The floor trembled slightly, and the magic runes on the walls began to glow faintly.

Talia's sudden appearance was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, stirring up a thousand waves and completely breaking the balance that had just been established between Lan Qi and Abigail.

Abigail maintained a superficial composure in the face of Talia's hostility.

But she was frightened by Toriado.

"Why are you shouting so loud!"

Abigail's hands trembled slightly, and she almost activated the emergency magic defense mechanism in the spatial enchantment.

"But she's a princess."

Toriado answered as a matter of course.

"A hammer princess? Did she become a princess after playing the role of a cinder girl?"

Abigail felt that Toriado had drunk fake wine today, making a fuss.

"..."

Talia listened to Abigail's words, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

Since when did she start to live less like a princess...

Others transformed from Cinderella into a princess, but she seemed to have reversed the process.

For the time being, she felt that the situation had eased, and she relaxed a little. Lan Qi hadn't panicked for so long, which meant it wasn't really dangerous.

Moreover, that terrifyingly powerful mysterious person could call out her name?

"No, she really is a princess."

Toriado gestured to Abigail.

Then he turned around, rubbed his eyes, and looked at Talia.

"Talia, is it really you? How did you get together with McCarthy?"

Toriado asked Talia in surprise.

He didn't dare to imagine these two starring in "Holy War Romance". It seemed he would have to watch the rebroadcast version on Brillda Film Channel later.

"Are you Yabo?"

Talia was also stunned.

The other party didn't show any hostility towards her, and the familiar accent was exactly the same as what she had heard in the old Demon Realm a hundred years ago.

"That's right! We haven't seen each other in over a hundred years!"

Toriado dispelled his disguise and briefly reverted to his demon form.

He slowly stroked his face with his slender fingers, as if tearing off an invisible mask.

His original face gradually faded away, his human eyes turned into enchanting fuchsia, his pupils were ferocious and slender, his skin was still slightly pale, and his ears were slightly pointed but not exaggerated.

Toriado was surrounded by a layer of almost invisible dark purple magic, which dissipated like a mist in an instant.

Without a doubt, he was one of the few remaining high-ranking demons in this world.

"It really is you... Why are you here?"

Talia was sure that the man in front of her was the last general of their old Demon Realm, but she didn't understand why she suddenly met him!

"The surrender faction's general?"

Lan Qi roughly understood at this point.

The surrender faction general of the old Demon Realm, Yabo, the associate professor of history in the Northern Continent, Sido, and the dimensional bishop of the Resurrection Church in the Southern Continent, Toriado, were the same person.

No wonder Lan Qi felt a sense of déjà vu every time Pulanei mentioned that general who was good at running away.

"I'm now a cardinal of the Resurrection Church, so it's normal to be in the Kerydia Empire."

Toriado replied,

"What about you? How are you doing now?"

He asked Talia again.

"!"

"Oh, just so-so. Have you heard of platinum-level card maker? I just casually became one recently."

Talia flicked her hair to hide her nervousness and said calmly.

"Pfft..."

Lan Qi tried his best to hold back his laughter, but still made some noise, which was noticed by Talia.

Talia immediately gave him a death stare.

"McCarthy, why do you have that expression?"

Before Toriado could comment on Talia, his attention was drawn to Lan Qi's overly complicated expression.

"I can only say, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the old and poor...!"

Before he could finish his words, Talia grabbed the back of his neck with her cold little hand.

As Lan Qi became afraid, he also became much more honest.

"By the way, who is McCarthy?"

Talia forcibly changed the topic.

She found that Toriado seemed to be very familiar with Lan Qi, as if they had known each other for a long time.

"If you shout 'Long live McCarthy' on the streets of the Protos Empire, a large number of Imperials will shout with you."

Toriado explained.

"...?"

Talia looked at Lan Qi beside her, with a big question mark in her eyes.

She could tell that McCarthy in Toriado's mouth referred to Lan Qi.

But why did it sound so strange?

"It's really strange. McCarthy, how did you run into Talia here in the Southern Continent? My Goddess of Destiny, you're really joking."

Toriado still felt very magical.

He had met two incredible old friends tonight.

He wouldn't be as surprised now even if he suddenly ran into more old antiques who had been lost for hundreds of years in the next period of time.

"He was my student before he went to the Northern Continent. He met me first, and then he went to the Northern Continent. Also, his name is Lan Qi."

Talia emphasized.

"Lan Qi..."

Toriado muttered the name, feeling that it sounded familiar.

