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It was the next day, two days before Ailusha and her companions encountered the Undead Overlord.
Baal appeared in the Shattered Starry Sky with the Fairy Queen Xierjie, Queen Medusa Christia, dozens of other powerful rulers, hundreds of attendants, and the two little ones, Little Princess Lulu and Bei'er.
The vast Shattered Starry Sky was as dark and deep as ever. Now and then, fragments of continents hurtled past the demons and drifted away.
"How long has it been? I never thought I'd return here. Those old days really bring back memories." Baal stroked the well-behaved Lulu beside him, then glanced at Little Bei'er sitting on his shoulder, looking around with keen interest. Emotion welled up in him.
When he had first come here, he had lived in constant fear. Any powerful demon could have destroyed his forces and everything he had worked for.
The road had been hard and winding. The battles in the Ruins, the demons' plots and schemes—all of it had faded into the past. Now he was immensely powerful, ruling over the Abyss, with countless demons who dared not defy him.
A demon among demons, he had nearly reached the pinnacle.
It had been barely a hundred years. To other demons, a century passed in the blink of an eye. For Baal, though, it had been a long journey. Apart from the decades he had spent sealed in slumber, his life had been an endless cycle of conquest, slaughter, and more conquest.
Wars large and small, grand battles, even brushes with death passed before his eyes, then vanished.
Whatever the case, he now