Chapter 411: Hell, Being a Dog
Could it be that some Black Wizard has activated a Magic Summoning Formation again? Has a war of hunting Shamans broken out in the Human World again? Or is it that someone wants to play that World Domination trick again! As an Ogre Commander who had lived for thousands of years, he had experienced many things, but the number of times he had entered that rich Human World was few and far between.
The last time was hundreds of years ago, when God's Followers in the Human World launched a large-scale purge against those Dark Creatures and Shamans, sending them one after another to the Pyre! To resist the Crusaders and Paladins, those Black Wizards had to use Forbidden Magic to summon Hell Creatures and fight against The Church's encirclement... What a wonderful time that was. He remembered being summoned to the Current World twice in just a hundred years.
The two-legged lambs in the Material World... their tender meat wasn't tainted with the awful sulfur smell of the Abyss World. That fatty meat... taking a bite, the taste of that viscous blood bursting in his mouth was simply ten times more tender than Salar's roasted dragon meat.
Just as the Demon Overseer was drooling while watching the metal lump falling from the sky, piercing, unpleasant, and high-pitched alarm sounds echoed from the Palaces, military camps, and Camps of High-Grade Demons across the million-mile continent with the appearance of the Blood Tornado.
Countless figures tore open the Void Space and rushed directly to the Core Area of this continent. At least a hundred High-Grade Demons poured their Demon Strength without reservation into the massive Magic Array covering thousands of miles.
This massive six-pointed star Magic Array instantly activated, releasing a black light that enveloped the entire continent. With the activation of the Magic Array, across the million-mile continent, the Gargoyles crouching in inconspicuous Corners suddenly flickered with strange red light in their obsidian-like eyes.
Large groups of Gargoyles soared into the sky, plunging into the spreading black light, and their figures instantly reached a high altitude of tens of thousands of meters.
The moment tens of millions of Gargoyle armies appeared in the Void Space, they chaotically lunged towards the blurry bloody shadows around them... The hundreds of thick Blood Tornadoes around, each with a diameter of a thousand miles, were all composed of countless bloody shadows... Facing these charging Gargoyle armies, these thick Blood Tornadoes began to split into countless smaller blood tornadoes, meeting the Gargoyle armies... As Magical Constructs, Gargoyles not only possessed strength comparable to ordinary Mid-Rank Demons, but were also made entirely of stone and were not afraid of the blood shadow's attacks that devoured flesh and blood.
The Gargoyle armies flapping their wings quickly collided with the tornadoes formed by the blood shadows.
*Chi la la—*
The Void Space was filled with the piercing sound of sharp fingernails scratching and scraping stone. Stone powder scattered everywhere, and various colored magic beams flew chaotically. That was the light emitted by the magic runes in the Gargoyles' obsidian eyeballs. However, although Magical Constructs like Gargoyles were not afraid of the blood shadow's flesh and blood devour, their claws, teeth, and the magic runes in their eyeballs could hardly harm these blood shadows that could shift between reality and illusion... Soon, following the tens of millions of Gargoyle armies, over one hundred thousand Death Knights riding Nightmare Steeds also joined the Battlefield through large Magic Teleportation Formations. These High-Rank Undead creatures, each Death Knight's pure physical strength was equivalent to half an Abyssal Dragon. Even in the Undead Abyss, these Death Knights were truly existences comparable to High-Grade Demons. These headless Death Knights lined up neatly in dozens of rows, drawing their knight's longswords burning with green flames, their Nightmare Steeds stepping on phosphorescent fire, and launched a death charge towards a massive Blood Tornado... The Blood Tornado roared. Facing the Death Knights' formation charge, this hundred-mile thick tornado did not disperse but accelerated its rotation, sweeping towards these Death Knights with bone-chilling yin wind. The tornado blew faster and faster, bone-chillingly cold, and also carried a dense bloody smell.
Inside the tornado, it was like seeing flowers through mist, hazy and blurred, with countless bloody shadows vaguely visible swimming within.
*Boom boom boom—*
One hundred thousand Death Knights charging in formation, their aura could slaughter deities. These Death Knights faced the Blood Tornado without the slightest pause, charging directly into the eye of the storm. The knight's longswords, imbued with the power of death, swung in their hands, ruthlessly hacking at the faint bloody shadows around them. The tornado howled, and from time to time, Death Knights, along with the Nightmare Steeds they rode, were blown up by the wind, swirling up and down in the Blood Tornado's vortex. After several impacts, they were ground into dust.
*Boom boom boom—*
By the time these Death Knights charged out of the hundred-mile tornado, more than half their numbers had been lost, and the momentum of the thick tornado also visibly slowed down slightly.
In the Void Space, a continuous stream of Demons and Undead creatures still appeared, joining this Battlefield. The Death Knights were merely an insignificant part of the undead sea.
