The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"Don't you dislike horses?" Xue Dinglu reached out and held an umbrella over Fafnir's head, silently watching her feed the horses.

The wooden hut was simple, and strong winds and rain would blow inside, soaking half of her body.

"I don't dislike it. This horse likes me. I can feel that it treats me like its own child." The girl rolled up her mud-stained long sleeves and picked up a bundle of grass again.

"Then, who exactly are you?" Fafnir raised her head slightly and asked Xue Dinglu.

"Your father's enemy specifically came riding a will-o'-the-wisp to kidnap that old Deng's daughter, as a way to take revenge on him." Xue Dinglu started spouting nonsensical nonsense.

"I don't believe it." Of course, she didn't believe it.

Ever since she met this strange person, it seemed as if a voice was constantly speaking in her ear.

Don't believe him, don't believe him!

But it didn't matter to her anymore; the caged bird only wanted to fly into the sky, even if there was a raging storm outside.

"Do you know my father?" She leaned against the horse, as if feeling a long-lost warmth.

She had never felt warmth. Growing up in that castle, her world consisted only of the sky and the large bowl that she had to cut her wrists to fill every day.

The first time she felt warmth from others was when Xue Luding carried her in his princess carry, and the second time was when this horse affectionately rubbed against her.

"I don't know him. That old Deng actually became a king." Xue Luding casually made up a story. He was in a cursed state, so he didn't expect anyone's trust. It was time for him, the king of nonsense, to step in.

“No, I’m not talking about him, but my real father.” Fafnir looked at the heavy rain outside. “I know that king is not my father. No father would let his daughter have such an evil name as ‘Fafnir’.”

"Oh?" Xue straightened his umbrella and asked with interest.

"I once read a knight's tale, and the evil dragon in that book was named 'Fafna.' She was an incredibly wicked dragon who attacked villages, kidnapped princesses, and seized the king's treasure..."

"I was thinking, wow, I actually share the same name as that evil dragon!"

"I later learned that in many knight stories, the dragon is called Fafnir."

The girl looked outside; the trees were swaying in the wind and rain, a sight she had never seen before.

"In those stories, some Fafnir were defeated by knights, and some were killed by knights. They bathed in dragon's blood, dragged the dragon's head back home, and became dragon-slaying heroes..."

"I wonder if there will come a day when I, Fafnir, will be killed in the same way."

The heavy rain was still falling.

"Why do you have such thoughts?" Xue asked.

“Because I am a monster!” She grinned, revealing sharp teeth. “I might be a monster so fat that I’m ugly, that even just the scent I emit can turn other animals into man-eating monsters and twist plants into traps.”

"So I want to know who my real father is. Is he the evil king in fairy tales? Otherwise, how could he have given birth to a witch like me?"

Xue Dinglu paused, then smiled and reached out to rub her forehead hard with his fingers.

"Yes, your father, Old Deng, was the most evil demon king in history. He forcibly kidnapped your mother and then went crazy, wanting to fight the whole world. In the end, he failed in his battle against the hero's team. When he was dragged to the execution ground, he shouted, 'Do you want the demon king's treasure? If you do, go on an adventure. I have hidden everything in the deepest part of the forest.'"

"Thus begins the era of great adventure." Xue Dinglu looked at the constipated-looking uncle and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Fafnir laughed too: "Haha, are you trying to fool a child? I'm not that easy to fool."

She naturally didn't believe it; it was too far-fetched, even more so than the chivalric novels she had read.

"Are there any other stories? Tell me." The child's attention seemed to have been diverted; she was no longer concerned with whether Xue Daolu knew her real father, but rather wanted to hear the strange and wonderful stories Xue Daolu had to tell her.

"I have many stories, including The Book of Heruka, The Romance of the Third Reich, The Dream of the Swastika, and The Tale of Hutan. Which one would you like to hear?"

"The Third Reich Chronicles! I want to hear this, I want this one."

"Alright, let's start with the Romance of the Third Reich. It's said that the world, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of unity, tends to divide. The Great Reich is weak, oppressed by enemy nations from the outside, and eyed by the 50 Mark demons from within. Hill, an art student, is just a sketch artist selling his work. Dejected after failing his exams, he encounters two valiant men on the street..."

"The three hit it off immediately, and so they swore brotherhood at the Temple of Zeus, determined to slaughter all 50 Mark demons in the world, serve their country, and restore a glorious and prosperous era to the Great De..."

……

The horse was lying on the ground, and Fafnir casually leaned against its belly, taking a nap with her head on the hay.

Xue Dinglu arrived at the hut, looked at the heavy rain outside, and started chatting with the brave uncle.

