Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 191: Filthy Demon

"Your mother..." The Filthy Demon thought for a moment, "Ah, I remember her, yes. Was it she who asked you to come and see me?"

"No, it's him," the witch raised her chin and pointed at Ron, "We are investigating the past of that former kingdom. You should know all about the devil, the demon, and the queen."

"As for my mother, she is dead."

"I see." The Filthy Worm Demon nodded without any surprise. "I have also heard a lot about the things between the witches. It's quite... interesting."

"As for the Kingdom of Faramar, many years ago, an elven wizard came here. I pointed him to a ruin where he found the answer he wanted. Now I can also point that place to you, and the conditions are the same:"

"Please don't expose this place to outsiders or other demons," the Filthy Demon's tone was almost pleading, "Those humans will die out in two generations at most. There is no need to make a big fuss."

"As for us demons, let us fend for ourselves. Graz'zt wanted me to join forces with him, but I gave up long ago."

"Excuse me," Constance raised her hand. "You said plural at first, didn't you? 'we', 'I'?"

"The Babu Demons are the most direct descendants of Lord Dark, and given their nature, they will not give up the opportunity to kill," the Filthy Demon explained, "I control them and prevent them from showing their cruel side."

"When you came, you sent many Babu demons back to the abyss. This is a relief for all of us. But please don't do the same to me - I don't want to go back to that place again."

Ivy snorted, "How strange."

The Filthy Demon's tone contained reminiscence: "I served as an advisor in the court of the last queen of the Kingdom of Faramar. She was a very special person, and she changed me a lot."

"I can't stop her from inviting wolves into the house and summoning demons, nor can I stop Lord Wu from being angry and punishing her, but at least I can preserve some of their fire, so that they don't have to leave their homes and can still reproduce on this land until the last one dies."

"This behavior is tantamount to a betrayal of my own race and essence, so it's no surprise that I lost a lot." Seeing that Ron and others had not yet taken action against it, the relaxed Filthworm Demon dispersed the shadow cloak flowing around its body. Now it still wanted to maintain the talents of its own race, and it needed to pay several times or even dozens of times the energy as a price.

"But unfortunately, the devil looks down on me, and the other gods have no response at all. I have no way to get protection from other beings and can only slowly weaken. If you send a guy like me back to the abyss, there is no doubt that I will die very thoroughly... I don't plan to die like this!"

"You betrayed your camp and race, but you are afraid of death?" Victoria found it unreasonable. "You seem to be much smarter than other demons. Don't you foresee the consequences of doing this?"

"Foreseeing is one thing, being willing is another." The Filthworm was silent for a moment. "I don't know who your god is, but no matter who it is, he is definitely better than Graz'zt. You don't want to know what I will face when I return."

"I failed to defend my territory, failed to resist the devil's invasion, and even failed to complete the task he recently gave me to take in his followers - I will be demoted to a coward, or even worse!"

"I will be tortured and turned into cannon fodder! I, Datina, don't want to end up like that!"

"Datinus?" Ron's ears perked up, "Is this your real name?" "Yes, so what?" The Filthy Demon snorted, "You can try and see if you can do anything with my real name - but I'll announce the answer first: you can't do anything, because I'm the most despicable traitor even among the demons."

"How is it? Are you still interested in my business?" There was a hint of teasing in the voice of the Filthy Devil. "If there is nothing else, I will tell you the location of the ruins and then leave, okay? The demons and humans here are no different from dead now, there is no need for you to kill them again."

"Remember to prepare more holy water and other things. After being beaten back by the undead creatures, that wizard actually had the nerve to question me. You guys wouldn't do that, would you?"

"That's hard to say," Ron wrote down the location given by the Filthworm, which was exactly the same as the location in the wizard's notebook. "Can't you just tell us directly? You are an eyewitness, so your words will surely be more useful than our blind guesses based on dead objects, right?"

"Compared to the words of the devil, people tend to guess for themselves," the Filthworm's tongue twitched slightly, "At least that's what the elf thinks. But if you want to listen, it's okay."

"Generally speaking, when a queen ascends the throne, she discovers that one-third of her countrymen are demons or cultists. She tries to seek the devil's help to reverse the situation, but she is not careful enough and draws the wrath of the demon lord."

"Ghouls, zombies, undead... a plague of all kinds of undead creatures spread from the mines that were originally prepared for the demons to attack the material world. The queen led the expedition herself, but it was a miserable defeat."

"In order to curb the momentum of the demons' attack, she took a series of harsh measures, but at this time, almost all of her citizens were controlled by the demons. The army composed of my kind invaded her kingdom when she was fighting the open Abyss Legion. When she came back, everything had changed."

"When the filthworm does its job, no one will doubt the demon's influence," Yelena exhaled. "They will think it comes entirely from the victim's lonely fanaticism and antisocial depravity."

“Among the souls we Shadow Spirits collect, we occasionally come across one or two such examples.”

"That's right," the Filthy Demon nodded. "In this desperate situation where the enemy outnumbers us and we are outnumbered, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, the queen's defeat is inevitable. The ruins I pointed out to you are one of the places where she is buried."

"one?"

"She signed a contract with the devil," the Filthy Demon looked at Yelena deliberately, "so in order to ensure that she would not come back to life, the demons sealed her body in five different places, each guarded by a large number of undead creatures and demons."

"I am one of the guards."

"That's why there are so many zombies in the village over there."

"That's the maximum number I can transfer. As a caretaker, I can't embezzle, otherwise..." Before the Filthy Demon finished his words, its tongue suddenly pierced Ron's shoulder like a spear!

This seemingly weak demon still has great strength and wisdom. It has been hiding its strength until now, and the true killing range of its tongue has been truly revealed!

(End of this chapter)