Chapter 63: Qiao's System
Raldanas has always considered himself a lucky and cunning demon, and believes that he can use this luck and cunning to survive leisurely in the dark sixth abyss.
Over the past few hundred years, this idea has not been wrong. As a rare demon species, the Mind Eater is one of the few types of demons that can really plot and prepare for big things, and since he was a child, Raldanas has relied on several perfect preparations to survive the various lord melee battles in the abyss, and relied on his outstanding performance to gain the attention of a demon king at the time.
But that's not all, when Raldanas somehow learned that the current Abyss Lord was interested in a material world called 'Microf', this cunning demon who only had a high-level demon realm at that time, and had always been cautious, immediately divided his soul and created an incarnation projected into that strange world - in Microf, it used its talent to peep into people's hearts, and bewitched the ignorant hunter farmers in the mountain village to believe in themselves, and obediently offered sacrifices, gradually, The demonic beliefs of Raldanas began to spread, and its intelligence network grew rapidly, spreading throughout the lower reaches of the western mountains.
Because of the advance investment of this adventure, the Abyss Lord, who had obtained a lot of information about the Microf world, was delighted, and the Demon King Goliath took action and directly promoted Lardan Asp to the Great Demon and regarded him as a confidant. This was undoubtedly a leap for an ordinary mind eater, who skipped the most difficult period of general ascension and became a lord and was in charge of the sixth abyss's intelligence on the world of Mycrof.
During this period of working for the Abyss Lord, Lardan as fully exerted his dark wisdom, under its co-ordination, most of the scattered demon cult beliefs in the entire western mountains were co-opted by its followers, except for a few cults that really had the support of the evil god clan behind them, they consciously spread to the world, and the cult doctrine compiled by the Great Demon was still the core spirit of many cults in the Microf Continent after two hundred years, at the request of Lardan As, Every demon believer is extremely good at hiding himself, and if it weren't for the fact that the Church of the Seven Gods had a convenient way to directly tell who was depraved by simply reciting the sacred scriptures, there might be many believers who would not have been discovered at all when they investigated.
Because of his outstanding work performance, Raldanas was extremely appreciated by Goliath, and it even gained the right to freely enter and exit the Valley of Tears Fortress, and the strength of the Mind Eater gradually grew because of the sacrifices offered by the believers, reaching the level of almost the peak of the Great Demon, which was only less than three hundred years since its birth, which can be said to be the speed of take-off, and countless demons are jealous of calling it the lucky Raldanas.
Is it all because of luck? Perhaps, all in all, the Mind Eater has not stopped its steps, and it has ambition in its heart that it will never be satisfied with its current position.
After years of planning, Raldanas has finally broken his followers into the impermeable imperial capital of the Northern Empire, and it is ready to make big news in this lofty place known as the Holy City of the Three Mountains, where a legendary powerhouse sits - what better plan than a grand explosion, desperate panic, and fear of demons?
Of course not. After the plan began, everything went well, and the most elite group of believers of Raldanas infiltrated the city and murdered a family of ordinary merchants with babies, who were ready to make a sinister sacrifice and summon the clones of Raldanas to completely destroy the small semi-residential area on the side of the imperial capital, spreading the evil of the demons and the fear of demons to the whole world.
Everything was absolutely perfect. If it is really achieved, then the name of Raldanas will spread throughout the Mycrof continent, and the fear belief that belongs to it will also be deeply implanted in the hearts of its followers, which is enough to break the most important level for it, so that the future advancement will become the accumulation of quantity, and the process of Raldanas becoming a king will become a smooth path. It thinks it will succeed, and that's the 'fact' it should be.
But whether it was luck or fact, after meeting that man, it came to an abrupt end, and even took a sharp turn.
In the short moment before he could react, first the doppelganger who was originally hiding in the rift of time and space and waiting for the opportunity was dragged out by the damn man and killed directly, and then the five-colored dragon clan that had originally negotiated to attack the Seven Sacred Mountains together failed in the Far South, and was expelled from the Mycrof continent together with the dragon god, and Raldanas was even surprised to find that the world began to purge the cultists on a large scale for some reason, and the invisible forces that were originally rooted in the world were instantly wiped out under the strong suppression of local officials. Only a few seeds remained in the mountain village.
Raldanas gritted his teeth and found that whether it was the failure of the sacrifice at the beginning, the later Holy War of the Seven Sacred Mountains, or the large-scale cultist clean-up activities of the Northern Empire, it was all related to the lord of the Radcliffe family, who vowed that if he had the opportunity, he would let the other party suffer the most painful torture in this world, and scorch his soul and heart in the poisonous fire of the abyss for ten thousand years!
