The giant awakened

"..."

Yaga-Tel's death meant the Abyssal War was over.

The Ancestor of Bigmouth Demons—Beelzebub—began to feed, but most of the demon souls in the Zero Ring region had been taken into the White-Bone Soul Banner as undead employees.

A considerable number of demon souls in the First Ring region had also been consumed by the War Demon Romance's Bloody Battlefield.

What was left for Beelzebub to eat?

Bones? No, not even bones. At most, the water left over from washing the pot.

His awakening and devouring every living creature on the plane had become inevitable.

Yin Ming truly did not want to waste even a trace of power. Every extra bit he used diminished his chances of survival.

He looked at the demon lords surrounding him just as they had surrounded Yaga-Tel.

He sighed. "The shortfall is far too great! Even killing all of you wouldn't make up for it."

"I really don't want to fight you. As a concession, I'm willing to take a step back and ask only for your spoils. I won't take anything else!"

What?

Had they heard him right?

He didn't want to fight, yet he wanted them to hand over their spoils?

Anything else? Did he mean their storage bags, or their lives?

The Second Ring Scythe Demon swung its enormous black scythe and laughed in fury. "What arrogance! You're just a low-level wizard borrowing someone else's power. Even if a god stands behind you, you can only wield Third Ring power. You're not even as strong as Yaga-Tel."

The black eyes beneath Romance's armor turned toward Yin Ming, and Christine's voice emerged. "An arrogant soul must taste delicious. Before you killed the Succubus Aman, you should have heard the message I left. Why didn't you spare her?"

That line about doing Christine a