Chapter 981 - Never Cease to Exist (1/2)

“Submit to the Shadow King, or die!”

Somewhere at a vitality node, concentrated vitality surrounded the entire mountain, making it a gathering place for many demons.

A bunch of fearsome spirits and monsters of all shapes and sizes — the long-tongued, the headless… Illusory and shadow snarled as it encircled a group of small demons.

Among the trapped monsters were foxes, wolves, wild boars, rabbits, cows, sheep, and others… An array of species.

They had been fighting over the control of this part of the mountains since the humans had withdrawn.

Only today, the shadows of the evil spirits had also enshrouded them.

Now, they finally understood the reason as to why even the ever-powerful humans had given up this precious land…

Faced with these evil spirits without a way to defeat them nor escape, there was only one way left to go.

The little demons hesitated for a brief moment before the smartest ones immediately threw themselves to the ground and knelt on all fours.

“We hereby pledge our loyalty to the Shadow King, long live the Shadow King!”

“The Shadow King’s power is boundless, blessed and lives as long as heaven lasts!”

The demons behind soon followed after.

At that moment, the sounds of uproar filled the entire mountain top.

“Good, good.” Amidst the dark fog appeared a human-faced spirit, seemingly the leader of the spirits. An eerie grin flashed across its face.

“Khoff…” In the next moment, the ox demon who had been shouting the loudest violently coughed up blood!

Then, it looked at the spirits before it in blank aghast, and fell to the ground in disbelief!

“The oxhead’s dead?”

The group of little demons stared at one another incredulously, unable to believe the sight they had just witnessed.

“Do you know why I killed it?” The human-faced spirit grinned sinisterly.

“I know, it must be because the dumb ox was too loud and it disturbed the Shadow King,” a red fox spoke first.

“You’re clever, but your guess is wrong.” The human-faced spirit gave it a wee smile.

Then, just like before, the red fox too retched blood and collapsed to the ground with a “khoff”.

“Ah…” Each one of the demons was terror-stricken, they did not know what to do, and an overwhelming fear struck inside their hearts.

“The answer is there is no reason!” The human-faced spirit suddenly cackled wildly.

“As a matter of fact, we’re not the ones who started this, but we picked this up from the local human’s fine culture.” The human-faced spirit seemed to be a chatterbox as it rattled on.

“The local humans here once had a King who was troubled over why his subjects did not fear him.”

The little demons huddled together, cowering in fear as they listened to what the other was saying.

“So, one of his ministers told him that his subjects were not afraid of him because those he killed had reason to be punished; if he were to kill without reason, everyone would fear him.”

“The King felt that the other’s idea was very good, and so one day, he killed the minister who came up with the idea.”

Saying this, the human-faced spirit turned to the demons and asked, “Don’t you think that the minister’s idea was great?”

The demons glanced around, unsure of how to respond.

“No one dares to answer?” The human-faced spirit looked at them.

The demons covered their heads. None of them dared to speak.

At this moment, they had never missed the days when the humans ruled more.

Back then, even if they could not find a proper training spot, at least the humans were rational and would not slaughter them senselessly. If anything, so long as they were willing to help around with work, they might even get to enjoy some perks.

Comparing the two, it was as if one was on Earth and the other was in the sky — the difference was drastic.