"The Demon Monarch is wise."
Twenty years later.
The countryside villa on the mountaintop appears well-weathered, with the vegetable garden in the yard having doubled in size. Next to it, an area is fenced off, inside which a flock of plump Red-bellied Golden Finches is pecking "cluck cluck cluck" at their feed.
The Blood Child Demon Monarch stands by the fence, staring expressionlessly at those Red-bellied Golden Finches, his voice weak: "How are things on the Wang Family's side?"
After twenty years of waiting, with the army repeatedly coming "close to breaking through Sword Ridge Pass" and "close to breaking through West Cliff Pass," he had long lost his initial urgency and had become much more Buddhist about it.
At this point, he doesn't even ask about the battle situation but directly inquires about the Wang Family's progress in decoding the relic.
