Chapter 22: A new Environment and Situation (1/2)

Mo Ke was lying there unconscious, the nether flames had completely drained him. After the death of the boss imp, the opposing devils lost their will to fight.

After the battle, One-eye recruited all the remaining imps and took count of the survivors. They had 50 large imps left from their side while the defenders had 62 large imps left, bringing the count to 112. As for the small imps, they had 214 small imps left while the defenders had 547 left, bringing the count to 761 small imps.

Outside of these numbers, everyone else was dead. The entire battle had lasted over ten hours. By now, the blood sea risen to the third step. In another hour, even the stairs would be engulfed, by then, there would be nothing left of this level.

“Alright, since you guys have agreed to serve me, you are now subordinates of the Master. Listen up, move aside and let us pass through the entrance first.”

The chain of command among lower ranked devils was very simple. After the strongest was determined, you either served or died. As such, One-eye wasn’t afraid of them being rebellious. After giving that command, he ordered the army under him to pass through.

As expected, the subjugated devils obeyed his orders and stepped aside. However, there seemed to be a problem with their own side.

As he was about to lead the army through the entrance, he noticed Big 1 approaching the unconscious body of Mo Ke. He immediately rushed to block Big 1. With a forceful shove to Big 1’s chest, he separated the two even further. “Stand aside, keep your filthy hands away from our master’s sacred body!”

“What’s the meaning of this? Master is unconscious and this lordship is going to evacuate him out of here!” The slightly disfigured Big 1 angrily rebuked him. Half his face had been damaged by the head imp and had only just started healing.

He wanted to be the one to carry Mo Ke through the entrance but was interrupted by One-eye. Regarding his former commander, Big 1 had always kept a wary attitude towards him; even while under his lead. He had always seen One-eye as a rival. “Don’t think this one doesn’t know, the reason why you’ve stopped this lordship is because you want to carry Master yourself!”

Having his intentions revealed publicly made him cough awkwardly. “Ahem, I’m not opposed to carrying Master.”

“Go and die! This might be the only chance this lordship will ever get to carry Master. This one won’t give this chance up no matter what!”

“Let my Big brother do it!” Nine-finger suddenly butted into the argument, his intention, to help One-eye secure the chance. Under One-eye’s grateful gaze, he leaned in and whispered: “Big brother, I’ll help you this time, but the next time such a chance comes up you’ve gotta let me hug Master. I’m counting on you!”

One-eye : “…Go kill yourself!”

One-eye slapped his subordinate on the back of his head, causing him to fall. However, the cunning Nine-finger made use of this opportunity to fall towards Mo Ke which meant as long as his ruse succeeded, Mo Ke would be within arm’s reach.

“If you are going to fall, do it in another direction. This lordship will protect the Master’s innocence to his dying breath!” His plan was immediately seen through by Big 1 who sent him flying off in another direction.

It’s not like he will get pregnant from being touched…

One-eye was was pretty apathetic about his cunning subordinate getting kicked, and even muttered: “Serves you right.”

At this moment, a seemingly bored looking No.5 yawned and casually walked towards Mo Ke. His plan was simple, approach Mo Ke by acting nonchalant. The two large imps were in the midst of a heated argument and naturally did not notice his ulterior motives. However, just as his fingers were about to touch Mo Ke, a large hand reached out and grabbed his neck.

“Do you think that innocent act would fool me?” With a swing of his arm, No.3 threw No.5 away from Mo Ke. “Hmph, you’re still too inexperienced to trick me.”

With No.2 dead, No.3 was now the earliest member of Mo Ke’s team. He was essentially a founding elder of the team. By now, the two large imps had noticed the ruckus and turned over to face their scheming comrades. They asked simultaneously: “No.3 between this lordship and that fellow, who do you choose to help?”

“Help?” He snorted derisively and chuckled: “Naturally, I’ll choose to help myself. None of you have the right to approach the Master’s sacred body. The only one who has this right is me. Among the devils present, I’m the one who joined the Master the earliest and had also contributed the most! Naturally the honors should go to me.”

“No way!” x4

Soon, the five named imps got into a stupidly heated argument that nearly ended in a fist fight.

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“If you guys aren’t able to decide on a candidate, I’ll be happy to volunteer myself.” Seeing Mo Ke’s defenseless form on the ground, Scar-face’s heart thumped. Having just recovered from his arm injuries, he was also able to participate in this sacred duty.

“Go die in a remote corner!” x5

“The blood tide is going to reach this level soon, if we don’t leave now, it will be too late. I don’t feel like dying yet so I’ll leave you guys to your nonsense. Farewell.” As he left those words behind, Scar-face brought his 10 remaining large imps with him through the entrance, his small imps were nothing more than corpses now.

Scar-face’s sudden departure seemed to have ended the argument between the five large imps. By now the water had risen to the fifth step, if they dawdled any longer, they might not make it. Unlike Scar-face’s smaller army, their side was significantly larger, and definitely needed more time to pass through the entrance. The imps collectively sighed at this grim reality.

They knew that if Mo Ke were to wake up and find that their numbers had dwindled because of their incessant fighting, he would be very upset at them. In order to spare him anymore troubles, the large imps quickly came to a decision.

“This lordship feels that we should get a female devil to carry the Master.”

“I agree.”

“Mhm.”

“Alright.”

“I guess this is the only way.”

With this, the curtains fell on the grand battle of stupidity.

“Hurry, the blood tide is reaching this level!”

No.3 and the rest led the remaining devils through the mysterious abyss in front of them known as the entrance to the upper level. As No.3 stepped into the pitch black dark mouth carved onto the cliff, he saw a flight of stairs formed out of stacked platforms. The vastness of his surroundings gave him the feeling of a mysterious dimension rather than a narrow tunnel. After carefully making his way up the stairs for a minute, he finally reached the last platform. With a step forward, he crossed into a new world.

From the outside, it looked like No.3 had emerged from a dark hole in the ground.