A few minutes later, the train stopped at Legendary Mage Sawyer's private laboratory. Just as the two were about to get off, a communicator rang. Seeing this, Su Xiao gestured that he had something to handle. Besides, Sawyer needed to prepare the various materials required for the Ritual, which would take at least two days. Sawyer got off the train first.
The doors closed. Su Xiao opened the storage compartment beside him where the communicators were kept and picked one up. He found that the caller was Great Demon Volpal.
The Demon Clan was a major faction. The attitude and decisions of a major faction could not be determined by one or several individuals. In particular, Su Xiao and Great Demon Volpal had always been on good personal terms. When Su Xiao had been weak in the early days, he had received help from Great Demon Volpal. That was something he could never forget—or rather, the help Volpal had arranged for his descendant Lilim to provide.
The two sides had contacted each other less often afterward because Great Demon Volpal had been under pressure from several high-ranking demons. At first, the Demon Clan's attitude had been to pretend they knew nothing about the existence of a Law-Destroyer in the Third Era. However, Marvin Waltz had once saved Volpal's life.
Because Great Demon Volpal had a good relationship with Su Xiao, and because Su Xiao had obtained a Black Maple Tree, the upper echelons of the Demon Clan began taking this relationship seriously and told Volpal to maintain it. Seeing this, Volpal began reducing his contact with Su Xiao.
From then on, the Demon Clan often sent "former allies" to display their friendship and contact Su Xiao. His true friend, Volpal, on the other hand, stopped contacting him—not because Volpal did