The Hero Reborn as a Demon King Loli

Chapter 74 It's a miracle he didn't kill himself by crashing into his head.

"My head hurts so much... Am I dead?"

The girl, who had regained consciousness while lying in bed, slowly opened her eyes, and what came into view was a pure white ceiling.

Looking at the pure white ceiling, she subconsciously thought she had arrived in the legendary paradise.

But if this is heaven, why does her head hurt so much?

So she turned her head with difficulty and saw the decorations inside the room.

Although the room only had basic furniture, the girl could sense a warm feeling from the decorations.

Then she saw a large bookshelf filled with books, which made her think that this place must be the residence of some reclusive scholar.

I must have been rescued by the owner of the house.

"Thank goodness, I'm not dead yet..."

After the girl roughly understood her situation, she breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could think about anything else, she heard the sound of the room door being pushed open.

So she looked in the direction of the sound, and she knew that the owner of the house must have returned.

But when she saw the owner of the house, she was stunned.

It was a petite silver-haired girl with unusual eyes and pointed ears. Most importantly, she could sense a special aura emanating from this silver-haired girl.

This aura has a demonic feel to it!

"Demons?!" the girl exclaimed instinctively.

Based on Chloe's appearance and aura, although she wasn't 100% certain, she estimated it was pretty close to the truth.

She even tried to get up, but due to her weakness, she couldn't muster any strength, so she could only move slightly before she was completely unable to move.

Then, as if resigned to her fate, she closed her eyes and adopted a "do as you please" attitude.

This made Chloe, who had just entered the room, feel a little awkward.

She thought the girl wouldn't wake up so quickly, so she confidently went inside. But to her surprise, the girl not only woke up, but also revealed that she was a demon as soon as they met.

"I can tell at a glance that she's a demon. Could this girl be someone from the church?" Chloe wondered to herself.

Chloe only looks a bit like a demon in terms of her eyes and ears... Don't the elves next door also have lots of pointed ears? How could an ordinary person see through her true form so quickly?

The only thing that allowed ordinary people to immediately identify her was the tail she had always hidden under her skirt...

When Chloe was called a "demon" by the girl, she even subconsciously checked to make sure that her tail was still well hidden under her skirt and not showing at all.

Chloe used to work with people from the church, so she knew that some of the church members had the special ability to tell whether someone in front of them was a demon just by their aura.

It is said to be a symbol of being favored by "God".

Putting everything else aside, Chloe, being a hero, at least possesses the ability to distinguish demons, so she understands this feeling better than normal people.

Therefore, it's highly likely that this girl is a member of the church.

Chloe scratched her head, looking somewhat annoyed.

Given the church's attitude towards demons, if this girl is truly a member of the church, then forget about communicating with her normally... if the girl still has the strength, she might even get up and fight Chloe to the death.

However troublesome it may be, there are solutions.

Fortunately, she wasn't a pure-blooded demon; her aura was somewhat peculiar, so there was still a way to remedy the situation.

It just so happens that the aura of a hybrid is quite distinctive in the senses detected by that special ability...

So Chloe secretly took out the [Disguise Card] and clicked to use it.

"Big sister, that's really going too far! That person saved your life, how could you call them a demon?"

Disguised as a half-elf, Chloe walked to the bedside, looked at the girl with her eyes closed, and deliberately spoke in a wronged tone.

The aura of hybrids is usually very chaotic. If these special ability users don't carefully distinguish them, they will subconsciously mistake hybrids for demons, and even heroes are no exception.

Chloe used to think it was no big deal; she just needed to open the panel that claimed to be a "hybrid" and see if the person was a demon.

But the more she thinks about it, the stranger the judgment seems... Are there really so many people in the church who would carefully discern the truth?

Upon hearing Chloe's words, the girl did not react immediately, but silently analyzed Chloe's aura.

Indeed, the more she analyzed it, the more she felt it was the aura of a mixed-race person.

Could she really be a half-blood? The girl wondered, somewhat bewildered. Then she slowly opened her eyes and continued to scrutinize Chloe with a confused look.

Having secretly noticed the somewhat bewildered look in the girl's eyes, Chloe seized the opportunity to further solidify her persona.

Chloe lowered her head even further, covered her face with her hands, and said in a tone as if she were about to cry:

"Whether you're human or elf, you all only bully me, this half-blood, calling me a demon... Waaah..."

Fortunately, Chloe's [Disguise Card] doesn't change her appearance much because it disguises her as a half-elf; otherwise, it would have been difficult for Chloe to fool this girl.

"A half-elf? Then those ears and aura are easy to explain..."

Seeing Chloe on the verge of tears, the girl suddenly felt a pang of shame.

Isn't her behavior just the same as those ignorant people who persecute mixed-race individuals?

"Yeah, sorry!"

Realizing that her words had deeply hurt the mixed-race person, the girl immediately apologized to Chloe.

……

After clearing up the girl's "misunderstanding" of her, Chloe began to inquire about the girl's situation.

Chloe asked Chloe about the girl's name, how she got there, and how she got injured.

The girl explained everything she could to Chloe in detail.

The girl's name was Elena, and she was one of the servants of the saint in the human church.

While the saintess was communicating with the local branch at the human border, she inadvertently stumbled upon a major secret of the church headquarters. She then rushed to the human border to tell the saintess this secret and warn her to be careful…

But she was still discovered, so the church sent a master inquisitor to silence her.

