Of course, if conditions permitted, Yilisi wouldn’t mind taking the time to personally help Fei’ouna break out of her withdrawn state.
However, the opportunity to put this plan into action had already passed her by.
There were two purposes for summoning her daughter back. One was to help Fei’ouna with special training.
The second was that Yilisi needed a reliable clansman to personally protect her queen.
Taking these two goals together, the best “dragon” for the job undoubtedly fell to the eldest princess of the Demon Dragon court, Ka Xiya.
As an efficient means of communication, magical letters normally took around five to ten minutes to travel between Demon King’s Castle and the Demon Realm border.
However, for Yilisi, who had mastered void power, she could compress this time even further.
About a minute later, Ka Xiya, stationed far away at the border, received this letter from home—or rather, an order from the Demon King.
Since Ka Xiya was currently assigned to the vanguard unit of the Demon King’s Army, her firsthand patrol experience and the data reported by her subordinates gave her a more intuitive understanding of the significant increase in human infiltration into the Demon Realm.
Barring any unexpected developments, war was imminent.
At most half a month, at least a few days, and the vanguard of the human knight order would openly invade the Demon Realm.
Stop the enemy from breaking in?
Don’t even think about it.
The endless plains, combined with the disparity in combat strength, made it impossible to keep humans out of the Demon Realm.
Moreover, that didn’t match the demons’ usual fighting style.
Bizarre mazes, filthy swamps, demonized thickets, countless strange traps…
The complex environment of the Demon Realm was the demons’ true killing weapon.
So letting the humans in for a war of attrition and guerrilla tactics was the most advantageous choice for them.
Only under necessary circumstances would Yilisi consider a head-on confrontation.
Therefore, at this point, Ka Xiya actually should have been leading her troops to retreat to the rear for rest, so being temporarily assigned by Yilisi to undertake a new mission was also understandable.
However, Ka Xiya had strong objections to this, so much so that the magical letter, which was set to self-destruct after reading, met a pitiful end of being burned to ashes.
“Heh…”
“I’ll let you live a little longer.”
As for the arrangement to withdraw from the border and await orders, the moment Ka Xiya learned that the humans who had caused her mother so much suffering had already entered the Demon Realm, she had already decided to disobey.
Although doing so was risky, her bottom line was that she would not allow any bastard who harmed Fei’ouna to live in this world.
Unfortunately, Ka Xiya had not yet pinpointed the location of that group, and since the Demon King’s order was also related to her mother, she had no choice but to temporarily abandon the idea of execution.
She transformed into her dragon form and flew back at high speed toward Demon King’s Castle deep in the Demon Realm.
And the Demon Dragon was a top-tier life form with a hexagonal stat panel.
Such a vast distance—from morning to afternoon, just a few hours—and Ka Xiya had already flown directly above her own castle.
Currently, the only ones who could come and go so freely within Demon King’s Castle were this princess and our Demon King.
Since Yilisi had not informed her beloved wife that their eldest daughter was coming home, Fei’ouna, who was making baby food for Ai Lini, suddenly sensed Ka Xiya’s presence.
Her hand trembled, and she accidentally knocked over the container in her hand, spilling the meat paste inside.
But that didn’t matter anymore.
Baby food could wait; it wasn’t like Ai Lini would starve.
The little one would have a perfect meal soon enough.
The main thing was that Ka Xiya was back!
She had been dreaming of having her by her side!
This aura—there was no mistaking it!
But why hadn’t her master told her earlier this time?
In the past, whenever Ka Xiya was coming back, Yilisi would inform her at least a day in advance.
But today was very unusual…
‘Could something unexpected have happened…’
‘After all, things are really unstable outside…’
Just as Fei’ouna was worrying, her beloved eldest daughter, upon arriving home, instantly changed into a casual T-shirt and, guided by the scent, burst into the kitchen a bit recklessly.
Upon seeing her mother’s gentle, familiar face, Ka Xiya—though she had only recently entered the battlefield and had already stained her hands with much blood—let out a rare, silly laugh.
“Mom!”
“I’m home!”
In response to Ka Xiya appearing before her, the first thing Fei’ouna did was drop whatever unimportant thing she was holding, step forward, and seriously inspect the other’s body from head to toe.
“Don’t move.”
“I want to see if you’ve been taking care of yourself while you were away.”
She even inspected her daughter’s teeth.
Indeed, in front of a mother, a child is always a child who never grows up and needs to be worried about.
Despite Ka Xiya repeatedly saying: “Mom, I really am fine.”
“Stop messing around!”
Fei’ouna didn’t give up until she confirmed there were no problems.
Only then did she let her daughter go free.
Although Ka Xiya was very resistant to being treated like a child by her mother, since growing up, she couldn’t muster any temper in front of Fei’ouna at all.
But to be honest, it seemed to be the first time her mother had worried about her like this.
‘Does she know about the war?’
“Mom, did that Yilisi tell you something?”
Although Ka Xiya had immediately guessed the essence of the problem, Fei’ouna still gave a headache-inducing criticism of her daughter’s frequent use of disrespectful language toward the Demon King.
“Ka Xiya, how many times have I told you not to address the Demon King by name?”
“And she is your blood relative. Don’t be so disrespectful.”
Most of the time, Ka Xiya listened to her mother, but when it came to respecting the Demon King, it was an exception.
‘Yilisi? Isn’t she the one who bullies my mother?’
Of course, she didn’t know the story of the human hero being defeated, captured, and becoming a mother crying while incubating eggs.
After all, Yilisi had used her own means to erase all traces left behind, ensuring that no one else knew the details of this secret except her and Fei’ouna.
As for why Ka Xiya felt her mother was being bullied, the reason was actually very simple.
A queen who stayed at home all year, not allowed to go out, not allowed to contact clansmen outside, and even had no dignity when interacting with the Demon King.
Clearly, she had been taken by some evil dragon through underhanded means as a captive bride!