At that moment, the other three dark knights felt a heart-pounding pain.

They immediately understood that something terrible had happened to their master.

Unfortunately, none of them could come to confirm the situation, except for one person, Knoy, who was imprisoned in Ophelia's magic ring.

It stands to reason that he was seriously injured and his uncontrollable self-healing ability had exhausted all his physical strength, but perhaps it was similar to a human being's flashback. Powerful magic power continued to flow out of his body, and eventually even broke the magic ring.

Ophelia naturally noticed it, but she didn't know what happened. She only saw the ring in her hand shattered.

A blue-gray beam of light rushed out and then flew in the direction of the Demon King.

Emil and others have determined the location of the Demon King through magic perception, but they are just hesitating whether they should fight to the death with the Demon King now.

After all, Lilith does want to be rescued, but they also have to consider their own abilities. If the rescue fails, they will lose more than they gain by dragging everyone in.

Now that Kenoy has returned to the Demon King, their only bargaining chip is gone. Emil can't help but fall into despair, and their hope of rescuing Lilith is even slimmer.

But at this time, Alice said seriously to the others.

"Everyone, I'm glad that you can come together to rescue my sister, but if we face the devil directly, we will probably all die. I am very grateful for your kindness, but I really can't bear to have you die for this, so you should go back.

, leave the rest to me.”

"Hmph, how long has it been and you are still saying such useless words?" Ophelia put her hands on her hips, quite dissatisfied with her remarks, "Didn't we make an agreement when we set out? Now that we are here,

Now that we're here, how can we be the kind of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't you think so? Emir."

"...Well, indeed." Emil nodded, but he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Because he knew very well that just a few of them were no match for the Demon King. If they continued to act, the result would definitely be as Alice said.

He has experienced several life and death tests so far, but all of them were escaped from powerful enemies. But this time he had to face the most dangerous enemy head-on, and he felt completely unsure.

But no matter what, he himself promised to save Lilith. Even if he faced the danger of death, he could not go back. After all, this was his bottom line as a man.

So, he began to think about countermeasures. Is there a way for them to rescue Lilith alive?

At this moment, Alice, who has always had a strong personality since her appearance, suddenly shed tears.

"What's wrong? Are you scared because you know you are going to die?" Ophelia couldn't help but joked.

"No, no? Are you looking down on me, you bastard?" Alice quickly wiped away her tears and shouted angrily, "I am a giant dragon with the blood of the Dragon King. How can I be afraid of death? I just had sand in my eyes."

No, I am not moved by you weak humans."

Emil couldn't help but chuckle to himself when he heard this childish statement.

"Oh, it turns out I was touched. I didn't expect you to have a cute side." Ophelia continued to tease her.

"Huh? You, you actually called me cute?" Alice suddenly became incoherent, "Do you have any misunderstanding of the word cute?... Emil, you are laughing so hard, this is an insult to the dragon.

All right."

"Sorry." Emil quickly covered his mouth.

He didn't expect that at this time, there could be such a happy atmosphere between them, and this was exactly what he had been longing for.

As his closest relatives and friends die one after another, his future life will definitely be gloomy, but he often forgets one thing, that is, he is not alone, and there will always be new partners around him.

The future life will become colorful because of this.

When he thought of this, he suddenly felt that even if he died next, this life would still be worth it.

However, compared to this, his eyes stayed on Bailong, and a feasible countermeasure suddenly took shape in his mind.

…

On the other side, Knoy flew in the direction where the magic traces came from.

Finally, he arrived at the lowest level of the demon stronghold, and found that Cornes was also here, along with an elf girl.

He couldn't figure it out for a moment. Since Cornes was here, how could something happen to his Lord Demon King?

However, after carefully sensing the traces of Cornes' magic power, he finally understood what happened.

"Cornes! Who gave you the courage to betray the Demon King!" Knoy roared hysterically.

But Cornes on the opposite side showed an indifferent attitude.

"Huh? Who gave me the courage? Sorry, I'm different from you weaklings. My dream is to conquer this continent myself."

"Tsk, you're really crazy." Kenoy cursed angrily and wanted to rush over and fight him to the death.

Cornes did not take him seriously, but said lightly.

"Wait a minute, I'm fed up with your impatience. Let's negotiate a deal. Now that I have obtained all the power of the Demon King, I am the strongest among the demons. You are not my opponent at all, but you can choose to be loyal.

As for me, how about I save your life and let you continue to be a dark knight and use your remaining talents in the demon clan?"

