Chapter 968: The Favor of the Lord of the Nine Prisons
Or is it because of some kind of organizational force behind the Gisyankees? But if so, what kind of help can the Gisyankees do by leaving this to themselves?
Flame-like light erupted from the tiny ornament, outlining a huge figure.
Or rather, a huge mountain of meat?
At first glance, the creature's image is closer to that of a slime monster, but after two flickerings, the person facing him may be able to discern a demonic trait from the folds and hollows stacked on top of it, such as the crooked horns protruding from a large piece of fat. Then you can see the outline of his bare head, which covers his neck.
"So, you're our new friend? I'm Barnturas. He said.
The polite words came out of a moving hollow, and although it was a rough and unbearable abyssal language, it was surprisingly mildly elegant.
Then, the image slowly shrinks a little, allowing people to see the more complete form...... A bigger Roshan.
At least you can tell the somewhat human-like shape compared to the bald head, which was almost a lump of flesh, and at least he still had limbs, though the lines of that outline were covered with folds of flesh that had been pulled down, and you could barely make out the difference between him and the huge chair behind him—if Edward was right, the edge peeking out from behind his fat was indeed the back of a chair.
"Well, I have to say. You look very different from what I imagined. ”
Roshan's tip trembled. The Demon Lord looked at Edward with his eyes sunken into a slit, "Okay, or." Anyway, excuse me, it's certainly not the point of our communication, so let's skip it. ”
"To put it simply, my lord, I need a teleportation. ”
Edward also glanced at the other party, but he was clearly not interested in dealing with this mountain of meat: "If necessary." All I needed was a small teleportation, involving only two people...... Well, I mean. Three people were enough, and the weight was less than two hundred and fifty pounds, which was basically about the same as a larger demon. As for the destination, you should know it when you see my preparations. My purpose is the main plane of matter. So, all you have to do is send me to the closest place there. ”
The Demon Lord was silent for a moment.
Then, he let out a series of low sneers. "You don't belong in the abyss, that's obvious. If you want to hide something on this point, then I can only say that your table is a little too bad. ”
Edward raised an eyebrow. But the Demon Lord had already continued at this time: "However, we can still talk to each other? You see, I am the lord of this layer of the abyss, and I am only responsible for my own affairs. I found you because I was curious. Who would have put their hand on those Yugros purses, even if they were just a rope in them...... But now I'm seeing that you're different from what I imagined, so we need a different attitude. ”
"Can't cooperate?"
"No, on the contrary, Your Excellency. ”
Roshan shuddered - or rather, the crease of the barely jawed opened a little as a sign of pleasure: "I do pick and choose people to work with, but the standard is not what you think...... Or on the contrary, hehehe, you're lucky, I've decided to grant your request, and as long as you can pay enough, I can send you wherever you want, even the end of the multiverse. ”
"At what cost?"
"It's not too much, I'll send you to the main material plane, thirty medium-grade soul crystals, or fifty pure souls. ”
"What if I go to the first layer of Broken Town?"
"Then it's even cheaper, just thirty medium-grade soul crystals, or fifty pure souls. The shorter the journey, the cheaper it is, and if you're going to the edge of the River Styx, then only thirty medium-grade soul crystals, or fifty pure souls are enough. ”
Obviously, the bastard's intentions were obvious - to take advantage of the fire, and the reason why he dared to do this was because of Edward's thin background.
Although he can drive that group of Gisyankees, he is not the backstage boss of these guys after all, he is just a passerby who came here suddenly, and he will do whatever it takes to return to the main material plane, and this price is just deprived from those Gisyankees, no matter how much, he will not feel distressed, so naturally he will not care about the demon lord's lion mouth.
You can see it clearly, you cunning bastard!
"Is there a difference between a pure soul and a soul crystal?"
"Procedures, consumption or something, a lot of trouble, you know, pouring the soul into a spar is a very troublesome thing! And a pure soul, hahaha, the more wonderful and long the memory, the more valuable the soul is, so a pure soul may not be a good soul. ”
The demon hit a few haha, so it was a good time.
And he waited for the unsurprising answer.
"Well, I agreed. So, when to start teleporting. Edward said, directly ignoring the sharp astonishment and anger in the mind of the Giss Yankee female on the side, as well as the unwillingness to wait for the bad feelings.
