The dark purple waters of the River Styx, like bruises and blood, flowed through the Plains of the Abyss, scattered into countless tributaries, and eventually disappeared into the pits of the bottomless abyss, and some back-flowing waterfalls poured out of the beehive portals and pooled into the River Styx, which would stretch to the bustling tunnels of the rim of the universe and the gray ruins of Hades, and beyond that, to realms where even the gods had never set foot.

It was the depths of the void leading to the realm beyond the heavens, desolate and dangerous, and no god would be so bored to waste his curiosity on a doomed quest.

And the cavity of the Great Abyss, where Calvin and the others were stationed, had a tributary of the River Styx.

Even if it was only a tributary, it was still the most spectacular waterfall Calvin had ever seen, like an endless stream of water that had crashed down from an unknown number of kilometers high, and after they had rushed out of a magnificent plain of the rushing river, after the river had finally become gentler for dozens of kilometers, it continued to turn into a waterfall and slide into the bottomless abyss, and so on.

For the vast majority of creatures, the River Styx is dangerous, it is invisible, but after passing through the lower plane, the characteristics of the lower plane have materialized its concept, and it has become a purple river with a certain degree of corrosiveness and toxicity, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most filthy river water in Corell, and the Ganges water of the Blue Star Ah San next door is really pure like a holy river in front of this big river.

At most, the Ganges is filled with occasional decomposing corpses, and the River Styx... Whether it's the devil in the hell of Bato next door or the demon in the abyss, his favorite thing to do is to sink all kinds of creatures into the river.

The former may be to conceal the destruction of the corpse of the conspiracy, while the latter is most likely not hungry for the time being, so the brain is pumped purely for torture and killing.

After all, in the abyss, intermittent illness is the norm, and you are embarrassed to go out and say hello to other demons without mania or necrophilia.

And in these endless years, God knows how many kilometers of various corpses have been deposited at the bottom of the river, not to mention the ghosts floating on it that have grown maggots from all the material planes that have died naked swimming competitive souls.

So much so that various memes about the water of the River Styx have been widely circulated in various planes.

Come, Sensei said, it was the brother who dried this bowl of Styx water, and he will be a wicked person in the next life...

On top of that, it has a terrifying and mysterious power that continues to erode and wash away the memories of the drowning victim.

This is also the essential reason why the vast majority of creatures enter the lower plane after death, and even if they re-emerge, they are basically two creatures from the past.

However, even if the River Styx is so dangerous, the basin it passes through is still the most prosperous and busy place in the lower planes.

The main reason is naturally the souls of the dead from various material planes floating in the river.

Just like the rivers flowing with golden sand in the material planes, the souls on the Styx can be said to be the most common and common trading resource in the lower planes, but they are also the most important and valuable resources.

This statement may sound a bit contradictory, but it is true, because as long as it is an intelligent being, a soul is born, and the vast majority of low-intelligence creatures are not very valuable to the inferior souls of ordinary people.

Because they are generally too fragile, they will collapse on the spot after a few casual tortures and tosses, and this kind of inferior consumables that can't even be tortured and tortured are often used by the demons to burn the boiler in the first place.

Just as the sand mining ships of the Blue Star burn diesel, the large ships that specialize in salvaging souls on the River Styx are directly fueled by souls, and the cries of souls when they are burned often echo in the boilers, and the rough chimneys emit disgusting ashes and throw them into the pungent atmosphere.

This is the unique scenery from the abyss.

Welcome to the abyss~

Calvin didn't know if the abyss really welcomed others, anyway, at least according to the abyss, it didn't seem to be very welcoming to their group.

Especially His Highness Alley, who can never be relieved...

I don't know if there was a sudden loss of 'father's 'love', in the initial period of moving to the abyss, Alley behaved like a little beast abandoned by her master, not only manic and irritable, but also extremely aggressive, even her most 'loyal' mount and dog leg was often beaten by her nose and swollen face, crying dad and calling mother.

In the middle of the night, there would be bursts of infiltrating howls, so that on the first night of coming to the abyss, the Calvin couple did not sleep all night, and the celebration cannon that had originally come to a new plane had not had time to load, and they were directly frightened by the banshee's screaming howl.

