Hopper's heart skipped a beat. The image of the old, almost crumbling parchment emerged in her mind, the almost dim ink outlining the outline and structure of the room, and the prominent...

"The blueprints show there are two treasure rooms," the Delightful Devil said. "Have you seen the second room? Are you curious about what's in there?"

Hopper shook her head silently. She didn't know why the Devil of Joy suddenly turned the topic in this direction.

"Then let me show you."

She shouted loudly, and the light emitted by the mirror in her hand was too bright to look directly at.

Hopper flapped his wings and pulled the disabled Lati behind the nearest stone pillar. Even with his back against the stone pillar and his eyes closed, the bright light irritated his eyelids and turned them bright red.

The burst of light didn't last long. As the light faded, Hopper heard Udi hum softly, and then the light disappeared.

Hopper opened his eyes and realized he had been wrong. The light hadn't completely vanished. Somewhere behind the demon, a ground-level light source was still emitting energy.

She carefully peeked from behind the stone pillar and saw that the Delight Demon had dropped from mid-air and was standing in the middle of the room. A swirling pool of light appeared beneath her feet.

The Devil of Pleasure clutched her right shoulder, scanning the surroundings with resentment. The Nine-Tailed Whip emblem on her head shone brilliantly. After a moment, she lowered her hand. A hole had been corroded through the shoulder guard, but the skin beneath remained white and delicate.

"Come here, I said I wouldn't hurt you if I gave you a second chance," Youdi said unhappily, but then she seemed to remember something and smiled again.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank you. If you hadn't attacked me so hard, this mirror wouldn't have been able to absorb enough energy to blast open this door so quickly."

Hopper helped Lati to her feet. She actually had no interest in the other room, but now was obviously not the time to go against Youti.

The pool was the size of a bathtub, filled with a transparent, quivering liquid like the purest water. Although it looked like liquid, the Devil of Joy stood firmly on the surface with its wings folded, not sinking at all.

The demon approached and saw that beneath the transparent liquid was not soil, but another room. Unlike the treasure room where Hopper was, it was not dark and lightless, but pale and rough, like a chalk cave with few signs of human excavation.

Hopper winked at Lati, asking her to stay where she was, take a deep breath, and then stride over to the pool.

Her feet felt strange, like stepping on wobbly pudding or congealed blood. She could feel the suction of the pool below her, trying to pull her down. But a film seemed to hold her back. Seeing that there was no problem, Lati also stood up.

“Aha, I forgot about that.”

The Devil of Joy slapped his forehead as if he had suddenly realized something, took out the heart-shaped lock from his chest, kissed it gently, and whispered, "My love bird sings of freedom."

With a snap, something invisible seemed to shatter around him. Hopper felt like he had finally broken the blister under his feet, and his whole body fell unexpectedly.

Before she could react or open her wings, she landed on solid ground. Lati, who was next to her, almost lost her balance and reached out to grab her shoulders.

"Just as I expected, this is the secret of the Strict Lady." The Delight Demon stood near the gray rock wall, looking up at a crystal embedded in the wall, which was half the size of a Devil.

Hopper had originally thought this was a chalk cave, but that wasn't entirely accurate. A dozen multifaceted, transparent crystals grew on the pale rock walls, illuminating the small cavern with a lightless glow.

She walked to a random crystal and saw a dark object under the transparent facets. It looked like some kind of long horn.

A deep breath of hell seeped out from the crystal, but what surprised Hopper was that both the twisted long horn and the breath it exuded were very unfamiliar to her, as if they came from a kind of demon she had never encountered before.

"Have you seen these things?" Youdi seemed to have been observing her expression. Noticing her confusion, she took the initiative to ask, "Does it feel unfamiliar? Did the courses in the Torch Keep teach you who the former master of Hell was?"

"What?" Lati asked in surprise. "What nonsense are you talking about? Where did Barto get another master?"