For Cornes, this condition is tempting enough. After all, generally speaking, as the new Demon King, it is impossible for him to hire the subordinates of the previous Demon King, but perhaps out of kindness to his fellow tribesmen, he can set this precedent.

However, Knoy didn't stop at all. He pulled out the magic sword and stabbed Cornes in the chest.

He did understand, but to him this was not kindness, but a great insult. He who was willing to sacrifice his life for the Demon King would not continue to live.

"Humph, you idiot who doesn't understand current affairs!"

Cornes no longer hesitated. Although he regretted the Demon King's suicide, he had already given in. It was this guy who did not seize the opportunity.

Facing the desperate attack, Cornes did not panic at all, but nimbly dodged aside.

This caused the instrument behind him to be smashed to pieces. However, his goal of controlling the Demon King had been achieved, so he didn't feel it was a pity, and he had no intention of doing it himself.

"Elena, let him see your power."

"Yes, father." The girl nodded expressionlessly.

"Father?" Knuoy was suddenly puzzled and couldn't help asking, "Cornes, when did you have an elf daughter?"

However, when he realized this, a string of distant memories flooded into his mind, and he suddenly remembered it.

Five hundred years ago, when the demons went to war with humans, a female elf joined the demons specifically to help forge weapons. At that time, Cornes was very close to the female elf.

"I see, that was that time." Kenoy murmured in a low voice.

"Haha, it's good to know," Cornes did not shy away from this past incident, and then said, "Thanks to my wife, I also gained the power of elves. Do you think I really died in that war?

?No, that was all an illusion. After the war, I have been lurking in the human camp, just waiting for this day to come. Now, the first step of my plan has been completed. Next, I will inherit the Demon King.

Weiye, if you still want to resist me, then continue to be my enemy, so, what will you choose?"

Obviously, Cornes still couldn't bear to give up his kindness to him, so he offered him an olive branch again.

However, Knoy burst out laughing maniacally, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

"Kenes, you just said that you are different from us weaklings, right? Yes, I admit it, but the difference between us is not here, but that a despicable and unloyal guy like you is not worthy of being with us, hum.

, you want me to be loyal to you? Go to hell! I would rather die at the hands of humans."

"……well."

Cornes sighed heavily. He had done his best to reach this point, but he still couldn't get any understanding.

Immediately afterwards, Elena checked her father's eyes, and after receiving confirmation, she immediately took action.

She condensed an ice crystal from her hand, then squeezed it tightly and crushed it, and countless sharp fragments flew towards Knoy.

He sensed that this move did not use much magic power, so naturally he would not take it seriously, because his target was Cornes from beginning to end.

Seeing him completely defenseless, Cornes couldn't help but chuckle.

The next second, small and sharp fragments hit Knoy. Although it seemed painless and his self-healing ability was not activated, he soon realized that something was wrong. He only felt a wave of pain all over his body.

Burning pain.

He quickly looked at the fragments, only to find that they had penetrated into his skin.

"Damn it, what the hell is this?"

"No comment, you just need to know that you are dead." Elena said lightly.

"Tsk, such a small injury... wh-what!"

The pain that Knoy felt became more and more severe, but strangely, his self-healing ability never took effect.

However, if you look closely at the surface of the skin, you will understand that there is no wound at all, so how can it be treated?

Although he didn't know the principle of these fragments, the pain was nothing to the Dark Knight, and he really thought so, so he decided to kill the elf girl first.

But Elena once again condensed a piece of ice crystal, and then repeated her old trick. Kenoy wanted to dodge, but the range of the opponent's attack was too large, and he was still hit.

He was unable to dodge just now, and now he was attacked again. The pain instantly became like a tidal wave. Even a tough guy like him gradually couldn't hold on anymore and found it difficult to even take a step.

But he still didn't give up and said a word to Elena.

"Since Cornes has obtained the power of elves, it means that he killed your mother. Even so, do you still want to serve him?"

"It doesn't matter," Elena shook her head and continued, "My mother sacrificed for her father's dream. She realized her own value. I have to contribute to my father, otherwise I would not exist.

It’s valuable.”

"Tsk, have you brainwashed your daughter? As expected of you, Cornes."

At this time, Knoy finally accepted his fate. He expected that if he continued like this, he would definitely be unable to survive or die, so he simply decided to use all his strength to self-destruct, which might cause some damage to Cornes.

However, Cornes had already thought of this, and at the moment when Knoy was about to explode, he directly used teleportation magic to transfer him outside.

Immediately afterwards, deafening sounds and violent vibrations spread into the hall on the ground floor, and everything within a radius of twenty miles outside was destroyed.
Chapter completed!