Their self-sacrifice successfully activated the teleportation array, sending Lina and Aiweier away from this place of trouble.
As a price, besides being trapped in a death-defying situation, “jumping off” the high-speed magical array caused their bodies to be torn apart by a torrent of particles.
So after the light of the teleportation array completely disappeared, the two, already wounded, lost consciousness and fell into a deathlike state.
Would Ka Xiya, who was fuming with rage, execute them out of anger?
The main culprit escaping meant that the task assigned by Yilisi wasn’t completed one hundred percent.
Without a doubt, she had failed.
Since joining the Demon King’s Army, this was Ka Xiya’s first defeat.
So for a moment, she really wanted to burn these two humans to ashes to vent her fury.
Fortunately, Ka Xiya’s rationality ultimately triumphed over her extreme emotions.
‘What’s the use of killing them…’
‘It’s meaningless, and besides, the mission to capture them alive would be ruined.’
Meanwhile, Beileisi, the other Demon Dragon who had been frozen by Aiweier earlier, finally broke free from the seal and came before Ka Xiya, making a rather simple-minded request.
“Princess…”
“Should we dispose of them?”
Ka Xiya’s chest was already filled with pent-up anger, with no outlet to release it.
Now, with Beileisi, who had been her follower since childhood, coming right up to her, she became an innocent scapegoat.
“Don’t call me princess!”
“You useless idiot! Why did it take you so long to get out of that block of ice?”
“Get out of my sight! Until I give new orders, don’t let anyone into this floor!”
Though she was scolded unfairly, Beileisi, who had been slacking off, knew that Her Highness’s temper could be this explosive sometimes.
Fine, I’ll scram!
“Understood, Your Highness.”
“I’ll roll out now.”
So Beileisi, spreading her wings, flew away and followed Her Highness’s orders to the upper level of the dungeon, issuing a curfew to the guards who wanted to enter.
Ka Xiya’s purpose for doing this, aside from maintaining secrecy, was another reason.
That was to protect her personal image.
Her current appearance was too miserable—covered in blood and with a lump on her head.
If the guards outside saw her like this, it would definitely spark a flood of rumors.
But Ka Xiya couldn’t stay in the dark prison forever, because she still had to take these two humans back to report.
After all, with such a big incident, even if she didn’t want to, she had to report the changes in the dungeon to His Majesty the Demon King.
Not to mention that Yilisi had specifically instructed her to capture a live one.
Honestly, she really didn’t want to face Yilisi at this moment.
She would not only be scolded but also mocked.
Thinking about that oppressive scene, Ka Xiya’s heart resisted.
But reality had to be faced.
So, after mentally preparing herself, our princess, in order to minimize the exposure of her embarrassing state, went to great lengths to tear some cloth strips and camouflage the wound on her forehead with a makeshift bandage.
And her takeoff speed was pushed to the limit.
From the eyes of the outside demon guards, only a fleeting red afterimage was seen.
But with Ka Xiya doing this, Linka and Isabella’s bodies couldn’t take it.
Especially Linka, who was barely hanging on by a thread, now entered a critical state infinitely close to death.
Strictly speaking, she was already dead, because no matter how exquisite the healing magic, it couldn’t work on a person whose soul had begun to annihilate.
But it didn’t matter, because Ka Xiya knew that Yilisi had interrogation methods that transcended life and death.
Even for a corpse, the Demon King, who could control the undead, could make it speak.
And Ka Xiya’s flight speed didn’t stay at high speed for long.
Just before arriving above the palace, she hesitated briefly.
Ka Xiya, already used to being scolded by the Demon King, could actually accept it after adjusting her mindset.
After all, she had indeed failed the mission.
Even if she were scolded or physically punished with confinement, she had nothing to say.
But if her mother were present, things would be different.
Not only would her mother worry, but she would also see her incompetent side.
Unfortunately, some things were destined to be unavoidable.
With matters already at this point, Ka Xiya, slowly descending into the palace, had to steel herself to face her blood relatives.
So, not long after finishing their “whispered conversation,” Fei’ouna and Yilisi, who were playing with Ai Lini, saw Ka Xiya, her head wrapped in awkward bandages, carrying two humans of unknown life status into the inner hall.
Without even asking, just by looking at her daughter’s sullen, bear-like appearance, Yilisi knew that the task she had assigned had failed.
And judging by her head, it seemed she was quite injured.
This unexpected situation was something she hadn’t anticipated.
After all, Ka Xiya wasn’t weak.
No matter how careless she was, she shouldn’t have been injured by a group of human adventurers who had been schemed against from the start.
So, where did the accident happen…
Unlike Yilisi’s rational contemplation, Fei’ouna, upon seeing her daughter return injured, didn’t have the mood to think about such trivial matters.
She immediately gave her a thorough head-to-toe examination.
Only after confirming that Ka Xiya’s most serious injury was at the base of her dragon horn, along with significant magic depletion, and that there was no life-threatening danger, did she begin healing her while scolding her in annoyance.
“Look at you, how did you end up like this?”
“Were you being stubborn again?”
“Or were you too reckless?”
Ka Xiya couldn’t respond to this at all, because she had neither been stubborn nor reckless.
Facing the four-person adventurer team led by that ice mage, she had lost without excuse.
Seeing Ka Xiya remain silent, Fei’ouna gradually realized something was wrong.
No, the old demon city wasn’t a dangerous border.
Her daughter, who had already been on the battlefield, shouldn’t have suffered such a big defeat in their own backyard.
So, she subconsciously asked Yilisi a very stupid question.
“What’s going on? Yilisi?”
“Have the humans already broken through to here?”
In short, Yilisi felt like she was playing the lute to a cow.
She had said so much before, but her beloved wife’s thought process was still as bizarrely straightforward as ever.
The humans breaking through here?
How could she even think that!
But just as Yilisi was holding her forehead in headache, Fei’ouna noticed a totem emblem with special meaning on one of the human girls her daughter had brought back.
“Is this the Boshijin family crest?”
But even more surprises were yet to come, because after discovering the emblem, Fei’ouna immediately encountered another matter that would keep her heart unsettled for a long time.