Accepting Another Mission

On the third floor of the Fiend Castle, designated for missions for Four-Star to Six-Star Fiends, there were rows of luxurious rooms in the main hall. Hodan sat comfortably on a sofa made from the fur of an unknown Magic Beast inside one of the rooms reserved for Five-Star Fiends.

Soon, a staff member of the Fiend Castle walked up to Hodan, clutching a thick dossier. "My lord, greetings. I am the receptionist for Five-Star Fiends. May I ask what kind of mission you wish to accept?"

"Bandit subjugation missions, starting from Silvermoon City, anywhere is fine," Hodan said. "Five-Star missions will suffice. Also, only show me those that can be accepted by a single person; I don't want any group missions." As a Five-Star Fiend, the highest rank of mission he could accept was a Six-Star one, and completing a Six-Star mission would naturally promote him to a Six-Star Fiend.

As for the higher Seven-Star Fiend rank, those missions could only be accepted by Six-Star Fiends, and the targets of such missions were invariably powerhouses at the Seven-Star Fiend level or those nearing that level of strength.

Hodan's purpose for this mission was to use these bandits to develop his ultimate techniques. Those bandits were hardly good people, so Hodan felt no psychological burden using them to hone his skills. While Hodan was no saint, he wouldn't attack others without cause, as doing so easily created enemies. Naturally, these bandits were the best choice.

Although Hodan could run away even if he faced a Six-Star Fiend, it would be of no benefit to the creation of his ultimate techniques. Thus, Hodan chose Five-Star missions.

The reason he chose solo missions was to avoid interference from lower-ranked Fiends. Furthermore, since these were ultimate techniques, he couldn't let others easily learn the principles behind them, or they would be easily countered by others.

The staff member responsible for receiving Hodan nodded slightly, closed his eyes for a moment, and then flipped his hand, replacing the dossier in his hand with another. He flipped through it and said, "Five-Star subjugation missions, my lord. I have 87 here, but only 18 can be accepted by a single person. Please, make your choice."

As he spoke, he handed the dossier to Hodan.

Just as Hodan was selecting his mission.

In a cave within the Black Mountain Range, a red-robed youth who had been in seclusion suddenly opened his eyes: "Damn it, damn it! I, Clisi, will definitely tear you into ten thousand pieces!"

It turned out that this red-robed youth looked exactly like the leader Hodan had killed first, the only difference being their attire and hair color.

"To actually kill my Darkness God Clone! Bastard! Unforgivable!!" Clisi's face became ferocious. He had two god clones: a Fire Element God Clone and a Darkness God Clone. Now that his Darkness God Clone had fallen, only his Fire Element God Clone remained.

"A powerhouse who cultivates the Fate Law, yet his soul attacks are terrifying." Clisi closed his eyes slightly, still able to recall the fear he felt regarding Hodan's soul cultivation.

An absolute Five-Star Fiend, perhaps even a Six-Star Fiend powerhouse.

Clisi's face was hideously twisted. "On my own, it is absolutely impossible to take revenge. After all, all three of our brothers died at his hands."

At the thought of this, Clisi felt immense pain; he had already sensed his brothers' deaths through their blood pact. The three brothers had protected each other, coming all the way from their material plane with nearly a hundred million years of life-and-death friendship. They had previously fantasized about returning to their material plane once they had saved enough wealth, and then traveling to other planes.

Having left their homeland for nearly a hundred million years, the three brothers missed it dearly and wanted to return for a visit. He hadn't expected this to be their final farewell.

"I can only ask Lord Taier to take action." At the thought of his brothers' deaths, Clisi went mad.

At this moment, even Clisi felt a pang of agony. Lord Taier was a reclusive powerhouse who had been a peak Six-Star Fiend ten million years ago. After so many years of cultivation, no one knew just how strong Lord Taier had become. Even if he hadn't reached the level of a Seven-Star Fiend, his peak Six-Star strength would certainly be enough to kill Hodan without issue.

Clisi had only met Lord Taier due to some fortuitous encounters. He knew how terrifying Lord Taier was; even if he hadn't reached the Seven-Star Fiend level, he was likely not far off. With his peak Six-Star strength, killing Hodan would be a trivial matter.

To move such a powerhouse to take action, the price was naturally staggering. Clisi would have to spend almost all of the wealth he had accumulated over tens of millions of years.

In truth, the Space Ring Hodan had obtained was merely a decoy used by Clisi. All of Clisi's wealth had been transferred to his Fire Element God Clone; the Darkness God Clone had only been left with enough for daily consumption.

Clisi's current wealth was nearly 30 billion Inkstone. To get his revenge, he intended to spend it all to hire Lord Taier.

Because Clisi knew very well that to kill his enemy, he needed at least a Six-Star Fiend, and the only Six-Star Fiend he knew was Lord Taier. If he looked for someone else, he feared his enemy would be long gone by the time he found them.

After all, Hell was too vast, beyond imagination. As time passed, his enemy might no longer be in Silvermoon City, or even Yingxue Prefecture. Searching for one person in the vast sea of humanity was incredibly difficult.

Hodan took the dossier and flipped through the Five-Star solo missions. The furthest one was over a hundred million miles away, and the closest was over ten million miles away.

Suddenly, Hodan's gaze fixed on the mission to subjugate the Black Mountain Bandits. The Black Mountain Range was located eight million miles south of Silvermoon City. There was a large plain there with flat terrain and many tribes living in the area, and the Black Mountain Bandits frequently raided these tribes.

These tribes had joined forces to issue this mission, but because the terrain of the Black Mountain Range was complex, even if they were cleared out once, they would soon make a comeback.

Therefore, the mission issued by these tribes was simply to kill the leader and scatter the bandits; this was the reason it was a solo mission, as it was more suited for assassination. However, this was a long-term mission with little reward, but the Fiend Castle needed these high-star missions to allow Fiends to raise their ranks, so the mission existed.

Hodan didn't care much about the mission reward; money was just a number once you had too much of it, and Hodan currently lacked the ability to refine Inkstone into Chief Sovereign power.

Hodan was thinking about creating his ultimate techniques while clearing out the bandits. In any case, these bandits were entities that disrupted order, and Hodan felt absolutely no burden in cleaning them up. Let them shine and contribute to his path to the peak.

In the end, Hodan decided on the mission to subjugate the Black Mountain Bandits.

"Is my lord certain about accepting this mission? Then please hand me your Fiend Badge." The youth said no more. Hodan immediately handed over his Fiend Badge, and the youth flipped his hand, revealing a crystal emitting a purple light.

He brought the crystal close to Hodan's Fiend Badge.

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