A hanging magic light curtain tightly wrapped the Four Seasons Pavilion and separated the inside and outside of the pavilion into two worlds. The silence inside had lasted for three days, and Hermini Isabante was also there.
She sat outside for three whole days. The fragrance of flowers floating leisurely around her did not relieve her mood as usual, but it seemed to make the passage of time slower.
The bright sun and the starry sky are constantly alternating overhead. These completely different light sources spread their own brilliance, illuminating everyone's subtle state of mind, making the hopes and worries hidden under the calmness come to light.
In the Four Seasons Pavilion, Cohen Keda was thinking hard about himself, but judging from his age and experience, the final answer, no matter what it was, seemed very distant and elusive. But in this matter, not only
Hermini couldn't help him, and even the Dark Lord couldn't help him. Both sides felt the same pain - as painful as Cohen's thinking process was, how painful it was for others to wait.
If in the eyes of gods and demons, the previous Cohen was just a toy or an experiment, just a dispensable pet used to relieve boredom, then now he has embedded the meaning of his existence into the entire world, whether it is
Whether it is the humble body crouching in the mud, or the profound gaze gazing at all things from the clouds, or even the highest rules that maintain the operation of the world, Cohen's existence can no longer be ignored... This is partly his own fault, because he has become an outstanding person.
of human beings.
On the other hand, it was the world that needed to "evolve" that chose him. Although from a higher perspective, Cohen, a human being, was not outstanding enough, opportunities like this usually hit some people almost violently.
, which makes no sense.
But the most ridiculous thing is here. Such a key position of righteousness is actually occupied by a small human being! You must know that in the eyes of gods and demons, and even in the eyes of other creatures, humans usually do not have too many choices, so the survival of the world is determined.
This kind of thing generally has no part in human beings. If this situation were known to those who are eager to devour Cohen, their jaws would probably be broken!
Who could have imagined that the gods and demons would finally solve such a difficult problem? Maybe even they themselves did not have such an idea at first! If they had enough experience in those days when they watched Cohen struggle to survive and play with the world,
Insight found that if Cohen has this function, then they should also be capable enough to solve this problem independently.
After all, the gods and demons asked Cohen to do this just to have a chance to solve their problem, just a chance!
Doing difficult things with insufficient strength has become a lingering nightmare in Cohen's life. If things were not done well in the past, it was just a physical pain, and at most it would cost his own life.
And if this thing jointly entrusted by gods and demons can't be handled well - although the end of the world may be just a gimmick, Cohen's life will definitely be over.
Is Cohen able to refuse the request of the gods and demons? No, there is no possibility at all! No rational person will waste time on this issue. So, what will he be thinking about in the Four Seasons Pavilion now?
In fact, no one knows.
Another three days passed, and Hermini Isabant was sitting outside the pavilion. This long time was enough for her to have some questions. Maybe it was because of certain things, or maybe because of certain people, so her posture had changed.
It didn't look so demure. But the thin magic barrier remained the same, and Cohen inside showed no signs of wanting to leave. It was obvious that he had not thought clearly about the Dark Lord's suggestion.
Then, there were three more rounds of sunlight and starlight alternating. Looking at the rising sun, Emine was sitting outside the pavilion, and there was even a hint of haze on her face. Nine days, a full nine days, Sibi Does the sub-emperor want to live in it for the rest of his life?
In the oppressive silence, slight magic fluctuations came from the corner of the magic barrier, just like a pebble dropped into stagnant water, causing slight ripples - the human inside who had been silent for nine days finally touched the barrier and expressed his desire. The will to break out of the cocoon.
The clear smile slowly returned to Hermine's face, and her eyes were swirling, moving towards that corner. Next, when she stretched out her hand to lift the barrier, she would show a perfect Hermini in front of Cohen. , regardless of posture or expression, it will carry the most irresistible charm, just like the first bloom of a flower - giving the viewer a huge shock and touch.
But the human inside, that is, Cohen, he bumped out at an inappropriate time. Yes, he did it with force. He didn't care about the next somersault, and he didn't know that he somersaulted into love. In the gap between Minnie's two expressions...
When the two faced each other, a certain area around the corner of the new princess's mouth had not had time to be tinged by a smile.
With her fair face, delicate facial features, and half-withered "smile", does this constitute a reason to silence her?
