Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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Moreover, paladins are all men who cannot tolerate injustice. If Eric were truly a morally corrupt and evil man, it would be impossible for Paladin Elinuval I and the others to have traveled the world with him.

Chu Shixin listened silently to Tankred's story, offering no comment.

With thousands of years of history in China from her previous life as her knowledge base, she can see through this as easily as reading the lines on the palm of her hand.

Now that things have progressed to that point, whether Eric was innocent or not is completely irrelevant.

Importantly, as a court mage and founding earl, your achievements are so great that they threaten the emperor; your suggestions have seriously offended the crown prince; now the country is in turmoil because of the snake people, and you still have a demon concubine who is half human and half snake; coincidentally, at this time, the king you serve was attacked and killed by the snake people; and then this crown prince ascended the throne.

Are you going to die or not?

So, you see…

The female demon's voice seemed to be talking to herself, yet also to Tancred, "Whether you rebel or flee, you have to make a decision as soon as possible... If you're too late, it will be too late."

Tancred trembled upon hearing this, and his sweat-drenched head shrugged even lower.

Chapter 6 Everyone has their own agenda

Tancred said cautiously, “But Eric van Boto neither rebelled nor fled. He was loyal and a role model in the eyes of your lowly servant.”

To prove his innocence, this legendary demon slayer imprisoned Diraz, the concubine of Chu Shixin's predecessor, the six-armed snake demon, and then surrendered to the soldiers who came to arrest him.

The reborn six-armed serpent demon inwardly curled his lip.

It wasn't just because of Eric's life, but also because of Tankred's mouth.

As expected, Elinuvar II did not give Eric a chance to go to court to clear his name. He tortured Eric to death, stripped Eric of his title as Founding Earl, confiscated all his property, and expelled the Boto family from the country.

This enraged the other three founding earls.

They had all been close allies of Elinouar I and Eric, and together they refused to acknowledge the order.

Elnuwal II immediately declared them rebels, sent troops to punish the disobedient, and even brought in the army of the Zultan snake people as an ally.

The Sanraci civil war, which was both brutal and unprecedented, broke out.

In an instant, farmland was reduced to ashes in the flames of war, and ports were ravaged and burned. Snake-men seized the opportunity to infiltrate the west coast, and monsters roamed everywhere. Indigenous tribes also declared independence one after another.

The founding earls were defeated and could only lead the unwilling Sanrachi people to gather ships and set sail, hoping to seek refuge on the legendary, peaceful, and magical island of Nimbro. However, the refugee fleet encountered a storm not long after setting sail.

Just as they were about to be annihilated, a group of knights riding winged horses appeared above the wreckage of the fleet and ordered them to turn back. They had encountered the Flying Hunting Legion of Nimbro. The legion's commander was Archmage Samar, one of the twelve lords of Nimbro. After hearing the shipwreck survivors' pleas, Samar took pity on them and promised to personally lead the refugees back to the Chultan Peninsula.

And so, the survivors followed Lord Samar's Pegasus Legion back to their homeland.

The first thing Archmage Samar did upon arriving in Sanrachi was to use magic to cover the mountain passes and roads around the country with a veil of illusion, cutting off both inside and outside the country and implementing a closed-off island policy. This allowed Sanrachi to break away from the chaotic Sindor and become independent. He then began to work on eliminating the snake-people army and identifying snake-people infiltrators among the people.

Elinuvar II lost his serpent-like allies and was soundly defeated by the returning Counts of Sanraci. Beset by enemies, the king was forced to flee overnight with his family and confidants, taking money from the treasury with him.

Elinuwar II chose to flee north through the Narubel Pass, which had been abandoned for centuries. This treacherous path, located in the middle of the northern foothills of the Sanlach Mountains, leads to the pirate port to the north.

However, the group disappeared in the mountains, and no one ever saw Elinuwar II again.

“You said,”

The reborn interrupted Tancred, "Eric van Boto's secret magic laboratory, which is right here, is the highest peak in the middle section of the northern foothills of the Sanrachi Mountains, north of Samarachi?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"You also said that the Narubel Pass is located in the middle section of the northern foothills of the Sanlachi Mountains. How far is that place from us?"

“If you walk east from this mountain peak to its foot, you will reach the Narubel Pass. The supreme master.”

"What about the pirate port in the north? What kind of place is that?"

"The Pirate Port, also known as Narubel, is a port city-state with a history of 1,400 years."

Tancred explained, “It is located on the north side of the Zultan Peninsula, adjacent to the Radiant Sea. Narubel was originally established by Eastern immigrants, but after the Year of the Hound, the Snake People became the rulers of Narubel. They allowed pirates from the Radiant Sea to settle in Narubel, repairing their ships and selling their stolen goods. The pirates also paid protection money to the Snake People.”