"Lan Qi Wilford? Good heavens, so you're the idiot student of Lauren who made Ivanos lose his mind! I thought you were unusual at the time, but unfortunately, Ikelite's defense was too strict, and I couldn't sneak in to play."

He suddenly realized and pointed at Lan Qi.

Everything felt reasonable to him.

"Why are you calling Lauren an idiot..."

Lan Qi asked Toriado.

"Is it possible that his sentence should have been 'idiot Lauren student'? Do you never think there's anything wrong with you?"

Talia corrected.

"..."

Toriado looked at the way Lan Qi and Talia were communicating, and a rare hint of interest gradually appeared in his eyes.

"So that's how it is..."

Toriado murmured.

"What's wrong?"

Talia asked Toriado.

"It's nothing. I just roughly understand your current identities and relationship."

Toriado nodded,

"I'm really happy to see you again, Talia, Lan Qi."

He showed a long-lost smile.

"Yabo, let me tell you, we could have fought that annihilation battle in the old Demon Realm. If you had been there, maybe we would have broken out together, instead of scattering like birds and beasts and being defeated one by one."

Talia thought of this important matter when she saw Toriado.

She had to say this.

At that time, they only had this one general left, but the general abandoned them and ran away first.

"Wow, you don't know what my situation was like at the time! Three eighth-order generals were chasing me! I've never seen such a big battle!"

Toriado complained with a horrified expression.

He had been on the verge of death dozens of times in his life, but he had no good memories of being besieged.

"I wronged you..."

Talia replied with guilt.

It seemed that if Yabo hadn't drawn all the hatred away, she and Ifatia wouldn't have been able to escape either.

Fortunately, Toriado had special spatial attributes, otherwise other generals might not have been able to escape.

"The reason why I'm in the Protos Empire is because I'm thinking that one day I'll be lucky enough to rescue those three old guys. Unfortunately, I'm not very suitable for those three great demon trials. It's possible that I'll fail if I go in."

Toriado explained his plans over the years to Talia.

He was actually quite suitable for rescuing prisoners. Once successful, he could use a huge amount of magic power to directly teleport the great demons away, but the magic fluctuations would be too great and would be discovered by the Imperial Sage Isis, so there was only one chance. Before the matter in the Southern Continent was completed, he would not try it for the time being.

"I don't think you're afraid of death. At least the -6th floor, the [Inverted Road to Rebirth], is not a threat to you. Can't you pass the -5th floor, the [Hopeless Battle of Annihilation]?"

Talia asked him.

She had heard Antanas and the others talk about the structure of Helrom Prison.

In her impression, Yabo, a heartless guy like him, shouldn't be afraid of the [Fallen Pleasure Town].

"Yes, yes."

Toriado nodded.

Abigail glanced at Toriado and didn't speak.

"But after thinking about it, Lan Qi, you were able to defeat Ascesan that day, so you must have rescued Antanas and the other three, right? Otherwise, I really can't think of any way to defeat Ascesan and Morodian."

Toriado asked.

"Of course. They are now in Ikelite, doing a very important job..."

Lan Qi told Toriado the premise and urgency that he had told Ifatia in the underground palace.

Including the reason why the vampires assassinated Hyperion, and the experience of meeting Landry on the way with him and Talia.

In Talia's opinion, Toriado could be trusted.

Lan Qi was also willing to trust this very reliable teammate from the Northern Continent.

"Alas, Landry..."

Toriado seemed to have sorted out many things in an instant, and muttered to himself in disappointment,

"And I was wondering why I couldn't find Micaiah at that time... Sure enough, he was targeted by the vampires."

"Do you know Duke Micaiah?"

Lan Qi didn't expect any unexpected gains.

The last civil commission he had left was to find Duke Micaiah. He unexpectedly encountered clues again after a long time.

Logically speaking, Toriado shouldn't have anything to do with Micaiah.

"Of course, I'm counting on him to act as a bridge to help me surrender to the Church of the Goddess of Destiny."

Toriado stopped what he was about to say and said to Lan Qi and Talia,

"Anyway, don't worry, I will definitely help you save Micaiah. Leave that Marquis Somerset to me."

He established the Silver Moon Restoration Society outside the dimensional branch to gather the power to clear the Kerydia Empire.

Landry's death was undoubtedly that the vampires had divined some information. Regardless of whether he was a member of the Silver Moon Restoration Society, he was designed by the vampires because he was Elsa's brother, and the information was leaked to the Allied forces to kill Landry with the Allied forces' knife.

The only thing that the vampires couldn't divine was that there was a person on that carriage who could replace Landry, thus deceiving the vampires and creating the illusion that Landry had not been killed.

