Novel Bin Chapter 575 - The Devils' Actions
Chapter 575: The Devils’ Actions
A new third major faction arose for the first time ever in the eternal war between Order and Chaos. The Order Faction was split as several Order Main Gods joined the Hell Faction and became Hell Gods instead. The Chaos Faction lost Cynthia, the will of the Chaos Abyss, and several Chaos Main Gods. Naturally, neither Order nor Chaos came out as a winner in this. But amongst all the losers, there was one smaller faction that lost by far the most. That would be the devils.
The oldest devil leaders all betrayed Chaos, with four of the nine Devil Lords having betrayed it and left. They also took more than half of all Immemorial Devils with them. Since these devils had all survived countless eons until today, these were the most elite and strongest devils.
It would have still been understandable if just the elites and cannon fodder had left, but the most ridiculous part was how much top-level strength had been left behind.
For instance, the demons were far more numerous than the devils, as the demons were the strongest overall faction in the lower planes. However, there were three Main God level existences among the nine Devil Lords, which caused other factions to be extremely afraid of them.
Kamiltias, the Lord of Lies. Heimor, the Lord of Despair. Sarwenstan, the Lord of Tyranny. These three Main God Devil Lords were infamous names in all dimensions. But now, Kamiltias and Heimor had actually joined the Hell Faction while taking along another two of the Devil Lords with them. Now, the entire devil faction had only one Main God, Sarwenstan, and four remaining weaker Devil Lords.
It would be nothing but consolation to say that they had lost half their strength. It was quite obvious how much weaker they would be with two out of three Main Gods leaving. Not only that, Sarwenstan and his personal faction were some of the younger devils. It could be said that the highest-level fighting strength of the devils had all completely collapsed.
That was only the first wave of immediate effects. The large number of Immemorial Devils that had left meant that many tightly structured devil organizations now lost their bosses or elites, becoming nothing but empty shells. The devils’ forte, schemes and organizations, had all completely collapsed as well. The devils’ total power was now at less than 20% of their power level before the battle of Hell from seven years ago.
The lower planes wouldn’t be a location where love and peace flourished. If any faction suddenly weakened immensely, that faction would never receive loving and peaceful aid from other factions. There were only ravenous wolves bearing malicious intents.
Even though the devils reacted as swiftly as possible and retracted their defenses with the greatest speed, and even though they had the most well-disciplined organizations in their command system compared to any other species in all dimensions, the devils still lost a tremendous amount due to the battle of Hell.
The Immemorial Devils’ betrayal of the entire Chaos Faction also caused the entire devil faction to lose the favor and protection of the Chaos Abyss. And so, the devils’ Hell actually saw many dimensional cracks appearing, causing many areas to collapse. Some powerful devils that relied on the favor of the Chaos Abyss to power up even suddenly found themselves losing power levels.
Demons were no good individuals. When they discovered that their “allies” had suddenly weakened by so much, even several Demon Main Gods were tempted to make their move.
And so, a feast of slaughter began. The main hosts were the demons and Chaos Evil Gods. Invited guests even included War Gods from the Order Faction. Both factions seemed to arrive at an unspoken agreement as they split up the devils’ outer circle of territory and resources amongst themselves.
After experiencing this “feast” held by the other Chaos Abyss residents, the devils lost all their important fortresses in the first few levels of the Chaos Abyss. They also lost almost half of all teleportation portals under their control to other parties. All surviving devils retreated to devils’ Hell. The devils instantly went from being the second strongest faction in the Chaos Abyss to being only a slightly-weaker-than-average faction.
And considering all the grudges in the Chaos Abyss, a phoenix without its feathers would have an even worse time than a chicken. This slightly-weaker-than-average faction would have a very difficult time in the foreseeable future. Those with grudges against them would come take revenge, and those without grudges would come and take what they could.
The devils who managed to survive their species’ calamity were having a worse and worse time as time went on. The ones they hated the most were naturally the Devil Lords that betrayed their trust… Although it seemed comical to others that devils would even believe in trust when they felt that betrayal and scamming was the greatest glory, even devils would have grudges and blame others for their misfortunes.
However, three of the former Devil Lords had now become Hell Gods. If the devils wanted revenge, they would have to somehow conquer Hell. So, in the end, all their hatred could only be piled onto the remaining traitor Devil Lord—Ilmisya, the Lord of Temptations.
Ilmisya could probably be considered the most outstanding double agent in all of history as she simultaneously betrayed the Hell Faction and the Chaos Abyss. Now, she was having a good time while living under Abyss Prince Karwenz’s protection. Even though the greatly weakened devils wanted to take revenge against her, they would have to go through Karwenz first.
The current Karwenz was one of the most powerful individuals in the Chaos Abyss. The devils had no way to handle antagonizing the Abyss Prince. However, they couldn’t stand for sitting back and not trying to take revenge. Not only that, their morale would slip even lower if they didn’t attempt to take revenge.
