Kozena carried Tiffany and hurried toward the rear. Not a single Blood Fiend Empire soldier along the way tried to stop them; instead, they lowered their heads in salute. Clearly, they had received Lei Chan's orders.
Lei Chan was right. He truly was a deposed emperor, but he had never lost his authority. In the eyes of many Blood Fiend citizens—especially the soldiers—he was still that supreme commander. Rex was right as well. Lei Chan should not have phrased those words that way, but he had said them anyway, because he was Lei Chan.
Unable to move, Tiffany fixed her gaze on the command center as tears slowly slid from the corners of her eyes.
Some things remained understood, even if they were never spoken that way.
For a time, she had believed that only her mother remained to her. She had been willing to pay any price to leave the Demon Realm and return to her mother's side, only to learn, before cruel reality, that she had nothing at all.
It was only after meeting Chen Rui that Tiffany learned she was not utterly alone—that she still had love and hope.
And only now did she finally discover that what she had thought she lost long ago had always been there.
Though its way of existing was not acknowledged, existence was still existence.
She was not alone now. The one who had always been alone was that man.
That... father.
Ever since she had come of age, she had never called that man by this title again. Now, even if she wanted to, she no longer had the chance.
Compared to the fortress, which stood on the brink of collapse, the allied forces within the Heaven Slaughter Formation were likewise at the end of their tether. More than half