"Your daughter looks like my niece who's only in elementary school," Xue Dinglu said with a smile, feeling the downpour hitting him.

"I..." The hero uncle fell silent, his eyes fixed on his only relative, his daughter.

However, when Xue's cursed blood examined her, the hero uncle was filled with despair.

That evil god, the evil god he sealed away, is now inside his daughter's body!

His own daughter was used as a vessel to seal the evil god because she was the daughter of a hero, and she had the blood of a hero flowing through her veins. She was the only one who could activate the power of the beloved holy sword sealed within, so she became the vessel for the evil god.

Chapter 82 You were a demon before, and once a demon, you'll always be a demon.

Moreover, she had to contribute 400ml of blood every day for the kingdom to concoct secret medicines.

After examining it, Xue Dinglu simply shook his head.

"There's no hope. Just wait to die. Goodbye!"

Long-term blood loss anemia triggered her chronic leukemia. Her red blood cell count was only one-third of that of a normal person. The evil spirit's invasion caused widespread organ failure, and coupled with malnutrition, she was beyond saving.

Furthermore, because the power of the evil god is extremely averse to the aura of the hero, a war is constantly taking place within her body, creating a strange dynamic balance between the power of the hero and the power of the evil god.

If the kingdom didn't take her blood, she probably wouldn't be in much trouble, because the hero's power always had the upper hand over the evil god. But because of the daily blood draws, her body was already in a terrible state, and even if she stopped to recuperate properly, she would only die.

Xue Dinglu felt that if it weren't for the genes of a hero in her body supporting her, and the kingdom's strange secret medicines that stimulated human potential, she might have died long ago. It was already a miracle that she could move around like a normal person.

The human body is truly amazing.

"I don't think I've ever met any of your relatives," the brave uncle said, looking at Xue Dinglu.

"Haven't I told you my story?" Xue asked in surprise.

"No... I only know that you seemed to have experienced a fire when you were a child."

"It was a forest fire. I went back to my hometown for the Chinese New Year, and unfortunately, a wildfire spread for dozens of kilometers. I was dragged out by the foot by a forest firefighter." Xue Dinglu raised his head, raindrops splashing on his face, and he couldn't help but open his arms.

"He died, reportedly from extensive burns and infection, and died from delayed treatment. So I've always wondered, if I were a doctor, could I have saved him? That's why my dream has always been to become a disaster doctor, one of those people who specialize in providing emergency care during major disasters."

"I've always thought, since my life was bought with someone else's life, shouldn't I save more lives? That way, the forest firefighters won't have died in vain?"

"Later, I lived with relatives until I became an adult, tutoring my niece who was in elementary school. It was during that time that I discovered my skills in raising daughters." Xue Dinglu recounted his childhood story as if it were an easy task.

“My childhood was quite uneventful. I didn’t receive any disdain from relatives because I had good grades; they just wanted me to tutor their children. No one dared to bully me because I had good grades. Whenever I spoke up, our principal would send someone to appease me.”

“My little niece likes me a lot. She often asks me to tell her stories and play with her. She also introduces me to her elementary school best friends. For a while, I suddenly had a lot of elementary school students on WeChat sending me heart emojis and saying they would love me forever. It scared me to death.”

"Hahaha..." The brave uncle laughed out loud, which was a rare occurrence for him.

Listening to Xue Luding's embarrassing stories from his childhood, he seemed to recall his own time in the interstellar column when he was a child.

“So, growing up like this, I just can’t understand it.” Xue Dinglu looked in the direction of the capital city. “Why would anyone go to such lengths to kill the only person in the world who loves them?”

The brave uncle could no longer laugh, like a male duck with its throat tightly stuck.

“He even persecuted his only surviving daughter, turning her into a vessel for bloodletting and sealing evil gods,” Xue Dinglu continued. “So when I deduced this information, I was so angry that I laughed out loud. When you’re extremely angry, you really do burst out laughing.”

"I've thought about it for a long time, wondering if they were born evil, or if the evil gods had already corrupted the whole world and they were already twisted. But then I thought, Uncle, you couldn't possibly not have noticed this sixteen years ago, could you?"

"In the end, perhaps they were just jealous," Xue Dinglu stated his conclusion.

"Just...jealousy?" The hero uncle asked, bewildered.

"Yes, they are jealous that you are at the fourth level, while they are destined to be stuck at the third level and never make any progress. Moreover, you can forcefully unleash the power of the fifth level, which is a power that they can never even imagine."

"Jealousy exacerbated the corruption of the evil gods, and since they had long dealt with magical beasts, perhaps they had already completely degenerated into evil spirits at that time. Then, through some channel, the evil gods gradually corrupted the kingdom from top to bottom..."

