Curse Rune

Lu Yao poured himself a glass of Ice Cola and cleared his head.

The situation on the ninth layer of the Abyss was not simple.

According to the world backend records, this layer imprisoned more than three thousand prisoners, the vast majority of whom could move about freely. Cases like Nature Lady and Stone Lion were the rare exceptions.

The Dark God had given an assessment of every prisoner. From this, it was clear that those placed on the ninth layer were all collectibles He had personally selected.

The bottom of the Abyss being connected to the Insect Nest had also been intentional.

It was like a person adding some difficulty for the ants in an insect tank for amusement, deliberately introducing an invasive species.

The purpose was to make the prisoners fight the Curse Worms.

Gods who had lost their Godheads were nothing more than Demigods. They had completely lost the power of their true bodies, and after being injured, it was difficult for them to recover quickly. Against swarms of Curse Worms, victory or defeat was hard to predict.

Yet on this ninth layer, like a life-and-death octagon cage, the situation had been changed by the Curse Worms.

In the early days, the Curse Worms invading from the outside had mainly been the Overwrite Worms and Hermit Worms. These were also the ones Lu Yao had fought when he first explored the Abyss.

But the later Black Termites had integrated and conquered these two groups, stabilizing this place.

The Black Termite clan had an extremely strong sense of territory and forbade prisoners from approaching their domain—the so-called Tenth Layer—but the Curse Clan among them would negotiate and communicate with the prisoners.

The world backend had no specific records of their conversations. It could only show that this situation