Isabella Belphegor/Story

## History

Isabella was the most famous beauty of the Fallen Angel Emperor Imperial City, known as the Imperial City's Flower, also known as Lady Devil's Snare. The Demon Realm's devil's snare was a well-known poisonous flower. Its appearance was very beautiful, but it contained terrible toxins. After being made into some kind of potion, it could make people addicted and willing to abandon oneself step by step under its toxicity.

This Lady Devil's Snare remarried several times, but her husbands did not live long. The most recent marriage was to the son of Prime Minister Elton Bogans, but she soon became a widow again. Although she was a woman, she had an extensive network, superior means, and the Obsidian Prince's deepest trust. Her current status was financial advisor, assisting the Finance Minister Legu to manage the economy and finances of the entire empire. It was said that the Finance Minister Legu was just an imaginary figure; the one truly in charge was this beautiful devil's snare. There were also rumors that Isabella was actually the mistress of Regent Obsidian. In any case, she was one of the empire's authoritative figures.

Athena's father once said to be careful of 3 people in the capital. One of them is Nero, the other is Krobelus and the last one is Isabella. This woman is as beautiful as a flower, but her heart is like a scorpion, so never underestimate her.

Shea greets Isabella, saying, "Yes, time flies very fast. I remember that my lady was still the wife of General Takuman back then, but now she has become the wife of Bogans. The only thing that hasn't changed is your unsurpassed beauty like a devil's snare."

### Eudora

More than 100 years ago, Isabella, who was still an ignorant girl, was bewitched by a man from the human world. She was loyal and gave her heart to that man.

She did not hesitate to turn against her family and become enemies with her sisters to steal the highest artifact, Breeze Shadow Boots, of the family before she handed them over to the man. As a result, the man abandoned Isabella immediately after getting the artifact, and he cast a deadly [Light Annihilation Seal] on her before he eventually disappeared. Not only that, he also used the secret technique back then to devour her Belphegor Royal Family's secret treasure ‘Heart of Flame Lightning' and her own power.

This man not only deceived the girl's feelings for the sake of artifact, but he also tried to murder her.

Last time, Chen Rui regained the Breeze Shadow Boots from the Light Divinity Temple in the battle of the Holy Light Mountain and handed them back to Isabella.

The Breeze Shadow Boots incident left a fatal wound in Isabella's heart, and her whole personality changed drastically because of it. She almost died with hatred. Although she slowly healed after being comforted by true love, she was definitely not willing to uncover this scar.

## Volume 2

Shea's eyes were colder, but her actions were not rude. "Lady Isabella, Master Tata, Master Kemp, General Sergey, welcome to Dark Moon."

"It's a great honor to see you again, Princess Royal Highness. Your Royal Highness has become more beautiful. Time flies so fast; the ignorant little girl from ten years ago has become the lord of an estate."

Shea bowed her head slightly in return, saying, "Yes, time flies very fast. I remember that my lady was still the wife of General Takuman back then, but now she has become the wife of Bogans. The only thing that hasn't changed is your unsurpassed beauty like a devil's snare."

Chen Rui secretly muttered. These two beauties don't seem right. They haven't seen each other for ten years, but they are provoking each other upon their first meeting.

"This must be Royal Highness Alice." Isabella saw Alice beside Shea. "She truly is a cute little princess."

Alice's eyes fell on Isabella's amazingly plump breasts, then an envious look appeared on her innocent face. "Sister... You are so beautiful there."

"It's very beautiful." Alice pursed her mouth grievously, and tears seemed to be flashing in her big eyes. "I love that necklace..."

Everyone suddenly realized that she was talking about the necklace! Out of agreement with the little princess, they all used "appreciative" eyes to look at the necklace a few more times. Of course, most of them focused on the part below the necklace.

Chen Rui knew that Alice did it on purpose. He saw this trick the first time he met this blackhearted loli. The icy royal sister and the blackhearted loli VS the sexy, mature woman. The home team won the first round.

Using Analytic Eyes, Chen found that Isabella and Roman were both of the Belphegor Royal Family.

