South of Bleak Wind Tundra was mostly barren mountains.
Even demons didn't pay much attention to such land. They preferred plains. Gulumba Arena was built in the relatively flat part of the mountains. Because there was a mine nearby, the demons and goblins gradually grew stronger. But now, all of this belonged to Sauron. The only threat to him was the sleeping Abyssal Demon Dragon. If no one went to disturb this Abyssal Demonic Dragon, then it ought to sleep for a period of time, because everyone knew that when Long Yi fell into sleep, the time was counted in years.
This Abyssal Demon Dragon had been sleeping for almost two years so far.
If it wasn't for the appearance of Sauron, perhaps it would have slept until the end of the Avatar Crisis. This might be the luck of the dragons.
Because the duration of the Avatar Crisis was actually very short for the dragons, many dragons unknowingly escaped the most turbulent period of the multiverse in their sleep.
Naturally, the barren mountainous terrain had its advantages.
Although there were no Abyss Worms and Dretch that often reincarnated as souls, these mountains were very rich in minerals, and even copper and iron ore could be seen in the open. This was a great temptation for demons because they could directly mine the minerals, then make them into weapons and sell them to other demons.
This time, the Demon Lord Alliance nominally gave one-third of the land of [Forgotten Land] to Sauron.
But in fact, if Sauron wanted to control these lands, he had to do something very important, and that was to conquer the other strong people in this land.
The Gnoll army had temporarily retreated.
Yenogu was not an ignorant brute. After knowing that the Demon Lords of the third layer of the Abyss had united, he would certainly mobilize enough troops to launch another attack. The casualties of the Gnolls alone were too great. Yenogu was cruel and ruthless to other races, but he was very kind to the Gnolls. He would certainly gather the army of the Ghoul King as a consumption.
In this way, other Demon Lords would have buffer time.
The main body of the material plane was in the process of building the divine kingdom. Fortunately, the third wave of impact did not affect the outer islands, which gave Søren enough time to develop.
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The first place Sauron chose to conquer was the [Abyssal Blood Pool].
There was a very important place to the south of the Frigid Wind Tundra. It was an abyssal pool of blood that was born in the mountains.
This was an endless supply of troops, labor, consumables, and cannon fodder. To any Demon Lord, occupying the Abyssal Blood Pool was a very important part of their plan. Because this represented an endless supply of regenerative resources, he did not have to go to the wilderness to collect those wandering Dretches.
However!
It was not easy to occupy the Abyssal Blood Pool.
As mentioned before, there was a creature called the Mother of Worms. It was a huge creature that had the power of a demigod and was responsible for guarding the Abyssal Blood Pool.
Sauron and the Demon Hunters came in a mighty manner.
Because of the Abyssal Blood Pool, the land here was dark red. There were many wandering Dretches. They were a group of cowards. They did not dare to wander in the wilderness of the bottomless abyss. They could only wander around the Abyssal Blood Pool, waiting for a worm that accidentally walked out, and then they would pounce on it one by one.
The Mother of Worms did not allow other demons to get close to the blood pool, but it would not stop the stupid Abyssal Worms that ran out of its protection range.
When Sauron arrived, he saw a group of Dretches eating a few worms that ran out. Then he did not hesitate to recruit these cowards. The Gulumba Arena was preparing to mine minerals. He needed a lot of demon labor to mine.
Dretches were weak.
But they were only equivalent to demons. For humans, Dretches with 12 points of Strength were stronger than adult men.
"Sizzle."
The arrival of Sauron instantly aroused the vigilance of the Mother of Worms. With a dull sound, the nearby Abyssal Worms dispersed. The Mother of Worms moved its huge body and appeared in front of Sauron.
"Boom!"
Sauron waved his hand and signaled the other high-grade demons to step back. Then he took a step forward and activated the body of flame. His whole body was covered in raging flames. This terrible flame made the Mother of Worms take a step back.
"I!"
"I am the embodiment of power!"
Sauron opened the wide demon wings behind him. A flame whip of more than ten meters appeared. The huge beheading sword was burning with blazing flames. He flew into the air and looked down at the Mother of Worms in front of him. He did not hide his power and fully displayed the pressure and strength of a demon lord. He roared at the Mother of Worms, "This is my territory!"
"All demons must listen to my orders!"
The raging flames surged.
Sauron waved his hand and a huge fireball fell from the sky. It directly blasted a huge pit beside the Mother of Worms. He roared, "Lowly worm!"
"From today onwards, I am your master!"
