Chapter 70: Middle Abyss
This demon city built by Xeron detonating a volcano did not seem to have a name.
To the demons, it was only an outpost for attacking Erathia. It was on the border, and with the extension of the frontlines, reinforcements from this city would become slower and slower. In other words, this city, in Xeron’s original plan, was going to be abandoned.
Precisely because of this, when Roy returned to this city, there were no high-rank demons stationed in it, and only a few little demons were left in this city. When he left, Ignatius did not bring these little demons, leaving them as coolies and defense forces. From this, it was apparent that the demons would abandon this place in the future.
Because he was also a demon, Roy entered the demon city smoothly. Some of the little demons here had seen Roy before and knew that he was Xeron’s adjutant. Although they did not know what Roy wanted to do by coming back alone, with the temperament of demons, they would not ask too much.
When Roy found that there were no middle-rank and high-rank demons in the city, he felt more at ease and headed straight for the location of the summoning formation.
During his journey back, Roy found that the repulsive force of the world seemed to have increased a little. It seemed like it was true that the repulsive force would continue to strengthen over time. And in order to resist the repulsive force, the consumption of Roy’s magic energy was also gradually increasing. Maybe in the end, Roy’s magic energy would not be enough to resist this force, and he would be expelled.
The stronger demons might be able to stay in this world for a longer time, but no matter how long, they would still be eventually expelled. Therefore, high-rank demons like Xeron and Ignatius were even willing to sign a demon contract with the people of this world to work for them in order to stay in this world for as long as possible. And this contractor was the King Lucifer Kreegan they had been talking about.
Roy did not know who this person was, and it was impossible for him to see him. However, it was clear that someone who could make high-rank demons swear loyalty to him was not an ordinary person, and he might really be Lucifer’s incarnation.
But because of Roy’s plan, Xeron was killed in advance and expelled back to the Abyss. This would inevitably affect the demon army’s invasion of Erathia.
He approached the summoning formation and carefully compared the design of the magic formation with the one that he had seen Xeron draw before. After confirming that there was no error, Roy began inputting magic power into the summoning formation.
Generally speaking, the design and text of magic formations were fixed and had specific functions. If you had a ready-made magic formation, you only needed to input magic power. To put it another way, such magic formations were like home appliances, and you could use them after turning the power on!
The purpose of the magic formation engraved in the demon city was to open a Gate of the Abyss, connect with an altar in the Abyss, and teleport demons over from the other side. Such teleportations were generally unidirectional. Similarly, if Roy wanted to teleport back, the Gate of the Abyss he opened would also be a unidirectional teleport. As such, there was no need to worry about colliding with other demons that were incoming.
Roy followed the magic power input method Xeron used when he summoned the high-level demons and reversed it, activating the pattern in the middle of the magic formation before gradually extending to the outer circle.
This was the so-called reverse input of magic power. Roy lacked knowledge about magic formations, and he did not know if what he was doing was right, so he was just trying.
Fortunately, he succeeded, and the magic formation began to glow and gradually activate.
Actually, it was not that Roy was fortunate. The magic formation that connected with the Abyss had gradually turned into a fixed form after millions of years. After all, demons sometimes needed to teleport themselves back, so this common magic formation had the functions of summoning and reverse summoning.
As the Gate of the Abyss opened and black mist permeated the air, Roy could not help but think of the Dark-Dark Fruit just by looking at it. In a sense, when I activate the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, it looks very similar to the black mist… The Dark-Dark Fruit also has s.p.a.ce abilities, which is the Black Hole that can suck in objects. Does this mean that the Dark-Dark Fruit can connect to other worlds like the Gates of the Abyss?
Roy gave it some thought before putting it aside for the time being. After opening the Gate of the Abyss, Roy did not enter rashly, but he got Fat Tiger to catch a little demon.
Fat Tiger was extremely fierce in front of these little demons. Not to mention the little demons, even those genuine h.e.l.lhounds could not defeat Fat Tiger now. Upon receiving Roy’s command, Fat Tiger immediately jumped at a little demon pa.s.sing by. He threw the little demon onto the ground and bit the back of the little demon’s neck, but did not use much strength.
After Fat Tiger bit this little demon, it wanted to resist, but it immediately did not dare to move as Fat Tiger brought it back to the magic formation.