"Of course it's going to be quick, very fast, and you can even come in right now if you have to. ”
Roshan laughed, and the flames that made up his body shrank and dimmed, leaving only an ornament and the halo of light scattered on it.
"You...... Are you going?"
Gazing at the qiē until the halo cleared, the Gisyankee asked.
She didn't get an answer, but she didn't seem to need an answer either—the scenery on both sides of the castle street outside the small window lattice was slowly changing, and the car had left the inn under the tudge of two giant spiders, and slowly walked along the main road towards the central gate.
It seems to be slowing down.
As the door slowly opened to the sides, it revealed a dazzling blue light. And when all around it is shrouded in this light, all things. And that changed...... The light fell, and the space had completed a slight but comprehensive change!
"Oh, oh, well, welcome, my friends. ”
The voice of the Great Demon echoed through the entire space. And the castles, the streets, the demon hordes. Edward's gaze flickered slightly, as it was replaced by a huge underground space that looked almost as large as the open space outside the castle. Sweep through the countless debris and rubble...... That's the same as what I've seen before. The ruins that stand on the outskirts of the city are similar to something, but thousands of years seem to be more benevolent here, and most of the existing Zài in this almost ruined space have remained relatively intact.
Especially that door--
Or rather, a ring.
Most of the rules in this multiverse follow this—the most basic shape of the circle, the most stable form of the gap formed by the portal...... Nine hundred and ninety-nine of the thousands of portals could be circular, and the one in front of them was no exception.
The exception is: The scale of that ring.
It was so huge that the carriage was compared to the two-headed spider. It's like a set of little dolls that have mistaken proportions. The gaze on it, the huge shape immersed in the boundless, silent darkness, gives the illusion that it will fall at any moment, with a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Well, then, I'm ready, what about you, the soul, or the hedrons, where?"
The silence was broken by the Demon Lord's voice, which echoed in every corner of the ruins, so dry and indifferent, only the power that stretched out layer by layer, as it passed from all sides of the ruins to the center, began to ignite the ring, different lengths, different shades, monotonous, but dazzling textures.
Layer by layer, layer by layer.
"Wait. ”
His gaze stopped on the flickering symbols, and Edward frowned:
"How do I know that this portal is the land leading to the main material plane? such a large portal...... How many goals do you set? The more goals you have, the more unstable this thing will be, especially if you throw me somewhere for fifty or sixty years and make me forget everything, what am I going to do?"
"That's an interesting idea, but that's not my business. ”
The demon lord laughed: "I'm not one of those boring devils, I like to talk to anyone about the rules, I provide portals and teleportation, you pay for it, this is the rule, as for whether the teleportation is reliable, I am not interested...... In short, there are two paths you can choose, teleport or not. ”
The laughter shook through the empty ruins, but it could not break the deep silence, like a knife cutting water, and the water passed without a trace...... On the contrary, it is the lingering aftersound, which reflects the emptiness more and more, which makes people feel chills in their hearts.
"If you don't teleport, you won't get anything, will you?"
"Or, I can get a bounty from those eugros and use the head of a guy who dares to blackmail them?"
"Your Excellency, it's not funny at all. ”
Edward's voice was still leisurely.
Sitting in the carriage, he reached out and gently stroked Elena's shoulder, which was snuggled at his side, as if communicating with an old friend with ease:
"How much do you think the dignified Ugros Demon Merchant will offer for these dozens of soul crystals?, come on, Your Excellency, if I had to say, there are actually some things that are more interesting than me, a little blackmailer...... For example, a demon in control of a portal can freely send anything to any far-reaching place, but the demon's subordinates in charge of teleportation use their power to make extra money? Do you think this news is more valuable, entertaining and exciting?"
The demon's laughter suddenly stopped.
"This is my territory. Or, you don't know what I mean by being called a lord?" The voice that had been polite before this moment suddenly became sharp and piercing! Anger filled his voice like an erupting flame: "The lord means that I have the final say in this place, I say that I will provide you with services, and I can throw you where you want, and if I say I don't like you, I can let your tongue lick your ass!
What a wit, this reaction. It's a qualified executor. But this lie makes no sense...... Your performance lacks the biggest premise.
The Psychic sneered in his heart.
