A Demon's Journey

While Azaroth came to a terrifying conclusion, he also understood that he needed to keep his identity a secret.

'The more challenging it is, the more rewarding it will be,' Azaroth thought with a bright smile.

In any case, Azaroth had no enemy in the Glerian Kingdom who could kill him. This was certainly true! However, he wasn't planning to take any immediate action.

In actuality, he intended to let the sects fight the Glerian Kingdom on their own rather than aiding them.

This was because he was about to reap the benefits of his labors.

The situation in the Sinyalian Kingdom had more or less stabilized after Shun acted and dealt with the Noble Family Alliance's perpetrator!

In other words, King Valliadis was focused on capturing Shun while also handling the Noble Family Alliance.

The Noble Family Alliance had foolishly chosen to wage war on the Royal Family. Their situation was a lot different compared to the Glerian Kingdom's current scenario.

The Noble Family Alliance wasn't a monolith existence. Each had their own thoughts and philosophies regarding these matters. They didn't have a proper leader. The Lewis Family was only a de facto leader.

Most Noble Families would have supported the Lewis Family's ideas if their Noble Houses could benefit from them.

However, none of them thought they would truly gain anything if they stood against the Royal Family. Only the strongest Noble Houses that had amassed great wealth and power could receive offers from the other kingdoms. The other Noble Houses would be left to fight the Royal Family on their own, and the other kingdoms would act when both parties had exhausted their resources.

Moreover, the primary reason they were bound to fail was the possibility of betrayal. The war ended before it even began. This was because many Noble Families quickly pledged their allegiance to the King while gaining numerous resources, information, or some contracts that would be greatly beneficial to their Noble House.

It didn't take more than two months for the King to have dealt with the Noble Family Alliance. Only remnants of the Noble Family Alliance remained, but they couldn't harm the Sinyalian Kingdom, for the time being, so the King let them be. He did keep watch over them as he didn't want to be attacked at a crucial moment.

Naturally, this war against the Noble Family Alliance had exhausted numerous resources of the Royal Family. But this further enforced the public's belief in the Royal Family's terrifying power!

David Valliadis and Ellen Valliadis were the ones that stood out during this period. If David was the firepower that slaughtered the Royal Family's foes, Ellen was his best ally who oversaw the actions behind the scenes. She exploited the press and utilized dubious techniques to boost the Royal Family's reputation. She also manipulated the scenario so that these adversaries would slip into their traps.

David would ambush their adversaries after they fell into their traps! In a certain sense, Ellen was considered more dangerous out of the two. This was because she knew a lot of information about the illegal deeds of various associations and Noble Families.

However, she didn't use this information to act against them. Instead, she planned to keep it as a trump card and use it only in the most urgent situation.

What even the Monarch of the Sinyalian Kingdom didn't know was that Ellen was actually infatuated with Inquisitor Fox. And she was actually acting on Inquisitor Fox's instructions!

Shun was aware that dealing with the Trade Union meant alerting the Demon God. The Demon God must have realized that Shun knew about his control over Bianca.

This meant he had to act even more covertly! Returning to serve King Valliadis was also no longer a choice.

However, he knew that to manipulate the Sinyalian Kingdom, he required the Royal Family's authority. Thus, he contacted Ellen Valliadis, the seventh princess of the Sinyalian Kingdom!

He was aware of Ellen Valliadis's crush on him. He never reacted to it since he didn't wish to be romantically involved with her.

However, the situation was urgent now. He had to make a few sacrifices if he wanted to stop Azaroth.

He could faintly guess that Azaroth was looking forward to a war between the Sinyalian Kingdom and the Glerian Kingdom. The information he gathered about the Glerian Kingdom proved that much.

He knew that the sects in the Glerian Kingdom were revolting against the Royal Family. It was the perfect opportunity for the Sinyalian Kingdom to attack their hated enemy!

And even with Ellen Valliadis's influence, Shun knew that he couldn't stop this war from occurring. He was very familiar with King Valliadis's temperament.

An ambitious ruler like King Valliadis would never miss such a blatant opportunity!

Thus, Shun altered his plan. Instead of preventing the war, he would ensure the Sinyalian Kingdom's victory by a great margin.

However, he couldn't do it alone. He needed to show the King who his ultimate enemy was.

Once the King realizes that it was a Demon God he was fighting against, he would definitely use all his contacts to deal with him.

However, Shun recognized that it would not be an easy task to make the King realize this fact. From his battles against this Demon God, Shun deduced that this Demon God was very intelligent.

In fact, this Demon God was far above Shun in terms of scheming, knowledge, and mysteriousness!

Shun's only advantage was his identity was a secret. Even though the King had ordered his subordinates to search for Inquisitor Fox, he hadn't revealed that Shun Gordon was Inquisitor Fox!

​ This showed that he didn't truly want to punish Inquisitor Fox. The part of finding Inquisitor Fox and punishing him was just a method to calm down the Noble Families. Since it had failed, the king was inclined to never reveal Shun's true identity.

'I can't count on this. I must ensure that the King can never reveal my true identity to this Demon God. It would be over the day this Demon God finds out my true identity,' Shun thought with a serious expression.

Thoughts of killing King Valliadis entered Shun's mind, but he soon gave up that line of reasoning.

He believed that King Valliadis would be more valuable alive than dead. This puzzled Shun quite a bit.

He couldn't see the path ahead of him clearly. It was filled with multiple hurdles, and he had no way of crossing even a single one.

After thinking about these obstacles for a long time, Shun finally realized something crucial and started laughing.

'How stupid of me! I was wrong from the very start! I mixed up my priorities and confused myself! How can I win against this Demon God without risking my life? I was scrapping all plans in which my life was threatened. And this was a mistake. Trying to win against this Demon God without even daring to risk my life is just looking down on him and his ability!'

'I had already made such a mistake when I trapped him previously! It turned out that this Demon God managed to trick me easily! He can do the same this time!'

From that day, Shun changed his plan completely. He no longer planned to kill the King to conceal his identity. There was no longer any need for it. He also wasn't planning to prevent the war between the Sinyalian Kingdom and the Glerian Kingdom.

Shun also wasn't planning to support the Sinyalian Kingdom in their war against the Glerian Kingdom.

Instead, he was doing something different altogether! Something that could kill this terrifying Demon God.