Chapter 67.2 - Tower of God: Demon God Arena (1/2)

Xiu took out Old John and everyone began to look around. This arena should be the tower’s first trial. Du Ze stared at a pattern on the ground. It looked like an artistic design of some sort, but it was actually language-based because he could read it. It simply meant “72.”

Alice was also staring at the ground and she looked as though she had remembered something. She looked up; in the dim light of the torches, she could see that above them was a circular shape of roughly the same size as the arena.

“I think I know where we are…”

Everyone looked at her. Alice tugged in Violet’s clothes, revealing a shy smile.

“I read in some ancient books that the demon race once had a very famous architectural complex. It was called the Demon God Arena.”

When Alice said the name of the place, the flames on all the torches flared up. A demon holding a large serpent appeared. His face was cold and his eyes seemed empty. When he saw Du Ze and the others, he attacked without saying a word.

Xiu’s reaction was the fastest, he quickly drew his sword and cut the demon in half at the waist together with the snake. Du Ze thought that the battle ended as quickly as it had started. The defeated demon turned into ash and was blown away by the wind. A rune formed in the air that transformed into a magical teleportation array leading to the top. They all looked at this, puzzled.

Xiu shook off the blood on his sword and looked at Alice. “Go on.”

Alice composed herself then pointed to the top of the teleportation array: “If I am right, this is the same arena. In the first era, the demons built this place for strength rankings. There was only one at first, but once Bael showed his strength no one dared to challenge him. So the demons built the second arena under the first one but it was soon occupied by Agares… In the end the demons built 72 arenas. According to legend, the 72 demon gods are ranked in the same order as these arenas. Later on, the arenas were collectively known as the Demon God Arena.”

Du Ze looked up at the teleportation array and saw that it really does lead to another circular arena.

Alice nodded at the pattern on the floor, explaining: “This is ‘72’ in the ancient demon language, which means that this arena is guarded by the 72nd demon god – just now that man who appeared must have been the demon god Andromalius.”

“He was very weak,” said Xiu. He was a demon god but was only on the level of a Sword Master.

“This … I don’t know,” Alice replied with some uneasiness.

The demon god Andromalius fell early on during the second era. The demon with the snake looked sluggish, like a puppet. He was clearly a virtual shadow of the real demon god made by the tower. Xiu looked at the teleportation formation and asked Alice: “Who is up there?”

“If this is the magic arena, it should be the 71st demon god Dantalion.”

Du ze almost coughed up blood. They just met Dan outside the tower but now they must “meet” him again. Some silly, cute person was impatient to see “demon god Dantalion.” Xiu was aware of Du Ze’s excitement. The corners of his mouth curved up as he pulled Du Ze towards the teleportation array.

“Let’s go.”

The teleportation array sent Du Ze and the others to the next location. They arrived at an arena that was built in the same style. Opposite them was a demon god holding a book. “Dan” stood there blankly.

The moment everyone had been teleported in, “Dan” launched an attack at them. Even though his name was called, “Dan” didn’t seem to hear and just continued to attack mechanically. Like the previous arena, the “Dan” here was just a shadow of the real demon god, with no intelligence and low strength. Even the demon sisters can stop him. This was the first time that Du Ze saw Dan’s real demon form. Compared with the green-clothed businessman, the armor-wearing version was really a bit more majestic in appearance.