A Demon's Journey

It had been nearly a month since Yrellea split up from her comrades. Her initial plan was to gather her close subordinates from across the Glerian Kingdom and start moving towards the Pinhian Republic.

However, she miscalculated the ruthlessness of the new Queen, Irene.

Irene was using her position as the Queen and the Holy Saintess of the Emissaries of the Clyranis God to clean the entire Glerian Kingdom territory.

And her method was to destroy an organization or at least the higher-ups of one and set up her own men inside them.

This allowed the Royal Family to directly use those organizations immediately and effectively.

David Vermillion wasn't fond of this method, but he knew that quelling any possible rebellion was necessary. Or else, his soldiers and citizens would suffer from it.

Moreover, this was merely the beginning of realizing his ambition. His ambition was to create an Empire of the same stature as the Great Qin Empire.

He recalled that Shun had activated the Saint Stele by using his father's lifeblood to kill a Demon God's reincarnation.

David did not want his Kingdom to be forced to go through such a choice again. Thus, he wanted to make his Kingdom much stronger.

To do that, David had to stabilize his Kingdom before expanding it. And most importantly, David had to gather more of those Elemental Sparks if he wanted to quickly grow to Emperor Rank.

David understood that these Elemental Sparks were a Kingdom's secret. Since the Sinyalian Kingdom possessed them, chances were that the Glerian Kingdom held them as well.

However, considering that they were a Royal Family's secret, finding them was a bit too difficult.

For now, David asked his Earth Elemental Warriors to search for secret tunnels or locations near the Royal Palace. All the warriors in this team were David's close comrades or subordinates.

Other than the Royal Palace, he asked them to search the sects one by one. They began from the Red Crown Sect.

Considering that this was the only sect close to the Royal Family and the sect that held 6 Star Warriors, it was the most suspicious.

In any case, Irene was actively hunting different organizations possessing some power within the newly acquired territory of the Sinyalian Kingdom. She had received David's approval regarding this matter.

A few branches of the Misty Flower Pavilion had already been destroyed by Irene. Her subordinates captured Yrellea's subordinates in those branches while destroying those buildings.

Irene had already ordered her subordinates to find the secret behind this Misty Flower Pavilion. She felt that something was definitely strange regarding this pavilion. According to the reports her officials found in the administrative offices of Crario City, it had gained popularity too rapidly.

After discovering that Irene was hunting her Misty Flower Pavilion, Yrellea instantly notified all her subordinates across the entire Glerian Kingdom territory.

Fortunately, only the branches near the capital were compromised, and the other branches of the Misty Flower Pavilion remained largely unaffected.

Yrellea had ordered her subordinates to shut down the Misty Flower Pavilion in their respective cities and stay low for some months.

It was a good thing that Yrellea had set up countermeasures for such a scenario. It was Azaroth's instruction to have a last resort in case the Kingdom discovered his relation to the Misty Flower Pavilion and started hunting it.

Yrellea's Misty Flower Pavilion was the organization that Azaroth created to gather wealth for his other retainer's organizations.

It would be disastrous if Yrellea completely lost her Misty Flower Pavilion. Losing buildings and resources was nothing much, but Yrellea couldn't be allowed to lose her trained subordinates and associates.

It took time and resources to train them. It would be challenging for Yrellea to set up everything from scratch.

Thus, Yrellea had bought many mansions in the cities, towns, and villages for such a situation. Her subordinates and associates were ordered to stay there until the situation cooled down.

The Royal Family couldn't investigate everything all at once. They had to set up a hierarchy. And it would take too much time, resources, and manpower to search each house in a city or a town.

Also, it would be strange if Irene used all her manpower and resources to search for Yrellea's Misty Flower Pavilion. She had bigger targets that required much greater importance.

Yrellea slowly met up with her close comrades, who were scattered in different towns and cities, before beginning her journey towards the Pinhian Republic.

While she was leaving the Sinyalian Kingdom's territory, Yrellea swore to make Irene pay for her actions.

She knew that Irene was the Holy Saintess of the Emissaries of the Clyranis God. A ruthless smile appeared on Yrellea's face as she planned to completely destroy that religion down to its roots in the Sinyalian Kingdom.

However, it was easier said than done. The Emissaries of Clyranis God Religion's influence was at its very peak in the Sinyalian Kingdom as their Holy Saintess the Queen of this Kingdom.

Yrellea would have to do something drastic to destroy this religion completely!

Her first step was to make David Vermillion believe that the Emissaries of the Clyranis were a threat to him and the Sinyalian Kingdom's legacy.

But this wasn't going to be an easy job. She had to set up the entire situation and control it to guarantee that everything went as she wanted.

Fortunately, Yrellea had time to set up this situation.

However, staying focused on the Sinyalian Kingdom would also be wrong. She had to give priority to her master's order and expand.

And the path to expansion was the Pinhian Republic. This was another kingdom whose border touched the Great Qin Empire.

The Pinhian Republic had Emperor Ranked Expert while it was ruled by a democratic government.

She felt that controlling this country would be much easier as it was formed by people's representatives.

As long as she could control enough candidates in the Pinhian Republic, Yrellea would possess control over this Kingdom.

Naturally, this wouldn't be an easy task. In fact, Yrellea would need to spend quite some time and invest a lot before she could effectively control the Pinhian Republic, but she was prepared for it.

Fortunately, Azaroth had guided her as she managed the Misty Flower Pavilion during its initial stages in the Glerian Kingdom.

At the least, Yrellea won't encounter those issues.

Reaching the Lamhilhan Theocracy was much easier for Yrellea as compared to Laura. This was because she held enough wealth to bribe the soldiers. Before leaving, Yrellea activated the poison on those coins. This was a corrosive poison that completely broke down and destroyed the bodies of the soldiers. Thus, all the soldiers who held those coins with their hands were slaughtered once Yrellea activated it.

Yrellea knew that these soldiers were accepting these coins and would soon inform their allies of the location of Yrellea's group.

They accepted Yrellea's bribe to prevent her group from escaping. They believed that Yrellea had nowhere to go now that she had entered their territory. Unfortunately, they had no idea that scheming against Yrellea would make them suffer an excruciating death.