"Master..."
When Diana returned to the Netherworld Palace at the center of the island, the ghost guards stationed there hurriedly dropped to their knees and bowed respectfully.
The guards knelt in two orderly rows, moving with the striking precision of soldiers.
Diana did not spare them a glance. She walked straight into the palace.
A burly man sat sprawled on the seat at the center of the hall.
He looked like a bull demon, with a pair of thick, sharp horns, a bull's head, a pig's nose, and a human body. He was part monster, part man, and stood at least three or four meters tall.
He wore shoulder armor that left his chest half exposed, a gold-studded belt around his waist, and baggy trousers. His face was thick with flesh, and the hard muscles covering his body were enormous. The muscles on his chest seemed to move of their own accord, enough to make anyone dizzy watching them.
This brute was Diana's husband in name only—the monster man Klyde!
Diana had not originally served the Celestial Dragons. Someone had placed a curse on her: if she dared defy their orders, she would suffer the agony of ten thousand ants burrowing into her heart. The Celestial Dragons used it to force her to work for them.
The moment Klyde saw Diana return, he chuckled. His eyes gleamed with desire and roamed over her without pause, as though he could strip her bare just by looking.
If he could tear off those clothes and savor the beauty beneath them, Klyde would gladly give up years of his life.
"I hear Ye Chen and his people landed on Horror Island?"
As Diana approached with graceful steps, Klyde grinned and sprang to his feet. His massive hand reached eagerly for her.
Diana shot