Hopper's first reaction was to refute it. But then she suddenly remembered the long poem they had sung in morning class on the first day of school. It mentioned that the nameless king descended into hell and defeated all enemies. Could the former master mentioned by the Devil of Pleasure be the enemy mentioned in the poem?

"I don't understand, but I don't understand what it has to do with me." The succubus shook his head. Many times, being curious about secrets, especially overly profound secrets, is irresponsible to one's own life.

"Don't you understand yet?" Yudi said with a hint of disappointment. She patted the huge crystal behind her, and Hopper could see a particularly bloated demon trapped inside. Its sparsely haired head was almost sunken in its fat, wrinkled body, like a flour sack. Dozens of bright pink tentacles connected to the bottom of the sack, wriggling ominously.

"These are the most primitive inhabitants of all of Baator, and they are the most hated enemies of the Lord of the Nine Hells. Simply coming into contact with them is a serious crime, not to mention that Lady Harsh harbors them in her treasure room."

"I can give you a third chance. Come with me and leave Torchhold with these evidences. We can use these evidences to overthrow Lady Harsh, and Her Highness Gracia will reserve a good position for you in the court." The Delight Demon extended his hand to her and smiled encouragingly.

"And I will refuse." Hopper's words made her face darken instantly. Lati stood up straight behind Hopper, her left hand resting on her sword, ready to defend against any future attack. "You can easily leave now, taking the evidence with you. The only reason you're trying to persuade me to join you, given such an advantage, is that you have no confidence in your escape."

"Well said, little bird." Qiannianchang's voice sounded behind her. She had actually moved in unknowingly, and a ball of air was constantly vibrating in the palm of her open hand.

Before any demon could react, a beam of shockwaves penetrated Lati's right chest and Youti's right wing at the same time, crushing the flesh and blood into pieces.

Chapter 87 General

The spurting blood covered Hopper's entire back like boiling water, burning her so much that she almost screamed.

Lati collapsed without a sound, falling silently to the ground, with sulfur-smelling blood and internal organs spilling all over the floor.

Hopper couldn't bother dealing with the witch anymore. He quickly ran to Lati and helped her up. Cambion's body temperature had dropped rapidly due to excessive blood loss. She was shaking uncontrollably and black smoke began to rise from her body—the signs of a dying hellish creature were beginning to appear.

The demon laid her flat on her face, and the witch's magic pierced through Lati's entire right chest. Looking through the hole, one could even see her left lung still working tenaciously. If it weren't for Cambion's strong body, Lati would have been a corpse.

It took Hopper some effort to remove his brooch because it was covered in blood, and just as much time to pin it on Lati.

Fortunately, it wasn't too late. The Eternal Life Brooch lived up to its reputation and had an immediate effect. Lati's wound immediately stopped bleeding, a layer of liquid golden light filled the hole in her chest, and her bloodless face began to regain color.

After a while, she even trembled and opened her eyes, letting out a low groan of pain. As she regained consciousness, the pair of white pearls on her earlobes, as if sensing her command, exploded and shattered. The huge hole in her chest was slowly healing.

Hopper breathed a sigh of relief, set her down, and turned to look at the battlefield. The Eternal Life Brooch hadn't yet teleported her away, which meant her life wasn't over yet.

The pleasure demon on the other side was lying on the ground gasping in pain. Her right wing was torn in half by the sonic spell cast by the witch, and even the huge crystal behind her was cracked like a spider web.

Millennium Guts walked slowly, cane in hand. Her head lowered, her eyes scanning the enemies. Although she had just reversed the situation with a single strike, making her the strongest opponent, the spell seemed to have taken a significant toll on her stamina. It was clear the hag was trying her best to control herself, but even under the effects of the Delight Demon's toxin, Hopper could still hear her breathing was unsteady.

"You noticed it when I opened the passage just now." Youdi finally got up, the mirror in her hand was already covered with cracks. "That's why I used that little spell to test it."