"I will take over this Abyssal Blood Pool and provide troops for my demon army!"
"You must submit to me!"
"Otherwise! You can only choose death! "
— [Intimidation]!
As a demon lord, Sauron could avoid some battles because intimidation was enough to deal with most enemies.
The Mother of Worms trembled slightly.
Facing the aggressive Sauron, it felt a trace of fear. After a long time, it lowered its head.
Then a row of data appeared in front of Sauron's eyes.
"Intimidation successful!"
"You have successfully subdued the Mother of Worms [Legendary Creature]! You have gained control of this Abyssal Blood Pool! From now on, the Mother of Worms will not allow demons who are not loyal to you to take worms from the Abyssal Blood Pool! … "
"You have successfully occupied the [Abyssal Blood Pool]! … "
…
The Mother of Worms' submission accidentally caused the Abyssal Blood Pool to fall into Sauron's hands.
He slowly descended from the sky, retracted the raging flames on his body, and walked near the blood pool.
In front of him was a dense swarm of worms.
These were the basic forms of demons. All demons could evolve from abyssal worms. They were the wealth of the bottomless Abyss, collecting scattered souls for reincarnation. Having an Abyssal Blood Pool was equivalent to having a treasure bowl for a demon lord. He could continuously harvest wealth and subordinates from it.
Of course, the premise was that he could defeat the Mother of Worms.
"Come."
"Send troops to guard here immediately!"
Sauron quickly retreated from the Abyssal Blood Pool. Because of his pressure, all the worms nearby trembled and shrank, branding the breath of a terrible demon lord deep in their souls.
Sauron looked down at all this and ordered, "From now on."
"I want you to guarantee that a group of demons can be born from here every day. I need a lot of troops to strengthen my army!"
…
Occupying the Abyssal Blood Pool was just the beginning.
Sauron still had many challenges to conquer this land, and the next one was something very disgusting in the bottomless Abyss.
— — "Boda Corpse!"
This was a terrible undead creature. They wandered in the bottomless Abyss and were full of hatred for all living creatures. Boda Corpses would attack all demons. They were rarely enslaved by demon lords, unless the demon lord was also undead. There was such a group of Boda Corpses in Sauron's territory.
They were a serious threat to Sauron's wealth.
Because many demons born in the wilderness, who could be recruited by Sauron and sent to the mines to dig, were killed by these Boda Corpses.
It was not easy to deal with them.
Sauron gathered nearly 30,000 demons for this purpose, and at the same time, he also sent out some fire demons he created. Sauron was moving on the path of the Balor Demon Lord. During this time, he had selected excellent souls and cultivated about six fire demons from them. As long as they were given an evolution plan, they could become high-grade flame demons.
This was a fierce battle!
Even if Sauron personally joined the battle, by the time these Boda Corpses were eliminated, his demon army had lost nearly 10,000 demons.
But it was all worth it.
Because as long as the Boda Corpses were eliminated, all the demons in the nearby wilderness could be recruited by Sauron, and this little army could be recovered in time. Sauron was cleaning up his territory. He needed to eliminate a lot of creatures, such as demon-hunting spiders, twisted mortals, various undead creatures, and wandering demons.
Because it was close to the top of the bottomless Abyss, there might also be traces of demons here.
A large territory meant more reincarnation opportunities. While constantly consuming the demon army, Sauron also had a group of Intermediate demons under his command because of the battle.
At the same time, in the process of conquering these territories, the demon army under Sauron's command also became larger. After eliminating the third batch of undead creatures, Sauron's demon army had reached the scale of more than 200,000, although most of them were low-grade demon cannon fodder.
At the same time.
Dozens of kilometers north of the Guruba Arena, an abyssal mine led by Yugros and managed by the demons and goblins had already begun operations.
Thousands of low-grade demons were sent to work in the mine, continuously transporting all kinds of ores. Some of them were sent to the arsenal opened by the demons, while the other part of the refined ores were sent to the Lord's mansion.
No one knew where these metals went.
They only knew that since the mine started operating, a batch of metals was sent to the Lord's mansion every day, but they had never seen any finished metal being transported out.
No one dared to ask more.
And the demons didn't care much about where these metals went. They only cared about how they had more power and could control more demons. The Lord had become stronger, and how they could continue to climb up.
The mines began to operate one by one.
A large number of metals were forged into weapons, and nearly half of the output was sent to a place called Modor City.
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(PS: Yeah. Trying to recover and update every day.)
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