My queen is rebelling!

Gilly Voss's voice carried a strange undertone: "The Fifty-eighth Pillar Demon God, Ami, is the only demon among the Seventy-two Pillar Demon Gods capable of trading life force with humans.

Since ancient times, there have always been one or two emperors of the empire with poor talent who wanted to obtain eternal life from Ami. This set of his Divine-Demonic equipment blueprints was exchanged with a certain emperor of the Eastern Region Empire."

Cohen suppressed the emotions in his heart and asked after a moment of recollection: "Phantom Dragon Wing Cloak?"

Gilly Voss nodded: "That's the name. It seems His Majesty is determined to obtain this Divine-Demonic equipment."

Cohen said with a faint smile: "That depends on whether Mr. Gilly Voss is willing to cooperate. I think the Pillar Demon God must have left very strict restrictions in his inheritance treasure.

A confident smile appeared on Cohen's face as he said: "I can help you remove the Divine Will of the Fifty-eighth Pillar Demon God, Ami, from your body.

Allowing you to completely escape the control of your 'father'!"

Gilly Voss raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes flashing, and shook his head: "With His Majesty's current strength, it's hard for me to believe what you're saying."

Cohen reached out and lightly tapped a few times in the void, outlining a profound rune.

Then the rune flew towards Gilly Voss's body.

The latter did not stop it, quietly watching the rune enter his body. Then his body trembled violently. After a short while, a look of great shock appeared in his eyes, staring intently at Cohen.

A surge of joy and apprehension erupted from the bottom of his heart, and his whole person became somewhat excited and trembling.

Cohen's gaze was calm and indifferent.

Gilly Voss gradually regained his composure and said in a deep voice: "The Divine Will deep in my soul has indeed weakened a lot, but it's not enough. This rune alone cannot completely eliminate it."

Cohen said: "Of course, this alone is not enough. I have mastered a ritual that can purify Divine Will.

This is the prototype of the purification ritual.

The complete ritual requires a demigod artifact containing the will of the Goddess of Light as a sacrifice, and a legendary-level transcendent to preside over the ritual in order to successfully purify the Divine Will contained in divinity."

Purifying the Divine Will in Gilly Voss's body was much simpler than purifying the divinity of the first Queen Velees Kiss of the Elven race.

After all, the latter was a genuine Main God, while the Fifty-eighth Pillar Demon God was at most a deity with Intermediate Divine Power.

The Goddess of Light also has a very strong restraining effect on creatures like demons.

Gilly Voss fell into deep thought. He couldn't judge the truth of Cohen's words, but the fluctuation that suppressed the Divine Will in his body just now was real.

After a long silence, Gilly Voss spoke: "A demigod artifact containing the will of the Goddess of Light... As a son of a demon, I'm afraid I don't have much chance of obtaining it."

A hint of joy appeared between Cohen's eyebrows. As long as he was willing to speak, it meant there was a possibility of negotiation. He said: "As long as you are willing to work under me, I can help you get this demigod artifact."

Gilly Voss remembered that the other party had cooperated with the saints of the Church of Light more than once. It would be unbelievable for others to obtain a demigod artifact, but for Cohen, it was indeed very feasible.

Gilly Voss sighed and said: "I originally intended to give this set of Divine-Demonic equipment to the Gunter family. Krugger was too impulsive."

Cohen's tone became much colder: "A set of Divine-Demonic equipment cannot change the overall situation.

With the strength of the Southern Territory, I'm afraid they won't even understand the blueprints before this continent falls into great turmoil."

Gilly Voss nodded earnestly: "I need to sign a Demon God Contract with His Majesty to restrain us."

After speaking, a black scroll appeared in his hand, and the look in his eyes became very complicated as he looked at the scroll.

He chuckled and said: "Ironically, this scroll was originally given to me by the Fifty-eighth Pillar Demon God, Ami, to lure King Effie to sign a contract with the demons.

In the end, it's still used between me and His Majesty."

Gilly Voss unfolded the scroll and quickly wrote on it.

After writing, he pierced his fingertip, overflowing with blood, and sealed a blood mark on the scroll.

Then he threw the scroll to Cohen.

Cohen picked it up and looked at it, and didn't find anything unusual. He also pierced his finger and left his mark on it.

The scroll instantly broke into two copies, and the two kept them separately.

With the restraint of the Demon God Contract, Gilly Voss seemed much more relaxed.

He had been hiding his name, racking his brains, and delaying his breakthrough to the legendary level, just to find a way to remove the Divine Will from his body.

Now that he saw the hope of complete liberation, his whole person became more energetic.

He didn't waste any more words, looking at the mysterious sea beneath his feet, a powerful magic power suddenly surged around him, and then he waved his hands lightly, and dazzling black light bloomed from his palms, forming a sharp contrast with the azure blue sea water.

