Chapter 105: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Succubus Queen
“What?”
Soren stared at the strange-looking Ygoroth and muttered, “The Succubus Queen has disappeared?”
As if realizing he was a bit uncomposed.
He slightly nodded to indicate that he was aware of the matter, then waved his hand, saying, “I understand. You may leave now. This is your reward.”
Soren threw a medium-quality Soul Crystal.
The Ygoroth in front of him had brought this news to him, clearly expecting some compensation. It seemed that the news had not spread yet, and its source of information should be related to the Succubus. In the lower planes, only benefiting from something could attract evil spirits; if there’s no benefit, the first time they might endure it, but the next time such information might not be passed on to Soren.
“Thank you, my lord!”
The Ygoroth grinned as he held the Soul Crystal. This item was hard currency in the lower planes, far more valuable than any gold or jewelry. It was very satisfied with Soren’s reward and quickly nodded and left.
Soren had the gifted spell-like ability ‘Soul Extraction Technique’, making it relatively easy to extract some Soul Crystals.
It’s just that the yield was quite low.
Currently, Soren could only use it once a day, meaning that if there were enough enemies for him to kill and sufficient conditions to cast the Soul Extraction Technique, he could produce one each day.
“It seems something significant is brewing.”
Soren gazed at the demon in front of him. This news had not spread yet, but soon there would be a chain of events. The Succubus Queen had many enemies; if she really had gone missing, these enemies would likely jump out to take a bite out of her. Soren couldn’t remember what major event had happened in the Bottomless Abyss before the Saint’s Cataclysm erupted, but one thing he could be sure of was that the Succubus Queen hadn’t fallen.
In terms of means, the Succubus Queen was also quite ruthless.
“Could it be because of the Saint’s Cataclysm? Could she have fallen to the mortal realm?”
Soren closed his eyes, pondering, and murmured, “But the Succubus Queen’s divinity is quite different from other deities, right? She doesn’t completely rely on the power of her divinity!”
“Moreover, I’ve never heard of a demon lord from the lower planes falling to the mortal realm!”
Energy storms come from above.
Although the specific situation was still unclear, Soren sensed a whiff of conspiracy involved. The mysterious disappearance of a powerful demon lord would directly lead to a reshuffling of the situation in the Bottomless Abyss, and the Land of Forgotten, where he was located, would probably shake as well.
The reason was simple.
The Succubus Legion had grown stronger over the years, even having stationed troops in the Land of Forgotten.
From the first to the sixth layer of the Bottomless Abyss, as long as the environment wasn’t too harsh, almost every small territory would be occupied by the Succubus Legion as a transfer station. A part of the weapons and equipment in the Bottomless Abyss was obtained through their hands via trade with the neutral faction’s evil spirits, mainly because the evil spirits trusted the Succubus’s credibility more than other chaotic demons.
“Forget it.”
Although Soren felt something was about to happen, he thought to himself that he probably didn’t have the strength to get involved, so he might as well focus on his own matters first. Besides, the goods he had prepared long ago were to be sent over in the next few days. Once these items arrived, he estimated that he could become one of the most powerful demon lords near the Gurenba Arena.
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Overseas Islands, Modo.
Today’s weather was nice; the sun was shining brightly under a clear sky. However, George received a rather strange task today. That was to transport a batch of accumulated weapons from the warehouse to the forbidden area.
Hard to understand.
George didn’t understand why the higher-ups ordered them to transport those weapons to the forbidden area of Modo City, as it comprised dozens of carts of weaponry. But it didn’t matter whether he understood the orders; they simply had to strictly execute the orders given above. So George had started transporting weapons since early this morning. Now it was already the third load of equipment.
“Ha!”
While the people below were loading weapons onto the carts, George reached out to grab a warhammer from the large cart in front of him. The heavy weight made his arm sink. He then tried to swing it but shook his head, saying, “No good!”
“The weight is too heavy.”
“Perhaps this weapon weighs by one or two hundred pounds? Who in the whole of Modo could possibly use such a heavy weapon in battle?”
“I’ve seen dwarven warhammers before.”
“I estimate that the warhammers used by the dwarves from Hearthstone aren’t even half the weight of this one in my hand. I don’t know why they bought so many over-weight weapons!”
Hearing George’s words, a serious-looking Drow Warrior beside him also picked up a heavy two-handed sword.
Forged from fine steel, enchanted by the Northern region, a first-tier Extraordinary Weapon.
The heavy weight made the Drow, who was accustomed to wielding delicate weapons, frown involuntarily. He swung the two-handed sword around, then calmly said, “Don’t ask so much. Just follow the order and transport it over.”
George grimaced at his words, nodded, and said, “Of course, I know that.”
“I’m just a bit curious.”
“By the way, since you met that half-elf girl, you’ve started talking more than before, huh?”
The Drow glanced at him, his expression serious, not responding.
The atmosphere became a bit awkward.
Although they were already familiar with each other, it was still hard for humans to adapt to the seriousness of the Drow Warriors.
The carts were being loaded one after another.
George estimated the number of loads and then spoke, “It looks like we’ll have to make about ten more trips; hopefully, we can get everything delivered around noon.”
“Tsk tsk.”
“These weapons should be enough to equip thousands of barbarians, right?”
Among all professions, barbarians had the highest strength value, as their rage ability could temporarily increase their strength. This batch of weapons being sent over probably required at least 16 points of strength to handle, while some heavy weapons would need over 20 points of Extraordinary strength. To use them in battle was basically a dream.
Modo had been stockpiling these weapons for some time.
Although many people didn’t understand why Lord Soren had issued so many heavy weapon orders to the Northern Assembly, now that they were being transported out, there should be a place of use.
Some speculated whether Lord Soren was making weapon trades with some faction.
In any case, they just needed to carry out the orders.
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The Bottomless Abyss was lacking in everything.
Because these demons simply did not understand production, their favorite activities were destruction and killing. Therefore, in the Bottomless Abyss, weapons and equipment were far behind those of the demons from the Hell of Bartok and the neutral evil spirits.
Only understanding killing and war cannot bring prosperity.
Most of the weapons and equipment in the Bottomless Abyss were smuggled from other channels. Even though the Bottomless Abyss itself has quite rich resources in this aspect, there isn’t much productive labor among the demons. Cannon fodder keeps being consumed batch after batch, and very few demons learn production skills since the environment could lead to their death at any moment. In the Bottomless Abyss, an average mid-level demon only possesses one piece of Extraordinary equipment, and that’s often just a weapon.
The scarcity of materials forces the demons to rely on neutral factions’ evil spirits to smuggle equipment.
It might seem a bit laughable.
But the reality is that for a long period prior, the weapons and equipment used by demons on the battlefield during the Blood War were all outdated products smuggled out from the Hell of Bartok by neutral faction evil spirits.
In other words, demons were fighting with weapons that had been deemed obsolete by the demons.
The environment of the Bottomless Abyss is that terrible!
Unless a specific demon lord unifies or occupies a large area, it’s very difficult for any spot in the Bottomless Abyss to have organized weapon manufacturing. The number of weapon factories across the more than 600 layers of the Bottomless Abyss combined doesn’t even surpass that of the first layer of the Hell of Bartok.
This is the current state of demons.
Therefore, Soren could only prepare these things by himself, as the weapons and equipment smuggled by Ygoroth were also limited. They were involved in inter-planar weapon trade and pursued high profits from it.
Soren was preparing to dip his toes into the inter-planar trading market.
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(PS: Three chapters transition completed with a 600,000-word plot; you guys can’t say I’m dragging things out.) (To be continued ~^~)
