A crow is slowly flying in the sky.

Occasionally it encounters powerful creatures that hunt it, but soon, the crow reappears and continues flying in a certain direction, not particularly fast, yet relentless day and night.

Even though spring has arrived at the location of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, it remains a snowy white expanse.

In this white world, the pitch-black crow is very noticeable, at least, when Elf sees a crow perched on her balcony, she can't help but take another look. It's well-known that the creatures of an area usually exhibit a strong harmony with their surroundings. Many things in the snow are pure white, some for self-protection, others for hunting. In any case, white is the main theme of this region.

But the black creature before her is so abrupt.

So she really couldn't help but take another look.

Then she realized something was off.

As the thought emerged from her mind, she had already drawn her sword.

In just a moment, the black crow was sliced in half by the sword.

Elf sheathed her sword, but... it was very odd.

Because there was no blood.

Even though there was a tangible feeling of hitting something, there was no blood splatter, the crow turned into a black mass and then squirmed, regenerating into a crow again.

Something's off.

Elf appeared once again, and in that moment, dozens of scratches appeared on the crow, splitting it into hundreds of pieces.

Then — the crow revived once more.

"Magical creature? No, that's not right, I can't sense any magic power fluctuations."

Although Elf herself cannot use magic, her perception of magic is not weak. After all, everyone around her uses magic for various things, growing up in such an environment, she has the ability to "sense magic activation." The crow before her is not a magical creature, in fact, even if it were, it couldn't reorganize like this.

What is this thing?

A materialization of a curse?

The crow stood on the balcony, suddenly flapping its wings, making a gesture as if to bow: "This is our first meeting since my resurrection, Miss Elf, my name is Mohe."

A clear young girl's voice emanated from the crow's beak, catching Elf off guard.

She immediately put away her sword.

"Demon King?"

"If you find it convenient to call me that, it's no problem."

Elf extended her hand, and the crow hence fluttered its wings and jumped into Elf's palm.

"So what exactly is this crow?"

"Using my eternal nature to create Demon Race creatures, under my control they can resonate with me. If I relinquish control over them, they become independent entities — the only advantage being they won't die, having no combat power. You can kill it the same way you'd kill me."

Kill the Demon King? Back then, if it was really possible to kill him, he wouldn't resurrect now, meaning that although this crow has no combat power, to deal with it, you can only use a "seal."

Elf looked at the crow in her palm, unable to resist squeezing it slightly.

"Hey! Woman! You're being very rude!"

"In the snowfield, creatures like you are rare, sorry." Elf earnestly expressed her apology, "Demon King... Miss Mohe, your arrival makes me very uneasy, as if something terrible is about to happen."

The crow flew away from her palm, circling around her twice: "Since you think this way, why not try sealing me? What are you thinking?"

Elf sat on her bed, crossing her long legs, and the crow then landed on her thigh.

"Miss Mohe, I heard Gedora is with you now, is that true?"

"Yes, that's right. He's nominally my subordinate now, but calling him a subordinate... I can't really wield him, to borrow his power requires various threats and inducements — rather, it's like raising a lord." The crow couldn't help but complain, its feet pressing on Elf's leg, making her itch a bit.

She patted the crow's head.

"Hey!"

"Ah... so what exactly are you here for?"

The crow cocked its head and stared at the Elf for a while: "I actually want to know, are you waiting for Gedora to arrive now by doing this? He won't come, I've already asked him, otherwise I wouldn't have come here like this. This is a helpless act, Gedora himself has no position to come."

Disappointment flowed through the Elf's eyes without any concealment: "It's not surprising that he won't come... Can you tell me about him? I haven't seen him in many years."

"This seems like something that doesn't matter, although I think you might not really want to hear these things... But, does it really not matter? I heard that the Human Central Empire invited the Thunder Emperor this time to restrain you, along with the army formed by the major nobles, I simply can't think of a way for you to win."

Thunder Emperor.