The Narubel Pass got its name from the path that led across the Sanlachi Mountains to the pirate port of Narubel. Heading north from the Narubel Pass, it would have taken only a few days to reach the pirate port along the main road. However, that route is now impassable.

To defend against the city-states of the Chultan Peninsula from their anti-piracy campaign, the Snake People, in alliance with the Chiropterans, blocked all land routes leading to the pirate port.

The reborn secretly memorized the information about Narubel.

She never trusted Tancred.

Don't be fooled by how docile this "silver fox" is in front of her now, like a puppy. In reality, everything he says and does is just to get back to the Samarachian court alive.

All members of the Boto family are dead.

Tancred married his daughter to the dead Herbert van Boto, thus legitimizing her inheritance of the Boto family name.

If he can return to the Samarachian court alive, he will be the biggest winner.

The reborn person bet his snake tail that if he could really get her killed, he would lie without batting an eye.

Tancred once said while begging for mercy that he could help her inherit the Boto family as a demon concubine.

She didn't take it to heart at the time.

This guy's suggestion was clearly ill-intentioned; he probably thinks demons are arrogant fools who look down on humans and are ignorant of human politics. After all, demons believe in the survival of the fittest and disdain and have no patience for such underhanded tactics.

But he underestimated her.

A six-armed snake demon runs to a foolish human kingdom, whose greatest enemy was once the snake people, and demands to inherit a title.

What a joke.

What is the basis for making this request? Is it her status as a high-ranking demon, or her half-human, half-snake appearance that resembles a snake-man?

The Reborn One's one-sided slaughter of the guards and her swift killing of the Mage Ur greatly shocked Tancred, exaggerating her power in his mind and preventing him from having any delusions.

But my family knows their own affairs.

The truth is, she was very weak at that time.

In its prime, the six-armed serpent demon possesses not only the Eye of Truth and the ability to summon demons once a day, but also eight signature spells that it can freely cast. These are: Faction Weapon, Blade Barrier, Magic Weapon, Projection, Invisibility Detection, Telekinesis, Greater Teleportation, and Unholy Aura.

The combined use of these ten types of magical abilities represents the pinnacle of battlefield strategy and slaughter.

Factional weapons and magical weapons can maximize the destructive power of the six-armed serpent demon's six-handed weapons.

The Unholy Aura grants comprehensive enhancements to defense, immunity to various status effects, spell resistance, and immunity to spells that affect the mind and possession. It also deals counter-damage to the attacker's Strength attribute. If the first two enhancement weapons are spears, then the Unholy Aura is the Six-Armed Serpent Demon's most solid shield.

The Eye of Truth and the ability to detect invisibility allow the six-armed serpent demon to detect traps and lock onto enemies at lightning speed.

Advanced teleportation grants the six-armed serpent demon unparalleled battlefield mobility.

Projection is used to deceive the enemy's judgment and expand one's own observation range and spell-like abilities.

By employing telekinesis and blade-based defenses, the ability to divide and disrupt enemy formations is sufficient to evolve a kaleidoscope of complex and ever-changing tactics, making it a highly convenient and flexible means of battlefield control to cope with various situations.

If all else fails, you can use the summon demon once a day to call for reinforcements.

These ten types of magical abilities are far less varied and unpredictable than the arcane spells of wizards, but they have the advantage of working together perfectly, forming a complete system, and can be used at will without worrying about running out of magic.

Moreover, the six-armed serpent demon is naturally drawn to magic, possessing an exceptional talent for recognizing spells and using magical items. With the aid of various wands and scrolls, it is capable of fulfilling the role of a wizard or priest.

This is the source of the Six-Armed Serpent Demon's confidence in being called the Demon Battlefield Commander and Strategist.

The reborn one was confident that if this demonic body were in its prime, even if the enemy was powerful and she couldn't defeat them, she could simply use a high-level teleportation spell to flick her tail and leave.

However, the only spell-like abilities she can currently use at will are demonized weapons and faction-based weapons.

As for the mind control technique that has already been used twice and the blade barrier that has been used once, they can't be used now. It will probably take at least an hour to recover.

She couldn't cast any of the remaining five types of magical abilities.

This demonic body has been separated from the abyss for too long and imprisoned in the material world for over a thousand years, its demonic power has been constantly depleted. Its inner demonic core is riddled with cracks and teeters on the brink of collapse. It needs a large number of souls to rebuild the circulation of demonic power within its body.

Even though he has absorbed about ten souls, it's like finding a sip of water when you're about to die of thirst, barely keeping him alive.

Demons are supposed to be fearless and ruthless.

This is due to the extraordinary and immortal nature of demons. According to the knowledge remaining in the demon Diraz's brain, once a demon is destroyed in the prime material plane, it will automatically be reborn in its home, the Abyss.

However, the situation of reborn individuals is unique.

