Chapter 437 - Extinction (1/2)
Looking down from high in the sky, they could see the enormous irregular rift in the dark ground of the Demon World. This was the location of the Despair Prison.
The size of this rift was more than five square kilometers, and this was only the opening. It was said that the entire rift valley was in the shape of a trapezoid, and the bottom part was even wider.
The specific origin of this special rift valley that looked like a scar on the ground was no longer determinable. It should have been formed by the geological changes of the Demon World. What was strange was that the dark power in this rift was so rich that a thick mist formed above the rift. The color of the thick mist was even darker than the surrounding Demon World.
It was precisely because of the black mist that no one could see the situation inside the rift valley from above.
Although the name of this place was the Despair Prison, there were actually no artificial buildings inside the rift valley. According to Cerberus, the rock walls inside the rift valley were full of caves dug by the numerous whip demons living here. In addition, there were many ferocious and sinister monsters and plants living together in the rift valley. Once anyone intruded, they would be besieged by these natives.
“No one knows how deep this rift valley is!” Cerberus explained to Roy. “The farther down, the wider the rift valley becomes, and the paths will become more complicated. Even the whip demons living here will probably lose their way. Lord Osiris, are you sure you want to go down?”
“What else? Tell me everything!” Roy did not answer her and asked directly.
“Okay… Another thing to note is that your rank may not suppress and affect these whip demons!” Cerberus said.
“What do you mean?” Benia asked in puzzlement. “Are you saying that these whip demons have the courage to attack a demon lord?”
Cerberus’s three heads nodded. She said solemnly, “This is also the real reason why their lair is called a prison. As I said earlier, these whip demons are not demons of the Abyss but mutated demons caused by the environment of the Demon World. The demon bloodline in their bodies is very thin, and they don’t have the slightest reverence for high-level demons. Let alone demon lords, it’s very likely that they would crazily attack even His Majesty Mundus because to these mutated demons, they are only eliminating intruders that enter their territory…”
“Hmph, simply heresy!” Benia could not help but snort coldly.
For the Abyss demons with a very serious concept of hierarchy, weren’t these whip demons heretics? Combined with their sadistic and torturing personalities, they were basically a bunch of lunatics among demons!
“How many of these whip demons are there?” Julia asked solemnly.
“Innumerable!” Cerberus shook her heads. “It might exceed ten million!”
“How can there be so many?” Benia’s expression could not help but change when she heard this number.
Cerberus stepped on her forelimbs uneasily. “Maybe even more! You have to know that these whip demons aren’t actually that strong. Most of them are merely low-rank demons, and a few strong individuals can reach the middle-rank demon level. But even with this strength, no demon has ever driven them away and occupied this rift valley… because the reproduction ability of these whip demons is too astonishing. They are demons born from eggs, but they can lay more than twenty eggs at a time. Over the years, they have accumulated an astonishing number.”
“Are there many species like whip demons in the Demon World?” Roy asked with a frown.
“There are indeed many. Ever since demons discovered this world, occupied the Purgatory Space, and turned it into the Demon World, it has been a long time, at least tens of thousands of years. Of course, there have been many mutated demons in such a long time…” Cerberus said. “In fact, you should have realized that most of the demons here are more or less different from the demons of the Abyss. It’s just that whip demons are especially special. ”
Yes, demons were originally creatures that were capable of adapting to any environment and evolving. Back in the Darksiders world, humans had released nuclear weapons all over the world to attack the demons and angels. The entire space was full of fatal radiation. At that time, many demons had evolved rapidly to adapt to the radiation environment and survive. In the Demon World here, it was naturally reasonable for a large number of mutations to occur.
Only powerful high-rank elite demons like Cerberus could survive long enough to maintain the characteristics of Abyss demons.
“Let’s go. No matter how many there are, we’ll kill any who dares to stop us!” Roy spread his wings, left Rafaro’s back, and descended from the sky.
Behind him, Julia and Benia brought Cassandra and Sareth to go down with him. Fat Tiger brought Dante’s group of three and Cerberus down.
Since there were so many whip demons, it was definitely impossible to rely on Roy alone. The more combat power, the better.
As they descended, they could see the black rift becoming larger and larger, covering an area of five square kilometers. Compared to it, Roy and the others were as inconspicuous as a sesame seed on a piece of flatbread. After passing through the thick layer of the dark element mist, their vision suddenly brightened.
Roy flapped his wings and controlled the speed of his descent while looking around.
Just as Cerberus had said, he could see dense black caves in the rock walls of the rift valley, as though the entire rift valley had been hollowed out. After Roy and others entered, pairs of dark green lights appeared in these caves one after another.
Needless to say, they were the whip demons residing in the caves!
With shrill, jackal-like roars, the entire interior of the rift valley suddenly boiled, as though drops of water had dripped into a hot pan of oil. Thousands of whip demons flew out of their caves, and the overwhelming scene was simply shocking.
It was not until this moment that everyone finally saw the appearance of these whip demons clearly. Although they were called demons, these whip demons actually looked more like monsters. They had a pair of strange demon wings with membranes, but their bodies were like giant mosquitoes. There were two rows of symmetrical eyes on their foreheads, and each row had four. They were arranged from front to back, big to small. Their faces looked extremely strange. And their mouths were like sharp needles, as though their primary way to hunt prey was to suck blood.
The reason why they were called whip demons was because of the six legs under their abdomen that looked like long whips with fleshy thorns. These long fleshy thorns carried a dim blackish-purple light on them, and it was obvious that they were poisonous.
When hunting prey, they would use these whip-like legs to wrap tightly around the prey and rely on the poison on them to make the prey lose the ability to resist. Then the whip demons would not immediately eat the prey but bring them back to their nests and repeatedly torture them with the thorn whips until they finally died from fear and pain. Only then would they use their sharp mouths to slowly savor the blood and delicious souls of their prey.
Roy and the others’ intrusion alarmed these hordes of whip demons. The startled whip demons flew out of their caves and gathered together. The terrifying scene could cause anyone with ochlophobia to have an attack.
Perhaps it was because of the immense number of them, the food of these whip demons had always been deficient. They were always hungry, and once they found prey, they would rush forward to snatch it without care. Even though Roy had released his magic power pressure to the maximum, these whip demons still continued to surround them. Although they did not dare to rush forward to attack for the time being, anyone could sense their greed for food. This greed and hunger would eventually make them lose their minds.