The deeper they went into the mountain range, the smaller the snowflakes falling from the sky. But on the contrary, the temperature in the environment was getting lower and lower.
When Roy entered the highest main peak under Razthan's lead, the temperature had already fallen to minus 120 degrees. The rocks of the mountain had already been covered by a thick layer of ice crystals, reflecting a dirty light under the gray sky.
This made Roy dislike this place even more. Indeed, the environment here was one of the few places in the Abyss suitable for frost demons to live, but this dirty ice and snow environment was not what Roy wanted.
"Your Excellency Osiris, we're here!" Razthan's voice came from the side as he pointed at an enormous cave on the mountainside of the main peak.
The entrance to this enormous cave was shaped by hard ice crystals into a ferocious demon head, and the open mouth full of sharp teeth was the entrance passage. Roy folded his wings, descended, and followed Razthan into the cave. He did not expect to see a staircase sloping down inside. It seemed like Anivia's hall was in the belly of this main peak.
This was the first time Roy had visited the 'home' of a demon lord. He was originally imagining how Anivia would welcome him, but he did not expect that when he entered the bottom of the cave, he would see a … gigantic ice coffin!
This ice coffin was placed vertically in the mountain wall, and it was surrounded by dark blue ice crystals. These ice crystals looked very hard and sharp, standing like a sword mountain. In this chaotic environment, the huge and regular rectangular ice coffin was very conspicuous. Roy looked at it and estimated conservatively that the ice coffin was about thirty meters tall and more than twenty meters thick. Under the endless cold aura, the scene inside the ice coffin was faintly discernible.
Inside the ice coffin was the body of a tall demon. His lower limbs were reversed hooves, and the muscles all over his body bulged. A pair of huge demon wings on his back wrapped around most of his body as he stood in the ice coffin. He seemed to be sleeping, but when Roy came in, he seemed to be gradually waking up because he sensed Roy's aura, causing the ice coffin to tremble slightly.
This trembling eventually caused countless cracks to appear on the giant ice coffin. Cracking sounds rang out continuously, and in the end, the tall demon inside the ice coffin suddenly flapped its wings, shattering it into countless fragments that flew in all directions.
Some of the ice crystal fragments inevitably shot in Roy's direction, but before they could hit Roy, they were blocked by a black ice wall. On the other hand, Razthan did not dare to use magic power to block these fragments. He was immediately smashed until his head bled, but he did not dare to make a sound.
"Anivia, this isn't a good way to greet you!" Roy said sarcastically as he waved his hand to disperse the ice wall in front of him.
With a loud thud, Anivia, who had emerged from the ice coffin, landed on the ice in front of Roy. He was on all fours, his arms supporting his upper body, and he looked down at Roy in a squatting manner.
Demon Lord Anivia was much larger than Roy. Even though he was squatting like this, he was nearly ten meters tall. The pair of ice-blue demon wings behind him spread out and almost filled the cave. Because he was a frost demon, his skin was also blue. But compared to Razthan and the others, Anivia's entire body was almost crystallized. At first glance, it looked like he was wearing a layer of frost armor.
He stared at Roy for a while before saying in a strange voice that sounded like ice crystals rubbing against each other, "A young … demon lord? No wonder Razthan brought you here … He doesn't dare to disobey you, right? "
Razthan, who had been mentioned, was trembling all over as he crawled on the ice, not daring to move.
Roy waved his hand. "Don't worry. I don't have any ill intentions. You look like you're in the True Name Liberation state, right? This won't do. It's really difficult for us to communicate like this! Don't tell me you want me to keep looking up to talk to you? "
Hearing Roy's indifferent tone, Anivia seemed to be a little angry. He could not help but raise his right fist from the ground and slam it against the ice on the ground. The immense force shattered the ice.
Lowering his head, Anivia moved his huge, ferocious head closer to Roy. "Be careful with your words, young demon lord. I, Anivia, have been a demon lord for more than four hundred years. I'm not someone a young guy like you can compare to!"
"Hmph!" Roy could not help but snort coldly. He suddenly spread the three pairs of demon wings on his back, and magic power filled his body. He said to Anivia in a tit-for-tat manner, "Before threatening me, hide the wound on your abdomen, old man!"
These words stunned Anivia. He lowered his head and looked at his abdomen. As expected, he saw a black line on his abdomen. It was where his wound had originally been. Although it was no longer bleeding, it had not healed.
Knowing that Roy had seen through his injury, Anivia hesitated for a moment before retracting his head. Under a strong cold aura, his body quickly shrank a lot and finally became a four-meter-tall demon.
