But the Iron Duke Dispater soon realized that his plans seemed to have fallen through.
By his original calculations, since the Silver Dragon who had newly become the Duke of Avernus had openly proclaimed that utterly mad mobilization plan for an Abyssal expedition, then, just as Zariel had done back then, trying to consolidate the power of all Nine Hells had become an imperative move.
Yet he had never expected that the other party possessed such a bizarre means of directly teleporting before him, disregarding the protective warding magic of his iron tower.
So before he even had time to worry whether another round of civil war would sweep across the Nine Hells, Zariel had already given him a savage beating.
And after being forced to sign that humiliating Devil Contract—which was not, in fact, such a bad deal—Dispater no longer doubted that she possessed such capabilities.
Yet even after news that the Iron Duke had been brutally beaten within the iron tower of his domain by Tibilus, along with Zariel and Bael, began spreading through the upper reaches of Barto Hell, there was still no word from Mammon of Minauros, the third layer.
It was said that after raging for a while in the Leaning Tower of Dis that day, the Iron Duke headed to Dis's underground prison.
Before long, waves of agonized wails rose from the small ventilation openings in the walls of Burning Street.
While the entire Nine Hells boiled over as news spread of Li Wei's Abyssal expedition plan and his beating of Dispater within the latter's own territory, and while the other devil dukes all feared for themselves and erected spatial warding magic throughout their domains, Li Wei, after returning to the Bronze Fortress and settling his old and new subordinates, politely declined the eager