This time, it seemed that Master Tata just followed Isabella to the Dark Moon as he was just on the way to the Dark Moon. He had nothing to do with investigating the Beelzebub Royal Family. The only one who didn't respond was Master Tata. To be precise, the dark goblin master focused his attention on the crystal in his hand since the beginning, playing with it as if nobody was around. Whether it was Princess Shea, Lady Isabella, or the human sheriff, they were not as attractive as this inconspicuous crystal.

## Volume 5

Isabella seemed to be given a new lease on life since the previous resurrection. She never wanted to return to her previous life no matter how luxurious and rich it was. She had only one wish left in her mind which was to kill her enemy, Broc, who escaped by chance last time. Perhaps, she also had a small supplementary wish which was to meet the "liar" again regardless of whether he had the so-called Snow Dallet.

Isabella's initial intention to come to the Dark Moon was to find ways to rescue Krobelus, and then leverage her power to deal with Broc. When she heard Paglio's name now, she was suddenly stunned. I didn't expect that the person who captured Krobelus is actually such a terrifying enemy!

### Meeting Zola

Ms. Yini came to the Dark Moon to search the whereabouts of a certain friend. This friend was initially the capital envoy who should conquer the Dark Moon, but she unexpectedly took refuge in the Dark Moon in the war of lords. Based on Yini's knowledge of that friend, she wouldn't switch sides so easily. She was probably under some kind of control, so she wanted to find out and help her if possible.

Coincidentally, Ms. Zola actually also wanted to go to the Dark Moon. She also faintly revealed that she was looking for a man. Ms. Yini suddenly became concerned. My only friend, Betty, seems to be captured and controlled by the Dark Moon. If this is the case with Betty's strength, then my early stage of Demon Emperor power alone is even more ineffective. If I can use this Ms. Zola's powerful strength, she may be the most critical factor to rescue Betty.

### Dark Demon

Before Isabella's "death", she controlled Obsidian's secret department before. She was mainly responsible for intel and assassination, so she was extremely proficient in this field. She would naturally not let it go this time.

Isabella also understood that she had discovered a lot of secrets. The other party would not let her go easily. After Krobelus and Chen Rui tried their best to persuade her, she finally agreed to stay and take charge of the Dark Demon's work. Delia took the initiative to step down to become her deputy.

As for revenge, there was no worry as no one here would let Broc go.

It was worth mentioning that Krobelus and Isabella didn't know that the human financial officer held by Isabella was Charles. Other insiders also kept their mouths shut under Chen Rui's instructions. Of course, Chen Rui "cared" most about his cheap sir nephew. He had been intimidating and bribing him for a long time.

Since Isabella planned many of the capital's unscrupulous sanctions against the Dark Moon back then, the relationship between Shea and Isabella had always been very bad. However, as Isabella expected, when Shea heard that Isabella was recruited to be responsible for the Dark Demon, not only did she not care about the past, there were many rewards instead.

As the saying went, sometimes your enemy knew you best.

From this alone, it could be seen that Isabella was indeed the best candidate for the Dark Demon.

Chen Rui approved the application report.

### Roman

Roman was now caught by Isabella to train as the scout and assassin candidate. Perhaps it was because of his aunty's identity or the training in the Trevante underground cave, this guy looked very honest in front of Ms. Yini, but he was more afraid of divulging the matter.

### Krobelus

The woman was veiled, and her figure was familiar.

Race: Sloth Royal Family (mutated)

Comprehensive Strength Assessment: A-.

[Analysis]: Wind attribute.

There was only one person in the Dark Moon who matched this attributes, Roman’s aunty, Isabella, but Ms. Yini now exuded a faint murderous intent.

“You have 2 choices. First, follow me honestly. Second, I will take you, or your corpse, with me.” The cold voice sounded. Even though she deliberately used a magic sound mixer, Chen Rui still recognized that it was Ms. Yini.

“This lady, did you recognize the wrong person? My name is Simon, a businessman. I just came to the Dark Moon from outside.”

Chen Rui understood a little bit. Ms. Yini really recognized the wrong person this time. It should be the Dark Demon trying to capture some enemy, and his changed attire and appearance should be very close to their target. It was definitely a misunderstanding.

In other words, the Dark Demon’s intel ability is too inferior, right? They even got the wrong target?

