The battle was far too fierce.
The death toll among demons and devils kept rising.
Corpses lay everywhere around Millstone Fortress.
On the mountainside, dense masses of bodies could even be seen tumbling down.
Blood streamed downward, nearly dyeing the entire volcano red.
After the blood had flowed, the high heat dried it away, leaving only streak after streak of dried bloodstains.
The legion devils fought without regard for their lives.
Flying in the air behind them, the devil baron and several pit fiend commanders watched Millstone Fortress.
One of the pit fiends said admiringly, "This fortress truly has impeccable defenses!"
"Can demons really have built something like this?"
From the fortress's design to the runes engraved within it, everything bore the methods favored by Abyssal demons.
This made the devils overturn their previous assumptions. They had once believed the fortress had been built by other creatures and merely fallen into the demons' hands.
The devil baron said, "A fortress with defenses like these must have cost countless lives to build."
"But judging from the demons' current situation, it was all worth it."
He looked toward the depths of the fortress and said, "I can sense the aura of a Greater Demon deep within this fortress."
"But this Greater Demon is remarkably patient. Even with the battle at this point, it still refuses to come out."
"Just as I thought, this Greater Demon must be seriously injured. It fears that if it comes out to fight, I'll kill it instead!"
A pit fiend asked, "My lord Baron, should we begin the full-scale assault?"
The devil baron hesitated before saying, "No need to rush. Let's wait a little longer!"
"Wait another two days and see!"
Over the next two days, the devils' offensive remained ferocious.
The devils also had reinforcements. Some