Devil's Bible

Chapter 406 Misfortune
The difference between a high-ranking demon and a demon lord is actually not that great.

Once you reach around a thousand points, you can try to find a territory and become a demon lord.

However, there are currently 666 floors in the Abyss, and most of them are already occupied.

To become the new demon lord, one must either step over the old lords to rise to power, or possess astonishing methods to sink a material plane into the abyss and transform it into a single layer.

Unfortunately, the material planes nowadays are mostly the territories of those righteous gods, each one heavily guarded.

After all, with the cataclysmic changes in the prime material plane, resources have decreased, and the population has naturally decreased as well.

The gods' household is also running out of food.

Faith is extremely important to deities. Once they reach the level of deities, external elements alone are no longer sufficient to support their production and daily life.

Faith, which gathers the strength of the masses, is an important resource for the production and life of deities.

In this situation, attempting to sink into any material plane is essentially suicidal.

It would be better to go to the Prime Material Plane and try to see if we can sink a floating whale.

Although the floating whale is not a material plane and does not possess spacetime, making it difficult to form abyssal layers, its resources may not necessarily be lacking.

"It seems that the people of the Prime Material Plane are indeed living too well." Nemus couldn't help but recall the report he had seen earlier.

There are a total of 1,800 Iron-type clergy on the Prime Material Plane Azure Whale, and there are approximately 500 other non-clergy Iron-types.

In terms of sheer numbers, it's not as large as the Abyss, but this has to be taken into account that the rules are different in the two places.

The abyss has no resources, only talent.

A single rise and fall of the River Styx can bring forth millions of worms.

Throughout the entire 181 floors, the number of demons has remained at around ten million.

However, most of the demons are scattered throughout the vast Absurd Plains.

Birth is arbitrary, death is random.

Furthermore, with the laws of the abyss allowing indiscriminate hunting, as long as people continue to die, there will be Steel-type beings born.

However, based on estimates, the number of official demons in the entire abyss is only three or four thousand, which is not much more than that of the Azure Whale.

This gives us a general idea of ​​just how abundant the resources of the entire Azure Whale are.

Of course, people are never satisfied.

In that environment, what you have won't be noticed, but what you haven't gotten will be remembered.

Without comparison, the steel species in the prime material plane naturally have no idea what kind of life they are living.

They keep complaining about resource scarcity.

However, in reality, all the noble families in Baiwei Town were actually sucking blood from the backs of the floating whales, and each family had a large number of whale products.

"In that case, Saint-Nai might be able to use this opportunity to crack down on whale products and gradually tighten control over various resources."

"To force those practitioners to unleash their own potential."

"Once the Azure Whale becomes independent, all resources will be under my control. I will use the Abyss to motivate those people and improve the utilization rate of resources."

After a thorough comparison, Nemus realized that most cultivators in the Prime Material Plane were too reliant on resources.

There are all sorts of intrigues and power struggles, but also plenty of opportunities for enjoyment and pleasure.

However, there are not many people who diligently practice breathing techniques and meditation every day.

In contrast, they prefer to use a lot of resources to stack up numerical values.

"The utilization rate is too low!" Nemus felt a pang of heartache.

Although the Azure Whale is currently under the Church's control, it will eventually belong to Nems.

So these people are not wasting their own resources, but rather the resources of his Nem.

Nemus, who was hiding, sensed a change in the aura and looked towards a distance. There, several powerful auras were shifting.

It was the baboon demons and their group.

They are searching everywhere for Naim's whereabouts, and in the process...

The clown demon who had been kneeling and praying earlier was also unfortunately caught in the crossfire.

And so, the battle naturally began.

Nemus is currently completely hidden inside the soul of an ordinary, fully-fledged demon. This concealment is so clever and seamless that there is virtually no need to worry about him being discovered.

Even this fully-fledged demon was unaware of what had happened. He had just taken a short nap and woke up to find high-ranking demons everywhere outside.

The clown demon that had been kneeling and praying earlier was now fleeing at full speed.

Its figure would occasionally flicker and leap, sometimes transforming into pigeons or other birds to fly around, or emanating a phantom image and disappearing without a trace.

While the Clown Demon isn't strong in direct combat, he possesses quite a few utility abilities.

Furthermore, his abilities are somewhat different, seemingly enhanced by some special characteristics, making his power exceed normal levels.

Although it was only a formal demon, it had escaped the pursuit of a high-ranking demon.

"How could I be so unlucky?!" The clown demon ran around everywhere, trying to find a chance to cover his presence.

Under normal circumstances, high-ranking demons rarely venture out.

This clown demon has many fortuitous encounters. When ordinary demons meet him, he can kill them without even having to make a move.

However, there's nothing you can do when you encounter a high-level demon.

"Fortunately, those veteran high-ranking demons weren't here; I just happened to run into the weakest one of them."

The clown sighed, then sped up his escape once more.

Behind him, the high-ranking fly demon steadily emitted a booming sound, following the clown demon at a leisurely pace.

As a high-ranking demon that has only been promoted in the last ten years or so, the Fly Demon's stats are not particularly high.

Bloodbab, who was previously killed by Nemus, was even stronger than him.

Therefore, this time he went out with the main group.

When Nemes made his second move, he blended into the group and didn't confront Nemes directly.

After searching separately, he unexpectedly discovered the clown demon.

So they immediately chose to change their target.

It's better to bully a clown demon than to fight a monster that could kill Bloodbab.

"Little guy, don't run away." The Fly Demon's huge wings, resembling those of a fly, flapped rapidly behind him, the buzzing sound accompanying his words, his spiritual power spreading through them.

Fly Demons are demons of the spiritual realm, skilled in spellcasting and various sonic attacks.

At the same time, it has a natural mouthpart.

This mouthpart can be manipulated at will by the fly demon, and then it exists as a kind of spellcasting medium. Once bitten by this mouthpart, the body will be subjected to the life-side spell 'siphon'.

Life force is instantly extracted and replenished into the body of the fly demon.

Of course, ordinary fly demons are just formal demons.

It's just unknown to what extent the characteristics developed by this high-level fly demon have enhanced it.

The clown demon's body flickered and leaped, and a ring of fire suddenly appeared. It entered the ring and rolled out from a distance, escaping the powerful range of the sound waves.

Before them stood an ordinary, fully-fledged demon who seemed not yet to have reacted.

(End of this chapter)