That was right, the entire devil species currently had inconceivably low morale. In fact, it even became quite common for devils to give up on all their accumulated power to transform themselves into demons. The entire devil species was like a patch of grass being mightily buffeted by a storm. They really needed some good news to make everyone perk up.
And now, they met with an opportunity…
“Karwenz’s older brother Roland is currently in the Chaos Abyss. We should be able to use Roland as a hostage to exchange for Ilmisya!”
From a certain standpoint, the devils’ logic wasn’t wrong. But if Roland knew that he was being hunted down by devils because of Karwenz’s woman, he would probably feel rather helpless.
And from yet another standpoint, since Roland was the main mastermind behind Hell’s creation, he truly was the foundational reason behind why the devils had weakened by so much. There would be nothing wrong in taking revenge on him.
“Snake God Voka, we respect your authority in this dimensional level. But, please don’t make things too difficult for us. Even if our species isn’t doing well recently, we still have enough power to interfere with the dimensional levels close to us.”
A large one-eyed devil was currently speaking to Snake God Voka. Half of this devil’s body was distorted and extremely muscular, with black heavy chains tied around his body. The other half of his body appeared as skinny and weak as a gnome’s. Yet, this half held a saw-toothed axe. This devil was a veteran devil general who had experienced many bloody battlefields, Salor the Berserk Slaughterer.
He didn’t really fit the stereotype of being a devil, because he wasn’t very skilled at betraying and scamming. But from another standpoint, since he had survived so long in the devil society filled with betraying and scamming, this was the best evidence of how his pure combat abilities and vicious killing intent had carried him all the way through. This made sense since if every devil general was the sly type that couldn’t actually fight, then the devils would still end up losing.
Seven years ago, Salor had been the overall commander of one of the bloodiest fortresses on the frontlines, and a major personage on par with a dimensional ruler. But now, not only had he lost his fortress and his position, his entire right leg had been replaced with a half metal leg. He was half crippled.
Even so, he still had such a vicious attitude while requesting Snake God Voka’s assistance, just as if Salor was the actual ruler of this dimensional level.
Snake God Voka had a true body that was actually thousands of meters long. Even though Voka was currently appearing in humanoid form, his cold gaze would be capable of instantly killing anything mortal.
Even in humanoid form, Voka still resembled a standing rattlesnake. He was three meters tall in this form with golden scales all over his body. Although he physically resembled lizardmen, it was also obvious that he wasn’t from the same species as lizardmen.
The Snake God continued to remain silent in front of his two devil visitors that had such vicious attitudes. Voka didn’t want to help the devils, even though they had promised him incredibly tempting rewards.
“You don’t need to overthink things. We only need you to help gather information and leave everything else to us. No matter how ridiculous or arrogant that person is, he wouldn’t give you any trouble for something like this,” Salor told Voka.
That was right, Voka had absolutely zero interest in Roland’s life or death. Voka was only concerned about the potential reward, along with the potential risk that giving out Roland’s information might bring… the risk that he would antagonize Karwenz!
The Abyss Prince Karwenz was now a Main God, one of the few most powerful existences in the Chaos Abyss. Not only that, the Abyss Prince was famously willful, acting however he wanted. The number of Demon Lords that Karwenz had wiped out for no apparent reason had already exceeded double digits. Voka felt that it would obviously be a bad deal if he antagonized the Abyss Prince for the sake of some devils who now had such a greatly weakened fashion.
“Is this the will of the Devil Lords?”
“You know that I am one of the Devil Lords. And, I represent the will of all us Devil Lords, including Sarwenstan,” the other devil replied.
This time, the famous Salor the Berserk Slaughter wasn’t the one in charge of this hunt for Roland. The true individual in charge was the cool-seeming devil beauty under her cape—Lasnina, the Lord of Curses.
This Devil Lord was previously the female lover and one of the best friends of Ilmisya, the Lord of Temptations. But now, Lasnina had personally sliced her own face, ruining her own beauty in an oath to take revenge.
Her appearance here also represented the fact that the devils had sent their full forces here. They were willing to make any sacrifice necessary to capture Roland to exchange for Ilmisya in order to take revenge.
But unfortunately for the devils, Voka had been completely indifferent to their request for information. He made it obvious that the devils’ promised rewards for him were still insufficient. He still wanted more.
If the devils tried to find Roland in this dimensional level on their own, even if Voka ignored and let them do as they pleased, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack with how large the dimensional level was and how few devils there were in comparison.
Suddenly, Snake God Voka paused in surprise with an obvious look of astonishment on his snake-shaped head.
“One of my priests is praying to obtain power from me? Because a human Holy Knight is down here in the Chaos Abyss?”