After gaining a foothold in the Abyss.
Delis quickly came over to pledge her allegiance as well.
Charles assigned her part of the work. At the same time, he had Bruce leave the Osela Plane and return to Isata.
Afterward, he fell from Isata into the Abyss.
Charles was already thoroughly familiar with this whole process.
He precisely pulled Bruce down.
Upon returning to the Abyss, the Minotaur Demon bloodline within Bruce became active as well.
Inside the nearly completed castle, Bruce bowed. "Master!"
Charles said to Bruce, "I called you down because you can be of greater use in the Abyss."
"Next, I'll find a way to enhance your bloodline and let you advance to a Greater Demon sooner."
Bruce respectfully said, "I will follow all of Master's arrangements!"
Not long after Charles advanced to a second-circle wizard, Bruce had been promoted to an Intermediate Demon.
A long time had passed since then.
He had long reached the peak of Intermediate Demon strength, but it was not easy to advance on the Osela Plane.
Moreover, while on the Osela Plane, he had not dared to devour souls, so his Minotaur Demon bloodline had never developed particularly well.
After arriving in the Abyss, Charles began assigning suitable work to Bruce.
Kaseron still commanded the Fireburn Demons.
But the Fireburn Demons were no longer the largest force under Charles's command.
During this period, through every sort of trickery, plunder, coercion, and inducement, Charles had captured many other Intermediate Demons.
He now had more than thirty Intermediate Fireburn Demons under his command, along with sixty or seventy other Intermediate Demons.
As for lower-ranking demons, there were even more—four or five hundred.
As for imps, there was no need to mention them. There were another twenty or thirty thousand at the construction site.