Chapter 80: Subduing the Demon Dragon! Imaginary Foe — Experience Surges!
“I can help you kill your father, the Demon King.”
At Ye Ze’s words, Simon the Demon Dragon froze. He clearly had not expected such a proposal.
Who said to a son’s face that he wanted to kill his father?
But Ye Ze continued, “As long as the Demon King lives, you will never be anything more than the Demon Scion, right?”
“And according to the records, the Demon King has sat on the throne for over ten thousand years. In that time, nearly a hundred Demon Scions have already come and gone.”
“You should understand that yourself.”
To be honest, after seeing through Eye of Insight that Simon’s father, the Demon King, had lived for more than ten thousand years, Ye Ze felt surprisingly little shock at what might well have been the oldest creature he had ever heard of.
Perhaps it was because, in his previous life, he had seen far too many myths and legends...In a way, it gave him a sort of fearlessness born of ignorance.
Besides, no matter how strong the Demon King was, the first thing was to win the Demon Dragon over!
Unexpectedly, although Simon clearly had thoughts of his own on the matter, he remained unmoved and instead threw back his head with an arrogant laugh.
“A mere human!”
“You think a few words like that are enough to make me, Simon, serve under you?”
Ye Ze remained calm. “I am only helping you reckon the situation.”
“Your strength is insufficient, so you can only be the Demon Scion. You cannot become the Demon King.”
“Once you return, with your father watching you every moment, do you really think you will have a chance to surpass him and kill him?”
“Think about the nearly one hundred Demon Scions who came before you.”
“If you stay, you still have one sliver of hope. If you go back, you will be nothing more than a captive bird returning to its cage...”
“You can think it over yourself.”
The throne of the Demon race was every bit as tempting as the imperial throne of a human dynasty.
But the problem was that, in theory, the Demon King possessed limitless lifespan, along with the greatest strength in the entire Demon race.
In that case, what chance did the heir of the Demon race have of ever making his way to the top?
Simon fell silent in thought.
It had to be said that Ye Ze’s words had laid out his circumstances with almost excessive clarity.
Either he gambled everything here, or he returned to the Demon Realm and waited to die.
“If he discovers I am here, he will drag me back and kill you!”
The “he” in Simon’s words naturally referred to the King of the Demon Realm.
And clearly, the Demon King would never allow one of his offspring to vanish into thin air, much less allow someone capable of threatening his throne to leave his sight.
Ye Ze asked, “From here, can you sense the Demon Realm?”
Simon shook his head. “I do not know what kind of remote world this is, but I cannot sense the aura of any other realm at all.”
After hearing that answer, Ye Ze quietly committed it to memory, then smiled.
“That settles it.”
“Besides, China has a saying: when the cart reaches the mountain, a road will appear!”
It was only a Demon King, after all. He could not come looking for him for the time being... probably.
At that, Simon the Demon Dragon stopped resisting.
The Summoned Beast Space stabilized, and the contract of the Skill Book was completed as well:
【Ding! You have contracted a Golden Legend☆☆☆ summoned beast: Simon, the Endbringer Demon Dragon!】
“At last!”
Dangerous creatures really were troublesome... Ye Ze could not help sighing.
Now that he had his fifth summoned beast, and his first one that could fly and carry a rider!
The mantis could fly as well, but it could not carry a person at all.
When Simon transformed into his True Demon Dragon Form, he would even be large enough to carry away Ye Ze’s current house along with him.
As Ye Ze studied Simon’s skills more carefully, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he asked suspiciously, “This Talent skill of yours—Demon King’s Advent. The ‘Demon King’ there refers to...?”
Simon did not try to hide it.
“That is right. The Demon King’s power and spiritual will would descend upon me, and at the same time he would be able to find me immediately...”
“I will never use that skill again.”
“A wise choice,” Ye Ze said approvingly.
Then, after finishing his examination of the Demon Dragon’s skills, Ye Ze took out the silver-white cube shaped like a Rubik’s Cube.
【Imaginary Foe】.
This was the perfect chance to see whether this virtually constructed enemy really worked the way he had imagined.
The virtual space activated, and the scene before Ye Ze changed abruptly.
His bedroom vanished, replaced by a pale-blue digitized virtual space where the surroundings could be freely constructed.
“For the setting, use the Ancient Battlefield.”
“As for the enemy... Wan Feipeng!”
As his mental power built the environment, it felt as though Ye Ze had returned once more to the fourth layer of the Ancient Battlefield.
Standing opposite him was Wan Feipeng, nearly 1.9 meters tall, with curly hair and dressed in hunter’s garb, almost identical to the real man!
As for why Ye Ze had chosen him...It was because he had truly never seen a sixth-rank powerhouse fight before, and he wanted to gain some experience from a battle of that intensity.
All five summoned beasts moved at once.
In the next instant, the Wan Feipeng constructed by Imaginary Foe moved as well. Panda immediately activated Martial Saint Domain to restrict him.
But the enemy inside Imaginary Foe was no weaker than the real one.
Even with several hundred points stripped away by Martial Saint Domain, Wan Feipeng still relied on sheer speed and strength to tear through the battlefield like a green storm, fighting one against five.
Only Panda managed to exchange two moves with him. The others had no choice but to dodge or be killed instantly.
In less than a minute, the entire force was wiped out, and even Ye Ze himself took a punch.
“Damn it!”
Although there was no damage or pain inside the virtual space, Ye Ze still cursed in annoyance.
A sixth-rank powerhouse truly did have some strength...
“Demon Dragon, compared to that sixth-rank opponent just now, how much stronger is your father, the Demon King?”
Ye Ze asked out of curiosity.
Simon did not even need to think.
“Even if a hundred opponents at that level came together, they still would not be enough for him to deal with with one hand.”
“Damn...”
As expected of an old monster who had lived for over ten thousand years, Ye Ze sighed inwardly.
The Demon King truly did have some strength...
“I still have to hurry up and level up and become stronger!”
As he sighed, Ye Ze began selecting the enemy he would use to gain today’s experience.
Since he could only kill one constructed enemy per day for experience, he naturally had to choose the one worth the most.
Among all the enemies Ye Ze had encountered, the level 30 Storm Dragon King and the level 40 Lich Commander gave the most experience.
But the former was a dungeon monster and had benefited from difficulty bonuses. In the virtual space, there was no difficulty-based experience bonus, so Ye Ze decisively gave up on that option.
“Construct enemy... Fiend General - Lich Commander!”
The Lich Commander, which had once already been killed, appeared once more inside the virtual space.
This time, perhaps because they were still irritated after having just been crushed by Wan Feipeng, all the summoned beasts rushed it at once!
Simon did not even get the chance to touch it.
And just like that, the level 40 Fiend General died for a second time.
【Killed Lich Commander. Experience gained +16000 (World Tree’s Crown 100% bonus)】
【Level: 16 (31075/31600)】
Sixteen thousand experience! Excellent!
As he watched his experience bar surge upward, Ye Ze felt refreshed all over.
Imaginary Foe plus World Tree’s Crown—just the extra experience they provided every day was already immensely satisfying.
World Tree’s Crown in particular, with its terrifying 100% experience bonus—even across the entire world, no one had ever seen such an overwhelming effect!
And World Tree’s Crown still had a second effect that remained locked.
“I just do not know what the unlock condition is.”
His experience bar was still just a little short of leveling up.
But it was already 10:00 p.m.
At midnight, Imaginary Foe’s effect would refresh.
Ye Ze lay down on the bed, planning to sleep for a while and quietly wait for the cooldown to reset.