Roy found a metal chain. Not wasting any time, he immediately grabbed it, tied it tightly, and attached a camera to the chain.
Roy had, of course, made this camera in the system. After setting it to take pictures automatically, Roy grabbed the other end of the chain and threw the little demon into the Gate of the Abyss with his other hand.
He needed someone to explore the way to determine if the other side was the Abyss.
After throwing the little demon, Roy held the chain and waited a while before pulling it back.
However, regrettably, teleportation was one-way. Roy could not pull the little demon back even with the metal chain tied to it. He could still feel it on the chain earlier, but when Roy started pulling the chain back, he felt the other end of the chain suddenly become empty! When Roy pulled all of the chain back, he saw that the little demon had actually disappeared without a trace!
Something with no life like the chain was fine, and even the camera was still on it.
Roy picked up the camera and checked the pictures. He heaved a sigh of relief. The scene in the pictures was indeed the scene around an altar of the Abyss.
In other words, there was no problem with this Gate of the Abyss. Roy only needed to enter and not turn back. The reason the little demon disappeared was probably that it was lost in the chaotic s.p.a.ce…
“Let’s go back, Fat Tiger!” Roy called out to Fat Tiger, and then one demon and one dog entered the mist of the Gate of the Abyss together.
The light changed. When a s.p.a.cious area suddenly appeared in front of him, Roy found himself on an altar with Fat Tiger by his feet.
However, he did not know where he was or if it was the upper Abyss. In addition, he did not know how far away the altar that originally summoned him was.
There were no other demons around the altar. After Roy and Fat Tiger left the altar, the magic formation stopped, and the Gate of the Abyss gradually closed.
After spreading his wings and flying away from the altar with Fat Tiger, Roy quickly obtained good news.
This good news was that it was indeed the upper Abyss because Roy had already seen a few low-rank demons appearing nearby. Given the strict hierarchy of demons, it was impossible for low-rank demons to live in the deeper Abyss without promotion. But what was slightly troublesome was that Roy did not find any familiar scenery nearby, and he seemed to have been teleported to a strange place.
The Abyss was simply too vast. It could hold tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of demons, so how vast would that be?
Roy did not think too much about it. He carried Fat Tiger as he began to search for a way to the lower Abyss.
There were more paths than just one, and magma rivers often showed the way. This was easy to understand because magma rivers would fall deeper into the center of the world with gravity, and the deeper into the world, the lower the Abyss.
Roy had to promote now. First, being a low-rank demon was truly too restricting. Second, his magic energy had reached a bottleneck, and he no longer dared to use Magic Energy Growth Potions, fearing that he would explode and die.
In the following days, Roy brought Fat Tiger and searched for an entrance to the lower Abyss.
But it was rather difficult to find because even if you flew hundreds or thousands of kilometers along a magma river, you might not be able to find the end, let alone these magma rivers might not even lead to the lower world.
After more than a month of searching, his efforts were not in vain. After flying hundreds of kilometers along a magma river, Roy suddenly saw a huge fissure in front!
This fissure was about five kilometers in length, seeming to have formed after an earthquake. The magma river cut off at the fissure, and the fiery hot lava fell down here, turning into a lava waterfall.
When Roy flew above and looked down at this fissure, he found that it was deep and bottomless. He could only see a fiery red light spot, which was the light from the magma.
Is it here? Roy thought as he slowly flew down with Fat Tiger.
One kilometer, two kilometers… Roy did not know how long he flew for, how deep he had gone, before he gradually saw the fissure begin to narrow.
When Roy finally emerged from a hole tens of meters wide, a vast s.p.a.ce suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Compared to the upper Abyss, the s.p.a.ce here was much darker. This was because the cave walls here did not have moss emitting light. As soon as he entered, Roy could not see far.
Demons had darkvision, and it seemed that it had evolved in response to this dark environment…
While adapting to the dark environment, Roy had a very exhausting feeling in his wings. It was not because he had flown for too long. In fact, the vertical distance was about ten to twenty kilometers, not too deep. Roy’s wings felt exhausted because the gravity here was stronger than in upper Abyss!
Under this gravity, Roy’s body became heavy, and every flap of his wings required more effort, so how could he not feel exhausted?
Is this the middle Abyss? Hmm… I should call it that, right? Roy thought.