"So you're saying the path upward was cut off, leaving you to slaughter one another here?" I asked curiously.
"It can't be said that it was completely cut off, but none of us knows what it's really like up there. After all, the great demon guarding the teleportation array announced that anyone going up had to go empty-handed. Just think about it—if we go up with nothing, how can we compete with the demon slaves up there?" the female demon said gloomily.
"Exactly. Besides, no one can say whether the teleportation array above is random. If it's fixed, couldn't someone have cut off the way forward?" another demon slave said bitterly.
"Mm, that makes sense. Give me the map to the way up. A terrain map of the surrounding area would be even better," I said.
"Of course we have one. All of us demon slaves have maps. After all, it isn't only our Household Valley—there are other demon-slave territories too, each occupied by demon slaves from different academies. The demon slaves on our side happened to come from the Academy of Curse Spirits, so they chose Household Valley," the slightly older demon slave explained.
"I see. Give me the map." I reached out and took the old demon slave's map. After one look, I figured they had long since finished exploring the space on the first level.
So Household Valley had merely been my choice because the yin energy there was relatively abundant. The map also recorded introductions to the other territories.
And in the red territory in the middle, there really was a crossed-out spot. Without a doubt, that was the teleportation array leading to the upper level.
I calculated the direction and looked behind me before putting away the map. Then I had the three demon slaves