A Demon's Journey

In Veninza City, the Glerian Kingdom.

Azaroth was currently talking to Ralph and understanding how it was going on for him. Ralph informed Azaroth that he had successfully gained their respect as their leader by defeating them in combat.

He had even accomplished great feats in the Dragon Tiger Palace till now.

As a Demi-Beast with a Cougar's Bloodline, his senses were much better than other warriors.

Ralph could locate a large gathering of beasts using his enhanced senses. He had also figured out how to hide his group's breath from the animals and sneak up on them using his Bloodline Ability.

Due to this reason, his team had been largely successful in bringing many corpses back to the Dragon Tiger Palace Grounds.

Moreover, many of the beasts he had hunted were rare or troublesome to hunt.

His age brought another wave of shock to the disciples and even the management of the Dragon Tiger Palace.

They had not anticipated an outer disciple to accomplish such incredible accomplishments in such a short period.

The management thought of observing him for a longer period before promoting him to be an inner disciple.

Ralph was unaware of this fact.

He was merely using his newfound reputation to increase the size of his team.

In reality, if he had a larger group, he would have been able to hunt more beasts and even the stronger beasts.

Even though a 4 Star Beast was powerful, it would collapse if enough warriors assaulted it.

In the nearby forest, Ralph found a clan of Elephants possessed a trace of a bloodline of the Ancient Mammoths.

The tusks of these Elephants were rated very highly within the Dragon Tiger Palace.

Ralph wanted to trade these Tusks for some strong Spiritual Knuckles. Perhaps footwear that would enhance his speed as well.

His subordinates were very happy to work under Ralph.

They were quite delighted with their prestige in the Dragon Tiger Palace and felt that joining Ralph's team was the best decision they made in their life.

It wasn't just the prestige that made them happy. Ralph was a reasonable person who would split the profits with them, taking just a bit more than his subordinates.

He wasn't greedy for money and did the most work during an expedition. They had no complaints against him.

Ralph's group of 15 warriors had now expanded to 50 warriors. He had temporarily halted the recruitment since 50 warriors were more than enough for now.

He couldn't take all 50 warriors on his mission, so he developed a management structure in which some of his men would give duties to the new recruits while he took a small squad with him.

Ralph would form his personal squad of 10 new recruits and 4 experts. He would change his squad after every month.

This would allow him to interact with all the new recruits and understand their abilities.

Azaroth spoke to Ralph with a serious voice, "Inform me immediately when you are summoned by the elders. They should have known about your deeds by now. Once they finish investigating you or testing you, they will invite you to give you more resources in return for representing their association."

Ralph was slightly surprised to hear this from Azaroth.

"Accept their offer in return for the Black Leopard King's Blood Essence," Azaroth spoke with a serious voice.

Ralph frowned slightly as he asked, "A Black Leopard King's Blood Essence? Is it the one living in the nearby forest, master? That Leopard King has a Lightning Element, while I possess Flame Element. Its blood essence won't be compatible with me."

"Just do as you are told. I will handle the rest," Azaroth informed him coldly before cutting off the connection between them.

These days, Azaroth had remained in the Veninza City. He would wait for the King's resources to come to Lennox Rees's house and trade them with the resources he had on hand.

After that, he would send the herbs to Edwin's location using a teleportation array. He was living a rather simple life these days by focusing on cultivation and sensing battle intent around him.

A few hours after talking to Ralph, Azaroth's eyes snapped open. He was startled because he sensed the presence of demons in Veninza City.

It wasn't just a single demon. In fact, there was a whole group of them. They were emerging from the ground.

'There is a secret dungeon of the demons nearby?!'

This was shocking information because this meant that there was a possibility that these demons were emerging from some sort of Underground Labyrinth of the Demons, or they had formed a nest under the ground.

Since it was a demon nest, it was surely under a Demon Lord or a Demon King. A Demon Emperor shouldn't be involved here. If a Demon Emperor was involved, he could have already waged war against this kingdom or taken control of it.

However, from what Azaroth had observed, the humans reigned over the Glerian Kingdom.

This could only mean a hidden nest created by either a Demon Lord or a Demon King.

As for what these demons were doing, Azaroth had no idea. He got up and followed those demons.

The demons were outside the city, so it took Azaroth some minutes to reach their location.

After reaching the location, Azaroth was surprised to see humans standing ahead of the demons.

No… The humans weren't standing. They were kneeling in the demons' presence!

Another shocking thing was that Azaroth hadn't managed to sense these humans.

'They possess some special artifact to conceal their presence?'

This fact did shock him a lot. It meant that the demon involved was rather rich as he held so many special artifacts.

Azaroth used his Mystic Eyes of Perception to observe them all. Fortunately, the Mystic Eyes of Perception worked on them.

He could see their emotion, their cultivation realm, check up their spirit and bloodlines.

There was a 5 Star Warrior within humans.

Azaroth immediately concluded as he saw that 5 Star Warrior 'It must be the work of a Demon King. A Demon Lord won't be able to boost the energy of a 5 Star Warrior.'

'This Demon King is forming his cult here. Is he planning to do something as well?'  Azaroth knew that he had to figure out what this Demon King was doing here.

He could be a large variable for the situation in the Glerian Kingdom.

Azaroth quickly thought of a way to figure out this Demon King's plan for the Glerian Kingdom.

Around this time, a Demon raised his head to look in the sky. He felt someone's presence in the sky.

However, all he saw was a starry sky above his head.

Azaroth had already flown away somewhere else where he could listen to these demons and take action when necessary.

He was using a skill known as Shadow Concealment to cover his body with Demonic Ardor.

Azaroth's Shadow Concealment skill was quite special. As long as someone's Ardor didn't surpass his own, they wouldn't be able to find him.

Due to possessing the Triquetra Ardor, Azaroth was absolutely confident about his Ardor's density and quantity.

It was far beyond the ordinary.. Azaroth soon concentrated on listening to the words of these demons.