Chapter 218 Chishilica

Chen Nuo took the reward from the guild receptionist, counted it to confirm it was correct, and signed his name.

"Congratulations, you've completed another A-rank subjugation mission. The Spicy Stir-fried Bean Sprouts party has also successfully been promoted to A-rank."

The receptionist's face beamed with a bright smile; the birth of an A-rank Adventurer team was a good achievement for her as well.

"Thanks, miss. Let's hang out sometime."

Chen Nuo waved and walked out of the guild, where Eris and the others were waiting for him.

It had been some time since they arrived on the Demon Continent.

During this period, Eris had celebrated her thirteenth birthday, and their journey continued.

The group traveled from Rikarisu Town to Wind Port, the only port city on the Demon Continent and one of the most famous and prosperous cities on the continent.

To return to the Central Continent, they first had to cross a vast ocean.

Taking a ship was currently the best option.

Wind Port became the final stop for Chen Nuo's group on the Demon Continent.

"We've already asked about the fare; it's only five Iron Coins per person."

Eris said happily.

Her excitement at seeing the ocean had not yet faded.

"However, the next ship doesn't depart for another three days,"

Ruijerd added.

"Thanks for the hard work. In that case, let's find an inn to stay and rest first."

Chen Nuo nodded after hearing this and made the arrangements.

"Noah, I want to go swimming in the ocean!"

Eris hugged Chen Nuo's arm and started swaying.

During this time, the young lady was in a stage of rapid physical development, having grown at least one cup size since arriving on the Demon Continent; feeling the sensation against his arm, Chen Nuo was absolutely certain.

"Let's find a place to stay first, then I'll accompany you to see the sea."

Chen Nuo's willpower remained firm.

"Fine."

Eris pouted, forced to suppress her excitement.

As the most prosperous city on the Demon Continent, prices here were naturally the highest.

Chen Nuo found an inn and booked rooms, after which the team split up.

Ruijerd had no interest in the sea and stayed at the inn alone to watch the luggage and rest.

As for Chen Nuo, he took Eris and the others to the shore.

There was no one else on this beach.

The ocean was dangerous, inhabited by numerous monsters that would hunt the people along the coast, so few were willing to approach it.

This allowed Eris to have the entire beach to herself.

The task of driving away monsters was left to Chen Nuo. It was simple enough; simulating Dragon Fear was sufficient to scare away the coastal monsters. As for his reward, he had already received it.

"Noah! Come play!"

Eris nimbly stripped off her outer clothes, leaving only a thin undergarment which, once soaked in seawater, clung completely to her skin.

While speaking, Eris tackled Chen Nuo to the ground.

The cold seawater made the girl's skin feel exceptionally warm by contrast.

Sandrone looked down at her own unchanging silhouette and let out a soft huff in her heart.

Is she going to catch up so soon?

However, Sandrone didn't care much, as she always believed her own curves were the most perfect—after all, they were personally crafted by Chen Nuo.

Eris enjoyed herself thoroughly until the sky began to darken, only then stepping back onto the sand with bare feet.

Nearby, Pronia had already prepared the ingredients for dinner.

It was a pile of seafood knocked unconscious by Dragon Fear.

The marine resources in this area were extremely rich; a single sea shrimp was larger than Eris's face.

Having lived inland all her life, Eris had never eaten these things. She was a bit cautious at first, but after the first bite, she immediately let loose.

"Delicious!"

Eris had quite an appetite.

After this period of adventure, she had long forgotten noble etiquette, using her hands directly and eating with both, her cheeks stuffed full.

There was no need to worry about the young lady gaining weight; with her daily exercise, she could digest everything completely no matter how much she ate.

"It seems Ruijerd hasn't eaten either."

When Eris was about eighty percent full, she suddenly remembered Ruijerd.

"Don't worry, I've already prepared some for him."

"That's good then."

Hearing this, Eris lowered her head again and continued devouring her food.

After eating and drinking her fill, the young lady didn't stop, drawing her sword to exercise with Chen Nuo to aid digestion.

Her physical development also drove a rapid growth in Eris's strength.