"This is the conclusion I deduced." Xue Luding smiled, looking at the rain curtain and the elven girl who walked out of the rain curtain, soaked in the rain.

The powerful arrow exploded with a sonic boom and aimed directly at Xue Lude's eyes. Xue Lude simply turned slightly to the side to dodge the arrow and then grabbed it.

The cursed blood faded from his hands, and Xue Dinglu asked with a smile, "I've been waiting for you for a long time. Where are the other pursuers? Are you the only one?"

The elven girl, now like a maddened female leopard, did not answer, but instead drew her bow and shot at Xue Dinglu once more.

"Why...why..." she screamed, her voice filled with the fury of someone who had been abandoned, "Why didn't you take me with you? Do you even care about me? Do you care about my feelings at all?!"

In her anger, she fired three arrows in quick succession, but Birdman A appeared on Xue Luding and deflected the arrows.

"Why should I care about your feelings? I'm a human, why should I care about the feelings of a demon?" Xue Dinglu pointed at the elven girl opposite him.

"You..." The elven girl's pupils widened, and she stumbled backward, looking at Xue Dinglu in terror. "No, I'm not a demon. As long as I have the secret medicine, I will never be a demon..."

"Heh, the secret medicine. Perhaps it was that secret medicine that turned you into demons?" Xue Dinglu laughed. "The corpse of the former hero was corrupted by the evil god, wasn't it? Even so, you still want to use his corpse to refine the secret medicine?"

"No...no..." In the rain, the elven girl shook her head desperately, seemingly unwilling to let her lover discover her ugliest side.

"Let me guess, after you obtained the corpse of the former hero, you couldn't resist starting forbidden experiments, and then discovered that the strength of those who took this secret medicine would be greatly enhanced, and even touch the threshold of the mythical level (fourth tier)?" Xue Dinglu looked at her and told her all his speculations bit by bit.

"So you went mad, using the secret medicine on a large scale and in large quantities. After many years, you realized that you had been unknowingly corrupted by the evil god. The evil god's power was twisting your minds, turning you into demons in human skin. And since you had little humanity left, you wanted to change, so you used another method..."

Xue Lude's lips curled into a grin, blatantly revealing the ugliest side of the former hero's team: "Using the blood of the former hero's daughter to concoct a potion to resist the corruption of the evil god! And as soon as the potion stops, you will be completely twisted into that ugly form, just like those demons? Isn't that right?"

"No, that's not right! You're talking nonsense!" she roared. "Xue Law, you don't understand anything at all!"

Whether it was a curse from the prophecy or her refusal to accept reality, the heavy rain soaked her through, and her once-glossy golden hair hung limply on her head as if in knots.

"Heh, don't understand? Why should I try to understand a demon? By the way, you are a demon too..." Xue Dinglu pointed at her, "You are a demon for a day, and you will be a demon for a lifetime. The moment you killed the previous hero out of jealousy, you were already completely corrupted."

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to explain to you." Bloodstained greatsword appeared in Xue Dinglu's hand. "Don't worry, I will kill all the demons, leaving none alive!"

Chapter 83 The rain will stop soon.

“Ani is dead…” The former members of the hero’s party arrived at the door of the hut. They saw giant trees broken everywhere, the earth torn apart, and a hideous, alien-like demon soaked in rainwater.

The smooth golden hair on the demon's head revealed her true identity: the beautiful and charming elf girl, Ani.

Its eyes were fixed on the sky, its death unresolved, as if it had endured the most terrifying torment and humiliation before its death—a complete denial and ultimate insult to its personality and identity.

The current king, former scout of the hero's party, Kaeya, silently covered the demon's eyes with his hand, closing them to darkness. He didn't know what he was feeling—anger? Or grief for the death of his kind?

"We didn't summon a hero, but a demon king, the most evil, most tyrannical, and most cruel demon king in history," Kaiya said, defining the situation.

“That’s no ordinary demon king. He’s the kind of demon king who can twist and mutate others into monsters. He’s capable of destroying the world. We must strike hard and deliver a thunderous blow while he’s still unsettled.” After he finished speaking, he began to chant a spell.

A gigantic sphere of light rose into the sky, bursting forth with unparalleled brilliance, a sight that could be seen by all the former members of the hero's squad throughout the entire kingdom.

This time, the hero team reunites, their goal being to defeat the Demon King of another world, the one who can twist and distort people!

His daughter Aurora and his best friend Ani both died at the hands of the demon king and were transformed into demons. Even the most crucial princess was abducted by the demon king.