“Wait, you mean, the Purple Mist Vine has a significant amplifying effect on demons?”
Field and Alice heard this message, and their expressions were just like Liyakade’s when she heard it in the Dream Realm last night—small faces filled with doubt and disbelief.
“Then why does it cause such great harm to humans?”
“It’s because the energy is too massive. That’s what the Great Ancestor said.”
After that, Liyakade recounted Korim’s explanation of Purple Vine Grass from the Dream Realm last night for Field and Alice to hear.
Although what Liyakade described—the true effects of Purple Mist Rib Grass—was somewhat subverting their understanding, when they thought about it carefully, it really was just as Liyakade had said.
Field and Alice could only accept the fact.
“So that means… as long as you, Liyakade, keep taking Purple Mist Donkey Grass, you can resist the Light Element that Alice unconsciously releases?”
After hearing Liyakade’s explanation, Field came to this conclusion.
Alice also looked wordlessly at Liyakade, waiting for her answer.
“Yes. However, this method only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. Purple Mist Donkey Grass’s effect is to temporarily strengthen my bloodline and abilities. Once the effect wears off, I’ll still be affected by Alice’s Light Element. Moreover, as Alice’s level increases, the effective time will grow shorter and shorter until it completely loses its effect.”
“I see… then what should we do? Does Liyakade’s Great Ancestor have any method?”
Sure enough, there was no such blessing under heaven—just taking herbs to completely immunize against the nearly heavenly attacks of the Light Element.
How could that be possible?
Alice felt a moment of disappointment, but she quickly pulled herself together because they had to find a way to solve the problem instead of running away like before.
As long as their thinking didn’t slide, solutions would always outnumber difficulties.
“Yes, there is. This is exactly what I’m about to say.”
Liyakade nodded and glanced at Alice.
“Our clan’s strongest inheritance can truly achieve immunity to the Light Element’s restraint effect. But to truly awaken the inheritance, the conditions are rather harsh.”
“How harsh? Let’s hear it?”
Field was very curious about Liyakade’s so-called strongest inheritance.
She wondered just how far Liyakade’s bloodline and strength could reach.
“This inheritance is divided into two stages. The first stage is the unawakened stage—it can somewhat resist the Light Element, but not completely immunize it. The degree of resistance depends on the level gap. This stage requires meeting the Great Ancestor in the real world to complete the inheritance.”
“The second stage is the awakening stage. After awakening, one can completely withstand the restraint effect of the Light Element. However, the awakening condition is—”
At this point, Liyakade couldn’t help but pause, because the condition was truly too harsh, and also shocking.
“Become the Demon King.”
Sure enough, when they heard Liyakade’s final four words, Field and Alice’s small faces involuntarily showed expressions of extreme shock.
“Li-Liyakade, you’re joking, right? Even your ancestor is only a Candidate for Demon King. For you to fully awaken your ability, wouldn’t you need to be at least stronger than your ancestor?”
Alice was so stunned she could barely speak.
Earlier, when Liyakade introduced her ancestor, she had said that Korim was one of the Candidates for Demon King.
And when they fought Darkness, the power displayed by Liyakade possessed by Korim was something Field and Alice had never seen before.
Korim’s strength had completely crushed Darkness, who had been so troublesome for them.
Yet Korim was not the strongest among the Demon King Candidates.
According to Korim, if she fought Minotauros now, she wouldn’t be able to win.
If Liyakade wanted to become the Demon King, she would not only have to be stronger than Korim, but also defeat Minotauros, whom even Korim had no confidence in beating.
“Yeah, it does sound as hard as reaching the sky…”
Liyakade narrowed her eyes and nodded, acknowledging Alice’s words.
Indeed, for them, defeating the Demon King mainly relied on Alice’s Light Element.
Even Alice wasn’t confident she’d be stronger than the Demon King when the prophecy came.
But then Liyakade changed her tone, using more passionate words to encourage the two.
“But so what if it’s hard? How will we know if we don’t try? When we were fighting Darkness before, didn’t we think there was no way out?”
Saying this, Liyakade turned to look at Alice, meeting her golden eyes.
“Alice, you like me, don’t you?”
“Yes, Liyakade. I like you.”
Alice answered without a moment’s hesitation.
Her love for Liyakade was absolutely genuine.
“If we don’t try, we won’t be able to be together smoothly in the future. Even if we avoid physical contact, the Light Element that Alice unconsciously emits will still affect me, right? Or would Alice be content to never touch me again in the days ahead, never do happier things with me?”
“Of course not!”
What kind of joke was that?
Alice absolutely couldn’t accept that.
If two people liked each other but couldn’t touch each other, that would obviously be more tormenting, more painful, than not liking or having unrequited love!
“Then let’s just try.”
Liyakade stepped forward and gently held Alice’s hand.
A warm, soft sensation came through.
From Liyakade’s palm, Alice seemed to feel a firm strength and determination.
“I have enough confidence in this matter.”
To be honest, Liyakade wasn’t really that concerned about whether she could become the Demon King.
She thought that becoming the Demon King wasn’t actually that hard.
In the original work, since the final Demon King was Minotauros, it meant the strongest Demon Race among the Candidates was Minotauros.
So all she needed was to be stronger than him.
She knew exactly what Minotauros was worth.
When she played the original, Alice had just graduated and could already exchange a few moves with the Demon King Minotauros.
In the end, Minotauros was defeated by the Protagonist Party.
Therefore, Minotauros really wasn’t as strong as Alice and Field imagined.
At their current growth rate, by the time they graduated, every one of them could solo kill Minotauros.
What’s more, Darkness’s conspiracy had already been exposed by Liyakade and the others, and Darkness herself had been killed.
This would only further delay Minotauros’s seal-breaking speed.
They had more development time than the original and grew faster.
A mere Minotauros was nothing to fear.