Not long after.
“Then, you two can rest here tonight.” The woman said respectfully.
The woman then sat down opposite them, very deferentially.
“Miss Kaelin… Lu Mo and Cecilia are sitting in the magnificent living room.”
“Miss Lu Mo, and Miss Cecilia, if you don’t mind, please stay temporarily in a luxurious manor outside the town.”
Cecilia looked at the sincere expression of the woman in front of her, and immediately relaxed a bit, responding with a smile.
Neither she nor Lu Mo had expected to meet an old friend in this town.
The woman’s full name was Kaelin Betwein.
During the Demon War, she had been sent to the Sacred Demon Wall, like Lu Mo and Cecilia.
During one mission, the woman was ambushed by demons, severely injured, and nearly used by demons for their amusement.
Just as the demons were about to act, it was Lu Mo, passing by by chance, who cut off the demon’s head with one sword strike.
“Kind knight, and Saintess…”
“Th-thank you… I really don’t know… what I would have done.”
The woman said while sobbing.
After that, the two comforted Kaelin and brought her back to the Sacred Demon Wall.
Since then, Kaelin would occasionally visit them, bringing small gifts and snacks from her family.
Over time, they became acquainted.
At that time, Lu Mo had not yet “risen” in the eyes of others; most people’s impression of her was still that of the lowest-ranked knight of the Holy Sanctuary.
But Kaelin did not think so. Every time she saw Lu Mo, she was also very respectful.
Later, several major incidents occurred at the Sacred Demon Wall: the outer wall exploded, the Sacred Demon City fell, the inner wall was hit…
Kaelin found herself in desperate situations several times, but in the end, Lu Mo saved her again.
So, she had always been very grateful to Lu Mo and Cecilia.
Finally, when humans prepared to march on the Demon King’s Throne, she tearfully bid farewell to the two, reluctant to part.
After that, a long time passed.
None of them expected to meet again in such a situation.
“About Miss Lu Mo being suspected as the new Demon King, I heard it from my father.”
Kaelin brought up the matter voluntarily.
“But I think there must be some misunderstanding…”
“Because someone like Miss Lu Mo, how could she be involved with the evil demons?”
She said indignantly.
“The thoughts of those big shots, I can’t understand, nor can I change them.”
“But Miss Lu Mo and Miss Cecilia, please rest assured. My life was given by you.”
“Since we’ve met again, I will do my best to help you.”
“Wherever you want to go, whatever you lack, just say the word. I’ll prepare everything for you these few days.”
They talked for a while longer, and soon Kaelin called in a maid.
“Prepare some tea and snacks for my friends.”
She did not reveal Lu Mo and Cecilia’s names, only mentioning friends.
Seeing that Kaelin paid attention to such details, Cecilia felt a warmth in her heart.
Soon, delicate little cakes were placed on the table.
“To our reunion, cheers!”
Kaelin smiled and raised her black tea.
Cecilia also picked up her teacup, about to clink glasses.
But Lu Mo did not move.
“Miss Lu Mo?”
Cecilia looked at Lu Mo.
Lu Mo did not speak.
After that, the entire living room fell silent.
So quiet that only the faint crackling of the fire in the fireplace could be heard.
“What’s wrong, Miss Lu Mo… Do you not like this type of black tea?”
Kaelin said.
At that moment, Lu Mo slowly raised her head and looked straight at her.
Then, she spoke calmly:
“Dragonbone toxin dust, am I right?”
“A top-tier poison material. The Betwein family really knows how to spend—”
She had only just begun speaking.
The next instant, Kaelin immediately stood up, threw away the black tea, backed off, and took out a weapon from her spatial ring.
“Miss Kaelin…?”
She assumed an attack stance, and the leyline power burst forth at that moment!
Cecilia was startled and wanted to ask Kaelin if there was a misunderstanding.
But Kaelin didn’t even glance at her.
She stared intently at Lu Mo, all smiles and gratitude gone.
Only vigilance, ferocity, and malice remained in her eyes.
“Let’s go, Cecilia.”
Lu Mo looked calmly at Kaelin, then said to Cecilia beside her.
