Chapter 1 The Floating Castle Airship

The Floating Castle mana airship passed the Serena River and was already very close to its final stop, Pariel North.

"Miss Lisanthee, what's wrong?"

Lan Qi looked at Lisanthee across the long table, feeling that she seemed a little unwell.

"I might be a little seasick, and I haven't been resting well lately."

Lisanthee tried to take a deep breath and smiled at Lan Qi.

The main hall considered the balance between functionality and aesthetics. Exquisitely crafted bronze chandeliers hung from the ten-meter-high ceiling, emitting a warm and soft light that made her feel dizzy.

She had been feeling a little tightness in her chest for some time, and once she became nervous, her vision would flicker.

An instinct was telling her not to fall asleep and to stay conscious.

"Is that so? Is there any psychological pressure? Maybe I can chat with you."

Lan Qi said kindly.

He didn't mean to pry into Lisanthee's affairs, he just wanted to help her.

"I..."

Lisanthee looked away, hesitantly clutching her slightly heaving chest.

Just then.

The mana airship trembled.

It seemed to be caused by unstable airflow.

Or perhaps a large creature had crash-landed on the airship's deck garden, causing a burst of impact and tremors.

Lan Qi and Lisanthee, who had originally planned to continue chatting, both looked towards the deck outside the window.

They only saw a few Bolsen Kingdom mana mechanical beasts stop on the Floating Castle airship during their flight.

Before long, a squad of officers walked into the passenger hall's magnificent lobby.

The leading chief officer wore a military cap with a shining papaya flower pattern and a black fitted military uniform.

He looked very young, but the powerful martial aura emanating from him made any ordinary passenger feel fear instinctively.

What's more, the chief officer had a unique coat of arms on his shoulder, the proof of Duke Tiffany.

"Starting from 5:00 PM today, the Pariel City Hall has issued an ordinance stating that all foreign airship flights need to accept Pariel's routine inspection. All demons present, come here to show your identification."

The black-uniformed, knife-wielding teenager raised his certificate and announced loudly,

"Demons who have recently been in contact with unidentified individuals, have a history of hallucinations, or have symptoms of intermittent loss of consciousness, must immediately report to me. Anyone who deliberately conceals this will be killed without mercy."

A small number of demons do not live in the Bolsen Demon Realm, but instead transform into human appearances and live in human communities with humans for many years.

"Is that Duke Tiffany's executioner?"

"How scary."

"What's going on in Flower City?"

"It's generally not a good thing when the Elder Council's executioners have to come forward."

The passengers around Lan Qi and Lisanthee immediately began to whisper.

It seemed that because this new regulation was implemented so urgently, tonight's flights were all stopped and inspected by the Elder Council's execution force just as they were about to reach their destination.

And even the demons who had transformed into humans and lived in society were frightened.

However, the chief officer of the execution force did not hesitate at all and took out a dark golden gemstone from his pocket.

He crushed the gemstone, and a burst of strong light filled the passenger hall.

The peach-hearted wooden panels on the walls and the magic导 frames inlaid with Pariel style gemstones, which contained Flower City's profound history while maintaining a modern artistic sense, all became mirrors reflecting light marks at this moment, making every corner nowhere to hide.

When the light went out again.

Many people opened their eyes with blurred vision.

The gemstone did not trigger a damage-type magic, and the flash effect was not particularly strong.

However, it had a unique magical interference formula.

If you were a human, you would not be affected in any way.

But the two or three demons scattered in the hall at the moment had changes in their pupils.

And the executioner himself, his own pupils turned into demon pupils.

Although he worked for the Elder Council's human dignitaries, he was actually a demon.

The executioner raised his hand, and the officers under him immediately went towards the demons.

The manifested demons raised their hands, indicating that they would not resist.

The chief officer glanced around and locked onto the direction where Lan Qi and Lisanthee were.

The strongest demon in this airship was sitting at that table.

Lisanthee's pupils had turned into demon pupils, and she fearfully avoided the executioner's gaze.

She was a pure-blooded demon who grew up in the Bolsen Kingdom.

The culture she received was no different from that of humans.

"Miss Lisanthee, don't worry, the Elder Council's executioners can't harm citizens casually either."

Lan Qi sat opposite her, gently pressing on the code, and explained to her.

His condition was not affected.

Although his soul had been demonized to a certain extent due to the Great Demon Mark he obtained in the Protos Empire, his bloodline and organs were still human.

"No..."

Lisanthee first glanced at Lan Qi in surprise, and then trembled again.

She didn't expect that this foreigner would not show disgust or fear towards her even after discovering that she was a demon.

The people of Bolsen themselves now rarely had hostility towards demons, but many people from other kingdoms who had never been in contact with demons would deeply hate and fear them.

At this moment, she was constantly trembling, and her condition was very wrong.

"That demon over there, accept the inspection."

The demon executioner in military uniform immediately put his hand on the hilt of his knife and walked towards them at an accelerated pace.

Then he glanced at Lan Qi, who was still talking to Lisanthee across the table.

"Human, stay away from her, her condition is a little unstable."

The executioner gradually said in a deep voice.

Although he was an executioner, he could not harm humans either.

If he could not determine the condition of this female demon, it would be easy to accidentally injure her if he rashly took action.

"Adjust your breathing, Lisanthee, no matter what happens, can you stay calm first?"

Lan Qi did not mean to stay away from Lisanthee, he looked at Lisanthee with concern and asked.

But no matter how he called out, Lisanthee seemed to be unable to hear his words.

Her mental pressure was increasing uncontrollably.

"No, I don't want to die..."

Finally, she raised her hand to cover her head and curled up on the seat.

And the red light on her chest became more and more intense, until she screamed and howled in pain.

The sound waves invisibly filled the spacious cabin hall, causing a burst of intense pain in the passengers' eardrums.

When they came back to their senses, they only saw that Lisanthee's skin behind the seat began to crack, as if flowers were about to be torn apart, and an ominous dark purple light emanated from those cracks, until Lisanthee's fingertips gradually became sharp claws, and her ears began to lengthen.

As the aura of the curse spread, Lisanthee's long hair became messy, like the mane of a beast, and her originally beautiful face was twisted and deformed, with only scarlet light remaining in her eyes, full of hatred for everything.

"The curse of the Great Warlock Palroni!"

"Get away from her!"

"A demon has gone mad!"

The hall was immediately covered by the passengers' panicked voices, echoing in Lisanthee's ears like the buzzing of bees, and her consciousness sank into the sea at this moment.

When she raised her head again, a roar from the depths of hell echoed in the hall, making the surrounding creatures feel fear.

However, the passengers did not see that Lisanthee's outstretched hand looked like she was saying "Save me."

(End of this chapter)