Meanwhile, outside the secret realm, the people around, including the Demons, were stunned at Tatyana's display. The fact that she could fight against the Demon Sovereigns was something that came as a complete surprise. How could it not? With that strength, Tatyana could have been the ruler of this continent, with no one being able to stop her.
However, all they know about Tatyana is that she is the headmistress of the Academy and that she is very averse to any kind of attention. Her real strength is something that not even the highest level informants, those that control the Fate attribute, can gleam on. But all of this wouldn't remain hidden for much more time.
With Yasenia away from the continent and the insistence of the demons in getting rid of her little treasure, Tatyana had decided to arise from controlling everything from the shadows.
The Demon Empress looked at Tatyana with her green irises surrounded by a black sclera. "So there is someone that can fight us on this continent. I was doubtful before. Why would one of our teams disappear without a trace? But now I have my answer. You killed them, right?"
The Demon Empress laughed and observed Tatyana closer, "Moreover, you've decided to push the juniors inside even after not knowing what I poured into the portal. I don't know if you either do not care about them or you just hope for some of them to return with gains. However, I must make you despair; none of them will come back from the secret realm."
Tatyana looked at the Demon Empress with a cold face. Her aura right now was growing by the second, letting people start to feel the weight of her cultivation. Tatyana spoke with a calm voice that chilled the hearts of the people listening. "You know, Demon Empress, I've never wanted to fight with your race. I have experienced living between your kind for some thousand of years, and it was an interesting experience."
Tatyana continued, her aura now warping the space around her and her voice with a tone worthy of an Empress. "Like I did in the fight 30 000 years ago. I wanted just to be a spectator and, this time, use this war to temper my little treasure. However, instead of letting me be a neutral party, you have targeted my little treasure time and time again."
Tatyana's voice became a notch colder as she spoke, "Don't think that I don't know about the demon assassins sent to capture or kill her. Do you really think I would surrender to your demands by capturing my little treasure? Wrong. Now that you've tried that, I will dedicate myself to eradicating every single demon from the face of this continent."
The Demon Empress raised her eyebrow, "Hahaha, I admit that your strength is impressive for this continent. A level two demigoddess basically can reign supreme in this area of the world. However, do you think that I fear you? I'm not scared to tell you that I'm stronger than you by two whole levels, being in the fourth level of the Demon Sovereign level."
The Demon Empress sneered, "You want to eradicate my race from this continent? I want to see how you try it, Tatyana! Seeing your countenance falling into despair shall become my objective this time!"
Tatyana looked at the Demon Empress indifferently. However, some doubts were flashing through her red eyes, 'She is very similar to the mother of that person... However, she didn't have this size and skin color at that time.'
She has received a lot of intel about the demons during these months. That was why she was always busy working in her study room. One of the intel had made her raise eyebrows. A peak-level Demon Monarch was abducting red-eyed human women around the continent. When she received his description through her intelligence channels, she confirmed that he was the Demon she met more than 40 000 years ago.
Although Tatyana may seem like a player, she was actually quite loyal. However, she was as loyal as she was able to leave a person she didn't like anymore, no matter how long their relationship had been going on.
Tatyana had always thought that the best method to find happiness is through love, so she has tried to seriously love a lot of different creatures throughout her hundreds of thousands of years. And I say creatures because there were non-human and even non-humanoid creatures between them. However, even when she has been with a lot of people, she has only been, on average, in a single relationship per 10 000 years.
Even if finding happiness through love was the method she chose, she didn't want to become a flower-trampling woman. She knew that honesty and loyalty were the base of every relationship, so she wouldn't try to find someone directly.
Tatyana had always tried to get to know a person for hundreds of years, and only then will she try to be in a relationship with them. However, to Tatyana's dismay, every single relationship ended badly. Be it with her partner cheating, becoming too possessive, them falling into greed for her power, or even Tatyana herself becoming tired of a relationship that had become insipid with no love left.
There were also cases of her partner becoming too lustful for her and only seeing her as a sexual tool and nothing more. The last one happened more than Tatyana would like to because, honestly, she was a master in sexual relationships. Not even Dual Cultivators at her strength level could compete with her.
Right now, Yasenia was the person she had become a couple with the fastest after she passed the 1 000 years. In just 18 years, Tatyana was sure that Yasenia was the one, that her little treasure would be able to fill the void in her existence for time to come. Therefore, instead of waiting for hundreds of years as she had always done and seeing how Yasenia developed, she attacked fast.
