CH 46.1

She smiled prettily while trying to look as harmless as possible. But the more she did that, the more Bael’s eyes began to grow fiercer. As she realized that she couldn’t get over the situation simply by glossing it over, Julia eventually opened her mouth, albeit reluctantly.

“I, I have a place that I need to go for a while…”

“Where.”

“Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to run away at all. In fact, I was just planning to go out for a bit.”

“So, where is it?”

Julia couldn’t answer that easily. The Demon God’s Tower was a very important place for demons and she was already considered as the key to unlocking the magic stone itself. Therefore, she had to act cautiously because if she did something wrong, it could definitely look suspicious.

Bael’s pupils narrowed ominously as she squeezed her mouth shut and searched for an appropriate answer. A cold wave of energy flowed from the King’s red pair of eyes.

“But it looks like you and that human man were trying to run away, right?”

“Why do you keep on accusing Legion in that manner?”

“Is it right on the spot, then? Are you feeling anxious because you can’t easily be with the man you love?”

“I already said that it’s not like that at all. Legion and I are nothing more than friends. If you keep doing that, I’ll get really angry.”

She was already nervous of the fact that she might not be able to complete the quest. On top of that, she was also anxious if she were to be caught that she had not been the real key. Nevertheless, when Bael had doused her in oil before sparking a fire, Julia’s patience instantly snapped. She proceeded to cross her arms and turn away her head.

“I was actually going to go to the Demon God’s Tower.”

She wanted to try it if she actually could. Even if she was…… not, in fact, the key, he still wouldn’t be able to deal with a similar being easily anyway. Since he wished to swallow the Demon God’s power and the other demons had wanted to make their one and only Master the Demon God as well.

Julia pursed her lips and grunted, but Bael simply took a step forward. His menacingly well-knit muscles and tall height was approaching her like that, which made even Julia, who had held up well at first, could no longer help but to wince little by little.

‘What did I just do?’

Just like a crow in front of a black leopard, her eyes immediately looked down. The violently sensual and vivid abs eventually came into her gaze. Since he had just woken up, the only clothes that he had donned was a low-waist loincloth.

She was staring at his pubic bone, which stood out sharply even with his small movements, when she could hear the gust of wind blowing from above her head. Then, her vision began to change in an instant.

“Kyaaak!”

“Don’t scream in my ear.”

“Why—why are you doing this? I, I  just made a grave mistake. It was definitely a slip of my tongue.”

“You didn’t mean to go to the tower then?”

She immediately went frozen on the shoulder of the Demon King, just like a sack as she couldn’t even struggle before she stopped all of a sudden and looked back at Bael.

She wondered if she had heard it wrong, but Bael’s gaze was clearly directed to a single place. Right towards the Demon God’s Tower that soared high enough to even pierce the sky.

“I thought that you would ask me more. What am I going to do in the tower or why do I even want to go…”

“Do I really need to know all that?”

“It’s not like that, but what if I’m actually plotting a scary plan—like putting the Demon King in danger.”

A puff of wind passed over Julia’s head when she was seriously making a dangerous remark. Instead, there was a very obvious sneer that could be heard in his voice.

Bael carried her across the large bedroom while she draped around his shoulders. He broke the window with just his foot and climbed onto the terrace railing before spreading out his huge wings. Only then did Julia, who finally realized the Demon King’s intentions, open her eyes wide. Nevertheless, Bael had already leaped at once.

Julia’s high-pitched scream instantly went away at an incredibly rapid pace.

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[▷SYSTEM

Main Quest. The ‘Secret of the Tower’ is in progress.]

The strong gust of wind blasted Julia’s hair wildly. She looked down at her feet while clutching onto her fluttering skirt. She was now standing on an open floor with no apparent walls at all. It was clear that if she got tossed away by the wind, she would immediately plunge far into the ground.

Unlike the tower’s image, each floor had a different appearance altogether.

The first place where Bael had landed was the indoor garden located right on the upper middle level of the tower. The plants were all arranged so geometrically that it became simply hard to believe that they hadn’t been touched by that of humans, but contrary to her expectations, Julia couldn’t find any single clue out there.

It was only after several floors that Julia finally realized. She was, in fact, literally clueless.

‘No matter what I do, this is just too much. There should be a degree of difficulty……’

When she was playing the game, [Demon’s Paradise], she had never tried to capture Bael at all. Nevertheless, she did undertake the quest through another character’s route. The system then provided the players with some hints and supplies. Alternatively, they could also place several settings in advance so that one would be able to finish it just by reasoning only.