Chapter 1 Tiger Father Has No Dog Daughter

The saying "like father, like daughter" holds true even for demons. It turns out that Izhaks' daughter inherited her father's excellent qualities for doing great things; at least, her unconventional approach is commendable. Hao Ren and the others quickly learned from the young Elizabeth and the old butler Gadamo about what had happened in the Demon King's City over the past year. Basically, it was a story of a genius child piloting a giant robot to impersonate her father, stabilizing the people's hearts, exploring new territories, accumulating forces, and preparing for a counter-push. Although this process didn't sound like a typical fantasy script, none of these people followed any script, so details didn't matter.

In the final battle a year ago, the Demon King's City was swallowed by a space storm, but miraculously remained intact and was instead sent into a strange space that no one had ever set foot in. Fortunately, Izhaks had carried out various modifications to the Demon King's City long ago. He knew he had enemies all over the world, so the Demon King's City had a completely enclosed, self-sustaining system. The city's controllers activated this system at a critical moment to protect the residents of the city, and then Elizabeth began to consider the future.

She knew that only one person could calm the people in that situation and also considered how long it would take to escape that strange space, so she immediately began to design "Papa Number One" to lead the city. She and Gadamo, along with several old generals, concocted various reasons to allow the fake Mad Demon King to rightfully "return" to the city... This was indeed a miracle gene inherited from Izhaks. This father and daughter were both good at throwing out a wild card when others were playing cards normally, completely defying common sense.

Normally, the "fake Demon King" lived in seclusion, only making necessary appearances to stabilize the people's hearts, explaining to the outside world that he was thinking about the future. Elizabeth, when not piloting "Papa X Number," appeared everywhere as usual, serving as the Demon King's City's de facto "executive director," and thus the deception was never exposed.

The only problem with the entire disguise process was that Izhaks' human form had never reappeared since that day, but these were minor matters that no one would delve into.

So far, only a small number of people in the Demon King's City know that the "Mad Demon King" on the throne is fake—this small number includes Elizabeth, Gadamo, several old generals, and a few dwarf engineers. Those engineers are the builders of "Papa X Number."

Anyway, Hao Ren thought the little girl Elizabeth was simply a genius. Of course, he also knew that Elizabeth's real age must be several hundred years old, but that didn't stop her from being only one meter and thirty centimeters tall, right? Anyway, as Izhaks' "buddy," he subconsciously regarded Elizabeth as a child.

A grand banquet was held in the Demon King's palace, and Hao Ren and the others were shocked when they arrived: they never expected to see a banquet of this scale in the Demon territory. Rows of long tables were set up in the huge hall, all kinds of delicacies were placed on the tables, and people of various races walked around the hall: mostly dwarves and humans, and elves with pointed ears could also be seen gathering in quieter places to talk. Although the hall itself still showed the style of Demon architecture, the furnishings and decorations everywhere had obviously been carefully designed to allow people of all races to adapt to this place. This kind of place could probably only be seen in the Demon King's City: in history, only Izhaks had seriously considered the possibility of integrating the cultures of all races in the world, and this huge Demon King's City was the greatest achievement.

Lily pushed open the door of the long hall and cheered, jumping half a meter high: "Awoo—good food, awoo awoo awoo!"

Hao Ren tried hard to pull Lily's tail from behind (anyway, in Izhaks' territory, this girl could confidently let her tail out to breathe): "Be reserved, be reserved! We're guests in someone else's house, okay!"

"I thought the Demon King's City would be gloomy, but I didn't expect everyone here to be so optimistic," Vivian looked at the grand scene in the long hall, glancing at Izhaks in surprise, then her eyes fell on Elizabeth. "This kid is amazing."

"Yeah, I'm awesome," Elizabeth nodded. "I've been trying to maintain morale."

The grand banquet was advertised to welcome the return of the "Great Sage," which was already a major event, so the high-level leaders of the royal city were gathered here, but they never expected that the first figure to walk in from the door would be another one.

