Of course, Xianna did not need to know all of this.
"Only by giving can one receive," Malcanthet murmured, as if answering Xianna's question, and also speaking to herself.
Xianna only half understood. She could not truly comprehend the change in her mother's state of mind. But like all the Radiant Sisters, everything they did was based on Malcanthet's own will. Though they would advise Malcanthet, they would never force their own will upon the Succubus Queen. Simply put, they would not wave the banner of "for your own good" to change Malcanthet's mind. Free-spirited succubi hated nothing more than being restrained, even if the other party meant well.
So, since Malcanthet had already made up her mind, Xianna naturally would not provoke her further.
In a sense, perhaps Malcanthet possessed the perfect qualities of a foolish ruler, while everyone around her was a sycophantic minister.
Just as Malcanthet was about to set aside the matter of Solam and indulge Xianna once more, a black shadow drifted from nowhere into the shadow cast by the bedside lamp.
"Master, the King of Eaters has arrived."
The shadow was a demon, a very young breed of demon: a Lomara demon. The birth of this kind of demon was closely connected to Demogorgon, especially to the Pearl of Greed.
Back then, Demogorgon schemed to eliminate the lord of the 230th layer of the Abyss, luring an entire pantheon into the Abyss and using the gods' own hands to destroy the original demon lord of the 230th layer. In the end, the gods of that pantheon went too far. They descended directly into the Abyss, gathered a great portion of the divine power of all their deities, tore the entire plane from the Abyss, and compressed it into a sphere the size of a