[Name: Demon Envoy Link]
[Type: One-time Skill]
[Effect: Powerful]
[Content: Form a covenant with a creature, using a Soul Contract, planting a Curse Seal on the creature, binding the identities of master and servant, with the Demon King as master and the Demon Envoy as servant.]
[Note 1: The Demon King can enhance the abilities of the Demon Envoy through their own training and can also benefit from the Demon Envoy's abilities in return.]
[Note 2: The Demon King and Demon Envoy have a closer intimacy. Once the covenant is completed, if the Demon Envoy rebels, the Demon King, possessing the initiative, can kill them regardless of distance.]
[Note 3: All actions of the Demon King and Demon Envoy are influenced by the most basic contract rules: The Demon Envoy cannot resist the Demon King's orders.]
[Note 4: The Demon King needs to carefully choose a covenant partner. Once the contract is completed, certain parts of the souls of the Demon King and Demon Envoy will intertwine, forming a spiritual channel connecting them. The covenant cannot be dissolved unless the Demon Envoy dies. When the contracted Demon Envoy dies, the Demon King will also be affected. Choose your covenant partner carefully!]
The Demon Envoy is not a specific position but an identity, unlike the Demon Officers or Demon Legion Commanders under the Demon King, the latter can be unlimited, while the former can only be born through the [Demon Envoy Link].
Ordinary Demon Officers, Legion Commanders, and Demon Kings have a normal relationship of obedience, with the possibility of betrayal and refusal to follow orders. However, a Demon Envoy with a Soul Contract with the Demon King is unlikely to betray the Demon King. Throughout the generations of Demon Kings, Demon Envoys generally held the most critical positions in the demon race.
So Shami must carefully consider the choice for his first Demon Envoy.
The first choice would definitely be powerful creatures like a Giant Dragon or a Demon.
After all, the hard standard is strength. His first Demon Envoy must be a creature with SSS development potential.
Night was deep, Shami sorted out his upcoming tasks and slowly fell asleep.
The next morning.
Lureya was still asleep on the soft bed, vaguely feeling that a shadow was blocking the light from the balcony.
She had clearly closed the curtains to sleep last night.
Lureya opened her sleepy eyes and found Shami standing quietly beside her bed, watching her.
All traces of sleep vanished instantly.
She hurriedly retreated a few positions under the covers.
"What, what are you doing here?"
"Came through the Teleportation Gate."
"Don't just randomly enter someone else's room, you jerk!"
"It's already nine in the morning."
"It's just nine..."
"Those who aren't up by nine in the morning are basically lazy dogs, trash, maggots, airfields, mice, cockroaches."
"I stayed up late reading yesterday, that's why I can't get up! Did you mix something strange in there!"
What kind of wake-up service starts scolding as soon as you wake up!
Lureya's golden long hair was slightly messy, with a few strands sticking out awkwardly.
"I have to go to yesterday's empty field later. Are you coming?"
"Of course I'm going!"
Lureya slowly got up from the bed, although wearing pajamas, she still protected her less significant chest with her hands.
"Turn your eyes away."
"I'm not interested in plains."
"What plains..."
Shami turned and entered the Teleportation Gate, "Hurry up, the Teleportation Gate can only be maintained for one minute."
This left the Tablet Spirit, who had just wanted to protest, without an object to refute.
With previous lessons learned, she no longer did the foolish move of waking up and going to the balcony to breathe fresh air, used [Self-cleaning], then changed clothes and directly walked into the Teleportation Gate.
...
An open space surrounded by maple trees, ten kilometers from Yili Village.
After moving the stones aside, Shami called out the slime from the cave.
[Name: Slime]
[Race: Demon Race · Ordinary Demon Creature]
[Level: 1 (1/30)]
[Status: Normal]
After a whole night it only gained a little experience, how long will it take to reach level 30 like this.
Shami took out the Demons Atlas and began researching ways to level up the slime.
[Slimes don't feel hunger, but they can gain experience through eating tree glue, playing, fighting, and other methods.]
Shami placed a bowl of tree glue in front of the slime, and the slime bounced over to it.
[Experience +30, size slightly increased]
[Level: 2 (1/50)]
It was indeed effective.
Shami tried the second method, tossing a stone in the distance, and the slime bounced back with the stone.
[Slime is playing, experience +2]
This method was also effective.
Shami treated this slime like a puppy, playing with it for an hour, and it leveled up again.
[Level: 3 (12/70)]
[Intimacy +1]
[Status: Resting (Slime is tired and needs rest)]
Seeing this, Shami stopped tossing stones, leaving the ordinary blue slime to sunbathe in the open field while he found somewhere to rest.
This feels like a nurturing game now.
He approached the Tablet Spirit. Under a maple tree, the Tablet Spirit hurriedly slipped a book into her Storage Space.
Shami quietly stared at her for a while.
"It's... just a serious private diary. Absolutely not for you to read." Lureya's pointed ears turned slightly red as she defended.
"Who writes diaries seriously?"
The lush treetop blocked most of the sunlight, with only a few thumb-sized beams shooting down through the gaps in the leaves, landing on their shoulders.
Shami already lay down, hands behind his head, legs crossed, leisurely enjoying the breeze.
Lureya sat nearby, legs crossed, glancing over occasionally.
"You are truly relaxed."
"What else? There's not much to do right now, is there?"
Lureya's hunched shoulders slowly relaxed.
"By the way, among the new generation of the Elf Race, how strong are you?"
"Of course, I'm the strongest one! Whether in appearance, strength, or popularity, I am recognized as NO.1 at the academy!" The Tablet Spirit's ears flickered as she blinked defensively.
Shami looked over, and the flat golden-haired elf immediately shifted her gaze away.
"Really?"
Shami's sudden inquiry reminded Lureya of her life in the Elf Forest.
"..."
It's not true...
Clearly the new generation's recognized beautiful girl, yet her strength consistently ranked lowest, completely regarded at the academy as a useless vase...
Suddenly fell into prolonged silence.
Shami opened his eyes, looking at the flat golden-haired elf beside him, who was hugging her raised knees, chin resting on them, eyes absently gazing ahead.
It seemed his words hit a sore spot, instantly deflating her usual enthusiasm.
"Actually, my strength is rather weak... always at the bottom of the grade level... I have thought about improving my strength... but it has never had any effect..."
"And I have incredibly bad luck... always getting targeted during hunts... teachers always call my name in class... only getting the worst items from treasure chests... always facing the strongest opponent in competitions... my strength, totally no chance to struggle at all..."
Shami wanted to comfort the flat golden-haired elf with some words of human kindness, but she was already totally unable to pretend anymore.
Honestly, the flat golden-haired elf's ability wasn't just a little weak, according to his investigation, it's super weak.
But the atmosphere wasn't right, it was the first time he'd seen the Tablet Spirit's mood sink so low, and he was wary of saying any more.