In the eyes of humans and other species, the demons of the Abyss were all chaotic and disorderly, but this was actually a misunderstanding.
The reason why there were such rumors was that most humans could come into contact with low-rank and middle-rank demons. For these two levels of demons, they were indeed bloodthirsty and fond of killing. There was no order to speak of, and they only knew destruction and destruction.
But it had to be known that even unintelligent animals and wild beasts had certain rules in their groups, let alone intelligent species like demons.
However, the order among demons was usually some specific rules formed over millions of years. They were not like humans, which were engraved into written laws and passed down. Moreover, demons would only abide by these rules when necessary. If they were so strong that no one could restrain them, they could also ignore them.
High-rank demons were already the rulers of the Demon World. Although there were still demon lords and demon kings above them, generally speaking, demon lords and demon kings would not pay too much attention to management and would leave it to high-rank demons.
Just like Demon Lord Rogeros, whom Roy had encountered in the middle Abyss, he had thrown many trivial matters to high-rank demon Edrach, who was loyal to him, to do. Only when he really needed to appear would he appear personally, and most of the time, he would only appear in the form of projection clones.
It could be said that high-rank demons were the true elites of the Demon World. How could such elites let the world they lived in be chaotic and unmanageable?
Therefore, the so-called chaos and disorder should actually refer to the code of conduct of demons in other worlds. As long as it was not the world they lived in, demons could do whatever they wanted. The Abyss was the hometown of demons, so they had to take good care of it …
It was not until he traveled around the lower Abyss that he realized that the resources in this lower Abyss were indeed quite abundant.
There were a large number of mineral deposits here, just like the Abyss demon iron ore that Roy had obtained back then. These relatively ordinary ores were everywhere in the lower Abyss, and they were not too valuable. In addition, there were many relatively rare minerals, such as a purplish-red demon blood stone that was the color of demon blood, as well as ores like Debis copper, flaming mica, dark mercury, and so on, which had a surface that looked like biological blood vessels. They were distributed in the lower Abyss, and these ores with various characteristics could be used to create demon weapons with special attributes!
After all, demons had been at war with other races for a long time, such as angels, humans, elves, dragons, elemental creatures, and so on. They could be said to be enemies of the Infinite Worlds. Under such circumstances, demons could not rely entirely on their bodies and magic power to fight, and they still needed necessary weapons.
The demon castles that high-rank demons lived in were usually built in places with special resources. The existence of a demon castle often meant that the surrounding resources belonged to this demon castle. As the lord of a demon castle, as long as the high-rank demon mined these resources, it would be equivalent to the resources belonging to him.
Of course, it was impossible for high-rank demons to do things like mining resources themselves, so they often used their abilities to create some demon puppets to do this hard work. It did not matter if they did not know how to make demon puppets. There were many powerful monsters in the lower Abyss, and they could just enslave them to do it. Furthermore, some high-rank demons would draw summoning formations and find low-rank and middle-rank demons from the middle or upper Abyss to work for them. But this was not common because middle-rank and low-rank demons could not live too long in the lower Abyss. The environment here was harsher, and even the monsters were stronger than them. Once they left the range of a demon castle, it was very likely that they would be killed … Moreover, the appearance of middle-rank and low-rank demons here would give high-rank demons the feeling that their identity was' tarnished ', so generally speaking, high-rank demons would not do this unless they had no other choice.
Roy and Julia observed a few demon castles from afar and found that high-rank demons used demon puppets the most! These demon puppets were the so-called residents of the demon castles. They only served the masters of the demon castles and worked day and night to earn the capital to increase their strength for high-rank demons.
Demon puppets were actually a general term that referred to some special species created by demons. These puppets might be pieced together from a large number of corpses and then infused with captured souls to make them move. They might also be made of some stones or metals. True puppets were driven by souls and magic.
Sometimes, the resource range of a demon castle was not so clear, so there would sometimes be wars between demon castles. But usually, the two high-rank demons as masters would not directly attack each other. Instead, they would first let the puppets under them fight each other. It would be best if there was a victor. If there was no victor, then they would decide whether to kill each other based on the situation.
It was not easy to grow into high-rank demons, and high-rank demons were relatively restrained among each other. Not only would they not easily have life-and-death battles, but most of the time, they still had some contact with each other.
In such disputes, the unlucky ones were definitely the demon puppets and the enslaved monsters. Perhaps it was precisely because of this cruel way of using souls that other creatures were afraid of demons. After all, no one wanted their souls to be eaten after death or sealed in a corpse or puppet, never to be free.
Roy flew in the air with Julia and circled the lower Abyss for a full week. After flying for four to five thousand kilometers, he only saw about thirty demon castles. In the end, he finally found a demon castle that looked more pleasing to the eye.
The architectural style of this demon castle was slightly different. Compared to other demon castles that used a lot of magma and flames, this castle used a lot of demon obsidian. This kind of demon obsidian was a kind of crystal containing powerful dark power. After polishing, it was black and shiny. Perhaps there was a vein of this ore nearby, so they used so many demon obsidian. As soon as Julia saw this demon castle, she immediately liked it. She liked this kind of shiny object.
