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Back then, he had been a mere Second-Level Demon, yet his might had held an entire vast forest in its grip.
He had killed Winged Demons and slaughtered Exotic Beasts. Ailusha was powerful herself now, nearly at the peak of a Third-Level Demon's strength. Yet when she thought of that once-invincible figure, he still seemed impossible to stand against. Helplessness welled up in her.
And yet someone so powerful had vanished without a trace. His departure had been as mysterious and startling as his arrival.
As one of that terrifying being's vessels, Ailusha knew a few secrets. She even knew that he had once sent immature Wraiths to search for Baal. They had failed, and Baal had disappeared before the Land of Death fully erupted.
"He was already at the peak of the Second-Level Demons back then. With his talent, he must be even stronger now. If he were here, perhaps we'd have some hope of resisting that monster!"
Lost in thought, Ailusha, once a queen who had stood above everyone else, fell silent.
"Perhaps I'll never see him again. Those memories..."
Now she was merely a spare vessel for the terrifying Undead Overlord. Once he fully awakened, she and the other spare vessels would all be sacrificed, reduced to flesh and blood for him and erased from this world.
"Ailusha? Are you thinking about that Demon again? Given how thin the Abyssal Aura was back then, and how heavily this plane's Laws suppressed everyone, are you sure this Demon you speak of really existed? You said he was comparable to a Third-Level Demon."
The Half-Elf looked at the silent Ailusha and immediately understood what was on her mind.
She was curious. Before the Land of Death erupted,