"Full Moon Witch, what has this woman done to my former territory?"
Wu Chen glanced at the details of the Counterfeit Library on the panel and hurriedly walked inside.
"Stop! Where's your pass?"
As soon as he entered, a staff member stopped Wu Chen.
"A pass? This is my wife. Is that enough?"
Wu Chen smiled and put an arm around Sylvie.
"You… you are a dark elf from the demon race?"
The staff member took one look at Sylvie and immediately became extremely respectful.
"You seem to know a lot about demons."
Wu Chen was surprised that the staff member could immediately identify Sylvie's race. Her golden hair covered her pointed elven ears, making her look not much different from a human.
The fact that the staff could recognize Sylvie's race so quickly showed they were well-versed in such matters.
"Of course. Each demon race has its own preferences and customs. To serve the demon kings well and respect the different customs of each race, 'The Complete Guide to Demons' is a mandatory subject for all our residents."
The staff member boasted.
Oh, aren't you quite proud of that?
The Complete Guide to Demons was a strategy book I personally wrote to make it easier for humans to deal with various different demon races, and now you're using it to please the demons!?
Wu Chen felt a fire slowly igniting in his heart.
"You've put in a lot of effort."
Wu Chen waved his hand and swaggered into the library with Sylvie in tow.
The staff member bowed deeply, not daring to bring up the matter of the pass again.
As he watched them leave, a look of confusion crossed his face.
"Strange, although that lady is a dark elf, the man next to her should be human according to my scan?"
The staff member scratched his head in confusion.
Still confused, he directly reported the incident to his supervisor.
"Idiot!"
After hearing his account, the supervisor immediately launched into a tirade.
"How could a human possibly marry a demon? What kind of daydream are you having?"
"Then how do you explain this?"
"What's there to explain? You obviously made a mistake, you fool!"
"Hahaha, you're right, I must have made a mistake. How could we lowly humans ever catch the eye of the great demons?"
The staff member showed a self-deprecating smile and turned to leave.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Wu Chen and Sylvie found a secluded corner to sit down in, and Wu Chen fetched the most borrowed books from the entire library.
Books such as The Ugly Humans, Demon Summer Camp, A Brief History of Humans, and Demonic Totems were laid out in front of him.
The debuffs associated with the Counterfeit Library were clearly the effects of these books.
Demon Summer Camp compared demon children with human children directly. The entire book detailed the superiority of demons over humans.
An educator conducted an experiment, giving both demon and human children a cup of water and asking them to make it boil without using fire.
The human child placed the water under the sun all day, but it did not boil as hoped.
Meanwhile, the clever demon child used a different method, combining multiple sources of heat or energy to raise the temperature of the water effectively.
The rigid thinking and backward system of humans could never cultivate great wizards with innovative minds.
A few human children, through teamwork and skilled use of tools, managed to perform on par with the demons who worked alone in certain tasks. This led to the conclusion that humans will never learn to solve problems on their own and will always want to rely on collective strength. In contrast, the demons are independent and self-reliant. Such a race is the only one with a future!
"Pure bullshit!"
Wu Chen couldn't help but shout, drawing disapproving looks from those around him.
"Don't you know this is a library? Loud noises are prohibited here!"
People in other parts of the library frowned and looked over.
"I—I'm a demon. This dark elf demon here is my wife."
Wu Chen ignored them and said lightly.
"My husband is causing trouble for everyone."
Sylvie, hearing Wu Chen refer to her as his wife, blushed like an innocent girl and graciously apologized to those around her.
"No trouble at all, no trouble at all."
The angry crowd instantly fell silent, and Wu Chen even heard whispers from afar.
"No wonder he's a demon; he dares to challenge the existing rules. So cool!"
"Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be like that!"
Wu Chen: If I were your mom, I'd slap you right now.
"These books, even as a demon myself, I feel a bit embarrassed reading them. It's amazing that these people can read them and actually believe what's written. Poor them."
Sylvie, who had been sitting next to Wu Chen and reading the books, sighed.
"Especially this one, 'Demonic Totems,' which talks about the supposed malevolence of demons and how magical beasts can never be tamed. I remember when they were filming an illusionary movie based on this book, they even specifically asked me to tame a few magical beasts for their scenes."
Sylvie criticized without holding back.
"Ah…"
Wu Chen's hand paused as he flipped through the pages, and he gazed out the library window at the peaceful scenery outside, feeling somewhat melancholic.
He had originally thought that as long as he could conquer the witches and grow stronger, launching another offensive against the demon race would allow him to easily reclaim the fallen territories.
But now it seemed that the situation might be worse than he had imagined.
Although he was outwardly flustered by the challenge of completely defeating the demons, Wu Chen still had some confidence. After all, he had succeeded once in the game.
As a player and a lord of a land, he had repelled demon invasions countless times, and countless demon kings had perished at his hands.
He was also confident in his plan to take down the witches.
Demons were strong, but in Wu Chen's eyes, they were not invincible.
However, how to defeat the perfect image of the demon race that existed in the minds of the people in the fallen territories—Wu Chen, for the moment, had no idea.
"Defeating the demons in the mountains is easy, but defeating the demons in the hearts is difficult!"