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[ First-Hell Gate (4) ]
In the Demon World The biggest castle.
The thirty-six demon kings gathered at Baal’s castle were unable to control their boiling anger.
[A human being as bad as an insect…!]
[This is the first time such an insult has been experienced in thousands of years!]
[Kaaaaaaaaah!]
Every time the demon kings vented their anger, the walls and ceiling shook.
Kugugugugung…!
The momentum emitted by more than a dozen demon lords was formidable.
The demon kings were looking at the battlefield on Earth through their respective demon glasses.
The demonic beasts raised for war were being torn apart by humans, and the monsters raised with great care were being hunted.
It didn’t matter up to that point.
If you invade another dimension, there is bound to be a lot of damage there.
The problem is that all the subordinates sent by the demon kings have been captured by the martial arts people.
Beyond the demonic realm, the martial arts people were beating up the rebellious demons.
-You guys are noisy!
There was no devil who would enjoy seeing his descendants beaten up in prison. There was evil in the eyes of the demon kings.
[How dare my family… I will chew that bastard up myself!]
[We must send more demonic beasts and wipe out those bastards right now!]
[When on earth will the portal be completed? If only they could descend to that land directly…!]
[Krrrrr…!!]
However, since they couldn’t cross the dimension right away, the Demon Lords were unable to control their seething anger.
However, among them, there was a demon lord who could not express his anger comfortably.
‘Damn it…’
Belial, who was sitting in the corner seat, had a particularly stiff expression on his face.
‘I gave too much power to my subordinates.’
In order to gain merit in this battlefield, Belial went out of his way to share his power with his subordinates.
By sacrificing one’s own strength to a level where one cannot easily recover it for a while.
Thanks to this, I felt suffocated just sitting among the other demon lords.
‘If other demon lords find out about this…’
I didn’t want to even imagine the story behind it.
In order to avoid being discovered that he had become weak, Belial desperately increased his momentum and acted angrily.
[Wow! If I can cross the dimension, I will tear them all to pieces with my own hands!]
Even the other Demon Lords were shocked by the sight of Belial, with his eyes rolling back and his entire body spewing murderous energy.
At that time, a heavy voice echoed throughout Daejeon.
[stop. Be quiet.]
With those words, the once noisy Daejeon quickly became quiet.
The demon kings tempered their anger. They looked up at the person looking down at them with fear.
Three thrones located at
the highest point in Daejeon .
The gigantic being sitting in the middle opened its mouth.
[What is the point in continuing to talk like this?]
Baal is number 1 in the Demon World.
He is the Demon King of Demon Lords and a powerful being who has never come down since sitting on the highest authority in the Demon World.
Baal sat on the throne, resting his chin and looking down at the other demon kings as if they were pitiful.
[Or maybe you just want to test how hard my sex is? It seems like some of them were deliberately draining their energy from earlier.]
The demon kings flinched under Baal’s gaze.
[That’s not it…]
[We just…]
[That’s it. Let’s just skip it for today.]
Baal waved his hand as if he was annoyed. It was the leisure of an overwhelmingly strong man.
However, even Baal frowned at the sight seen through the magic mirror.
[Humans from multiple dimensions gathered in a dimensional hub… It’s more annoying than I thought.]
Earth Gaia Murim.
Baal had already known that the three dimensions were completely connected.
However, I never imagined that they would form an alliance so quickly and respond organically to the invasion of the demon world.
‘Is an alliance between dimensions really that easy?’
That couldn’t have been possible.
Forming an alliance between countries was bound to take a long time because so many interests were intertwined.
There was nothing to say about the unit called ‘dimension to dimension’.
Human beings with vastly different languages and cultures and vastly different values.
Boundaries and exploration between each other. It was a natural process for the exchange to take place slowly after careful contact.
‘…Are you saying that three dimensions formed an alliance in this short period of time without any such process?’
Baal, who had reigned as the king of the demon world for an immeasurable amount of time and had peered into many dimensions, knew this fact better than anyone else.
That alliance is by no means normal.
This is impossible without the active intervention of ‘some being’.
‘Could it be that the gods intervened? Or a dragon?’
Baal felt a chill in his heart for the first time in thousands of years.
Surprisingly, it was ‘anxiety’.
‘Someone I don’t know is involved in this war. It’s clearly a very cunning… being with great ambitions to take over the dimensional hub!’
Even Baal, the King of the Demon World, could not have imagined that that being would be a person whose goal was retirement.
However, there was also a being who knew more than Baal.
[Tsk. Didn’t I say that? Don’t be too hasty.]
[…Basago.]
Baal furrowed his brows and turned around at the voice coming from his left.
Two demon lords that even Baal, the most powerful person in the demon world, cannot ignore.
Vassago, who had the appearance of a golden skull, was smiling strangely.
[Because we only pushed forward in a situation where we lacked information about the enemy, didn’t we only increase the damage to our allies?]
[Shut up, Vasago! Do you think you have the right to make a fuss here about a topic that has barely dispatched an army?]
Agares growled disapprovingly from Baal’s right.
2nd and 3rd place in the Demon World ranking.
