Cheat Awakening

Knock-knock-knock.

"Who's making trouble so early in the morning?" Gal mumbled as she slept soundlessly on her luxurious bed, covering her face with the pillow to drown out the noise from outside.

Knock-knock-knock...

However, the persistent knocking outside her room indicated that the person was not going to let her continue her sweet sleep. Gal chose to ignore it, hoping it would stop on its own.

"Are you sure My Lady won't be angry? I didn't want to die so early; I just had my fourth child... I am still very young," The red-skinned middle-aged demon lady with teary eyes asked the female butler who look similar to her, but had higher status and currently hiding behind a stone pillar while continuing to knock on the door.

"Don't worry. Considering the seriousness of the situation, there is no way our generous and kind-hearted lady would be angry just because you disturbed her. Just relax and tell her the whole matter as soon as she opens the door so she won't misunderstand you.

Got it?" The female butler who was sweating buckets and had thrown her responsibility onto the new staff member who had just started working under her and didn't know much about Gal.

"Also, after this matter is over, I will give you three days of holiday. You can spend more time with your newborn..."

Crack!

While the female butler encouraging her new footman, whom she had just promoted because no one else wanted the task, suddenly Gal's room door opened and she walked out wearing nothing, but considering her usual attire was near the none even outside, inside her own room, her being nude is still quite reasonable.

Though Gal's face lacked expression, the way she held a two-meter-tall purple-coloured scythe in her hand, anyone with a bit of the brain could say that she was not in the right mood and trouble was brewing. Let's not talk about the female butler who had spent half of her life working under Gal, the moment she saw Gal she knew that the middle-aged lady is done for.

"My Lady, there is an emergency..."

Whoosh...

The middle-aged lady, recalling the instructions from the female butler, wasted no time. As soon as Gal opened the door, she hastily began speaking. But little did she expect even in her worst nightmare, that before uttering a few words, Gal emotionlessly swept her scythe, beheading her without any warning.

"Thub!"

The sound caused the female butler to literally stop breathing. The head of the middle-aged lady with eyes wide open fell to the ground. After rolling like a ball, it came in front of the pillar behind which the female butler had been hiding.

Blood gushed out from the headless body like a fountain. With another "thub," the lifeless form fell in front of Gal, staining her bare feet with blood.

"Tsk, now I have to take a bath, damn it." Gal annoyingly threw her scythe into her room like disposable garbage while cleaning her feet on the carpet.

"Drakonix, considering that you are a hard-working slave and have been serving me for the past 20 years, give me a reasonable explanation behind your disturbing my sweet sleep, or you might forget about your next 3 months' salary."

You crazy b*tch! You haven't even given me my last two years' salary, nor do you letting me free from my slave contract, The female butler, Drakonix, whose face was uglier than crying, thought in her heart. However, since she valued her life more than her nonexistent salary and freedom, she didn't dare let her inner thoughts reach her tongue.

She quickly spoke meekly while emerging from behind the stone pillar.

"My Lady, I deeply apologise for disturbing your beautiful sleep, but there is an emergency. According to your instructions, I had to inform you immediately if there is any emergency situation, no matter what you were doing..."

Gal's annoying expression faded a bit, and she made an "Ohh" sound, raising her eyebrow in surprise before speaking curiously. "And what kind of emergency is it?"

"Something big happened in the mine. A guard just came to report in a hurry, saying something like there's a big fight in the mine, and a mine collapsed. Many workers have died..."

"What! How did this happen?" Gal boomed, her voice crackling with fury as she materialized before Drakonix, her grip like an iron vice on his collar.

"My Lady," Drakonix stammered, "The source of the chaos is unclear, but many miners remain trapped within!"

"Damn it! Can't you handle anything without me hovering? Belial will surely take advantage of this situation to get rid of me. It's the opportunity he's been craving for years!" Gal didn't let Drakonix finish.

She muttered angrily, after throwing Drakonix aside, she hurriedly ran into her room, put on her bra and a short skirt, and quickly unfolded her wings and flowed toward the mine with a speed people could hardly follow her shadow.

"Boom!"

Like a meteor, Gal slammed into the dusty ground near the panicked crowd, sending shockwaves through the air. Their murmurs and complaints died instantly, replaced by an awed silence as they parted to make way for their lady boss.

With an ugly expression, Gal looked at the mine from which smoke and dust were billowing. She knew the worst had happened, and now there was nothing she could do. Turning to the crowd, her gaze landed on a familiar figure.

"Hey, you, little guy, tell me what's going on here, and who is the culprit behind this whole mess." As Gal mentioned the culprit, gritting her teeth, everyone around her gasped in horror. They had worked for her for years and knew very well that their lady boss was not a kind-hearted demon but an annoying, childish, quick-to-anger, and extremely powerful demon. With her, they couldn't dare to mess.

