Y 'zaks' words stunned Hao Ren. He would never have thought that the man who could make children cry at night was drinking alone on New Year's Eve because he missed his daughter. Missing his daughter was not the point, the point was that he had a daughter!
"You have a daughter?" Hao Ren stared blankly at Y 'zaks, trying to see if the latter was drunk. "Really?"
"Why can't I have a daughter?" Y 'zaks grinned. "Do you think I shouldn't have a child?"
"No, I just don't think you fit the word 'daughter'." Hao Ren was straightforward and said what was on his mind. "Just like the impression you give people … Even if you have a child, you should have a son. The kind with a shoulder width of eight feet and a height of two feet, holding a mixed-gold mace and two feet of chest hair. Only this image can match you."
Y 'zaks squinted at Hao Ren and said, "According to you, the mace should have been with you since you were born, right?"
Hao Ren nodded subconsciously, but soon found that it did not make sense. "Ugh, this is too challenging …"
"… Only you guys can talk to me like this. I couldn't even find a guy like you to be my buddy in the past." Y 'zaks was stunned for a moment and suddenly sighed. "I'm getting sidetracked. I'm not talking nonsense. I do have a daughter. She's old enough to be your great-grandmother. But she's just a little girl in my world … She's only this tall, running around all day. "
As Y 'zaks said, he raised his hand and gestured a height that was slightly higher than the table. Hao Ren immediately thought that this guy was drunk and mistook his current human form for his demon form. The height he gestured was only up to Hao Ren's belly button. How could there be such a species among demons?
But he did not say anything because he could see that Y 'zaks had been holding it in for half a year. Now he really wanted to talk to someone. This great demon with a mysterious past never talked about his past. Today was a rare opportunity.
"I told you, I have a family and a business." Y 'zaks suddenly changed the topic and mentioned his business. "In the demon class of our world, I'm the' Monarch '. In the human world, my level is also called the' Demon King '."
"What kind of level is that?" Hao Ren asked. "It sounds pretty high level."
Y 'zaks laughed and seemed a little proud. "It's really high level. You can say it's the highest level of demon. In our world, there are fights everywhere, between camps, even within the same camp. It's especially serious when demons fight. We will divide up a lot of territories. A powerful demon will gather tens of thousands of low-rank demons, and they will fight with other leaders of similar levels all day long. There will be no fixed base of their own. Whoever gets a territory will temporarily be the king of Tianshan for a few days. After a while, they will be beaten away by others. Demons of this level are called 'Demon Commanders', or 'Warlords'. These demons are actually just small fries. Their troops are equivalent to bandits. They can be destroyed at any time. Even they can be killed by their own subordinates at any time.
"Occasionally, there will be some of these demon commanders who are more resourceful. They have the ability to occupy a relatively large territory as a fixed base. These guys occupy a place for a long time, and no one can shake their position. At the same time, they can also lead a stable team. This level is called the Lord.
"Further up, there are those who are especially good at fighting and have brains. They rule over many lords and have territories that are equivalent to an entire country. Some even have the ability to occupy an independent space. These fellows can even establish a complete and stable ruling system like the humans. They have their own countries, armies, subjects, and inheritances that belong to the demons. Those who reach this level are called kings."
It was the first time Hao Ren heard such detailed information from Y 'zaks. It seemed that the demon society in Y' zaks' hometown was not the same as the legends on Earth. It was also different from the 'local demons' that Vivian described. It seemed that even the same race in each world would establish a different civilization system.
Hao Ren was very interested. "So you have a country under your rule?"
"Yes, and it was the most powerful one in history. It was bigger than the biggest empire that humans have ever built." Y 'zaks nodded. "But it was destroyed."
The big guy sighed and then continued. "You all should think that I'm strange, right? As a demon, all I think about is peace. I've investigated what the demons of other worlds are like. Almost every world's demons tend to be chaotic and brutal. Demons like me are rare. I know I'm a freak. That's what everyone in my world calls me.
"But in the beginning, I was no different from the other demons. I was just those demon commanders who fought aimlessly all day long. Those demon lords who were content with their own territory and thought about invading the human world all day long. I used to be like them, one of them."
"Why did you change your mind later?" Hao Ren looked at Y 'zaks curiously.
"Because a human," Y 'zaks looked at the bottle in his hand as if he wanted to see an old friend in the reflection of the bottle. "He was an alchemist. In my hometown, he was equivalent to a scholar here.
"That year, I had just led my team to sweep a territory and defeated other demons nearby. In our words, I had changed from a demon commander to a lord. At that time, I was young and full of vigor. As a new lord, I urgently needed to prove my strength, and there were no powerful demons nearby that I could challenge. So, I made a decision similar to other demons in that situation. I lured some human wizards, opened a portal in the human world, and invaded a country. "
"Many demons did that at that time." Y 'zaks raised his eyebrows slightly. "The spatial structure of our world … is not the same as here. Our universe is composed of a large number of messy but internally orderly spatial pockets. Large and small independent spaces are connected through unstable channels. Each space may have a continent or a few planets. This spatial structure made my hometown crowded with all kinds of races and countries. It also caused all kinds of chaos and wars. There were many human kingdoms, widely distributed, and very powerful. So many demons would 'invade and destroy a human kingdom' as the best way to show off their power. This proved that a demon had the wisdom to open a giant portal and had the power to destroy the enemy on the other side of the portal.
"The country I chose was lackluster. There was nothing much to say about it. I wasn't even interested in dealing with the civilians who only knew how to run away and the weak human army. Now that I think about it, it seemed like a good thing. I led my troops and charged straight into their capital. The king and his ministers had already escaped through the portal to another dimension before the city was breached. I raised my flag on the castle and declared the country to be the territory of demons. All humans were reduced to slaves.
"Then I began to check my spoils of war. I went to the treasure vaults and wizard towers to search for human alchemy creations that were highly rated by all races.
"Finally, I saw that strange guy. He was a skinny, hunched old man. He was in a dilapidated wizard tower near the castle. He was wearing a human alchemist's robe. His robe was full of holes. His beard was unshaven. He looked like an old beggar. He was doing experiments in the alchemy lab. I even suspected that he had locked himself in there for several years. He didn't even know about the war in this country. When my soldiers kicked the door open, he turned his head and scolded the demons who broke in, saying that they messed up the measuring data in the lab. "
Y 'zaks had a strange expression on his face. "Now I should thank the stupid demon guard. He didn't kill the old man on the spot. Instead, he strictly followed my orders. When he found something strange, he reported it to the leader. He regarded the old man as a strange thing and called me over to have a look. So I shrunk my body and went into the human's alchemy lab. Guess what happened after that? "
Hao Ren found that Y 'zaks was completely immersed in his memories. So he followed the topic and asked, "What happened?"
"The old man told me to get out!" Y 'zaks suddenly laughed. "Four demon guards broke into his lab. After that, it took me at least an hour to get there. During that time, he kept his head down and fiddled with the parchment. He didn't know that it was not his apprentices who broke into the room, but a group of demons!"
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