Chapter 17: The Summoned Demon
The demon's sense of smell is special!
Only they can smell the breath of the soul from a long distance, but because what they can usually smell is only the smell of low-quality souls, so the demons sometimes smell it, and they don't bother to rush over, because they know very well that it is the trophy of other demons after fighting, and the distance is too far, and it is gone.
But now it's different, the soul that can emit such a rich fragrance must be a high-quality soul, which is definitely a rare good thing in the upper abyss world, so much so that when they smell the fragrance, there are hundreds of demons in the vicinity!
Driven by such a strong soul smell, many demons actually come involuntarily, they are simply attracted by the fragrance, but they don't know how this soul appears.
When Roy arrived, he discovered that the scent was coming from inside the crater of an extinct volcano.
In the upper abyssal world, there are many such volcanoes, but most of them are active volcanoes, and magma is flowing out at any time, and it is precisely because of the existence of these volcanoes that the abyssal demon world will form this world where lava and fire coexist.
But in the same way, there are also some volcanoes that are extinct volcanoes, but the number of such extinct volcanoes is very small, and now hundreds of various demons are rushing towards the interior of this extinct volcano, and there are many more, and they are constantly coming.
When Roy swooped down from the air and into the interior of the volcano, he realized that there was already a fight here! And the fight was quite fierce!
The demons who arrived first showed their most hideous faces, and they were fighting each other, but their battlefield was all tacitly surrounded by one ...... Around the altar!
Roy was amazed, because the first time he saw this altar, he confirmed that it was an artificial structure, which he had never seen before in this upper abyss world!
You can't expect the lower demons here to build houses, in fact, due to the confusion of blood, most of the lower demons are not even easy to classify, what kind of fire demon, succubus, shadow demon and the like, it can't be applied to them at all, including Roy himself, he can't confirm what kind of demon he is, many of the lower demons just live in a mess, just to survive for survival, they don't even know how to make simple tools and weapons, how can they build buildings?
So when Roy saw this altar, he felt that this would definitely not be made by the lower demons here!
But the demon world is not a place where humans can live, so who built this altar? Could it be those higher-level demons left behind?
The altar looks very large, in addition to the height of the fortification, the area of the platform at the top is the size of a basketball court, on the circular platform, a huge magic array is carved in it, the middle of the magic array is a regular six-pointed star pattern, in the middle of the six-pointed star, there is a strange painting, it seems to be an Ouroboros biting its own tail, and in the outermost circle of the magic array, it is full of illegible words, Roy can't recognize it, but his intuition tells him that this is not a demon text.
Now, the magic array was glowing with a faint light, and the illegible demonic words, as well as the patterns, were all flickering and rhythmic, and there was a slight buzzing sound, which seemed to have been activated.
The fragrance of the soul came from this magic array, but strangely, Roy didn't see the light cluster of the high-quality soul, and the magic array was empty at this time.
What's going on? Hasn't the soul appeared yet? But it hasn't appeared yet, how can there be a scent?
Watching the demons below fight as if they had lost their minds, Roy knew that they might be fighting for the ownership of the High Souls that were about to appear, although Roy smelled the scent of the soul and his mouth was also full of saliva, but he did not join the fight, but instead floated in the air, only observing.
Because Roy hadn't figured out what this altar was for, Roy wouldn't have acted rashly until he figured it out.
He even moved a little farther away to prevent the demons who had been carried away from coming to him for a fight......
The situation below is not an exaggeration to describe it as a river of blood, as the battle progresses, there are constantly demons dying here, purple demon blood flows out of their corpses, gathers together, looks so bewitching, and the demons who survived the battle, after devouring the opponent's soul, can't wait to plunge into the next battle.
In this fight, a ferocious demon is the most eye-catching!
It was a powerful demon eight meters high, he had the largest size among the demons present, four-legged and long-tailed, covered with thick scale armor, it looked like a pangolin, and the upper body was also humanoid, but just looking at the curved and long demon horns on his skull, Roy understood that this demon had probably survived in the upper abyss world for decades!
The devil's horn often has a ring like an annual ring, which is the main basis for judging the age of the demon, the power of this old demon is simply unrivaled in the demon group, but the most important thing is that he also carries a weapon in his hand, which is a huge stone hammer, the process is very rough, but because it is stained with demon blood, it looks very hideous and bloody, and this old demon seems to have integrated his soul fragments into the weapon, so that this terrible hammer still glows with a black glow, It has a hardness that is far beyond imagination.
Roy weighed it and found that even if it was himself, it was impossible to defeat the old demon, so he was even more reluctant to get involved.
Wielding this big stone hammer, this old demon slaughtered all sides, and it didn't take long for him to emerge from the scuffle and become the final victor.
He let out a loud roar, glaring at the remnants of the demons around him, and although the remnants of the demons were unwilling, they also began to slowly retreat, acknowledging the identity of the old demon victor.
This scene is so similar to when it was hatched...... The demon world is like that, when you have more power than other demons, they will recognize your status.
"It's coming!" Roy watched as the old demon turned around and walked on heavy footsteps, and as he walked up to the altar, he immediately stared intently to see what was going to happen.
As a result, the ensuing scene made Roy almost think he was dazzled.
When the old demon stepped onto the altar, the high-quality soul that Roy imagined did not appear! On the contrary, a black point of light appeared on the altar, and with the appearance of this black point of light, the entire magic array began to shine brightly, and the black point of light in the array slowly expanded, forming a circular pitch-black mist, these pitch-black mist enveloped the old demon in it, and when it came into contact with these fogs, the old demon's body began to blur little by little.
In the end, the old demon's entire body suddenly disappeared, and the light of the magic array dimmed.
Damn, it's really gone! He's ...... Teleported away!?
Roy looked at the altar in amazement, he felt that the black fog was like a legendary space gate or portal, otherwise he couldn't explain why the old demon disappeared entirely.
The expected high-quality soul was not teleported, but the winning old demon was teleported away, and a thought suddenly appeared in Roy's mind after the whole process: That old demon, he was summoned!
That's right, summon! It must be the case, someone is summoning demons from hell through a special way, and the sacrifice of the other party is a high-quality soul, and the demons are fighting each other precisely to compete for this sacrifice! And if the winner wants to obtain this sacrifice, he must answer this call and enter the opposite world.
And the role of this altar is also about to come out, it is a medium to communicate other worlds with the abyss of hell!
Roy suddenly became excited, this is really a huge discovery, no wonder in the novels and movies I have read in the past, there are always plots such as summoning demons, it turns out that this kind of thing is true!
What kind of world will it be to be called to the past? Such a world, one, two, or many? Who is the one who summons the demon? What did he intend to do in the past by summoning demons? Does the summoned demon have to sign a contract with the summoner?
Wait, wait, Roy has too many questions, but now this discovery is too wonderful for Roy, a Gemini personality, which means that the boring and monotonous life of hell has finally become interesting.
The remaining demons, after the fragrance of the soul disappeared, left one after another, and the empty altar was not attractive to them here, but Roy stayed, he wanted to wait for a while to see how often this kind of thing summoned demons through the altar was.
In addition, Roy also needs to go to other places to see, although the number of extinct volcanoes is small, but there are always some, but I don't know if those extinct volcanoes also have altars that can open portals like here......