Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 254 Paladin 18

Ruthlessly swatting away the seductive little tail, Ling Yi replenished her energy while asking, "Do you know where Lucius and the others are right now?"

She's been in the Demon Realm long enough; if she doesn't return soon, the Holy See will probably think she's dead.

How can she, a paladin who has been stripped of her title, make the Church great again?

Sereos's eyes flickered—why bring up such an insignificant fellow at this time?

The next moment, Ling Yi gave him an answer: "I need to find him and record a statement that the Vatican can accept."

Sereos's tail suddenly wrapped tightly around Ling Yi, its voice dangerous: "Yi Yi, do you want to go back?"

Are you going to abandon him?

Ling Yi nodded: "Yes, I have something important to do."

After finishing the last bite of meat, Ling Yi, pretending not to notice Celeos's anger, finally turned around with a smile: "May I have the opportunity to invite His Majesty the Demon King to come and see my world?"

The tail that had been tightly binding Ling Yi suddenly loosened, and the magic that had been rising from the ground to wrap around her ankles also instantly dissipated.

Under Ling Yi's teasing, smiling eyes, Sereos became reserved: "I... need to think about it."

Ling Yi couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter.

This guy……

Sereos' pink heart-shaped tail swayed unhappily, expressing its dissatisfaction with Ling Yi's teasing.

But this was only for a moment; the next instant, he began to imagine what Lingyi's world would look like.

Unlike the ambitious demon king who was once eager to invade the human world and expand his power, Sereos is an excessively lazy demon king.

He can't even be bothered to care about his own people, so how could he possibly want to rule over people who live further away?

So the mortal world was unaware that he had become the Demon King, and the Holy See thought that the long period of peace was because the previous Demon King was old and dared not expand recklessly.

For the past decade, the Vatican's strategy has been to strengthen defenses to prevent the old devil from wreaking havoc on Earth before his death and taking humanity with him.

However, the anxious humans were unaware that the Demon King they feared was dead, and now the Demon King's throne belonged to a shut-in who only knew how to sleep.

Of course, now that the shut-in has a wife, he's become restless and, like the Demon King of the past, has developed a desire for the human world. The difference is that he's just here for a visit.

"Then, Demon King, if you've made up your mind, please give me a formal reply." Sereos wanted to play the part, and Ling Yi was willing to play along.

"Now, please tell me, Your Majesty the Demon King, where our Holy Son of Light, Lucius Lyle, has gone." Of course, acting shouldn't interfere with important matters.

"In a mountain range outside the royal city." Sereos, who had just been thinking of giving false military intelligence, abandoned his plan to kill the troublesome Holy Son and prevent Ling Yi from returning to the human world without hesitation after obtaining a tourist visa. Instead, he made a human-shaped map to guide Ling Yi.

……

"Chesia, what are you waiting for?"

In the mountains outside the royal city, Lucius lit a campfire on the rock giant's body, roasting the monster meat he had casually caught.

Beside him stood the Lava Lord, his expression a mixture of fear and struggle.

The Lava Lord gazed at the royal city, which resembled a gaping maw of an abyss ready to devour all lives, and murmured, "I await His Majesty's summons."

When Sereos lost his mind that day, the Lava Lord and Lucius also became one of the moths attracted to him.

As they approached the inn where Sereos was staying, the Demon King's irresistible pull vanished, and after a moment of hesitation, they regained their normal ability to move.

Then Lucius witnessed an unprecedented migration, or more accurately, an escape.

All the demons fled frantically towards the outskirts of the royal city, trampling and killing countless people in the process. Even if someone was trampled into mincemeat by someone nearby, no demon would stop for them.

On that very day, Lucius witnessed for the first time the powerful lava lord fleeing.

She grabbed his body and became part of the first group to escape, without even looking back once.

But just as they were about to escape the city limits, they suddenly stopped, their teeth chattering, and dared not take another step.

Even in his fear, the Lava Lord still remembered Celeos's instructions, that he told them to come to Lava City and wait for him.

Under this command, the Lava Lord stopped in the most remote mountain range within the royal city's territory and lay dormant.

Half a month later, she summoned the rock giant from the lifeless royal city as a temporary dwelling place.

Then they just waited there, waiting for a summons that might never come.

Even having witnessed Celeos's terror, Lucius could not understand why Cecilia was so terrified of him.

Perhaps only after truly witnessing him turn vast lands into seas of blood and annihilate countless demons who refused to submit to him will he truly understand the weight the word "Demon King" carries in the hearts of the demons today.

"Lucius, tell me, should I wait for death first, or for His Majesty's summons?" The Lava Lord hugged his knees, staring blankly at the distant royal city.

“I don’t know,” Lucius shook his head.

The rulers he knew were like the Pope, who never got angry, never showed the slightest emotion, yet could control everything. He balanced all the power of the vast and corrupt Papacy, making this bloated institution run with difficulty.

But Celeos seemed to be a completely different being from the Pope. He was the only one in that vast and magnificent palace, yet he controlled the hearts of all the demons.

Even when he was not around, no one dared to rebel against his rule.

"Didn't you ever think about overthrowing him?" Lucius was somewhat puzzled by the customs and culture of the Demon Realm. Why did they not think about overthrowing such a tyrant, but instead submit to him so completely? What kind of mentality was that?

The Lava Lord ate the roasted meat he was offered and chuckled, "Lucius, you don't understand the demons."

"The demons here are not afraid of the Demon King's cruelty, nor of any of his terrifying actions. We are only afraid that the Demon King is not powerful enough, that he is a disgusting coward." Flames rose in the Lava Lord's red eyes: "When the next Demon King becomes His Majesty's food, when he wailes at His Majesty's throne, we will no longer have the courage or the will to resist."

“We live in this harsh place, and every morning when we wake up, we may be killed by the environment. So we hope that a powerful demon king will lead us and that he can tear open this sky and show us a different landscape.”

“Lucius, do you know?” the Lava Lord recalled the past: “In the past, on this land, we said, ‘May the Demon Realm protect the Demon King.’”

"But after His Majesty became the Demon King, we began to say, 'May His Majesty the Demon King protect the Demon Realm.'"

"This is our highest respect for him."