When The Dark Eight emerged from the meeting room, every one of them looked deathly pale! There was no need to guess—they had each suffered a massive loss!
Bel, however, showed no joy when he came out. As a warlord who had risen through the Blood War, Bel knew all too well how terrifying demons were. Devils had been suppressing demons all these years, certainly because the devils were stronger—but was it not also because the demons had been too weak?
Ever since Demogorgon and Orcus, the two great powers of the Abyss, had fallen one after another, the Abyss's high-end combat strength had suffered widespread losses. The ones who had replaced them as rulers of the Abyss were Graz'zt and Malcanthet, two demon lords with no interest whatsoever in the Blood War. As a result, the demons' investment in the Blood War had rapidly declined.
That was what had given the devils their chance to rise. Back when Demogorgon and Orcus were still around, the battlefield of the Blood War had been in Avernus! As the Blood War's general at the time, Bel remembered clearly that more than half of Avernus's territory had not been controlled by devils at all, but ravaged by demons!
But now, not only had Demogorgon returned, several other major figures had emerged as well—Obox-ob, the Queen of Chaos, Miska the Wolf-Spider! Every one of them was a legendary name. When these people first began roaming the Lower Planes, Bel had not even been a Lemure yet!
In short, although the undead lord Orcus, that fierce monster, had not yet stepped forward, the Abyss was now even more lively than it had been during the era of the three great lords!
Even more frighteningly, who knew what madness had seized them? They had all come