The reason Tatyana had this feeling was that when she saw that Oliver and Yasenia were becoming closer and closer, panic entered her heart for the first time in tens of thousands of years. Tatyana couldn't even remember when was the last time she felt that emotion, that something very precious was about to be snatched from her.
And for the moment, she didn't regret it one bit. These last three years, and even the previous eighteen with Yasenia, had been the best for Tatyana. She felt that the world was beautiful again, that the world was colorful again, that her heart could pound for someone again. She even wanted to have Yasenia's children, a house filled with hers and Yasenia's children!
This was a true first for Tatyana. Tatyana had never, ever in her life wanted to have someone's children, not when she was young, not when she was in the middle of her life, and not even five years ago. She had even gone as far as to use an ancient formation that could kill her just to get pregnant!
This new wonderful feeling of wanting to feel her belly grow with Yasenia's child only appeared in her heart after Yasenia's impregnation attempt that day. She felt so euphoric that she lost control of her body and almost killed Yasenia at that time through pleasure.
Therefore, if someone even dares to hurt this person. This first daughter who was like a piece of flesh in her heart. Tatyana swore that she would use every means to make those with these intentions suffer a life worse than death!
The only reason Tang and Long families were still standing was that Tatyana wanted Yasenia herself to destroy them; she wanted them to regret making her daughter their enemy. And then, she will add every single living being in those houses to her undead army to make them serve her and her daughter for eternity.
These thoughts flashed in an instant in Tatyana's mind. She reflected on the information she had about that demon, and a single name came to her mind, one from more than 40 000 years ago. Tatyana silently cast [Absolute True Zone] to confirm her doubts and then asked. "You are Jurtok's mother, right?"
The Demon Empress answered with ease and showed slight confusion. "I don't know what you are talking about so suddenly. Does it matter whose mother I am?"
The Demon Empress's facial expression didn't change while answering, except a muscle fiber that twitched beside her lips. However, Tatyana's eyes didn't lose this imperceptible twitch, which made her smile disdainfully. 'Trying to lie to me; not even someone ten times stronger than her could do that. However, why would she want to hide it? Does she have a plan for something that includes Jurtok? If I ruin this plan... Wouldn't it be delightful?'
While they were speaking, many sect masters and beast leaders did the same as Tatyana, carrying the juniors inside the portal at their fastest speeds. Even after they heard that they had done something to the portal, the sect master knew that a battle of very high proportions would blow up shortly after. Therefore, their options were to either carry their juniors inside and hope for the best or let them die because of the aftershocks of the battle outside while they fought against the Demon Monarchs.
At first, the Demon Empress and Demon Emperor wanted to stop them. Instead of letting the juniors go inside, they rather exterminate them outside and let their own juniors gain the advantage.
However, after Tatyana's display, they became more cautious. No matter how much the Demon Empress bragged, she was calculating things inside her head.
At this time, the Demon Emperor's rumbling voice echoed. His burning eye sockets looked at the Demon Empress and said. "It doesn't matter if the juniors escape; our objective is to kill all the seniors here and weaken all their races."
Tatyana asked with an obvious mocking tone, "You want to kill every one of us? To kill me?"
Tatyana looked around at the demon army gathered with exaggerated gestures and pure contempt in her red eyes. There were at least 600 Demon Monarchs beside the two Demon Sovereigns and innumerable lower-level demons. Tatyana looked back at the Demon Empress and Emperor and her lips raised in a mocking sneer. Tatyana spat her words with dripping ridicule. "With just this?"
Tatyana began walking in the air toward them as if she was walking on stairs toward her throne, completely unafraid. Her aura was already tangible, bending space around, and her disposition was like an Empress walking down the hall, exuding elegance, power, and beauty all at the same level.
Everything around her, every gesture, every step, every single thing was fit of a ruler that looked down on the world as if everything was below her.
This was the real Tatyana.
The Death Empress who looked down on everything.
The Death Empress with innumerable beings under her.
The Death Empress who was able to see through Fate itself and control it.
Ruler of Undead and the living alike, with a strength that instilled fear and reverence in everyone that dared cross her path.
Then, everyone froze as her garments changed, and she walked slowly toward the Demon Emperor and Empress.