Lord Xu Mo, I'm sorry to delay you for so long. According to the results of the emergency meeting of the upper level to discuss, your candidate identity has been privately recognized by the five major forces and has entered the second stage of the assessment. ↖ Top↖ Point↖ Small↖ said,

Sorry, allow me to interrupt, what does the so-called private admitting mean?

As the name suggests, the five major forces in the Demon World recognize that you are the next candidate for the Demon King, but they will not make public statements. At most, they will secretly give you some care to the current forces, such as policy advancement rights and tariff reductions, etc. At the same time, the channels to clear the relationship will be more convenient. They made a bribe gesture without any hesitation. The expression on the fox elder's face remained unchanged, and he gave a truthful example: For example, if the tourist amusement park you plan to build recently will take nearly half a year to review it alone. If the environmental assessment and fire insurance inspection are added, it is common for me to be forced to stop work during the construction.

I think you seem to be shooting something, but it is probably my illusion? I remember a while ago, there was a similar building case that was causing a lot of controversy. I remember it seemed that it was a giant dome or a shopping mall. I learned from my friends around me that the evaluation process that took several months to run down seemed to have only taken one day to finish it.

Despair! I am completely desperate about this society that is full of corruption everywhere!

Out of the fact that I was a civilian insider, staring at the fox elder who was talking, I slapped him with expressionless gestures.

Lord Xu Mo?! Since the force I used was not very strong, the elder of the fox clan did not feel pain. Compared to being slapped for no reason, he was even more surprised at why I had this sudden move.

Sorry, my fault. I made a face-wiping action myself. I sighed deeply: I used to be a down-and-out nobleman, but I suffered a great loss when I didn’t clear the pipes. If it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t have been displaced and become a bard. Topics like this may have become a similar existence to spiritual trauma. In short, I am very sorry for the rude behavior just now.

It turns out that there is such a reason. I have not investigated it in advance. I have easily exposed the embarrassing situation just now in one sentence. The elder of the fox clan also understood that it was not suitable to continue in depth in this regard, and then turned the theme back to the final discussion results of the five major forces, and reposted: Return to the topic, although your identity has been recognized at present, if you want to truly succeed to the throne and become the new demon king, you must first get the symbol of the demon king's status, that is, the demon king's sickle, which is missing at this stage. Does Lord Xu Mo still remember the fragments of the beads you hold? In fact, the blue bead is a navigation device. After collecting all the fragments, it will guide you to the place where the demon king's sickle is.

So what I should do is visit various forces to collect fragments through the test of their leaders. Then take the map to search for treasure? The artificial AI of the former Demon King had already told me about these contents, but what puzzled me was another point: Speaking of which, since the five major forces in the Demon World all know that the ball fragments are treasure maps, why didn’t they think about simply gathering into an army and finding the sickle before the new Demon King candidate appears?

Because this is the assessment of the next successor by Lord Demon King. For what I am concerned about, the elder of the Fox Clan took it for granted: before the third Demon King appeared, the forces in the Demon Realm were in a very chaotic state, and although the five major forces were not incompatible, there were constant frictions between the big and small. It should be said that if the third Demon King had not been in the middle and helped him, the Demon Realm would never be able to achieve true unification.

No. It is said that it is the third one. Did the two demon kings in front of them not unify the demon world? I couldn't help but ask again when I heard the subtle meaning hidden in my words.

Formal unity and substantial unity are completely different situations. The elder of the fox clan said concisely: It was a common thing to make a small trip or to disobey the silence at that time. Compared with the chaos during the tenure of the first and second devils and the wise governance of the third devil, the gap between the two cannot be described in words only.

When calling the first two demon kings, they call them the title directly, but the third one added the respect predicate of the master afterwards. This shows that the difference in respect is indeed like clouds.

It is not just about using force to suppress, but must obtain the recognition of the power from a more fundamental place so that they can sincerely assist the new king. Out of this kind of thinking, the third Demon King left a inheritance ceremony for the candidates to collect fragments from all over the demon world before disappearing.

OK, please forgive me for always having so many problems. But what if someone directly appears after taking the Demon King's Scythe one day?

Don't you understand? At the moment when the inheritance ceremony was confirmed, the symbolic nature of the Demon King's sickle was no longer the highest position. Speaking of which, if it were not for the last part of the inheritance process designated by the third Demon King, the Demon King's sickle had to be retrieved. Otherwise, as long as the fragments were collected, the heir could directly ascend to the new Demon King. He let out a strong breath from his nostrils. The fox elder's plain tone seemed to be mixed with some complicated emotions: Destiny chose who has the potential of the Demon King, but whether he has the power to be a king is not determined by those unattainable vague existences.

I opened my mouth like a goldfish. What should I count as this now? The rising sense of democracy in another world?

Young Demon King candidate, this is the first and last time I used this tone to talk to you. I removed the etiquette limited to formality. The elder of the Fox Clan looked at me with the eyes that seemed turbid but full of wisdom, and said word by word: Are you ready to carry the entire demon to move forward?

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Please give me a children's ticket.

After paying for the visit, Shimafeng easily entered the exhibition room with a huge display of the skeleton of the dragon head. In order not to deliberately attract others' attention, she even deliberately chose the most crowded time to come in. Although the number of visitors will affect the quality of the exhibition, since we only came to check in today, this part of the obstacle will not cause too much trouble.

Mixed in the crowd and moved together, Shimafeng quickly approached the exhibition area where the dragon head skeleton was placed. However, before she could stop and observe carefully, her intuition as an intelligence officer made her feel an unnatural vision.

Being targeted?

Before Shiroshima took the next move, this question became a fact. The other party seemed to have no intention of hiding his whereabouts from the beginning. Accompanied by two skeletons dressed in black sunglasses, a petite flower elf walked from the other end of the exhibition room. At the same time, the aura exuded by her body also made the nearby people watching the exhibition subconsciously give up a way, and walked straight to Shiroshima like Moses dividing the Red Sea.

It is flush with the island wind's vision, Beatrice uses not an inquiry but an order: Come with me.

ps: Thanks to Hong Yaosheng for his support and ytefyge's evaluation tickets.

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Chapter completed!