Elsewhere, just as Li Wei led his great army to hastily construct a portal amid the torrent of the Chaos Sea pouring down from the heavens and begin relocating to the 570th layer of the Abyss, Glasya awakened from her grief.
After learning fragments of the truth from the succubus princess, Li Wei sank into a long silence.
He had guessed the beginning, but not the ending.
To some extent, when Li Wei had been forced by the dire circumstances following the Saints' Calamity to sign that contract with the unfathomable Lord of Hell, he had already prepared himself to be used. He had also kept a certain degree of vigilance toward Asmodeus all along.
Prince Levistus had been one of the countermeasures he had intended to keep in reserve:
At the bottom of that icy ocean in Stygia, the fifth layer of Hell, Li Wei had ostensibly beaten Levistus up to consolidate Barto Hell's resources. In secret, however, he had made an agreement with the devil prince.
Should Asmodeus "betray" the original intent of their agreement for some other purpose unknown to them, Li Wei would release Prince Levistus from that prison. At that point, Levistus would stand on the same front as him and strike back accordingly against the Lord of Hell.
At the same time, to prevent his plan from being vetoed outright, Li Wei had concealed the true purpose of this Abyss expedition from the Lord of Hell:
To take the embers of civilized order and leave this world, now hanging by a thread, for good.
Yet now, all of it seemed somewhat laughable.
Yes. Laughable.
His little schemes truly were not worth mentioning before the Lord of Hell's vast breadth of mind and grand vision.
Prince Levistus, whose combat strength might rank among the top