Hell Skeletons, Corpse Liches, Liches; Undead Warriors, Death Knights, Skeleton Giant Dragons, Dragon Liches. It was clear that these Demons and the Blood Tornadoes were not fighting for the first time. The Demons fighting the blood shadows in the Void Space were either Magical Constructs like Gargoyles or undead creatures without flesh and blood. And just as the Death Knights launched their death charge against the blood tornadoes, the house-sized metal sphere had smashed onto the first layer of the layered Magic Barrier. That was a thousand-layer Ice Barrier personally set up by an ancient Frost Giant. The moment the metal sphere contacted the Barrier, terrifying frost instantly spread along the metal sphere. Thick ice cubes quickly covered this metal sphere, forming an Ice Mountain thirty miles in area! As the King who ruled the Abyssal Giant Race, this ancient Frost Giant who set up the Barrier was even older than Laufey, the former King of Jotunheim... His strength, even among the dozen Hell Lords, could rank in the top three. The Ice Barrier he set up froze countless Blood Demons who wanted to rush into this continent to forage.
Sensing that the Barrier he had set up was triggered, a powerful consciousness descended to the center of the Barrier, forming a blue eye several kilometers in size. Looking at the Ice Mountain frozen by his Barrier, a hint of doubt flashed in the giant blue eye.
The blue eyeball rotated, shooting out rays of blue light towards the Outside of the Barrier. Outside the Barrier, a strong blue light filled with death aura enveloped everything. From that blue light, thick silver-blue cold qi, about a mile in diameter, sprayed out.
Wherever the wildly rotating cold qi passed, even Space was frozen with countless pitch-black cracks accompanied by piercing cracking sounds.
Compared to the Ice Aura used by Laufey, the Frost Giant King, back in the Nine Realms Passage, the Frost Ray unleashed by this giant eye was even more terrifying, and it even contained a power of death.
With a 'crack', the terrifying silver-blue ray turned into a light wave that howled and hit a tornado composed of countless bloody shadows. The terrifying cold qi quickly froze these bloody shadows in thick blue ice cubes, and then the ice cubes shattered with a boom. Large numbers of bloody shadows disintegrated on the spot. A High-Rank Death Knight who was riding a Nightmare Steed and fighting these bloody shadows was grazed by the cold qi on half of his body, and that half of his body was shattered into scattered ice crystals.
Countless Gargoyles and Winged Demons were instantly frozen into ice sculptures before this deathly cold tide, falling towards the Void Space below. The Presider of the Ice Barrier, the ancient Ice Giant, clearly didn't care about the life and death of these low-grade Demons. That ice-blue eyeball showed no sign of letting up.
He knew that these normal Blood Demons were just cannon fodder released by that Blood God Lord. The true Blood Demons would not fear the deathly cold tide He unleashed. The Blood God Lord, this mysterious existence who had suddenly risen, had conquered over a dozen Abyss Worlds in less than ten years. More than seven Hell Lords had perished in His hands, and even Lilith the witch and that arrogant Vampire had been captured by Him, their fates unknown... This also caused various Abyssal Lords and Hell Lords to feel threatened, and they had no choice but to join forces to create such a Continent Fortress, hoping to block the expansion of the Blood Sea Abyss. The most famous among the Blood God Lord's subordinates were the High-Rank Blood Demons called Blood God Sons. These Blood Demons were not only unafraid of ordinary Ice and Fire Magic Arts, but even Soul Magic Arts could not cause them much harm!
When the dozen of them joined forces to shift this continent to this Void Space, those Blood God Sons had almost broken through the Magic Barrier they had set up... Those Blood God Sons continuously broke through over six thousand layers of Magic Defense Barriers. Forced into a corner, they could only jointly cast a large-scale Void Shift Teleportation Magic, shifting those hundreds of thousands of Blood God Sons to a distant, unknown Dimension. Only then did they temporarily slow down the Blood Sea Abyss's expansion speed. The ice-blue eyeball, several kilometers long vertically, kept staring Outside the Barrier to prevent any Blood God Sons from sneaking into the Magic Barrier. It completely failed to notice that inside the Ice Mountain it hadn't paid attention to, that metal sphere was sliding open in four directions as time passed, revealing a hint of black that could devour everything.
*Crack crack crack crack crack—*
The first thing to be devoured by the Black Hole Bomb was the layer of Ice Mountain wrapped around the Outside. Under the extreme gravitational collapse, those ice cubes, which were three parts harder than steel, were instantly captured and devoured by the Black Hole.
