Chapter 181 : That Doesn’t Look Like the Gaze of a Saintess

“The Demon King’s castle, the Demon King’s castle is…”

Her voice was weak, as if she was struggling to speak, finally forcing the words out.

Milly instinctively raised an eyebrow, clearly unsatisfied with the volume. The dancing electricity on her fingertip moved an inch closer to the demon’s face.

Normally, Milly wouldn’t have waited. She might have already released the lightning. But considering she had found so many demons, and they were all tough nuts to crack, this was the only one who, out of fear, was willing to tell her the location of the Demon King’s castle.

If she missed this one, who knew how many more she would have to go through to find another like her?

Thinking of this, she decided to ignore the low volume. It wasn’t inaudible. Milly, finding it troublesome to keep searching, decided to coax her instead of attacking.

“If you accidentally die, it will be a headache for me.”

So, tell her the direction of the Demon King’s castle quickly. She was only interested in the Demon King hiding in his castle. As for the other demons and their grudges against humans, Milly couldn’t care less.

“Tell me, where is the Demon King’s castle?”

“It’s in…”

She waited for the demon girl to speak, but she didn’t get the answer she wanted. Not because the girl didn’t want to say it, but because she seemed unable to.

Milly stared at the girl whose chin she was holding. From the moment she tried to speak, her body began to tremble. It wasn’t a natural tremor born of fear. Strange black veins appeared on her forehead, and her body began to convulse unnaturally.

“What’s happening?”

Milly instinctively pulled her hand back. She had been fine just a moment ago, trembling only from fear. But this convulsion was not something fear could cause.

It was more like someone had placed a curse or a restriction on her, triggered the moment she tried to speak.

“It’s a restriction.”

Just then, Stacy’s voice came from behind her.

Milly looked back. Stacy was examining the black veins on the demon girl’s face, then shook her head.

“What’s wrong?”

“I can’t break a restriction of this level.”

“What happens if you can’t break it?”

Although she didn’t know how strong the Saintess Stacy was, the person who set the restriction was clearly stronger than her.

Perhaps it was set by the Demon King himself, who had sent them to infiltrate Starlight City.

“This restriction is severe. Most likely… she will die.”

“Tch, how troublesome.”

Looking at the convulsing girl on the ground, it seemed she would need to find a new target. No, if it was a restriction, it probably wasn’t just on her. All the demons who infiltrated Starlight City were likely under the same restriction.

No wonder they were all tough nuts to crack. Saying anything meant death. Maybe they thought they had a better chance of survival with Milly. But they were killed too quickly, so they all seemed tough.

Looking at it this way, even if she found all the demons in Starlight City, she probably wouldn’t find the location of the Demon King’s castle.

Sigh… who was so bored as to set such a restriction? What were they afraid of? The humans were being suppressed, with no chance to counterattack. There was no need for such a restriction.

Unless the person who set it was afraid. Afraid that there was someone among the humans, or several, who, once they knew the location of the Demon King’s castle, could launch a decapitation strike and threaten his safety.

The humans had the oracle from the Goddess and the prophecy that when the Demon King revived, a hero would descend and defeat him, saving the world. Maybe the demons had a similar legend, saying the Demon King would be defeated by the hero.

The Demon King was afraid. Afraid that his power hadn’t fully recovered, and he couldn’t be sure if the hero was max level. So, before he fully recovered, he was watching the hero’s movements in the city. And to prevent his castle’s location from being exposed, every demon infiltrating Starlight City was placed under a restriction.

Once they chose to reveal the location and lead the hero there, the restriction would kill them before they could speak.

If Milly’s guess was right, then this revived Demon King… tch, was he really that scared of a rumor?

But this also meant that the Demon King’s strength was probably not that great. He could be dealt with without much effort.

The only problem now was, where was the Demon King’s castle?

This restriction was annoying. Although Stacy recognized it, she couldn’t break it.

The demon was dying. There was no time to find someone who could break the restriction. And if it was set by the Demon King, there probably wasn’t anyone in Starlight City who could break it.

Milly herself hadn’t learned any magic to break restrictions, and she hadn’t seen Stacy use any… wait, Stacy was stupid.

Milly slapped her forehead. How could she forget she had a hidden trump card? A restriction was just a program. As long as it was a program, there was a way to crack it. And she had a brute-force method.

Although there was a human-shaped camera beside her, watching her every move, if she was fast enough, she shouldn’t be noticed.

She pressed her palm firmly against the demon girl’s forehead. Under Stacy’s puzzled gaze, a tentacle shot out from her palm and drilled straight into the girl’s mind.

As Milly acted, the demon girl’s body gradually calmed down, and the black veins on her face faded. But the light in her eyes faded too. When they were completely vacant, Milly released her hand.

The demon girl collapsed to the ground, motionless.

“She… what happened to her?”

Stacy stepped forward, trying to sense her breath, but there was none. Because of the restriction, her body should have exploded. But now, the restriction was gone, and she was dead. What had Milly done?

Milly retracted her hand, frowning. She had only wanted to break the restriction, but she seemed to have inadvertently triggered another function of the tentacle. It could access memories, which meant accessing other program data.

It was a virus, after all. She should have thought of this. And in her memories, Stacy had tried to do this to her once, trying to forcibly access her memories, but failed for some reason, and then threw her into that forest.

She shook her head, clearing her thoughts. Although it was her first time using it, Milly had obtained some of the girl’s memories. But due to the nature of the virus, while the tentacle invaded the consciousness to access memories, it also destroyed the data. Milly couldn’t control this yet.

But the memories she got made her frown.

She was just a low-level demon. She knew the Demon King’s castle was deep in the demon territory, but she had never been there.

Normally, a demon of her level wouldn’t be sent to infiltrate Starlight City.

But she had a special shapeshifting ability. The demons in the city relied on her ability to infiltrate Starlight City. She thought she had caught an ordinary demon, but she had taken out a key figure.

No wonder there were three demons together. The other two were there to protect her. They obviously hadn’t expected someone to come looking for them, and someone who could easily defeat them.

Without this special demon providing the shapeshifting ability, the other demons infiltrating Starlight City would soon lose their disguise. Milly wouldn’t even need to help; they would be discovered by the patrols.

Alright, before those exposed demons did something desperate, she would catch a few more and search their memories.

“Stacy, let’s go.”

She waved to Stacy, signaling her to follow. But the Saintess didn’t move. She was staring at the lifeless demon on the ground.

The look in her eyes sent a chill down Milly’s spine. It was as if she saw a familiar figure overlapping with the person in front of her.

In any case, that didn’t look like the gaze of a Saintess.

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