dark color.

He brings together the common characteristics of all demons, powerful, warlike, cruel, and cunning. This is something engraved in the blood of a race born in a barren land.

"We regard aggression as a virtue, and war as our glory!" He said loudly, "The heavens will decline, the mainland will be connected, and the demons will replace them and become the masters of the seven realms!!"

There was a neat and clear response from below, and the click sound of the soldiers' bone wings stretched out was like a weapon unsheathed, completely igniting the aggressive nature of this race.

The real Demon Lord stood behind the Lord God, with an expression that had nothing to do with him.Amiens inexplicably finds it ridiculous. He still can't understand the demons. In this land full of poverty, famine, and withering, the first thing people think of is not how to change the status quo, but to invade and seize other people's wealth.

This is the case with the demons, they are born with evil virtues.

Amiens was thinking like this, and the messenger sent a message, "The Minister of Finance has entered the palace."

Orion glanced at the excited crowd, "Let him wait."

"I want to go back first, Caesar." Amiens said softly, "There are too many people here, I feel a little uncomfortable."

Orion didn't say much, and directly ordered, "Send Your Majesty back to the palace."

"Yes."

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Dammons is sitting patiently in the ornately decorated hall waiting.Opposite him hangs a huge oil painting "City of Rivers", "Tinta grows from the Red River." Its painter said, "A pearl lying quietly on black velvet."

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Damance got up quickly. He shook his long sleeves and prepared to salute, "See my... Your Majesty."

He perfectly concealed his momentary astonishment.Amiens asked with a half-smile, "Why, do you think it's Caesar?"

"... Caesar's Consul feels sorry for His Majesty's overwork and has been acting as an administrative agent. Although the minister obeys the Consul's orders, he also knows His Majesty's reputation and dare not mistake him."

He replaced my god with the consul of Caesar.

Amiens raised his eyebrows. He leaned halfway on the opposite sofa, resting his chin on one hand, "Do you know this "City of Rivers"?"

"I have heard the name for a long time." Damance nodded. "'A pearl lying quietly on black velvet.'"

"It seems that you know this sentence." Amiens tilted his head slightly, "Indeed, compared with Tinta, the rest of the Demon Realm is pure black."

...Damance finally felt that His Majesty's visit today was not kind.

"Count Lilith is in charge of Tinta and has made it the wealthiest Huadu in the Demon Realm. I heard that she... loves peace." Amiens raised her eyes and glanced at Damance, "The rich always resist war. I can understand."

"I believe Earl Lilith is out of love for the devil world."

"Ah, yes. Isn't that why she formed an alliance with Caesar in the first place?"

Damance broke out in a cold sweat. As soon as the God of Darkness called the demons to join the war, his elder brother revealed that he was once a peacemaker, and it was difficult for the Minister of Finance to determine whether the other party knew——

"I know." Amiens seemed to see through what he was thinking, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, "There are a group of people."

no.Damance thought that the God of Darkness would definitely plant eyeliners around the Demon Lord. If this conversation spread today, not only himself, but even the forces behind him would be destroyed by the angry Lord God.

"Your Majesty..." He still wanted to go back to the topic, but the Demon Lord clapped his hands a few times, and a dark-skinned Demon came out from the shadow of the throne. He stood beside Amiens, his sturdy figure was like a mountain peak.

Damance choked on the words in his throat.He never imagined that it would be like this.

"I think you all know each other, after all, you are both under Lilith." Amian nudged the demon with her elbow, "You think so, Henry?"

The man's voice was hoarse, "I have seen Lord Damance."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer quickly thought about it. He was Lilith's hidden thread buried beside Caesar. Since Amiens could call out Henry, the baroness's personal bodyguard, and reveal his identity, the two must have a deal.

That is, they are now in the same boat.

"You don't have to worry about someone watching us, because Henry's magic energy is 'sleep', he can make those dark lines dizzy and drowsy."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I'm worrying too much." He finally saluted respectfully.

"Lilith's current situation is actually very dangerous. Caesar is dissatisfied because of their previous lordship and consensus. He is now a main fighter faction-to be precise, the God of Darkness is a main fighter faction. Lilith's lordship and tendency It has become an unstable factor, he wants to cut off her wings, but he is afraid of her fame and power, so the two sides are in a stalemate." Amiens analyzed, "And you, Minister of Finance Damance, are very likely to become this First victim."

