Chapter 252 - 205 : Return (1/2)

”Look who's finally here.”

With an axe and Ace, the sniper he got from Arthur, Jackob looked at the incoming bone dragons with a smirk on his face. His appearance changed drastically, not only was his body full of scars, he became significantly taller and more muscular, what's more, he was missing an arm.

The tall warrior greeted Arthur with a bear hug, not minding the different status between them, after all, Arthur and Lucy were the big bosses.

Anastassia also appeared with Mary and Sonia following right after her. The little sister was more energetic than before, she was cured and was healthier than ever.

”Welcome back.”

Unlike Jackob, Anastassia and the others didn't hug Arthur, but they still shook hands. Thanks to the appraisal, Arthur could see that the red-haired Anastassia surprisingly reached the Immortal Realm, she relied purely on Qi and a bit of Nether Energy that's existing on Astria.

Sonia and Mary were still at the Mortal Realm with Mary having a higher Lv, as for Jackob, his current strength startled Arthur a bit.

The weak youth from before transformed into a grown man who reached the Heavenly Realm. This was a strange occurrence as not everyone could cultivate and expect good results, especially when he does not have a good aptitude or decent talent.

However, it seems Jackob paid quite the price for his current strength, he had many scars and was missing a whole arm. Not many enemies could cause a Heavenly Realm to be this injured, at least not on Astria.

As Jackob started rambling about Ace's efficiency and his absurd power, a slender figure appeared from within the tower. The person who joined them was none other than Lissandra, who no longer had the grim look or the dazed yet slightly insane expression, she was pretty calm and composed.

The two stared at each other for some time, making the joyous atmosphere quite awkward, fortunately, the silence was soon broken when Lissandra talked

”I have tried to warn you yet you didn't want to listen… it's too late now.”

”Let's talk inside.”

Arthur didn't blame her or anything of the sort, he was the one who refused to listen to her as he suspected that she would spit lies to lead him to a dead end and waste his time. Who would have imagined Lissandra would've been able to predict the happening of the catastrophe, he would never have linked these two together. It's his over-cautiousness that resulted in this, but even if he knew it at that time, nothing would change, he would still make the same decision.

He just would have won some time to prepare more thoroughly, nothing more. Arthur teleported himself along with the others to the top of the tower, where the important meetings is usually held.

Another person was added to the party, with silver-hair and a cold face, it was none other than the ex-head maid of the imperial castle of the Demon Race, Taliya.

She decided to stay with Anastassia and the rest as she vowed to follow Arthur if he were to return her niece safe and sound to the Demon Lord.

”Now that we're gathered here, I'm all ears, you can tell me the important stuff.”

”Y-you.. You're just going to ignore me and pretend nothing happened?”

Taliya couldn't herself and lashed out at him angrily.

Arthur frowned and retorted

”What the hell are you talking about?”

”You did your part of the deal so I should do mine, how could you send me here after you've rescued Alina?! I should have stayed there and followed you, as per our agreement.”

”This is a bunch of nonsense, I didn't come back to argue with you over such a ridiculous reason, you're weak and I don't need you, if you were with me then I would have died already, end of discussion, I don't want to hear a single word about this.”

With a cold glare from Arthur, who was too preoccupied with the incoming catastrophe and didn't want to bother with Taliya and talk over such a pointless topic. The maid's face flushed with red, she didn't talk back to him but ended up storming out of the room, clearly enraged.

”You should be nicer to her, she tried her best here and helped us a lot.”