Root

Chapter 705: Root

Beware the Lord of the Nine Hells!

In an instant, those words rang through Zhao Xu's mind once more.

No wonder he had kept hearing that warning from the very beginning.

No wonder Antinoa had to proceed with such caution even when she personally went to Barto Hell, bringing along the legendary Pale Justice.

Clearly, Hell as a whole was nowhere near as complicated as the Abyss, where gods and powerful lords of the Abyss numbered no fewer than a hundred, making it the place with the highest concentration of Arthurian World powerhouses.

Across the Nine Hells, aside from Asmodeus, the Lord of Hell, there were only nine layers. Even counting each layer's ruler and every ruler who had ever been deposed, the true powerhouses only numbered in the dozens—just barely over that, at most.

Moreover, not a single god had chosen the Nine Hells as the location for a Divine Kingdom, not even Lawful Evil ones.

Some Wizards studying the Abyss had even mocked that the Lord of Hell had merely benefited from choosing the right place and getting lucky. If he had been born in the Abyss instead, he would at most have controlled one layer.

Still, compared to the Abyss's disunity, the entire Nine Hells could be said to rest completely in Asmodeus's palm.

Even the appointment of rulers for the nine planes was decided by his word alone.

Even if a figure like a Lord of the Abyss truly emerged someday, their authority over the entire plane would still struggle to match that of the Lord of the Nine Hells.

One of the Creation Dragons, the incarnation of order, the sovereign of the Nine Hells.

Once those pieces were linked together, the authority of that Lord of Hell seemed to make perfect sense.