Izhaks slightly adjusted his face, changing back to the human form he had used in this world, that is, the Earth-type Izhaks with the car accident not yet healed, and at the same time no longer concealed his aura, striding towards the head seat of the long hall.

In this instant, the entire long hall suddenly quieted down, and whether it was demons or other races of diners, they were all staring blankly at the figure that had not appeared for a year. But most of them only felt surprised, wondering why the Demon King would have the whim to appear in human form today—in their impression, the Demon King had always been staying well in the city. Only a small number of people fell into great shock: they were the insiders of the fake Demon King.

Izhaks chuckled and walked to the front, nodding to the surroundings as if nothing had happened: "Is everyone doing well?"

Many people felt that this question was inexplicable, but they still subconsciously raised their glasses and cheered, but several figures suddenly stood up next to a nearby long table.

They were four high-level demons who had shrunk their forms and several stocky dwarves.

Izhaks saw the movement at that table at a glance. He smiled at Hao Ren and winked, then raised his hand and greeted the dwarves and demons, signaling them to come over. So those few immediately ran to Izhaks in two or three steps. Running in the front was a stocky black dwarf old man like a wine barrel. He was wearing a work suit covered with pockets, and his beard hung down like a scarf. Hao Ren felt like he was rolling over when he saw the other party running over—this dwarf old man rolled to Izhaks, his head tilted upwards, and a cry of surprise came from under his big beard: "My God..."

Elizabeth immediately put her hands on her hips and emphasized, "This is my dad! Not your mom!"

The dwarf old man continued to look up, "The princess's dad... No! Demon King? This... this this could it be..."

Hao Ren quickly bent down and helped the dwarf old man's head up, "Calm down, calm down, your neck is almost bent ninety degrees—this is your boss."

Izhaks crossed his arms and laughed, "It's me, I'm back, genuine product."

The dwarf old man didn't understand what a genuine product was. The first thing he did was pull out a screwdriver from the pile of pockets on his body: "Stand there and don't move, let me poke you a few times, if there's no operating cabin then it's real."

Izhaks laughed and grabbed the funny dwarf's beard and lifted him up, "Now tell me is it real or fake?"

The dwarf old man danced in the air: "Real, real, this technique is definitely real!"

Hao Ren and the others were stunned, feeling that the Demon King's army's corporate culture might not be easy for outsiders to understand...

Izhaks casually put the dwarf old man down, pointed at him and introduced him to Hao Ren: "This is Sentis • Hothammer, my chief engineer, the chainswords used by the soldiers and the cannons used on the city walls were all made by him and a group of black dwarves."

Elizabeth added, "That's Uncle Hammer."

Then Izhaks pointed to the four high-level demons who had shrunk their figures: "These are my four generals..."

After introducing the names of everyone present, Izhaks crossed his arms and looked at these old subordinates with a smile: "Alright, I'm done here, what do you want to ask?"

"King, you're really back? You're okay?" A demon with a horn on his head was still a little afraid to believe that Izhaks would suddenly appear in front of him like this, "This... is it real?"

"Don't repeat similar questions," Izhaks said with a hey, "I was recuperating in a pretty far place. This next to me, Hao Ren, is the 'landlord' who took me in. Thanks to his help this time that I had the opportunity to return to this world."

"Return to this world?" Sentis • Hothammer's eyes widened, "You've been in..."

"The spatial bubble zone theory is true, and even the multiverse conjecture that the great scholar only put forward in his last years is true," Izhaks chuckled and then pointed to Hao Ren, "Pay your respects to him, this is the person who holds the bridge between two worlds. Fortunately, this guy is relatively easy to talk to, otherwise I really don't know how to return from another world."

Hao Ren smiled and greeted the demons and dwarves who were already stunned: "Easy, easy, I'm actually just a local cop and traffic cop..."
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