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After the demons entered this demiplane, they first destroyed it for a while, and then they suddenly went crazy when they discovered a certain building.
Hundreds of pillars made of human skulls stood straight in the center of the demiplane.
“Devils… devils! Damned devils!”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
“Die, children of devils!”
Three goristros directly broke the tower of skulls, and then the angry demons began to slaughter indiscriminately in this plane.
As beings of the Chaotic Evil alignment, demons extremely enjoyed slaughter. Otherwise, not so many demons would have responded to the summons of mortals.
[What’s wrong with them?]
Oh? …You don’t know?
Raising an eyebrow, Shelley did not say his doubts, but instead explained with schadenfreude, “The Tieflings… they’ve hit a wall.”
In the war between the Abyss and Baator, in general, the devils, with their excellent equipment and order, had been beating the hundreds of times more numerous demons. Although the demons had an absolute advantage in numbers, because they lacked a true leader after the fall of the previous demon prince, they had always been at a disadvantage in the Blood War.
The devils collected the spoils of war they had hunted. In the first layer of hell, they had erected a huge, evil pillar of skulls. This huge target made of skulls symbolized the evil spoils of war obtained in the Blood War.
Those spoils of war were mostly twisted, demon-like skulls, ranging in size from extremely small to the size of a house. The pillar of skulls was over three thousand meters high. It stood before the Bronze Citadel, showing its evil and power to every person who went to Baator to adventure.
This was the devils’ spoils of war, and also the demons’ shame.
It was no wonder that these demons had become furious after seeing this despicable forgery.
“Ah!”
A huge, tragic cry echoed throughout the entire battlefield. Because the sound was so tragic, it even made the crazed demons stunned for a moment.
At the junction of the demiplane and the Eden plane, there was the corpse of a glabrezu… no, that was not a corpse.
The two huge pincers of the glabrezu were now cut off at the base, and purple blood was gushing out. A light sword was stuck in the center of its head, straight in. At this moment, it was being mercilessly pulled out.
Roar, roar, roar!
The wounds on the glabrezu’s body were constantly being destroyed and regenerated. It was as if it were in a constantly repeating environment, howling in pain.
Flicking the brain matter from his sword, Shelley floated back to the sky, looked at the demon army below, and said coldly, “The fate of a deserter.” (in Demonic)
The wings on Shelley’s back returned to their original form. Three pairs of blood-red wings, like dragon’s wings, flapped slightly. The armor on his body was stained with black and red patterns, which converged into Nadia’s holy symbol in the center of his chest.
Shelley floated in the air. Because he was no longer being watched by the Eden world, Shelley simply stopped hiding the aura on his body.
“Evil Domain.”
“Fear Domain.”
“Charm Domain.”
An evil, terrifying aura enveloped this not-so-large demiplane…
Sensing the familiar aura, the demons regained their excitement from their daze and roared as they charged toward the central fortress.
“That’s more like it.”
“As expected, this being is evil.”
“I don’t know why he was so secretive before.”
“To deceive those humans?”
“I really don’t understand…”
“But it’s so scary.”
“…”
War, or perhaps it couldn’t be called a war… it was a one-sided slaughter.
Looking at the demon legion that was working even harder, Shelley also let out a sigh of relief and scanned the entire demiplane.
“Thank goodness, my current strength is enough to intimidate these demons. Otherwise, I’d have to worry about them turning on me.”
Even a mage would rarely summon a demon on the Material Plane. Because of a demon’s chaotic nature, they would not be grateful to the person who had summoned them and would very likely attack their summoner at the first moment.
At this time, a mage would only be able to effectively prevent themselves from being attacked by a demon after first casting a “Protection from Evil” on themselves, and then casting a “Dominate Evil.”
“There’s no one in this plane that makes me feel danger, but I have a faint bad premonition…”
[Do you want me to give you a hint?]
“Oh?”
“You’re being so kind?”
In the royal palace of Ir, Shelley had gotten up from Elena’s side at the beginning of the battle and had pulled his body out of her pale, powerful legs. He was now bare-chested, with just a shirt on, sitting on the edge of the bed and concentrating on controlling the angel over there.
[Don’t say that.]
[Haven’t I always been very good to you?]
Hearing this, Shelley raised an eyebrow, did not refute, and signaled for her to continue.
[You don’t even thank me.]
[An ungrateful man.]
Shelley still didn’t speak, smiling playfully, looking at the dim yellow sky that was about to turn to night outside the window.
He savored the battle just now… Because of her guilt for having poisoned Shelley, Elena had been very submissive just now, and because her body had not yet recovered from the poisonous thick soup, she had seemed very weak… so Shelley had just enjoyed a long-lost, hearty, and crushing battle.
“In a little while, Elena will step into the legendary tier…”
[Tsk.]
[Stingy.]
“And then, what’s the hint?”
[…Forget it.]
[I’ve found someone here that you would never have expected.]
Someone I would never have expected?
“…Who?”
Shelley had no interest in playing guessing games with her. He was about to destroy this demiplane. If it was an enemy, that was fine, but if there was a friend of his here… the consequences would be unimaginable.
Just then, a bewitching woman in a magnificent formal dress appeared above the demons’ heads. She was holding a magnificent bone scepter with a skull containing a gem. She looked at the floating Balor in the sky with a somewhat flustered expression.
“This is the territory of the Annihilation family.”
“Demons! Why are you here?”
The demons did not react at all and continued to destroy.
“Since you’re looking for death.”
She gritted her teeth and roared, “Banshee’s Wail.”
Aaaaaaaah!
A piercing sound wave spread through the demiplane. With her as the center, large numbers of Tieflings and low-level demons fell to the ground.
Although the high-level demons were also very uncomfortable, they managed to hold on with their constitution.
The attacked Balor felt that it had been provoked and directly teleported to her back. It forcefully swung the huge greatsword in its hand.
“Die!”
Clang.
The huge greatsword, which was over two meters long, was stopped by Shelley’s fingers.
At this time, Shelley was staring at the woman’s appearance, letting her teleport away.
The Shelley on the stool’s eyes widened. He said in a low voice, “She… couldn’t be…”
[You’re right.]
[She has a blood connection with Klara.]
“That is to say…”
[That’s right.]
[Klara is in this demiplane at this time.]