She was now standing on the threshold of a Saint-level Swordsman.

Compared to her peers, she had left them far behind, but compared to Chen Nuo, she was barely at a warm-up level.

Chen Nuo easily parried and blocked Eris's attacks, pointing out flaws in her moves and footwork.

In other subjects, Eris usually forgot things as soon as she heard them, but in swordsmanship, she was truly gifted; she didn't even need her brain, her body alone could remember Chen Nuo's teachings.

An hour later, an exhausted Eris slumped on the beach, panting.

"My body is so sticky and uncomfortable. Noah, I want a bath!"

"Got it."

Chen Nuo lightly raised his hand.

The sand beneath his feet reshaped into a bathtub, and with another wave of his hand, mana condensed moisture from the air into a clear spring.

With a splash, Eris jumped into the tub.

As everyone knows, after a lot of exercise, one needs proper stretching and massage.

Through Chen Nuo's past explanations and education, Eris had long since become accustomed to this, even being more proactive than Chen Nuo.

"Noah... here, here... and here, here... use a bit more strength... mm-hmm."

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Wind Port appeared prosperous on the surface, but in the shadows and corners of the city, a great deal of crime and poverty were hidden.

The gap between the rich and the poor was enormous here.

Many demons who originally lived in villages were attracted by the prosperity of the port, only to fall into the abyss of poverty shortly after, lacking both strength and survival skills.

As everyone knows.

The most profitable business is the slave trade.

The strange and exotic races of the Demon Continent were very attractive to the noble lords of the Central Continent.

Those who possessed wealth and power and had fallen into decadence had long grown tired of ordinary pleasures and often looked for different kinds of fun.

The specifics won't be described too much; in any case, compared to them, a certain Nuo became holy and flawless.

Chen Nuo was in no hurry to leave.

He was looking for someone.

To be precise, a Great Emperor of the Demon Race.

The Magic-Eye Emperor who possesses twelve Demon Eyes, also known by the world as the Revived Great Emperor, Kishirika Kishirisu.

As the offspring of the Demon God, in a sense, she is indeed immortal, because even if killed, she can be resurrected five hundred years later.

However, in the eyes of the world, it is actually a thousand years.

Because Kishirika needs another five hundred years to slowly regain her power.

The Great Emperor had only been resurrected a year before the Teleportation Incident. Unable to regain her power, she could only appear in a young form, living a miserable life of begging on the streets and going hungry.

Putting aside the twelve Demon Eyes, Kishirika's immortality alone was enough to pique Chen Nuo's curiosity.

If nothing went wrong, at this point in time, she should be begging for survival in Wind Port.

With the mindset of 'since I'm already here,' Chen Nuo went to the edge of the city to look for traces of this young girl emperor.

"Squeak squeak~."

"Oh, have you seen a young girl with purple hair and purple eyes? Thank you so much, here is your reward."

Chen Nuo handed a large piece of wheat cake to the rat in the corner.

He used a relatively obscure magic.

Animal Domination.

Don't underestimate the local rats; these little guys aren't stupid, and sometimes you can get unexpected information from them, which is much easier than asking the locals.

When locals saw Chen Nuo alone, the thought that usually popped into their heads was robbery!

It couldn't be helped; Chen Nuo looked too much like a fat sheep, so it wasn't their fault they couldn't resist the temptation.

With his looks, selling him to slave traders would yield a huge profit.

According to known market prices, a noble young lady like Eris wasn't as valuable as a beautiful youth like Chen Nuo.

Before gathering information from the rats, Chen Nuo had already dealt with three groups of ill-intentioned guys, burying them into the foundations.

The local underworld forces were a bit too rampant.

And this was in broad daylight; even if Chen Nuo wanted to do something bad, he would at least wait until dark.

Sure enough, he should bring Ruijerd next time; with him around, such troublesome things wouldn't happen.

That old fellow's appearance was very intimidating.

Chen Nuo followed the direction pointed out by the rat and indeed saw a figure crouching in a corner; even from over ten meters away, he could smell the pungent odor on her.

Did she just crawl out of a slop bucket?

No wonder he could get information from the rats; this girl probably competed with them for food quite often.