The two have not been on good terms for a long time.
The Demon World consisted of three factions, led by Baal Agares Vassago.
Of the three, Baal’s faction was the strongest, and Agares’ and Vassago’s factions were almost equal.
Baal usually did not take either side.
But today, Baal was also in an uncomfortable state because of the ‘unknown entity’ that intervened in the war.
[Basago. As Agares said, you have no right to make such remarks. If you’re planning on provoking me, it would be better to leave here.]
Kwakwakwakwakwakwa!
Baal revealed his mighty power and glared at Vassago.
[You seem like a friend with an impatient personality. Who said we should distinguish between right and wrong? I just…]
Vassago looked relaxed while receiving Baal’s gaze. He tapped his knee with his bony fingers.
[I have a good plan and I am trying to let everyone know.]
[A good plan?]
At those words, the demon kings looked at Vassago with curious expressions.
Vassago was the wisest and most cunning of the demon kings.
Although his power did not reach that of Baal and Agares, he was skilled in all kinds of magic and had mastered knowledge of various dimensions.
[okay. If successful, there is a way to turn the situation around in an instant.]
Grumble!
An unsettling blue light flashed within the golden skull. Baal nodded as if telling him to continue speaking.
The other demon kings also waited with expectant expressions for Vassago to open his mouth.
[It’s just one of us going over there.]
[…….]
Maybe it’s because my expectations were too high. A look of disappointment flashed across the faces of the demon kings.
Agares openly criticized Vassago.
[You’re talking nonsense like that. Don’t you know what will happen if you try to cross the current dimension?]
The passage connecting Earth and the Demon World was not yet ‘hard’ enough to support the Demon King’s main body.
A question of strength, not size.
If you tried to force your way through the passage, there was even a possibility that the gate would collapse.
[Of course I know it well. But isn’t there an expedient?]
Vassago couldn’t have been unaware of such a basic fact.
[Of course, we cannot skip to the main body. However, just like Balaam did before, if you only have a ‘soul’, you can easily get over it.]
The mighty body of the original body is left in the demon world, and only the soul crosses the gate.
That alone will make the dimensional passageway scream, but it is manageable.
Baal was dumbfounded and asked back.
[Are you saying that knowing what happened to Balaam?]
[Yes, he was destroyed. [Because he was a stupid but greedy guy.]
The Demon King Balaam had the ambition to take over the Earth by himself.
He used an expedient method to cross the Hell Gate, fought against humans in a desperately weakened state, and eventually sacrificed even the Demon King’s Castle to the enemy.
[But things are different now.]
Vassago chuckled, gritting his teeth. An evil energy seeped out from his whole body.
[If we pool our strength little by little, wouldn’t we be able to fully restore the strength lost while crossing the dimension?] I
saw several Demon Lords leaning in this direction, as if they were a little tempted.
At that moment, Vassago threw a decisive bait.
[Above all, there is the Demon King’s Castle over there. If we take that away from humans… we can regain strength on Earth in an instant.]
The sky above the battlefield seen beyond the demonic landscape.
The Demon King, who had grown to a significant level, was firing magical cannons in all directions.
Burbububbung!
Burbububbung!
Numerous winged demons and monsters were attacking the entire Demon King Castle, surrounding it in pitch black.
The Demon King was firing magic cannons with his energy shield open, but its power was gradually weakening.
[If we take that Demon King Castle, this war will be our victory.]
Gulp.
Now, in the eyes of the demon kings, the demon castle looked like delicious food.
[That…]
[I never thought about it.]
The demon kings shook their heads in admiration.
Vassago was right. The Demon King’s Castle originally belonged to the Demon King.
I don’t know how humans use it, but if you take it away, you can exert similar power on Earth as in the Demon World.
[Is this still nonsense?]
Vassago laughed cheerfully, feeling that the atmosphere in Daejeon had changed.
[Hmm…]
Baal crossed his arms and pondered.
It didn’t sound like a bad plan to him.
1. One of the Demon Lords passes to Earth as a soul.
2. The power lost while crossing the gate is gradually added by the demon kings here.
3. Together with the demon army over there, we will take away the demon castle that has fallen into their hands.
[…If we succeed, we can turn the tide of the war in an instant.]
But a crucial problem remained.
[So who will go over to Earth?]
[…….]
The demon kings avoided Baal’s gaze. The risk was too great to take the initiative.
‘If I succeed, I will have more majors than anyone else…’
‘The risk is too great.’
The Earth Dimension Allied forces that they had seen in person were too strong for them to willingly go.
If it goes to the main body, it can be easily trampled, but with the soul body alone…
[Vasago. Are you going to go yourself?]
[I am satisfied with giving advice.]
[Hmph. [A coward.]
Vassago was the first to leave, and Agares also criticized him, but seemed to have no intention of going himself.
It was the same with Baal. The three overlords had no regrets about not going.
What was disappointing was that it was always the poor side.
[I will go!]
There was one demon lord who suddenly stood up from his seat.
[I will go to Earth and wipe them out!]
He was Belial.
[ First-Hell Gate (4) ] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
