Here comes the interesting part.
According to the conventions of human adventurer guilds for dispatching missions, true elite adventurers only appear in relatively critical battles.
For dangerous and pointless missions like this, to protect their reputation, they only send some cannon fodder who have a bit of strength but no background.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything.
For example, Fei’ouna’s fate is a typical case.
Even though she reached the top of her profession and even earned the title of Brave, she was still backstabbed and betrayed.
This illustrates a cruel truth: one’s background often outweighs personal effort.
Under the same talent, children of noble families not only have more cultivation resources and promotion channels, but also receive many hidden protections in their future adventurer careers.
Considering that ordinary humans rarely produce such high-level experts, the one who made my daughter suffer today probably falls into one of two situations.
One is that the person who broke into the Black Prison Dungeon is a noble lady who doesn’t know her place.
Two is that a once-in-a-century civilian genius, influenced by many factors, took on this dangerous mission where any mistake would result in immediate death.
I estimate the latter is more likely~ But aside from speculation, Yilisi also has her own way to analyze these people’s backgrounds.
As long as she extracts and stores these two humans’ souls into the Void Purgatory, she gains permission to read their memories.
Although this violates her agreement with Fei’ouna—since the original plan was to imprison the captured humans, not hand them over to Yilisi for interrogation—she has no choice, because her curiosity has been successfully piqued~ Besides, isn’t that exactly why Ka Xiya brought them here?
If Yilisi doesn’t act, these two humans—especially the tall woman who has already stopped breathing—would end up as corpses.
Now that her daughter has brought them before her, it must be because they have significant value; otherwise, there would be no need to drag a dying person here.
However, Yilisi didn’t act arbitrarily this time.
After all, nominally she is a patient who has handed over power to her daughter, so she chose to seek permission from her beloved.
“My dear Queen.”
“If possible, could you hand these two humans over to me for handling~”
“I believe that by operating myself, I can definitely find out the true identities and origins of the adventurers who infiltrated the old Demon City this time.”
By playing it this way, besides deliberately reinforcing Fei’ouna’s superior image in their daughter’s eyes, Yilisi also took into account the secrets hidden behind the other’s momentary lapse of attention.
And her consideration was very thorough, because upon hearing that the Demon King wanted to change her mind and personally conduct the interrogation, Fei’ouna almost without any further thought denied it.
“I think, Demon King, it would be more appropriate for you to rest well.”
“As for the matter of these humans infiltrating the old Demon City and attempting to break out the prisoners, I will investigate it thoroughly and give you a satisfactory answer.”
What a joke.
No matter what, Linka was her beloved disciple; she didn’t want Yilisi to turn her into a soulless undead puppet.
Of course, Fei’ouna’s stance did not waver.
She did this simply to give her disciple a chance to live.
If possible, she would prefer to successfully persuade her to surrender.
This win-win outcome was naturally what Fei’ouna most wanted to see: completing the Demon King’s assigned task while also saving her disciple’s life.
Rejected by her beloved wife, Yilisi was not displeased.
She just shrugged helplessly and then chose to compromise.
“Alright.”
“I’ll follow your arrangements.”
After all, even if these intruding humans are special, it still doesn’t change their fundamental nature as abandoned pawns.
Moreover, from another perspective, Ka Xiya’s mission failure is not entirely bad.
Besides giving her daughter a profound lesson to guard against arrogance and impatience and to become stronger, it also lets humans know how much the demons value the Black Prison Dungeon.
To think they could barge into the dungeon with just a squad that can match Ka Xiya in strength is to greatly underestimate the demon defense here.
If they want to rescue the Shield Brave Fei’ouna, who is imprisoned, they need to send a stronger squad to probe.
Since Yilisi no longer intends to interfere with her beloved’s decision, it’s time for her to ask them to leave.
After all, this is also part of the plan~
“Alright, you two may leave.”
“Although my sealing barrier allows you mother and daughter to enter,” “I hope that during this time, you try not to bring difficult problems to disturb the lives of Ai Lini and me.”
Good grief… So they’re just going to make decisions this recklessly?
Now Ka Xiya became more and more confused.
Just how many things were her two blood relatives hiding from her?
A clearly unreliable situation, yet in their eyes, it seemed as sure as anything, as if nothing would go wrong.
Moreover, both of them were now particularly dignified, making Ka Xiya dare not speak or ask.
She could only follow her mother’s orders, dragging the two half-dead humans behind her as she left the inner hall of the palace.
Fortunately, the place Fei’ouna was going was not far, just the garden side hall separated by a wall from the inner hall.
Since she had already issued orders to clear the area and seal the entire palace, this side hall, which bloomed with thousands of rare demon realm flowers and would be bustling with activity during festivals, was now exceptionally quiet.
So the question is, what is Her Majesty the Queen doing here?
First, she rejected the Demon King’s suggestion to transform them into undead puppets, then she brought the two humans into the side hall filled with the intense fragrance of flowers, and even placed the already dead purple-haired woman on a ceremonial altar.
She even started drawing obscure magical incantations…
Why couldn’t she understand?
What exactly is Mother trying to do!
“Mother…”
“Are you going to hold some kind of ceremony?”
Facing her daughter’s curious question, Fei’ouna did not evade and instead explained in considerable detail what she was going to do.
“No, although this is very similar to ceremonial magic, what I’m about to cast is not a ceremony but a dark healing secret technique developed by the human church.”
“The secret technique called ‘Life and Death Extraction’ can achieve healing by absorbing the magic power of a sacrifice, and these flowers are the sacrifices I will use next.”
‘Mother knows healing secret magic?’
‘Oh my! Mother is so strong 🥰’
‘But the problem is, this person is already dead 😰’
‘Her soul just hasn’t completely dissipated yet. Can she still be saved?’