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"The Erwin family is finished," Annie said.
“Yes, I do know that.” Lycorina nodded, arms crossed.
The Erwin family is finished.
The Erwin family is finished.
It is not just a physical destruction, but a complete social death in a certain sense.
The Lord of Dawn is indeed dead, but the remaining members of Dawn, following pre-arranged plans, revealed the discoveries made in the prison.
Furthermore, it was stated that "Dawn" defeated and overthrew the Erwin family, who had been secretly harming the citizens.
The Erwin family has not offered any explanation for this.
The Erwin family had no objections.
Because all the members of the Erwin family were killed.
There were actually some surviving members, but they were simply members who were secretly sent out of the city to protect their bloodline.
Similar to how, when a major battle was imminent, the younger generation of the family would be sent out of the city through underground passages.
Perhaps they will make a comeback many years later, but...
That's not something the heroes with eight and a half years left should worry about.
With a family collapsing to this extent, revenge would take at least a decade, right?
It wasn't just An-I who discovered this result; the other heroes who went back to investigate also found this situation.
The collapse of the Elwin family, coupled with the exposure of their shady dealings, caused a huge uproar throughout the entire Earl's City.
With the destruction of the family, order has also collapsed!
But these highly intelligent demons are quick-witted.
It's true that there's no lord here, but...
Does it not seem to affect what they've always been doing?
It's just that the White Demon disappeared, and the city is no longer under the control of demons.
Some demons continued to stay in the library without a care, while others thought differently.
Without a ruler, the city can engage in unrestrained private fights, and there will be no more curfews.
The key point is that they will not be punished for their acts of searching and disrupting order!
Thus, the demons began to settle old and new grudges together, and they started fighting each other in various parts of the city.
At first, some demons tried to stop it, but the demons who stood up on their own could not stop the long-accumulated resentment.
Ultimately, demons are selfish, and this kind of private fighting has absolutely nothing to do with other demons.
Those who stand up to stop it and want to continue to maintain order in this city are undoubtedly champions of justice, even among the demons.
Conversely, those who are brainwashed by a false order and completely fail to recognize reality are idiots.
Didn't everyone see the terrible state of that prison?
It was the Erwin family that disrupted the order first, persecuting so many demons underground.
To maintain this false order now is tantamount to wanting to return to the filthy rule of the Erwin family, isn't it?
They maintain a false order by sacrificing other demons.
Just because it hasn't affected them personally doesn't mean they take it for granted as right, and their continued efforts to maintain order are nothing but hypocrisy.
If they were the ones hanging underground, would they still maintain this so-called order?
They must want to tear the scalps off those "White Demons".
The collapse of order directly led to chaos throughout the entire Earl of Erwin city.
However, amidst the chaos, a new order was automatically established by default among all the demons.
They fight privately and study privately; they can be said to not interfere with each other.
New demonic organizations have also emerged, especially among the high-ranking demons, all of whom want a share of the spoils in this hunt for whales.
Because they are highly intelligent demons, more demons among them want to seize this opportunity.
Even if I don't become the Demon Lord, I can still gain a lot of benefits by scavenging around the Earl's mansion.
Most importantly, by establishing a demon organization and then destroying other demon organizations, one can immediately gain considerable benefits.
When things were normal here before, they wouldn't have had such thoughts.
But now that order has been lost, if they don't compete for resources, other demons will.
Nobody will care, and no demon has any obligation to care.
They are about to embark on a chaotic party!
In this frenzy, there will be many losers.
And the victor can win even more!
Both Annie and Lycorina had already made up their minds—
The victor will only be the "Chaos Demon"!
These demonic organizations that emerged amidst the chaos—aren't they perfect tools for more heroes to level up?!
Most importantly, there is a large collection of books belonging to the demon race here, which is probably the greatest gain that humanity has ever made in the history of fighting against the demon race.
Once the Chaos Demon takes control of this city, everything here will become spoils of war for humanity.
Even the demons above didn't know about this.
Considering that now is the best time for all the demon races to enter the fray, the Chaotic Demons naturally need to enter the fray as soon as possible.
The entire city now believes that the Erwin family was killed by [Dawn], and the entry of [Chaos Demon] at this time is just an organization from Viscount City wanting to get a share of the spoils.
In the short term, no high-level demons will regard them as enemies.
During this period, the heroes of the Chaotic Demon also gather intelligence and formulate plans to subdue it.
……
Marquis Griffiths commands three cities that represent [knowledge], [power], and [economy].
Count Erwin is dead.
This city of knowledge also began to descend into chaos, transforming from years of stability into a state of collapse with no leader.
This was not good news for the Marquis Griffith.
Just like Earl Peterson, who dumped nine viscount cities on Nightmare Viscount at once, Marquis Griffiths naturally wanted to find a demon to quickly take over the reins.
No matter how chaotic things get, the last thing he wants to see is things spiraling out of control and falling out of management.
In other words, while it's fun and games, competition must be based on the premise that the demon race can maintain stability.
Otherwise, this city of knowledge, which was already beginning to crumble, will collapse rapidly.
The worst outcome would be that the city would be swallowed up by the forces of other marquises.
This is blatantly seizing his territory.
Whoever it is, he hopes that a demon will step forward to stabilize the city.
Marquis Griffith is a so-called "humanoid" demon. At his level, he has already completely stepped into the threshold of a high-level demon.
However, his race is not as good as that of a true high-level demon.
He was dressed in luxurious aristocratic clothing, but above him was a golden face and a bald head, as if his entire head had been painted with gold paint, even his eyes.
He rose from his chair at his desk and stood before the window behind him, where he could see the dim sky outside. A thought struck him.
Soon, a dark figure appeared in the room from nowhere.
"How's the investigation into that [Dawn] matter going?" Marquis Griffith asked calmly.
"It seems they were severely weakened in the battle against the Erwin family and have lost their competitive edge," the shadowy figure replied quietly.
If the Lord of Dawn could stand here holding Earl Erwin's "Core," then Marquis Griffith might offer him some assistance to stabilize the situation for the time being.
After all, this is a demonic organization capable of destroying the Erwin family on their home turf; [Dawn] must be intimately familiar with the city and able to take over quickly.
But...
The owner of [Dawn] not only wasn't standing here, but also made no response to the fact that [Dawn] couldn't gain a foothold in the city.
Even if Marquis Griffith wanted to help him, he was powerless to do so.
The inability to deploy combat forces here does not mean that we cannot send them out.
Rather, he couldn't help an organization that lacked ambition.
If the other side truly intends to control the entire city, they will definitely try every means to recover their strength.
It's not unreasonable for someone to come to him in person seeking his help and ask him to send a high-ranking demon to oversee things.
Not only did the other side not appear, but they also allowed the fruits of their victory to be divided up by other demons who suddenly appeared.
Disappointed, greatly disappointed.
[Dawn] All those years of hard work seem to have been for nothing more than charity.
It's as if everything will end once the Erwin family is defeated.
Without taking over the city or recruiting more allies, they simply let Dawn fade into obscurity.
It's as if it has burned out completely.
They burned each other to ashes with the Erwin family.
However, what Marquis Griffith didn't expect was that four months later...
An organization called "Chaos Demon" has suddenly appeared!
According to the investigation, the other party was originally only active in Viscount City, but after arriving in Earl City, they began to gradually eliminate the demonic organizations under their control.
Originally, it wasn't very fast and didn't pose a threat to other demons.
Furthermore, competition between organizations is a way to differentiate them into different levels, so initially no demons paid much attention to it.