Bone Demon Matriarch's Voting Power

"There's something I didn't tell you in front of the younger ones just now."

While they were flying, Anemo, in her demonized form, suddenly spoke with a gloomy expression.

"Hm?"

Reilo, transformed into a human-faced spider, blinked all three pairs of red compound eyes growing on the black, velvety patches on either side of his forehead, along with his two emotionless-looking main eyes. It was an eerie sight.

After absorbing the Fallen Bone Demon's blood, Anemo had used the properties of her starfish cells to divide and multiply some special cells in her body, temporarily mutating and demonizing herself. Her body had grown considerably, transforming her from a withered old woman into a four-clawed, lizard-like monster. Strange black patterns constantly shifted across her white skeletal shell, changing into the shape of a human face only when she spoke with Reilo.

Her demonization could last for three weeks, the length of her cells' metabolic cycle.

"When I captured that Fallen Bone Demon just now, it actually begged me in human language. When it saw I wasn't going to relent, it switched to threats and mentioned an Underground Creature called the Bone Demon Matriarch."

Neither Anemo nor Reilo had paid any attention to the so-called Bone Demon Matriarch.

The Grand Duchy and the Underground Creatures that had invaded Dubit Province had no possibility of reaching a compromise. So whatever this Bone Demon Matriarch was, or whatever other unknown being it might be—even if it was that Demon Ancestor True God—their determination to kill would not waver.

But.

What concerned them was that this low-level Fallen Bone Demon had actually spoken in human language.

According to intelligence reports, Fallen Bone Demons occupied a place in the Underground World's food chain almost equivalent to the hunting dogs kept by surface-dwelling humans in Starveil Land.