Chapter 30: The Abyss Is So Big
In countless legends about the abyss and demons, there are always survivors who describe the monsters in horror: flames, poison, and hideous flesh. And demons are just such creatures.
Almost all monsters from the abyss have the power of fire and poison, their flesh is strong, better than steel, except for small demons and worms, the species are generally more than two meters tall, and the gifted strange souls can allow them to perform terrible magic in the abyss, but this does not mean that they cannot control magical energy in the normal world, but they are only suppressed by most of them, such a terrifying power makes them widely feared in the outside world.
There are many types of demons, and even the most basic Abyssal Worms have strange mutants, not to mention other more advanced categories, but there is no doubt that the most well-known and powerful type of demon is the Abyssal Flame Demon.
As the name suggests, the Abyss Flame Demon has a body completely covered with raging flames, and under the flames of a thousand degrees Celsius, their bodies are black viscous substances similar to oil, these black viscous substances are releasing intense flame energy all the time, and radiating an invisible and massless poison towards the surroundings, it can make ordinary people age, lack of energy, and all parts of the body are distorted and mutated. Lizards grow two heads, and the terrifying toxicity is so terrifying that it can even leave a piece of land without grass for decades.
Abyssal Flame Demons are not stereotyped, their body is that black viscous substance, if the initial appearance is about the same as the Flame Slime, but it is countless times more dangerous than it, but once the Flame Demon awakens its wisdom, they will consciously shape their own flesh - these terrifying beings at the top of the abyss food chain will devour all kinds of metals and monsters, use those solid steel and bones to shape the shape of their own body, and then build their own human form.
Therefore, there are humanoid fire demons, and there are dragon-shaped fire demons, for these monsters, the form can be changed, and the larger the body, it means that the power of this fire demon is stronger, and it also means that the harvest after killing them is richer, after all, it can withstand the fire demon flames and highly poisonous body erosion, as they build body bones There are very few materials, they have always been the raw materials for building divine weapons.
And now, the one who was caught by Joshua from the abyss to the Microf continent was a humanoid fire demon with a height of five meters.
The Flame Demon Syndicate still hadn't figured out what was going on - it was wandering in the boiling sea of the scorching purgatory on the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss, looking for prey and rare metals that could be used in a battle in the poisonous soup that had long been contaminated with sulfur and heavy metals, but it didn't know what was going on, and suddenly a hand ignored the flames of thousands of degrees above its head, grabbed its black body enough to poison an abyssal skeleton elephant, and then pulled it up from the hot seabed at a depth of three thousand meters with a terrifying force that dragged an island.
For a moment, the Syndicate thought he had been recruited by some Abyss Lord or Demon Lordβor by some god from another world, or by a Void Wanderer.
This is actually not uncommon, just like the conscription of the Abyss Lord, this is actually a very normal thing, the abyss is endless, but there are some levels that have lords who are loved by the will of the abyss, they have the power to control all the demons in that level, as long as they have a thought, any demon whose strength has not reached the legend will be recruited by it and teleported to its army, and the demons who dare to disobey the will of the Abyss Lord have long since died, and the same is true for the Demon Lord, they are actually not loved by the will of the Abyss, but still relied on his own strength to subdue the lord of an abyss.
However, the thirty-seven layers of the abyss should be an ownerless world - the demon thought with some wonder, otherwise it would not have wandered in this layer of the abyss, the fire demons have a strong sense of territory, and they rarely appear in the abyss with lords and lords, because every fire demon has the ambition and potential to become a king.
So is it an out-of-realm god or a great being? The syndicate guessed this in its simple mind, but when it raised its head and looked at the being standing in front of it, it suddenly realized that it didn't know when it would start, and there would be a master on the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss.
What kind of face is that? Although it seems to be just an ordinary human male, but in fact it is obviously suppressed, the fire demon can easily see that the other party's flesh is able to maintain the human form after layers of restraint, under that fragile shell, there is a more terrifying, greater, more noble thing, there is a dense substance like the center of the earth, with an extremely high temperature a hundred times more hot than the average fire demon, his life radiation is so terrifying, So much so that it was easily overshadowed and suppressed as the poisonous radiation of the fire demon.
There is no doubt that this is a king-level great demon, different from his own body that is only five meters long, if the other party shows his body, it is probably as high as a small mountain.
The mere flesh is so terrifying, not to mention the one that surrounds this great demon (?). The souls around him wailed, and the screams and curses of the endless life before dying surrounded the surface of the other party's body, far beyond the Mind Flayer, far beyond the desperate aura of the Horror Demon - no, the Shock Realm was constantly announcing its existence to the outside world, making it, a fire demon with a simple mind, involuntarily want to tremble and kneel, and completely worship.
In fact, it did fall to its knees.
The five-meter-tall blaze figure bowed its head neatly and knelt respectfully in obedience, although the demon's naturally chaotic mind made it want to get rid of the fear in its heart all the time, even if it died, it would punch the existence in front of it, but that was only for thought. Now the instincts of the syndicate were suppressed by fear and reason, so that it could not help but tremble in the abyssal language: "Great King, you have called me to come, is there something you want to ask? β
The fire demon used his magic to imitate the vibration of sound waves, and the distortion caused by the hot flames made its voice sound indistinct, like a murmur of lava agitation, and there was no honorific word like 'you' in the Abyssal language, but according to his emotions and movements, Joshua could roughly understand what the other party meant, and he looked at the blaze figure lying on the ground honestly in front of him, and showed a satisfied smile.
"Nice attitude." He said, "If you can keep it up, I will spare your life after I ask." β
The questioning didn't last long, the fire demon knew a lot of things, but most of them were different from what Joshua wanted to know, and after temporarily sealing the power of this fire demon aside, the warrior began to sort out the information.
