Chapter 43: Trial of Slaughter
Soren looked down at everything from the sky.
As the master of the Battle Flag Plane, Soren had currently created two Battle Flag Trials, both of which were much easier than the ones he encountered at the beginning. They generally referenced his past experiences with battle games, setting them up as combat mode trial scenarios. The first was the battle between Modo and the demon army, which was used during the first test. This Battle Flag Trial had some limitations, so Soren created today’s new trial mode, which is the Blood War Trial of the Bottomless Abyss.
There was a reason for choosing the Blood War.
Because this was something all professionists knew, and being sent to the Blood War battlefield would easily create a sense of immersion, pressing out one’s potential in a brutal environment.
Moreover.
Soren also needed to conduct an important test.
That was to see if the killing power generated when a trialist was killed by a narrative character was the same as when it was caused by another trialist!
Soren himself had participated in the Blood War.
Thus, the entire Battle Flag Trial was very realistic, with the terrain resembling the first layer of the Bottomless Abyss closely. Soren simulated everything based on the Blood War scenes he experienced with his own Demon Avatar. From a setting perspective, it was still a small-scale skirmish because the number of trialists was still too few, and it wasn’t worth Soren spending too much power to expand the scale of the trial. However, even a small-scale skirmish, at the scale of the Blood War, was enough to easily destroy a small kingdom in the Material Plane, with the combined armies of demons and devils exceeding ten thousand.
The identity of the trialists was uniformly mercenaries.
Becoming Blood War mercenaries had no racial restrictions; even devils could become mercenaries for the demon faction.
With Blood War mercenaries to enhance the trialists’ sense of immersion, Soren needed a real killing battle to supplement the amount of killing power the Battle Flag Plane could provide.
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In the Battle Flag Plane, Ten Thousand Abyss Plains.
From the initial astonishment to now adapting, Tros had gradually gotten used to the pressure brought by the devils.
As an excellent Drow instructor, his qualifications were clearly superior to others, as he had gained a bit of experience dealing with devils from surviving in the Underdark. He had now become the captain of a small squad of devils, and although his subordinates were all substandard demons, they still had some cannon fodder.
At the same time.
In another trialist team, the trialists, primarily composed of elite pirates, had encountered a bit of trouble.
The cause was that one of the high-ranking pirates had cursed at the demon.
Demons, as you all know!
As representatives of the Chaotic Evil Faction, demons were often notorious for their fiery tempers, so this elite pirate surprisingly found himself attacked by a Frenzied Combat Demon. Before the battle even began, they had already taken friendly fire, and more annoyingly, the demon side’s captain showed no interest in stopping this, instead watching with interest as the Frenzied Combat Demon attacked them.
“What kind of dogshit army is this!”
The old shark, clearly the strongest among the elite pirates, cursed, then drew his weapon, saying, “What are you just standing there for!?”
“Are we just going to let the seahorse get killed?”
“Fucking hell!”
“Is the demon that impressive?”
The pirates from Modo were also a bunch of hotheads; they had followed Soren through countless battles and, although not quite as powerful as demons, were not cowards afraid to retaliate when attacked.
A group of pirates surrounded the Frenzied Combat Demon and started battling.
The fight didn’t last too long, and when the Frenzied Combat Demon was killed by them, the demon’s captain showed no intent to intervene. Only after they stopped did he walk over with a cackle and said, “Not bad! Although not as good as the Evil Spirits mercenaries, they can at least cause a bit of trouble for the devils.”
“Someone!”
“Take this away and reward those Coward Demons.”
A Frenzied Combat Demon picked up the demon’s corpse and tossed it to the Coward Demons behind, who then swarmed over, making it a gruesome scene.
Several elite pirates raised their eyebrows at the sight.
They were all drenched in blood, yet such scenes were still rarely seen, giving them a more genuine understanding of the savagery of demons.
“You five.”
“I will assign a small squad of Coward Demons to you. Your task is to pass through the trench and snipe the devil’s mercenaries.”
The captain, Furo Demon, seemed to be in a good mood and said in a deep voice, “As long as you can take down the devil’s mercenaries, you will have completed the mission.”
The scene was triggered.
According to specific trajectories, both sides triggered the core task of the trial.
Although no one triggered a hidden task, which disappointed Soren a bit, it was quite normal since the trialists were all natives and it was hard for them to have the same ideas as adventurers from past lives.
The next steps were straightforward.
About ten minutes later, the devil’s mercenaries encountered the demon’s mercenaries.
The battle broke out.
The elite pirates led by the old shark clearly had stronger individual power, while the officer class led by the Drow instructor possessed better organizational ability.
Both sides exchanged blows continuously.
Although the officer class had more experience, the old pirates were cunning and employed some special tactics, so the battle was pretty even. Once all the cannon fodder demons and devils were exhausted, they too had no choice but to join in the fray personally.
At that moment.
Soren’s attention was also drawn in.
Casualties appeared quickly!
The first casualty was a bearded pirate who fell to the Drow instructor, and the moment he died, a strong wave of killing power surged forth!
This killing power was nearly double what Soren had absorbed last time, almost equivalent to a whole day’s prayer from a devout believer.
There was no doubt about it!
The killing power generated when trialists died at the hands of demons and devils was completely different from when they died at the hands of other trialists; the gap between the two was significant!
“So that’s how it is!”
“Is dying at the hands of other trialists the most valuable way?”
Soren looked down at everything, lost in thought as the battle continued and the killing power kept accumulating.
However!
Just when Soren thought everything was coming to an end, suddenly a very strong wave of killing power surged, followed by a soul’s radiance rising and flying directly toward Soren’s palm.
At the same time.
On the high platform of the Battle Flag Plane, five elite pirates, who seemed to be in a deep sleep, suddenly found one of them turning pale, and then his breathing became weaker and weaker, eventually stopping altogether.
He was dead.
He died in the Battle Flag Trial, and at the same time, in reality, he also stopped breathing and his heart ceased beating!
……………(To be continued ~^~)
