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

"who!"

Ravende Black shouted angrily in the direction of the magical fluctuations, but received no response, and a while later, no further attacks came.

He frowned, as if he had sensed something, but he couldn't get away for the moment because he was protecting his chief of staff who was already as fragile as a candle in the wind.

Until the other two eighth-tier professionals arrived and protected the chief of staff from the front and back, Ravend Black kicked off and shot out, heading straight for the direction of the magic fluctuations.

"He (or she) escaped."

Ravend Black had arrived at the location of the magical fluctuations, and as expected, there was no one there, nor was anyone in the surrounding area.

"His objective was clearly to kill the weakened Bishop Silas, but he failed in his first attempt and escaped..."

Ravend Black had a gloomy expression.

who is it?

To be able to successfully infiltrate without them noticing, launch an attack, and then immediately escape, this person is definitely an eighth-tier professional.

It was the Eighth Prince... Now there are only five princes left. Is it one of those five princes?

If not, then things get complicated. It means there are other forces involved in the Kingdom of Westphalia, and taking over the entire country won't be so easy.

Even if the infiltrator is any of the Five Kings, the situation becomes troublesome.

It's not a good thing that the five kings learned of Edmund Celestio's death and that they had four eighth-tier professionals on their side.

If the five kings realize the danger and join forces to deal with them...

Moreover, Sylas's injury will take some time to recover.

Ravend Black, his face grim, returned to the three bishops.

Apart from the dying chief of staff, the other two bishops, seeing the look on Ravend Black's face, knew he had lost the chase and dared not utter a word to provoke him.

Seeing that neither of them dared to speak, Ravend Black spoke first.

"The plan has changed and needs to be moved up a little."

Ideally, we should eliminate one of the five kings before they unite, making it four against four. No matter how strong their alliance is, we will have the clear advantage.

Although it's a four-on-four situation between eighth-tier professionals, with the presence of the peak eighth-tier Ravende Black and the three bishops empowered by demonic power, even a four-on-five situation wouldn't be disadvantageous.

Moreover, this was achieved under the premise that the five kings worked together wholeheartedly and had no suspicion or malice among them, which was something they could not possibly do.

Which of the princes in the War of the Eight Princes didn't rebel with the intention of winning the final victory, and who wouldn't want the princes to get along amicably?

Ha ha.

Arthur Wellesley posed the question: "Your Excellency, are you close to the ninth rank...?"

Revend Black said slowly, "It's still a long way off. I estimate that we'll have to take over the entire Kingdom of Westphalia before we can advance. We can't expect to crush the Five Kings with our ninth-rank strength."

Arthur Wellesley cupped his hands in greeting and said respectfully, "Congratulations, Your Excellency the Archbishop."

Ravende Black raised an eyebrow: "Oh?"

Arthur Wellesley chuckled awkwardly, "Just five discordant eighth-tier professionals. We can take them down one by one in no time. The future of the Archbishop destroying the Kingdom of Westphalia and advancing to the ninth tier is not far off."

By then, our warring and conflicting factions will be able to transform the Order's three major factions into four.

The seven factions of the Demonic Order consist of three major factions: the faction of greed and avarice, the faction of power and domination, and the faction of lust and pleasure.

The reason these three factions became the top "upper three gates" of the Demon Order is not because their ideologies (desires) were the most attractive to believers, but because their leaders, as archbishops of the Demon Messenger, had reached the level of ninth-tier professionals.

Therefore, Arthur Wellesley said that the war and conflict faction could become the fourth major faction.

"However, we were still outdone by those three old men."

Ravend Black enjoyed listening to Arthur Wellesley, but he didn't become arrogant because of it.

"We haven't taken over the entire Kingdom of Westphalia yet, so let's take it one step at a time. You all prepare to bring over the armies of the Western Sea King and the Central Law King, and the Northern Ironwall King's army... We'll mobilize them once Silas recovers."

"Yes!"

The two bishops exchanged a glance and quickly withdrew.

Archbishop Ravend Black surveyed the blood-stained palace hall around him with a sinister, satisfied smile.

Then, he took out a piece of parchment, opened it, and took out a blood-red ink pen.

There are a total of nine portraits on the parchment, three of which are marked with large, blood-red crosses.

The two figures in these three portraits are none other than Albert Lane, the deceased King of the Middle Kingdom, and Roderick Stiller, the King of the Iron Wall of the North, whose whereabouts are unknown.

The answer to the other person, needless to say, can be found in Ravend Black's words.

Now, Ravend Black picks up his pen, dips it in blood-red ink, and marks the largest, blood-red X on the topmost and largest portrait of Edmund Celestio among the nine portraits!

(If you follow the updates chapter by chapter and day by day, you'll probably forget the content. Starting from chapter 363 and reading continuously should help you understand the situation in the Kingdom of Westphalia better...)

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"Huh...huh...huh..."

Ipsyron was breathing heavily, his chest rising and falling without any other movement.

(Ipsyron: Who told you to describe it like that?)

Surprisingly, I saw five Rank 8 professionals in the royal city all at once.

She certainly knew General Ravende Black and King Edmund Celestio.

Ipsyron truly didn't expect to gain so much information from his trip to the royal city.

The true identity of Grand General Ravende Black is the Archbishop of the War and Conflict faction of the Demon Order, confirming the correctness of the speculation that the War of the Eight Kings in the Kingdom of Westphalia was entirely orchestrated by the War and Conflict faction of the Demon Order. Including Archbishop Ravende Black, the War and Conflict faction of the Demon Order has a total of four eighth-tier professionals...

Ipsilon was unsure whether all the bishops from the Demon Order's War and Conflict factions were present, but he was certain that at least four Rank 8 professionals were there, among whom Archbishop Ravende Black should be very close to Rank 9, just like the leader Alpha.

Ipsyron realized that he couldn't handle four Rank 8 professionals by himself...

That's still too euphemistic a way of putting it...

She estimated that she would have a very difficult time fighting Archbishop Revend Black alone. Among the Ten Shadow Attendants, perhaps only the leader Alpha and Zeta were comparable in strength. She and Delta could also fight if they put in the effort...