At this time, a voice behind him sounded again, “Don’t talk nonsense with him, just grab him back first!”

Without looking at the prompts in the Analytical Eyes, Chen Rui could guess who was this familiar voice behind him. It was Isabella’s best friend, Krobelus.

Krobelus was a little anxious. She didn’t give Chen Rui a chance to explain at all. With a flash, she appeared behind Chen Rui. She reached out and clasped his shoulders. Just as she was about to exert force, the enemy’s low voice sounded in her ears, “Betty, don’t do it. It’s me!”

Just in case, there were many things that had been hidden from Isabella including Chen Rui’s strange powers. Especially the identity of the “Charles” which even Krobelus didn’t know, Chen Rui did not want to expose more matters in front of Isabella in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and troubles.

Krobelus was taken aback. Only my closest friends know the name “Betty”. How could this enemy know it too? Also, that voice seems a bit familiar?

When Isabella saw Krobelus’ movements suddenly stopped, she thought that she had been tricked. She shouted and activated the Flash attribute. She instantly rushed in front of Chen Rui with a dim dagger in her hand. It was the legendary grade weapon, Searing Shadow, that Chen Rui’s disguise, Charles, gave her back then.

Being attacked by the weapon he gave, Chen Rui really felt like an arrow in his knee. He instantly activated teleportation to dodge it. It is inconvenient to explain in front of Isabella now. It is better that I escape here quickly and change my identity to resolve the misunderstanding.

Chen Rui knew that if he showed his identity to Krobelus, Krobelus would definitely not attack him, but Isabella would have doubts. The best way now was to leave here as soon as possible. Just as he wanted to slip away, another feeling came into his mind. Spiritual link! The linked target was approaching quickly, and the target appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.

“Little Betty, why haven’t you settled it yet? Didn’t you say that you will let me try those new emerald jade wines today?” The loud voice sounded heart-warming to Chen Rui. Who else is it besides Paglio? Great, I saw the 2 of them before I went back.

Paglio’s seal was now fully dispelled, so his strength had returned to the peak stage of the Demon Overlord. Chen Rui was definitely unable to contend with him. It would even be a problem for him to escape, so he had to teleport away again. Before he could stand firmly, he was firmly locked in by a terrifying breath. He was unable to avoid it at that moment. The surrounding air produced a strange twisting and tearing feeling. It seemed that this guy was rushing back to drink, so he was going all out.

If I am really caught, I’m afraid I will suffer a big loss. Chen Rui couldn’t avoid it. It was too late to gather his strength and whisper the sound transmission. He shouted, “Didn’t I say wait a minute? Dead duck dragon!”

The twisting and tearing force in the air stopped instantly. Paglio’s 5 fingers stopped 10 centimeters in front of Chen Rui’s face. The expression in his eyes suddenly changed, “You… you…”

### Capturing secret intelligence officer from Fallen Angel capital

The previous misunderstanding incident was quickly clarified. It turned out that Isabella and Krobelus were targeting the leader of the secret intelligence from the Fallen Angel Capital who was a Demon Emperor-level elite of the elder family. In an operation shortly after the misunderstanding, Isabella and Krobelus finally succeeded in capturing the leader of the secret intelligence. What made Chen Rui speechless was that this enemy was very similar to his disguise of “Simon” in appearance, clothing, and height. The leader also used the same merchant’s identity as a disguise. In addition, this misunderstanding timing was also related to Chen Rui’s journey which was from the capital to the Red Spirit Estate to the Dark Moon. No matter what, he was really being attacked for no reason.

Isabella scolded the Dark Demon’s spies, but when she looked at Chen Rui, she looked at Chen Rui with a strange suspicion which made the liar secretly nervous.

In the previous incident that Chen Rui was being mistaken as someone else, the capital’s secret intelligence leader, who was captured, finally confessed under Isabella’s secret technique. His main purpose of coming to the Dark Moon this time was to investigate the details of the Cloak Gang’s “Aguile”. If he confirmed that Aguile was a descendant of the Beelzebub Royal Family, then he could try to approach Aguile and even represent the Regent Obsidian with a corresponding commitment. This even included assigning the Dark Moon to the Beelzebub Royal Family. The conditions were to overthrow Shea and obey the capital.

