Devils?
Upon hearing the word, everyone present looked somewhat bewildered.
"Were they some kind of Evil Spirit that had already disappeared?" Don asked curiously. There were many legends about the Nether Sea, including stories of Evil Spirits from ancient times sleeping in the Depths of the Nether Sea.
Although he had never heard of devils.
The mere fact that a statue could be so sinister was enough to give them an idea of how terrifying they must have been.
"Forget it."
Liu Yuanyuan glanced at him.
She did not explain further.
Instead, she continued, "It is said that devils were skilled at manipulation, twisting the minds of the living and stirring up the most primitive desires and most intense emotions deep within their consciousness."
"If one was even slightly careless,"
"one would become their puppet without realizing it."
"But records concerning them"
"only exist in a few scattered fragments from the middle period of the Nether Era. It is uncertain whether they remained active in the later period."
"You all know this too."
"There are very few ruins from the Nether Era, and even fewer records."
"There is no information from the early period."
"There are some scattered, fragmentary records from the middle and later periods, but none of them form a complete system. They are preserved among a vast sea of ancient books and have to be extracted bit by bit."
"But according to the limited information available,"
"the records from the middle period still mention devils, while there are no records concerning devils at all in the later period."
"So I tend to think"
"that something may have happened to the devils during the later period."
"Either they perished,"
"or they went into hiding because of some change and stopped appearing before the world."
"Of course."
"These are