Words may be used at some point to confuse the enemy. But as long as there are no facts as a basis, it is as fragile and pale as paper, and it cannot withstand a slight poke.
What can portals be used for?
Transporting people and goods...... War, resources, all a qiē is fine, this is a very convenient force.
Convenient means powerful. Although this power can sometimes be taken for granted - just like when you drink tap water, you never think about how much effort people in the Sahara need to put in to get water, and your convenience is equal to that effort, just like when you use a constant supply of electricity, you don't think about how the "convenience" of this electricity is to dig coal out of the ground. And then how many trillions of pascals of water vapor power to propel the turbine, even through the fission of the guò atoms, and your convenience is also equivalent to these forces.
Transmission represents a thousand times more 'convenient' than water and electricity. Naturally, it represents an even greater power.
In the abyss, the lawless land. Strength is just a qiē, how could countless intertwined forces allow a portal to be controlled by a small demon lord? Especially since this guy doesn't even have the ability of the Barlow Flame Demon...... There is no force behind him to manipulate this kind of thing, it may be true in a short time, but thousands of years...... Undoubtedly, it would take the same probability as the demons' discipline to happen!
Therefore, the thunderous roar of the demon lord could not suppress the gentle voice of the human.
"You, lord, are you really pure-hearted, and I guess. The same is true of the one behind you?" he chuckled, "Otherwise, I really can't explain why he always puts you on hold for a while. as a means of increasing remuneration...... Oh, I see, you're actually generous, and most of the time you do something free for your closer friends?
Barnturas's roar was gone.
Pure heart and few desires, generosity?
Demon?
A person may do something that feels unpredictable, and that's because they will lean in any direction. So they can be good, they can be bad, they can have power and they can achieve nothing...... But this is not the case with the chaos of the demons, they are always self-interested, and they do not care for their own sake, and the only time they are pure is when they are sure that they can't do anything.
The desires of the demons are endless.
Therefore, no matter what power Barnturas has behind him, it is impossible to allow such a high-level portal to stagnate for a period of time on a regular basis...... They will do whatever it takes to fix it, make it useful, or at least destroy it, rather than let it stay here and be controlled by a petty lord and do something boring like exploiting merchants.
In this case, one qiē or both should think the other way around.
Those occasional 'stagnations' may be when the gate comes into play, and the toll transmission to the merchants is nothing more than a side business that a lord does in his spare time.
So, what is the so-called main business?
How much capacity can such a huge portal generate?
"There's no point in delaying time, Paddle. ”
When the Demon Lord spoke again, the madness and anger in his voice had disappeared, and he turned back into the polite Cunzài: "Even if you guess something, you have lost the opportunity to threaten me." It's a pity that you're either an unlucky passer-by, a poor spy, or really have some power...... But that's no longer important to me. You are in the right place at the right time, but you are not the right person. ”
"In fact, by the same time you enter here, your setup is already complete. Then, we will be sent by you to ...... Well, it's not just a matter of level, it's another plane, this breath of pure evil, that's how it is...... Doesn't that seem like I'm right?"
Edward's gaze moved slightly, and he watched as the light condensed in a huge ring—it seemed to be only a fraction of the total energy, but the thick power distorted the air like a smoky cloud, and the qiē on the ground also showed an unnatural distortion as if it had been refracted by a curved lens at this moment, and with just one breath, it began to swell and swirl, like quicksand rolling in the desert!
"I really didn't expect that this was the idea of that Maharaja? A portal to the abyss? It's hard to imagine that they hadn't activated it hundreds of years earlier?"
The Demon Lord was surprised once more.
The symbol on the portal flickered slightly, indicating that he was reconfirming the purpose and power of the teleportation - the human had no intention of stopping any of his movements from beginning to end, and there was no death struggle except words, but this attitude of resignation was unsettling to the demon.
Should he at least resist a little? With the strength he has shown to be exceeding, it should not be the temperament of this kind of person to sit back and wait to die?
"That's right, what I'm going to tell you is that this portal is not as simple as you think. ”
Thoughts flashed through the demon's brain, and the human voice suddenly became louder at this moment, fluttering among the ruins, flickering east and west: "It uses psychic runes, which is very ancient, but it is not something that a demon can control, and demons rarely have the type of psychic ability, so you are just a second-tier dealer." (To be continued......)