Chapter 132 - The Seed Of The Demon Lord (1/2)

Translator: Wawaa

Editor: WilsonWilson

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The second banquet Nicholas prepared for Lara began at midnight. The venue was a theater in Dandelion and the guests were very few nobles amicable to the East.

As soon as Lara received the invitation, she informed Acerus of the matter. Then, she overpowered Valac who had initially refused to attend, and dressed him in a fancy coat.

“Why should I go to a banquet with a saintess?”

“To drive a wedge.”

“Between whom?”

“Nicholas and Paimon.”

Valac looked at Lara with his mouth open.

Lying and causing hostility were a demon’s specialties. Throughout their lives, they always had lies in their mouths. It was their hobby to mock and annihilate humans with deception, it’s what they do best.

“A human is going to play a trick on a demon? It’ll be a relief if you don’t get caught lying and arrested.”

“You don’t know how good I am at lying…”

After trying to persuade Valac, Lara closed her mouth and stared at him. Then, she spoke to him with a cold smirk.

“Don’t say anything and just obey me.”

“Damn…”

“If you do as I tell you, I will make you stronger than you are now.”

“How can you do that? You’re just a saintess!”

“A sip of Paimon’s blood should be enough, right?”

Valac stopped grumbling and suddenly opened his eyes wide. The blood of a demon lord candidate was on a different level from the blood of a demon like Lilith.

“I mean, what can I do for you?”

“What you have to do is very simple.”

Lara continued to explain slowly.

“Paimon wants me, the saintess. And since you will be standing next to me, he will find you very irritating. Don’t just wait without doing anything, you should approach him first.”

“I will die then!”

“Just tell him the truth as it is. About the story of Prince Sidhar. The story of how you tried so hard to seduce the saintess from Hautean but she did not fall for it. After being captured in the Empire, you gave up eating the saintess and were enjoying your life next to the Crown Prince.”

“Will he believe that?”

“It’s all true so he has no choice but to believe it.”

Lara did not think Nicholas would have just waited for the Emperor’s answer in Dandelion. He would have looked into the relationship between the Emperor and the saintess and would have also investigated the relationship between Acerus and Barbarians.

What Nicholas wanted was to drive a wedge between the saintess and the Emperor, ultimately making the Barbarians and the Empire turn their backs on each other. That way, he could turn the arrow of the conflict at the border to the Empire’s direction.

Lara decided to teach him a better way than that at this banquet.

“I heard that Nicholas’ father is the King of Lafort but he has no intention of handing the throne over to his son. His mother was a Princess of Sias, but she hated her husband, so she divorced him and went back to her hometown.”

Nicholas devoted everything to the union to solidify his unstable position. He could not become a King, so he decided to become the head of the union.

“Then, what if the Eastern Union becomes a kingdom? With the Empire at its back, if the once-abandoned Prince turns the union into a kingdom, then the Prince will not just be the head of the union, but the King of a new nation.”

Lara muttered.

Valac could not close his open mouth.

Who’s the real swindler here now? Nicholas? Definitely not.

God’s vicegerent in front of him now looked much more sneaky.

After finishing her preparations, Lara wore a blood-red necklace and said.

“What if I tell Nicholas to stop his pathetic act of sticking to a demon and seducing the saintess? What if I tell him to just lie down and cry in front of the Emperor and ask for help in unifying the East? What if he could receive my support as the saintess, along with His Imperial Majesty the Emperor and the barbarians’ support, who are currently at the border?”

“Do you think Paimon will just stay quiet if you say that?”

“That would be even better. Nicholas will get more anxious if Paimon does not listen to him.”

“What…do I have to do?”

“Be a double-agent.”

Lara opened the door. She walked out wearing a fancy beaded dress that made a clinking sound.

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Lara appeared at the banquet hall with Valac. She sat in the reserved seat for honored guests and listened to Paimon’s performance. He was playing a huge harp on the stage and was barely covering himself with a smoothly flowing cloth like the Gods of legend.

He wore a see-through black cloth on his head and thin rings were worn on his ten fingers. With makeup on, Paimon’s lips were as red as his eyes.

Eunice and Ximena sat with Nicholas on the honored guests’ seats opposite to Lara.