This intention was quite sinister. Obsidian was stuck in the fundraising issue. He was eager to raise money to pay off his debts, so he had no time to concentrate on dealing with Shea. Watching the Dark Moon’s power and influence power growing, he couldn’t feel at ease, so he used this insidious trick to entice an internal strife within the Dark Moon. He would even assign the Dark Moon to the Beelzebub Royal Family who was originally a mortal enemy.

Of course, this “assignment” was probably just a short promise. At least, it would at least slow down the Down Moon. As long as the Beelzebub Royal Family and Shea started a fierce battle, the development of the Dark Moon would definitely stagnate or regress. Obsidian was happy to watch the fire from the shore while they were fighting. At the same time, he tried to solve the big problem of the fundraising money before freeing up to deal with Shea or Beelzebub.

However, Obsidian never expect that the secret intelligence leader he sent would fall into the hands of the enemy so quickly; he also didn’t expect that the current head of the Dark Moon’s secret intelligence department, “Dark Demon”, was his former powerful subordinate who knew the capital’s secrets well, the Devil’s Snare’s flower, Isabella. What was more unexpected was that the so-called “Aguile. Beelzebub” was simply Shea’s “confidant”.

This intel made Chen Rui feel a little pity because, before that, Shea had announced that Aguile would serve as the chief guard of the palace. If he learned from the head of the secret intelligence earlier that he would contact “Aguile”, Chen Rui could use another identity to talk to Obsidian. Perhaps he could trick the Royal Highness Regent again.

Of course, Obsidian did not know that the leader of the secret intelligence had been captured. Therefore, Chen Rui could consider using some more strategies, but he had no time to think about this issue because this intel was personally conveyed by the leader of the Dark Demon, Isabella, who “invited” him to the Dark Demon headquarters in the name of Delia. Ms. Yini was now in front of him. She looked at the sir financial officer with a scrutinizing gaze.

### Interrogation

There were only two people in the entire room which were Isabella and Chen Rui. The rest of the Dark Demon members had consciously left long ago when the madam boss signaled them.

“The first question, how much do you know about Roman?”

The first question surprised Chen Rui. Does Isabella suspect that there is a problem with her nephew? Perhaps as the head of a secret intelligence department, she has reason to doubt anyone. Although Roman was lusty, alcoholic and frivolous, Chen Rui could safely hand over his back to him without being wary.

“Although Roman and I have not known each other for a long time, no matter what is the reason or evidence, I only have 2 words: Absolute trust.

Isabella nodded slightly, and she asked again, “Paglio, are these 2 words too for you. I heard from Betty that the relationship between both of you is extraordinary.”
Ms. Yini deliberately emphasized the word “extraordinary”. Chen Rui felt a little awkward. There is nothing but innocence between me and the dead duck dragon.

“I’m very curious about one thing now.” Isabella frowned slightly, “That day, how could the businessman named ‘Simon’ escape the blow of Paglio and I?”

The magnitude of this thinking jump was very large. She immediately brought in “Simon”. Chen Rui quickly explained, “This is the case. I was fortunate to have a grand master inheritance in the human world, and I later awakened some mechanic and life-saving skills, but it is only life-saving. There is no fighting power. If I didn’t stop Paglio after that, I would have been killed by my own people.”

Chen Rui had been thinking about this explanation for a long time. He hoped to fool Isabella, but she was not an ordinary woman. She was so savvy that she was almost on par with Teris. She once exposed his fundraising scam when he was pretending to be “Charles”. She was also the first “rival” to see through Chen Rui’s layout.

Isabella asked casually, “Oh? The grand master inheritance? So two consecutive teleports… is your life-saving skill?”

Chen Rui suddenly thought that “Charles” had revealed the skills of Double Teleportations in the death match with Broc. His heart was tense, but he could no longer deny. He had to change the topic again, “Yes. When I accompanied Princess Shea to visit the Bloody Vine Flower Estate, the inheritance mutated again. I had to go to the Bloody Empire to find something special to…”

Isabella was the master of the Dark Demon. Chen Rui used the power of the Dark Demon many times in the Bloody Empire. Besides, the person in charge, Tess, also sacrificed because of him. It was impossible that Isabella didn’t know some of his actions in the Bloody Empire, so he simply admitted the fact in order to avoid further doubts.