But disasters never come alone, not to mention the successive defeats in the Microv continent, the demon king Goliath also expressed impatience with it, this abyss lord can tolerate his subordinates wanting to betray him, wanting to replace him, but he can't bear that they are useless. Lardanas, who had lost his intelligence channels, was an example of almost uselessness, so it didn't take long for the Demon King to issue an ultimatum - Raldanas must personally go to the continent of Mycrof to find out the truth about the rekindling of the 'Flames' for it, and in the face of the Abyss Lord who gave him everything, the Archdemon had to comply.
And then.
Then, it was locked in the red and white sealed crystal ball.
"Why? Why are there two legendary mages in that place?! ā
So far, Raldanas hasn't figured out what is going on in this world, in its cognition, there are less than ten legends in the entire Mycrof Continent, and they are scattered in various races and regions, and in the remote northlands, it would be good to have a Extreme Intention Rank Great Demon-level existence, where did these two legendary spellcasters come from, and just cast a detection circle to find it in a hidden state?!
But no matter how much it thought about it, it was to no avail, and now that Raldanas was in the pocket of the mage named Barnier, he could only forcibly extend his spirit and perceive everything around him, and in the misty darkness, he suddenly sensed a familiar breath - it was the breath of the human warrior who had failed all the way and led to its current situation, Joshua van Radcliffe!
"Damn! If it weren't for being locked up here, I would definitely encroach on your people, destroy your territory, and make all the people you care about live an inhuman life! ā
The Great Demon struggled powerlessly in the sealing crystal, and it couldn't do anything except the curse at this time. Soon after, with a fluctuation of space-time teleportation, Raldanas sensed that it was being taken to the lair of the two legendary mages, and it sensed that the crystal containing itself had been taken out by one of them, and it vaguely heard a conversation that contained excitement and fanaticism.
"Leave the issue of the Creepy Forest to Stephen, who is a former businessman and can plan for this."
"So, deal with this great demon now. We are really lucky, you know, most of the demons that we can catch in the past are incarnations, and their strength has not reached the extreme level, and now we can actually meet a lord who wanders in the Mycrof continent in his true body - who dissects and who fights? ā
"Come on, old man."
The short and direct speech made the great demon who had hoped to be an advanced king chill all over, but it did not have the slightest power to resist, and Raldanas, who was sealed with all the power in his body, could not even self-detonate, and under the restraint of the huge magic power, it could only stiffen as its body was taken out of the sealing ball by the two legendary mages, and then placed on the laboratory table in a pale room full of palpitations, and then restrained by iron rings.
"Don't you have anesthesia?"
"Don't fight, the natural reaction of the living body is very important, so start with the muscles around the eyes, I heard that the innate abilities of the mind eater are in that one-eyed, but I have always been curious."
Listening to this evil speech comparable to that of a demon, Raldanas opened its eyes in horror, it saw that there was a sharp scalpel under the control of magic power, volleying towards its huge purple one-eye, it could not roar, could not dodge, could not twist its body, it could only watch as this sharp knife that even the demonic cortex could not resist the slightest bit was cutting into the depths of its muscles little by little, delicately avoiding every key magic channel and nerves.
"Damn it, ahhh
In the midst of great pain, Raldanas could only let out an endless roar in his heart: "IāI must escape!" ā
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The Flame Demon Syndicate had never felt that it had any wisdom to speak of, it spit on such weakness and prided itself on its strength.
As a great demon who doesn't know which abyss he was born in, but has a pure fire demon bloodline, the syndicate has always lived very nourishingly, since its birth, it is at the top of the local food chain, even if it encounters a powerful demon that cannot be defeated, then it can escape with its own toxins and flames, all in all, the memories of the juvenile and young bodies Syndicate can't remember clearly, and even how it advanced to the great demon It can't remember clearly, the powerful radioactive energy disturbs its soul fluctuations, It can't think smoothly, and that's a problem that almost all firedemons have to deal with.
The more powerful, the more brainless. Unless you can break that boundary and become a king.
All in all, I don't know how many layers of abyss I have swam along the River Styx, and now the syndicates who are looking for prey in an abyss without lords feel that this life is very comfortable, no need to think, no need to worry, just eat and become stronger every day, everything is as simple as a straight line, and for the fire demons, such a life like a single-celled creature will last for hundreds to thousands of years, until their luck comes and they become kings.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because of an accident, the syndicate was forced to learn to think.
The specific cause and effect, to be honest, the fire demon doesn't remember anymore, its simple brain can only vaguely remember that it was probably captured by a terrifying demon, and then was done a lot of painful things that made the demon want to die, but the strange thing is that since the first extremely painful experience, the syndicate felt that his head was much clearer - as if it was like a communication circle with a murmur and intermittent suddenly became smooth, even if there was occasionally a little noise, but that didn't matter.
Of course, the fire demon didn't understand why, how could it understand such a complicated thing, it just instinctively felt that although that painful act made it worse than dead, it would not let it die after all, and would give it a foundation to become stronger in the future, so no matter how insulted the terrible demon lord was, it did not run away, but persevered in the hands of the other party until the last moment.
Then, it was thrown off.
