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Upon hearing Reji's words, Louise was stunned and doubting her ears.
"The demon race... no longer has wicked demons?"
It should be known that wicked demons were one of the apostle races of the demon race.
Like her, many alien races hated the demon race and were completely destroyed, half of which was thanks to the wicked demons.
But now... Louise felt that the Demon King before her would not deceive her, and there was no need to.
So now, only eight apostles remained in the demon race?
"This is not the place to talk. When we get to the surface, you and the other alien races, including humans, will all see a new era belonging to the demon race."
After Reji finished speaking, he nodded to a silver-haired apostle.
Following Reji's gaze, Louise only then noticed Vielsia.
Noticing those pointed ears, that beautiful and elegant appearance iconic of elves.
Wait.
An E-Elf!?
And Apostle??
Two words that should never be associated were intertwined, causing a great impact on Louise. And the power displayed by Vielsia afterwards made Louise no longer doubt her identity.
...
Stillwater Prison was located deep underground.
Reji not only wanted to bring the people here out, but since the monsters had been cleared, he would also bring the entire prison to the surface as "evidence" to let the truth be revealed.
After receiving Reji's authorization, Vielsia brought her ten fingers together, and emerald green magic power began to surround the area. Blooming flowers sprouted from under her feet. The authority of the Flower Apostle quickly filled Stillwater Prison, where not an inch of soil could grow, with plants.
With Vielsia at the center, a seed was planted. First, tender shoots broke through the soil, then quickly turned into lush seedlings, and in the blink of an eye, grew into an ancient tree that continued to grow wildly.
The sea of fire did not harm the humans.
What Leo wanted was just the grand spectacle of the 9th-tier spell.
This was undoubtedly successful, as could be seen from the terrified expressions on people's faces now on the streets.
The city, dyed a fiery red as if it were doomsday by the firelight, was enough to give humans a visual impact.
Even from a distance, the scorching sensation that could be felt on the skin, the stinging feeling of being invisibly burned, could deepen the humans' impression of the demon race, just like the fear of raging flames.
Reji was also looking at the humans below.
In fact, he had been thinking about how to make these humans, after the demon race's full-scale attack and takeover of these human cities, if not coexist with the demon race, at least minimize resistance as much as possible.
He wanted to make these humans a force for himself and the demon race, to be an aid rather than a burden in the final decisive battle with the Empire.
Fortunately, he found the answer in Stillwater Prison.
This was also one of the fundamental reasons why Reji finally made up his mind to no longer lurk in the shadows.
All these imprisoned and slandered human elites and scholars would become the most powerful evidence for him to expose the truth about the Empire and make humans understand who the real enemy was.
And the insect eggs that the Emperor had parasitized in the vast majority of humans would, in turn, become the most powerful help in uniting humans under his banner.
Next, he would make Stillwater Prison known to all.
He would tell all humans the secret of the insect eggs.
And he would provide humans with a way to remove the insect eggs in their bodies. Of course, the price was to obey him, the Demon King.
This was the benevolence that Reji planned to bestow upon humans.
Of course, benevolence alone was definitely not enough.
As long as it was war, there was bound to be a bloodbath, and there had to be such a slaughter to truly complete the conquest.
Reji would not go soft on this either.
But what he could choose was to place the "might" of the bloodbath on whom, to focus the demon race's slaughter and thousand-year hatred on a "portion" of the human population.
For example... the privileged class.