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"Then what exactly are you?" Er Dongsheng, who had been silent with his eyes closed, suddenly asked.
He slowly opened his eyes and fixed Belphegor with a cold, merciless stare.
"Me? Heh. My lord can think of me as nothing more than a pitiful test subject," Belphegor said with a self-mocking smile.
"A test subject?" Lilith and the others were startled.
Er Dongsheng's expression shifted slightly, but he showed no stronger reaction. Fragments of images surfaced in his mind.
They were traces left behind by the Hell Will and the Plane Will.
"That's right, a test subject. Some unknown being used me for its experiments. I was nothing but an unfortunate wretch!" Belphegor began his account, and the hearts of those around him sank further with every word.
They had never imagined the truth was this!
According to Belphegor, tens of thousands of years ago, he had been an ordinary Devil, newly born. Before Hell's supreme ruler, "it," had arrived, the power behind the Mysterious Land had seized him and brought him here for experiments!
Over countless years, battered by that eerie Red Lightning, he had slowly evolved and mutated. First, he had become one of those black-robed monsters. He had thought he would remain imprisoned here forever—
But then—
"You're saying you're a Void Raider too?" Er Dongsheng frowned in confusion.
He could sense the same twisted, ominous aura on Belphegor, but calling him a Void Raider seemed far-fetched.
He looked nothing like those things!
"Void Raider?" Belphegor paused, then understood. "They called us Void Walkers!"
"They?"
"Yes. The servants of the Mysterious Land. For some reason, though,