Through this inspection, Quest has some basic information about the camp.

There are only a handful of Xeno-mercenaries in the camp at the moment, and they are gathered together in groups, looking like a gang of thugs who have been lured to Bato's Hell in search of "opportunities" from some plane. In addition to the Barb Demon Guard, there is a Cerberus raised by the Chain Demon in charge of patrolling the camp, and in the corner of the camp there are thousands of bloated demon cannon fodder in captivity, a demon that has been punished and tortured for negligence and has become blind, deaf, and stupid, and is habitually disparaged by the other Batzu as "Cheap Devils".

All of the above is all the forces that can be put into battle in this camp at this stage, except for the Chain Demon Commander and Quis and his party.

Although the Chain Demon repeatedly guarantees that the camp will be filled with mercenaries from other planes before the start of the blood station, the overall strength of the camp will be greatly improved. But how can the devil's word be believed?

Walking to the well-prepared rest area, Quest immediately withdrew from the chain demon and arranged to act as a barb demon guard for his "Lord Overseer" attendant, and called the three ogre brothers into his tent. Although the tent was not high enough, and the ogres had no transformation spells, so they could only sit cross-legged on the ground, but fortunately, the tent area was large enough that the three ogres would not look crowded when sitting together. Seeing that they were seated, Quest cast an anti-detection spell to make sure no one was listening, and then sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Although we haven't known each other for a long time, I believe you are trustworthy enough," Quiston paused for a moment and organized his own wording: "Actually, probably you have more or less heard of the cruelty of the imminent outbreak of the Great War. To be honest, I wouldn't want to be caught up in this war if it weren't for the Dragon's Lair, and I'd like to hide that, though it might be a bit cowardly and dishonorable to say so. ”

Looking around at the three ogre brothers who were quietly listening to him, Quest continued, "I hope I can hold out for two years until I can freely withdraw from the battle and return to the original world alive. Of course, it takes some luck. However, I believe that the best way to achieve this goal is to strive to obtain more intelligence information, learn faster to improve your strength, and find some trustworthy partners. ”

As he spoke, Quis stretched out his fist-clenched arm, a gesture of blessing to each other by the gladiators of the Ash World before a life-and-death fight: "I hope I can get this honor." ”

"Help!"

"I am alive and dead!"

"Fight to the end!"

......

The 479th layer of the bottomless abyss, this plane is called "Sour Mist Canyon" by the Tanari demons.

The atmosphere here is a mist of acid vapor, constantly replenished by underground volcanic eruptions, which leave a scene of utter destruction, a vast winding canyon that has cut through the vast expanse of the plane.

Originally, this level was ruled by a demon lord named "Talchem", but his status as a demon lord was later subverted by another powerful demon. He was subverted because he was trying to master forces far from being qualified to touch him.

As a demon, it is natural to try to gain more power, and there is nothing wrong with it. However, in order to gain power, Talchem boldly and recklessly uses the remains of the Obirys Demon Lord that he has found that has fallen in an unknown era, and conducts a crazy fusion experiment with the weak Abyss Worm with all the genetic information of the Tanari Demon, with the purpose of creating a new creature with both demonic characteristics.

If Talchem succeeds, then he will become a powerful demon lord with the strength of the "Demon Creator", and even have a chance to win the title of "Demon Prince", the highest honor of the demons.

For this grand goal, this Lord of the Barorfire Demon has poured out almost all of his wealth. In order to focus on experimentation, he even gave up a demon cult that had been successfully deployed for countless years to believe in him on the material plane.

No matter where you are, even if you are in the abyss, as long as you persevere, you will always gain something.

This difficult, centuries-long experiment was finally successful, but it was only the experiment itself that succeeded, and Talchem suffered its biggest failure since its inception.

No one knows exactly what happened to the cause of the failure, but one of the most widely circulated theories is that Talchem was careless and chose the wrong material for his experiments.

An abyssal worm that an evil spellcaster with memories of a past life has fallen into the abyss, and has successfully combined the essence of Lord Obiris's remains into a new demon. There's no denying that the design of this experiment is ingenious, and the results are very satisfying. The experimental creation, on which Talchem had placed great hopes, was powerful enough and had a certain amount of intelligence.

But perhaps a little too powerful, this new demon is as powerful as its creator as soon as it appears. All the means that Talchem had carefully prepared to enslave the experimental creations were ineffective.

