Chapter 779 - Final Battle (Part 4)
Chapter 779: Final Battle (Part 4)
Devils were the oldest Chaos Abyss species of all. Most people thought of devils as an evil species equal to the demons, and that devils were highly difficult to deal with even throughout all the different dimensions.
The devils had nine Devil Lords and three Devil Main Gods among them. Their society was militaristic. The devils were evil, sly scammers who also possessed actual power. Most people felt that they were even more evil and difficult to deal with than the more direct and chaotic demons.
Nobody expected that the devils would weaken so quickly and pitifully.
Still, when looking for the source of this, some things had already become definite starting from 10 years ago.
“The current devils are no longer the same ancient species from 10 years ago. Rather than saying the devils who joined Hell are traitors, it’s more accurate to say that those devils were actually the foundational strength of the devil species.”
Devils were an ancient species that was originally the end result of some members of the first generation of humans betraying the Order Faction. Debating what might have happened was meaningless by now, but the devils’ culture passed on since the first Holy War had settled down through history, and gradually formed terrifying evil with the influence of the Chaos Abyss.
Devils were schemers and scammers who also used contracts. Devils didn’t like to appear under the sun. If you antagonized the devils or became targeted by them, it was likely that you wouldn’t even realize how you died.
Devils had a classical hierarchical society. The higher-level the devil, the slyer and stronger they would be as foolish and weak devils would be trampled on by lower-level devils who were more skilled than they were.
However, the top-level devils had always abnormally remained the same. Compared to other species’ equivalents, the Devil Lords were changed at an extremely slow rate, and the Devil Lords were also quite “peaceful” among each other, a rarity for top-level individuals of other species.
Anyone in authority who lost their status and authority would likely end up dying. Competition in the devils’ lower and middle levels was extremely cruel, yet the top-level devils were on abnormally peaceful terms with each other. It was this “unity” which was inconceivable for outsiders that helped the most powerful devils accumulate enough to be on par with the demons.
Outsiders didn’t understand how this came to be, but I knew about it all quite clearly.
The devils had always maintained a relatively complete and stable societal structure. The top-level devils who seemed to be at peace with each other had actually always been split into two factions. The first faction consisted of the newer devils, who were led by Sarwenstan, the Lord of Tyranny. They were highly ambitious, and had their own goals and plans for the entire world.
The other faction consisted of the ancient former humans. The younger devils viewed these devils as slow old folks whose ambition had been dulled by time. The younger devils felt that these older devils had lost the ambition that a devil should possess due to being in too many Holy Wars, and that the older devils could seemingly only hide at home and tremble in fear.
However, likely very few realized that the older devils who hid at home ended up surviving countless Holy Wars, while the younger ambitious talents among the devils all ended up dying.
10 years ago, these old artifact devils who seemingly lost their courage and ambitions suddenly stood up and took action. However, they didn’t fight for the sake of the Chaos Abyss that they had always sworn loyalty to. Instead, they unhesitatingly fought against the Chaos Abyss as their grudges accumulated over countless years transformed into endless blood and angry roars on the battlefield.
In the end, these old devils obtained the freedom that they wanted. They broke free from the Chaos Abyss’s control, as well as from the endless Holy War and Cycle of Reincarnation.
This major incident that would go down in history ended up hurting the younger devils more than anything.
Only now did the younger devils learn that the ancient devils had never viewed them as their own kind at all. Silence and keeping their distance had been the best way to fool the younger devils; they felt that they had control of the world, but in reality, the younger devils didn’t even have accurate knowledge of what was really going on.
The older devils hadn’t actually lost their ambitions to fight. It was just that they had seen through how meaningless the Holy War was, which made them unmotivated to go all out for the sake of the Chaos Faction.
The devils lost two-thirds of their high-level combat strength due to this major incident. However, what the devils actually lost couldn’t be calculated by numbers alone. To make an analogy, if a well-run company suddenly had most of its leaders and elites headhunted by another company, then the company’s remaining personnel would likely be unable to keep the company running. If the head accountant left unexpectedly, then the entire financial department would likely become paralyzed. If the head of information technology suddenly left, then likely nobody else would be able to understand what was left behind. If the company president went missing, then the entire company would be in chaos. With so many high-level devils leaving, their entire society went into a complete collapse due to the absence of so many leaders and elites.
So many Devil Lords joining the Hell Faction caused the remaining devil society to go into utter chaos and panic. The demons then took advantage of the situation and attacked, causing even more severe losses for the devils.
The end result was that the devils were instantly weakened to a tremendous degree. Even though the devils had been quite powerful prior to this, they were still unable to handle all this happening to them.
According to calculations, the entire devil species had suffered losses of more than 95%. Basically, the current devils had less than 5% of the power that they’d possessed just 10 years ago.
With such severe losses, the devils instantly went from a powerful first-rate faction to a third-rate faction. This was why they were now in such a hurry to try and make a foothold for themselves in the mortal plane when they usually would always prefer to stay scheming behind the scenes. The devils were no longer able to survive in the Chaos Abyss that operated on the law of the jungle where only the strong survived.
Although I slightly sympathized with the devils’ plight, that was absolutely no reason for me to go easy on them. The world would definitely become a better and more beautiful place for every natural-born devil that was eliminated forever, after all.
“Now then, I need to first kill off this crispy piece of fried chicken…”
The Devil Lord of Thunder. It was said that he ruled over the Original Sin of Pride. However, those who interacted with him would always feel that he was really nice and gentlemanly.
The Devil Lord of Thunder’s physical appearance was that of a large chicken with golden feathers of lightning. He was constantly surrounded by roaring lightning, and even his breathing could summon lightning. Gold flashes of lightning would orbit around him like moons. It was impossible for lightning to ever stop within his personal domain, which also made him look really mighty. He was also one of the rare Devil Lords who focused on melee combat.
His personal experience was just as wondrous as his physical appearance. It was said that he was formerly a creature of heaven, but he was unwilling to submit to the Order Gods’ rules, so he fell into the Chaos Abyss and became a demon. That’s right, a demon, not a devil. He then became a Demon Archduke, but then he betrayed the demons, and became a high-level devil.
At the time, people were even placing bets on when he would betray his new faction, but millennia passed, and the Devil Lord of Thunder constantly remained the Lord of Tyranny’s most trusted right-hand man.
“Anti-evil slash!”
Blinding Holy Light descended from the sky, transforming the dark night into brightness. This Holy Light exploded right in front of the second-last remaining Devil Lord, causing white holy flames to begin burning everywhere.
I walked through the holy flames and directly faced the angry giant golden chicken.
This time, I was going for a direct confrontation rather than using an ambush!