While Rimuru was entertaining Guy and the others, informing them that a new continent would soon descend onto the southeast corner of the main continent, Luo Hao had already arrived at the Golden Country, El Dorado, where Platinum Sword King Leon resided.
El Dorado was both the name of the country established by Leon and the name of a continent located in the south.
This continent faced the main continent across the sea, and its area was slightly larger than Australia on Earth.
It had also earned the beautiful name of Golden Country because it relied on the various metal mineral resources near the central volcano of the continent.
In addition, although the Golden Country was a country ruled by a Demon Lord, its relationship with humans was surprisingly friendly.
El Dorado and the Western Nations had very close trade ties.
This largely depended on Leon's identity before becoming a Demon Lord, a Hero.
"A good place."
Luo Hao activated her Eye of the Sky and looked down on the entire continent from above.
In her sight, invisible magicules connected the cities spread across the continent, forming an incomparably huge magic circle that protected the entire continent.
The scale of this magic circle was quite impressive.
If it were not for a powerhouse like Luo Hao, who had stepped into the Divine Realm, being here, then even other Demon Lords, even if their strength was enough to rival Leon's, would find it difficult to forcibly break this magic circle.
This also meant that Leon could go out at any time without worrying that an enemy would suddenly attack his base while he was away.
With sufficient energy and a complete continental ley line, Leon could return in time before the magic circle was breached.
"How about..."
Looking at this rather interesting magic circle, Luo Hao inexplicably felt the urge to destroy it.
No wonder, human nature was like this.
Seeing beautiful things always brought an urge to destroy them, and Luo Hao was no exception.
"Well, never mind."
Luo Hao did not forget her mission.
If Leon submitted to Rin, then the Golden Country would also become part of the Monster Nation.
No matter how fierce Luo Hao was, she would not fight fiercely in her own home.
"Who are you?"
"Oh?"
A sudden voice interrupted Luo Hao's thoughts.
A cold and arrogant young man with golden hair and magnificent robes appeared beside Luo Hao.
The place where the two stood was a cliff on the outskirts of the Golden Country's royal capital.
However, Leon had never expected that someone could silently bypass the barrier he had set up, only to be discovered after appearing so close to the royal city.
Undoubtedly, with such stealth ability, Luo Hao's strength was definitely not simple.
"To be able to notice me, you're not bad at all."
Luo Hao glanced at Leon, and that single glance gave him a chilling sensation of being seen through.
"You!!"
Leon's heart tightened, and almost instinctively, he summoned his Holy Sword of Light and watched the stunningly beautiful woman in front of him with vigilance. "What did you do? That feeling just now, magic perception? Detection?"
No, none of them!
Leon only pondered for a moment before finding a similar situation. "Is it like Milim, possessing the Dragon Eye that can see through all things in the world?"
It could not be wrong.
The aura emanating from the woman before him was very similar to Milim, whom Leon had seen before, and Velzard, who was often with Guy.
The only difference was that Luo Hao gave Leon a feeling far more dangerous than Milim and Velzard.
"Hmm, this reaction speed..."
"It seems my evaluation of you was still too low."
"As expected of a hero among humans, a former Chosen Hero."
"With your qualifications, if you could receive that great one's gift, you should soon be able to step into the Calamity Domain, right?"
After joining Rin, Luo Hao had already become familiar with the hierarchy of the Cardinal World.
From F to Special A, then Demon Lord, all of these were considered the same realm.
Next came Awakened Demon Lord and Ultimate Demon Lord.
The former possessed magicules in the Demon Lord Domain, but had not obtained their own Ultimate Skill. Representative examples included Nightmare Queen Luminous and Fairy Queen Ramiris before they joined Rin.
And the Platinum Sword King Leon before her.
Possessing the Ultimate Skill, Lord of Purity Metatron, one of the Seven Virtues, his strength was far greater than Luminous's.
Even the former Guy believed that Leon had the potential to kill him.
Of course, it was only a possibility.
In a real fight, Guy would definitely be able to eliminate Leon in an extremely short amount of time, never giving him a chance to use Lord of Purity.
"Calamity Domain?"
"What is that?"
Leon had heard of calamities, referring to the three remaining True Dragon in the current world.
Any one of them possessed destructive power akin to a natural disaster, enough to rewrite the entire world's structure.
"Magicules exceeding ten million is the Calamity Domain."
Luo Hao did not beat around the bush and said directly, "Do you understand what I mean?"
"Ten million..."
Leon looked calm on the surface, but inwardly he was exceptionally speechless.
What did she mean by "exceeding ten million is the Calamity Domain"? Did she really think raising magicules above ten million was an easy task?
Without a means of self-feedback, even with an Ultimate Skill, one still could not break past the ten million mark.
Leon was the best example.
His Lord of Purity was very powerful and possessed strong filtering and purifying abilities.
But this could not change his own bloodline and racial stats.
In other words, Leon was merely a Demon Lord awakened from a human, and there was a huge innate gap between him and Guy, who had been a Primordial Monster before awakening.
Unless Leon was willing to continue changing his race, this "upper limit" would always exist.
"What do you want to say?"
Leon did not believe that Luo Hao had come to him just to say these things.
To become a Demon Lord and rule a territory, Leon was by no means a foolish person.
On the contrary, he was very intelligent.
Almost from the moment he sensed Luo Hao's appearance, Leon had formed countless guesses about her identity.
A monster?
An outsider from another world?
Or had a new human powerhouse emerged on the continent, awakened just as he once had?
Unfortunately, due to the asymmetry of information, Leon simply could not figure out Luo Hao's origin.
"I am here to convey the will of that great one."
Luo Hao threw out the invitation letter prepared by Rin while releasing the magicules she had restrained within her body.
The next moment, time and space fluctuated, and the heavens and earth trembled!
"Rumble!"
If the previous Luo Hao had given Leon the feeling of an unscalable mountain, then now, Leon only felt like an ant facing the entire sky, appearing so small and fragile.
(To be continued.)