Chapter 16
Chapter 16: Demon Army Is Heading for Self-Destruction!
The head chef Lolth, who was busy peeling the eggplants, smashing the cucumbers, and cutting the pumpkins, had no idea that Tina’s scream had suddenly brought her, who had always had a low profile in the Demon Army, into everyone’s discussion.
“When the demon king suddenly promoted a succubus as the head of the Interrogation Department and Detention Department, I knew she was extraordinary!”
“That’s right, to torture an elf like that, she is indeed remarkable!”
“Have you heard? Today, Lord Shelldor returned from the front lines with the Second Legion and praised the interrogator’s handling of matters!”
“Could it be related to Lolth’s transfer?”
“Of course, I heard the Second Legion is heading to support the western front, and this Elf Princess is the key figure in the resistance alliance on the western front!”
“Did they extract information within a day?”
“Has succubus really influenced the entire battle?!”
“No wonder the Demon King has been allocating so much funding to the Interrogation Department in recent years!”
Rumors started spreading among the officials in the Demon Army, especially with the news of the “Flame Sovereign” Shelldor’s mobilization. Many people, who had never seen the interrogator named “Lolth” before, began to have a “mysterious and frightening” impression of her.
Of course, there were also some straightforward individuals who still viewed her with disdain and skepticism.
“She’s just a succubus after all!”
“Intelligence? Is it useful?”
“Spending so much budget, and yet no results for years!”
Regardless, everyone became very curious about the formerly very peripheral department of the Interrogation Department.
But because of Lolth’s “mystery,” she had almost no friends within the Demon Army, and no one thought of paying her a visit.
The demon race is usually curious but doesn’t investigate too much.
As the screams died down and Lolth finished preparing lunch, most of the discussion stopped, leaving only a lingering curiosity among many Demon Army officers.
Lolth brought a picnic box and a picnic blanket to the rooftop pasture.
“I’m back!”
She spread the picnic blanket on the ground, took out flavored eggplants, garlic cucumbers, fried eggplant cubes, cucumber with scrambled eggs, and pumpkin congee from the picnic box, arranged them on the red checkered blanket, sat down, and brought out two sets of utensils.
After doing all this, Lolth looked up at Tina, who had been watching her nervously, patted the blanket, and said, “Why are you standing there? Sit down and eat – it won’t taste as good when it gets cold!”
Saying this, Lolth, Tina sat down.
But Tina still looked a bit doubtful.
“What about those plants from before?”
“Ah? Oh!”
Lolth took a moment to realize that Tina was referring to the cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins in the basket.
She pointed to the dishes on the plate and bowl, saying, “They’re all here!”
Then Tina paused, realizing the meaning of “hospitality” was different from what she had thought.
However, Tina could not admit that she had misunderstood on her own!
So, in Tina’s mind, another cycle of thoughts began.
“It must be deliberate by this succubus!” — “I am under soul control!” — “She must appreciate my reaction now!”
After going through these thoughts, Tina blushed again, giving Lolth a resentful look.
She picked up the tableware that Lolth had set before her…
Two sticks.
In a magical world with fantasy background.
In this world, they do not use chopsticks.
Even if they did, chopsticks would definitely not be the traditional utensils of the Elves… After all, this is not the world of “Lord of the Mysteries.” (Translator: I remember that in Lord of the Mysteries, elves used chopsticks. Don’t remember which chapter mentioned it but it should be a very early chapter.)
If it weren’t for Lolth already holding two chopsticks and picking up a piece of eggplant, Tina would have probably imagined a 300-word inappropriate use for these two small sticks.
However, seeing how Lolth used them, Tina, feeling puzzled, followed suit and tried to use the chopsticks to pick up food.
Like all beginners using chopsticks for the first time, Tina found the chopsticks very difficult to control.
“*Click.*”
She picked up a piece of cucumber, but it quickly fell back onto the plate.
Lolth also noticed this scene, unable to help but gasp.
“I almost forgot, you can’t use chopsticks… Let me get you a fork!”
She said this and changed a fork for Tina.
“Even in something as small as using utensils for dining, do you not forget to embarrass my incompetence… ”
Tina took the fork handed to her by Lolth, feeling even more dejected.
However, when she took the first bite of the flavorful eggplant…
All negative emotions were once again thrown aside.
“Mmm… delicious!”
Afterwards, she tried some cucumber with garlic sauce.
The strong taste overwhelmed Tina’s taste buds, making her almost cry as she had never tasted garlic before.
But this feeling… seems not bad after all!
“Are you trying to make me cry and have a runny nose… No, you probably want to see how I can’t help but enjoy it even when I lose control!”
Thinking this, Tina continued savoring this incredibly fresh, even somewhat exotic cuisine.
She felt like her soul was sinking deeper!
But this was a blatant scheme!
She couldn’t resist at all!
While thinking this, Lolth’s voice sounded.
“These new types of vegetables, the green one is called a cucumber, the purple one is an eggplant, and the largest one is a pumpkin… There are many more similar vegetables, and I intend to entrust their cultivation to you – some are edible right away, you can pick and taste them when they ripen.”
Lolth said so, while still enjoying her food, Tina nodded.
No way, she was being “controlled”!
Even as the Elf Princess, she couldn’t refuse to do servant-like tasks such as cleaning and planting!
It’s definitely not because these vegetables are delicious!
While Lolth and Tina were having a leisurely picnic, outside the prison tower Interrogation Department, whether it’s the Demon King Castle or the Holy Alliance, the atmosphere was not so relaxed.
On the side of the Demon King Castle, after resting for a night, Shelldor gathered her second legion and marched towards the western front!
The demon dragons of the second legion were flying in the sky, showing their massive and terrifying forms. The western outpost of the Holy Alliance detected this, and the Anti-demon Great Wall sounded a piercing call for help!
“Demon Army attack!”
“Abyssal Demon assembly!”
“Another wave of war is approaching!”
Different races and powers in the alliance all realize that a great war is coming.
On the central battlefield, General Isabella of the Ryman Empire, who had faced Shelldor countless times, remained calm as she looked at the reports coming from the front in the fortress.
“The western front… Shelldor, you are truly walking into a trap!”
Her gaze fell on the map spread out on her table.
On the map, next to the central fortress, there was a red line running through the entire Dragonspine Mountain!
It was a secret passage that not many people knew about!
In Isabella’s view, the Demon Army would never expect that the Holy Alliance still controlled such a secret passageway.
If the elite army of the central front suddenly attacked from the rear when the western front started the battle…
Thinking about that scene, even Isabella, who was known as “Ryman Ice” for her cold and beautiful face, couldn’t help but show a faint smile.