But Calvin's fears lasted only the next day.

I don't know if it was due to the bloodline instinct of some demon lords, Alley took his dragon leg Huenda early in the morning and began to explore this not too small cavity layer, just like patrolling his own territory.

Along the way, they showed a high level of curiosity, and they wanted to break something and nibble on it and taste it.

At first, this did not scare the Calvins all the way, especially when they saw Alley swallowing a poisonous mushroom with lightning speed, his face turned green on the spot and he vomited on the ground, Calvin almost crushed the antidote in his hand.

But I don't know if Alley is essentially a demon.,Showing an extremely exaggerated resistance to everything in the abyss.。

For example, if it was eaten by the minotaur Wren, it would have vomited and was dying, and Alley wanted to eat a mung bean fly at most, but he was disgusted for a while, and he jumped alive to smell the man-eating flower...

Then he was hugged on the head as a matter of course, and the next second the abyss man-eating flower was shot on the head by Alley's backhand, but it was still covered with the-yellow tissue digestive juice all over her face, and Vena who watched it laughed with a burst of joy.

But soon her smile froze, and she saw Alley climb the cliff, and then a fish leap into the bubbling magma lake, and a wisp of green smoke came out on the spot...

Before the Calvins could recover their senses, they saw that the red dragon Guenda also plunged into the magma lake with an excited face, and then little Alley jumped out of the magma lake like a mermaid, and his plate armor seemed to be melted clean.

Vina instinctively covered Calvin's eyes, and then thought about how to blind the red dragon with a squinting gaze, only to find that Alley's originally white body surface had grown a layer of leather-like red scales at some point, which made Huenda, who wanted to feast his eyes, dumbfounded.

To Calvin's relief, Alley, despite her smug appearance, seemed to have an instinctive instinct for danger and mortal threats.

They were worried that Alley would jump into the River Styx and swim in it without hesitation, but that day Alley just stood on the edge of the River Styx and shrunk her tall nose, showing a look of disgust, and scurried away in the blink of an eye like a nimble leopard.

This relieved the Calvins a little, and instead of continuing their tailwalk, they worked in the fledgling territory, using the light and shadow devices installed on Alley and the red dragon Hunda to monitor her safety.

In less than ten months, Alley lost interest in this layer area the size of the Northlands but had been explored by her, and began to set foot in the great abyss outside the territory, which scared Calvin, who had just been promoted to a legend, and when he saw that Alley was about to get close to a natural portal, Calvin directly went out with a high-level teleportation technique and invited this unconscious 'Second Ancestor' back.

Seeing that he really couldn't control this highness, he had to ask for a light and shadow information from Li Wei through teleportation.

On that day, Calvin saw Alley sitting obediently in the cave, watching the 'father' on the screen of light and shadow to her.

Levi told her that at least until he came to the Abyss, he must not go to other planes through the portal of the Great Abyss without permission.

You can't go to those palaces and steel fortresses on the Abyss Plains, those places are the lair of the demon lord.

Finally, the above two points are the bottom line, and everything should be listened to Uncle Calvin.

When he heard Levi say, 'Before he came to the abyss,' Calvin could clearly see that Alley's already somewhat gray eyes lit up.

That day, Alley silently watched the light and shadow images of less than three minutes before and after in the cave more than 300 times, and then he fell asleep with a little head, holding a piece of his father's fading scales.

The light and shadow in the cave still played back and forth, until the energy was exhausted, and the cave gradually returned to darkness.

This sleep has been like a dragon for nearly ten years.

But after waking up from ten years of sleep, Alley still couldn't wait for Levi to come to the abyss, and she was hungry.

And that day, Calvin, who had already sensed the clues, went to inspect the anomaly of the River Styx.

Gu Zisheng got up angry, Alley didn't even call the dragon-legged Hu Enda who was lying at the door snoring, he directly put on the spare full-body plate armor, and put on a [Veil of Concealment] and slipped out of the territory.

But fortunately, she still remembered the 'teachings' from Levi, and did not set foot in those dangerous and nowhere to go portals, but ran to the main rift area of the Great Abyss.

In this vast abyss, which is not many miles deep up and down, apart from the endless wailing of the wind from the bottom of the abyss, the most obvious sights are the stone bridges built by the demons of Obiris, in ancient times.