The massive worm defeated and devoured his maker, and built his lair in the castle where the demon lord had previously belonged, and the demon creature became the new lord of the 479th layer of the abyss at incredible speed.

The title of "Worm Tyrant" was quickly learned by the other demons in the abyss.

The evil spellcaster who was the material used to synthesize the behemoth, the predecessor of the Abyssal Worm, may have been just a crappy mage in his lifetime. But after Talchem's experiments, he, if he could still call himself, possessed a power far beyond his life when the experiment was successful.

The Worm Tyrant has tough muscles similar to those of the Obiryth Demon, and these muscles make up its massive body that stretches like a mountain. Not only does this body contain powerful physical powers that would surprise any demon, but every part of the body contains incredible magical power that can be used by this behemoth to cast spells on its own instincts like a warlock.

The concept of "spell slots"[note 1], which binds the caster's continuous destructive power, makes no sense to such beings. Without any preparation, the frenzied torrent of spells could easily shred any creature that dared to confront it if the Worm Tyrant wanted to.

The newborn Demon Lord quickly adapted to his new career as a demon, and gradually adapted to the rules of the Bottomless Abyss following the trajectory of a demon. Perhaps a legacy of its birth experiments, this slightly intelligent beast easily accomplished what his creator had spent hundreds of years doing – creating a new race of demons.

Of course, this kind of creation is not like Talchem, whose heart is higher than the sky, trying to create a new species out of thin air, but the creation of the Worm Tyrant is simple and crude, but more efficient, and he uses his own flesh and blood to easily breed "acid mist worms" that cover the entire level.

These original worms were far from comparable in size to their creators, and generally only grew to a few feet long, but the vitality of these little things was amazing. Acid mist worms survive by relying on an acid mist that blankets the entire level. By breathing in sulfur-rich acid gases, and then expelling digested gases that are suitable for other living beings to breathe, a staggering number of worms have even modified the environment of the entire plane!

Although the acid mist still envelops the entire plane due to the continuous eruption of new acid gas from the underground volcano, the thick acid flowing in the rivers here has been greatly diluted, and some resilient plants have begun to cover the original barren land.

These changes made the plane begin to become "habitable", and many, various Tanari and other creatures migrated from other abyssal planes to the modified 479th layer of the abyss, the original "Acid Mist Canyon".

Originally, it was impossible for the weak Tanari demons to be able to enjoy an unlimited amount of fat abyssal worms like high-level demons, but the Tanari who migrated to this plane found an alternative food that could taste very similar to the abyssal worms - acid mist worms. They were overjoyed by this discovery, and more demons began to try to smuggle into a place that was "heavenly" for them.

However, the roles of the prey and the hunter sometimes change. The Worm Tyrant used his own flesh and blood to create a new demon race to cover the entire level, and he didn't want to use the other Tanari as free canteens. As more and more different types of tanari appeared on this level, demons began to become food for worms, and the upper and lower levels of the original food chain were quickly reversed. At this time, those "stowaways" realized that the acid fog canyon was not a free canteen, but a huge trap.

As the fresh Tanari demons were preyed upon and devoured by the acid mist worms, these new Tanali demons with certain demonic worm characteristics began to evolve themselves, and finally two forms of evolutionary forms were stably inherited, namely "Skywalker" and "Calamity Bug Cluster"

The Skywalker is a giant acid mist worm that can grow to the size of an adult dragon at its largest, and has an airbag-like structure that can inhale air to adjust the density of its body to achieve airborne flight. It can also change direction and move at high speed by spraying compressed gas into all directions through large and small pores on the body. The gases spewed out by Skywalker are extremely hot and flammable, forming a shield of flame around its body that burns forever. Normally, they look like they're floating in the air, like a small boat floating on the sea, on fire. Once they spot their prey, they pounce on it like a rocket, and their target will not only face a battering ram that is as fierce as a battering ram, but also suffer from both acid and fire.

