It was not yet dawn, and the sky was darkened by thick smoke. After a brief greeting to the guards at the prison gate, the devil Maham entered the interior of the prison with the other accompanying devils, carrying the ingredients he had just collected.

The ingredients come from a layer of Bato's Hell, a layer of war and corpses. But it was a rare treasure paradise for Maham.

The new round of battles ended in the defeat of the Devils, who failed to attack the Demon's giant fortress and retreated from the Abyss Plain. It was a painful defeat, but from another point of view, it was not a good thing. At least Maham can travel a lot less to the first level of Hell, which is much more convenient than going to the demon's territory.

In "Paradise", he will always look at the many ingredients on the ground with a critical eye, and use patience to rummage through the parts he wants. An experienced chef will not only check the freshness of the ingredients, but also take into account their damage. Because the badly damaged ingredients are usually in poor shape, mixed with gravel and dirt, this is a difficult thing for Maham, who likes to be "delicate".

Among the many food parts, arms and thighs are always his first choice, followed by tails and wings. If some of the ingredients are well preserved as a whole, he will also put them in the space pocket.

Ingredients should be placed in different bags according to the type. Demon ingredients are placed in the red bag on the left, and they are collected in the largest quantities and are served to the largest number of ordinary prisoners. These ingredients are made through special recipes and cooking methods, and after the prisoners eat them for a long time, some of them are transformed into devourers.

Although the souls of the Devourers are greatly depreciated by the scarcity of the energy they contain, the Devils still wish they were more numerous. The devils need more soldiers to deal with the frontal battlefield, and if the soul that has been drained of energy is promoted step by step from the inferior demon form, it will also require a lot of energy, and the speed will be much slower, but it is not as convenient as the Devourer to evolve itself by devouring the demon in battle.

The yellow bag on the right-hand side is for the same kind of ingredients as the devil. They were provided to the gladiator camp inside the prison. The ingredients are cooked with a special recipe, and experienced gladiators have a chance to transform into a new type of devil after taking it for a long time.

This devil is different from the disgusting, demonic, and strange creatures of the Devourer, it is a real devil, and it belongs directly to the high-level devil after transformation. Although the probability of conversion is low, it is better than nothing.

The number of souls entering the hell is much smaller than before, and it is still decreasing at an extremely slow rate, and the Devil Grand Duke on each floor is trying to increase the number of devils, and these two special recipes are one of the ways that the city lord has come up with to deal with it.

The entire prison of Mantili is like a labyrinth, with intricate passages and a cookie-cutter environment that even those who are familiar with it will accidentally get lost. But Maham always finds the right place in the kitchen, without exception. He was at the front of the line, and after a long walk, Maham pushed open the thick door of the kitchen.

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The door was pushed open, and Chef Zenana couldn't help but smile with satisfaction when he saw his colleagues collecting key fresh ingredients.

Once upon a time, in the early days of Mantili's creation, the prisoners who were held here would die in large numbers because of food problems. So much so that many prisoners would rather starve to death than eat what was in the cell.

This situation made the lord of the castle very unhappy, and at the same time, there was no way to improve it for the better. Because the devils do not need to eat, there are no traditional crops and livestock in the Nine Prisons. And the flesh and blood of the various purgatory creatures living here are tantamount to lethal poison to those weak races in the main material plane.

Later, a mysterious plane traveler arrives in Diss. He presented the lord of the castle with how to handle the ingredients of hell and taught the devils many cooking techniques. On this basis, the lord of the castle has made some improvements, and only then has he become what he is today.

The water in the giant iron pot in front of Zenana had already boiled, just waiting for the ingredients to go to the pot.

In the devil's kitchen, bisques and barbecues are always the protagonists. In fact, there is no liquid at the Diss level, except for the red-hot magma on the outskirts of the city. The water in the cauldron was taken from the swamp-filled layer of the third layer of Hell, melted by the biting hailstones, and when boiled, it was barely acceptable to the creatures of the main material plane.

Once the ingredients are brought back, the devils in the kitchen get busy.

Chef Zenana takes out the ingredients in the red bag, examines them briefly, and then gives them to the devil who is in charge of dismemberment next to him. He, the head chef, was in charge of the meals for ordinary prisoners, so the type of ingredients in the bag was self-evident.

He pulled a large boar's head out of the bag, which was in fact the head of the Soul Judge. Zenana knew that the demon's head was somewhat similar to the boar of the main material plane, and it was a good ingredient for the prisoners to reminisce about their homeland.

The head was tossed by Zenana to another demon not far away, and before it could be dismembered, it had to be roasted by flames to remove the thick black hairs from it.

The skull was followed by a long, curved horn that Zenana judged to be from the head of a male succubus. The males in the succubus are more savage and violent, they not only love to fight, but they are quite adept, so they can often be seen in the demon army.

The male succubus's curved horns can be ground and added to soups as a seasoning to increase the possibility of conversion for prisoners.

Behind the crooked horn was an extremely long serpentine tail, which Zenana knew was from the body of the six-armed snake demon. With this tail, today's soup will be delicious, and it seems that those prisoners are in good hands again!

Every chef has his own style of cooking, and Zenana is no exception. After arranging the work of all his demons, he went to the cauldron, took out a small black and brown pot, and added something with a pungent smell to the pot.

It's the onion, and he added the onion!!

No, Zenana added the slime from the actual Babu demon. The jelly-like red slime on this demon is so corrosive that even the weapons it touches are not spared. But when added in the right amount, it can add a special, low-harm, searing taste to the soup, like something called chili pepper in the main matter plane.

Ingredients were constantly being added to the pot, and Zenana stirred it with a large iron spoon while pondering some mysterious questions. For example, what is the nature of eating?

Is it for the pleasure of chewing in the mouth, or is it for the satisfaction of feeling fullness in the abdomen? Zenana thinks neither.

In his view, the essence of eating is to obtain the energy necessary for survival. If we take this as a starting point, in fact, the devil is no different from those creatures in the main material plane.

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