Within the Internal Time and Space of a distant High-level Plane.
This place had once been immensely prosperous.
Now, more than ninety percent of its territory had been reduced to irreparable ruins.
It had become a fragmented, quasi-gaseous structure.
Forget magnificent scenery.
Not even a single ordinary stone remained!
As for its original inhabitants, they had long since been slaughtered to the last.
Not even their corpses or the traces of their civilization had survived.
At first.
When faced with the attacks of two abyss lords, the powerful natives had still managed to mount effective resistance, thanks to their plane's natural home-field advantage. But as time passed, their enemies had slowly bled them dry.
Their defeat had gradually become inevitable...
It had taken billions of years.
And each attacker had lost dozens of avatars.
But in the end, this place had been destroyed under the combined assault of Mersaid and another abyss lord.
It became yet another of their victories!
This proved once again.
That as long as they were willing to pay the price and put in the time.
For these immortal beings.
These abyss lords who sometimes could not even kill themselves.
High-level Planes might be difficult to deal with, but apart from a few particularly powerful ones.
With their formidable immortality, they could always find a way if they kept wearing their targets down...
The main reason was simple.
A plane's existence was an inherent geographical advantage.
But it also made for an all-too-obvious target.
As abyss creatures, abyss lords were inherently incompatible with planes, like fire and water.
A plane's innate properties could indeed suppress them to a tremendous degree.
But by the same token, with the right methods, abyss lords could inflict severe, targeted damage on a plane.
Neither had an absolute advantage over the