"I never believed anything could completely absorb magic." Qiannianchang's hand flashed with lightning, but an uncontrollable cough interrupted her spell—she hadn't fully recovered yet. "Since you've absorbed energy with the mirror and immediately begun opening the channel, it's likely the mirror has reached its limit. Don't delay. Little bird, it's too early for you to play tricks on me."

"Then why did you attack Lati?" Hopper asked, feigning anger. Stay calm. Your emotions are your weapon. Make them believe you're blinded by rage. "Are you no longer afraid of the mythal?"

The hag chuckled dryly and said disdainfully, "You think you have a mythal to intimidate me, but I've been in this castle far longer than you, little blue jay. A mythal can only detect life and death, not recreate them. You've been lured by this spy of Gracia. For the safety of Torchhold, I have no problem killing you all."

Hopper understood. No wonder the witch had been so restrained in her spellcasting. She had planned to kill all the devils present when the Delight Demon first recruited her. This would give her enough time and means to target the isolated Lil.

As if she realized that she was running out of strength, the witch did not try to cast the spell herself. Instead, she raised her staff and sprayed a beam of dirty yellow light at the pleasure demon that posed the greatest threat to her.

Yuti didn't dodge, completing the spell almost simultaneously with the hag. When the hag's ray reached it, it wasn't a delicate, injured pleasure demon, but a giant, nine-foot-tall horned demon covered in black scales. The ray struck the demon, causing no reaction, and vanished.

"Ah, it's been a while since I used the transformation tactic." After the transformation, the Joy Demon's voice became hoarse, and the small cave could hardly accommodate this giant.

The horned demon did not choose to fly in the narrow cave, but rushed towards the witch like a galloping carriage. Hopper hurriedly dragged Lati back to the wall, fearing that she would be stepped on.

The hag screamed, but it was too late for her to cast a spell. She stretched out her hand, seemingly in a futile attempt to block the incoming horned demon. However, the moment the demon struck her, the hag vanished, reappearing in the same spot after the demon had passed.

Hopper recognized it as the effect of the Blink spell, but she only raised her bow in caution; it was not yet time for her to leave.

The witch seized the moment when the horned demon charged and had no time to react, and quickly completed her spell with her hands. An illusory frog appeared above the horned demon's head, puffed up its cheeks and blew a puff of green smoke at Youdi.

After the billowing green smoke dissipated, Hopper saw that the Joy Devil had been transformed back.

Professor Yuti looked at her hands, her face showing no sign of regret for being dispelled. She said to the hag, "It's a very good spell, but my magical power comes from my innate bloodline and is almost infinite. How many times can you cast dispel magic?"

Millennium Gut didn't speak, but she blew a short whistle. The staff emitted a resounding retching sound, and the ceiling seemed to split open, sending a cascade of mist pouring down. Before the Delight Demon could transform into a new monster, the entire room was filled with icy mist.

Hopper immediately approached Lati. Family knows family, and the demons couldn't see through the physical cloud. She couldn't let this opportunity slip away.

Lati was still trying to stay awake. Seeing Hopper coming, she nodded. The warrior knew with her keen combat perception that this opportunity was very rare.

Lati gripped her amethyst pendant tightly, shouted the activation word, and her whole body began to be enveloped by purple light. Professor Youti had already released the space lock when she crossed the pool just now, and she could now leave through this necklace.

However, before the spell could be completed, a string of light emerged from the thick fog and headed straight for Lati. Hopper tried to stop it, but the string passed through her body and bound her. The purple light faded, but Lati did not escape as she had hoped; the string held her in place.

"Hey, little birds, don't even think about escaping from the cage," the witch's sinister voice came from the thick fog.

"I say, let there be wind." The voice of the Devil of Joy came from the other end. Then a strong wind suddenly blew, causing Hopper to sway and have to hold on to the rocks.

The thick fog that filled the field was blown away by a brief strong wind, revealing the enemies on the field.

The Delight Demon still stood there, holding a huge feather fan in both hands. As the wind died down, the fan exploded into a cloud of shimmering feathers that drifted through the air.

"Don't even move!"