"Tell me, Demon Lord Osiris. Why did you come to find me?" Anivia walked closer and asked Roy with an unfriendly expression. "Although I, Anivia, am injured, if you want to have any ideas about my territory, you have to think carefully!"
"You actually know my name. It seems like you didn't know nothing about the outside world when you were sleeping and recuperating …" Roy sneered. "Don't worry. Like I said before, this dirty polar environment isn't what I want."
Anivia snorted, and cold air came out of his nostrils. He stretched out his hand and waved it. Two huge frost chairs condensed on the ground and invited Roy to sit down.
After Roy sat down, Anivia suddenly raised his foot and kicked Razthan's abdomen, sending him flying with a bang. Razthan's entire body crashed into an ice pillar at the top of the cave like a cannonball, shattering it inch by inch. But even so, Razthan did not die. He struggled to get up and said tremblingly, "Thank … Thank you, Your Excellency Anivia …"
He knew that this was Anivia's punishment for bringing Roy here. But since Anivia did not kill him and only used this method to punish him, it meant that Anivia had forgiven him.
"Get out!" Anivia cursed in the face of Razthan's gratitude. Razthan did not dare to say anything else and quickly struggled to leave the cave.
Roy did not say anything when he saw this scene. He knew that this was Anivia's own matter, and he could only be considered a guest and could not express any opinions. After watching Anivia walk to the chair opposite him and sit down, Roy said, "Okay, Anivia, tell me about the situation now. I just completed the promotion ritual in a world, and after returning to the Abyss, I was teleported to this level. There are many things I don't know, so I want to find someone who knows about the situation to understand."
"What's there to say?" Anivia snorted. "This level of the Abyss is just like what you saw, shattered into countless spatial bubbles. Since you've become a demon lord, you can choose one of these fragment worlds as your territory. Do you need me to say more about such a simple matter?"
"Of course I understand what to do, but what I want to know is the situation of these fragment worlds!" Roy said. "Is every spatial bubble connected to other spaces?"
"No, there are also completely independent spaces, but there are very few!" Anivia's anger seemed to have subsided a little. "There are about a hundred demon lords still in the Abyss. They all have their own territories, and these territories are usually connected to other spaces on a fault plane, so most demon lords have 'neighbors'!"
"Oh? In that case, 'neighborhood disputes' often happen? "Roy asked curiously.
"Of course!" Anivia said, "Because every lord only occupies a small area. No matter how large their territory is, their resources are limited. Perhaps what you want can only be found in someone else's territory. In such a situation, what can you do if you want it?"
"Negotiate with the neighbors?" Roy pondered for a moment and said.
"Hmph, what a good joke!" Anivia snorted. "But what if your neighbors aren't willing to negotiate?"
"Then I can only rob them!" Roy spread his hands.
"That's right. I can only rob them!" Anivia nodded. "There are many strange minerals in this level of the Abyss, but even demon lords can't mine them personally, right? Therefore, they need population. Under normal circumstances, lords will order the monsters in their territories or summon some demons loyal to them from the upper levels of the Abyss to mine these resources. The neighborhood disputes between lords often revolve around population and minerals. "
"The wound on your body …" Roy pointed at the wound on his abdomen. "Was it caused by a neighborhood dispute?"
However, Anivia unexpectedly shook his head. "No, it's not. In fact, the origin of this wound is worse than a neighborhood dispute."
"What do you mean?" Roy asked in puzzlement.
"A group of people, or rather, a group of demons, has been hunting frost demons for nearly a hundred years!" Anivia said hatefully. "The injuries on my body were suffered in the war with them …"
"Huh?!" Roy immediately became vigilant. "Hunting frost demons?! What do you mean? "
"It's exactly what it means!" Anivia glanced at Roy and gloated. "Osiris, you also have the frost demon bloodline, so you have to be careful. This group of demons is rather powerful. Perhaps they belong to a demon king. There are no less than twenty demon lords among them. They've been searching for frost demons for more than a hundred years, and they haven't even let off a demon lord like me …" Anivia glanced at Roy and gloated. "Osiris, you also have the frost demon bloodline, so you have to be careful.
"What do they want to do by hunting frost demons?" Roy asked with a frown.
"Get blood!" Anivia said. "These demons seem to be attacking a powerful world and want to destroy it. But they seem to have encountered a huge obstacle and can't advance, so they thought of a crooked method. They want to use the blood of us frost demons to create an enormous undead army …"
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