A Demon's Journey

The Beast Raid, led by Tiana, easily entered the Lamhilhan Theocracy's territory as the soldiers refused to fight them. Soldiers from the Sinyalian Kingdom reacted quite wisely.

However, the Lamhilhan Theocracy's soldiers didn't have such luxury. If they allowed this beast raid to pass, it could damage towns and cities in their way!

This would greatly harm the entire Lamhilhan Theocracy! Thus, the beast raid had to be stopped at all costs.

At this moment, the perpetrator of this Beast Raid, Tiana, was riding on her Frozen Spirit Fox with a delighted look. Her plan had worked as she managed to gather thousands of beasts by using the Spirit Core Grass.

In front of her, she saw multiple Lamhilhan Theocracy's troops setting up battle formations.

"Snow, it's just one last stride. You need to use all your energy for this last burst of speed. I will clear the way for you," Tiana gently instructed her Frozen Spirit Fox.

"Sacred Ice Sovereign Manifestation Technique," Tiana whispered the name of her technique.

This was a technique Azaroth taught her. It was one of the strongest techniques of the Reckless Primeval Ice Emperor of ancient times. The last time Tiana was forced to use this technique, she was merely a 4 Star Warrior.

After reaching the 5 Star Rank, Tiana's insight into this technique deepened immensely. Her eyes gave off a navy hue as the Ice Laws in her surroundings started to resonate with Tiana's Ice Element. An illusory Avatar of Ice Element soon formed above Tiana's head.

"Pure Glacial Ray." Tiana started gathering a great amount of Ice Elemental Energy over her Avatar.

Meanwhile, the soldiers of the Lamhilhan Theocracy attacked Tiana and her Frozen Spirit Fox with multiple attacks.

The Frozen Spirit Fox quickly dodged most of those attacks, and the rest were blocked by Tiana's Avatar.

However, even though Tiana and her fox dodged those attacks, some of the beasts behind her weren't so many.

These attacks struck those beasts and infuriated them greatly!

Earlier, they were merely following Tiana because she held Spirit Core Grass, but now, these humans had their complete attention.

A few beasts let out a roar. The other beasts responded with a howl or roar of their own. It was a declaration of war!

Tiana put away the Spirit Core Grass as she had achieved her objective. Once she was close enough, she launched the Pure Glacial Ray!

The Pure Glacial Ray was a thick ice beam, and anyone who came into contact with this beam was frozen.

The Frozen Spirit Fox quickly jumped on those frozen humans and planned to get across the entire army.

However, these troops couldn't stay focused on the Frozen Spirit Fox and Tiana. They had more pressing concerns since those thousands of beasts were about to reach them!

After passing the border force, Tiana quickly changed her direction as she believed that entering the Lamhilhan Theocracy's territory any deeper would be dangerous.

She guessed that no one among the border force should survive to inform the capital of the fact that Tiana had snuck across the borders.

However, Tiana still had to stay careful. If someone does survive, the Lamhilhan Theocracy might start hunting for her any time soon.

Thus, Tiana decided to not visit any large city or town and instead moved from one village to another.

From a village, Tiana found the general map of the Lamhilhan Theocracy. She was extremely thankful to the merchant.

Tiana followed that map and moved towards the Pinhian Republic's territory.

After she was near the Pinhian Republic's territory, Tiana contacted Yrellea through the Mystical Spiritual Connection Ring.

It had been nearly three months since Yrellea had entered the Pinhian Republic. Thus Misty Flower Pavilion was very successful in this kingdom.

Moreover, the people of the Pinhian Republic were much richer as compared to the Glerian Kingdom. They also placed a great focus on the literary arts and elegance.

Fortunately, Yrellea's Misty Flower Pavilion wasn't lacking in these regards. In fact, multiple groups conducted this business.

However, the women in the Misty Flower Pavilion were the most beautiful, and they all cultivated a very special technique that was like a drug to people. People were quickly addicted to the Misty Flower Pavilion, and at this time, Yrellea had already set up three branches in the Pinhian Republic.

Actually, Yrellea could have opened up ten branches of the Misty Flower Pavilion in the Pinhian Republic with the profit she was earning. However, there were some very weird rules in the Pinhian Republic to prevent a business from expanding too quickly.

There were also limits on the amount of land that an individual could acquire. A time limit before an organization can open a branch in other cities.

Moreover, Yrellea had to bribe too many individuals to get approval regarding constructing the Misty Flower Pavilion.

In the last three months, Yrellea had devoted herself to learning how to take advantage of the laws in the Pinhian Republic.

She met up with some solicitors and stuck a deal with them. In return for massive income, these solicitors or advocates informed her of the loopholes in the Pinhian Republic's laws.

This wasn't all. Yrellea also found out that dealing with the laws wouldn't be much of an issue if she could gain a connection with someone of high authority. Someone who was a minister, at the very least.

Thus, Yrellea used her best weapon she had under her hand. Beauty.

However, she wasn't going to personally involve herself with a man. Her heart, body, and soul belonged to Azaroth. She couldn't even think of being with another man.

Only one option remained. It was to use one of her subordinates and have her seduce a minister.

Yrellea found out that the ministers in this country weren't exceptionally powerful. They were humans with strong leadership skills or communication skills, that's all.

The martial force of the Pinhian Republic lied with another department. This was the General with the title of the Vicious Lightning Paragon! He was an Emperor-Ranked Expert and one of the strongest experts in the entire Pinhian Republic.

He was an extremely old fellow as he was already 800 years old. His prestige was the greatest in the Pinhian Republic.

However, this man wasn't interested in ruling the Pinhian Republic. His only focus was to preserve the Pinhian Republic's strength.

He didn't care about how the parliament ruled over the Pinhian Republic. The majority of the people chose the members of the parliament, and they had to face the consequences of their choice.

However, the Vicious Lightning Paragon wouldn't sit idly if the members of the parliament made a choice that would destroy the Pinhian Republic in the near future.

It had only happened once in the entire Pinhian Republic's history.

The time when a furious Vicious Lightning Paragon entered the parliament and massacred all the members with no exception!

This reminded all political parties in the Pinhian Republic that no matter what they do, they must never harm the Pinhian Republic's interests as there was no telling when the Vicious Lightning Paragon might snap.