“The mechanic skills inherited from the grand master? Are you sure it’s just mechanical skills and not pharmaceutics?”

Isabella’s curious questioning made Chen Rui’s heart raced wildly. It seemed that Isabella had already suspected his most worrying problem. He nodded quickly, “Yes, it’s just… mechanic skills.”

“No wonder you went to the Mechanic Association of the Bloody Empire. The so-called inheritance should require mechanical materials.” Isabella showed a thoughtful look, but there was a dagger in her hand. She played with it slowly. It was the “Searing Shadow” given by Chen Rui for her to assassinate Broc back then. Taking it out at this time seemed to have profound meaning.

“Why don’t you go to the Dark Shadow Empire’s Mechanic Association? With the relationship between the Dark Moon and the Dark Shadow Empire, even the rarest materials are easier to obtain than the Bloody Empire. Perhaps… you have hidden scruples of going to the Dark Shadow Empire’s Mechanic Association?”

Chen Rui had already secreted broken cold sweat behind her. This woman’s thinking is too quick, and her sentence is to the point. If this goes on, I’m afraid that the identity of the trio-specialized genius mechanic master will be exposed. Therefore, he had to change the topic, “It’s not that I don’t want to go to the Dark Shadow Empire, but this item is only available in the Bloody Empire. It’s called… Fertile Yuan Soil.”

“Sorry, I have no intention of spying on your secrets. I’m a layman for mechanic skills. I will believe whatever you say.” Ms. Yini’s words made Chen Rui complain secretly. Isn’t this spying on secrets?

“This time you really did a wonderful job. You even pulled down the top master of the Demon Realm, Nate. As for Fonsaq or something, it should be your secret. I don’t want to ask more.” Isabella gently stroked the sharp back of the Searing Shadow. “You went to the core of the enemy country alone, disrupted the enemy’s interior with tricks, beheaded the enemy’s generals, and finally escaped by faking death. I seem to have seen this kind of strategy in another person before.”

“Do you like flower?”

Before he finished speaking, Isabella asked casually while looking straight into Chen Rui’s eyes with her beautiful blue eyes.

This sentence seemed to have multiple meanings, Chen Rui looked away with a guilty conscience, “These questions seem to have nothing to do with the ‘future development of the Dark Demon’, right?

Isabella said coldly, “Of course it is related because these issues are very important to me, the controller of the Dark Demon. This will directly affect the future trends and development of the entire Dark Demon. Now, I want to listen to your answer.”

Is this a threat?

Chen Rui inexplicably thought of his “threat” to Shea that day: The retribution comes so fast.

“Not… bad.” Chen Rui replied blankly. This flower is… Devil's Snare? Snow Dallet?

“You seem to have been in a coma for a long time. Since Roman is here and there is a powerhouse like Paglio who has a close relationship with you, why do you need the Fountain of Resurrection to dispel my evil voodoo?” Isabella’s question once again showed a large-scale leap thinking. She went back to the original topic.

Chen Rui was taken aback. Isabella had directly admitted that she used the evil voodoo’s poison scheme back then. At that time, they were just serving their own masters. However, the dispel of evil voodoo was indeed a big loophole. With Chen Rui’s previous trust in Paglio and Roman, this seemed unexplainable.

The sir financial officer’s forehead was sweating. Isabella is really something. She’s not a woman who can be fooled easily. Is it really necessary to expose everything?

At this moment, in front of the Dark Demon’s window upstairs, Ms. Yini squeezed the dagger in her hand while looking at the back of the human hurriedly leaving. She blurted a word out of her silver teeth, “Liar!”

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 198 (Steambun)
2. ↑ Chapter 202 (Steambun)
3. ↑ 曼陀罗夫人 also known as mandala flower that is beautiful but poisonous
4. ↑ Chapter 406 (Steambun)
5. ↑ Chapter 401 (Steambun)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 407 (Steambun)
7. ↑ Chapter 461 (Steambun)
8. ↑ Chapter 462 (Steambun)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Chapter 463 (Steambun)