The Hero Reborn as a Demon King Loli

Unlike Lulum, who immediately realized that Stella was calling Lulum "Mom," Chloe thought that Stella was responding to her.

She smiled, nodded, and said to Stella, "Yes! That's it."

Hearing Chloe's confirmation, Stella finally showed a relieved expression and softly said to Lulum, "Hello, Mom..."

Lulum responded to Stella's polite greeting with a serene expression.

Then… she remained with that expression and fell to the side next to Chloe.

Chloe looked at Lulum, who was lying peacefully beside her with a pale face, and was also frightened all day. She thought something had happened to Lulum.

After Chloe quickly confirmed that Lulum was just asleep, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she realized why Lulum was running away from reality.

"What did you just call Lulum?"

Chloe asked Stella with a troubled expression.

"Huh? Isn't that Mom?" Stella looked at Lulum who had suddenly collapsed with a puzzled expression.

This child, she really knows how to talk... cough cough, no, at least we can't let her call Lulumu that.

Although Stella's way of addressing her and Lulum made Chloe feel inexplicably good... after all, Lulum was not like her, having seen too many strange fetishes in the original world and having a stronger ability to accept things... Looking at Lulum beside her who had crashed due to the "system" explosion, Chloe felt it was better not to continue to provoke her.

After all, she felt very sorry for Lulumu, who was pale-faced.

……

"I understand, this isn't Mom yet. I'll call her Lulu from now on..."

After Chloe explained her relationship with Lulum, Stella nodded obediently, indicating that she understood.

However, although Stella could quickly change her address to "Lulum," she absolutely refused to call Chloe "Dad."

This made Chloe feel a little numb.

So Chloe had to lower her expectations, telling Stella to only call her that in private and never in front of others.

I always felt that being called that by Stella would lead to a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings.

At the same time, Chloe also inadvertently learned the true identity of the child named "Stella" in front of her.

It all started when Chloe, out of curiosity, examined the black dress Stella was wearing.

After all, Chloe was quite certain that Stella had never seen that black dress on her bed before.

And even if she did, Stella had no chance to change into the black dress because she was being held by her.

The black dress seemed to have appeared out of nowhere on Stella.

That's why Chloe became curious and started examining Stella's dress.

【Item Name: Mistletoe】

This is the result of Chloe's appraisal of Stella's clothes.

Chloe immediately made a connection to this result.

Mistletoe… Contract Mark… Demon Sword…

She seemed to have guessed why the system couldn't identify Stella's "character panel".

So Chloe placed an [Item Appraisal] item on Stella.

【Item Name: Shadow of the Magic Stick (Stella)】

[Quality: High-level to Saint-level (depending on the host's energy supply)]

[Item Description: A derivative born from a specially mutated mistletoe individual after absorbing sufficient energy and #*% from its parasitic host.]

[Note: Pfft... When did you get "planted" by other plants? How come you even have a child?]

Looking at the test results, Chloe said she was gradually coming to understand everything.

No wonder the [Character Appraisal] function couldn't identify her; it seems Stella was categorized as an [Item]?

She now finally understands why the test results were unresponsive.

That's right, it's because the system's functionality is corrupted. Previously, when identifying a humanoid [item], such as a android, the system would directly jump to [item identification] and obtain the identification result.

Unexpectedly, the redirection function was broken, and the redirection failed, which is why the authentication did not respond.

In short, Chloe now knows Stella's true identity.

Chloe couldn't help but sigh:

"Grass? It can transform into that?"

But this way, the relationships won't be messed up... which is good, right?

……

"Hehehe...this should be it~"

A petite girl in a black robe stroked the coffin beneath the soil, which showed no signs of decay, and spoke in a sickly tone.

Then, as if afraid of disturbing the person inside the coffin, she gently pushed the coffin open.

Lying in the coffin was a black-haired youth with a peaceful face, as if he had simply fallen asleep.

However, the emptiness in his chest proved that he would never wake up again.

But this only applies under normal circumstances...

"Finally found it?~" The girl in black robes stroked the cheek of the black-haired youth, a look of ecstasy on her face.

Beneath the black robe, the girl's face was revealed, even paler than that of the lying black-haired youth.

She cupped the lifeless face of the black-haired youth in her hands and touched his bloodless lips with her pale lips.

Then, chaotic, distorted symbols appeared around the girl, and gradually merged into the black-haired youth's already empty heart.

Near the black-haired youth's mutilated chest, a mass of flesh began to writhe. Soon, it filled the chest and began to beat slowly, like a heart.

The girl in black robes looked at the black-haired youth who was gradually regaining his breathing, and a bewitching smile appeared on her still somewhat immature face.

"Wake up... my hero~"

Chapter 101 Hmph! Too Many Scumbag Women

The Elf Forest is the sacred land of all elves, or rather, the only kingdom of the elves.

This land, known as the "Holy Land," is a place that all elves yearn for, but at the same time, it is also a very xenophobic land.

For this reason, people who are not of the Elven race are generally not allowed to enter the country.

In the heart of the Elf Forest stands a gigantic and ancient tree, which the elves call the "Tree of Life."

The entire Elf Forest survives only because of the protection of the "Tree of Life".

Therefore, this "Tree of Life" is revered as a sacred tree by the elves, and the elves living in the Elf Forest even regard the "Tree of Life" as a faith.

