In the distance, from the cave where the Imp Guard Corps had gathered, a faint aura drifted back.
"An intruder has come in, and... it isn't one of our kind!" The Imp squad captain immediately sensed something strange.
This was the difference between Demons with noble bloodlines and ordinary Imps. The hidden power of a superior bloodline gave it an almost supernatural ability to sense the deaths of its own kind.
Moreover, this non-Demon species seemed not far from here. The scent of death from its kin, clinging to him, had already drifted over on the wind, and it sensed it at once.
"Were those idiots all fools? They actually let an outsider in while patrolling? Or have those fools already been taken out?"
Sensing that Deputy Captain Kaji seemed to have met with trouble, and that none of the Imps who had gone out with him seemed to have returned alive, the Demon captain's expression immediately stiffened.
Demons lived far longer than humans.
Imps alone could live for five hundred years. Once they advanced to Greater Demons, their lifespan could reach around eight hundred years. Demon nobles could live for more than a thousand years.
Those Dukes had already attained immortality.
This Imp captain was a hundred years old, yet it still looked like a young Imp.
Of course, no matter how youthful a Demon was, humans would still find it terrifying.
With such a long lifespan, so long as they survived, their intelligence naturally would not be inferior to that of humans.
The foolish impression of Imps that humans had gained during the Demon Calamity came from the fact that most Imps had only just hatched. Those with little time to survive and learn were the truly mindless ones.
Imps that lived long lives were basically regarded as