Moreover, this demon castle looked quite huge. Including the area of the city wall, it occupied no less than one square kilometer. It was the largest demon castle that Roy and the others had seen during this period of time.
What happened next was simple. Roy went all out and flew above the demon castle. He summoned an enormous black lightning bolt and struck the open space in front of the castle, instantly blasting a huge pit with a diameter of hundreds of meters. Then he roared at the demon castle below, "Either scram or scram!! Or die!! "
A moment later, a reverse-winged high-rank demon flew out of the demon castle and fled into the distance in a panic, not even daring to meet Roy face to face.
Judging from the magic power pressure emanating from the other party, this reverse-winged high-rank demon was also a very powerful high-rank demon. But compared to a quasi-lord like Roy, he was still far inferior. Perhaps seeing the power of Roy's black lightning bolt, he compared it and found that he could not defeat Roy, so he simply abandoned the territory and fled.
Thus, Roy simply became the master of this demon castle.
This situation was very common in the lower Abyss. Of course, the bigger the demon castle, the better, but whether it could defend the territory was another matter. The masters of the same demon castle changed quite frequently.
Seeing that the other party was so tactful, Roy could not be bothered to chase after the high-rank demon. He brought Julia and Fat Tiger straight down and entered the demon castle.
The high-rank demon left in a panic, which was equivalent to leaving without anything, and it was naturally impossible to take away the property in the demon castle. When Roy and Julia entered, they saw a large number of demon puppets gathered at the entrance of the castle. When they saw Roy, they knelt on the ground in unison, and one of the leading demon puppets said in a numb and hollow voice, "New demon castle master, welcome!"
Roy took a look and found that this demon puppet was a flesh and blood puppet. At first glance, this guy looked like a giant mosquito with a long tail and three pairs of arthropod-like legs on its abdomen. Its upper body was humanoid, and it had two pairs of black compound eyes on its face. Behind it were tattered transparent wings that looked like flies.
Needless to say, Roy felt a little disgusted by this appearance, but there was nothing he could do about it. He knew that many demons had distorted aesthetics, and the demon who made this puppet was probably the same.
"What's your name?" Roy asked him with a frown.
"Master, you can call me Cagruze! This is the name given to me by my previous master. Of course, you can also change my name … "Cagruze said.
Roy could not be bothered to change his name and asked, "Are you the butler of this demon castle?"
"I don't know if I am or not, Master!" Cagruze gave a strange answer.
"What do you mean?" Julia frowned.
"In this demon castle, only my soul still has a little consciousness, so my previous master ordered me to carry out his will …" Cagruze said, his voice always feeling numb and hollow.
Roy understood and said, "Then your duties are the same as before."
"Yes, Master!" Cagruze replied.
Roy looked at the other demon puppets and found that they were all standing quietly at the back, and their appearances could be said to be strange. Roy saw rock puppets that were all made of stone and caused earthquakes when they walked, and he also saw fat and bloated stitched corpse puppets that were like abominations. But these puppets did not have any consciousness and could only passively accept orders. Although Roy was very curious about how they determined who the master of the demon castle was, now was not the time to explore this, so he nodded and walked into the city with Julia.
The demon castle was quite large, and there were many rooms, but most of them already had fixed purposes. Some were smelting rooms with large pots burning with magma, some were forging rooms with hammers and anvils, and some were rooms with a large number of magic formations engraved on them. Roy did not know what they were for.
After walking around, Roy and Julia returned to the largest hall. There was an enormous demon throne here, and it looked like the throne of the city lord. In the middle of the hall, there was a circular pool filled with a strange liquid that looked like silver oil.
As soon as Roy and Julia walked in, the oil in the pool suddenly churned and finally turned into a human figure. It was clearly a human figure made of a pile of liquid, but the details were exquisite. This liquid person looked like a succubus, and Roy could even distinguish the shape of the armor she was wearing from the liquid.
"Delt! Delt! Damn it, are you there? "the liquid figure shouted at the city lord's throne.
Roy had been watching, but after hearing the liquid figure's words, he suddenly realized that this thing might be a communication device, so he said, "If you're talking about the previous master of this city, then unfortunately, he's not here!"
After hearing Roy's words, the liquid figure was stunned for a moment before turning around and seeing Roy.
If this was the common communication method of high-rank demons in demon castles, then Roy reckoned that a liquid person similar to Roy should have formed in the other party's demon castle.
"Who are you? Is Delt dead? "the succubus asked.
"He's not dead!" Roy said. "This guy was very tactful and took the initiative to give up the demon castle, so I let him leave! What about you? Who are you? "
"My name is Benia!" The succubus had a thoughtful expression on her face. "You said that Delt left on his own accord? Then it seems like you're a rather powerful demon … "
"Okay, the person you're looking for isn't here!" Roy said. "If there's nothing else, then leave!"
"Don't be so unreasonable!" The liquid succubus suddenly giggled, and her voice was full of temptation. "I didn't expect to meet a new neighbor. Maybe we can have a good 'exchange' …"
Before Roy could answer, Julia's face collapsed when she heard the succubus's tone …
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