Chapter 198: Something Very Important to Lina

Lina began to recount everything that had happened after Seraphina left…

Seraphina’s sudden disappearance had left Movira so distraught that she had thrown the entire Demon Realm into chaos for several days, nearly turning the ground upside down in her search.

Movira only calmed down after discovering the aura that Saint Eustacia had deliberately left behind on the snowfield.

After that, she had abruptly gone to the human world to find Seraphina.

The Demon Realm thus lost its center of power. Therefore, Erasia representing the Demon King, Lina representing the Princess Regent, and Dekrian representing the various demon clan leaders first formed a temporary decision-making group.

As for Ailinuo… she was purely helping out… though she had also joined in.

After that, they gradually advanced the reforms according to the vision of the New Policies that Her Highness had left behind. And now—

Lina waved her hand and used magic to spread a map of the entire Demon Realm across the desk.

She pointed at the territory of the Giantwing Demons and said, “The Giantwing Demons and the Whiplash Demons complemented each other’s strengths. At first they served as the ‘power furnace’ of the New Policies, providing the starting materials for the reforms. As the New Policies deepened, they turned into trade hubs that directly connected the pathways of every region.”

Lina then guided Seraphina’s gaze toward the Blackstone Outpost, which was very close to the Giantwing Demons’ territory.

“Near the Blackstone Outpost, large amounts of black soil were once again discovered, making it the vanguard of the entire New Policies. Among them, the giants displayed enormous advantages in the field of farming, while the Shadow Demons focused on surveying the land…”

After that, the Flame Demons, who had originally resisted the New Policies, had at this moment become the “factories” of the entire Demon Realm.

Seraphina understood the reason those raw materials were being continuously transported to the Flame Demons’ side. Those Flame Demons who could spontaneously ignite flames on their bodies were simply the most suitable for processing raw materials!

As for the other races, such as the Crystal Stone People who excelled at surveying mineral veins, and the Rock Giants who were responsible for constructing roads.

And as for the Fangs of Terror, who had been the starting point of all resistance in the early stages, they had also successfully switched careers and taken up the work of taming and hunting beasts.

Listening to these clear and orderly reports, Seraphina’s eyes filled with approval.

“My god, Lina, you’ve done even better than I imagined!” She sincerely exclaimed. “Really… thank you so much!”

Lina shook her head and said, “This is all what I should do. Watching the changes happen little by little right before my eyes, I also take joy in it.”

Afterward, Lina used the excuse of “going to check how lunch preparations are coming along” to send Ailinuo away.

Only the two of them remained in the study.

The atmosphere seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.

Lina asked, “Seraphina, the person who got down from the carriage behind just now… who was that?”

Seraphina’s heart skipped a beat. She instantly sniffed out something unusual. Lina had come from the human world; she must recognize Saint Eustacia!

Therefore Seraphina decided that if she could muddle through it, she would muddle through it, and discuss it with Movira later.

So she responded with feigned blankness, “Erasia? What’s wrong?”

Lina turned her head and looked into Seraphina’s eyes. “Of course I know Erasia. I’m talking about the other person who sat in the same carriage with her, the one wearing the same clothes as her but with a completely different aura! Who is that?”

The description was so accurate… it inevitably made Seraphina’s heart race faster. But she was not sure whether she should tell Lina the truth at this moment. It might cause some trouble, especially since she had not yet figured out Lina’s true attitude toward the Church.

So she continued to kick the ball, speaking with a bit of an innocent tone, “Ah? That person… I’m not too clear either. It was arranged by Movira. If you want to know, you might have to go ask her yourself.”

Lina stared at Seraphina for several seconds, as if judging the truthfulness of those words, then nodded. “Alright. After I finish handling the matters on hand, I’ll go ask her.”

With that, she turned and walked toward her own desk, murmuring softly, “I always feel that this is very important to me…”

Seeing this, Seraphina quickly followed along and changed the subject. “Okay. By the way, let me help you with these tasks. This was originally my responsibility.”

She walked over to the desk, looked at the mountain of official documents piled up, and then remembered something else. She asked:

“Also, didn’t we establish the Ashen Corridor before? Haven’t they helped share some of the burden?”

While helping move some documents over for Seraphina, Lina explained, “They have shared some of it, but the authority of the Corridor is currently limited only to land planning, surveying, and preliminary development. As for deeper issues, they still have to be summarized here with me.”

“Oh…”

It feels like the authority of the Corridor can be expanded a bit… After all, the Demon Realm is different from the human world. It relies on Movira, while the human side is based on faith.

Seraphina thought this in her heart while sitting back down in the familiar position. The part of her that had been “punished” had mostly recovered.

Yet she only felt that this position seemed… a little shorter?

She picked up the pen again and felt a bit unfamiliar with it. The first official document she handled was last month’s financial report from the Giantwing Demons.

This made her relieved to discover that the funds marked as “whereabouts unknown” in the report—which had actually been defrauded by the human side—had decreased by a large margin.

Have they finally grown some brains…

However, when her gaze fell on the name at the beginning of the document, she paused slightly.

It was not her name there, but the two characters “Lina,” as if it had been specially prepared for Lina. But this was not a big deal. It would probably be changed after some time. This power had originally been granted by her to Lina, and her own power came from Movira.

Anyway, she felt that the name was not important.

But… Seraphina always felt that the space beside her was empty and desolate.

She shook her head, threw these distracting thoughts aside, and focused on the words in front of her.

After a simple lunch, the two of them threw themselves into work just like in the past.

Yet Seraphina soon dejectedly discovered that her brain seemed to have “rusted.” Many matters required her to think them over repeatedly.

By the time Lina had finished handling everything, she had only processed less than one-third.

“Seraphina, do you need my help?” Lina raised her head and, seeing Seraphina’s troubled appearance, spoke.

Although it was a question, she had already reached out and taken away more than half of the documents in front of Seraphina.

This made the words of refusal Seraphina wanted to say remain unspoken, after all the other party had already taken them.

What’s going on…

She could not think of it. Seraphina tightly gripped the pen shaft. Some problems simply would not come to mind no matter how hard she tried.

Could it be that she had truly become stupid? The few characters in front of her looked like twisted little snakes, outlining handwriting on the paper that she could not understand.

When today’s affairs finally ended, Seraphina stretched out her body with a long motion, feeling as if her body had fallen apart.

She sighed emotionally to Lina, “It’s hard to imagine how I used to handle so many things day after day. Now I feel that even barely managing a little is already very strenuous…”

“Maybe it’s because you haven’t done it for a long time. Besides, this is no longer your work anymore, is it? Movira promised that before.”