Both Theodore and Adeline were already in their deep sleep.

It was already past midnight so there was no reason not to be.

However, Theodore was woken up from that sweet and deep sleep by a sudden burst of hellish energy that he caught.

“This again!” Theodore opened his long eyelashes and furrowed.

“Who is opening the door to hell when Lillian is in that dungeon? Are the dark sorcerers as common as maggots these days?” Theodore heaved a sigh of frustration.

He wanted to go back to sleep but he could not bring himself to do so when he knew that someone even more dangerous than Lillian could have been plotting against the person and things he cared about.

“I guess I will have to sniff out this sorcerer, whoever or wherever they are.”

Theodore had felt this surge in hellish energy a few times recently. He had been ignoring it since there were a lot of things going on around him. But he couldn’t quite ignore it any further.

He turned to look at Adeline. She was smiling once in a while in her sleep. He smiled and thought, “She must be having a good dream.”

He gently lifted her hand that she was wrapping around his chest. And then slid off the bed as lightly as he could.

He snapped his fingers and changed into his normal black outfit. He would have teleported in search of that beacon of negative energy immediately but he suddenly recalled when Adeline had found her with that succubus at night and had fought with him.

Theodore didn’t want something like that to happen again. So he scribbled a note and left it on his pillow before leaving the room.

The note read – “Went in search of some anomaly that I sensed in the natural order. Nothing much to worry about.”

Theodore went out in the open and then expanded the domain of his senses to pinpoint the area where someone from Hell was present. His eyes turned red when he sensed that presence on the other side of the mountains and hills.

“Mihir!” He growled in anger because he already guessed who could have been behind that anomaly.

He cast the invisibility spell on himself and teleported to the pinpointed area without wasting any time.

The moment he reached that area, he used his magic to freeze everyone around, a trick which he learned from his father. However, it was not as perfect as his father’s magic because he would only be able to freeze the beings, not time. And he could only freeze them for around 30 seconds.

It was practically useless but right now, it was the most effective magic for him to sneak and see who he was going to be dealing with.

The aura that he was catching was pretty strong for any lower-level demons. So he needed to be careful, especially if it was someone who had some beef against him.

“Lilith! What is she doing here?” Theodore furrowed his brows upon seeing his old acquaintance again after two years.

“Was she about to kill that brat King?” He wondered because Lilith was towering over Reginald and was glaring at him. While Reginald was sleeping on his bed almost looking like an innocent child.

He quickly looked around the room that he was in. He didn’t see any witch, nor did he see any magic circle. “How did she come here then? Maybe she came here after being summoned by some sorcerer nearby.”

“But why?” Theodore had so many questions but he wouldn’t be able to figure them out without directly asking Lilith.

So he decided to teleport Lilith back to Hell and interrogate her. Even if a fight would break out between them, there wouldn’t be much problem if they were doing it in Hell.

He managed to touch Lilith right when his magic wore off. But before she could react to Theodore’s presence in the room, Theodore had already teleported her near his gambling house.

Lilith swatted Theodore’s hand off her shoulder the moment they reach Hell. She glared at Theodore and asked in a calm yet threatening tone, “Why the hell did you bring me back? I had some work to do.”

Theodore folded his arms and questioned her in an equally threatening tone, “And what kind of ‘work’ does a demoness have on Earth?”

“That’s none of your business, Mr. married man.” She rolled her eyes at Theodore and looked around to realize that she was way too far away from her home. “Ugh! Why did you have to bring me here? It reeks of men.”

Lilith was readying herself to teleport back to her home but Theodore spread his wings and enclosed her in the middle of his wings.

“What do you want?” Lilith screamed in irritation.

And Theodore replied without missing a beat, “Answers.”

Lilith knew how stubborn Theodore could get when he wanted to be. She had heard all kinds of gossip about him. So she just sighed and met Theodore’s burning red eyes. “Fine. Shoot your questions.”

“How did you go to Earth?” Theodore asked in a monotone.

Lilith also replied in a similar uninterested tone, “Isn’t it obvious? Someone summoned me.”

“Who? And why?” Theodore kept his questions short because he wanted to get those answers fast.

Lilith gave a mocking smirk to Theodore and threw a satire at him, “Well, aren’t you good at making enemies, Theodore? And even better at defying your father’s order?”

She gave a curious gaze at Theodore’s horns and continued to mock him, “Think back to what you did and who could have summoned me there. You will get the answer to the ‘why’.”

“That vampire wants to take his revenge on me. That I know. Maybe he asked you to fight me in the war… end me, most probably.” Theodore narrowed his eyes when he recalled Edwin mentioning that ‘secret weapon’ to him.

Lilith snapped her fingers and winked at Theodore.

However, Theodore wanted to know her true intention. “But you looked like you were going to murder that vampire in his sleep. Are you going to fight me or fight him? Did that brat manage to piss you off as well?”

Lilith bared her fangs and let out a grim cackle that resounded throughout the nearby area. She then narrowed her eyes and replied seriously, “Oh, I am going to fight you, Theodore. I would never miss a chance to fight you.”

“You know you can challenge me right here and now if you really want to fight me..” Theodore pointed the sharp tip of his feather at Lilith’s neck and challengingly growled at her, “Let’s settle the score once and for all.”