The evolutionary idea of the "Calamity Bug Mass" is the opposite of that of the "Skywalker", abandoning the powerful evolutionary route of the individual, and the worms have formed a strange aggregate creature by abandoning the individual, which has no fixed form and constantly drips strong acid. The breeding of the "Calamity Worm Mass" is somewhat accidental, initially only a small number of acid mist worms stubbornly parasitize the body of some Tanari, they consume the host's body to survive and reproduce, and this behavior of damaging the host's body will cause it to gradually become weakened and become more easily captured and parasitized by other acid mist worms. If the host's will is strong enough, it is possible that it will only be corrupted by the worms rather than completely digested, and the corrupted will will condense the flesh invaded by the worms and aggregate into a new "Calamity Bug", each born "Ill Worm" can randomly retain some of the host's abilities during his lifetime.

Each Skywalker and the Calamity Bug are the sons of the Worm Tyrant, the Demon Lord's most trusted clan and the undisputed top-level creature of the Acid Mist Canyon Plane. The other Tanari demons can only survive in fear under the rule of two races on this terrifying level, which was originally considered a "canteen", but turned out to be a "kitchen". In fact, unless the Tanari who came to this plane were parasitized by worms voluntarily or involuntarily, they would only be devoured by the swarming worm demons immediately.

The Eternal Abyssal Will, which has the greatest tolerance for chaos and evil, has embraced these two new high-level demons, which in a sense have indeed increased the power of the Abyss. And the worm lord who created two powerful demons was naturally rewarded by the abyss. Although the Abyssal Will did not give it greater strength, it did give it another ability that it lacked—the ability to think.

Ordinary demons don't need to think, how to survive in the abyss is the only thing they need to worry about. However, as demon lords, these powerful demons not only have to face the covetousness of the lower demons who rule them, but also face various malicious intrigues from other demon lords in the bottomless abyss.

Being able to think, being able to fill in the gaps, and being able to devise more evil conspiracies is a compulsory course for a qualified Demon Lord. Before possessing the wisdom of thinking, the Worm Tyrant was like a beast that had just turned on his stellarity, fighting by instinct, creating dependents by instinct, and manipulating powerful spell power by instinct. There is no doubt about its power, but it is too singular and too narrow to meet more and more complex challenges.

But after gaining the ability to think, it all makes a big difference. First of all, it is not satisfied with its own ability to cast spells like a warlock, and its raw and crude spell power does not exert its full strength. After careful consideration, it came up with a solution to this problem.

Through all means such as deception, bluffing, and inducement, the Worm Tyrant has attracted many creatures with exquisite spell skills to come to his realm, and he humbly asks these "teachers" for knowledge that can improve his ability to cast spells in the language of the heart. In order to gain valuable knowledge, the Worm Tyrant has become incredibly generous, and he has almost everything he needs from these powerful spellcasters, seeing it as an investment.

Investments are meant to be rewarded, and Demon Lords' investments are overrewarded. After the Worm Tyrant had gained enough knowledge to go even further than all of his "teacher" spells, the greedy worm did not hesitate to recoup his investment—just as it did with the Talchem who created it, mercilessly devouring the casters whom it had previously treated as its guests.

Among them are the archmages of the human race, the kings of the goblins, and some other demons...... However, the most rewarding of them are all kinds of evil dragons that are born to be powerful magical creatures. As a result of devouring too many dragons, its powerful flesh has even undergone another evolution. Scales grew on the surface of its link-like body, and the originally sticky and fat tongue and muscles inside the giant mouth full of barb-like sharp teeth were twisted, and a huge dragon head and many appendages grew. It named it "Dragon's Sidebody"

With the Dragon's Sidebody, the Worm Tyrant has the ability to communicate verbally, allowing it to communicate more and more complex evil plans, and with the Dragon's Body, it can unhindered the use of spells that would otherwise require words and special gestures to channel...... The Worm Tyrant was so pleased with this change that he even gave the "Dragon's Alternate" a unique name - in honor of the Worm Tyrant's creator, he named it "Hemttar".

PS [Spell Slot]: This is a special setting of DND, which is different from the mage profession of "blue bar casting" in many other games, the number of spells of DND mages is strictly limited, and it is necessary to rely on 8 hours of sleep every day to re-remember some spells that will be used the next day, as long as a small number of particularly powerful or special existences can be exempted from this rule. This is set up to balance mages and other classes, and to make it easier for players to calculate damage or something when running a group (after all, the human brain is not a computer). Its specific rules are more complicated, each version is slightly different, so I won't introduce it, interested friends can search for it by themselves, it's very interesting.