A Demon's Journey

The day went by rather peacefully. Azaroth had expected that the Night Mountain Sect would think more before attacking them again.

Their two attacks had failed. The first attack was their disciples, who had been ambushed by Azaroth's disciples.

The second attack was when they had the beasts attack Azaroth.

Azaroth wondered who the decision-making beast was who had managed to order so many beasts to attack them.

Well, it didn't matter to him that much. It was the Night Mountain Sect who had to provide an explanation regarding the deaths of so many beasts.

The beasts were going to be furious when they realized that the Night Mountain Sect had intentionally not given them the complete information.

Azaroth was sure that when the Night Mountain Sect's elder went to inform these beasts to attack Azaroth's camp, they had hidden the massacre of their own disciples.

They were actually trying to act smartly. They believed they had figured out the approximate strength of Azaroth's team.

Moreover, the beasts would launch a surprise attack that would be swift and deadly. The sheer number of beasts would overwhelm Azaroth's team no matter how strong they were.

In this way, the price they had to pay to the creatures was far lower than the amount they would have had to pay if they had told them the truth.

However, this intelligent decision backfired on the Night Mountain Sect.

They had greatly misjudged the strength of Azaroth's team. And all the beasts that had come to attack had been butchered like livestock. Azaroth and his team were eating their meat with a satisfied expression on his face.

In the night, Sargan contacted Azaroth.

Azaroth wasn't actually expecting Sargan to contact him so soon. He thought Sargan would need another few days of time to find the opportunity to kidnap that guard captain.

A few days of time would be required to look for an opportunity since he couldn't let Dylan Ross know of his presence.

"Boss, something strange occurred," spoke Sargan as soon as he connected with Azaroth.

Azaroth raised his brows in curiosity, "Really? What happened?"

"Yesterday, I looked for an opportunity to abduct the Guard Captain and found one today. I abducted him and used a spiritual technique to make him reveal everything he knew," Sargan responded immediately.

This wasn't strange that the guard revealed everything under the effect of that Spiritual Technique. However, Azaroth didn't intervene and allowed Sargan to continue.

"What he revealed was extremely shocking. This carriage had come from the Royal Palace in Crario City. They had been ordered by the King to pass by this area!"

Azaroth's eyes slightly widened in surprise at that statement. He asked Sargan, "And why did the King send them through this route? What was their destination?"

"That's the strange thing. According to this guard captain, they didn't have any particular destination. They didn't have any precious things in the carriage. The woman in the carriage didn't hold any special edict that she had to deliver to someone. It seemed as though their only task was to pass this area."

"The woman inside the carriage was very particular about the timing. She would intentionally ask them to go slowly and take appropriate rest on the way."

Azaroth then slowly understood the situation. This woman was targeting Dylan Ross.

The King had heard about Dylan Ross and sent a spy while forging her background.

Azaroth asked Sargan, "What happened to that guard captain?"

Sargan immediately replied, "I killed him." It was only natural to kill that guard captain since he had grabbed all the useful information from him.

The guard captain had seen the location where he was trapped, and it would be risky to allow him to return.

Azaroth responded calmly, "I see."

"…Throw the body near that Dylan Ross's camp with a beast's claw marks that have torn his body. Make them think it was some random beast that killed the Guard Captain," Azaroth spoke.

Sargan nodded his head and spoke, "There is indeed a beast living near this area. I will use him to create claw marks on this guard captain's body."

"Hmm," Azaroth grunted in agreement.

In reality, this was an experiment by Azaroth to test Dylan Ross's fate ability.

If Dylan Ross's fate ability is very strong, he would find the Guard Captain's body and even figure out that he was killed by a human and not by a beast. It didn't matter whether it was the Angel who would inform him or his own deduction.

However, if he didn't come to this conclusion, this meant that the woman's presence was affecting Dylan Ross's fate ability. No, it would be more accurate to say that the King's Fate Ability was clashing with Dylan Ross's Fate Ability.

Azaroth had always been very curious about what would occur if two individuals with strong fate abilities clashed against each other.

He had already experimented on the Royal Family of the Sinyalian Kingdom, but that turned out to be a failure.

Azaroth didn't know whether it was because of his flawed plan or his ability was too weak to win against fate. The end result remained that he lost against fate.

He now had another chance to experiment on it. This time, Azaroth was going to be even more cautious and find out whether his hypothesis was correct or not.

"Sargan, observe that woman and figure out her contacts. If the King has sent this woman here, he must have a good reason to do so. More importantly, the King must also have his spies mixed in these people. Find those spies and make them your informers as well," Azaroth ordered Sargan.

Azaroth wondered what the King was trying to do with Dylan Ross. Did he also realize just how strange this man was and plan to deal with him?

Azaroth shook his head as he believed that if the King truly thought like that, he would have sent a team led by a Prince to deal with Dylan Ross.

However, nothing of that sort occurred. This meant the King would use this woman to extract some benefits from Dylan Ross.

'There is another possibility for which I need to stay prepared. If Dylan Ross is truly a freak-like protagonist, this woman will fall in love with him. She might even betray the King. That would be an interesting scenario.' Azaroth thought with a cold smile.

Sargan's task was to first figure out why this woman had come here.

Azaroth and Sargan finally broke off their connection as it was time for Sargan to get to work.

Around this moment, Yrellea had struck an amazing deal with the Dragon Tiger Palace, and another branch of the Misty Flower Pavilion had been set up in a very great spot in Veninza City.

A few travelers had already heard rumors of the Misty Flower Pavilion since it was quite famous in Vlashire City.

The highlights of this Misty Flower Pavilion were the vigorous and electrifying massages, fantastic ambiance, outstanding musicians, and stunning dancers. Combining them with the fragrant scent that was emitted utilizing each lady's particular cultivation technique resulted in their present status.

In a sense, the money was overflowing within the Misty Flower Pavilion. Part of this income was imparted to the Dragon Tiger Palace, as this was their deal.

The Dragon Tiger Palace was naturally quite delighted to receive such a huge sum as a passive income.

They didn't need to expend a single warrior, yet they received such a great amount of income. The only thing they gave was a piece of land to Yrellea.

The higher-ups of the Dragon Tiger Palace remained satisfied for some time before the greed inside them grew.

This greed grew because they knew that they only received 10% of the income earned by the Misty Flower Pavilion.

Now that they knew just how great that value was, they wanted the entire income earned by the Misty Flower Pavilion.

Thus, they made their move.