Without a doubt, besides Casaric—the Demon Lord in the distant Burning Capital who was still fixated on him—no other Demon would be bored enough to pay such a steep price just to assassinate a little Slime like him.
This also proved that the Demons knew about the rifts' existence.
Thankfully, Olivia and Silver Sparrow were guarding this place. Otherwise, if this Shadow Demon had actually slipped silently into the heart of the Kingdom, who knows what kind of chaos it would have caused.
The extensive network of rifts brought the Kingdom unprecedented convenience and strategic advantages, but it also posed a massive hidden threat.
Outsiders—be they humans, Elves, or Demons—could theoretically use these rifts to freely enter and exit the Kingdom's domain, or even arrive directly in its core regions.