Clearly, the church had already labeled her a heretic in order to conceal the secret.

However, the church probably didn't expect that the master-level judge they sent was a psychopath.

The heretic judge, who would have killed her easily anyway, insisted on torturing her for pleasure.

That's how she got those horrific scars on her body.

As for how she got to the inner edge of this forest... the reason is that she used a random teleportation scroll during her escape.

To evade capture, Elena repeatedly used the teleportation scrolls she had prepared, but each time, she was caught up with by the judge and tortured again shortly afterward.

The chase has lasted for two days, and she is almost at the location of the saintess.

But the judge clearly wouldn't let her see the saint, so in the final attack, the judge also killed her.

Elena only had one teleportation scroll left, a high-cost, wide-range teleportation scroll. She couldn't control this scroll with her remaining magic power, so it became a random teleportation scroll.

This was her last gamble, because she knew that after the teleportation ended, she would collapse from exhaustion, and if she was caught up or teleported to a dangerous area, she would surely die.

Fortunately, she was lucky...

After listening to Alina's explanation, Chloe nodded.

Well, that explains why Elena ran into the barrier set up by Lulum. After all, it was just a barrier to repel people, and since she was parachuted in, there was nothing that could be done about it.

And the person who was chasing Elena... a mere Master-level expert, actually wanted to cross Lulum's barrier?

It's a miracle they didn't crash headfirst into the barrier and die.

Chloe thought to herself with a hint of sarcasm.

However, what Chloe didn't know was that a corpse had indeed appeared at the edge of the barrier.

And this corpse was the psychopath who had been chasing Elena.

Why tentacles in Chapter 75?

Even with Lulum maintaining the cognitive impairment barrier she set up, it wasn't particularly aggressive. Moreover, before Lulum left, she had conveniently made the barrier semi-permanent, so even its original effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Therefore, the judge who died suddenly at the edge of the barrier could not have died from crashing into the barrier.

In fact, the judge had been circling around the barrier for a long time because he couldn't enter it.

The reason why this judge, who is definitely a psychopath, can accurately locate Elena's position every time she teleports is obvious; he must have used some kind of tracking method.

Therefore, he was able to pinpoint Elena's location, but because of the barrier, he was unable to reach her exact location.

Because he wasn't a mage, he didn't even notice the existence of the barrier, assuming that Elena had been led away by someone.

As for how he died suddenly...

"Why...?" These were his last words.

"Hmph, the church's useless bunch, they can't even handle this little thing? Luckily I was passing by, so leave this to me... As for why? I didn't say it was a free service."

A petite figure in a black robe spoke in a clear and indifferent voice.

Judging from her voice, it's the cute voice that only an underage girl could produce, but judging from her clothes and aura, she is a high-ranking member of the Abyss Order.

And it was the same one who had just disappeared right under the noses of the three "Four Heavenly Kings".

She coldly stared at the lifeless church inquisitor before her, then summoned several twisted monsters from behind her, letting them devour the corpse.

This lovely voice is her true voice, but she usually disguises it to maintain an air of authority.

The reason for the disguise is similar to that of Lulum, who disguised herself as the "mysterious black-armored man".

However, she didn't seem to have considered the factor of body shape.

But it doesn't matter, after all, her strength is undeniable, and authority isn't expressed through physique or voice.

She completely ignored Lulum's barrier and walked straight into its interior.

During her entry into the barrier, she encountered no obstacles whatsoever, and she didn't even trigger the barrier's alarm.

It was as if she didn't exist within this barrier.

As if she could also track Elena's location, she walked straight to Lulum and Chloe's hut.

Sensing the presence inside, the black-robed man's lips curled into a chilling smile: "I didn't expect her to run to this place... Oh well, it's perfect..."

She didn't force her way in, but instead very politely knocked on the door.

……

"So you want me to take you to Wutan City on the human border?"

After Elena woke up and explained her situation to Chloe, she asked Chloe to take her to the saint's side.

Although Chloe also wanted to go to the human realm, she had more important things to do... Sending Potato back to the Demon Realm was urgent, after all, there was only a little over a year left before Lulum declared war on the human realm...

In addition, since she has now used the disguise card, if she wants to send her to the human race, she must deliver her within twelve hours, otherwise she is very likely to be recognized as a demon.

So after much deliberation, Chloe made up a reason to refuse Elena's request.

"Do you know where this is? This is near the inner circle of the Starry Forest. I'm just a child, how could I possibly send you to such a far-off border city?"

Looking at Chloe's petite figure, Elena understood that making such a request to a child was truly a desperate measure.

But she had no other choice, so she could only stubbornly continue asking:

"And your parents..."

"Don't even think about it. We've already moved away and won't be back for years... If I hadn't happened to come back to get something I'd forgotten, you probably wouldn't have seen me at all. And I'm leaving soon too..."

Chloe was telling the truth, but she didn't mention her strength, just so Elena would know that if she waited for someone to come and take her away, it would be too late.

“I can pay… but you’re living in seclusion here, so you probably don’t need money…” Elena was still thinking of struggling a bit, but then she remembered that Chloe’s parents were probably reclusive scholars, and looking at the magical books on the bookshelf, they didn’t seem to be short of money.

So she could only sigh in disappointment.

It seems I should wait until I've fully recovered from my injuries before finding an opportunity to discuss this with the Holy Maiden.

At least she's not dead yet, so this secret won't be kept hidden by those lunatics.

The saint and the pope would absolutely not tolerate such a thing!