Chen Nuo held his breath and approached, lightly nudging her with his foot.

There was no reaction.

He reached out and pulled back the tattered cloak.

A pair of goat horns, combined with long purple hair and this youthful body—it was indeed Kishirika.

However, looking at her, there was a faint sense of death.

If he had come half a day later, this girl might have actually starved herself to death.

Chen Nuo took out some dried meat from his pocket and gently waved it in front of Kishirika's nose.

Although the Great Emperor didn't have the strength to open her eyes, her eating instinct drove her to open her mouth.

A row of serrated teeth snapped toward Chen Nuo's hand.

*Gulp~*

She didn't even chew.

Kishirika swallowed the dried meat, and as her body received a bit of energy, she finally came back to life.

"So hungry... give me a bit more to eat... I'll do anything..."

Kishirika had none of the demeanor of a Demon Race Emperor; she clung tightly to Chen Nuo's leg, looking like she was going to depend on him forever.

Having finally found a provider, there was no way she would let go.

"Anything?"

Chen Nuo squatted down and reached out to gently stroke Kishirika's horns, like petting a stray dog.

In fact, compared to the number of times she had been killed, Kishirika had actually starved to death more often.

Hearing Chen Nuo's gentle voice, Kishirika's body shuddered for some reason, as if some great disaster was about to befall her; only then did she properly look at the human before her, her Demon Eyes beginning to flicker.

"Eh? Why can't I see anything! Just who are you?!"

It was the first time Kishirika had encountered such a situation.

Aside from the terrifyingly massive amount of mana that could be observed, both Chen Nuo's heart and his future were shrouded in a hazy white mist.

"Want to eat?"

Chen Nuo pulled out more food from his pocket.

Kishirika instantly threw the questions from her mind, lunging at the food like a starving dog.

"Good girl, good girl."

Chen Nuo fed her while petting her.

Despite the smell she had earlier, it actually came from that cloak.

As the offspring of the Demon God and an immortal demigod...

Kishirika's body had a certain passive self-cleaning ability. Combined with her high-level demon appearance, if she didn't make herself look messy and smelly, she probably would have been captured and auctioned off by now.

Looking at the shackles on the Great Emperor's hands, she might have already been sold several times.

"Wuuu..."

Kishirika made a sound like she was guarding her food.

The last time she had eaten was a year ago.

This didn't mean Kishirika only needed to eat once a year, but rather that she could only starve for a maximum of one year.

Before this, Kishirika had been wandering the wastelands, and only approached the town after sensing the mana fluctuations of the Teleportation Incident.

As the Great Emperor of the Demon Race, Kishirika had indeed ruled the Demon Continent, had five Demon Kings as subordinates, and led two Human-Demon Wars; some of her former subordinates and friends still survived in the world.

But in this era, the Demon Race didn't need a Great Emperor.

Humans and demons had finally ushered in this period of peace, and no one wanted to break it.

So Kishirika, a radical among the demons, was naturally forgotten and abandoned.

The Demon Race felt no psychological burden regarding this.

Anyway, Kishirika was an immortal demon and wouldn't truly die; if the day ever came when the Demon Race needed an Emperor to fight the humans again, they would just find her and enshrine her once more.

To put it bluntly, perhaps because they had been reborn too many times, most immortal demons were mentally unstable.

"Finally, I'm back!"

Having eaten her fill, Kishirika was invigorated again. She stood before Chen Nuo with her hands on her hips, completely losing the pitiful puppy-like appearance she had while begging for food. Remembering she was still an Emperor, she raised her head and said:

"State your name, and then make a wish to this Empress! I am the Great Emperor of the Demon Race, known as the Magic-Eye Emperor, Kishirika Kishirisu, over."

"My name is Noah. As for a wish, could Your Majesty please be my dog?"

Chen Nuo bowed slightly to show respect, but the words he spoke were quite treasonous.

"Are you kidding me! I am the Great Emperor of the Demon Race!!"

Kishirika was furious. When she was hungry, she reluctantly let him pet her a couple of times, and that was it.

What, are you addicted now?

"Room and board included."

"..."