The corners of Emine's eyes twitched slightly, and her quiet gaze seemed to be compressed into a magic cyclone by her, hitting Cohen's face one after another! But the latter seemed to have just woken up from sleep, and she could use it to scrape bones and remove poison. His eyes were completely unconscious, and he only looked at her blankly, which inadvertently aggravated Lady Emine's dissatisfaction.
According to past habits, next, Cohen should probably use a long whistle to celebrate her making a fool of herself?
"Lord Hermine, I suggest you find someone." Cohen broke the silence with these words: "Fall in love two or three times."
Since the time of the First Demon General, Emine has become immune to Cohen's crazy words, so after Cohen spoke, she promptly put away the sharpness in her eyes, stabilized her mood, and just treated it as a misunderstanding: " How does His Highness Cohen know that I have never been in love? And two or three times?"
"These are not the important points." Cohen stood up straight, with a not-so-cautious look on his face: "The important point is that you can take supplements in the name of love. I heard that certain royal families of the demon genus have the effect of nourishing the skin."
"Such a trivial matter is not worth discussing at all." Emine shook her head: "His Royal Highness Cohen has been thinking about it in the pavilion for nine days. What is His Highness's true feeling? Can you tell me?"
"Real insights? Yes, yes!" Cohen obviously recalled something: "Even the food used by the dark demons to entertain guests will go bad after nine days..."
When Cohen was slick, he was often the one who was spreading suspicion. Her Highness Hermine knew this very well, so she leisurely flicked a petal off her skirt and said calmly: "Your Highness Cohen said this, let me I can't find a valid reason to conclude this matter. Otherwise, I will ask the maids to prepare food that will not spoil for a long time, and His Highness will continue in the pavilion?"
"Although there are four seasons in this pavilion, it is far from being able to stimulate my thoughts. I say this, Lady Hermine should understand!" Cohen shook his head: "Frankly speaking, what the God King and the Demon King want me to do, I Of course, I can only do it. As for how far it can be achieved, it is not up to me alone. Moreover, the hippie smile can build an empire, but can it form an alliance? My past way of doing things seems to be of little help to this alliance. "
"That's not what I care about. Your Highness should tell you how you feel about the King's decision." Emine was not obsessed with the details that Cohen said: "After all, Your Highness is going to form a new alliance, and I want to know what's in your heart.
General idea.”
"This is because my thoughts are definitely different from what you have seen, sir, and they are definitely not in line with your habits. Therefore, intentionally or unintentionally, you must correct me in order to achieve your goals."
Until the thinking becomes inertia." Cohen smiled: "If things develop like that, the Dark Lord's original intention of asking me to form an alliance will not be achieved."
"Although this possibility exists, I still want to ask His Highness some questions." Emine pondered for a moment, and then said seriously: "One of the prerequisites for forming an alliance is to form a faith different from gods and demons. His Highness Cohen has this
Are you confident?"
"Since you asked, sir, of course I will answer truthfully." Cohen sat down opposite Hermini: "Although faith is scary to say, I am a reckless person. In my opinion, this is nothing more than
...The simplest and most common spiritual magic. Countless such magics are cast and become beliefs. Of course, it is very dangerous to change beliefs rashly. Fortunately, some people in this world do not have very strong beliefs.
Solid.”
"It is indeed a crude idea. What are you going to call it in the name of it?"
"How about the name True God?" Cohen smiled like a philistine businessman: "Easy to understand, very impressive!"
Emine did not make any comment on Cohen's words, but continued her question: "The second prerequisite for forming an alliance is to divide the territory and change the current direct jurisdiction into indirect jurisdiction. What are you going to do?"
"This is more troublesome, especially in some details." Hearing Amy say this, Cohen frowned: "Land, resources, race, in the final analysis are the distribution of interests. If it doesn't work, let's just talk about merit.
Reward it! Everyone will be happy in the end for this kind of thing, and the only person who will be sad is me, after all, they are all things that were given away from me."
"His Royal Highness Cohen is very open-minded, but compared to faith, giving away something is nothing." Emine asked again: "The third prerequisite for forming an alliance is to have enough realistic cohesion and development prospects. What do you want to promise?
What can constitute this condition? Why will your people obey you? Why do they crouch at your feet and are willing to be driven by you?"