The hag was trembling all over, seemingly without strength. But her hands, tightly gripping the cane, remained steady. Atop the cane sat a toad with its mouth wide open, holding a seemingly unstable ball of light.

Chapter 88: Final Battle

"Oh, dear Millennium Sausage," Youdi said in a weary tone, playing with the sharp dagger in her hand. "Don't be so incompetent. If you are not strong enough, you have to admit it. We have been colleagues for almost a hundred years. It's really boring to make such a joke that can only scare those two girls."

"You can try," the hag said through gritted teeth, "to see if I can really detonate the staff, and to see if you can withstand it, huh?"

The Devil of Pleasure's pupils shrank slightly. Until just now, she had the upper hand, facing only two students who hadn't yet graduated and a hag wizard whose mana was nearly depleted. She simply couldn't bear to be threatened by a staff held by the Millennium Sausage just as she was about to win.

It's just that the one who has more always worries too much. She bit her lip unconsciously and didn't continue to provoke the witch.

Hopper could tell the hag didn't really want to detonate the staff and turn the place into a corpse-strewn crater. But she had too few cards to gamble on.

Silence fell for a moment. The Delight Demon and the Hag stared at each other, waiting for the other to speak first, unwilling to show weakness. At this moment, even the subtle sound of the crystal, previously shattered by the Hag's magic, continuing to shatter was particularly clear.

"Why don't we be honest and tell us your terms?" Ultimately, Professor Youti was more concerned. "According to Barto's rules, there's nothing that can't be negotiated."

"It's simple. I'll tell you straight." The witch's voice was steady, but from Hopper's perspective, he could see a barely perceptible tremor on her spine. "I just need you to leave now. I can swear not to reveal your secret. I can also give you time to leave."

"Too fast! You shouldn't have revealed your cards so quickly, Professor Millennium Intestine." Hopper sighed, "Or you can't hold on for much longer. You can't drag it on any longer."

"What a generous offer!" Yudi tilted her head and smiled sweetly at the hag. What Hopper could see, the Devil of Delight could see even better, so she was waiting too.

"Then..."

The hag's words were interrupted by a chilling sound of ice cracking. Her constant vigilance caused both she and the pleasure demon to turn their heads to look at the crystal on the wall. The moment she turned her gaze away from the pleasure demon, the hag felt a sharp pain in her brain, and a whispered command echoed in her mind: "Obey your master!"

The Millennium Intestine broke free from the Pleasure Demon's mental control almost in the next second, but just one second was enough for the Pleasure Demon, which was incredibly fast.

"caught you!"

Yudi appeared before the witch like a ghost. Qiannianchang thought it was bad and was about to detonate the staff in his hand. The ball of light began to expand and tremble.

However, it was too late. The Devil of Joy grabbed her left wrist with one hand and broke it decisively. The witch's screams and the sound of bones breaking were heard at the same time.

The Devil of Joy grasped the staff in his left hand and began to fight with the witch for control, while his other fair and beautiful hand pressed on the witch's shriveled chest.

"Zhomasha!"

A bloody red light erupted from Yuti's right hand, and the hag screamed and tried to retreat. She even gave up fighting the Devil of Pleasure for the staff, determined to escape from the powerful hand, but the hand seemed to be stuck to her. In the end, the hag could no longer scream, and could only kneel to the ground in vain.

The red glow lingered for a long time, and by the time it faded, the ghost woman had completely shrunken. Professor Millennium Intestine, once a decrepit old woman, now looked emaciated, her hair lusterless and like a tangle of weeds. Her gray skin stretched tautly against her misshapen skull, and she could only breathe out, not in.

The Devil of Joy casually pushed the hag to the floor. She had endured the hag's magical bombardment, opened the magical pathway, and ultimately triumphed over the mage, but not without a price. However, through the magic just now, she seemed to have drained the life essence of the thousand-year-old intestine. All the wounds, large and small, on her body had healed, and the scars and dust of battle only served to highlight her beauty, making her look even more radiant.