With the chanting of a spell, a vast magic power surged out, like an invisible giant hand, and plunged fiercely into the sea.

A muffled roar came from under the sea, and the force forcibly pushed it to both sides, revealing a deep sea passage that emitted black light.

The sea water on both sides was like towering crystal walls, shimmering with strange light under the illumination of magic.

Gilly Voss leaped into the sea passage.

Cohen was about to follow in when Melantha grabbed him and said: "Why don't I go? After all, this person is the son of a demon god and cannot be completely trusted."

Cohen smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, I'm confident. You two just wait here, and be careful not to let anyone get close."

After speaking, he entered the sea passage with Gilly Voss.

The passage was filled with silver mist. While advancing, various strange and ancient seabed creatures curiously peered outside the water wall, their bodies emitting a faint fluorescent light, adding a bit of fantasy to this seabed passage.

The two moved forward rapidly along the passage. After an unknown amount of time, Gilly Voss stopped, and a giant stone pillar appeared in front of him.

The stone pillar rose from the depths of the seabed, as if to pierce the sky, and exuded a chilling, deep aura around it.

The surface was covered with twisted and complicated patterns, and was piled up with a kind of black boulder like the embers after a hellfire was extinguished. At the joints of the stones, there flowed scarlet threads like living things, exuding a nauseatingly sweet smell.

Gilly Voss's voice sounded in Cohen's ear: "A projection of the Fifty-eighth Pillar Demon God Ami's magic pillar. Unless you have his aura on you, anyone who gets close will attract the demon god's attention.

Your Majesty, wait outside, I'll be right back."

"Okay."

Gilly Voss came to the vicinity of the magic pillar, and put his palm on a boulder. Ancient spells poured out of his mouth continuously. At the same time, a black light flashed in his eyes, and the blood in his body began to boil.

Then a huge spatial vortex appeared in the middle of the stone pillar, sucking Gilly Voss in.

Time passed by minute by minute. After an unknown amount of time, there was another sound from the magic pillar. Gilly Voss walked out with a pale face, holding an ancient box in his hand.

Gilly Voss handed the box to Cohen and said in a deep voice: "Divine-Demonic equipment, Phantom Dragon Wing Cloak!"

......

Since receiving the news that the new Southern Territory Duchess, Red Dragon Duchess Asuna Iliad, would arrive in the Southern Territory in three days.

All the officials, big and small, in the entire Southern Territory have fallen into an indescribable fever.

The officials spared no expense to search for the new Southern Territory Duchess's hobbies and interests. Some of the more shrewd ones had already sent people to the Central Empire to investigate the Duchess's origins, all hoping to find an opportunity to please their new superior.

This newly appointed Duchess's identity is not simple. In addition to possessing the ancient secret profession of Dragon Riding Warrior, she was also personally appointed as a Squire Knight by Her Majesty the Queen, making her status extremely noble.

Of course, in addition to these identities, there was also a small rumor that was rampant, and almost every official in the Southern Territory had heard of it.

This Red Dragon Duchess is also His Majesty the King's lover!

Compared to the identities above, this is the most deadly and the most feared by the Southern Territory officials.

As everyone knows, pillow talk is much more useful than impeachment memorials.

South County, the seat of the Southern Territory, the base camp of the original Southern Territory Duke Gunter family.

Since the downfall of the Gunter family, all the buildings bearing the Gunter family label have basically been overthrown and rebuilt, striving to build a brand new and luxurious Duke's mansion before the new Duke takes office.

The entire Southern Territory, where the ground trembles three times when stomped on, has gathered in South County, eagerly awaiting the Duchess's carriage.

If it weren't for the Duchess's maids and servants arriving in South County as the vanguard, bringing the Duchess's repeated statements - the welcoming team must not leave South County.

These officials would probably go to the border of the Southern Territory to welcome the Duke's carriage.

Among the crowd of dignitaries, the one at the head is the Southern Territory's Political Officer, Baron Follen David.

Originally, the Southern Territory was the Gunter family's private territory, and the Political Officer was just a dispensable position. All the political affairs of the Southern Territory were decided by the Southern Territory Duke.

After the downfall of the Gunter family, Florentia immediately sent an experienced Governor-General to the Southern Territory to serve as the Political Officer, with the aim of assisting the Red Dragon Duchess to take over the entire Southern Territory as soon as possible.

Needless to say, this Political Officer is also the future Duchess's confidant.

Standing next to the Southern Territory Political Officer is a solemn-faced soldier. Unlike Baron Follen David, who was surrounded by the crowd, this solemn soldier seemed much more lonely.

The new Southern Territory Military District Commander, Beo Angerian.

The identity of this person can be seen from the surname alone.

Commander Beo is from the same clan as Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister. The deep meaning behind Florentia sending such a person to guard the Southern Territory is self-evident.