The sesame seed sized Black Hole was doing the job of a small horse pulling a large cart with extreme skill, devouring an Ice Mountain millions, billions of times larger than itself. By the time the ice-blue eyeball noticed the disappearance of the Ice Mountain, the Black Hole, originally sesame seed sized, had expanded to the size of a ping pong ball. Under the effect of the Black Hole's gravity, all surrounding objects, the ice sculptures frozen by the death blue light, the Gargoyles, Death Knights, Demons, the tornado blood shadows, and even the death blue light, and the Magic Barrier itself that formed the death blue light, were torn into the finest fragments under its powerful tidal force and spiraled towards the Black Hole. The closer they were to the Black Hole, the stronger the "tidal force" and "gravity" these "fragments" were subjected to. Those ice crystals, Demons, blood shadows, and even light, when approaching the core of the Black Hole, were directly torn into subatomic particles by the immense "tidal force". The Magic Barrier where the ice-blue eyeball was located was like a thin, water-filled membrane being pressed downwards by the internal water flow, except that the Black Hole was applying an upward pulling force. The runes and energy that constituted the Magic Barrier were all violently torn apart by the Black Hole's gravity, turning into the most basic subatomic particles, to be devoured by the Black Hole—As more and more matter was devoured, the Black Hole's volume also grew larger and larger. When this Black Hole expanded to the size of a goose egg— those layers of Magic Barriers couldn't even hold on for a minute before it, being torn to shreds and devoured like toilet paper. In the center of the Fortress Continent, many High-Rank Demons, Devils, and Undead creatures stood hunched over without a word, forming a semicircle, silently waiting for the order from the Castle before them.
Inside the Castle covering thousands of miles, a dozen tall phantoms looked at each other. Above their heads, that Black Hole was still rapidly expanding. The Barriers they had jointly set up were like paper before this Black Hole.
But who could tell them why a Black Hole from the Material World would appear in the Abyss World? There were no Planets from the Material World here... One by one, the Demon Lords and Abyssal Lords' eyes flickered with strange light, unsure what they were planning.
"What do we do now? Banish this Black Hole like before?" A Demon Overlord with a pair of black bone wings on his back raised his head and looked around at the crowd! "I'm afraid not! This Black Hole's mass is too strong. Given its current size, its coverage area has already exceeded the range of our Banishment Magic. Our Banishment Magic will be broken down into subatomic particles before it can even get close!"
A Hell Lord shrouded entirely in black mist explained the knowledge of Black Holes to the crowd. Among the many Hell Lords present, there were many who had a deep understanding of the field of technology, and they all knew that what He said was the truth! "The Barrier we set up can only hold on for a maximum of twenty minutes before being completely torn apart by the Black Hole. As for this continent under our feet,"
The Hell Lord in the black mist stomped his foot on the Ground: "With this kind of mass, under this Black Hole's gravity, it can only last for a maximum of five minutes. While there is still time, I suggest we first evacuate our respective manpower—"
"Twenty minutes, not enough time!"
"What, are you reluctant to part with those low-grade Demons, like weeds?"
"I am reluctant to part with them. Are you sure you don't want those low-grade Demons? If that's the case, rather than letting that Black Hole benefit, it's better to let me benefit!"
Beelzebub, the Fly Prince and King of Gluttony, who had once appeared in the Blood War, looked around at the crowd, letting out a cackling strange laughter from his mouth.
The pale-complexioned Lucifer looked at Beelzebub with disdain: "I'll take my Fallen Angelic Legion. That junk you want, take it! Something that can even eat shit, no wonder others call you the Fly Prince!"
"Lucifer, do you really think I wouldn't dare kill you? I see your injury from last time hasn't healed yet! Be careful not to perish Outside!"
"Just you?"
"Alright, the two of you, stop arguing. We don't have much time. Since everyone has reached an agreement, hurry up and evacuate—"
The Magic Array covering thousands of miles opened again. Large numbers of High-Rank and Mid-Rank Demons orderly entered the Magic Array, and in flashes of black light, disappeared from this continent. As for those low-grade Demons and Lesser Demons whose minds were full of slaughter, they also found their destination. A bloated figure several thousand meters long flapped dozens of pairs of wings, moving through various parts of the continent. Countless low-grade Demons were inhaled by His mouthparts and swallowed into His belly.
"What did Blood Daoist say?"
Beelzebub, who had revealed His true body, had the reflection of a tall Demon Shadow in His hundreds of compound eyes.
"He wants our true names!"
Beelzebub savored the taste of the flesh and blood and Soul fragments of those low-grade Demons in His mouth. Just as Lucifer said, the texture of Hell Creatures was truly like shit.
"If we give Him our true names, our life and death will be controlled by His hands! His appetite is truly big! What do you say?!"
"I want to meet the one behind Him. If we can reach cooperation, that would be best. Even if we become dogs, we should at least find a good Lord!"
(end of chapter)