The devils were clever.
As soon as the contest for the Lord of the Dead came to an end, they quickly retreated after conducting one last pillaging spree in the Netherworld. Those devils who still remained were actually just fellows who hadn't managed to glean enough benefits earlier and stubbornly lingered to see if any opportunity remained, and all of them were slaughtered by Soren's Attendant of the God of Death, practically wiped out completely. The Netherworld was a special region of the Lower Planes, with general altitude layers running from the Material Plane--Shadow Plane--Spirit Realm--Netherworld--Gray Waste--Pandemonium--Baator and The Abyss.
As for beneath The Abyss lay the Sea of Chaos.
The main stream of the River Styx was rapidly retaken by Soren's Attendant of the God of Death, yet the River Styx traversed the Multiverse, and many places still required patrols by the Death Pantheon.
And it was right around the afternoon of that very day.
Soren's territory welcomed a group of special visitors, and these people were fiends from the Lower Planes.
The Death Pantheon had always maintained a relatively neutral state.
Soren's visitors were a group of Yugoloths from Inferno Hell, which was a race of fiends specifically categorized into—Canoloth, Mezzoloth, Manezoloth, Nycaloth, Yagnoloth, Greater Yugoloth, Arcanaloth, and Nycaloth Commander.
The leader of this group of visitors was none other than the Nycaloth Commander.
This level of Yugoloth was basically equivalent to a fiend lord, and they often controlled a vast expanse of territory under their command.
The fiends had dispatched envoys while bringing sufficiently generous gifts, including various rare metals, high-grade soul gems, materials from the Astral Plane, and annihilation matter from the edge of the plane.
"Great Lord of the Dead!"
The Nycaloth Commander knelt respectfully before Soren, expressing her reverence, and then said, "I am