Therefore, it is not that these people do not want to curry favor with the Commander, but that this person's background is too great, and it is not known whether he is also shouldering some secret mission of the Queen. In case they try to get close and get a cold shoulder, it would not be worth the loss.

In addition to Political Officer Follen and Commander Beo, most of the remaining officials are native Southern Territory officials and nobles.

The Floren Administrative Officer looked at the expectant crowd behind him and cleared his throat.

“I just received news from Her Highness that her carriage has just arrived in Redstone County and is about three days away. You don't all need to wait here; please return to your respective posts.

When Her Highness arrives, she will definitely convene a meeting with you all, so it won't be too late to come back then.”

“No need, no need, Lord Floren. Three days is nothing. We are all transcendents and can afford to wait.”

“That's right, that's right. Her Highness is traveling a long distance. It wouldn't be right for us subordinates not to greet her in person.”

The crowd chimed in, each full of enthusiasm, determined to wait here for three days and three nights.

These seasoned officials knew very well that the newly appointed Grand Duchess was very young, only in her twenties, they heard.

The more ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ in ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!

The younger the person, the more they care about face.

With so many people, Her Highness may not remember who came, but she will definitely remember clearly who didn't.

Seeing that everyone had the same opinion, Floren, as the leader, couldn't very well return alone, so he glanced at Commander Beao.

Beao said calmly:

“If they like to wait, let them wait. The Queen and the Prime Minister have no other instructions. Mr. Floren, please rest assured.”

Floren nodded slightly and waited with the others for the Red Dragon Duchess's carriage.

However, at this moment, the Duchess was not on the Grand Duchess's carriage.

She was disguised with His Majesty the King, preparing for a private visit to investigate the local customs of the Southern Territory.

Melantha had already been sent back to Florence by Cohen, firstly to escort the production drawings of the divine and demonic equipment "Phantom Dragon Wing Cloak", and secondly to report the matter of the demons in the Southern Territory to Yadel, especially those involving GiliVos and the "Scarlet Raiders", one of the three major pirate groups under his command in the Ceylon Kingdom's offshore waters.

Cohen and Asuna stayed in the Southern Territory, and after Asuna officially took office, they would go to the Ceylon Kingdom from here.

The factional forces within the Southern Territory were numerous, the relationships were intricate and complex, and they colluded with each other.

Cohen was really worried about Asuna taking office alone. He had to help Asuna establish her authority in the Southern Territory and completely twist the entire Southern Territory into a fist, laying the foundation for the future conquest of the Ceylon Kingdom.

Otherwise, if the Southern Territory, as the rear, becomes unstable when the war breaks out, it could easily cause irreversible consequences to the entire plan.

GiliVos temporarily went back to settle the demons who had been sent to monitor him.

Cohen's opinion was that although he could turn a blind eye to GiliVos's breeding of demons, the demons could not act recklessly within the territory of Effien.

Therefore, Cohen asked GiliVos to take the demons to the Ceylon Kingdom and harm Duke Gavin's territory.

After GiliVos returns from the Ceylon Kingdom, he will serve as a special operations commissioner of the Military Intelligence Department, assisting Asuna in handling the remaining forces of the Gunter family in the Southern Territory.

On the wide avenue, Lev Zion, the head of the Southern Territory Station of the Military Intelligence Department, a seventh-order transcendent, disguised as an ordinary coachman, was driving a luxurious carriage towards South County, the governing center of the Southern Territory.

Cohen leaned on Asuna's lap pillow, flipping through a list handed over by GiliVos before he left.

Several families on this list had secretly traded and interacted with the Gunter family over the years.

However, after the Battle of Florence, these families had quickly severed all ties, disappeared, and became very low-key.

These families were all long-established families in Effien, each of them cunning and accustomed to hedging their bets.

During the rebellion in the Southern Territory, these people did not come forward, but secretly funded the Southern Territory Grand Duke to purchase weapons and equipment. Therefore, when the Gunter family's forces were liquidated, no concrete evidence of these people's participation in the rebellion was found.

In addition, these families had more or less connections with some high-ranking officials and nobles in Florence. After some work, they all escaped the first round of liquidation of the noble forces in the Southern Territory by the Military Intelligence Department.

Cohen did not intend to let them go, especially since some of them were also supported by forces from the Ceylon Kingdom. Once these people were allowed to continue to lurk, they would be a huge hidden danger when the war with the Ceylon Kingdom officially broke out.

They must all be eradicated this time!

Cohen looked at a name on the list that GiliVos had marked in red—George Luca.

The Luca Viscounty Family has existed since the founding of Effien. They were generals who fought alongside Cohen's ancestors and were later granted the title of hereditary viscounty family, with their fiefdom in Mado County in the Southern Territory.

The Luca family mainly engages in grain trade, controlling more than half of the grain supply in the entire Southern Territory.