"I understand." Damance stated calmly, "If you sacrifice, it is a mission."

"..." Amiens lowered her eyelashes.

"What's more, I don't believe that our efforts will be in vain. We have discovered a secret. The Lord God is not omniscient. He has no way of knowing what happened many years ago." Damance laughed. Know how to heal the light element? Because 200 years ago, there were many medical cultural exchanges between the heavenly and demon worlds. A leader of a heavenly organization preached the theory of "saving the dying and healing the wounded, medicine has no boundaries", so that doctors can get deeper exchanges .Through the collection of different experiences from the two worlds, medicine has made great progress at that time, and the well-known light healing technique was created 200 years ago."

"That organization..."

"The Countess," Damance replied, "Count Lilith feels that she is sympathetic to this organization, because the names of the two are similar to a certain extent. What's more, the Countess has almost brought together the top technologies of the Seven Realms, even if After the exchange boom passed, she has been in private contact with the Baroness organization. Fortunately, the Baroness is a civil organization in the heavens and is not subject to racial restrictions. It is said that it has contacts with elves and dwarves."

"That is to say, you are not fighting alone?" Amiens asked, "There are also your people in the heaven?"

"No, Your Majesty. Not our people, we just have a common belief." He explained, "In the heavens, this kind of thinking is also limited by belief. But similar to us, the main god does not know its existence."

"...I agree with your thoughts, but with all due respect, as long as the main god exists, it will become more and more difficult to realize."

"Times will change." Damance still kept smiling. He shed his oily shell, and years of ups and downs never made him lose his original intention. "War and aggression are dust, they will be washed away sooner or later, and the rest Everything will be integrated into the torrent of history, rolling forward."

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Damance withdrew.

Amiens remembered again when Lilith sent someone to contact him.He asked Lilith, "What exactly do you want?"

"What do you want?" the woman asked back.

"I want to kill Caesar."

"why?"

……forgotten.

Maybe out of some kind of malice that's been well hidden all along.

Why am I an older brother.Amiens had thought about this more than once, and this dark thought was especially obvious when he was being trained by Gunther. If he was the younger brother, would Caesar prefer to become a boy|favorite for himself?

The elder brother must protect the younger brother.The parents repeatedly emphasized that Amiens is the elder brother and Caesar is the younger brother, so the elder brother should sacrifice himself for the sake of the younger brother.

Amiens has always been a very confident person. He believes in his own abilities, and also believes that one day he will inherit his father's ambition.But this idea was severely shattered after becoming an orphan. He knew the status quo. Gunther's adoption was malicious. He could choose to be a slave alone, or two brothers together.

Caesar was well protected, because the parents only treated him as a child, they paid more attention to Amiens, so he was more mature than other children of his age.Little Caesar couldn't even understand the way Gunther was staring at them, but Amiens understood. In order to survive, he opened his arms, "Uncle, can you give me a hug?"

This man has pedophilia, and Amiens can see the desire hidden in his eyes at a glance.

When Caesar was a child, he never understood why his brother always didn't live with him, and when Gunther showed kindness and kindness to him, his brother would always stand in front of him in fear.Finally, one day, he was taken to a place with many young girls, and the servant told him that he was Gunther's adopted son from today, but Gunther still had many adopted sons, and in the end only one person could inherit his position.

Amiens was only relieved when Caesar became the adopted son, and Gunther would never touch his heir.But when he watched Caesar mature a little bit and gradually grow into a man, he was certainly proud of his younger brother, but a secret malice was always haunting him. What if you were Gunther's adopted son?He asked himself, could he be better than Caesar?

Obviously he is the heir his parents expected.

He will always live in Caesar's shadow. In the first half of his life, he is the umbrella that shelters Caesar from the wind and rain, Gunther's favorite; Jun.

But...he also wanted to be like the other party.

Is it, is it as long as Caesar dies...

"I see." Lilith stared at him for a few seconds before she sighed, "It's sad."

"Then, it's time to tell me your purpose."

"Because of faith," said the woman, "because of a faith that no one understands, and time will tell."

----Chapter86. Carrying & Finishing----