Ignoring the destructive battle that took place in the center of the sixth abyss in the distance, and ignoring the abyss lord and god clone that came later, the flames on his body had changed from black and red at the beginning to pure white now, and the fire demon could no longer sense the chaotic and noisy energy fluctuations in his body, and his thinking was clearer than ever - so in the final sudden of the rapid fall from mid-air, the syndicate immediately immortalized a talent that he had never used in the past - it extended and stretched his liquid body, It turned into a parachute-like form, and landed unharmed in a grove of hills and abyssal jungles.
"I really want to thank the Maharaja for helping me...... Is race human? I've never heard of a demon type, but it's definitely a very evil and powerful one. ā
In the multiverse, each race has different self-names, even demons don't call themselves demons, so the syndicate didn't understand that the two-legged upright fierce ape is not a kind of demon, but this is an inconsequential trivial matter, it kneels in the direction of the warrior reverently, expressing admiration and gratitude: "It turns out that this is the advanced method of the fire demon clan, I finally understand!" ā
At this time, the syndicate can sense that all kinds of chaotic radioactive energy in his body have been cauterized, leaving behind a relatively stable light green substance, they also have the power to supply their own fire heat energy, but the impact of radiation on itself has been ignored, it knows that as long as it can continue to maintain its own purity and wisdom, then even it can hope to be a king, but the only fly in the ointment is because the body is burned for most of it, Its strength had been reduced from the high level of the Great Demon to the point of falling to the Great Demon Realm.
In the abyss, the potential of the future is sometimes unimportant, and only the strength to survive is the only truth.
The syndicate, who was immersed in the illusion that his future is promising, suddenly noticed that the surrounding hills and abyssal jungles suddenly heard the footsteps of Si Si Suosuo, and it looked around vigilantly, and then was shocked to find that it had been completely surrounded by a large group of wandering demons and abyssal monsters.
"Quack-woo-" With the eerie roar of the beast and the greedy gaze of the wandering demon, the syndicate immediately reacted, it was the result of the movement he made when he landed - in the dark abyss sky, a strange white creature with flames suddenly appeared, which was strange no matter how you thought about it, and for some reason, the white flame creature seemed to be in a weakened state now, if it could eat it......
Thinking of this, the originally greedy gaze suddenly added a ferocity, for these demonic beasts and demons who did not have the protection of the lord and struggled in the abyss themselves, this may be the only chance for them to advance in their lives.
Standing alone in the encirclement of demons and monsters all over the mountains, the syndicate took a deep breath, and then spit out a breath of pure high-radiation flames, at this time, it thought a lot, its own fighting skills, its natural instinct as a fire demon, its great future and self-destruction after an accidental death, but in the end, what remained in the syndicate's heart was wisdom.
"Me!"
With a roar, the pure white flame demon did not hesitate to exert the ability he had just comprehended, it immediately formed itself into a ball burning with ultra-high temperature flames, and then spun and fled in the weakest direction of the encirclement with the momentum of looking forward to life and death as nothing-
"I'm going to survive!"
And a few days later, as if there was a delay, Joshua, who had just finished feeling the contribution of the products in the Creeping Forest to future technology, suddenly had a scene of the fire demon fleeing for his life in his mind.
"It's-"
Blinking his eyes, Joshua didn't understand what was going on for a moment, the scene just now flashed directly in his mind as if the system had appeared, and for some reason, the warrior also sensed that he had a subtle connection with the fire demon in the distance.
"This guy, does it believe in me? No, it was just the power of steel that I had left behind in it that resonated. ā
For a moment, Joshua, who thought it was a divine reaction and became vigilant, temporarily relaxed a little after not feeling the divine bones in his body active, and then he realized that this was a strange resonance reaction caused by a very small amount of steel power poured into him when he used the syndicate as a weapon, and this reaction did not last long, and the syndicate had to be in a state of extreme excitement to connect, and Joshua could unilaterally block this connection, but the fire demon could not refuse the influence exerted by Joshua.
"Are you being hunted by a group of wandering demons?" Knowing the situation of the Syndicate's current siege, Joshua pondered for a while, he found this kind of resonance reaction very interesting and rare, so he didn't want this demon who had been willing to help him die like this: "Well, I'll teach it some techniques for using power, so as not to die so simply and lose my people." ā
In line with the wonderful resonance reaction between the power of steel, Joshua transmitted some techniques related to the use of flame heat, and the technique of using explosive acceleration to the syndicate who simply used his own shape to roll, he felt that the other party might be able to become an eye for himself in the sixth abyss, but after the transmission was completed, Joshua suddenly frowned, and inspiration flashed in his mind.
"Wait...... Isn't this the same as the situation where some demons cross borders to bewitch people and trade souls? ā
Standing up from his chair, the warrior walked through the halls of the Lord's Palace, and an inexplicable feeling from nowhere stirred in his heart: "And ......"
"It's very similar to the system."