Ambition

The Grand Duke of Blood understood better than anyone the price that had to be paid to suppress the monster within the Demon Realm.

A thousand years ago... that monster had still been very docile, or rather, very weak.

But over the last century, the monster had begun to grow restless, as if it had heard its master's summons.

To suppress it, the Grand Duke of Blood had captured a great number of powerful magical beasts from the human world as food for Foya. To capture those powerful magical beasts... he had lost a Watcher friend he cherished, along with the lives of many of his kin.

Yet it had still been useless. The Grand Duke of Blood had already foreseen that even if he captured more monster-class magical beasts like Deep-Sea Subdragons, the power they provided would be unable to save the Demon Realm from the brink of collapse.

Then, when he had been in despair, his daughter Peste had brought him a glimmer of hope—the Magic Web created by Joshua.

This could no longer be described as a glimmer of hope. It was dawn tearing apart a long night!

More than six thousand viewers still weren't enough.

The Grand Duke of Blood's gaze moved repeatedly between the viewer count of the Magic Web livestream and the map hanging on the wall.

Once Foya appeared on-screen, the Grand Duke of Blood could already see part of the gray-white area on the map beginning to shrink.

It was shrinking very slowly, so slowly that ordinary people could not notice it with the naked eye. But as the creator of this map, the Grand Duke of Blood could tell...

Among those six thousand viewers, a large portion had likely fallen for the girl the instant they saw Foya's true appearance.

But