The knight in the abyss

Chapter 436 The troubles of the lord

Hearing Lancelot's words, Tijana froze for a moment, a happy look flashed in her eyes, but she didn't let the human knight see - the latter had already walked away with their empty cups.

"So... the rumors are true. The Mother of Demons is really imprisoned, and Andrinna is completely under the control of the Argentines." When Lancelot came back, Tijana had already calmed down. Changing the subject, "Although Cang Ye basically doesn't participate in the power struggles of the lords, she is an abyss lord after all, and she was captured at the level of her own territory, which is really incredible..."

"Karalin once mentioned a theory to me, saying that it seems that Cang Ye's failure was the result of a series of accidents, but one factor that is easily overlooked is the attitude of the will of the abyss." Lancelot naturally took over the topic "Karalin believes that for the will of the abyss, the cooperation between Cang Ye and Baatezu is intolerable. Even if there seems to be no sign of the will of the abyss participating in the whole thing, the absence of any sign is itself a sign, reflecting the abyss attitude of the will to it.”

"It's possible, but please tell him my advice: the research on the will of the abyss ends here, it's for his own benefit." Tijana sipped the refilled cup, "I'm more interested in What kind of tricks are the devils playing... You said you captured that Urgog demon? Where is it?"

"here."

Lancelot reached into the dimensional bag at his waist, took out the deep purple crystal amulet, and handed it to Tijana.The expression on the face of the succubus lord became extremely serious. Instead of reaching out to pick up the talisman, she used magic power to float it in mid-air, and then leaned forward to carefully examine the texture on the crystal surface.

"Compared with the locked devil inside, the value of this amulet is much more precious." Tijana announced, "The runes on it are perfect, and the prisoners inside have no chance of escape, I guess it's probably It's the handiwork of witches. Those ugly old witches have always been known for their greed. Most of the guy who got this talisman in the first place paid half an arm or an eyeball for it... Can you give it to me? "

"What?" Lancelot was a little surprised, "This talisman?"

"Of course not, I think you have seen it today, I don't need to rely on this kind of thing to catch the enemy's soul." Tijana shook her head, "I'm talking about the devil locked inside, from its mouth should It can produce a lot of interesting information...don't worry, I won't take your things for nothing."

"Oh, this, take it, it's useless to me." Lancelow shrugged, "I don't want to take it with me either. Many times, I feel it tempting me to talk to it , promise me strength, wealth, power, things like that..."

"And you can resist that kind of temptation?" Tijana looked at him in surprise.

"Of course." Lancelot shrugged, "Compared to the temptations I have resisted, this one is nothing at all."

"...Hmph~" Tijana conjured up a fan in her hand, which blocked her expression, leaving only a pair of beautiful crescent moon eyes looking at the human knight with a smile.

"I'm just kidding. I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'm afraid that if I keep it with me for a long time, one day I will lose control of myself." Lancelow said solemnly, "If it works for you, take it." go."

"Then I won't be polite." Tijana put away the crystal amulet, "It takes a lot of preparation to transfer the prisoners inside, and I will return the amulet to you when I'm done."

"Okay." Lancelot nodded, "What are you going to do if you find out that Bayer is the mastermind this time?"

"It doesn't matter if it's Bayer or not. Shuangqiao Town must improve its strength as soon as possible." Tijana stared at her wine glass, "But that's not an easy task..."

"Why?" Lancelot asked curiously, "For a demon lord like you, wouldn't it be possible to advance a large number of original demons and cowards with just a little magic power? You should have no shortage of soldiers at all." right."

"It's not that simple." Tijana smiled wryly at her drinking buddy, "I heard that when your human kingdoms are at war, the noble lords will gather the farmers under him and distribute daggers and spears to them. Do you think such soldiers really serve any purpose?"

"At least it's better than nothing." Lancelow grabbed a berry, peeled it carefully, and put it into the empty wine glass in front of him, "And don't underestimate the spear, if you have time, let the farmers After receiving some training, even if it is only two or three weeks, you will be able to have a certain combat effectiveness..."

"But once a certain number is exceeded, the demons will start killing each other. There must be enough high-level demons to suppress their self-destructive impulse." Tijana leaned back on the chair and looked up at the monster on the ceiling of the living room. Crystal Chandelier, "I didn't expect that I would discuss this with you tonight, but it might be good to hear your opinion. I now have three snake demon generals under my command, except for Sonam, who has lost interest in command, and the other two The generals are each responsible for a legion, but this is already a bit too much, and no new generals can be added..."

"Are you worried that they may rebel?" Lancelot's tone was slightly sour, because he realized that Albert had probably considered the same question, "Those generals should have followed you for a long time..."

"Yes, that's why I don't want them to have any possibility of misjudging the situation." Tijana glanced at the human knight, "This is the nature of demons. Be loyal to you. You mortals may be bound by morality, oath or law, and still do not take action when the betrayal has a certain chance of success, but in essence, there is not much difference. Don't forget that almost all tanar'ri are Transformed by mortal souls, we are just the worst versions of you."

"In my opinion, you are much better than many human lords." Lancelot pushed his wine glass to Tijana, which was full of peeled berries, "at least those dwarf artisans are not slaves, although they The workload seems to be a bit too much..."

"I didn't use a whip to force the dwarves to work. I paid gold, a lot of gold, and they never complained about it." Tijana's fingers stretched out with long claws, forking from Lancelot's wine glass Picking up a berry, he looked at it curiously, "Aren't these berries for eating? Why do you torture your own food? I always thought that a 'good guy' like you would hate to use torture..."

　Thanks to the exhibition sky for the reward, monthly tickets for the heads of several book friends who are not old in the mountains, the hat maker who is misty, cruel like an angel, and Cha Lemon!I was taking a shower today, and the shelf for hanging the bath towels suddenly collapsed. It took a lot of effort to fix it, and I was so mad...

　　
　
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