Chapter 76 - The Demon in Charge of Punishment (2/2)

Impossible. Demons did not have any mercy in the first place, and there was no way they could have any sympathy for the weak.

From the perspective of the ruling class, even though Roy had broken the rule, they preferred the brave who stood out above the rest! Because this meant that a powerful demon warrior was born.

At this moment, Roy finally experienced the changes brought about after his promotion. In this Abyss, there were no low-rank demons… The rulers did not even have their eyes on low-rank demons, but once they became middle-rank demons, they would immediately receive importance.

This was very obvious class discrimination. The more powerful a demon, the more power they had to violate the rules. And if you had enough power, you could even set the rules!

Roy felt that he really should not use his human thinking to gauge the attitudes of demons toward certain things…

“I understand!” Roy nodded. “Your Excellency Edrach, thank you for your regard!”

“It’s good that you understand. It seems like you aren’t stupid!” Edrach’s voice seemed very satisfied. A smarter demon saved him the trouble of wasting his breath. “Warriors should obtain the rights they deserve. But this kind of behavior is not worthy of promoting after all, so you still have to receive punishment. Lord Rogeros has no time to care about these trivial matters. Thus, I hereby announce your punishment: You must carry out an execution mission!”

“An execution mission?”

“Yes! Execution mission. But the target of this sentence is not you. You are the executioner! You are to kill a target Lord Rogeros chose!” Edrach said. “This task has a certain degree of difficulty because the target is often stronger than you. If you successfully execute the sentence, then when you return, Lord Rogeros will reward you properly…”

“So, if I can’t kill the target and get killed instead, it will be my punishment for breaking the rule. Is that right?” Roy understood immediately.

“Yes!” Edrach said. “Punishment and execution depend on whether or not you are truly strong. I hope you don’t only know how to bully weak demons…”

A black ball of light appeared in front of Roy as Edrach spoke. In the ball of light was a crystal the thickness of a thumb, and the crystal floated in front of Roy. Edrach said, “This is a memory crystal, and it has information about your target. You can read it after inputting magic power. Remember, you only have a year to complete the execution mission… After completing the mission, you can come here to find me!”

With that, the power of Edrach’s will gradually dissipated from the demon gate, and its red eyes slowly dimmed.

Roy did not touch the memory crystal immediately but swayed his tail and started to ponder.

He did not expect to encounter such a thing just after promoting to middle-rank demon. Roy noticed some information from Edrach’s words.

Demon lords were existences higher than high-rank demons. And these places of refinement seemed to have been built with the blood of demon lords. Different from their attitude of letting low-rank demons do whatever they wanted in the upper Abyss, these demon rulers seemed to consciously manage the middle Abyss. However, this place was not the world where high-rank demons and demon lords lived, so they could only execute their will through this way of having their power descend.

Roy had just entered the middle Abyss, and he was still unclear about many things. He had indeed broken a rule set by a demon lord, but in the eyes of the ruling class, it was still within acceptable range. After all, the demon lord who set up this place of refinement had specially made the barrier. After the pool water took the souls, he was immediately expelled out of the barrier. This meant that they had already expected this to happen, so he was merely punished.

Of course, rules were divided into the tolerable and intolerable. If Roy had killed in a place where the little demons were born, he would have definitely been killed. This would have been absolutely intolerable.

It was better to call this an opportunity rather than punishment because this mission wanted Roy to kill another demon as an executioner instead of other demons hunting him down. Edrach did not even enter into a demon contract with Roy, and the time frame given was rather loose.

If he could complete the mission, he would receive a reward. This model resembled a mercenary accepting a mission, and it looked like it was giving an opportunity and training Roy.

Hmm… It could not be said that Roy was the only one. From Edrach’s meaning, many demons had broken the rule in the place of refinement, so other demons might have also received the same treatment as Roy.

This situation, in addition to the word ‘warrior’ that Edrach revealed, made Roy wonder if this was the demon lord training his army.

The so-called lords meant that they had territory under their control, and generally speaking, there was only one lord per territory. Even human lords would fight each other, let alone demon lords. Therefore, Roy felt that the middle Abyss was actually the source of soldiers for the demon lords!

Chaos, massacre, war… Tsk, such a world rhythm is indeed very troublesome. Don’t tell me these demons are that bored?

Roy shook his head, took the memory crystal floating in front of him, input his magic power, and decided to check what kind of mission target Edrach had given him…