After killing Talzax, the Noisy Prince, Solam did not leave the Perforated Hive. Instead, he conscripted demons into the Perforated Hive on an even larger scale. He himself remained hidden within the Heart of Clamor and rarely appeared before his subordinates, while Angron and the others grew even busier.
Solam had assigned them an enormous task.
First, the war could not stop! This time, Solam divided his army into five forces and placed them under Angron and the four Sons of Solam, ordering them to continue taking turns on campaigns. Their target was the Great Abyss, the fifth layer of the Abyss!
Solam had made himself perfectly clear. He had no interest whatsoever in ruling that plane. All he wanted was slaughter and death! He told Angron and the four Sons of Solam not to fear losses, to train their armies to their hearts' content. It did not matter how many died; all he needed was for them to forge a powerful army!
Even if the Great Abyss could not inflict enough casualties, they were to invade other layers of the Abyss. In short, they were to sustain war through war, using death to weed out anyone unfit!
With Solam's bloody orders, the upper layers of the Abyss suddenly descended into chaos. Large-scale wars became an everyday spectacle. Many demon lords could not figure out what madness had seized Solam, that he was running around biting everything like a rabid dog.
But before long, many perceptive demon lords caught on. Solam was not acting like a rabid dog at all—he was drilling troops. He was clearly training his army for the Blood War. Every war he launched disregarded casualties and spared no cost. As for the territories they won, they merely looted them, ate their fill, left behind scorched earth,