Departure

After pinning the Demon Badge to his chest, Aier asked the staff at the Fiend Castle, "If there are any available, I would like to apply for a Five-Star Fiend mission to serve as my promotion assessment."

"A Five-Star Fiend mission?"

Beside him, Olga's pupils constricted sharply upon hearing this.

Could this guy Aier really have completed the fusion of two profound mysteries of the laws?

But things had reached this point, and Olga could not simply give up now.

The Fiend Castle employee was stunned by Aier's words, and the smile on his face became a few degrees more respectful.

"My lord, Caeles City is just a small, remote town; there are rarely any missions that require a Five-Star Fiend to mobilize."

As he spoke, the employee carefully sized Aier up.

This was a Five-Star Fiend!

In the entire Caeles City, the only person confirmed to possess the strength of a Five-Star Fiend was Lord Caeles, the city lord.

Was this High-God before him truly a Five-Star Fiend, or just a madman who couldn't gauge his own strength?

He couldn't tell...

But regardless of who Aier was, his status as a High-God was not fake.

At the very least, he was a Four-Star Fiend who had become a god through his own efforts!

"I see..."

Aier let out a sigh.

As expected, this place was too remote; there wasn't even a single Five-Star Fiend mission in the city.

"Then, are there any escort missions heading to other cities?"

"There are."

The staff member quickly pulled a contract from a stack of documents beside him and handed it to Aier: "This is an escort mission for the Green Chamber of Commerce. Their caravan encountered bandits and suffered heavy losses; they require two Fiends of Three-Star rank or higher, and ten Two-Star Fiends for protection."

"If you are interested, Lord Aier, I can register you. Once we find a second Three-Star Fiend willing to take the mission, we will notify you when to depart."

"Still need one more Three-Star Fiend?"

"As it happens, Lord Olga, would you like to take this mission with me?"

Aier turned back and asked Olga with a smile.

Olga gave Aier a deep look, nodded, and took out his own Demon Badge, handing it to the Fiend Castle employee.

"Register me. I'll take this mission!"

"Lord Aier, Lord Olga, when do you plan to depart?"

"The sooner, the better."

Before Aier could speak, Olga said it directly.

Seeing the Fiend Castle employee look at him, Aier nodded as well.

"As Lord Olga says, the sooner, the better."

"Very well, Lord Olga, Lord Aier. Our Fiend Castle will immediately notify the caravan and the other Fiends taking the mission. Please wait here for a moment."

One could only say that the strong have privileges.

Aier remembered that when he read Panlong, the protagonist Linley and his companions had to wait for a period of time before they could depart for their Fiend assessments and missions.

Now, he himself had become someone who could make others wait, or choose not to wait for others.

In less than half a day, the people from the Green Chamber of Commerce and the other ten Two-Star Fiends had arrived at the Fiend Castle.

"Lord Aier, Lord Olga, I'll have to trouble you both for this trip."

The head of the Green Chamber of Commerce, a man named Eric, was an old man with graying hair, and the aura on his body was unmistakably that of a High-God.

However, seeing him fawning before Aier and Olga, it was clear that his High-God realm had certainly been achieved by refining a Godhead.

The other merchants in the chamber also radiated the divine power of Mid-Gods.

Thinking about it, it was understandable. Merchants buy low and sell high, transporting local specialties from one city to another; a single trip could earn them tens or even hundreds of thousands of Inkstone.

A High-Godhead cost ten million Inkstone, and a Mid-Godhead cost ten thousand; for these merchants, it wasn't something they couldn't afford.

Moreover, having traveled far and wide, they knew better than ordinary people that strength was the guarantee and foundation of safety.

Of course, compared to the ten Two-Star Fiends, these Mid-Gods lacked the aura of slaughter.

If the two sides were to fight, the Fiends could easily kill these merchants.

"Hmph, let's go."

Olga nodded with a cold face and took the lead in leaving the Fiend Castle.

After the group left Caeles City, because they lacked a Metal Castle, they had no choice but to fly to their destination.

This naturally increased the risks significantly.

However, with Aier's group of over thirty people, including two High-Gods wearing Demon Badges, even if ordinary bandits saw them, they wouldn't dare show themselves and would instead hide far away.

Are you kidding? If they actually went up there, would they be the ones doing the plundering, or would they be the ones getting plundered?

A month later, Aier and his group chose a random mountain to descend upon, after which the group split into two teams, taking turns absorbing the elements of the world to refine divine power.

Although the divine power consumed by a deity-level expert while flying is not much, when out and about, divine power is the foundation for ensuring combat capability should a battle occur.

Fortunately, if no battles are encountered, the divine power consumed by a month of flight can be absorbed and refined back in just two or three days.

"What's wrong? Lord Olga, it's been a month already, why haven't you made a move yet?"

Aier walked up to Olga and asked curiously.

Aier knew that Olga wanted to kill him, and Olga knew that Aier knew.

However, over this past month, Aier and the others had traveled more than seven million kilometers away from Caeles City, yet Olga still hadn't made a move.

In Hell, there is generally a city every twenty million kilometers, which meant they had already completed one-third of this Fiend mission.

"Hmph!"

Olga let out a cold snort. "As expected, a guy like you just has a bit of luck."

"You don't actually think the contract we signed when accepting the Fiend mission is just a piece of blank paper, do you?"

"So that's how it is."

Hearing Olga's explanation, Aier suddenly understood.

He had forgotten that "contracts" exist in the Coiling Dragon Universe.

At the most basic level, there are enslavement contracts and equality contracts.

The reason Fiend Castle can issue missions, allowing Fiends to earn Inkstone by completing tasks rather than plundering their employers, is because all Fiends who accept a Fiend mission have signed a contract with both Fiend Castle and the employer.

Unless their own lives are in danger, Fiends must treat the completion of the mission as their most important priority.

If the contract is violated, the Fiend will be marked by the contract and become a target for Fiend Castle to hunt down.

Aside from some assassination missions set by other employers, the hunting missions within Fiend Castle are all for those who have violated their contracts.

Olga is only a Five-Star Fiend.

Perhaps in a small city like Caeles City, Olga could be considered an expert.

But under the vast reach of Fiend Castle across Hell, Olga is nothing more than an ant.