Because of their faith, only the royal family of the elves can live near the Tree of Life. Ordinary elves don't even have the right to approach the tree normally.

Not to mention people of other races...

However, near the sacred "Tree of Life" in the eyes of the elves, a human was buried.

This person's name is Li Wen, the brave Li Wen who died a few years ago.

As a human warrior, Li Wen certainly had the right to enter the Elf Tree, but he was absolutely not qualified to be buried near the "Tree of Life".

As for why he was buried near the Tree of Life, that was the unauthorized decision of a certain elven royal family...

Very few people know that he was buried here.

Of course, because it was secretly buried near the "Tree of Life", the place where the hero Li Wen was located could be described as the private garden of some elven royal family.

Logically speaking, as the back garden of the Elven royal family, this place should be heavily guarded, but today, two uninvited guests suddenly arrived.

They somehow managed to perfectly bypass all the elven guards and even ignored the collective barrier that the elves were so proud of.

One of the petite girls in black robes, upon arriving at this place, did not hesitate to dig up and lift the coffin of the hero Li Wen, and then performed a strange ritual on his corpse...

She did it openly and honestly, as if she was completely worried about being discovered by the elves.

Finally, the ritual seemed to be a success, as the once empty chest of the brave warrior Li Wen was now filled with a twisted lump of flesh.

His cold body began to warm up.

……

The girl in black robes looked expectantly at the brave warrior Li Wen, whose "heart" had resumed beating.

During this time, she called out to the hero Li Wen more than once, but for some reason, the hero Li Wen did not seem to be waking up.

This caused the black-robed girl, who had initially worn a sickly smile, to gradually turn pale.

"Failed? But why..."

The girl in black robes frowned and murmured.

She had clearly followed the correct steps, and the "corpse" of the brave warrior Li Wen before her had its "heart" beating again, its breathing was steady, its body temperature had returned to normal, and the color on its face was healthy.

But why is there no response?

Normally he should have woken up long ago, but now he's not only not awake, his breathing is even starting to weaken...

Facing the increasingly weak breathing of the brave warrior Li Wen, the black-robed girl's already pale face turned even paler.

What exactly is going on? No, we need to find out the reason.

Thinking this, the girl in black robes created a purplish-black magic circle in her hand. Then, she shrank the completed magic circle and placed it on the forehead of the hero Li Wen.

"This place is empty?" After checking for a short while, the girl in black robes noticed something was wrong.

The brave warrior Li Wen's head was completely empty.

Of course, this "empty" doesn't mean that the brave Li Wen is brainless, but rather that...

"So it wasn't just the heart that was missing, but the soul too?... There's no way to deal with a missing soul..." the girl in black said regretfully.

No wonder "Brave Li Wen's" breathing gradually weakened. This soulless body, it feels like it won't be long before his survival instinct disappears.

This can't go on, perhaps...

The girl in black robes looked at the hero Li Wen, who was alive but not fully alive, and revealed a twisted smile.

She raised her hand and began constructing a new magic circle.

However, this time, she directly constructed the magic circle on the empty shell of the hero Li Wen's body.

After the black-robed girl finished constructing the magic circle, the brave warrior Li Wen immediately opened her eyes and rose from the coffin.

However, his eyes still lacked any expression, making him look like a puppet on strings...

This is indeed the case.

"Since it's empty, I guess I'll just have to make do with it... It's a shame I won't be able to see the hero's expression when he finds out he's become my companion..."

These words were spoken simultaneously by the black-robed girl and the hero Li Wen, and the hero Li Wen's expression mirrored that of the black-robed girl.

This is a mental magic spell, and also the effect of the Puppet Technique, which is a must-learn skill for those with the secondary profession of Puppet Master.

Originally, it could only manipulate inanimate objects, and the manipulated objects could not perform particularly fine movements.

Of course, the [Puppetry Technique] that the black-robed girl used on the hero Li Wen was an improved version of it. It could not only forcibly control living things, but also make them perform complex movements that were no different from those of ordinary people.

However, the conditions for using this modified [Puppetry] are very demanding. For example, the magic circle circuit must be modified, and a magic circle must be constructed on the target without their awareness. Other conditions are secondary. The most important thing is that the user of this magic must have a mental strength of no less than Saint level.

Simply put, this modified [Puppetry] is a rather useless skill.

With Saint-level mental strength, wouldn't learning a mind control spell be a million times more effective than this?

However, in the current situation, this kind of useless "puppet control technique" is indeed the most suitable.

"The fallen hero was resurrected by the demons through dirty means, and resentfully became their lackey. In the end, he succumbed to evil in his painful struggle... That was the original script, except the actor who played himself was replaced by me... It feels a bit boring... But it's not a big deal... As long as I can provoke the saintess, the sage, and the elf king at the same time, it's a success..."

"So what is your purpose? If you simply want to start a war, you can simply return to the Demon Realm..."

The burly man in black robes, who had been silently following the girl in black robes from the beginning, spoke in a deep voice.

"Go back? You don't understand~ Going back would be pointless. My goals are different from those lunatics'... I have no interest in liberating the Abyss, otherwise I would have had plenty of opportunities in the past few years~ You understand what I mean?"

The girl in black robes turned her head and spoke to the burly man in black robes standing beside her in a cheerful tone.

"But you're crazier than those lunatics..."