According to GiliVos, the Southern Territory rebels' grain was secretly supplied by the Luca family.

Some members of the Luca family even have kinship with some nobles in the Ceylon Kingdom. He suspects that the Luca family has long been hedging their bets and has had secret transactions with the Ceylon Kingdom.

Asuna also noticed Cohen's gaze at this moment, leaned over to look at the list in his hand, and asked curiously:

“Sir, I heard that many officials in Florence are from the Luca family and have connections with several ministers in the cabinet. Are we going to take action against this family?”

Cohen felt two masses of darkness rushing towards him, almost suffocating him.

He slapped Asuna's abundance unhappily, causing the latter's cheeks to flush red. She quickly covered her chest and gave Cohen a reproachful look.

Cohen said:

“Let's go see the situation first. If GiliVos's speculation is correct, then let's start with this Luca family and establish the authority of my Red Dragon Duchess!”

Just as he was speaking, the voice of Lev Zion, the head of the Southern Territory Station, came from the carriage outside:

“Your Majesty, Your Highness, we have arrived at the Luca family's territory, the town of Prilanka in Mado County. Would you like to get out and take a look?”

Cohen asked:

“Let's go take a look and find a place to eat first.”

“Okay.”

Lev drove the carriage to a relatively large restaurant. What was puzzling was that the restaurant was very deserted and had little business.

Seeing a luxurious carriage parked in front of the restaurant, many residents passing by in the town couldn't help but cast their gazes, their expressions becoming very strange.

Cohen took Asuna's hand and got out of the carriage. Asuna's stunning beauty immediately caused a small exclamation. The expressions on the passersby's faces became even stranger, even faintly revealing a trace of regret and pity.

Cohen naturally noticed the abnormal situation in the field and couldn't help but be curious. He looked up at the restaurant not far away and thought to himself, could there be something fishy here.

While he was hesitating, a passing farmer in the town approached Cohen and said softly:

“Sir, are you here to eat at this restaurant?”

Cohen's eyes narrowed slightly:

“Why, is there something wrong with this restaurant?”

The farmer lowered his voice, looked at the restaurant, and said:

“Sir, I advise you to leave here as soon as possible, otherwise your wife's appearance may easily bring you unnecessary trouble!”

Cohen immediately showed a look of interest, threw a few silver coins to the farmer, and asked:

“What's wrong? Could it be that this restaurant eats people?”

The farmer hurriedly took the silver coins, a look of surprise on his face. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and nodded seriously:

“It not only eats people, but also specializes in eating beautiful women!

Sir, you look like a good person, so don't go there. Prilanka Town has more than just this restaurant.

If you need it, I can take you to another place.”

Cohen laughed and said:

“Thank you for the timely reminder, old fellow, but my wife is very picky about food. This is the only restaurant in our town that is more formal.

Besides, I'm also very curious about how this restaurant eats people!”

Seeing that Cohen didn't listen to his advice, the farmer sighed and shook his head, muttering to himself, another self-righteous playboy.

Without a doubt, in everyone's eyes, Cohen was a young master who took his beautiful female companion out for a stroll.

Asuna probably understood what he meant and stared at the half-closed door of the restaurant, a coldness emerging in her eyes.

She asked Cohen:

“Is this a black shop?”

From the townspeople's words "specializing in eating beautiful women", it was enough for Asuna to infer many things.

Cohen smiled faintly:

“Let's go in and take a look. It could also be a rumor.”

Cohen signaled Lev not to go in first. He took Asuna and pushed open the door of the restaurant and walked in steadily.

Like the exterior, the interior decoration of the restaurant was also extremely luxurious and extravagant. It should be considered the most high-end restaurant in the entire Mado County.

But the only thing that was puzzling was that there were no guests here.

Only a bored middle-aged man was standing at the front desk.

He looked like the restaurant owner.

The owner heard a sound coming from outside the door and was obviously very surprised. He casually glanced up and couldn't move his eyes away.

Asuna's beauty was definitely a dimensionality reduction strike in this small town. The restaurant owner couldn't help but widen his eyes.

It was hard to imagine why Asuna, a beauty of this level, would appear in a small town and even walk into his restaurant.

Compared to Asuna's beauty, the handsome Cohen next to her was somewhat ignored.

This also made Cohen quite helpless. He was no worse in terms of appearance, but women had a natural advantage in this regard.

Compared to a handsome guy, most people's attention would still be attracted by a stunning beauty.

Asuna had a cold face and exuded an awe-inspiring and inviolable aura.

The owner thought to himself, this kind of woman must have a big background. Should he report it to the young master?

Soon he made a decision in his heart—who cares, no matter how noble her identity is, it has nothing to do with him. Anyway, the young master is on top to take responsibility.

If he doesn't report it, he will be responsible if the young master finds out in the future.