"The path of kindness is to walk alone, and it will be doubted and slandered by others. What's more, due to time constraints, I don't have time to be kind to everyone, so I choose fear. Only fear has the most powerful contagion!" Cohen
His tone was calm and could almost be described as cold: "Fear, fear of the enemy, fear of themselves, if they feel these, they will gather under the banner of this faith and alliance."
"As His Highness just said, this does not meet my standards, but it is possible, so I cannot confirm or deny His Highness's idea." Emine was silent for a while, and then said to Cohen: "
Fortunately, the king has decided to give His Highness great freedom of choice. I can only wish His Highness success, or, in my personal capacity, remind Your Highness to act with caution."
"Human beings always have shortcomings of one kind or another. You don't need to care about it. You just need to understand that I am serious. I am Cohen, and this is Cohen's style of doing things." Cohen obviously saw Emine's displeasure: "I don't know why the Dark Lord's thoughts were stimulated after this alliance was established. Maybe the Dark Lord's view of the world is really different from mine... I don't even want to find out, but it's not that I don't Dare, just like your current attitude, sir."
"Perhaps in His Highness's view, this is already a well-thought-out result, but I still feel that it is rash." Emine said softly, "Your Highness, you only have one chance."
"So I will be very busy next time." Cohen stood up: "I hope no one will interfere with me."
"When Your Highness does this, there won't be much interference. But Your Highness needs to know that the gods and demons are also involved in this matter, so it is important to maintain good communication with the gods and demons on certain matters."
"It's best not to send people to follow me. If you want to know anything, please ask it yourself." Cohen said softly: "Time is tight, and there is no time to consider the details. I will let you know what requirements or conditions I think of later... I will silently read your request in my heart. Just a name, right?"
"It has to be chanted in a certain way. If the distance is far, it has to be repeated many times, so that I can detect your magic fluctuations." Emine thought about it and suddenly smiled: "That's fine, since His Highness has decided Yes, let’s do it like this!”
"It's rare for an adult to understand justice." Cohen nodded: "There are many things to come, I think I should leave."
"The King has no other wishes, so I will send His Highness out." Emine stood up and said, "Please go this way."
While walking to the courtyard next door, Emine told Cohen the method of chanting the true name of the demons. The whole set was taught, which was much more complicated than ordinary magic. Fortunately, Cohen had solid basic skills and could already use several simple contacts. The remaining methods are not that they are impossible to master, but that Cohen does not have enough magic power. Unless his magic power reaches the level of a magician, he cannot use it. However, from now on, this set of magic will serve as a confidential line between Cohen and the Demon King and the eldest princess. After confirming After Cohen remembered it, Hermini opened the teleportation magic circle for Cohen, and the dazzling light flashed. In an instant, Cohen left the secret island of the Dark Lord.
It was troublesome when Cohen arrived, but it was easy to leave, even a little deserted.
Emine stood quietly outside the magic circle, watching the colorful lines gradually dimming. She didn't know what she was thinking. After a while, she raised her head and turned around and walked back to the palace. When she turned around the corridor, Emine saw the darkness. The Demon King. The Demon King stood in the corner of the corridor, rarely seen with his hands behind his back, looking at the place where Cohen left with calm eyes.
"Your Majesty." Emine walked to the Devil King's side and told what happened after Cohen left the pavilion: "Cohen went to Bis."
"Nine days. Although this time is only a moment to us, it is considered sufficient for a human being who is thinking about problems." The Demon King did not comment on Emine's response, but opened another topic: "Although I don’t know what he was thinking about, but the bad news is that he didn’t consider gods and demons.”
"How does the king know that Cohen did not consider gods and demons?" Hermine asked.
"I told him a unique name. This name will be combined with the 'Devil King' in his consciousness. Not only when he thinks of this name, but even when he thinks of 'Devil King', it will trigger a very low-energy magic power.
The fluctuations can be detected by me as long as the distance is right." The Dark Lord smiled faintly: "But in these nine days, he did not think of my name, not once, not even the nickname 'Devil King'. Su
What does Kemusa Isabant want to do to me? What does the devil mean by this? What is the idea of the gods and demons—aren't these thoughts the first thing that should have come to Korn Keda's mind?"
"He... isn't he sleeping in there?"
