Chapter 26: Transforming the Plane! [Request for Recommendation Votes]
2016-12-28
Author: Floating Tower of All Beings
The earth trembles.
The volcano ignited by Soren erupts in a manner close to ‘Plinian Style’, which is considered one of the most powerful forms of volcanic eruption, able to spray volcanic ash to heights exceeding 45 kilometers, covering large areas. This type of explosive eruption can form powerful volcanic pyroclastic flows, characterized by volcanic gases and ash ejected into the stratosphere. A short-lived eruption can conclude within a day but may also last for several days or even months; longer eruptions initially produce ash clouds that may also include pyroclastic flows, allowing a large amount of magma to erupt and cause the caldera to collapse, forming a broken crater, and fine ash can cover vast areas.
Due to the peculiarities of the plane, Soren cannot turn this place into a supervolcano even by sacrificing a fire demon.
However, this violent eruption undoubtedly changed some characteristics of this plane, as the [Negative Energy Characteristic] conferred by Orcus, under the guidance of Soren’s immense power and the interference of elves from the land of flames, gradually infused a thread of characteristic from the elemental plane of fire.
It has been mentioned before that all planes have connections to elemental planes.
Thanatos was infused with characteristics from the negative energy plane, allowing low-level undead to automatically resurrect in this plane, while souls entering this realm often become many forms of undead, such as skeletons, zombies, or ghouls, due to the cold environment and negative energy, rather than turning into demon worms.
This was not what Soren needed.
He did not need undead, especially not those that could continuously resurrect and grow stronger in the killing.
The tributaries of the River of Underworld flow through this plane; under the influence of Orcus’s power, over 90% of all souls in this plane become undead, while the remaining layer transforms into demons and is quickly eliminated by the undead.
Therefore, there are tens of millions of undead wandering here.
Of course, the vast majority of these undead seem to be of low strength like abyss worms; they require thousands of battles to give birth to a high-level undead.
This is a breeding ground for undead.
Volcanic ash covers vast areas of land, the sky turns dim, yet the temperature does not drop further. The fire elementals summoned by Soren trigger geothermal activity, and since a portal to the elemental plane of fire has been opened, the magma layer of this world is rapidly expanding.
As long as this magic circle is maintained, the characteristics of the plane will gradually change.
Transforming a plane is not an easy task; if he were to act with his true body, it might be faster, but Soren requires a period of accumulation.
“We can attack now.”
Soren’s n*ked form stepped out of the lava pool, and the succubus maidens quickly approached, draping a cloak over his shoulders. The rising temperature excited the fire demons, and under the leadership of the Balroth Fire Demon, Soren’s main demon legion began to advance forward.
Soren did not intend to participate in this battle.
His strength has made it difficult to gain improvement through slaughtering low-level undead; he had more important tasks to attend to.
“Prepare the soul crystals.”
Soren spread his enormous demon wings and soared into the sky, then instructed the Succubus Boss beneath him: “Summon the goblin demon sorcerers. We can begin preparing for the real ritual.”
This is a plane war.
Killing a few undead alone cannot determine true victory; what Soren needs is to completely control this plane.
Inside the portal.
A large number of soul crystals were transported out; these were trophies from the demon legion’s extermination of ghouls and spirits. These fairly ordinary-quality soul crystals have other uses and are key to determining whether Soren can dominate this layer.
A fierce battle has erupted.
Over 100,000 demon troops began advancing toward the Bone Fortress, while high-level demons led their subordinates in battle against the d*ath knights. In an instant, the entire plain transformed into a battlefield, with over a million undead already gathered. In terms of cannon fodder numbers, the undead are not less than the demons, not to mention this plane is filled with countless bones; at the summons of the Corpsemancer, numerous skeletons and bone warriors were immediately resurrected.
They seem almost endless!
The characteristics of the plane continue to endow them with abilities; under the influence of plane characteristics, Thanatos’s undead spells can receive an additional boost of 1-3 caster levels.
After all, this is Orcus’s territory.
Soren spread his enormous demon wings and flew to the boundary of the plane, where over a hundred goblin demon sorcerers awaited, and some powerful night witches and ghost hags were also waiting for Soren’s arrival.
“Let’s begin.”
Soren nodded to a legendary-level Ygoroth Demon.
Then, the Ygoroth Demon ordered his subordinates to summon a ferryboat of the River of Underworld; the Ygoroth demons have always been one of the ferrymen of the River of Underworld, and only they can easily access the river.
“Go!” the Ygoroth Demon roared.
Then the ground trembled violently as a fissure appeared at the land’s boundary, and the waters of the River of Underworld surged into the inland. An enormous pit appeared before them, surrounded by countless dense runes and magic circles, all set up in collaboration by the goblin demon sorcerers, night witches, and ghost hags.
The waters of the River of Underworld flowed into it.
Countless wails of souls echoed, and with the assistance of the Ygoroth Demon, a massive pool of the River of Underworld appeared before Soren.
The dense power of d*ath permeated the air.
Soren slowly approached the giant pool, then took out a vial of dark red liquid.
This is the essence from the Abyss bl**d Pool!
Soren opened the crystal vial in his hand, then poured the essence from the Abyss bl**d Pool into the pool of the River of Underworld before he cut open his palm and raised his voice skyward, letting out a mighty roar: “Chaos!”
The bl**d of the Demon Lord fell into the pool.
The entire pool of the River of Underworld instantly erupted into a frenzy, countless souls howling within; the dark red bl**d pool essence spread at a visible rate, rapidly dyeing the pool water red, while the distant passage was already sealed. Under the influence of the bl**d pool essence, the pool of the River of Underworld was rapidly assimilated and transformed into a massive bl**d pool.
“Infuse the soul crystals!”
The demons carried basket after basket of low-level soul crystals and tossed them into the newly formed bl**d pool. They soon witnessed bubbles rising in the center of the bl**d pool, as countless flesh and bl**d twisted and combined at a visible rate, creating a scene that was horrifyingly disgusting.
The first abyss worm was born.
It crawled out from the bl**d pool and then wildly pounced on another abyss worm that was also born nearby.
This is the power of the Bottomless Abyss!
After any bl**d pool is born, the first thing it must do is give birth to a new Mother of Worms. Soren accelerated this process; under the influence of a large number of soul crystals, thousands of abyss worms were soon born, and then they began to madly devour and evolve beneath their very eyes.
A thread of power was extracted by the bl**d pool.
Just as Soren created this immense bl**d pool, the resurrection spells of high-level undead on the battlefield in the distance were suddenly weakened, greatly reducing the number of undead they could resurrect.
Meanwhile, the souls wandering in Thanatos were drawn by some force toward the distant Abyss bl**d Pool!
………………(To Be Continued ~^~)
