The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

If he had to wait any longer, Gray would have to leave and get another waiter.

The waiting process wasn't too boring. I experienced life in the secret realm, spending my days with forests and monsters. There was a strange sense of mystery about living in seclusion in the mountains, which Gray quite liked.

However, he had been in the secret realm for over a month, and from the outside, it seemed that Grey Brandt had disappeared and his whereabouts were unknown.

If I don't contact my family for too long, my adoptive parents and Liya will worry.

Besides, he doesn't have much time to waste here; there are still many problems to solve.

Gray gazed at the massive white dragon's body and made a decision in secret.

We can wait another month at most. If we really can't wait that long, we'll have to find someone else to guard the area.

Then they will come to greet Bai Lin as soon as he emerges from seclusion.

I just hope Bai Lin won't get so angry and cry and make a scene just because she can't find anyone as soon as she leaves the pass. So pitiful!

Fortunately, Gray's worries were unnecessary. After the sun rose and set five times, he sensed the changes in the dragon's body.

"It seems we should leave the seclusion soon..."

Gray murmured.

He could see that the dragon's aura was constantly rising, and soon its aura would undergo a qualitative change, breaking through from a pseudo-tenth-order to a true tenth-order life form, reaching the pinnacle of the world.

Gray watched the changes in the white scales, remaining unmoved amidst the overflowing dragon's might.

The secret realm has become lively again.

As the power generated by Bai Lin's breakthrough spread outwards in concentric circles, this pressure affected the monsters in half of the secret realm.

Driven by their survival instincts and fear of their superiors, the monsters scattered and fled in the opposite direction of the white scales, forming a massive "Dragon Works" beast tide. It is possible that many monsters will pass through the portal and escape to the main plane.

Gray didn't need to stop this.

The location of this secret realm's main plane portal is in the wild. The formation of a beast tide will only affect the monsters in that area; ecological damage is not currently being considered.

Moreover, this secret realm is full of low-level monsters. Even if they really come out of the portal and run too far to human towns, they won't cause much trouble. At most, they'll just give the local lords and adventurers a headache.

The white scales' aura continued to rise gradually, but the rate of increase slowed down until it stopped rising and gradually stabilized.

A resounding dragon roar echoed, signaling the end of Bai Lin's breakthrough.

Let's set aside the impact of that dragon's roar on the monsters in the entire secret realm for now...

Gray was about to go and greet and congratulate Bai Lin on his breakthrough when a sudden change occurred.

The once tranquil sky suddenly twisted, the clouds swirling like a vortex, a blinding golden fissure splitting open at its center. Holy light cascaded down like a waterfall, enveloping the entire secret realm in divine radiance. The air trembled, emitting a deep hum.

This strange phenomenon made Gray extremely uncomfortable, because the dazzling holy light had a powerful restraining effect on him.

Gray rarely felt so uncomfortable under the light, and he frowned.

More than the discomfort, he was struck by the familiarity of this strange phenomenon. He was certain he had experienced it once before, and that experience hadn't been too long ago...

When was it?

Gray flipped through his memories, recalling the past...

He was excited to see Gray's white scales after breaking through, and was thinking of rushing over to give Gray a loving hug. But now he was at a loss because of this strange phenomenon.

This light did not seem to be caused by her, and she did not possess any light-attribute magic. If she were to cause any unusual phenomena, they would definitely be something like a dragon's roar or dragon's might, which had nothing to do with this kind of holy light.

Countless pure white feathers of light drifted down from the sky, turning into fine gold dust upon touching the ground and dissipating.

The air grew heavy, as if the entire secret realm was under the gaze of some supreme being, and mortals instinctively wanted to kneel down.

Gray remembered.

He had seen a similar scene in the secret realm of the Holy Light Pilgrimage, but this time the light was even more dazzling and aroused him, and the falling feathers were an anomaly that did not exist last time.

This is a sign, a sign of the angels descending!

But why?

Why would angels descend upon this plane? What is the reason?

During the Holy Light Pilgrimage, the angels descended because the demon of knowledge and truth, Thurt, was summoned to the secret realm by cultists. He was to punish the demons and their minions who had disrupted the Holy Light Pilgrimage.

In the end, he was defeated by Thurt, the demon of knowledge and truth, and was killed instead.

What caused this arrival? There are no demons here.

For him, the demon king... that's obviously impossible. How could the angels want to cause him trouble at this exact moment, so coincidentally?

Undoubtedly, the angel's goal was White Scale.

Thinking of this, Gray stared intently at the strange phenomenon before him, channeling his magic into a longsword which he gripped tightly in his hand.

Angels are legendary beings in the scriptures of the Holy Light Church, messengers who serve the Goddess.

The Church of Holy Light is a faith organization of humankind, and every heroine of the Church of Holy Light is included in the hero team that goes to defeat the Demon King.

Depending on their stance, if the Holy Light Church, which is allied with the hero, is hostile to the demons, then the holy angels are also enemies of the demons.

This is Gray's stance as the Demon Lord.

But the angels were probably looking for Bai Lin, not for him, the demon king. It shouldn't be his business...

But a vague unease crept over Gray.

The arrival of an angel is never a good thing!

The waterfall of light suddenly became turbulent. In the cascading light, the silhouette of a male with eight wings gradually became clear. His wings were whiter than the first snow on the mountaintop, each feather edged with a platinum sheen. When he fully materialized, his eight wings suddenly unfurled, their span beyond visual perception, and the resulting storm caused all the trees in the entire secret realm to collectively bend their crowns.

He was clad in platinum-gold armor, the plates of which shimmered with liquid light. His face possessed the sharp angles of a statue yet the vitality of a living person, his long, silvery-white hair flowing behind his head without wind. Most breathtaking were his eyes—without pupils or irises, they were simply two incandescent holy flames, giving the illusion of having one's soul pierced when one looked at them.

The angel's arrival was powerful enough that its light covered the entire secret realm.

It must be tough for the monsters living in the secret realm, subjected to both the might of dragons and the oppressive aura of angels.

"Angel……"

Bai Lin knew of such an existence, but did not know why the angel had descended upon this place.

The tenth rank, the same rank as himself, the only difference being that he had just broken through and his aura was much weaker than the angel's.

But Bai Lin wasn't afraid; with Gray there, she felt very safe.

The two people present were not afraid of this so-called angel. If the other party came with ill intentions, they would fight. If they couldn't win, they could run away. No, that was not the case!

Now, all we need to do is clarify the purpose of the angels' descent!