If she were killed in the material world now, who knows who the demon would be reborn in the abyss? Chu Shixin, or the demon Diraz? Could she still be herself, or would she be replaced by a new alien soul once again?

She didn't dare to gamble.

Worse still, if they encounter an enemy they cannot handle, even being killed may be a pipe dream.

Just look at the attitude of the mage Ur towards her, and then look at the demon slayer Eric who imprisoned her original form, and you'll know how much high-level human spellcasters covet a weak demon.

The Supreme Shadow King of Samarach is a great sorcerer who casts illusions to conceal the entire kingdom in order to hunt down the snake people!

Weakness is the original sin.

The reborn one thought silently.

She must become stronger, at least to restore her demonic body to its full strength, in order to have the ability to protect herself in the face of high-level spellcasters.

However, becoming stronger requires not only time but also space.

There's a Chinese idiom from my past life on Earth: "A cunning rabbit has three burrows." A wicked pirate port ruled by snake people seems like the perfect place for such a burrow. This kind of place, where all sorts of people mingle, is not only suitable for a demon to hide his tracks, but it's also full of sinful souls who can be converted into demonic power.

She glanced sideways at the submissive Tankred, and in her heart she could almost hear the mocking laughter of demons.

“Regarding what happened to Samarach,” she said coldly, “go on, in more detail.”

He added, "I'm interested in your suggestion regarding inheriting the title."

Tankred clearly failed to hear the cold laughter in his master's heart.

His tone became more submissive: "Supreme Master, it wasn't until decades later that concrete rumors emerged regarding the fate of Elinovar II..."

It is said that the king's trusted advisors were unwilling to flee with their lord, so they bribed the king's personal guards. When the group reached the Narubel Pass, they took advantage of the king leaving his guards to go into the woods to relieve himself, and successfully assassinated him.

When Elinuwar II died, he still had excrement in his ass and his pants were not even pulled up.

After the regicide, his trusted advisors ordered the guards to turn back to Sanrachi and surrender to Samar and the founding counts.

But while his trusted advisors and personal guards wanted to return, the guardsmen did not. Unlike those far removed from the battlefield, they had killed countless people in the civil war, their hands stained with blood, and they had long since forged a blood feud with the enemy. To go back and surrender would be tantamount to suicide.

The back-and-forth nearly escalated into a full-blown shootout.

Ultimately, both sides compromised, and everyone reached an agreement: first, the funds brought by Elnuwal II for the restoration of the kingdom would be divided, and then everyone would go their separate ways.

So they pried open the boxes in the car and found they were full of priceless jewels and gold.

The situation quickly spiraled out of control.

People began to kill each other over this enormous fortune.

After the battle, everyone died, including the king's three wives and seven underage children.

The Mandeb Dynasty, which was established by five people through hardship and overcoming numerous obstacles, ended in such an dishonorable way in an unknown mountain forest.

When the Year of the Snakes passed, peace returned to the ravaged Sanlaci.

The founding counts knelt before Samar, kissed the tips of his shoes, and swore allegiance to him. Samar peacefully accepted them, restored Eric van Boto's honor, and personally presided over the ceremony for Eric's son to inherit the title.

The jubilant crowd hailed Samar as king.

Sanrachi transformed into the mystical, phantom kingdom of Samarachi—on the day of Samar's coronation in Nimbro, the kingdom was renamed after him and considered itself a vassal state of Nimbro.

The reality is not far off.

For the centuries that followed, the throne of Samarach, known as the "Supreme Illusion," changed hands among the twelve magical lords of Nimbro. He was more like a provincial governor than a king.

The reborn listened with great interest, her brain working rapidly to record and analyze the information, extracting any useful insights.

Just then, a piercing scream came from the circular basement behind them, which was filled with blood and corpses.

Chapter 7 Steel Sky

The screams were coming from the crack in the brass door to the basement; they were extremely piercing.

These are screams that only humans make when they are in extreme terror. But the only humans left in the circular basement are the soldiers who have bled to death.

But the scream was loud and shrill, unlike anything a dying person could make.

The reborn turned around upon hearing the sound.

She felt a mixture of curiosity and nostalgia. The scream instantly reminded her of the rented house she had lived in in her past life. The old electric kettle left behind by the landlord always made a similar sound every time it boiled water.

The hands that had been protecting the magnificent sunlight were released.

Six greatswords reappeared in her hands.

Tankred, standing to the side, paid no attention to the magnificent sight of the frost-covered snow. He backed away, picked up a short sword from the ground, and cautiously stared at the basement door.

Through the crack in the door, Tancred saw a strange, elongated shadow swaying on the stone wall in the basement, where the light flickered.

He looked more closely and confirmed that it was a large, bipedal creature carrying a limp, helpless human body. That body was likely the severely wounded soldier who had been screaming in agony.