He discovered that the abyss connected to the Book of Ebonn did not come from the same abyss, for example, the fire demon in front of him was from the thirty-seventh layer of the abyss, and the demons he summoned to play with before were from the seventh and sixth layers respectively, and the space-time coordinates of these three layers of abysses were very close, and they all contained the power of lava and poison.
Joshua summoned the demon this time because he found the traces of the demon in the Northland, and if the disappearance of the two legendary mages was because he went to the abyss from the Northland, he must have gone to the abyss closest to the Mycrof Continent, and the same is true for the Book of Ebon, the demon it summoned is also a demon from the nearest abyss, the warrior wants to see if he can catch a demon with a higher strength and can detect the fluctuations of time and space in the abyss, and then ask the specific situation, if the time is right, Then Barnier and William must have run to the abyss.
This plan was simple and crude, and the result was quite effective - the fire demon named Syndicate did have the power to detect space-time fluctuations, and it did sense some space-time fluctuations some time ago, but unfortunately, it did not match the time when the two legendary mages disappeared, and it could only sense space-time fluctuations within dozens of kilometers around it, Joshua felt that it should just be the normal space-time fluctuations of the abyss, for example, a small space-time rift suddenly appeared that would dissipate immediately.
However, as the overlord of a small area in the thirty-seven layers of the abyss, the syndicate will never only know this, through the little demons under his command and the ferry demons from the Styx, the fire demons know many other news of the abyss realm, and these news are generally all told to the warriors, for example, the sixth layer of the abyss is at war with the twenty-third layer of the abyss, and there are multiple abyss lords and demon armies are fighting bloody battles on the twenty-third layer, so most of the demons in the sixth layer of molten sea hell have been recruited, The syndicate was also afraid of being drafted, so he deliberately went to the thirty-seventh floor to take refuge.
The River Styx runs through all the abysses, and it is also an important medium for demons to transfer time and space, the Ferry Demon is a kind of demon that can survive in the River Styx for a long time, they feed on the corpses and souls of ordinary demons, and live by exchanging information in various abysses, in a sense, they are similar to messengers, but if they don't have enough strength, these messenger demons shaped like giant crocodiles don't mind opening their mouths, showing their fangs, and trying a different taste of fresh raw meat.
In addition to the meaningless little things of the Scorching Purgatory, the Syndicate has only three pieces of news from beginning to end that are valuable - the sixth layer of the abyss is invading other abysses, and the five-colored dragon clan has occupied one of the layers of the abyss, and renamed it the Dragon Sleeping Abyss, officially becoming one of the abyss races, and there is a huge mutation in the seventh layer of the abyss, and the continent located in the middle of the world is undergoing a violent earthquake, which is difficult for even demons to bear.
Although it didn't mean much to Joshua's current goal, whatever it was, it was something he had never heard of in his previous life, or that only existed in those thick set of settings, and now, everything was so close to the warrior, and an abyssal fire demon of the extreme level told him these great events that were once far away, but now very close, with a respectful and fearful air.
Joshua couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
And before he could ponder for long, a holy light flickered, and the hurried Archbishop of Atanis had already come behind him.
This place is a remote suburban plain of Moldavia, the old bishop can clearly see the warrior's figure like the sun in the energy horizon, he did not greet Joshua first after coming to his side, but looked at the big demon who was sealed aside, and now he can't speak or move, paralyzed on the ground, and then turned his head to the warrior and said, "Joshua, I just sensed the fluctuation of summoning demonsββ"
"It's me."
Detached from his contemplation, Joshua said crisply, he turned his head to look at the old bishop, raised the book in his hand and waved it: "I was going to find a demon to ask about the situation just now, so I used this abyss magic guide book to catch a demon out." β
Shouldn't it be a summoning, how the verb is used incorrectly. In the blink of an eye, the old bishop didn't have the energy to care about the warrior's grammar now, his mind was quick, and he immediately thought of the topic he had discussed with Joshua not long ago, so the old man frowned and said, "What's the matter, could it be that the disappearance of the two legendary mages is still related to the demon?" What level of demon can capture them? The Abyss Lord can't either. β
"Think differently, Atanis." Joshua shrugged, "Maybe they're in the past." β
As he spoke, Joshua explained his aura in the Great Ajax Mountains, emphasizing the remnants of space-time fluctuations around the demonic aura.
"I've got the coordinates of three abysses from the Book of Ebon." The warrior summed it up with this sentence: "Wait until tomorrow morning, I will go to Master Nostradamus and ask him to see which three coordinates this residual space-time fluctuation leads to, and if it can correspond, then it will be certain that the two legendary mages have gone to the abyss of their own will and are not missing." β
"It's not all, Joshua, is it?"
However, the old bishop was keenly aware of the tone of the warrior, he had known Joshua for a long time, and the other party's words and deeds were not complicated, so Atanis easily saw through his true thoughts: "If you are sure, you will want to go to the abyss to find them in person!" β
In the face of the old bishop's conclusive words, Joshua was not dissatisfied with seeing through his thoughts, he smiled and said lightly: "Of course, logically speaking, they disappeared in my territory, and I naturally have to personally determine the whereabouts and safety of the two legendary powerhouses." β
"Secondly, the abyss is so big." As he spoke, the warrior paused, and then said, "I want to go and see it." β
"It's that simple."
And at this moment, as if by coincidence, there was a sudden thunderous sound flashing in the distant sky, and a huge figure shuttled through the clouds, Joshua and Atanis raised their heads in unison, with the perception of the two, they easily detected each other's true identities hundreds of miles away.
It was the warrior's captive, the Extreme Blue Dragon Suklash.