The "little guy" mentioned by Gal was none other than the poor red-skinned dwarf who worked at the Y-shaped purification machine. He trembled under her gaze, cursing his luck. But knowing a delayed answer would be worse, he squeezed through the crowd and bowed low, a forced smile masking his terror.

"My lady, I deeply apologize, but as you already know, I work outside the mine, and I myself am not clear about the real situation. But according to the information I have, it seems like two idiots had a brawl at the deepest levels. They unleashed some powerful blast, shattering the weak supports and causing the collapse."

Gal was clearly not satisfied with such a poor and incomplete answer. Her eyes quickly swept over the crowd, but after not finding the person she was looking for, with a disappointed expression, she walked toward the entrance of the mine.

"Does anyone know more?" Gal roared, her voice vibrating with barely contained fury. "Tell me quickly. If today I don't find the culprit behind this mess, then you all are going to be in deep trouble."

Gal's expected threat clearly caused a great commotion among the crowd. Everyone looked at each other, signalling that if anyone knew, they should come forward and speak. Sadly, no one had a proper answer.

The silence of everyone made Gal's already not-so-good mood worse. Just when everyone was mentally preparing for their upcoming disaster, suddenly a demon, who looked like a mix of armadillos and moles, came behind Gal with a hesitant expression, offering a glimmer of hope to the petrified crowd.

"Are you waiting for an incentive before you speak?" Gal snarled, her fists crackling with energy. This frightened the mole demon so much that he took a few steps back, but it was clearly too late to retract his decision.

Knowing that he couldn't escape without speaking, he gulped down his saliva and spoke in a low voice, which even a powerful demon like Gal, whose five senses were beyond normal, could hardly hear.

"I was returning with the minerals when I heard the commotion," He stammered. "Curiously, I went in that direction and saw…" He paused, the weight of his words hanging heavy. "I saw the lesser demon Xyrix stealing Nihilus's ores. It wasn't the first time, you see. Xyrix had a knack for petty theft, preying on the weaker demons."

He continued, his voice gaining some strength, "But this time, his greed wasn't satisfied. When Nihilus returned he started troubling him. At first, the dispute between them wasn't big; they were just verbally fighting. But then, after a few minutes, something happened.

Xyrix said something about Nihilus' ugly wife, which made him so angry for no reason that he actually started fighting with Xyrix with all his might.

The mole demon shuddered. "I got scared because of their fight, but I thought it might end soon since everyone knows the consequences of fighting inside the mine. However, I was a fool to hope it would end. Xyrix quickly recovered from the shock and started fighting with Nihilus like a madman.

I knew things were getting out of hand when I saw both of them fighting like madmen, so I quickly escaped and wanted to inform the guards. But before I could, the earth roared, and the mine collapsed."

After finishing saying what he wanted to say, the mole demon nervously waited for Gal's reaction. Whose face now a mask of crimson fury, trembled with anger, but she managed to calm herself down somehow.

"Does anyone know the current state within the mine?" she rasped, her voice choked with barely controlled rage. "And where are those… those wretched bastards?"

Two minutes stretched into an eternity, silence pressing down thicker than dust. Finally, with a deep breath, Gal raised her hand, a crimson glow illuminating her index finger as she etched runic symbols in the air. After writing a few runic symbols of unknown meaning, she withdrew her hand, and at that moment, the symbols also disappeared.

After sending an emergency message to Belial, Gal looked back to the trembling crowd who was waiting for her instructions. She rubbed her forehead, frustration etched on her face. Although she wanted to punish everyone so that this kind of thing wouldn't happen again, but the last time she had done that, Belial had scolded her quite a bit and forbidden her from punishing the workers unreasonably.

"Sigh, the mine will be closed for the next two days. You can do what you want; consider it your holiday. I am not punishing you all this time because we all know who is the culprit behind all of this, or at least I hope so," Gal said this part with a deadly serious tone while giving the mole demon a dangerous look. The mole demon's face turned as pale as paper.

He knew that if things didn't turn out as he said, he would definitely not be able to save his little life.

"But you are not allowed to leave the barrier. Stay inside for the next two days honestly until the entire matter settles down. I won't be closing the canteen, so you don't have to worry about food. Just don't dare to make any trouble if you don't want to see yourself lying on my experiment table."

"Now what are you waiting for? Go away; don't pollute the air around me!" Gal screamed angrily, scaring the hell out of everyone around her. The crowd, petrified by Gal's open threat, scattered in every direction like flies.

"Sigh... Here goes my next two days of good sleep... I hope I get dark circles under my eyes." Gal stared at the mine entrance with a painful expression while shaking her head helplessly, waiting for Belial before entering inside and cleaning up all the mess.