"I am sorry too."
The demon apostle dropped the black heart that was still twitching onto the ground as he looked at the lifeless demon king on the ground.
'...'
The surrounding demon kings and their subordinates remained silent for the entire time and no one said a single thing.
However, deep down, they were shivering to death and kept a mental note of 'Don't wake Sir demon apostle up while he was sleeping.
"Since most of the powerful experts left the Zrochester province, let's start our plan."
The demon apostle was satisfied with the silence all around him as he gave the order to start the plan.
"First open all the portals that are in our control in the outer section and the middle section of the cursed wilderness."
The demon apostle reminded the plan to the demon kings and their subordinates as he continued, "Our first goal is to capture the spirit beasts and turn them into demonic spirit beasts."
"Remember, no demon king is allowed to enter the Zrochester province yet because that protector bastard would rush here if he sensed any King realm demons. Let's just convert as many spirit beasts as possible."
"Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir demon apostle. We understood."
At the end of his words, the demon apostle released his cultivation pressure, making everyone nod their heads.
"Everyone, you heard Sir demon apostle. Enter one of the ten portals and do your best to show what you are made up of."
"Make as many contribution points as possible and make our demon unit number one."
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Soon, the 10 demon kings gave orders to their armies to do their best because it was competition amongst the 10 demon kings and the army that did well would of course receive more rewards.
"Yes, Sir."
The ten demon armies were excited as they finally got a chance to prove themselves. So, without wasting any time, they selected a portal to enter.
Each demon army is made up of 100 peak elite demon generals, 1000 elite demon generals with various levels in that realm and around 9000 of them were peak demon generals.
There were 10 such demon armies that the demon apostle brought with him to destroy the entire Zrochester province, not to mention, the 10 high-level demon kings, who were the leaders of these 10 demon armies.
Moreover, they were not even going straight to the humans; instead, they first planned to convert the spirit beasts in the cursed wilderness into demonic spirit beasts before attacking the humans in the Zrochester province.
"With the 10 demon armies and thousands of demonic spirit beasts, it will not take more than half a day to clear the entire Zrochester province…hehe."
The demon apostle and the ten 10 demon kings chuckled to themselves as they waited for their armies to finish the first step in their plan.
"Anyway, let's start the second step of the plan which is to seal your cultivation to peak elite demon general realm."
After chuckling for a moment, the demon apostle ordered the 10 demon kings to sit down as various runes started appearing around them.
"Close your eyes and don't resist the seals."
The demon apostle' voice resounded in the cave as the ten demon kings followed his words without any hesitation.
"You will feel the pain when the seals are installed into your body; however, you must endure it. One more thing, after the seal is dissolved, it will increase your strength permanently. So, even though you are doing this mission because of the orders, you will be gaining something out of it other than the rewards based on your contribution."
The demon apostle's words continued to resound in the cave as the demon kings waited for the pain to come.
To enter the Zrochester province, they have to seal their own strength; otherwise, they would be killed by the world core because of the restrictions in the Zrochester province.
'Aargh'
Soon, the 10 demon kings started groaning painfully; however, they gritted their teeth for the sake of the rewards.
.....
In a random place, the Middle-section of the cursed wilderness.
'Swoosh'
In a desolate place that had no spirit beasts, a small portal opened and soon a group of bronze demons, silver demons and even golden demons started walking out.
"Everyone, remember one thing. Try your best in not killing the spirit beasts and try to convert them into demonic spirit beasts."
"The more demon spirit beasts we create, the higher our contribution points will be."
A few golden demons with peak elite general realm strength reminded all the demons regarding what they had to do.
Soon after, the ten thousand demons started moving in groups on order to catch the spirit beasts.
Similarly, the rest of the nine demon armies also entered the middle-section of the cursed wilderness.
The portals opened in a place where there were no spirit beasts and they were not worried about alerting anyone.
Whichever spirit beast they came across, they would try their best in converting them into demonic spirit beasts and in the worst-case scenario, where the spirit beast had a strong will, they could only kill it and let the converted spirit beasts devour the corpses of those spirit beasts.
....
Ajax didn't know that the demon armies had already entered the Zrochester province through the hidden portals in the middle section of the cursed wilderness.
Currently, Ajax was still waiting for the spirit beasts under his control to gather at the inner section.
At the same time, he was waiting for the scouts to return with the information regarding the demon's location as Ajax didn't know exactly where they would start their invasion.
'Roar'
Soon, Ajax heard loud roars from a distance and muttered, 'Looks like they are finally here. However, I still need the flying scouts to return with the information on the demons.'
Without even looking, Ajax could guess that the roars belonged to the spirit beasts under his control as he kept an eye on the flying scouts.
'Screech'
All of a sudden, the two brown eagles landed in front of Ajax before saying what Ajax wanted to hear all this time.
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A Bonus Chapter for every 100 Golden Tickets.