She played with the staff she had just snatched. The ball of light in the toad's mouth gradually shrank and finally went out completely, leaving only a wisp of green smoke.

"Have you seen this, Miss Hopper?" The Devil of Pleasure didn't even move forward. She leisurely walked to the side of the crystal with her hands behind her back, and looked up at the crack that had penetrated the entire crystal - it was its sound that had attracted the attention of the witch, allowing the Devil of Pleasure to successfully launch a sneak attack.

"Even a veteran wizard like Millennium Intestine was defeated by me. Do you still have any doubts about Her Highness Gracia's power?" The Devil of Joy said cheerfully. She knew Hopper or Lati might still be able to fight back, but that didn't matter. There was no other great wizard here who could rival her. "Do you regret this now? But it's too late. I've already kindly given you three chances, and it's already wasted a considerable amount of time. Now, I just want to see your blood."

The Delight Demon turned, his mouth wide, revealing a mouthful of sharp, white teeth. Hopper might be a good archer, but without the melee protection of the Cambion on the ground, she was confident she could plunge her dagger into the Delight Demon's slender neck in two rounds of fighting.

The demon smiled as well. She opened her hand to show Yudi what she held: a jeweled locket. She whispered the spell, "Zetua!"

The locket suddenly opened, and the green beam was aimed directly at the Delight Demon's head. If it hit, she would be vaporized on the spot.

But Youdi just twisted her waist lightly, and the powerful beam of light passed by her body, and the wind blew her hair violently.

"Is this your trump card, Miss Hopper?" The Delightful Demon patted his chest pretentiously, as if frightened. "A high-level mage's Disintegration spell? That alone won't hit me."

As if history were repeating itself, her words were interrupted by the loud sound of ice cracking - the disintegration spell just now hit the crystal behind her, and it could no longer withstand it.

The Devil of Joy didn't even look back. She decisively kicked to the right, dodging the exploding crystal and flying debris. But what was even more serious was that the bloated monster inside was still alive. It let out a whimpering roar, followed by the shattered crystal and leaping onto the Devil of Joy's body.

"Hmmmmmm" The beautiful female devil was pounced on by the monster covered with tentacles. The slippery and sticky tentacles tried to penetrate through her collar and hem. For a moment, the disgust in her heart far exceeded the panic.

The monster was weak, and Youdi could almost kill three of them with a single blow, but it lay on her back, and the Devil of Pleasure couldn't pull it off quickly enough.

At this moment, the Delightful Demon heard two voices, one weak and the other strong, but equally firm, speaking the same word:

"Zetu'a"

The Joy Demon didn't have time to see what spell they triggered and turned around quickly, wanting the monster on its back to block the deadly spell for her.

However, what engulfed her was not severe pain or coldness, but a rapid feeling of falling and suffocation.

"I never expected that," Lati half-straightened up, looking at the place where the Pleasure Demon and the monster disappeared, and said with emotion, "The last insurance that Brother Lil gave us turned out to be the maze technique."

"Thank you, powerful Master Zetua," Hopper said sincerely, holding up Lati with his hands. "I must sing Lil's praises when I get back."

Chapter 89 Report

"That's the report on this operation. I'm done."

Hopper finished his report with his arms tucked against his ribs, his wings neatly folded, and his eyes staring straight ahead.

Sunlight streamed through the stained glass windows, illuminating the sleek desk and the now-smoothed candle on it. The dust dancing in the sunlight was the only thing moving in the room; a blind person might have thought Hopper was reporting to the air.

"Very good, very detailed." Professor Biguan stood to the left of the desk, his face hidden in the shadows, his eyes like two bright balls of light. "I hope you have nothing to hide. After all, your concealment has caused the greatest damage to the Torchhold in five centuries."

Hopper didn't say anything, just stood straight, her lips pressed into a line. She didn't offer any excuses like, "If you had listened to me earlier, you wouldn't have these problems." After all, she had already said everything she could in her report. Professor Bi Guan was simply shirking responsibility.

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