The moment Charles killed Kolsama, he sensed that something was different.
The first thing that came was a rebuke from the will of the Abyss.
At such a critical time, while this layer of the Abyss World was still within the Purgatory World,
Charles had actually dared to kill another sixth-rank demon lord.
This would undoubtedly cause the power possessed by this layer of the Abyss World to plummet drastically.
After all, a sixth-rank demon lord was never something as common as cabbage. Even if the will of the Abyss were nurturing one, it absolutely could not produce one in a short time.
To the will of the Abyss, demons it could expend power to nurture within a few years, or even a dozen years,
would at most be fourth-rank Greater Demons. Even producing a fifth-rank demon lord was an extremely unlikely possibility.
The vast majority of demons it nurtured were in fact only at the Lesser Demon and Intermediate Demon stages.
Those able to reach the Greater Demon stage were already exceedingly rare.
One could well imagine how great a loss it was for this layer of the Abyss World when Charles killed Kolsama under such circumstances.
Becoming a sixth-rank demon lord required more than resources. It required talent, luck, and unimaginable effort.
Every sixth-rank demon lord was an immensely powerful being.
In the vast majority of Abyss Worlds, sixth-rank demon lords were even considered great demon lords.
Demon lords whose strength had reached this level possessed talent that was absolutely no weaker than that of any sixth-circle wizard.
They had merely chosen different paths and moved in different directions.
And now, this sixth-rank demon lord, nurtured at the cost of immense time, resources, and lives, had died just like that at Charles's hands.
The will of the Abyss's