Every battle against a God-level powerhouse had benefited Saine enormously.
Even though Saine had already activated his Flame Demon Transformation, he was still struck by the immensely powerful Flame Law wielded by the Fire Cricket God.
Unlike the God of Dawn, the Fire Cricket God did not have so many high-quality believers, nor did it have many temples to look after.
Scorched Melting Valley was the Fire Cricket God's stronghold.
To venture deep inside and kill the Fire Cricket God, Saine first had to face countless Fire Crickets and other Flame Creatures, numbering in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.
A Purgatory Demon Legion roughly two hundred thousand strong joined Saine in this operation.
Like Saine, these demons had secretly traveled through the Magma Sea beneath the Surface World and infiltrated the outskirts of Scorched Melting Valley.
Besides the nearly twenty Demon Lords following Saine,
five Demon Kings who had left Purgatory in saintly form were leading a million-strong army along Purgatory's border, intimidating the Wings of Nature Faction.
The demons who followed Saine to Scorched Melting Valley were all the most battle-hardened and bloodthirsty among their kind.
They craved blood and slaughter, and took extreme pleasure in Blood Food.
Rather than saying those two hundred thousand Purgatory demons had come to help Saine, it would be more accurate to say they had come to feast on Blood Food.
Two hundred thousand against one million!
The hulking Purgatory demons directly turned Scorched Melting Valley into a land of ruins and death.
The Fire Cricket creatures were, on average, not even as tall as the demons' calves. How were they supposed to fight?
During the battle against the Fire Cricket God, Saine did not borrow the strength of those Demon Lords.
From beginning to end, only Saine and Yuli participated