Hog Bell's soul was ultimately no match for the hell messengers. Several of them joined forces to bring him down, then bound him up like a rice dumpling and carried him away by his hands and feet.
They laughed with great delight, brimming with a sense of accomplishment.
Hell had not captured a villain at Hog's demigod level in many years. On one hand, such people enjoyed long lives and were practically immune to all illness; unless someone killed them, they were unlikely to die. On the other hand, even if they did die, their souls possessed enough power to hold out until their saviors arrived.
And those saviors were, naturally, the various gods.
As long as a demigod powerhouse was willing to pledge allegiance, there would be no shortage of gods willing to step forward and protect him. This was especially true of evil gods. They did not care whether his beliefs aligned with theirs. Even if it was merely to gain a single subordinate, it was worth offending Hell once.
...Besides, after sheltering villains year after year, they had long since offended Hell beyond repair.
Thus, whenever an evil demigod died in recent years, the hell messengers either failed to arrive in time, or arrived only to find themselves unable to seize them. In the end, their souls were usually taken away by one god or another.
Hell was naturally deeply dissatisfied with this. If the Kings of Hell also kept records in black notebooks, the evil gods would probably have accumulated countless crimes by now. But gods were unified in flesh and spirit. Even when killed, they either fell or revived; there was simply no possibility of leaving behind only a soul to be captured and judged.
Just like last time, when Sui Xiong killed more than