Cecilia nodded in agreement and quickly got up to follow Lu Mo.
“Oh… okay…”
The two passed by Kaelin and walked toward the living room door.
“We’ll be going now, Miss Kaelin…”
Cecilia still said goodbye to Kaelin.
Kaelin still ignored her.
Until Lu Mo was about to push open the door.
Then, Kaelin suddenly screamed like a madwoman:
“Don’t go…”
“You can’t leave today!!!”
In an instant, the mansion’s door burst open, and elite members of the Betwein family surged in.
Leyline power erupted one after another.
At the same time, layer upon layer of barriers unfolded outside the mansion and around the manor.
Lu Mo could feel more and more figures rushing over.
Among them, the strongest were two Heavenly Imperial Realm.
Kaelin spoke at that moment.
“Miss Lu Mo, Miss Cecilia, you’ve saved me so many times. What’s one more sacrifice for the Betwein family?”
The first snowflake fell to the ground.
Autumn had ended as well.
Lu Mo and Cecilia found a more secluded spot to rest temporarily.
It had been snowing for several days, covering the surrounding area with a thick layer of white snow, and the whole world became silvery white.
Standing in that white, quiet world, Cecilia felt a lot more relaxed.
They stayed there for several days without being found by human experts.
And on that day, Cecilia saw dozens of figures running in the snow.
They seemed to be… fleeing humans.
And demons chasing them.
“Save us—”
The figure at the front shouted: “Whoever you are, please save us—”
Behind them, the demons released an extremely strong demonic aura, unhurriedly chasing them.
“What foolish humans.”
The leading demon spoke and swung a blade onto the back of one human.
The human fell to the ground with a sound.
The demon then stepped on his back, and the human immediately let out a painful moan, spitting blood.
“Shouting here, is it useful?”
“No one will come to save you.”
“So… just obediently become our winter provisions.”
In the crowd, a woman holding a baby accidentally fell.
“Don’t come near, you… don’t come near…”
She clutched the child tightly in her arms, and when she looked up, she saw a massive demon standing in front of her.
“Not bad-looking—”
The demon said mockingly.
The woman quickly covered her face with her scarf, holding the child, trying to get up and run.
But as the demon released his pressure, the woman’s body went limp, and she fell to the ground.
“Don’t be in such a hurry to leave. It’s been so long, and I haven’t found a succubus in the human world. How about you let me vent?”
“I want to eat your child while—”
Cecilia couldn’t bear to watch anymore.
She was about to step forward to stop it.
Whoosh—
At that moment, another dark sword beam shot out, directly cutting toward the demon in front of the woman.
A terrifying pressure erupted, and the demons involuntarily looked ahead.
Lu Mo slowly walked out from above.
“You are…”
The demon immediately retreated.
The eyes of the humans gradually lit up with hope.
When the woman saw Lu Mo approaching, she no longer cared about anything else, quickly hugged the child, and crawled toward Lu Mo.
“Please, whoever you are… please save my child.”
She said frantically, and as she neared Lu Mo, she suddenly detonated the thing in her arms!
“Lu Mo!”
In an instant, a barrier imbued with divine nature rushed toward Lu Mo.
And that was not a child at all!
It was a barrier from a God-descendant family!
At that moment, the humans and demons stopped acting.
Everyone shed their disguises and fully released their realm power.
Among those present, half were actually Heavenly Imperial Realm from various top forces!
“Demon King Lu Mo… you finally came out?”
“You really made us look for you—”
“Playing as commoners and demons around here these days, I’m getting a bit tired.”
Voices spoke one after another.
“To get me to come out, you went to such lengths?”
Lu Mo said coldly.
“Who made you act so kind every time before?”
A Heavenly Imperial sneered.
“Is kindness supposed to be used as a target for your guns?”
Lu Mo asked coldly.
“Yes.”
Another person spoke.
“Kindness, after all, is just a form of weakness, isn’t it?”
“Because this world is cruel.”
“People bully the kind, horses ride the gentle. Showing so-called goodwill will only make you suffer in the end.”
“You still don’t seem to understand this truth.”