In fact, he is a mage who specializes in using Thunder Power.

Humans believe magic is a noble thing and a symbol of the nobility because some talented humans indeed exhibit incredible power in the Magic Domain, apart from the universally recognized highest peak of contemporary magic "Wise Adriana." In this world, there are also some mages named after "Emperor."

This might conflict with titles like Wise King, but they are all powerful life forms, so it's not a matter of a name.

"The Thunder Emperor... He's not that strong, at least compared to Adriana, there's certainly a gap; otherwise, the title of Wise Person wouldn't be Adriana's."

"It's hard to say, Adriana became a Wise Person more because of her exploits against me, right? If we really talk about strength, a top mage specializing in one branch could be more powerful purely in terms of combat strength compared to her kind of all-round mage, though you yourself don't really fear magic."

Elf shook his head: "I'm not very interested in the Thunder Emperor's affairs, just tell me about Gedora, I want to know... how he's been since that incident."

"You were the one who wanted to hear it."

...

"Mohe, what are you staring at me for?"

Doro was originally looking to talk with Mohe about moving out, Lisidorwei didn't dare come to Mohe to discuss. But Mohe just kept staring at him without replying.

"Isn't this someone who is wholeheartedly for you?"

"What are you talking about?"

Mohe shook his head: "You eat my food, live in my house, I pay for your wedding, and now you just want to cut ties with me in a word, huh? Is the Hero such a person? After eating clean and getting everything, you just want to leave, huh? How can people face others in the future?"

You talk as if I've done something to you.

Doro said somewhat helplessly: "But I am married to Lisidorwei, it's only reasonable that we should have our own little home."

"Heh~ A little home huh~" Mohe looked at Doro with a faint smile, "Mr. Doro, after you move out, what do you plan to do? There are many livelihoods in the small town... What kind of life do you plan to live?"

"I have my own arrangements for that."

"Then let's leave it at that, however, Mr. Doro, have you considered the consequences of doing this? If you leave, then Rose and Ah Xion will likely also leave, and then the mansion will only have Miss Rastina and me left. Why don't you wait a few more months?" Mohe suggested, "Wait until I get a batch of slaves and train them before you leave, how about that? I at least need to maintain the normal operation of the mansion. You also need to make some preparations in advance, don't you?"

Her suggestion was actually quite reasonable, and after thinking it over, Doro found it made quite sense: "In that case, it's no problem, I should indeed make some preparations in advance."

Mohe nodded: "That's great, Mr. Doro. Although we weren't very happy at some points in the past, the recent cooperation has been mutually beneficial, and it would be great to part ways on good terms."

In fact, she had already recovered enough body parts and now only needed to wait quietly for a few years before her power would fully recover. The return of the Demon King had become an unstoppable fact, just like the girl in front of him had grown much compared to when they met a year ago.

Part ways on good terms...

Doro's throat moved: "Then let's say that for now."

He then left Mohe's room.

After a while, Rose came in.

"Miss Rose, what do you think? If he and Lisidorwei move out to live by themselves, it will be extremely difficult for you to do anything. If you don't launch an attack now, I'm afraid there will never be a chance again."

Rose's expression was somewhat heavy, and she spoke with difficulty: "But I, but I've been working hard during this time, he... he is very able to restrain himself."

Mohe agreed with this point: "Anyway, he is the Hero. If he can't have this bit of self-control, then it would be really bad, so I say you just drug him, you won't be able to capture him using this method forever."

"But this..."

"What's wrong with it? Anyway, he and Lisidorwei started with a relationship first before building feelings, this isn't something strange. You need to first use the flesh to attract him and then show your charm... How can you be so pedantic? Generally speaking, isn't it said that older people are more pedantic? I'm the oldest person in this world, you can't be more pedantic than me, right?"

I've never seen anything in you that resembles old age.

"In any event, be quick about it."

Mohe tossed these words and went out to look at the grapes in her estate, planning to expand the planting scale this year.

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