I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 444 - 248: The Fourth Hero Became a Vessel

Chapter 444: Chapter 248: The Fourth Hero Became a Vessel

"Phew, we’ve arrived," Chu Zhen wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was his first time leading a traversal, and it was a bit nerve-wracking, not just once but throughout the entire journey.

"What a marvelous trip," Liu Lai was noticeably more cheerful.

Gu Shanhai, on the other hand, was busy figuring out where the heroes of this world might be.

The same old rule, go to the Royal Capital of the Holy Kingdom to inquire, or else it would be difficult to gather information elsewhere.

As for using Spiritual Sense, Gu Shanhai wouldn’t bother; it wasn’t a necessity. Heroes were easy to find out about with just a few questions.

"Let’s go and inquire about the situation of the heroes on this continent," Gu Shanhai said.

Chu Zhen and Liu Lai naturally had no objections, as it was all the same to them. The main thing was to learn from Gu Shanhai.

After entering the Royal Capital and looking into the heroes’ whereabouts, the results left them puzzled.

First of all, it was absurd that no one knew about the heroes, as if the world had never experienced a hero’s reincarnation come to save it.

Consequently, there was no Demon King either, but the Demon Clan and monsters still existed—the former as one of the foreign races, and the latter as targets for subjugation.

"Demons and monsters exist, but no Demon King or heroes, what’s going on?" Gu Shanhai frowned. He couldn’t see clearly the changes happening in the Hero Continent, there was a sense of haziness.

"If this Hero Continent doesn’t have a Demon King, then probably no hero would be reincarnated here," Chu Zhen voiced his speculation.

"Do you think that’s possible? I’m more inclined to believe they might be sealed away somewhere with the Demon King," Liu Lai had a different opinion. He believed everyone on the Hero Continent had ill intentions towards heroes, so he speculated in the most sinister way possible.

It wasn’t that he didn’t consider death, because if a hero died, another unfortunate soul would come along; if there’s a long absence, it’s more likely that they would share the Demon King’s hard luck than truly be safe and sound.

"Hmm, Liu Lai, you make sense," Gu Shanhai somewhat agreed with Liu Lai’s words.

It took nearly a day longer before they obtained a slight clue from a minstrel.

The clue was somewhat different from what they had thought.

It was that the hero and the Demon King fell in love and both retired from the scene.

When he heard this story, Chu Zhen felt like his CPU was about to fry. Liu Lai being drained by a succubus was already outrageous, but now, even the Demon King was involved?

"The Demon King, should be male, right?" Chu Zhen began to doubt life itself.

"He is male, at least the one I encountered was," Liu Lai said expressionlessly. The succubus that drained him was indeed female; it did not imply that the Demon King was female.

Gu Shanhai nodded as well, confirming that the Demon King was indeed male, yet he also said, "Is it forbidden for the hero’s charm to turn the Demon King upside down?"

"But wait, is there a possibility that this hero is a female?" Chu Zhen suddenly realized. Nobody said that the hero had to be male, right?

Hearing this, Gu Shanhai and Liu Lai fell silent. That seemed to make sense.

"Let’s assume it’s a female then. But speaking of which, this happened a thousand years ago, what’s the Demon King’s situation now?" Gu Shanhai was somewhat perplexed.

According to the minstrel, the love story between the Demon King and the hero happened a thousand years ago, and these thousand years passed quite peacefully, without any crisis. Unlike other Hero Continents, where the Demon King would revive and the Demon King Army would return, especially those Demon King Armies that sprout like leeks in the field; no matter how many the hero killed, they just kept coming back.

"Maybe... drained dry?" Liu Lai, from personal experience, wondered if the Demon King suffered the same fate.

Gu Shanhai and Chu Zhen both had an exasperated look; not everyone has the combat power of a succubus to drain the Demon King. Moreover, Liu Lai was drained by thirteen succubi in a continuous assault, it was this that left him in such a state. If it were one-on-one, with the max-level hero’s BOSS template and the succubus’s mere elite template, it wasn’t guaranteed who would drain who.

"Stop guessing, let’s visit the old site of the Demon King City," Gu Shanhai interrupted Liu Lai’s further speculation. Who knew where his thoughts would race off to next.

Although Liu Lai appeared unchanged on the surface, able to chat with them, who knows how he truly felt about the thirteen succubi that still lived in his heart.

The reason Gu Shanhai suggested going to the site of the former Demon King City was because the minstrel mentioned that the Demon King and the hero died there in each other’s arms.

Yes, falling in love was truly a physical fall into a river—both died.

But in Gu Shanhai’s view, this seemed unlikely, since the Demon King would revive if he died and if the hero died, someone else unfortunate would be reincarnated.

So, a more likely scenario was that the two maintained a unique balance, existing neither alive nor dead while continuously draining Demonic Qi, thereby ensuring smooth operation.

And this action was unreplicable; if it could be reproduced, the main world of the Hero World would have done so long ago, why not use the many subsidiary worlds as resource points or other measures, right?

For Liu Lai, reaching the Demon King City was a well-trodden path. As the only one among the three heroes who went through the standard procedure to defeat the Demon King and his army, he was quite the anomaly.