The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Deep in the North Peak Mine, within the gloomy and eerie cavern, lies an imposing underground palace.

This is the Audience Hall painstakingly built by the little spiders of the Weaving Shadow Clan for Lord Demon King.

While the players from Earth were busying themselves outside the North Peak Mine, the children of Lady Alachinos were also hard at work.

After sacrificing tens of thousands of lives, they used their powerful forelimbs and mandibles to carve out this magnificent palace from the solid rock of the mountain.

What an extraordinary sacrifice.

Luo Yan was extremely pleased with this gift and rewarded Lady Alachinos with twenty cows that hadn't survived the harsh winter, allowing her to savor the taste of beef.

It's believed that after tasting the deliciousness of beef, this emotionally unstable lady might gradually lose her craving for human flesh.

For the Weaving Shadow Nest, which was unable to fully integrate into the new era, this could be considered a significant improvement.

Moreover, the grandeur of this palace wasn't solely the result of the Weaving Shadow Nest's efforts; the players also contributed.

Especially since some of his players were modeling experts from other games and provided valuable suggestions to his top mount and chief foreman of the Great Graveyard construction, Alakdo, during the building process.

Without their input, the little spiders' taste alone would never have crafted such a palace suited to his preferences.

The only shortcoming was that Luo Yan often had a lingering sense of déjà vu after staying here for a while.

It wasn't until a player unintentionally spilled the beans during an audience that he realized—it was modeled after a counterpart in Azeroth.

Of course.

Unlike the Witch Demon King's version, his seat lacked refrigeration functionality and wasn't painfully uncomfortable.

On the point of user experience, his little players were quite thoughtful.

Far more considerate than him, the mastermind behind all this.

Once completed, the Audience Hall quickly found purpose. Luo Yan first summoned Qianqian from the Land of Nightmare, Zhuangzhuang from Iron Teeth City, and Zerick from the Guardian Clan to show off and bask in the flattery and praises of his "dog legs," then went on to receive gifts from the vassals based in the lower levels of the Maze.

The latter part was particularly crucial.

Among the gifts, Glak from the Blood Blade Clan presented him with a ton of gold!

If all this gold were used to mint Aus Empire gold coins without dilution, it could produce a solid thirty thousand coins!

Considering that the Empire itself mixes copper into its gold coins to take advantage of its vassals, a more conservative estimate could mint up to a hundred thousand coins!

Upon hearing about Glak's lavish offering, Bransia from Desperate City wasn't about to let herself be outdone and contributed a treasured item from her vault—

A piece of juvenile dragonhide!

This dragonhide measured approximately three meters in length and width and could only be cut with diamond tools. The soft armor made from it was rumored to resist Platinum-Level Sword Qi!

Given the rarity of giant dragons, this item was far more valuable than gold, and its worth thrilled Luo Yan so much he nearly accepted a marriage proposal from this Pain Demon lady.

Fortunately, it was just "nearly."

In Hell, Pain Demons are even more "*S*" than Horror Demons. While the latter feeds on others' fear, the former simply enjoys the pure pleasure of torment.

By comparison, mischievous Little Demons seem as innocent as fluffy white rabbits, and even the scheming goblins appear kindly and benign.

Luo Yan wasn't worried about Bransia doing anything to him—his concern was purely for the players of the Great Graveyard and his own court.

In any case, after acquiring the dragonhide, Luo Yan promptly sent it to Iron Teeth City to have the mole artisans there craft him a form-fitting piece of soft armor.

As for Bransia, the City Lord of Desperate City, Luo Yan treated her to dinner with the same enthusiasm he had shown when entertaining Glak.

Throughout the banquet, the noblewoman wore an expression of quiet resentment, and it was unclear whether she lamented her failure to win progress for Desperate City or mourned the cost of that dinner.

If it weren't for the lack of a suitable excuse and the worry that "excessive taxation" might affect the vassals' loyalty, Luo Yan might have considered inviting them for several more dinners.

Apart from gifts from Glak and Bransia, "Shadow Demon General" Thanos and "Cold Iron Demon General" Valgur also sent congratulatory gifts to celebrate the completion of the Demon King Palace's Audience Hall. The value of the gifts was roughly equal to what Glak had offered.

Of course, Valgur did not visit in person.

After all, given his massive size, squeezing into Luo Yan's palace would probably require digging a large tunnel underneath the Audience Hall.

And hosting him for dinner would be far too costly.

The arrival of the gifts alone sufficed.

Beyond the gifts from his vassals, Luo Yan also unexpectedly received presents from Demon City.

One came from Mia, and the other from Vivian.

The former, due to her work, frequently corresponded with him by letter.

Upon learning that Luo Yan finally had a properly built palace, she expressed her congratulations in her "distinctive and twisted manner" in a recent letter sent to the Great Graveyard, along with a gift.

That gift was a blood-red scarf.

The scarf seemed to be made from yarn spun from the fur of bloodthirsty Demon Beasts, and judging by its coarse craftsmanship, it was likely a homemade creation.

One could only wonder who had encouraged her to do this.