Emine was slightly surprised. Although it was not easy to get the answer, Cohen did not think about the Devil once in nine days. This should not be a normal behavior.
"Speaking of which, it doesn't really matter what he thought during these nine days, as long as he obeyed his orders. However, these details always reveal something strange." The Demon King shook his head: "Let's go to the pavilion and take a look.
"
Walking to the Four Seasons Pavilion, Emine waved away the magic barrier. When the hanging light curtain disappeared into the air, the Four Seasons Pavilion was revealed. Looking through the not narrow entrance, the situation inside seemed to have changed.
None, except that the delicacies and wines from nine days ago were piled in a corner of the pavilion, and the large tabletop was empty.
Standing outside the pavilion, Emine clearly noticed that there was a strange magic wave passing over her, like ripples on the water's surface. Although it was slight, and although it was impossible to tell what kind of magic attribute it was, it still left a "rippling" feeling.
In her own consciousness. No, the rippling is just the most direct feeling. There are some residual consciousnesses in this fluctuation, but she cannot clearly distinguish it!
Standing side by side with Emine, the Demon King's calm expression finally changed.
For the first time, there was a hint of anxiety between his brows. In Emine's memory, even if the world was about to end, the Dark Lord rarely had such a human expression. Anxiety was because things were out of control.
Are there any signs?
"This is..." Emine rushed into the pavilion in a few steps, closed her eyes, spread her consciousness, and started searching carefully.
The Demon King strolled into the Four Seasons Pavilion, and the anxiety between his brows had long since dissipated.
"Your Majesty, this kind of fluctuation is very weak and scattered, and it is spread all over the pavilion." Emine said softly: "The properties are not yet certain, but the way of using it is very strange, and it is not a known method of using magic."
"This is probably a new method he learned in nine days." The Demon King's gaze swept across the table and pillars: "Did you see those traces?"
"Water marks?" Emine then noticed that on the tabletop where the tablecloth had been lifted, there were light red or almost transparent lines of water marks. Judging from the shape, it looked like they were drawn with fingers: "This is...
…Wine juice?”
"It's wine juice, but wine juice is not the key. This should be words, or a symbol." The Demon King said: "The magic wave is spread out from these symbols. Obviously, Cohen was inspired by my name.
, to create this magical method that is different from the past.”
"If it is a symbol, it is just like the lines of the magic circle. It also has the function of accumulating magic power. It seems that it is really in the stage of accumulating magic power." Amy looked at those square "symbols" or "texts" and her brows became tangled.
He said: "But these... are too weird. Human beings don't have any symbols or words similar to them."
"It doesn't matter, this is not something destructive, it's more like graffiti." The Demon King looked at it from a different angle: "Look carefully, these symbols should actually be very beautiful to draw, but he made them so ugly.
, but it’s not easy.”
"Isn't this the key?" Emine's expression was obviously dumbfounded: "This is a brand new way of magic."
"Anyone who can create new magic methods will not be a fool, and we know that Cohen is a human who doesn't like to use magic very much." The Demon King smiled faintly: "This may be just the way he thinks. Since there are new ways
When something appears, it means that his thinking is close to maturity - you see, he starts writing on the pillar and finally writes on the table. If you pay attention enough, you can see his thinking process from it.
"
Emine observed as she was told, and sure enough, the first section of the symbol had no magic at all, and was very messy, with even large areas of smear marks. It was not until later that the situation stabilized slightly, but there were still some forced interruptions.
, only the last section of the desktop has not been altered, and it continues smoothly... From these traces, it can be imagined that Cohen should be in an unspeakable anxiety and confusion at that time, and then gradually calmed down, with occasional interruptions in the middle.
Entering a dead end, the mood only recovers in the end.
"Are you really not worried about these things?" Emine said softly: "After all, we are letting him form a new alliance and belief."
"Don't worry, if I was still a little unsure before, then after the meeting, I think Cohen meets our requirements, and we will not do anything that we are not sure about." The Demon King withdrew his gaze: "This should be taken away.
The news was sent to the God King to let him know that we were right to choose Cohen to do this. This human being will make us full of expectations. This Four Seasons Pavilion will be classified as a forbidden area from now on."
"The king's wish will definitely come true." Emine bowed her head and promised: "I will do it immediately." (To be continued)