Actually, this kind of matter generally didn't require Leticia to personally inquire about it. Under normal circumstances, such humans would definitely be followed by the Demon King's Court's hidden sentries. Leticia only needed to call them out and ask, and she could basically learn everything.
As for why she didn't do that... well, because she forgot.
Yes, that's right, she forgot.
After all, there were really very few outsiders on the demon side. Even Leticia herself had forgotten that the Demon King's Court's hidden sentries would follow these outsiders and monitor their every move.
"I heard Your Majesty attended Miss Elsa's dance today?" When night fell, Xue'er finished her day's work and returned to Leticia's side.
After Leticia officially returned to the demon race, Xue'er had also returned to her work position. Her job was relatively leisurely—just training the maids in the royal palace.
But because of Leticia's disappearance in previous years, the number of people living in the royal palace had suddenly decreased by half. Qila, with the mindset that having enough people was sufficient, had laid off some maids. Now that Leticia had returned, Xue'er had to train a new batch of maids.
As for why they didn't bring back those laid-off maids?
Please, it had been so many years. Those who changed careers changed careers, those who got married got married. It was better to start from scratch and train a new batch than to try to find them back.
As long as they were pleasant to look at and devoted to the demon race, that was enough. As for professional skills and such, everything could be practiced. Xue'er was very patient.
"Mm, quite boring." Leticia took off her headphones and replied. "But it's still better than constantly talking about fighting and killing every day."
"For nobles, that is their battlefield." Xue'er added with a smile. "By the way, Your Majesty, Her Majesty Evangelyne has been showing her might recently."
"Oh? Tell me about it. How has she been showing her might?" Leticia became interested. Although she had sent some advisors skilled in conspiracies and schemes to assist Evangelyne, she actually held a rather pessimistic attitude about Evangelyne's future.
The Council of Elders' foundation was too solid. It had existed even longer than the Elven Emperor had existed.
Every Elven Emperor would be constrained by the Council of Elders. It wasn't that no Elven Emperor had wanted to break free from the Council's control, but even the most talented and ambitious monarchs had failed to accomplish this.
The Council of Elders was like a towering ancient tree, deeply rooted in elven society. The power of a single empress alone was completely insufficient to shake this behemoth.
It should have been so.
But listening to Xue'er's account, it seemed Evangelyne had actually achieved some results?
"Yes, after returning to the elven race, Her Majesty Evangelyne remained quiet for several months, only showing her fangs about a month ago. This caught the elders, who had already relaxed their guard, completely off-guard." As Xue'er spoke, she couldn't help but laugh. "I don't know whose idea it was, but Her Majesty Evangelyne actually pinned the Flame Moth invasion on one of the elders. The elven race is still in chaos."
"Do people really believe it?" Leticia felt that those elven elders with long beards shouldn't believe Evangelyne's words.
After all, Evangelyne had run away just a few months ago and had even stolen the elven race's staff. She should be in a completely untrusted state now.
"Actually, whether they believe it or not doesn't matter. What matters is the evidence Her Majesty Evangelyne provided." Xue'er explained. "This evidence corroborates Her Majesty Evangelyne's previous claims and also gives some elders hope of bringing down a competitor."
The cake was only so big. Having one less person to share it was better than having one more.
Even if Evangelyne was lying, so what? The evidence she provided was detailed and sufficiently convincing.
That was enough.
"Using one tiger to devour another—the elven race will be lively for a while." Leticia was also happy to see this situation.
Her side would secretly develop while sending people to secretly cause destruction elsewhere. With this ebb and flow, the demon race would inevitably become increasingly powerful.
Then it would be time to compete in longevity—to see whether Leticia would outlive Bai Ling first, or Bai Ling would outlive Leticia first.
Although by the time Bai Ling died of old age, Leticia would probably be a white-haired old granny too, she didn't mind having one more thrill when she was old.
Taking over the entire world—what a romantic thing.
"Also, Your Majesty, the number of spatial passages at the border has exceeded four digits. We can no longer monitor all the spatial passages."
As mentioned before, the Demon Realm was not in the same world as the Human World and Elven World. They were connected by spatial passages, and these spatial passages had only appeared decades ago.
At first there was only one, then gradually more and more appeared. Now, they had completely lost count of how many there were.
Four digits was the number of currently known spatial passages. As for unknown ones, who knew how many there were.
The Demon Realm's spatial passages didn't only lead to the Human World. In fact, the Elven World could also be considered adjacent to the Demon Realm.
However, the beastman side wasn't adjacent. If demons wanted to go to the beastman territory, they had to transfer through the Elven World or Human World.
"Do our best to monitor them. These passages are increasing. If someday they connect into one piece, will our world truly become adjacent to the Human World and Elven World?" Leticia didn't know what the result would be.
"Perhaps we know too little about this world. We can only glimpse a corner of the truth from fragments in ancient books." Xue'er sighed. The unknown was always frightening.
Leticia wasn't that worried. She was concerned about another matter: "The things mentioned in the Prophecy Books—do we have any clues now?"
"The divines are still a threat that cannot be ignored, but the dates in the Prophecy Books are very vague, and we can't find any valuable clues." Xue'er shook her head.
In the demon race's Prophecy Books, it was foretold that a cruel divine would resurrect in the Demon Realm. When it awakened and broke through ancient seals, it would be a catastrophe for the entire demon race.
Qila had been searching for related clues before, and after Leticia returned, she had also been concerned about this matter.
But until today, the prophecy remained just a prophecy.
"Keep searching. We can't let any suspicious signs slip by. We can't gamble with our demon race's future." Leticia waved her hand grandly, displaying the aura of a Demon King who looked down upon everything.
"Yes... Also, Your Majesty, you don't actually need to float to enhance your presence."
