"Looks like people from the Church of Precepts had infiltrated Black Fence," Naimus thought.
Although the Abyss as a whole was not exactly closed off, information did not flow freely either.
There were barriers between every layer, and one had to find the corresponding passage to travel between them.
Then there were certain special layers that could only be reached through peculiar methods.
For example, to reach the 111th-Layer Blood Hell, one needed enough blood to form a pool, then had to jump into it while reciting the appropriate incantation.
That was the vampire stronghold, and among those cursed creatures, a Demon Lord had emerged.
Because of their clans, vampires did have internal conflicts, but compared to Demons, they could barely be considered a unified whole.
Thus, the entire 111th layer was like a locked coffin. Most of the time, only vampires who knew the incantation could enter.
There were many similar Abyssal layers.
This had formed the Abyss's current structure. Events occurring on one layer often spread only to a few nearby layers.
Whether they could reach the Material Plane was even more a matter of luck.
Perhaps a few months later, a Demon would travel to the Material Plane and be captured by divine officials, and only then would the Material Plane learn of it.
Even then, they would need to investigate through multiple channels before confirming the information's authenticity.
Yet the battle had only just broken out, and a team had already been assembled here.
Such major matters were definitely not decided in a day or two.
That meant the Church of Precepts had received the news when the battle was merely showing signs of beginning.
They could only have received the news so quickly by placing high-ranking moles throughout these Abyssal layers.
And judging by how