These bridges usually connect a portal or fortress to another building at about the same height, but there is no connection between bridges and fortresses of different heights in the Great Abyss.

As such, it is very popular with some flying creatures, who know that they can gain a great advantage when facing those land-based enemies with their excellent movement skills, which will help them hunt enemies.

But on this day, they ran into a terrible existence.

A demon in human armor!

An ogre who hunts the heart!

She was invisible and could only be spotted occasionally at the moment when the hunt delivered the fatal blow.

In just half a day, the flying creatures in this area were hunted, and even the eggs of some oviparous creatures were touched.

Even though most of the abyssal creatures prefer to live alone, this strange situation still attracts the sideways eyes of the surrounding abyssal creatures, so that many flying creatures that perceive the threat have voluntarily moved their nests away from here.

In the abyss, the weak eat dust, but the strong can ravage the weak.

"Interesting, a dragon with the blood... Sister Radiance?Could it be that she is the heir of the red shroud from the Broken Domain? Hmm, can a succubus really be of any race?"

On a certain broken bridge, a four-armed demon with a belly full of sharp teeth did not feel disappointed by the failure of his sneak attack, but sprouted more interest.

At this time, if there are other plane travelers or other creatures in the abyss, they will choose to stay away from them.

If you want to argue about who the real ruler of the Great Abyss is, it may not lead to the next era, but if you want to argue about the existence of the Great Abyss that should be feared by people, then this four-armed demon named Krurich is definitely at the forefront.

He is also known as the gatekeeper by demons and travelers, and he is also one of the few beings in the abyss who has a certain logic and calmness.

In the abyss, this kind of character may not be the strongest, but it must be difficult to provoke.

On weekdays, Kruridge leaps between bridges, slaughtering anyone who tries to pass through portals for free.

Yes, this strange-looking four-armed demon likes to collect tolls, and he never gets tired of it.

From the fanged mouth of his huge belly, the winged demon declared in a hoarse tone:

In ancient times, he received orders from Asma, a long-vanished demon lord of Obiris, to guard the Great Abyss.

The Gatekeeper destroys any demon who is ordered to guard a place, and to him, mortal intruders are indistinguishable from the original inhabitants of this plane.

A visit from the gatekeeper usually leads to complete and absolute destruction.

In the face of 'money', all beings are equal.

And in order to get 'money', sometimes Kruridge doesn't mind selling some news as a source of livelihood.

"Maybe... Will Altina (Ms. Change) be interested in her? Well, good buyer, so happily decided. ”

After determining that he would not be able to catch the cunning succubus with his bulky attacks, Krulridge quickly switched gears.

......

The Great Abyss, Zeellandia stationed at the Abyssal Outpost.

Calvin dragged his tired back to 'home', and Vena, who was counting the accounts in the territory, got up to greet him, took the bottle and jar containing the soul in Calvin's hand, and asked with concern:

"What's wrong? You don't seem to be in a good mood. ”

Calvin thought about it for a moment and decided to tell the truth:

"The upper reaches of the River Styx... Something should have happened to the Hazy Domain, the number of souls in the entire Styx has been decreasing over the years, especially this year, it has plummeted to a very dangerous point. ”

Vina, who didn't know much about the abyss, asked a little dazedly, "Shouldn't this be a good thing?"

In her opinion, the decrease in the number of souls flowing into the lower planes is likely to reduce the scale and frequency of bloody battles, so that those who are responsible for collecting and catching strong men everywhere to go to the bloody battlefield will also be reduced, and the probability of their territory being discovered will also be reduced, right?

But Calvin's face was more solemn than ever:

"No, on the contrary, the sudden reduction of soul resources is likely to exacerbate the disputes in the lower planes... There may even be an unprecedented dispute brewing!

"They're demons..."

What Calvin didn't tell Vina was that after months of investigation, he was lucky enough to see the shocking scene in the remnants of a ghost's memories.

In that pale, hazy and trance-like landscape, a castle of bones across the River Styx sits like a dam.

Normally it is supposed to sift through souls, but it hasn't been functioning properly for some time.

On the vast river Styx, there are many souls of the dead...

At a glance...

It's the same as maggots...