"Shut up!"
......
Life in the demon race remained as quiet and peaceful as always. After investigation, that teacher-student pair showed no abnormalities. According to the surface explanation, that woman had brought Mo Zili to the demon race to search for relatives.
Although it was curious why a human would pick up a demon baby on a battlefield, Leticia couldn't very well run up to those two and grab that woman's hand to ask such questions.
Anyway, the reason was plausible, and there were no abnormalities elsewhere. Leticia could only have her subordinates keep a closer eye on those two.
As for why they appeared at that dance, this was easy to understand. After all, in that woman's eyes, and even in the eyes of all the demons present, this pretty little girl couldn't possibly be an ordinary demon.
It couldn't be a genetic mutation, right?
Such a beautiful little girl—her parents must have good genes. Which group in the demon race had the best genes?
Without question, any demon would answer: nobles.
Demon nobles weren't like ancient human nobles who only possessed titles. They truly had bloodline inheritance.
A noble demon was naturally superior to ordinary demons in terms of talent.
And Mo Zili's talent was the kind that even made nobles marvel.
"Whose seed did someone leave outside?" Leticia flipped through the nobles' registry, muttering to herself with confusion.
This was a list of nobles who had gone to war more than ten years ago. Xue'er had spent considerable effort digging it out from the archives.
That woman said she had found Mo Zili in ruins, which meant the demons should have lost that battle. Otherwise, how could they have left a baby in the ruins?
There weren't many battles that met these conditions at this time. Leticia quickly found the battle that fit these criteria.
"It's him... no way, right?" Looking at the name crossed out in red ink on the registry, Leticia clicked her tongue softly.
"Your Majesty, are you busy?" Xue'er's voice interrupted Leticia's thoughts. "Emily has brought Miss Bai's letter."
Leticia closed the registry. If it was that person's child, then even if these two stayed in the demon race for several years, they probably wouldn't find Mo Zili's relatives.
Sigh, forget it, no point thinking about this anymore.
"Oh? Let me see." A letter sent by Bai Ling was quite rare.
In the past six months, Bai Ling had only sent her two letters. One was to tell Leticia that Xi Mengyao had recovered well and was now a big star in the Human World.
The other was to tell Leticia some information about Divine Throne. Overall, this organization was the type with a rather strong chuunibyou atmosphere. If you removed the divine factor, they were probably an inconspicuous organization without much threat.
But they were connected to divines. From the fragments obtained from Yi Yujun, Bai Ling and the others had glimpsed the tip of Divine Throne's iceberg.
That organization possessed multiple divine artifacts, each one an existence no weaker than Fog City.
The number of Divine Envoys in Divine Throne was also quite large. Divine Envoys like the Eden Priest numbered at least a thousand in Divine Throne.
Higher-level ones like Yi Yujun numbered around ten.
These people with divine power gathering together were undoubtedly a powerful force that couldn't be ignored.
So what would Bai Ling want to tell her this time?
"Little Ya wants to visit?!" After opening the letter, Leticia exclaimed softly.
Although she had told Little Ya before that if she wanted to visit Leticia's side, Leticia would very much welcome her.
But Leticia had just been being polite at the time. After all, this was the Demon Realm—how could a human girl like Little Ya come over?
The human side's monitoring of spatial passages was very strict. Her side could secretly give Little Ya the green light, but what about the human side?
Could she have Bai Ling tell the people managing the spatial passages, "I'm good friends with the Demon King, my sister wants to visit the Demon Realm, could you accommodate us?"
If she said that, forget about accommodation—Bai Ling would probably be arrested on charges of collaborating with the enemy.
The few humans currently in the Demon Realm had basically all smuggled in, but would Bai Ling do such things?
Definitely not. That blockhead couldn't think of such schemes, and even if she thought of them, she wouldn't do them.
This was Leticia's trust in Bai Ling.
"I'll agree. I want to see how she plans to send Little Ya over." Leticia folded the letter and placed it on the table, then said to Xue'er.
"Do you need me to write the reply?"
"No, I'll write the reply myself. I wrote the previous letters myself, so suddenly changing handwriting wouldn't be good." Leticia shook her head. "It's been six months—Little Ya has probably become even prettier."
Although those sisters showed no blood relationship in appearance, they were blood-related sisters after all.
With Bai Ling setting the standard, Little Ya would definitely be a great beauty when she grew up. Leticia never doubted this.
As for how Miss Bai Ya was doing now, it could be said to match Leticia's expectations quite well.
The nearly adult Bai Ya already had some of her sister's beauty. Compared to the slightly immature little girl from six months ago, she had already shed her original naivety.
"Sister, sister, has Sister Qianqian replied yet?" But she still acted somewhat childish.
Bai Ling showed a helpless smile. She felt Leticia wouldn't refuse, but there was indeed an undeniable distance between the Human World and the Demon Realm. Even a demon messenger would need considerable time for a round trip.
It had been two days since the letter was sent. Bai Ling estimated that Leticia should have just received her letter at this time.
Adding the time to send the letter back, "Little Ya, your Sister Qianqian's letter probably won't arrive until the day after tomorrow."
"Eh, is it that slow?" Bai Ya widened her eyes. "Does Sister Qianqian live in some other big city?"
A round trip of four days seemed to only leave this possibility, right?
If it were some remote small place, it would definitely take more time than this. Only those other cities connected to Central City by airplane would take this neither short nor long time of four days.
"Ah, it should be quite big." Bai Ling nodded. Demon King City—how could it not be big?
She just hadn't told her sister where Leticia's home was yet. She planned to tell her sister the destination after receiving Leticia's definite reply.
She was now somewhat looking forward to her sister's expression when she learned this news.