Demon King – Chapter 812 – Dreams Are Also a Form of the Subconscious

‘Why isn’t she panicking at all…?’

Belonia couldn’t understand it. In this situation, what right did Eiru have to still act so indifferent?

‘Did she not care about any of this, so it didn’t matter? Impossible. Just now, her face had turned cold over that little boyfriend of hers. Even if she didn’t care about anything else, that one called Li Yuki, she definitely cared about him.’

But if it was because she had some backup plan and was resting easy, Belonia didn’t believe that either. That kind of attitude really did give off that impression, but she had been hiding inside this girl’s body, secretly observing everything she did. If there had been any preparations, they shouldn’t have escaped her notice.

Having already suffered once at Eiru’s hands before, this time Belonia not only tampered in secret, she also paid extremely close attention to the movements of this junior of hers outside.

Through her sight, hearing, smell, and other senses, she observed the outside world. It was also so she could be prepared in advance in case Eiru discovered her existence again. Yet this time, she instead felt she might have overestimated the girl.

Unlike last time when she quickly detected her presence, even though Belonia had kept a much lower profile this time, the girl really had just been slacking off outside, not doing anything at all.

Belonia had even begun seizing control of consciousness, gradually pushing her into sleep, and that loli still stayed at home playing games the entire time. Everything went so smoothly that even this Chaotic Evil Demon Lord felt it was unreal.

Back when she was young, she had been able to fight back with limited information and corner Belonia into a dead end despite being at a disadvantage. But now look at her outside, noticing something was wrong yet still slacking off like a professional slacker. Were these two really the same person? How did this kid become more useless the older she got?

Still, things going smoothly was a good thing. Belonia didn’t intend to think too much about it. The reason Eiru was so calm and indifferent was probably because she had no way to solve it, so she gave up resisting and simply lay flat.

With that thought, this utterly vile Demon Lord gave a wicked grin and suddenly yanked hard on the chain around the girl’s neck.

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The sudden force at her throat almost dragged the Little Demon Lord off the throne. But other chains were still restraining her body, and the recoil snapped her back into place. The suffocating, tearing sensation made her let out a pained whimper.

“Uncomfortable, isn’t it? But it won’t last long…”

With not a shred of mercy, the grudge-holding Belonia laughed wildly, gripping the chain and forcing her junior to feel the suffocation and the ripping pain.

“Very soon, this throne will belong to me again… Once you come down from it, you won’t have to suffer like this anymore.”

“Oh, I get it… ngh… Senior, you actually… want to sit here yourself, and get tied up by chains… huff… and play suffocation play?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord had no intention of admitting defeat. Enduring the pain, she kept that mischievous, calculating smile on her face and continued teasing the vile senior who was torturing her.

“You can still laugh?”

“After all, ngh… I’m also a Demon Lord…”

Though she said that, even if she weren’t some Demon Lord, the Little Demon Lord who had grown up with a tomboy mentality was still a very competitive child. Of course she wouldn’t let someone toy with her so easily.

‘As a macho man, what was a bit of discomfort and pain? Besides, you can’t even deal with me. The more you act like this, the more I feel like you’re getting anxious. When facing difficulties, mentality is what matters most.’

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Seeing Eiru’s sly, playful smile, Belonia felt extremely irritated. She only wanted to keep tormenting the junior before her until she couldn’t endure the pain and humiliation and finally submitted…

But just as she was thinking that, the possession magic array she had set up suddenly issued a warning. Something from outside seemed to be trying to invade Eiru’s subconscious.

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Time rewound to earlier.

Inside the game room, the four of them had just finished summarizing all the information at hand. The preliminary conclusion they reached was that everyone indeed had their own role to play.

First, using the tool definitely required a power source. Though it was just speculation, since it was a magical tool made by a Demon Lord, the power source was most likely magic power.

So where would the magic power come from?

They looked at each other, then locked their gazes onto the silver-haired girl. After all, the Demon Lord had once said that while magic power could not be retained inside a normal human body, Eiya possessed a special constitution capable of carrying magic power.

And back then, in order to stabilize Eiya’s deteriorating condition, Eiru had injected quite a bit of magic power into her. With no method of consumption, there should still be a large amount of unused magic power inside Eiya.

“Alright, power source solved. Next step is… how do we connect to Lu Brat’s dream?”

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Connecting to a dream didn’t require the target to be nearby. Yuki had personally witnessed that. The problem was that connecting to a target required a medium. For example, when the Little Demon Lord had viewed scripts before, she used Eiya and Hui Jiaqi’s hair.

But things like Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s hair or blood, anything that was part of her body, would dissipate the moment it left her. That troublesome constitution made it impossible for them to have anything from Eiru’s body to serve as a medium.

“Another dead end? What are we supposed to do?”

“It’s not a dead end. Did you forget there’s Lu Brat’s companion beast lying here in this room?”

Yuki shook his head and pointed that out. Now that their thinking had opened up, even the most far-fetched idea could become a breakthrough.

So the little creature that was fast asleep was carried over, and they directly placed the mirror on its back while continuing to figure out the next step.

As for how to extract magic power from Eiya, that was simple. Didn’t a certain hero’s pendant have the ability to draw out magic power?

Under Yuki’s instructions, Eiya grabbed one of the chains of the pendant. Sure enough, the ornament on Xixia’s pendant began to glow faintly.

“The Little Demon Lord said before that the essence of my pendant’s ability is interference with the subconscious… A dream counts as a form of the subconscious, right?”

He didn’t know how to use the mirror, but Xixia did know how to use the pendant. He placed the pendant against the mirror’s handle and gripped it lightly. Suddenly, the surface of the mirror displayed something like television static when there was no signal.

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“Uh, this magical tool is pretty modern, huh…”

Even as they complained, the group immediately felt hope. But after flickering for a while, the static vanished, as if nothing had happened.

“That’s it? It’s gone?”

“Cheap knockoff product?”

The hope that had just ignited was ruthlessly extinguished by a bucket of cold water. The four of them slumped over the table in frustration, not knowing what to do.

They had thought all their efforts were for nothing. But at that moment, something Eiru had said on the last day she tutored him before leaving suddenly resurfaced in Xixia’s mind.

“This pendant your grandpa left you is very important to you, so you have to remember… You can let other people look at it or touch it, but you absolutely, absolutely must not let anyone else wear it.”

“Otherwise…” The Little Demon Lord had bared her teeth and claws in an exaggerated gesture, “you won’t be you anymore. Rawr!”