Chapter 767 - I Look Down On You (2/2)
An idea flashed through Roland’s mind.
If he could teleport to this coordinate, would he be able to find Betta’s soul and bring him back to life?
Once such a thought arose, it couldn’t be suppressed. Then he used his tough willpower to settle his mind, and teleported out of the mansion with Andonara, to Delpon.
There was a mature woman who bore a slight resemblance to Andonara and was quite beautiful sitting in the pavilion of the manor garden.
When she saw Roland, she smiled and shook her arm.
Roland walked over, sat across from her, and said, “Ms. Phoenix, it’s been a long time.”
Phoenix waved her hand and smiled. “No need to be so polite, we are all acquaintances now. Let’s get right to the point. I heard that you have a floating city!”
Roland nodded.
“Impressive.” Phoenix didn’t hold back her compliments. “You’re stronger than the Goddess of Magic back in the day, but I wanted to ask, what do you think of the Realm of Devils?”
Roland thought for a moment and said, “The enemies of mankind, that’s how I see it.”
Phoenix sighed. “There’s no need to be so hostile to the demons, I think humans and demons can coexist peacefully.”
“I think it’s hard.” Roland shook his head.
“Why?” Phoenix was quite puzzled. “You have already helped the succubi get a firm foothold in human society, why can’t you help the other demon races?”
“Do they need my help?” Roland asked.
“Yes.” Phoenix explained, “We demons are also living beings, and should have the right to live.”
Roland frowned as he looked at Phoenix, who had a saintly expression on her face, and asked in confusion, “So Ms. Phoenix, you mean for me to convince the human world to accept the demon race?”
“I do have that in mind.” Phoenix nodded. “Now that you have a floating city and the title of Great Sage, your words already carry a lot of weight.”
Roland took a deep breath. “But what good would that do to humans? The succubi can solve the human world’s fertility problem, and their main food is the essence of men; essentially, they are harmless parasites in the human world, and can even help and defend humans as a group against their enemies. But what could the other demons do to humans? Burn and kill and crowd out their existence?”
Phoenix waved her hand. “We don’t need to crowd your living space, we just need a piece of land… an uninhabited land to live on.”
The main plane was huge, and there were deep mountains and forests everywhere.
It wasn’t hard to fit in the entire Realm of Devils’ creatures and feed them.
It could even be said that there was more than enough.
But things weren’t just about the immediate future.
Roland was well aware that the demons possessed a strong ability to survive! To what extent?
Even in a place as barren as the Realm of Devils, an exaggerated number of demons could be born.
If they came to the human world, even in the deep forests, it would be a piece of fertile land for them.
Then these demons would reproduce quickly!
In less than a hundred years, their population would be estimated to have doubled a dozen times.
At that point, their living space would expand dramatically and then crowd into the human territories.
Then, to survive, both sides would have to fight over limited resources, and conflicts would arise.
And with the demons’ terrifying fertility rate, and their great vitality and fighting power, it was impossible for humans to beat the demons in the same numbers.
There was no chance of winning.
Every time the demons invaded, humans relied on numerical superiority to barely hold the battlefield front line, then made a tactical retreat, lengthened the battle line, and finally relied on the Heroes and saviors to defeat the Devil Kings and achieve victory through great
difficulty.
Something like this happened every two or three hundred years.
Was it because the devils had nothing better to do than to come and invade the human world every so often?
In reality, it was to reduce their population, so that the Realm of Devils wasn’t overpopulated. At the same time, if they won, they would be able to expand to new territories.
It was like killing two birds with one stone. Roland was quite well-read, and he was well aware of the significance and horror of population wars.
So he felt rather uncomfortable at Phoenix’s suggestion.
Looking at Roland’s impatient, even slightly disdainful look, Phoenix wasn’t too happy either, but she said slowly, “I can guarantee that we demons will never enter the humans’ territories.”
Roland still shook his head.
There were no real promises to be made between nations and between races.
Right now the devils were relatively weak, so they could feel pretty confident that they would keep their word.
But once the demons had enough time and enough resources to recuperate on the main plane, and when they were much stronger than humans… who could be sure of what they would do!
In the same race, beings fought to the death for room to live, let alone two completely different races.
Phoenix sighed and stood up. “Too bad, I thought you were different from the average human, with a more enlightened view and understanding of the hardships of us, the children of the Realm of Devils.”
Roland cracked a smile. “Hardships?”
“Aren’t there hardships?” Phoenix sighed languidly. “A world that barely produces food, that relies on sand maggots eating dirt and then other demons eating sand maggots, that is filled with lava and poisonous gas, and where the vast majority of devil descendants don’t live to adulthood. Is that not hardship?”
Roland laughed with more than a little sarcasm.
He had now come to despise the devils.
The reason was that a month or so ago, several players who had been working on the logistics for the expeditionary army in the Realm of Devils got so sick of going back to the main plane every day to harvest vegetables, wasting a lot of teleportation-specific magic materials and wasting a lot of money, that they started growing vegetables themselves in the Realm of Devils.
As a result, the Realm of Devils, which claimed that no greens could grow, was made fertile.
The green vegetables were so fat and beautiful that they were a joy to look at.
And the devils, living in that land for thousands and thousands of years, hadn’t even tried to grow something there.
Who was to blame?
As for the lack of seeds… They had invaded the human world one or two hundred times.
There was absolutely no thought of bringing back the seeds of the human world.
There was no thought of growing vegetables in the Realm of Devils.
There was absolutely no thought of production.
Just living from day to day, robbing and killing when there was no food to eat!
Devils?
More like savages.