Of course, with them being here in this vile, suspicious world, the remaining wedding gifts were in no way normal or consistent with any form of rationality!
Michael, Female Elliot, and the maidservants opened the remaining chests, revealing even more bizarre talismans and tools.
One gift consisted of a magical incantation printed on sheets resembling paper, yet definitely not paper.. used specifically for "increasing the density and multiplication of seminal fluids to guarantee instantaneous fertilization"!
Another gift set a new record for sheer asininity.. it was a magical incantation to create what were termed "Shadow Clones"! In the first instant they read the incantation’s name, a foolish, childish hope sparked in their minds that it might be a legendary combat skill capable of creating multiple copies to fight and assist, like Naruto.. However, the reality was!
That incantation was nothing more than a lewd magical skill dedicated to creating other shadow clones that increased the male’s cannons to three simultaneously!
Certainly, had a man possessed this strange incantation in their previous world, it would have been an exceptional skill to show off, but in their current catastrophic situation, it was merely an additional mockery added to the ledger of insults! As the opening of gifts continued and their strangeness escalated, Michael and Elliot reached a stage of psychological numbness that rendered them incapable of being surprised or shocked by anything additional originating from these demons and humans.. it made no notable difference anymore, anyway!
However.. by extreme good fortune, not all the gifts were of that ridiculous and vulgar variety that characterized the majority; among the final chests—within a gift sent from one of "Alyona’s" human female friends—they obtained a magical scroll containing a [Technique for Cultivating Basic Magical Energy]!
Though it was not a powerful or legendary technique, but merely an "Iron-Rank - Level 1" technique—the lowest grade of energy and cultivation in this world—the two felt a genuine glimmer of happiness and profound relief just for obtaining something useful and rational like this!
As soon as they finished opening all the chests and scattering their contents, the three demon maidservants stood at the outer threshold of the suite’s door, one of them saying in a firm, robotic tone devoid of any sympathy:
"One hour from now, other servants will arrive to transport you from your suite to the ’Western Execution Ground’.. there, a public execution sentence will be carried out on a demon newlywed couple following their failed attempt to escape! You have only one hour to don new, clean clothes in place of those tattered, disgraceful garments of yours!"
The demon maidservants did not wait to hear any word of objection or inquiry from the duo; instead, they simply turned and closed the heavy wooden door behind them immediately upon leaving, leaving a exhalation of perfumed air settling in the suite.
Elliot, with her exhausted female features, stood and gazed alongside the sullen Michael towards the closed door, then their gazes shifted to the gifts scattered across the luxurious floor in the middle of the room..
Elliot asked in a faint, trembling voice: "Man.. does this mean they are intentionally sowing terror, wanting to show us practically what the dark fate is for anyone thinking of escaping their grasp?!"
Michael gazed with sturdiness and stability towards the Elliot who was asking him, then replied in a serious tone: "It doesn’t matter what they are planning.. this will be approximately the least they will practice against us! I believe we no longer have a single minute to waste.. we must immediately begin formulating the plan!"
The two implicitly agreed by calming their spirits and giving firm nods of their heads; the most important and urgent matter now was engineering a tight, tactical plan to escape this suite and castle entirely by exploiting all available data!
First and foremost, they had to grasp the true identities of the owners of these bodies they now inhabited; "Alyona" and "Michael" were merely peripheral characters whose details were almost never mentioned in the main plot of the novel! They were mentioned only as the sacrificial parents to sire the "First Child of Destiny".. no more, no less!
This data confirmed that their marriage was considered the first official wedding combining a demonic bloodline and a sacrificial human bloodline; there were no other clues or records clarifying their historical background.. but this meager historical information would not profit them much in the field; what would truly profit them and make a fundamental difference in their survival was successfully summoning or finding a known, powerful character from the plot, whose behind-the-scenes details they fully understood, to help them get out!
Here appeared a genuine obstacle.. most of the main characters in the original plot—surrounding the Child of Destiny Gene Transfer Project—were either evil or exploitative characters seeking to use the Children of Destiny for their own interests.. or simply put, they were utterly vile and wretched individuals!
Certainly, there were some good and kind characters in the story, but exploiting them was in no way easy; because most of the good characters in the plot had a treacherous and dark past initially, and did not convert to benevolent traits until advanced events in the story! Currently, they were present in a time preceding the start of the original plot by years, meaning most of the future "good" characters were currently still in the peak of their malice and depravity!
Suddenly.. Elliot reverted to her balanced, Androgynous hybrid form so her analytical mind could clear. She already wore entirely new, luxurious female clothes that were present in the suite’s closet, then said, moving her fingers with astuteness:
"As if I recall a specific character who can help us at this particular stage.. Do you remember Prince (Halza)? The Eighth Prince of the Great Human Empire?!"
As soon as Elliot spoke this name, Michael fixed her with sharp, mocking gazes, as if looking at a fool who had totally lost his mind!
Michael said in a sarcastic tone: "Halza?! Seriously, Elliot?! Despite him possessing exceptional heavenly talent in alchemy and applied magic.. he is a totally outcast prince, completely subject to the influence of the Fifth Princess’s faction, not to mention that his father’s family is merely a negligible, weightless human Barony! Do you believe a coward and weakling like him at this point in time will risk his life to help two sacrifices?! And not just any ordinary sacrifices, but the two most important and dangerous sacrifices between humans and demons! We are dreaming, man.. and even assuming for the sake of argument that he wanted to help us and didn’t immediately report us, what will he be able to do with his weakness? Kneel and beg the guards to release us?!"
Elliot smiled with solemnity and a combined female-male intelligence, un-intimidated by Michael’s sarcastic words; instead, a demonic and treacherous idea immediately flared in her mind!
Elliot said with a confident smile: "And who told you that we are asking him to help us out from the outside?.. Why don’t we bring him to the inside?!"
Michael’s eyes widened with shock and disapproval, and he exclaimed: "Bring him inside?! Have you officially gone mad, Elliot?! We don’t even know in which of the cursed castles we are being held right now in this vast world! There are dozens of sacrificial castles established in both the human and demon worlds.. do you believe breaching or entering them is easy? Robbing the toughest central bank would be hundreds of times easier than infiltrating these magic-fortified castles!"
Elliot’s smile deepened with malice in the face of Michael’s naive and superficial words, then replied in a firm tone:
"You are 100% correct.. it would be impossible if he tried to infiltrate or breach as an outsider.. but what would happen if he entered the castle purely of his own free will, on his own two feet... via direct volunteering to be a sacrifice!"