He had Pulanei's divination-based great demon mark, the [Mark of Truth], which avoided the future foreseen by Seventh Progenitor Marquis Heritier.

"I'm sorry about Landry's matter."

Lan Qi said to Toriado and Abigail.

"I think Landry would be grateful to you."

Abigail's eyes drooped and she sighed sadly.

It was all like fate. Landry's prayer to the Goddess of Destiny was exchanged for the punishment he wished for. Correspondingly, his death achieved a miraculous value. This might be a devout transaction with the gods, because McCarthy really had the ability to help Landry save his sister and protect Elsa for Landry.

"Please continue to use his identity."

Toriado allowed.

If it were someone else, he would not have agreed to let him continue to impersonate Landry's identity, but McCarthy was an exception. He was the one who could really use this identity well and give back to Landry.

"Then I'll have to trouble you to lend me Landry's identity. After everything is over, I will build a tomb for him and bury him properly."

Lan Qi thanked the two of them.

"Abigail, help him for the next period of time."

Toriado issued the order of the cardinal bishop.

"Got it. Anyway, if the Empire comes to me at that time, I'll just say that I'm willing to join Professor Landry's research team. Lan Qi, you can just try to gain power in the Empire. The title of professor at the Saint Kerydia Seminary is not enough. You must at least become the person in charge of a major project and make it successful, and then be given the title of 'Father of the Mana Nuclear Fission Bomb' by the people before you have enough say."

Abigail nodded decisively in agreement.

It could only be said that life was like this, and interests and talents might not match.

"I've already seen that future."

Lan Qi's team had gained a powerful magical engineer, and even if he was just a newcomer, the chances of being selected by the Imperial military regardless of his resume would greatly increase.

"And you still have to worry about being harmed by politicians. As long as you are a little careless, it will be your turn to face the consequences of your own achievements. One day, when they make you suffer enough punishment, they will serve you salmon potato salad, give a speech, give you medals and honors, pat you on the back, and tell you that everything in the past has been forgiven."

Abigail sneered, seemingly having seen through the views of those Imperial politicians on magical engineers.

"Don't worry, I won't harm myself."

Lan Qi believed that he couldn't harm those magical engineers.

"...You bastard, you didn't want to be a magical engineer in the first place."

Abigail realized that she had misjudged him.

Brother, you really have something.

"Me, you, Antanas, Synola, Pulanei, and I heard that Almis also came to the Southern Continent some time ago. Then wouldn't our old Demon Realm team be just one person short of Ifatia?"

Toriado pointed at himself and Talia, and counted.

He had just thought of this question.

Ifatia had appeared more than a decade ago, but then disappeared again.

"..."

Lan Qi and Talia looked at each other,

"You don't know where Ifatia is?"

They thought that Toriado knew that Ifatia was also in Brillda, so they didn't mention that they had found Ifatia in the Mafia's underground base before coming to the opera house today.

After learning that Sido and Abigail were the founders of the Silver Moon Restoration Society, Lan Qi and Talia highly suspected that the Mafia boss, Barton, was also a member of the Silver Moon Restoration Society.

However, it was true that Barton was unlikely to expose his boss's secret identity to other members of the organization.

This was also the reason why Ifatia trusted Barton.

But Barton never knew that the leader of the Silver Moon Restoration Society and Ifatia were both old demon compatriots from a hundred years ago.

"How can I find out where she is? She has always been smart. If she wants to hide, no one can find her. She can perfectly disguise herself as any Imperial."

Toriado spread his hands.

"She's actually in the Mafia's underground palace. Abigail helped Barton build that spatial enchantment. You take the bus, take route 737 and transfer to route 901. Get off at Jones River Port, walk a few kilometers, contact Barton to let you in, and you can go see her."

Talia reminded Toriado.

Toriado was shocked when he heard this, and stared at the two of them with wide eyes.

He condensed the spatial technique, closed his eyes and searched for the coordinates, and then drew a circle with silver sparks on the side of the bookshelf wall, connecting it to another spatial enchantment built by Abigail.

"Giggle!"

On the other side of the temporary space gate opened by Toriado, Ifatia was leaning on the sofa, watching the public screening version of "Holy War Romance" and eating potato chips, occasionally pointing at the screen and laughing.

She suddenly realized that someone seemed to be watching her, and tilted her head in confusion, discovering that a large hole had been opened in the air, and the potato chips in her hand had been frightened off.

"Holy crap, Yabo!"

Ifatia shouted.

(End of this chapter)