“Kindness is the weakness of your character. We noticed it a long time ago.”
“So today, we set up this trap.”
“And you… fell for it.”
At that moment, several Heavenly Imperial made their move.
Now, they would make Lu Mo pay with her life for her kindness.
Holding divine artifacts, they unfolded Heavenly Imperial Phantoms and encircled her for the kill.
On the snowy ground, at least a third of the world’s Heavenly Imperial had gathered.
They had prepared divine artifacts and various methods, coming at Lu Mo from all angles and in all ways.
Even Lu Mo felt somewhat pressured for a time.
Clang—
The sound of a sword echoed across the snowy plain.
Phantoms kept appearing and then shattering the next moment.
Amid the flashing blades and sword lights, blood splattered.
Some from those Heavenly Imperial.
Some from Lu Mo.
In the end, the battle ended with Lu Mo’s victory.
Some of those Heavenly Imperial fell, some were mortally wounded.
Others fled when they saw the situation was unfavorable.
Lu Mo stood in a pool of blood, with many wounds, blood dripping from her cheek and the corner of her mouth.
“Divine substance… turned into poison?”
She looked down at her palm.
There was a cut on her palm, as if by a sharp object.
Divine runes melted rapidly into her body afterward.
It was a poison.
And the God-descendant who administered the poison, before dying, cast a final curse at her.
But she soon heard footsteps behind her.
“Miss Lu Mo!”
Cecilia couldn’t hold back anymore and ran forward.
“How are you? Are you badly hurt? You’re bleeding so much…”
She seemed about to cry.
Lu Mo stopped looking at her palm.
“I’m fine.”
Lu Mo turned around and smiled at Cecilia.
“It seems we can’t stay here either.”
She said.
“Let’s go back and pack up, then leave this place.”
“…Okay.”
Cecilia nodded.
She wanted to smile back at Lu Mo.
But she found that this time, she really couldn’t smile anymore.
She was very sad.
Also very disappointed.
And even… a kind of despair.
It started snowing again.
The two began to flee once more.
No sunlight, no grandeur.
The snow fell heavier and heavier.
Like Cecilia’s tangled thoughts.
She had been betrayed by friends and foes.
Yet those friends and foes showed no remorse, only thinking about how to kill her.
She had scolded the pursuers for treating commoners as nothing.
But they didn’t care about the lives of the civilians at all, and wanted to kill her first.
She had watched Lu Mo block a destructive blow for a village.
But afterward, the villagers didn’t thank them; they cursed them viciously.
She had shown kindness to this world, but the world wanted to exploit that kindness.
And now…
She had never wanted to understand.
But this world forced her to understand.
She had always shown goodwill to this world.
Yet this world wanted to hunt her down.
She had always believed this world was beautiful.
But this world had fully revealed its ugliest and filthiest side to her.
They ran through the wind and snow.
Cecilia felt her heart growing cold.
Just like that… about to freeze to death in the storm.
She spoke softly, her body trembling, her voice choked.
“Miss Lu Mo…”
“I don’t understand… I really don’t understand…”
“Is what we did wrong?”
“Is my lifelong dream also wrong?”
“The world is cruel.”
“Human nature is ugly.”
“They don’t deserve any salvation.”
“Such humans, such a world, should just be destroyed!!”
She was in such pain.
So sad.
And so… conflicted.
It seemed that just a little more external force would completely shatter the spiritual world she had been struggling to maintain.
“Cecilia…”
Lu Mo felt the immense sorrow hidden in Cecilia’s fragile body.
She wanted to stop and comfort Cecilia.
But in that instant, she stopped again.
She looked ahead.
For the first time, there was a slight tremor in her eyes.
Cecilia also looked ahead, then her pupils contracted.
In the swirling wind and snow, there were no thousands of troops, no terrifying pressure.
Only two people stood there.
Two people that Lu Mo and Cecilia could never avoid in their lives.
Walking toward them through the snow at the end of the windstorm were two middle-aged men.
The head of the Kalis family, and…
The head of the Helovit family.
the story is a mess…it keep skipping things all the time.