This Lich Requests More Remuneration

Chapter 797: Afterword 2 The future ultimately belongs to the young_3 Chapter 797: Afterword 2 The future ultimately belongs to the young_3 “Duke Deceiver was a devil who knew very well how to restrain his desires, which made him different from the other Archdukes of the Devils,” the writer once heard rumors that when the Lord of the Storm tried to sow discord by offering the Sea Country Princess to the Duke Deceiver as a gift with his own followers, he immediately saw through the vicious intent of the Lord of the Storm.

“Duke Deceiver said that he believed a great woman who devoted her life to faith and country could not only be driven by love, and to use Princess Airel as a tool for creating discord was like burying pearls in the wall as stones, an utterly regrettable waste.

“And, quite unusually, the Lord of the Storm admitted his mischief had failed, granted Princess Airel true freedom, and promised to protect the Fury Tide Kingdom from any natural disasters for a hundred years.

“In the end, the Archduke of the Devils returned to Hell, while Princess Airel ascended to Talos’s Divine Realm.

“A friend of mine once had the chance to meet Her Royal Highness the Princess in person and asked if she truly felt at peace. Princess Airel smiled and said that compared to the future of the entire Fury Tide Kingdom and its million people, that encounter was nothing more than the sighting of a white whale on the shipping lanes: it would have been a pity to miss, but just a bit of a pity nonetheless.

“Having witnessed that reunion over the long years, I believe, although the distance between their statuses and races was immense, at that moment, they could truly be called confidants.