Chapter 17：The Summoned Demon (1/2)

A demon's sense of smell was special!

Only they could smell the aroma of a soul from afar. However, since the souls they usually detected were low quality, they would not bother to rush over because they knew it was the spoils of other demons. They were too far away, and it would be gone by the time they reached it.

But it was different now. Only a high-quality soul would be able to emit such an aroma, and it was definitely something rare in the upper level of the Abyss. Hundreds of demons actually gathered after smelling it!

Many demons came involuntarily driven by the pure desire for such a soul. They were simply attracted to the aroma but did not know how this soul appeared.

Upon arriving, he realized that the aroma came from the inside of an extinct volcano.

There were many such volcanoes in the upper level of the Abyss. However, most of them were active volcanoes with magma flowing out at any time. The demon world was a world where lava and flames coexisted precisely because of these volcanoes.

Similarly, there were extinct volcanoes as well, but there were very few of them. Now, however, hundreds of demons were rushing toward the interior of this extinct volcano. And many more were constantly streaming in.

After diving down into the interior of the volcano, he saw that there was a ferocious fight going on!

The demons that arrived earlier showed their most savage faces and were fighting each other, but their battles were all surrounding an… altar!

Roy was astonished because he knew from one glance that this altar was artificial, something he had never seen in the upper level of the Abyss!

He could not expect these low-rank demons to build houses. In fact, due to the crossbreeding, most of them could not even be classified. Categories like flame demon, succubus, shadow demon, and so on could not be applied to them. Roy could not even tell what type of demon he was. Many low-rank demons simply survived, and they did not even know how to make simple tools and weapons, so how was it possible for them to build something?

Therefore, Roy was certain that the altar could have never been made by these low-rank demons!

However, the Demon World isn't a place that humans can survive, so who built this altar? Could it be something the high-rank demons left behind?

The altar looked huge. In addition to the height of the base, the top platform was as large as a basketball court. The large magic formation engraved onto the round platform had a six-pointed star in the middle, and within it was a strange drawing. It seemed to be an Ouroboros biting its own tail, and unrecognizable words surrounded the magic formation. Intuition told Roy that it was probably words of the demon language.

The magic formation was currently glimmering. The indecipherable words and the drawing were flashing rhythmically with a slight buzz. It seemed to have activated.

The aroma of the soul came from the magic formation, but what baffled Roy was that he could not see the high-quality soul anywhere, and there was nothing in the magic formation.

What's going on? Has the soul not appeared yet? In that case, where is the aroma coming from?

Looking at the demons that seemed to have lost their minds fighting below, Roy knew that they were competing for ownership of the high-quality soul that was about to appear. Although Roy's mouth might be dripping saliva from the aroma of the soul, he floated in the air to observe instead of joining the fight.

Roy had yet to understand the function of the altar, so he would not take action before he did.

He even stayed a little farther away to prevent those demons from taking the initiative to fight him…

It would not be an overstatement to describe the scene below as a river of blood. Demons died one after another as the fighting progressed. Purple demon blood flowed out of their bodies and converged. The demons that survived could not wait to get into the next fight after devouring their opponent's souls.