Devil's Murmurs were nothing unusual to the residents of the Underground World.
The Underground World was fraught with danger, half of it due to geography—either it lay too close to certain chaotic Half-Planes, allowing monsters to come running over at any moment and wreak havoc, or it was simply neighbors with the abyssal hells. It was hardly strange for a devil to rap in your ear now and then; running into a demon that knew only frenzied slaughter was just another everyday case of being left in the dark, with life and death up to fate...
Under such conditions, the laws of survival in the dark world were often exceedingly cruel.
Of course, before deciding to establish Anonymous City underground, Xu Nan had already thoroughly studied the characteristics of the Underground World.
Besides cruelty and darkness, it had another important trait—bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
The villains who managed to survive in the Underground World all had some brains. As long as Xu Nan held tightly to his powerful backers, flew Stephenson's banner, and displayed his strength appropriately, generally speaking, no brainless little experience packs would come knocking to offer themselves up.
There was no shortage of places like the Ratfolk tribe that were plagued by so-called devils. If it had been another tribe, Xu Nan would probably have scoffed and assumed some humanoid spellcaster was putting on a mysterious act. But judging from the magic Zula had displayed, he was unquestionably a fourth-rank spellcaster. The devil he spoke of was thus ninety percent likely to have truly come from the Nine Hells.
As for its actual strength and characteristics, those remained uncertain for now.
But after the experiment just now, Xu Nan could at least confirm that his cheap daughter's domain was quite useful. At the very